 A Better Place Is Hard to Find
By Aaron Fagan. "Revealing the profusion of life “Where silence / And all possible / Outcomes bathe // In simultaneity,” the poems in Aaron Fagan's astonishing third collection, A Better Place Is Hard to Find, carefully tune their >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781734035155
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2020 In stock
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|  Among the most influential works of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98), Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard feels to this day revolutionary and resoundingly contemporary, both for the suggestive power of its >>more
Lucia|Marquand
ISBN 9780999652237
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Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 11 x 15 in. / 64 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/12/2018 In stock
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|  A Book of Glyphs
By Edward Sanders. A Book of Glyphs is a facsimile reproduction of legendary author, musician and Fugs founder Ed Sanders’ first book-length work of glyphs, which he created in Florence, Italy in 2008, using colored pencils and a >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123815
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Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 168 pgs / 73 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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 A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
By Alfred Starr Hamilton. Edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal. Introduction by Geof Hewitt. Though Alfred Starr Hamilton wrote thousands of poems during his lifetime, only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print. His poems appeared in small poetry journals during the ‘60s, ‘70s and >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464308
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/15/2013 Out of stock
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|  A Song of Flowers: Ni Xochitl, Ni Kuikatl
Edited by Mardonio Caballo, Fernando Laposse. Text by Mardonio Caballo. Introduction by Alberto Manguel. Illustrations by Fernando Laposse. In Nahuatl, a language spoken in present-day central Mexico since the 7th century, poetry is designated by a pair of metaphors, in xochitl in cuicatl: “the flower, the song.” This term defines poetry as “an >>more
JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680844
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Hbk, 7.5 x 14 in. / 120 pgs / 21 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock
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|  This extensive collection of poet Jena Osman’s acclaimed work spans more than 30 years, gathering poems from journals and books long out of print. Her poetry traces overlooked visual and linguistic incidents across centuries of >>more
DABA
ISBN 9781734681796
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 416 pgs / 46 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/19/2023 In stock
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 With mounting intensity extended across three sections of poems, Ben Estes' achingly personal second collection unfolds to reveal an uncertain past, present and future that is by turns mysterious and beautiful. ABC Moonlight contains poems >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277538
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 108 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2022 In stock
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|  The second published collaboration between Stéphane Mallarmé and Édouard Manet (after Mallarmé’s translation of Poe’s “The Raven”), L’après-midi d’un faune is one of the poet’s best-known works. It provided the basis for Debussy’s Prélude à >>more
Lucia|Marquand
ISBN 9781646570027
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Pbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 24 pgs / 4 color.
Pub Date: 03/10/2020 Out of stock
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|  America and Other Poems: Selected Poetry by Nobuo Ayukawa
By Ayukawa Nobuo. Introduction by Shogo Oketani. Translated by Shogo Oketani, Leza Lowitz. America and Other Poems is the first English translation of a single volume by the seminal Japanese Modernist poet, Ayukawa Nobuo. One of Japan's most influential yet overlooked poets, Nobuo was an important voice for >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030412
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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 Andrei Monastyrski: Elementary Poetry
Edited with translation by Brian Droitcour, Yelena Kalinsky. Introduction by Boris Groys. Russian poet, author, artist and art theorist Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949) is, along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, and a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of artists who >>more
Ugly Duckling Presse/Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781937027681
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 360 pgs / 6 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/23/2019 In stock
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|  April
By Sara Nicholson. Deadpan, heartfelt and everything in between, Sara Nicholson poetry is a reluctant mystic who can both make us laugh and point us toward magical truths within a single poem. Her third collection of poems, April, >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277590
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 90 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/15/2023 Out of stock
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|  Aurelia & Other Writings
By Gérard de Nerval. Translated by Geoffrey Wagner, Robert Duncan, Marc Lowenthal. Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into madness—a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled “bohemians,” >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972095
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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 A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: for one month she shot a roll of 35mm film each day and kept a journal. >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221255
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Hbk, 10 x 7.25 in. / 332 pgs / 1155 color.
