Neither poetry nor prose, but owing to both – with a dollop of essay, creative non-fiction and memoir - The Body is a surprising, complex study of self-discovery and memory. At the same time we're led through the speaker's encounters with "ethereal ponderings occurring in some heaven or other" and "the scenery…to where her death boat drifted," the book also re-examines the narrative form by completely casting it aside – The Body is composed entirely of a series of alternately dreamy, dark and humorous footnotes to a non-existent text.

The Body: An Essay

Literature & Fiction

Boully, Jenny

Poetry

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FROM THE BACK COVER 
Hypocrite reader, mon somblobble, Jonah Winter will New York School you in the woodshed of his imagination! These poems remind me of Robert Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer, in which a tape recorder spews out the blurts and ravings of the heart at inappropriate moments. Maine is a hemorrhage of the goofy, the sinister, and the sublime. - James Cummins 
Jonah Winter's poems are relentless attacks on the status quo. They turn pop culture on its head in hot pursuit of untainted love. And they are funny, if whiplash can be funny. Winter is a serious, new poet, with talent galore, blazing a trail, along which unknown treasures are sure to be found. - James Tate

Maine: Poems

Winter, Jonah

Zoo Music marks another step in the Minneapolis Renaissance -- William Waltz's book, like those of his Twin Cities peers, storms over the American poetic landscape at the right time, sweeping aside today's tired ultra-irony and hyper-humor in favor of ineffable strangeness and touching sincerity. A zebra of different stripes. Chosen by Dean Young as Winner of the Second Annual Slope Editions Book Prize.

Zoo Music

Waltz, William D.

Poetry. Drama. Women's Studies. Who is "Jenny"? Well, who isn't she? Tara Rebele, in her debut, crafts a series of alternately defiant, sublime, racy and hilarious monologues in the latest hybrid text from Slope Editions. Prosaic, poetic and rooted in the performance arts, this book promises to help redefine "feminism" for the 21st century.

And I'm Not Jenny

Rebele, Tara

Dramas & Plays

Baker avows that sight is visionary and that Vision is transformative. This is her "massive simplicity," a Blake-like virtue surely, in which the disruption of the eye by light, of words by breath (and by the breath-taking line breaks that are Andrea Baker's most beautiful signature) is a chaos becoming, quite simply, cosmic and wide. -Donald Revell, from his introduction

Like Wind Loves A Window: Poems

Andrea Baker

"I am often close. // I am often a boy / absent the island." White, in his debut, reintroduces the Romantic sensibility, as well as extra-quiet meditation, into an American poetic era sorely lacking these qualities.

THE GODDESS OF THE HUNT IS NOT HERSELF

White, Sam

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on a foreign land," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land." Such is the effect, too, of reading The Other Side of Landscape. Working simultaneously under the influence of foreign poetries and thousand-year-old native traditions, this inspired collection explores the poets’ "Electrical I"—as editors Stochholm and Sumari—that gives the reader a sense of wonder for the familiar, an "electrical eye."
The Other Side of Landscape is a collection of seventeen Nordic poets as influenced by modern and post-modern techniques as by pan-Scandinavian mythology. It represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of modern Nordic poets ever for an American audience.

THE OTHER SIDE OF LANDSCAPE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY NORDIC POETRY

History & Criticism

When Caesar said about horses that if the gods hadn’t invented them, we would have to, he could have been talking about Matt Hart whose poems are of such immediate, radiant presence, they seem as true and necessary as air. In vital self-sabotages and improvisational self-renewals, the buzz of the mosh-pit pokes us through the sky. The book you now hold in your hands is luxurious with nerve, speed and crash, the work of an explorative explosiveness that is constantly whacked by the world as it is. Welcome to a new realism hatching from the old. Welcome to the human heart. Welcome to the launch site. - Dean Young These poems marry cinema and song, conflagration and precision in a double-ceremony lead by Matt Hart in an enormous cathedral with no roof. The work in Who's Who Vivid is driven by strange narrative and daring associations, experiments that negotiate the terrain between the subconscious and the shag carpet. It is a remarkable display of virtuosity and freshness. These poems are stunning and funny and troubling, deeply serious, off-handedly brilliant. Matt Hart has cast out a net and brought back news from another world, written in the language of this one -urgent, entertaining, candid, and smart. Who's Who Vivid is a sizzling debut by an important new poet. - Laura Kasischke

Who's Who Vivid

Matt Hart

As judge Lisa Jarnot writes in her introduction to Isa, "Great talent gravitates to and from the center of Minnesota…Think of Bob Dylan or James Wright or Jack Spicer." Amanda Nadelberg, a graduate of Carleton College and current resident of Minneapolis, is no exception to the rule. Using a catalog of 63 first names as her starting point, she constructs a series of varied, quiet, and ultimately very charming portraits.

Isa the Truck Named Isadore

Amanda Nadelberg

Poetry. "Marvelously inventive and refreshingly tongue-in-cheek, Robyn Ewing takes a frank look at the world in these sharp, funny pieces, but with a mind so acrobatic that she makes it look brand new and not quite so impossible. Even when tackling life's more awkward details, such as poverty and war, there's a wry brilliance to her eye and ear. Ewing covers it all,from ornithology to physics to funerals, but it's the sheer dazzle, zip, and bite of each line that makes this one of the best books you'll read this year"--Cole Swensen.

Odd Swallows

Robyn Ewing

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