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Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life.

Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their strident leftist politics.

Lyrical, activist poetry rooted in a deep appreciation for family, for love, and for beauty.

From Paris Review and New Yorker cartoonist Jason Novak, a witty history of the scrappy beginnings of baseball, told in 101 one-sentence biographies.

Poetry as Escher: shifting perspective, a landscape that doesn’t stand still, and questions that fold in on themselves.

A couple learns first how to be together, then how to anticipate a child, then how to raise him.

Moschovakis invents new forms, insisting that we can never tire of asking "how must I live in the world."

Thinking through jazz as a form of modernism, this is poetry in kinetic, musical, spatial relationship to the page.

Piquant, elegiac, surreal short portraits of animals, human and otherwise, sketching a vision of life as a measure of loss.

Dazzling and ambitious, this multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco near the end of the 1960s.

Cross Worlds engages cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances and associations, and the vital practice of poets working across borders.

"(Victor Hernandez Cruz's work) is a testament to (his) singular genius."--Griffin Poetry Prize citation

The lives of a scientist, his wife, and his patient collide, laying bare the carefully constructed political and personal narratives they have crafted for themselves.

Eighteen boyfriends, twenty-three jobs, and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice: Temporary casts a hilarious and tender eye toward the struggle for happiness under late capitalism.

Girls meets Trainspotting: Problems is a bold and witty book about a part-time heroin user and her increasingly full-time problems.

Wry, generous, lucid poems from one of contemporary poetry’s living masters.