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National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescently scathing indictment of capitalism's moral decay.

Equal parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue, Reel Bay charts Jana Larson's unusual journey toward understanding another woman's life.

"I believe in expecting light. That's my job." A hospital chaplain offers compassion to her patients over the course of one eventful night shift, and finds some for herself, too.

Are we living in a shitty heaven or a tender hell? Chris Martin's poems wrestle with reconciling the shocking horrors and common graces of everyday life in America.

From garage rock to Greta Gerwig, Jason Diamond asks us to reconsider the creative potential of the American suburb as he leads us down the cul-de-sac and out again.

From gold rushes to black gold, this mythic and sought-after substance gilds Ted Mathys's elegiac poems, placing a glimmering mirror between resource extraction and utopian dreaming, exploitation and emotional longing.

Dark. Sweet. offers readers the sweep of LindaHogan's workenvironmental and spiritual concerns, her Chickasaw heritagein spare, elemental, visionary language.From "e;Those Who Thunder"e;:Those who thunderhave dark hairand red throw rugs.They burn paper in bathroom sinks.Their voices refuse to sufferand their silences know the waystraight to the heart;it's bus route number eight.Linda Hogan is the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award. She is also a recipient of the 2016 PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Prize. Her poetry has received an American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination.

Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.

In this continuation of Anna Karenina's legacy, Russa simmers on the brink of change and the stories long kept secret finally come to light.

The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between the monstrous and the sublime.

';A greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.' Yuri Herrera Rodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up. ';Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd.... like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man.' John Powers, Fresh Air ';Read this messy, shaggy picaresque for its ample page-by-page pleasures, which include devilishly clever syntax, a charming tendency to digress, and satisfying flashes of Rodrigo and Marcelo getting their act together.' Publisher's Weekly ';A welcome infusion of vitality into North American literature.' Bookslut

A people's history of the poetry workshop from a poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature."

Moving west-from Singapore to America, from New York to California-a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.

Disappearing statues, missing protestors, inexplicable deaths-how does a writer account for Tehran's shifting vanishing points?

Contemplative, wry, profound observations from one of the greatest masters of contemporary poetry.

In this delightfully dense, fast-paced comedy with notes of Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Saul Bellow, Jacov and his scribe cross continents in search of the legendary prophet of melancholic philosophy.

A witty, inventive, and wry exploration of life-above and beyond the algorithm.

From Russian fairytales to Craigslist ads, stories of identity, family, and sexuality are unraveled and woven anew in the poems of a woman caught between two worlds.

An exquisite exploration of motherhood and the elastic nature of time.

A father revealed as a spy, a child unmoored from normalcy-in Safe Houses I Have Known, poems ripple with the secrets that we keep from ourselves and each other.

Bold, formally innovative prose poems that challenge our ideas of race, voice, bodies, and justice.

Recovery, motherhood, queerness--Idiophone is a striking meditation on risk-taking in art, from a distinctively feminist angle.

Cultural Writing. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Ron Padgett's warm, conversational memoir is an unlikely and true story of two childhood friends, one straight and one gay, who grew up in 1950s Oklahoma, surprised their families by moving to New York City in search of art and poetry, and became part of the dynamic community of artists and writers whose work continues to shape Amerian culture. Dozens of letters, journal entries, poems, photographs, and artworks create a stirring portrait of the times--one that illuminates not only Joe Brainard's life and art, but the influence that his kindness and insight had on the lives of his contemporaries, including Alex Katz, Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, Joe LeSueur, Anne Waldman, John Ashbery, Kenward Elmslie, and countless other friends, lovers, and admirers.

"A syncopated web that includes the personal within the metaphysical and the environmental, tying the individual's story to the story of the survival of the planet . . . she can also be funny, brave, and care very deeply about all our futures."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

An imaginative triumph, this carnivalesque narrative brings the history of an archetypal stage character to life.

Lyric essays on writing, moving among digression, reflection, imagination, and experience as a lover might, bringing art into the world.