Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. "I love Richard Froude's declarative, incandescently plain sentences, which at first seem like high-stakes non sequiturs, then a study in perfect, surprising aphorism, then a deftly woven web of profundity. The formal distillation and intellectual range of this book are impressive enough; even more so is Froude's gentle but insistent touching on questions of God, mortality, war, memory, family, intimacy, and history. Froude sets up poetic shop in the fraught space between 'terror and fertility,' and wrests from it this exceptionally beautiful, intelligent book"—Maggie Nelson.

FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book

Literature & Fiction

Froude, Richard

Poetry

Horse Less Press

Poetry. "Susan Scarlata is on message, and she is not letting go. She is trying to tell us 'no other planet meets our needs.' She turns her screen to let us see what she sees. Not, as they say, a pretty sight. She lays it out with great precision in her beautiful vitrine of words. IT MIGHT TURN OUT WE ARE REAL is a complete set of 21st century eclogues delivered to your door with brainy clarity, with vinegary humor, with ergonomic economy and red-behind-the-ribs feeling. A positively extraordinary collection"—C. D. Wright.

It Might Turn Out We Are Real

Scarlata, Susan

History & Criticism

Poetry. "In my mind, THE SOFT PLACE makes traces around what works to keep us together or keep us going: kindness, stitches ('this inner thing is mine'), seeds, family lines, and the symmetries and asymptotes therein. With intimacy and intelligence, Schapira reminds us of those mirrors (between us and us, us and others or lovers, us and the wound or the world) that sometimes hold together, sometimes shatter: 'Nature doesn't mirror us, but it senses us.' She holds the shards between pictures up to each other in reciprocity, responsiveness; that is to say, she holds it together."—Eleni Sikelianos

The Soft Place

Schapira, Kate

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Olszewska, Daniela

Poetry. "Heavenly and dangerous at the speculative edge of the West, 'up to and including the time of the fire,' between carnival and fairy tale, diorama and shoot-out, these deep matter tableaus tell us a thousand things about ourselves we haven't usually time or heart to examine. What origami spirit animal did I fold in my head? Did I hear my fate coming like the hero who 'heard the sound of his own boots on the boards moments before he fell like a beef?' And there's no end to the territory in which heroes, wolves, and Little Red take a risk. Abraham leads us out of the forest onto the high plains. She charts pain and wonder, which are sometimes indistinguishable one from the other, from us, 'two cahoots, caught in a swivet."—Danielle Pafunda

The Disappearing Cowboy Trick

Abraham, Kristin

Poetry. "She dreamt she was telling you about her dreams. The dinosaur-calls of loons; the hum of a canoe. I tried to tell her about frontier, but she was too far gone in collection. Besides, everyone has a stolen country stowed away. It is a moth pressed to a screen."—Georgia M. Talbot

In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments

Anderson, Stephanie

Poetry. "The only way these poems could've existed without the glorious mind of Tim Earley is if Gertrude Stein, having found herself suddenly preaching in the deep south, punched Gerard Manley Hopkins in the face while he sang in her choir, and if the rearrangement of bruise and bone, fist to face, her language against his, was delivered to the congregation as a prayer, as a whole town's last goddamn hope, then maybe, maybe the faintest scent of these poems, having stayed on the collar of a small boy's woolen coat a little too long, wafted into the cold, crisp air, traveling from bird to bird, waking up the oldest prisoner with only minutes before his sentence to write Earley's words down. This is how beautiful and impossible. This is how rare. Thank god for Tim Earley and his new, heavenly sack of genius poems."—Sabrina Orah Mark

Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

Earley, Tim

Poetry. "In Pattie McCarthy's wonderful new collection, NULLS, we are compelled to consider a collage of possible meetings which ultimately lead to birth-the birth of the poem, the birth of assumption, the birth of identity, and the birth of expectations and restraints which press upon any person with the aspiration to decode domestic entropy and to deftly shepherd living form. With urgency you will be asked, 'WHO SAYS THAT WOLVES ARE BAD MOTHERS?' and 'DO YOU HAVE YOUR EXHAUSTION LETTER?' McCarthy's asking is hypnotic, acute and probes discrete categories of collapse. NULLS beautifully demonstrates how iteration can become palimpsest, how 'invisible ink' may 'make your mouth noun' and how interrogation can cause fracture. NULLS provides proof that texts can change the dimensions of mental space and transmute or reveal the inaudible which exists alongside any transcription."—Laynie Browne

Nulls

McCarthy, Pattie

Poetry. Written in a seance of intuition and then extensively revised, SOMETHING IN THE WAY is an aboriginal blues, a gut map, where ecstatic clarity shares a bed with gall stone blindness. Proceeding by feints and jabs, deadpan misdirection undercutting stark confession, the pages share a core vulnerability, a magnetic bruise. These are loner's poems, vying to connect. Sunk deep in the mud of childhood, dragged by an erotic comb with missing teeth, what passes through unexamined, re-emerges in adulthood, wearing masks. Surreal, streetwise, and draped in black humor, the method is magpie, the code collapsed romantic. Duvernoy's piercing lyric rhythm, his art brut cologne, haunt a landscape poised between complicity and the drifter's escape. For readers hungry for a sound of authentic risk and mystery, this electric debut will quicken the pulse.

Something In the Way // Obstruction Blues

Duvernoy, John

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Sara is a lyrical spirit that is one part child, one part poet, and all visionary. Sara Woods' concise, delightful prose moves quickly yet resonates, like a fire that catches fast and smolders for a long time. Like some kind of reincarnated American Henri Michaux, Woods manages to make these prose poems both hilariously absurd and devastatingly sincere."—Nathan Hoks

Sara Or the Existence of Fire

Woods, Sara.

United States

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