Fiction. Translated for the Spanish by Rob Gunther. The story of Jose Margarito escaping from slavery in 19th century Ecuador, "The Singer," highlights his Afro-Caribbean heritage, combining elements
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Poetry. "A large masterpiece consisting of small poems... keeps reverberating like a percussion player who still hears the beat."—Hal Sirowitz. "So very, and beautifully, human."—Katie Ford "Spar
Poetry. This is the second volume of poems from Chinese ex-patriot poet Ha Jin, who moved to the United States after the Tiananmen massacre. "These poems are unflinchingly lucid, luminous, brave,
Poetry. "This is a badass book of poems and you will suffer if you don't find your way into its pages."--Anselm Berrigan"It doesn't get any better."--Robert Creeley
Fiction. Merrill Gilfillan's short stories are natural extensions of his eloquent and lyrical accounts of Appalachia, the Great Plains, the Western mountains. Each character is given the same quiet re
Poetry. "Mark Pawlak's poems document a literary journey charged with the sheer joy of words and often with fierce irony. He finds poetry in day-to-day common language, and makes his poems from s
Poetry. "BOY DRINKERS looks with sober eyes at the people, tragedies, and traditions that shaped any of us who grew up in a community where alcohol and God were equally able to bring us to our kn
Poetry. "You can sense the benign influence of such major New York School figures as Kenneth Koch and Paul Violi in Jamail's exclamatory poems...This book is worthy of its legacy."--David Lehman
Poetry. Goetsch collects the particulars of lives well-lived in friendly narrative poems that keep the reader not just reading, but thinking. The self is a ship in a bottle, he writes in a more pensiv
Poetry. Chuck Wachtel's WHAT HAPPENS TO ME is revelatory, not only in its lyrical clarity and knowledge, but also in its experimental and elliptical compression in poetry and short prose --Yusef Komun
Poetry. "Jack Anderson takes wing and lights everywhere... sheer delight, total pleasure."—David Kirby "easily one of the most compelling and unforgettable reads of 2017."—Patricia Traxler
Poetry. "A ferocious appetite for life underlies MAY ALL MY WOUNDS BE MORTAL. The humor and ache in these unforgettable poems are a matter of life and death."—Lloyd Schwartz
Poetry. "Tony Towle is one of the New York School's best-kept secrets" —John Ashbery. "Towle's poems are beautiful...alive with intelligence, urbanity" —Ron Padgett. "One of the clear,
