Brian Culhane’s deeply felt and accomplished debut, winner of the poetry foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book AwardLet just one of those quicksilver hours be returned to me, With
It’s where you sit down that determines everything in life. Sarah’s aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with her paintings, an
New poetry by Dobby Gibson, author of Polar, which ?teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture? (The Bloomsbury Review)We have to escap
A celebrated international author, listed among the “21 top writers for the 21st century” (The Observer, U.K.)As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between
The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might f
Poems by the author of Elegy, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry The goblet mouth on the table speaks To your thirst, saying, Longing, your longing, is infinite.&n
An adventurous exploration of the "I" in American culture, by the author of Neck Deep and Other PredicamentsMe. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. In contemporary America,
"The most accomplished novel to date by an internationally celebrated writers" (Bookforum), now in paperback.David Imaz has spent many years living in exile in California, far from his native Basque C
John D'Agata leaves no tablet unturned in his exploration of the roots of the essay. In this exploration of the roots of the essay. In this soaring anthology, he takes the reader from ancient Mesopot
The second collection by the award-winning poet Joanna Rawson, whose “intense language recalls the hothouse prose of Cormac McCarthy” (Kirkus Reviews)The sky threatens to answer a prayer
THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS VITAL ANTHOLOGY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR CHARLES SIMIC When The Horse Has Six Legs was first published in 1992, as war and hatred tor
Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counti
“Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing.” —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his ho
A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction PrizeKim Dana Kupperman’s essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic “missives”
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn ForchéWhen I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter whatthe current gives. When we reach the
Half-Hazard is the Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation for a debut by an American poet over forty.Half-Hazard is a book of near misses, would-be tragedies, and lu
One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a lifeThough it seems, at first, like an art of speaking, poetry is an art of listening. The poet trains to hear
The most inventive and entertaining novel to date from “a master of the dark arts” (Kelly Link)A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people—a couple and their child—hurry out t
Fanny Howe's new collection One Crossed Out, presents a portrait painted from the inside of the life of a homeless woman. The poems speak in the voice of May, the girl crossed out, the bad girl, the m
