Christopher Howell’s haunted and haunting collection, Gaze, is a book of counterpoints, swinging between moments of delicate connection (touching a girl’s wrist) and striking brutality (a boy slamming a just-caught fish against a boat’s stern to kill it “as he was taught”). Howell explores how our interior and exterior lives are entangled—the past living on inside us as we live inside the ...
In Fancy Beasts, the author of Hallelujah Blackout and Mosquito takes on California, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism — in short, the modern American media culture, which provides obscene foil for his personal legacies of violence and violation. This pivotal book captures the turning point in a life of abuse, in which the recovering victim/perpetrator puzzles through the par ...
Joseph J. Capista’s Intrusive Beauty reckons with reluctant ecstasy and the improbable forms that beauty assumes. In this powerful debut, Capista traverses earth and ether to yield poems that elucidate the space between one’s life and one’s livelihood. While its landscapes range from back-alley Baltimore to the Bitterroot Valley, this book remains close to unbidden beauty and its capacity to sway one’s vision of the world. Whether a young fath ...
Ein Leben in Angst: alle Menschen fuhren es. Vollkommen unmoglich, den Angsten zu entkommen. Kaum ist eine Angst verdrangt, kommt die nachste um die Ecke, springt aus dem Schrank oder lauert nachts unterm Bett. