Letters from the underground

Interpretive work

Fishers of men

Golem of los angeles

Fault

Fine day for a middle class marriage

Glass town

Kids in the wind

Islands project, the

Is

Into the silence

Interrobang

Injecting dreams into cows

Indigo

Lessons in relationship dyads

Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, friends—they all get into the act in Michael Mirolla's Lessons in Relationship Dyads. Harsh lessons, sweet lessons, bitter lessons, faux lessons, —these are tales that probe not just the primary relationships all humans "enjoy...

In the ice house

Lessons from summer camp

In Lessons from Summer Camp, Jim Tilley takes a fifty-year retrospective look at a ten-year period during his childhood and adolescence to discover what summer camp was really about. In both a wistful and an appreciative look back on the days of our youth, the poems reminisce on the memorable eve...

In confidence

Leaving resurrection

Imagine no religion: the autobiography of blase bonpane

If not for this

I built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)

Heart's traffic

Día de los muertos

It is the last day of October 1969, Día de los Muertos. Under the harsh Oaxacan sun the dead are staking terrain—moving in and around and through the apparently alive.

Heart

Work & days

A poet hailed as "stunning" reveals a fierce and sensual intelligence in a meditation about farming, reproducing, and what it means to try to forge a relationship with the earth.

Has no kinsmen

The alphabet conspiracy

Grace

The adventures of ibn opcit

That was then

Termination dust

Gnawed bones

From wildfire and war to bleached reefs and human frailty, Peggy Shumaker's new poems meditate on mortality. Her poems speak with elegiac force for lost languages, lost ancestors, lost ways of being. This work sharpens the edges of our perception, drawing on the inner life, on secrets that keep ...

Talisman

In psychological portraits stunning in their precision, Lisa Krueger brings her observational powers to bear on the domestic and its darknesses—childbirth, play, sex, and family picnics, as well as abuse, disability, adultery, and mental illness. These poems magnify small, everyday redemptions as...

The los angeles review no. 16

The los angeles review no. 15

The los angeles review no. 14

Limousine, midnight blue

Body painting

"If this is the book of the body, its lineaments are those of not only erotic but spiritual desire. Here friends and lovers, mothers and children, intermingle as in the morning light and shadow of a forgotten room, and the source of that light is Hilberry's very distinctive lyric voice, constantl...

Blue etiquette

Best-selling poet Kathleen Driskell’s newest collection Blue Etiquette is inspired by Emily Post’s 1922 edition of Etiquette and explores the interactions between the haves and have nots through poems voiced by Mrs. Worldly and the Between Maid, narratives focusing on blue-collar Americans, and l...

Blue cathedral

Blue air

Blaze

Revenance

Put this on, please

Psychosis in the produce department

Psychosis in the Produce Department: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2015 gathers the best work from Laurel Ann Bogen's previous ten books as well as new and unpublished poetry. Ranging in themes as diverse as horrific beauty and exquisite madness, dysfunctional families, love and anti-love, life in...

Primary source

Primary Source presents Jason Schneiderman's most exuberant volume of poetry, as he plays with the literary canon and explores his own personal archive. Starting with rewritten lyrics that put Cole Porter's "You're the Top" squarely in po-biz, Schneiderman takes on everyone from Shakespeare to As...

River electric with light

Sarah Wetzel's stunning second collection of poems, River Electric with Light, is a work of pilgrimage, a work in search of the sacred and the spiritually significant. Touching down in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Kabul, New York, and Rome, Wetzel's poems, ranging from lyric meditations to discursive ...