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Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder

A picturesque story of modern love, old flames, and the long shadow of history. “A rewarding experience. [Nichols’] sentences repeat and sit inside each other as a sort of Greek chorus that resonates...

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Sleight

A daring novel about families, artistic responsibility, and tragedy. The Glass Bead Game meets Black Swan. Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an...

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The Iovis Trilogy

Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment Published for the first time in its entirety, this major epic poem assures Anne Waldman’s place in the pantheon of contemporary poetry. The Iovis Trilogy,...

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Glass

From the acclaimed author of Firmin and The Cry of the Sloth—a widow, aging and alone, tells her side of the story. Tasked with writing the preface to a reissue of her late husband’s long-out-of-print...

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Exhibit of Forking Paths

National Poetry Series winner Grinwis elegantly fuses poetry to circuitry. These poems pair electrical circuit diagrams with prose poems to create an artful labyrinth of science, intellectual...

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In the Futurity Lounge

In her new collection, Marjorie Welish presents two books in one. “In the Futurity Lounge” may be read as that de-centered laboratory of the modern futurity lounge where experimental works are in a...

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On the Planet without Visa

Sotère Torregian, an American poet of Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and Moorish ancestry, approaches the world with an open-armed embrace of distant and diverse phenomena. His surreal lyricism...

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Kind One

As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother’s second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm “ninety miles from nowhere.” In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny...

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Special Powers and Abilities

Special Powers and Abilities is a futuristic, stunningly imaginative poetic exploration of superheroes, religion, and myth. Inspired by The Legion of Super-Heroes, a comic series about a group of...

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Let the Dark Flower Blossom

Sheldon and Eloise Schell are twins, orphans, and the estranged college companions of the rich, scandalous, celebrated Roman Stone. Now Roman is dead, stabbed in the heart, and Eloise and Sheldon must...

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DANCE

A zodiac that builds poems into horoscope machines, Kabbala, botany, the gnostic gospels, fashion, the plague, and the prophetic writings of a high school friend all contribute to a collection that...

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Anime Wong

Anime Wong is a memory book of performances, most of which were produced collaboratively, reflecting questions of gender, identity, Orientalism, and racial politics. Yamashita’s theatrical work is...

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