Poetry. "Caryl Pagel's EXPERIMENTS I SHOULD LIKE TRIED AT MY OWN DEATH provides a posthumous glimpse into a room where poems are knocking inside the walls and the ascending reader floats out into gaps of particulars, particles, and parts—or 'Names you will not recognize' owing to the relentless intercalation of bodiless bodies. Here is spectral evidence to be used in peeling away the argument that we don't exist. Alternatively, here are 'vestments' to clothe that existence, whose character and purpose are repeatedly reshaped atop a discontinuous ridge of occult figuration. Look out for that."—William Fuller"In Caryl Pagel's EXPERIMENTS I SHOULD LIKE TRIED AT MY OWN DEATH, the act of naming presses out through the body to the natural world rendering the most poignant questions of the book those that concern agency: what happens to self and substance when the demarcation of names transpires. For example, in 'Spirit Cabinet' Pagel writes: 'What I live with in     this house     is mine     I did not make it What did What is     mine made     me.' Here self is house is language. Such folding and unfolding calls to mind Heidegger's concept of language-as-house-of-being, where 'In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.' Occupying the position of both interior and exterior, architect and structure, these poems perform a threshold demonstrating the necessity of what is made possible and impossible—both—through naming's articulation."—Karla Kelsey

Experiments I Should Like Tried at My Own Death

Literature & Fiction

Pagel, Caryl

Poetry

Factory Hollow Press

Poetry. Seth Landman believes in questions. The first poem in his book is a question, a good one. He wants to ask questions, his poems create a rich, vast, deep, wide, whale's way oceanic sea of a place in which to ask all the questions we better be asking if we know what's good for us."Seth Landman's poems are full of slow deep exposure that paradoxically makes distance feel close to us, as his mind moves from one thing and idea to another. His double vision creates worlds and this doubling makes time sweet. He allows his voice to let the waves of signs come to him like a distant emanating star system, we too are attracted by the bright phrasing and shining result; wonderful feeling."—Peter Gizzi"When I read Seth Landman's poetry I forgive an entire globe, with all its beauty and longing. There are no doubts in these poems, rather, Seth reassures us. We are going into his book together. We are going to come back more alive and with bigger hearts. These poems are epic in spirit and in perspective. They should be read at a gathering in honor of someone tremendous. They should be the last thing you read at night. They will insure holy dreams of ordinary life. I get a sense of something unrequited in here. You will too. You might find yourself obsessed with these pages."—Natalie Lyalin

Sign You Were Mistaken

Landman, Seth

Poetry. "MOODS is amazing."—Heather Christle "Rachel, these poems are awesome."—Blake Butler "I have many mood rings!"—Dorothea Lasky

MOODS

Glaser, Rachel

Poetry. RUSSIAN NOVELS is Luke Bloomfield's debut collection of poems. Intellectual and irreverent, Russian Novels is the work of a mildly disturbed imagination that spans the absurd and mundane with sly, conscious play. Pictures hang inside duffel bags, ham is a suitable replacement for the moon and Paris is like Paris. The poems inside RUSSIAN NOVELS "hack food into Swedish shapes" and "grow a discourteous second head." "RUSSIAN NOVELS is a book of poems that is so original and fantastic that it will leave you breathless and aching with laughter. I highly recommend it to anyone who thinks that poetry is dead. It's not. It's a writhing monster of well-being."—James Tate

Russian Novels

Bloomfield, Luke

Literary Nonfiction. Police Log. CHECKED OUT OK is a collection of over 300 actual police log items from several small towns in Western Massachusetts, compiled by Ericson, and indexed into such categories as "Puzzlement, Tremendous Social Events," "Suspicion, Delusion, a Squirrel Acting Oddly," and "Gone when Police Got There."8:57 a.m. – A fox eating rabbits on Sunset Avenue checked out OK.9:55 a.m. – A Rolling Green Drive resident told police that his girlfriend has been receiving poems at her Hadley workplace from a 60-year-old-man. Amherst police advised the man to contact Hadley police about the problem.12:51 a.m. – Police assisted people who were observing the salamanders crossing Henry Street.