Pub Date: 06/09/2020 In stock
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|  Truong Tran’s provocative collection of poetry, prose and essays is a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime. Written with a compulsion for lucidity that transforms outrage into clarity, Book >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030757
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 184 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock
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|  Bridgeable Shores
Edited by Eileen Tabios. Bridgeable Shores: Selected Poems and New (1969-2001) is the first U.S. publication of the work of the revered Filipino-American poet Luis Cabalquinto. This long overdue collection features the compassion, wisdom and well-being gained from the >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030344
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 In stock
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 Concrete Poetry
Text by Paul Bernard, Gabriele Detterer, Maurizio Nannucci. MAMCO has devoted a semipermanent exhibition space to concrete poetry since 2016, resulting in the acquisition of a significant group of works falling under this label. This includes the purchase of the Steven Leiber collection. >>more
MAMCO Geneva
ISBN 9781636810423
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/03/2022 In stock
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|  Crevasse
By Nicholas Wong. Crevasse, Hong Kong–based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030207
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Pbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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By T.O. Bobe. Translation by Sean Cotter. Mr. Gica is the world’s greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica’s shop has six >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663429
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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 In her first collection of poetry, Emily Hunt inverts the ordinary: “How to bring a new figure close / was like taking a globe, turning it once / and placing it back on its pedestal.” >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464391
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2015 In stock
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|  Dereliction
By Gabrielle Octavia Rucker. Dereliction, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's debut collection of poetry, moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's “insatiable wandering.” With cinematic imagery and formal variation, >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277576
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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|  Earth
By Hannah Brooks-Motl. With patience and precision, Hannah Brooks-Motl's third collection of poems, Earth, explores the grand themes of love, family, economy and home with the skill of a true craftsman. As the measured compositions of these poems >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780578514376
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 108 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2019 In stock
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 American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words >>more
DABA
ISBN 9781734681703
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Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  In Essay Stanzas, Thomas Meyer begins modestly by warning the reader: “This won't amount to much.” Each of the four poems in this book follow the imagination of the poet through his attempts to map >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464353
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 140 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2014 In stock
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|  Charles North is the quintessential poet's poet. James Schuyler confidently named him “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” while Harry Mathews possibly took it one step further to claim that Charles “belongs on the >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781734035100
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 90 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2020 In stock
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 Fort Not
By Emily Skillings. In her highly anticipated debut collection, Fort Not, Emily Skillings creates an “atmosphere for encounter,” akin to searching for meaning through lip-reading. We soon realize that these poems are speaking to us in tones that >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778695
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2017 In stock
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|  Goodbye Letter
By Jeremy Sigler. Edited by Barney Kulok. In his latest collection, Goodbye Letter, New York-based poet Jeremy Sigler (born 1968) deconstructs his very will to write, as he articulates, verbally and graphically, the implied obsolescence of language itself. The book feels less >>more
Hunters Point Press
ISBN 9780578576916
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock
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|  In this marriage of photography and poetry, curated by Gudrun Scholz, the book does not superordinate or subordinate either party. Rather, quotes from artists and photographers are placed across the page from images by Alec >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735609434
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 394 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock
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 Hairdo
By Rachel B. Glaser. With a voice as familiar as family, Rachel B. Glaser's second book of poems, Hairdo, hilariously navigates the daily anxieties and fantasies of the writer's path through her own modern life. Writing through action movies, >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778664
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2017 In stock
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|  With setting moons, talking tulips and the peacefulness found in a horse's mane, the poems in Christian Schlegel's debut collection Honest James might be as difficult to describe as the layered notes of an ancient >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464384
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2015 In stock
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|  I Even Regret Night
By Lalbihari Sharma. Edited and translated by Rajiv Mohabir. Introduction by Gaiutra Bahadur. Winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize, 2020
Award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) brings his own poetic swagger and family history to a groundbreaking translation of Lalbihari Sharma's Holi >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030597
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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 In a new groundbreaking anthology, award-winning poet, memoirist and translator Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) engages with Indo-Caribbean language and culture, this time by inviting 17 diasporic writers to experiment with their own personal interpretations of >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781935717003
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Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 204 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/08/2024 In stock
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|  Jason Magabo Perez's second full-length book of poetry is an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis. Called “an antidote to despair” (Muriel >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030894
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 124 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock
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|  I, Immendorff
By Feridun Zaimoglu. Translated by Tom Cheesman. Turkish poet Feridun Zaimoglu (born 1964) immersed himself in the paintings of Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007) to write the poems gathered in this volume. In his words, "I disappeared and Immendorff came to life. This is >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960985051
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 216 pgs / 2 color.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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 What exactly is an illustrated game of patience? Imagine something like group solitaire within a room full of objects, Duchamp on a TV, some great old albums, voices from a radio or the past and >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464377
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 75 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/01/2015 In stock
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|  Inseparable
By Lewis Warsh Inseparable collects poems written between 1995 and 2005 by the New York poet, editor and novelist Lewis Warsh. Strongly identified with New York since the 1960s, when he co-founded Angel Hair magazine with Anne Waldman, >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123785
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Paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 212 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 In stock
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|  Is This The Way The Universe Works?
