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  • California Transit
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    California transit

    Diane Lefer

    Winner of the 2005 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Carole Maso.

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  • I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl
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    I have to go back to 1994 and kill a girl

    Karyna McGlynn

    2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prizewinner, selected by Lynn Emanuel. Poetry with a Sonic Youth soundtrack.

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  • Georgia under water

    Heather Sellers

    A debut collection of linked stories about an adolescent girl in Florida and her sexual awakening.

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  • How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos
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    How she knows what she knows about yo-yos

    Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

    Five novelistic short stories by the acclaimed author of Come and Go, Molly Snow.

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  • Clangings
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    Clangings

    Steven Cramer

    Book-length series of poems that mimics schizophrenia's associative riffing and constructs an intimate and stirring portrait of vibrant, unsteady mind.

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  • Gin & Bleach
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    Gin & bleach

    Catherine Wing

    Poems sprung from the brain of Wallace Stevens after an erotic dream about Miss Dickinson and breakfast with Mother Goose.

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  • Beasts for the Chase
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    Beasts for the chase

    Monica Ferrell

    Winner of the 2007 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Jane Hirshfield

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  • Present Vanishing
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    Present vanishing

    Dick Allen

    A down-to-earth search for everyday Zen mindfulness from well-known master of formal poetry.

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  • The Man Back There
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    The man back there

    David Crouse

    The 2007 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Mary Gaitskill.

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  • Scattered Chapters
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    Scattered chapters

    Baron Wormser

    The definitive edition of a highly acclaimed poet's work.

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  • Contents of A Minute
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    Contents of a minute

    Josephine Jacobsen

    The seventh edition of Sarabande's highly acclaimed Quarternote Chapbook Series.

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  • Want
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    Want

    Rick Barot

    A stunning new poetry collection from the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize-winner, selected by Stanley

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  • Praeder's Letters
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    Praeder's letters

    James Baker Hall

    A daring literary experiment, and an engrossing read from Kentucky's Poet Laureate.

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  • These Hands I Know
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    These hands i know

    Afaa Michael Weaver

    Moving essays on family by African-American poetry and prose writers.

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  • Coal Miner's Holiday
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    Coal miner's holiday

    Kiki DeLancey

    Coal mining stories from a self-taught writer.

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  • What We Won't Do
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    What we won't do

    Brock Clarke

    The 2000 Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction judged by Mark Richard.

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  • Bread for the Baker's Child
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    Bread for the baker's child

    Joseph Caldwell

    After a ten-year silence, Joseph Caldwell returns with a rich novel of immense and resonant scope.

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  • Garden of Exile
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    Garden of exile

    Aleida Rodríguez

    Selected by Marilyn Hacker as the 1998 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • The Mother on the Other Side of the World
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    The mother on the other side of the world

    James Baker Hall

    Mysterious, richly layered, new collection from an accomplished poet.

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  • Stealing Glimpses
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    Stealing glimpses

    Molly McQuade

    "A journey through poetry, skippered by a first-person personal narrator." (au. description)

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  • Bad Judgment
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    Bad judgment

    Cathleen Calbert

    Feminist poems forged with wit and wisdom.

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  • The Available World
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    The available world

    Ander Monson

    A meditation on information-overload and an elegy for the worlds we live in--digital, analog, and real.

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  • The Sensual World Re-emerges
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    The sensual world re-emerges

    Eleanor Lerman

    The fifth collection from Lenore Marshall Prize-winning poet, a writer at the absolute height of her powers.

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  • I'll Tell What I Saw
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    I'll tell what i saw

    Robert Pinsky, Michael Mazur

    Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.

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  • Sparkman in the Sky & Other Stories
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    Sparkman in the sky & other stories

    Brian Griffin, Barry Hannah

    Selected by Barry Hannah as the 1996 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.

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  • When
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    When

    Baron Wormser, Alice Fulton

    Selected by Alice Fulton as the Winner of the 1996 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, & Deliv
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    Last call: poems on alcoholism, addiction, & deliv

    Sarah Gorham, Jeffrey Skinner

    Groundbreaking anthology of poetry on substance abuse and recovery.

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  • Flying Blind
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    Flying blind

    Sharon Bryan

    A lexicon of poems on language and death.

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  • Black Sabbatical
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    Black sabbatical

    Brett Eugene Ralph

    A debut collection that sings with gutbucket colloquialisms, hallucinatory interludes, and Kentucky's storytelling tradition.

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  • When to Go into the Water
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    When to go into the water

    Lawrence Sutin

    An inventive, Dickensian tale for modern readers that utilizes intertwined shorts with photographic interludes.

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  • Bad River Road
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    Bad river road

    Debra Nystrom

    Poems of a family's struggle in South Dakota's big sky reservation territory.

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  • Lucy
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    Lucy

    Jean Valentine

    The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.

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  • The Motel of the Stars
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    The motel of the stars

    Karen Salyer McElmurray

    A luminous second novel from prize-winning Appalachian author is the selection for the 2007 Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature.

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  • The New Year of Yellow
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    The new year of yellow

    Matthew Lippman

    Winner of the 2005 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Tony Hoagland.

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  • Exceptions and Melancholies
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    Exceptions and melancholies

    Ralph Angel

    Exhilarating, dangerous new poems and a generous selection of previous work.

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  • Dark Familiar
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    Dark familiar

    Aleda Shirley

    A lush, noir-glamorous third collection from Norma Farber Award Winner.

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  • The Hanging in the Foaling Barn
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    The hanging in the foaling barn

    Susan Starr Richards

    Third edition of the Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature.

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  • Horror Vacui
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    Horror vacui

    Thomas Heise

    Innovative debut collection mixing surrealism, autobiography, and elegy.

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  • Equipoise
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    Equipoise

    Kathleen Halme

    A book of poems that reads like a two week vacation at the shore.

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  • The Gatehouse Heaven
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    The gatehouse heaven

    James Kimbrell

    Selected by Charles Wright as the 1997 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry.

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  • Taking Eden
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    Taking eden

    Robert Clinton

    A haunting new voice--echoing Robert Frost, Garcia Lorca, and a dash of the Brothers Grimm.

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  • The Cold War
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    The cold war

    Kathleen Ossip

    Formally energetic poems grapple with a 20th Century hangover in this bracingly intelligent second collection.

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  • Death Obscura
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    Death obscura

    Rick Bursky

    A bit of Eastern Europe mixed with California Gothic add up to this irresistible second collection.

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  • Post Moxie
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    Post moxie

    Julia Story

    Winner of the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, selected by Dan Chiasson.

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  • Enter Invisible
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    Enter invisible

    Catherine Wing

    Possible love child of Wallace Stevens and Dorothy Parker; Wing's poems are playful, scrappy, witty, postmodern

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  • Lineas conectadas
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    Lineas conectadas

    April Linder, Hernan Lara Zavala

    Two-volume bilingual anthology of Mexican and American Poets, produced in partnership between NEA/Mexican government

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  • When It Burned to the Ground
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    When it burned to the ground

    Yolanda Barnes

    Visionary, literary first book by an African American female author inspired by the L.A. riots of 1992.

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  • Easy math

    Lauren Shapiro, Marie Howe

    Pop culture gets the James Tate treatment in poems that offer a gimlet eye to the disappointments of the world.

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  • Book of dog

    Cleopatra Mathis

    Cleopatra Mathis's best book—poems that counter absence with dogs, ducks, and spiders in the wilderness just beyond her back door.

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  • Red car

    Sallie Bingham

    Wise, subtle stories that travel from Paris to Santa Fe.

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