Checked Out OK

Humor & Entertainment

Ericson, Corwin

Humor

Poetry. Equine anatomy fills the room, a muzzle at the edge of the rug.Julia Johnson's THE FALLING HORSE is concerned with what is missing, misplaced, lost, fallen, and found.

The Falling Horse

Johnson,Julia

Genre Fiction

Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood, like the town was real, like she thinks swoon is a funnier word than mulligan, and he thinks swoon is a funny word too, but no way in hell is it funnier than mulligan, like he's searching for the Holy Grail and she has little Holy Grail-shaped pupils, like an effusion of steam, like what's cool changes, like hemisphere paint, like a blue flower, like the house you have lived above forever.

Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me

Leidner, Mark

Poetry. African American Studies. The follow up to 2013's BLOOD (Coldfront's book of the year), FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS is a visceral poetry collection that troubles the intersections of race, abuse, memory and history. Concerned with how the visibility of blackness can become an individual burden, FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS traces the lingering fallout of an identity informed by traumatic artifacts and events—how the story of a story can be revised. FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS complicates the idea of family as nurturer and destroyer. A physical and haunting work of cathartic healing. "Shane McCrae's FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS is song that writes wrongs until they ring with generosity. When the poet turns to trauma and difficulty for subject matter, he returns to us with an unflinching devotion to hope, to possibility—bearing wisdom, sustenance. McCrae has again transmuted a legacy of violence into one of love because 'the promise / is / New life.'"—Heidi Lynn Staples

Forgiveness Forgiveness

McCrae, Shane

Poetry. Kelin Loe's debut collection of poems offers a voice so quick it transfers heat: "What you call losing / your virginity I call every other day." THESE ARE THE GLORIA STORIES bristles with kinetic energy. The collection's four extended suites atomize and collide with each other in colorful pyrotechnic displays. Simultaneously gracious and playful, curious and knowing, these poems jolt across boisterous domestic odysseys with brassy rhetoric. "I mean I can candle, Kelin Loe's speaker half promises, half warns at the outset of THESE ARE THE GLORIA STORIES, and she does. Flame-tipped, flicker- framed, luminous, and combustible these poems harness something almost otherworldly, something ultra-worldly, in their word-storm. Sometimes we are spellbound by so-called story, sometimes by so-called beauty—and both have their place here—but in this astonishing work, we are caught up in something stranger, a spell more direct, more radical. If you think you know what language is capable of, if you think you know its best dance moves and fondest secrets by heart, think again. Think through Loe's poems—follow their futurecome, their trail of sugar—and with them, engage sense and sensation in a different kind of conversation than you've ever had before: here circle that nerve."—Lisa Olstein "Kelin Loe's poems are fierce in their truthfulness. They won't let up or give way. They wring the truth from every syllable as if dying for water. They have in them something we're all after."—James Tate "Suppose every word spoken or whispered or shouted by humans since humans began using words were collected solemnly and guarded sacredly and still could not be preserved or contained—THE GLORIA STORIES would pick up the pieces for us and give us masterfully and sacramentally, with ardent attention to every one of our facets, an aggregation and celebration of who we've been and who we might become. Nothing is lost on Loe, poetry and we poetry readers gain everything."—Dara Wier

These Are The Gloria Stories

Loe, Kelin

Poetry. NOT IDEAS finds its life force especially in Wittgenstein and Williams, in Philosophical Investigations and Paterson. It alternately celebrates and condemns, coruscating with intelligence, wit and heart. Readers of 20th and 21st Century's philosophy, poetry, science, politics and religion will recognize the aggregations accumulated in the mind NOT IDEAS invokes, accommodates and regards with love, horror, awe and close attention.

Not Ideas

Dillard, R. H. W.

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