Edited with text by Gavin Wade, Paul Conneally. Images by James Langdon, based on photographs by Gavin Wade. A tanrenga poem is a conversation between a three-line haikulike poem and a two-line poem written by another writer in response. British artist-curator Gavin Wade (born 1971) and poet-musician Paul Conneally (born 1959) offer here >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083318882
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 400 pgs / 400 tritone.
Pub Date: 12/05/2023 In stock
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 American artist Jimmie Durham's (born 1940) third book of poetry, Particle/Word Theory collects 38 poems written between 2014 and 2019, and 13 drawings. These poems, for Durham, express his belief that “art and science are >>more
Walther König, Köln/Wiens Verlag/Edition Hans Jörg Mayer
ISBN 9783960989264
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Flexi, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 1 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  Joan Myers & Nathaniel Tarn: The Persephones
Poem by Nathaniel Tarn. In The Persephones, American poet Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928) and American photographer Joan Myers (born 1941) offer an elegant, collaborative retelling of Persephone’s abduction into the underworld. Many of Myers’ images were shot at the >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862084987
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Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 58 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Joe Brainard: I Remember
Artwork by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett. Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123488
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Paperback, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 In stock
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 In Last West, poet Tess Taylor follows Dorothea Lange’s winding paths across California during the Great Depression and in its immediate aftermath. On these journeys, Lange photographed migrant laborers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities and >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451094
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Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock
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|  Last Words
By Gabriele Tinti. Preface by Derrick de Kerchove. Photographs by Andres Serrano. Last Words is a collection of found poems. Its conceptual basis is dramatic: to recover the lyricism of the final moments. Gabriele Tinti has with this aim composed the last words of ordinary people who >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857229874
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 04/05/2016 In stock
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|  Lunar Solo
By Jules Laforgue. Translated by Mark Ford. Largely unread yet one of the most influential forces on modern literature, Jules Laforgue was a brilliant French poet whose work was cut short by his untimely death at 27 years old. Praised by Pound >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828823
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 172 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2023 In stock
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 M
By Hannah Brooks-Motl. Swinging between examination and revelation, Hannah Brooks-Motl's second collection of poems, M, holds a unique place in contemporary poetry, written almost as a document to chart the act of a writer reading. By transposing lines >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778602
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2015 In stock
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|  Magnetic Refrain
By Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut. Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war. She observes >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030061
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 86 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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|  André Breton described Maldoror as "the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential." Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972125
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 In stock
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 Mouth
By Lisa Chen. Mouth, Lisa Chen's debut collection of poetry, gives voice to things that occur below the level of hearing or just beyond our notice--fragments of translated stories, unanswered bits of conversations, the mute assertiveness of a >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030436
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Paperback, 5.75 x 7.5 in. / 84 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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|  Mucus in My Pineal Gland is the debut collection of New York–based artist and writer Juliana Huxtable (born 1987). Gathering poems, performance scripts and essays, this startling volume expands Huxtable’s critique of gender, sexuality, politics, whiteness >>more
Capricious Publishing
ISBN 9780997444629
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 185 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/01/2019 Out of stock
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|  In Muscle Memory, Washington-based poet Jenny Liou grapples with violence and identity, beginning with the chain-link enclosure of the prizefighter’s cage and radiating outward into the diasporic sweep of Chinese American history. Liou writes with >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030801
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 100 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/25/2022 In stock
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 Jane Gregory’s My Enemies records a poet’s search for meaning in a landscape of combined and dissolving definitions. Affirming disaster and its beyond, these poems sing toward belief—a self-made belief that will not rely on >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464315
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 81 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2013 In stock
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|  On the 50th anniversary of its original publication, The Song Cave is honored to publish the first English translation of Francis Ponge's Nioque of the Early-Spring. Ostensibly a book written to honor the season itself >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829036
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2018 In stock
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|  Nite Soil
Artwork by Kenward Elmslie. Kenward Elmslie's way with words cuts a singular swath through a polymath variety of forms. This collection of poems and ephemera treats language sometimes as paint to be thrown on canvas, sometimes as a series >>more
Granary Books
ISBN 9781887123396
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Slipcased, 7 x 5 in. / pgs / 41 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2000 In stock
