Awards
2015 Finalist – The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award 2015 Finalist – Longlist PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
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Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. From her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records through a series of dominating and liberating friendships and secret connections, the author takes charge of her life as a Texas professor, writer and wise student of her own soul. Reader’s Digest says reading Surrendering Oz “is like having a conversation with a bracingly honest but fundamentally kind friend. In 15 pitch-perfect essays, she chronicles her hard-earned rejection of the cultural fairytales of womanhood as she comes fully into possession of her life." Surrendering Oz was recently longlisted for the 2015 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. -
Zarathustra Must Die is Dorian Alexander’s first work of fiction and traverses several genres as it follows the odyssey of a graduate student grappling with Nietzsche’s concept of “eternal recurrence.” Part fictional memoir, part novel, part philosophical exposition, the work explores the nature of time and its relationship to our existence. However, Zarathustra Must Die finds a home not only in the high art of philosophy, but also in the low art of sex and drugs. Never taking the journey too seriously, Alexander’s humor ranges from high-brow wit to pure burlesque. Zarathustra Must Die is a thought-provoking fiction experience that defies easy classification. -
$19.00$17.71In the tradition of Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector, Searching for Anthony Love is a daring, lyrical novel that follows a woman grappling with the presence of a beloved who has died.
Told through fragments, meditations, and moments of startling clarity, the book traces how love continues to shape consciousness long after its object is gone. Searching for Anthony Love explores the interior spaces where longing, embodiment, and spiritual inquiry collide--where sadness becomes a location, vulnerability a form of knowledge, and the body both a shelter and a site of fracture.
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$18.00$16.78A love note, forged in the griefs and joys of family life, to the damaged world and to those who live in poems.
Through sonnets and unsonnets, prose poems, and formally inventive lyrics, Di Stefano explores the shifting boundaries between confessional and anticonfessional writing, drawing unity from his experience of suburban fatherhood. The book celebrates a wide constellation of artists, from Ruth Stone and Brigit Pegeen Kelly to John Coltrane, Dolly Parton, and Charles Mingus, while grounding itself in the everyday textures of a life: a child's drawings, a whale's song, a 1986 Mets game, an untranslated Montale poem.
Together these moments form the broken, capacious, and sincere country of the human heart.
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$18.00$16.78A luminous collection of poetry by Molly Kirschner that navigates the delicate intersection of the mundane and the metaphysical.
Set against backdrops ranging from the vibrant, storm-swept streets of New Orleans to the quiet, dusty corners of domestic life, these poems explore the "huge amoebas of time" that accrue in the spaces between our intentions and our reality.
With a voice that is both wryly comedic and deeply reverent, Sweeten It with Salt investigates the persistence of beauty amidst "unpardonable deeds," "stupid mistakes," and the "slow dance" of decay.
Whether she is playing "Sisyphus to a raisin" under a kitchen table, witnessing a "genderless god" in a Sikh temple, or contemplating the quantum entanglement of the soul, Kirschner consistently seeks the "nearest beautiful thing" and gives us a defiant and joyful act of mockery against the void.
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Coming October 2026
When a vision disorder stole his ability to read, Will Dowd found himself exiled from the world of books—until he discovered an unusual path back through the landscape of dreams. Armed with an experimental dream-inception device from MIT, Dowd embarked on a yearlong odyssey into his own unconscious.
The Taste of Rain in Buenos Aires chronicles twenty extraordinary dream narratives born from this first-of-its-kind experiment. A service dog navigates grief after his owner's death. A time-travel tour guide loses tourists across centuries. An alien researcher falls in love with Earth despite himself. The stories in this collection emerge from a mind at its most unguarded, each one intimate, strange, and deeply human.
Part literary experiment, part exploration of consciousness, The Taste of Rain in Buenos Aires reveals how dreams, like books, can become portals to other worlds—wild, untamable places where the impossible is married to the everyday and even exile can become a form of homecoming.
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A groundbreaking journey celebrating nature's diversity, family ties, and female power, and lamenting both our human and environmental losses. Maurya Simon's twelfth volume of poems, The Blue Bridge, is a literary tour de force that bears witness to the twenty-first century's dire and lasting dangers brought about by human folly and greed. At the same time that it laments species loss, it honors the enduring lives of small creatures, and the perseverance and adaptability of larger animals. Simon also charts the journey of her own life in an America that is increasingly marked by violence and division, as well as by the ameliorating and lasting ties between people. At turns philosophical, playful, irreverent, and passionate, this book showcases a poet's work at the peak of her powers, as she illuminates how the bonds between spirit and flesh, and each other, sustain us.Please note: you will be transferred to an outside website to make this purchase.
