"Thank You For Your Sperm" is a collection of 80 short and very short stories, which writer John Minichillo calls "short brilliant playful poetic blasts: a baby's first word is 'Hitler', the Greek God Mars donates his divine seed to a fertility clinic, a portal turns spiders into flowers, The Serious Writer buys an iPad, a mother burns, an autistic child listens. Marcus Speh, a German writer living in Germany, has a better command of English than just about anyone. His short pieces are sometimes personal, often poignant, and always perfect."

Thank You For Your Sperm

Literature & Fiction

Speh, Marcus

Literary

MadHat Press

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Whipstitches

Randi Ward

FLIGHT takes its shape from a Cherokee ceremony for the dead, with balancing movements of remembranceand release. The book explores both internal and external processes of enmity/loss, circling towards a postureof peace/acceptance, even when things cannot be forgotten due to personal or intergenerational trauma. FLIGHT--with its double meaning of fleeing and ascendance--mines the tension between memory andforgetting and highlights the danger of not bringing things to light. Physical and spiritual manifestations of lossgive rise to an uneasy reconciliation of past and present, where beauty does not go unnoticed and ordinarymoments become sacred offerings.

Flight

Becker, Kimberly L.

Poetry

Insomnia 11

Keith, Michael C.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Selected poems by Harry Crosby, selected and with an introduction by Ben Mazer.

Selected Poems

Arts & Photography

Crosby, Harry

History & Criticism

Selected Poems by Harry Crosby: Illustrated Deluxe Edition

“This new volume by Ben Mazer ... is mostly new work and shows the poet continuing on his ineluctable journey of contemplation and self-realization. The poems boast the visual and musical complexity that Mazer is known for. They are often visionary and always filled with dense meaning. Many of the poems are complex, yet not forbiddingly so, even if they presuppose an ambitious and dedicated reader.” —Philip Nikolayev, from the afterword“American poetry used to bow before its roots in England, then pretty much scorned them utterly. Ben Mazer is a bright exception in a slowly dimming landscape, one who brings poetry’s formal pasts—both ancient and Modern— to bear on the dark troubles of the moment, while his spectrum extends from high lyric to caustic colloquial. His work is both distinct and distinguished, and his fine new book a cause for celebration.” —Glyn Maxwell

The Hierarchy of The Pavilions

Mazer, Ben

The prose pieces ... only occasionally have the descriptive, reflexive feel of prose poems.... more often meditations or brief fictions, reminiscent in their mastery of tone of the shorter prose pieces of Gilbert Sorrentino.... wonderfully varied versions of Hamlet, the play, the role, the character. Yorick, Gertrude, Ophelia and even a remote, lost father pass through very concrete versions of Brooklyn, Manhattan, Ireland and Scotland.—Michael Anania

History of Theatre or the Glass of Fashion

Stephens, M. G.

Humor & Satire

Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the prose poem and is worth buying for Russell Edson’s correspondence alone. Peter Johnson’s essays and interviews are filled with imaginative insights on poetic form, the nature of humor and the grotesque in contemporary poetry, the problem of genre, the anxiety of influence, and the permutations of content and form arising from writing and reading prose poetry, an oxymoronic genre memorably defined by Edson as “a cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly.” The volume also offers much to be learned about the political in-fighting in literary circles and the genre’s cultural and institutional position in American letters. Highly recommended!—Michel Delville, author of The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of GenreIn Peter Johnson’s Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty, readers are given an operating manual for the American prose poem. With myriad examples from the work of many contemporary masters, Johnson is inclusive and accepting of various strategies and techniques. His interview with Russell Edson reveals how the attempts to pigeonhole the genre is pointless given the richness of voices in this genre. While Edson likens his writing to “dreaming awake,” the logic of the genre, its inherent wholeness, is what Johnson’s essays emphasize. This book is an important addition to the study of a form encompassing terror and humor and many in-between states.—Maxine Chernoff, author of Under the Music: Collected Prose PoemsPeter Johnson has written an invaluable book on the legacy and mercurial nature of prose poetry in this omnibus collection of essays, letters, and interviews. In his inimitable, risible style of combining humor and consummate scholarship, Johnson enlightens and entertains at the same time. After more than twenty years of studying, teaching, editing, and writing award winning prose poems, Johnson has arrived at that sage stage in his career of making wonderful sense about the enduring, oxymoronic, transcendent character of the prose poem that defies genre, while claiming its own mercurial ground with what Russell Edson called “poetry mind.” Or as Johnson describes its literary magic as an ironic, appealing form that endures while “straddling the lines ... between genres, both feet planted precariously on banana peels.”—Chard deNiord, author of In My Unknowing and I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets

Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty: A Short Primer on The Prose Poem with Selected Letters from Russell Edson

Johnson, Mr Peter

Edson, Mr Russell

Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays

Henry, DeWitt

Parenting & Relationships

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