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 In 1931, with the help of Jacqueline Apollinaire and at the suggestion of Pierre Matisse, a young Swiss publisher named Albert Skira contacted Pablo Picasso and convinced him to illustrate a French translation of Ovid’s >>more
Skira Paris
ISBN 9788857239491
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Slip, hbk, 2 vols, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 412 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Kurt Schwitters' stated goal was to "erase the boundaries between the arts." This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters' writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters' words. >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972354
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Out of stock
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|  Paper Bells
By Phan Nhien Hao. Translated by Hai-Dang Phan. Paper Bells is a striking new collection by poet Phan Nhiên Hao, depicting his American life as a Vietnamese refugee and poet of exile, translated by poet Hai-Dang Phan. Neither conciliatory nor nostalgic, his plain-spoken >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781734035124
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 78 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2020 In stock
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 Written between 1958 and 1982, Brion Gysin's "permutation poems" begin with short phrases or sentences whose constituent words are exhaustively rearranged over the course of the text. At first, Gysin wrote these poems manually, although >>more
DABA
ISBN 9781734681772
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock
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|  Piero Heliczer (1937–93) was one of the most important and ubiquitous protagonists of the underground of the 1960s and ’70s. Born in Italy, Heliczer lived between London, Paris, New York and Amsterdam; a poet, publisher >>more
After 8 Books
ISBN 9782492650000
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 52 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock
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|  Poems by Yvonne Rainer
Introduction by Tim Griffin. From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America’s greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781936440108
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 71 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Out of stock
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 Poetries
By Georges Schehade. Introduction by Adonis. Translated by Austin Carder. The first book-length translation of works by this important Egyptian–born, Lebanese French poet, Poetries presents the core of Georges Schehadè's (1905–89) oeuvre. Though best known as a dramatist, Schehadè was first and foremost a poet. >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781734035193
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 138 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2021 In stock
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|  Punks
By John Keene. A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277521
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 234 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2021 In stock
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By Pierre Louÿs. Introduction and translation by Geoffrey Longnecker. Illustrations by Toyen. By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest collection of poetry ever published, and offers a taste of what the Marquis de Sade might have produced if he had ever turned >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663023
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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 In his debut collection, Riddles Etc., Geoffrey Hilsabeck proves himself adept at paradox, a poet who reaches toward the largeness of the cosmos in order to bring its essence closer to us. Approaching his subjects >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829012
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2017 In stock
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|  Rough Song
By Blanca Varela. Translated by Carlos Lara. It is hard to believe that the books of Blanca Varela, considered one of Peru's greatest poets, as well as the first woman to win the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize, have not been >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781734035131
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 98 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/15/2020 Out of stock
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|  Rude Woods
By Nate Klug. Foreward by W.R. Johnson. In his Eclogues, Virgil offers the reader poems about responding—listening, picking out, and answering back the pleasures of song. Nate Klug’s Rude Woods is an inspired, modern response, a new translation that blends talkative elegance >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464322
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 76 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/15/2013 In stock
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 Scardanelli
By Friederike Mayrocker. Translated by Jonathan Larson. In Scardanelli, Friederike Mayröcker, one of Austria's most well-known poets, associated with the experimental German writers and artists of the Wiener Gruppe, continues to sharpen her mystical and hallucinatory poetic voice. Filled with memory and >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829050
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2018 In stock
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|  Secret Poetics
By Hélio Oiticica. Edited and translated with introduction by Rebecca Kosick. Afterword by Pedro Erber. Hélio Oiticica (1937–80) is widely considered one of Brazil’s most significant artists, and his influence is felt across a range of disciplines including painting, film, installation and participatory art. He is well known as a >>more
Soberscove Press/Winter Editions
ISBN 9781940190327
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 11/14/2023 In stock
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|  From one of Norway's most outstanding living poets, Helge Torvund's Seriously Well is a book-length poem that explores the characteristics and limits of poetic incantation in relation to memory and illness. With spare lines and >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277569
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 82 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/01/2022 In stock
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 Smudgy and Lossy, the first collection of poetry by Idaho–based poet John Myers, offers us a map to a borderless and psychedelically rural landscape—poems begin and end without notice, and the titular characters, Smudgy and >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829043
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2018 In stock
