Named the Best First Book of poems for the year, this collection by Joe Pan was short-listed for the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, offering its readers a 'language [that] is striking nearly perfect.' Joe grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Autobiomythography & Gallery

Literature & Fiction

Pan, Joe

History & Criticism

Brooklyn Arts Press

A monograph of the artist Greg Slick, including his photography, painting, and sculpture; foreword by Joe Millar.

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Arts & Photography

Greg Slick

The poetry of Chris Cook is evidence of a fine mind at work, a collection of poems that never settles for the obvious. His work probes the apathy and alienation of his generation, wielding poetics like a cudgel to extract the essential from the incoherence of pop culture vapidity that we have accepted as our metaphor. Startlingly honest, unafraid of humor, these poems force you to sit down and take notice. ---Cheeni Rao, author of In Hanuman's Hands

To Lose & to Pretend

Chris O. Cook

Poetry

state: multi-dimensional, precarious, shifting; state of mind, state of being, state of the nation, state of the world; a public body, nation state, civic state; a declaration; statement. state began with whimsical pictures & apocalyptic visions of a high-tech synthetic mechanized culture. It became loose social history & critique. The original manuscript is a handmade artist s book made of casein, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink, graphite, collaged bits of etching & drypoint on watercolor paper, and bound in found printed suede. Anne Beck sees her work as a visual journal inspired by latent structures, indiscernible figures, forms that wax and wane, and images and thoughts that coalesce and dissipate. Underlying her work is a belief that the personal and universal are not quite mutually exclusive, a reality that is vital to our ability to communicate and connect. She s apt to borrow archetypes from contemporary culture (from science, philosophy, literature, nature, et al) in an effort to document whatever new tributaries arise from the adjoining of personal and collective histories. Though a constant introduction of new elements working together in layers and flux, Anne Beck creates works that reassert the potential of evolving systems while still placing a premium on the delights of personal excavation.

state

Anne Beck

Superstructure

Jonathan-Allen

Poetry. "Caution and charity, travel and sensitivity, in sites South Asian, American, and European, control the humane tones and the short-lined free verse of [THE WEATHER &amp; OUR TEMPERS], which also reflects its author's other work as a scholar of Buddhism. Concise and welcoming, yet intricately tied to place and religion, this quiet debut could take off."—Publishers Weekly "Meditative and mysterious, these spare, intimate poems trace an inner landscape that stretches from Brooklyn to Paris, Tokyo to Kathmandu."—Lizzie Widdicombe of The New Yorker "The poet's spirit settles among objects, the quotidian flotsam. But how to keep the resulting words incantatory? This is Dominique Townsend's gift. Talismans are everywhere in THE WEATHER &amp; OUR TEMPERS, and some of them are 'flapping encyclopedic wings.' While this is a book full of the sense of man's gentle presence in nature, it also rings with apostrophe and sharp conversations. The ache of being human hangs in the doorways of this poetry. You'll be the wiser for entering."—Peter Thompson "To read Dominique Townsend's debut book of poetry is to be seduced by a particularly spiritual, sensual, and uniquely modern world, where the questions of body, mind, and—indeed—soul, are sometimes painful, sometimes witty, sometimes searching, and always exquisite. These are poems to treasure and revisit."—Joanna Hershon

The Weather & Our Tempers

Townsend, Dominique

In The Body Double, a downtrodden young man wakes one morning to find a mysterious twin living with him. Normally the presence of a doppelgänger would turn anyone's world upside down, but in this case the two quickly settle into a routine. Together they work a thankless job, hang out, paint, go to the fair, mow lawns, fight over the blanket, upset their girlfriend, and basically continue living the same rather uneventful life the original has been living. But as the double becomes increasingly self-aware, and increasingly headstrong, more differences arise, and tensions between original and copy quickly escalate.

The Body Double (BAP Chapbook)

Harél, Jared

“You've stumbled upon the best travelogue you'll ever find. In poetry that drives in the fast lane, but also eagle-eyes every detail, this work brings the familiar to us, washed clean of our prejudices, made new in music. In a project Coleridge and Wordsworth would have appreciated, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott have written a book for the ages, and for our age and place.” -Laura Kasischke, author of Space, in Chains

Poets' Guide to America

Ott, Martin

Buckley, John F.

Poetry. "Here is a calendar full of long shadows, a guidebook of unlikely bursts of music, and we couldn't ask for a better guide than this keenly perceptive, wry, plucky poet. In Laurie Filipelli's ELSEPLACE, as in Keats, we may not know if we wake or dream but that uncertain state blurs nothing, rather it clarifies the mysteries that are our befuddlements and salvations."—Dean Young"In Laurie Filipelli's debut collection, lyrical prose poems that evoke the sorrows of the calendar year are juxtaposed with feisty odes that soar and float and sing and refuse to be tethered. Elsewhere could be anywhere, but ELSEPLACE is brilliant and magical. It's where the cat's been when it reappears, it's a place you have to squint to see, it's a town that exists only when you name it, it's the wig shop in Tyler, Texas, it's Poem City (the wonderful book in your hand!), and Paris, Las Vegas, where the way to win is to forget what you want."—Maura Stanton"Part oracle, part anchor, the poems in ELSEPLACE hover like the recurrent image of a balloon caught between imminences. Filipelli's poems are driven less by containment than bafflement, by the ferocious tenderness of invention. For ultimately, these are love songs to maybe, to the 'crooked O,' to 'wind's eye beginning to open.'"—Elyse Fenton

Elseplace

Filipelli, Laurie

Poetry. "The poems in this book provide a vision of a world fallen nearly apart, but not completely, and there's the metaphysical rub. By all accounts&mdash;the doomed family, the material detritus, the ruination of nature&mdash;we deserve the full-blown apocalypse. Its absence is eerie but ultimately instructive, in a punishing way. This is a book that takes the reader not down an inescapable hole but through a physical and spiritual darkness, if not to the light then dimly to the lesser dark. This is a stark and electric book, full of honesty, intelligence, and a kind of grace."&mdash;Maurice Manning "Surreal, arch, deep and chaotic, these poems convert post-modern angst into pleasurable weaponry. The images arrive like gunfire and leave like 'the slow pulse of an oak.' Anything is possible in the furnace of this poet's brain. Perceptions burn until 'sweetness and horror [are] fused / in a single music.' Metaphor- monger that he is, Rasmovicz demands to be described as only his idiopaths would have it: with 'a paper cut for a voice,' his lines make unforgettable rumble. In no one else's poetic can morning be described as 'a worm grinding across red bricks.' Impossible, yet here he is: a poet who makes depression read like a blessing."&mdash;Larissa Szporluk

Idiopaths

Rasmovicz, Bill

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