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Celebrating his 70th year, Tim Seibles presents With No Hat, a new collection with a long history. Energized and original, With No Hat also offers a retrospective of Seibles' life and career--including his signature sassy villanelles; pop up cameos of cartoon characters; meditations on aging, death, identity, and at-one-ment with all beings; and leading the parade--the main character: the poem itself--lithe and mischievous--not only bareheaded, but in the full glory of his birthday suit. Yeats says, "I made my song a coat...but there's more enterprise in walking naked." With No Hat enterprises--strides, sprints, gavottes, and tiptoes through a life work of forging imagination into unforgettable tableaus, spanning self and other, and embracing and assessing, with Seibles' empathic but cold eye, our culture and our lives in mortal crisis.Please note: you will be transferred to an outside website to make this purchase.
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Your undercover operation is blown before you get to San Francisco. What next? If you're Orpen, you join the cops. Sort of. It's the Fall of 1883. Irish revolutionaries are changing the face of London with American dynamite, and not in a good way. Irish-born London Metropolitan Police Sergeant, Robert Emmet Orpen is sent, badly disguised as a tourist, to San Francisco to prevent at least some of the explosives getting into the wrong hands. He realizes that he may be out of his depth when his cover is blown before he even gets as far as the west coast. Now what does he do? First, he charms his way onto the San Francisco police force, where he is assigned to the coattails of a cynical, 'larger than life' Civil War veteran (from the losing side). Then he finds himself caught up in a murder involving one of the two violent Irish factions vying for supremacy in one of the most Irish of American cities. Orpen is going to wish he never heard of the murderous Knights of the Red Branch.Please note: you will be transferred to an outside website to make this purchase.
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Son of a Bird is a memoir in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Flannery O’Connor. Surrounded by farm hands and wild, lush isolation, due to constant eye surgeries, the youngest of six children, Nin Andrews observes the world at a tilt. In this collection of prose poems, hunted by death and the brutalities of farm life, Andrews begins to connect the small black dots of her upbringing—her father’s relationships with men, her mother’s autism, and the burdens of childhood awakenings—ultimately cracking through the shadows that haunt her.Please note: you will be transferred to an outside website to make this purchase.
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In Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh, the solipsistic self gives way to a language which attempts to recover the female body’s experience of place, and of the human and non-human creatures which inhabit it. The ethical dilemmas of representation are framed by a consciousness which allows itself to be permeated by whatever lies outside it, impinging on its boundaries to make them fluid, plural, at times, evanescent.
Divided into four sections which highlight an unmistakable female consciousness engaging with vast natural landscapes in four different continents, the collection’s evolution is towards a subtle form of resistance where anthropocentric certainties are interrogated. What starts as left-margined free verse, often using ekphrasis to highlight gender violence and resistance, leans increasingly towards the playful and experimental, at times adopting metre and traditional forms in combination with found poetry and erasure so as to destabilize the boundaries between genres. By the end of the collection, the page is no longer a mechanism for order and structure, but instead, evolves into a canvas and visual field, challenging the social order through language itself.
In Abigail Ardelle Zammit’s third collection, suffering, mortality and environmental degradation are inseparable from the poet’s relentless search for meaning. Relationships, aloneness and connectedness must be probed as inexhaustible themes in the vast trajectory of existence. Each poem is a question, an exploration of what can be unearthed through linguistic play, as well as an attempt to decolonize the self from a language that is always on the verge of running dry.
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Welcome to Coors State University, a cash-strapped college that sold naming rights, academic programs, and, ultimately, its soul to a beer company just to keep the lights on. At Coors, the engineering professors are expanding the stadium, criminal justice faculty are the campus cops, and the history profs sell popcorn at concession stands. It’s the world turned upside down—yet not very far from the truth at today’s big state schools. Big Time is—ruefully and hilariously—a novel for Our Time.Please note: you will be transferred to an outside website to make this purchase.
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In language wild and restrained, opulent and precise, these sonnets make something lasting, even beautiful, from tragedy—personal and national. Diane Raptosh’s collection of sonnets, I Eric America, combines elements of family trauma (her brother Eric’s survival of a plane crash and subsequent paraplegia) with disturbances on the national stage. Equal parts origin story, myth, and song, the book unfolds from the premise that “America is the nation-expression of / a severely traumatized person.” Throughout their singing, the poems seek to heal, transmute and transform.Please note: you will be transferred to an outside website to make this purchase.