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|  Beginning in the early 1950s Lionel Ziprin and his wife, Joanne, formed the nucleus of a hidden group of New York City creators who had a foundational influence on what was to come. For over >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778688
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 335 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2017 Out of stock
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|  An extended love letter, Todd Colby's sixth poetry collection Splash State is filled with humor and charm. These poems are as concerned with aging, time, being and death as they are with eliminating “the need >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464360
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 94 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2014 In stock
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 Arda Collins' second book of poems, Star Lake, is a deeply personal collection that explores the ways our notions of daily life touch the presence of the eternal. With memory as the backdrop of many >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277545
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 74 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2022 In stock
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|  Stranger, Emily Hunt's long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut collection of poems, intimately chronicles the effects of love, labor and grief on the life and sensibility of an artist. These poems shed a shifting light >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828830
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 116 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2024 In stock
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|  Sweethearts
By Emmett Williams. A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem Sweethearts, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865608109
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Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 226 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 In stock
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 Alice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of discussions over the last three decades. Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018 >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828816
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 280 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2023 In stock
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|  The Amme Talks
By Ulf Stolterfoht. Afterword by Peter Dittmer. Translated by Shane Anderson, Megan Ewing. The Amme Talks is a conversation between poet and machine. In 2003, poet Ulf Stolterfoht and a chatbot named Amme met in Berlin. For one week, Stolterfoht interrogated Amme about the nature of authorship and >>more
Triple Canopy
ISBN 9780997852448
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 192 pgs / 8 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  Homoerotic poetry and art appear throughout the world’s civilizations for millennia. The Archaeology of Eros, the first collection of poems from cult music figure Jorge Socarras, taps into that continuum through the collaboration of acclaimed >>more
Dark Entries Editions
ISBN 9798985170412
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 80 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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 The Book
By Stéphane Mallarmé. Introduction and translation by Sylvia Gorelick. The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972422
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
By Pablo Picasso. Edited with introduction by Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris. Afterword by Michel Leiris. Pablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis caused Picasso to halt >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972361
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  The Central Laboratory
By Max Jacob. Introduction and translation by Alexander Dickow. When Max Jacob published The Central Laboratory in 1921, Parisian Dada had just officially come to an end and Surrealism was yet to be born. The poetic scene in Paris was between definitions, and Jacob >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663801
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 360 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/26/2022 In stock
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 Brandon Shimoda's The Desert, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book Evening Oracle, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections—featuring >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829067
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2018 Out of stock
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|  The Dice Cup
By Max Jacob. Translated with introduction by Ian Seed. Max Jacob’s role in French modernity was essential, and with this second volume of his work from Wakefield Press, it can now be fully and properly assessed. First published in 1917, The Dice Cup stands >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663863
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 264 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/06/2022 In stock
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|  The Hermit is a catalog of thoughts concerning art and experience. Layering fragments of dreams, lists, games, conversations, poems and notebooks, Lucy Ives offers an intimate look into one writer's practice—“The worst is my imagination: >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778633
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2016 In stock
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 The poems in Sara Nicholson's The Living Method imaginatively grasp the raw materials of nature, calling the reader to the “outer limits of the dark,” where one notices the music of the woods and gardens >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780988464346
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 92 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2014 In stock
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|  The Massacre of the Innocents
By Giambattista Marino. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. A finely crafted epic and literary monstrosity from the seventeenth-century "poet of the marvelous": the harrowing account, in four bloody cantos, of King Herod and his campaign to murder the male infants of his kingdom >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663085
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 222 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 Out of stock
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|  Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was >>more
Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse
ISBN 9781734489798
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 Out of stock
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 The Maybe-Bird cements Jennifer Elise Foerster as a visionary voice in contemporary poetry. Through a spiraling sequence of lyric poems, a cast of voices—oracles, ghosts, water—speaks to a long history of genocide, displacement and ecological >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277552
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 134 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/01/2022 In stock
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|  The Poet Assassinated
By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Matthew Josephson, woodcuts by André Dérain. Apollinaire was Modernism’s first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in World War I, Apollinaire assembled >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972293
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  The Raven / Le Corbeau / The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé. Translation by Holly Cundiff. Illustrations by Édouard Manet. Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) claimed to have learned English in order to read Poe, an American poet greatly admired by the French Symbolists. This volume reproduces at full size the first-edition bilingual publication of Le Corbeau >>more
Lucia|Marquand
ISBN 9780999652282
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Slip, Pbk, 14 x 21.5 in. / 20 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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 Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and transdisciplinary artist, Madeline Gins is well known for her collaborations with her husband, the artist Arakawa, on the experimental architectural project Reversible Destiny, in which they sought to arrest mortality >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221248
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 328 pgs / 184 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock
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|  In this poetry collection, the Italian polymath Francesco Bonami (born 1955) dedicates his introspective verses to the figure of a spinster—an embodiment of a state of mind rather than a fixed gender or age. Richard >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172973
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/28/2023 Out of stock
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|  The Temperature Of This Water
By Ishle Park. Ishle Park's debut collection of poetry heralds the arrival of an exciting, vital new voice in poetry. In The Temperature of This Water, Park samples the climates of Rikers Island and Cheju Island, New York >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030399
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 122 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 In stock
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 The Unbearable Heart
By Kimiko Hahn. From Kimiko Hahn, the celebrated poet of Earshot, The Unbearable Heart is a superbly composed and passionate book on grief and mourning. The poems are both formally innovative and openly cathartic, individually and collectively compelling, >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030016
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/02/1996 Out of stock
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|  Tomie's Chair
By Josey Foo. Introduction by Tomie Arai. Inspired by Arrival, Tomie Arai's 1996 mixed-media installation at the Lower East Side Printshop in New York City, Tomie's Chair is an allegory of outward and inward movement. The chair is a symbol of rest >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030368
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2002 In stock
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|  Through two long poems, Jesús Castillo's Two Murals explores the personal and political sides of love, selfhood and transformation in a wasteful age. "Variations on Adonis," the first sequence, is filled with music and memorable >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277514
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 100 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2021 In stock
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 Ronald Johnson's underground classic of visionary and queer poetics, Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses, has been legendarily hard to find for over 50 years. In this book of poems, Johnson creates a specifically North American >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9798987828809
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/15/2023 In stock
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|  Vanessa Place: Last Words
For her ongoing project Last Words, leading Conceptual poet and lawyer Vanessa Place (born 1968) has recorded in her own voice the last statements of all of the inmates executed in Texas as recorded by >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563772
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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|  Watchfiends & Rack Screams
By Antonin Artaud. Translated by Clayton Eshleman with Bernard Bador. Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and magnificently >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972187
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 In stock
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 What awaits us is not the future we had hoped for or what we were promised, but the terrible consequences of we've done to ourselves.
Managing to be both a hopeful prayer for change and direct >>more
Pioneer Works Press
ISBN 9781945711114
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Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 128 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock
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|  Sara Nicholson's second poetry collection, What the Lyric Is, is a sharp, humorous and poignant exploration of how the lyric in poetry both fits and fails us. Conversant with dead poets, but skeptical of their >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778619
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2016 Out of stock
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|  Callie Garnett's first full-length collection of poems, Wings in Time, is a book one watches as much as reads. Whether it be her memories of browsing now-extinct video stores, the tender lessons learned from children's >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9781737277507
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 110 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2021 In stock
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 Yeah, No
By Jane Gregory. Jane Gregory's mystifying second collection, Yeah No, begins with a “Knock knock,” inviting the reader into a realm where “Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no.” Within these pages we find Gregory constructing >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829029
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2018 In stock
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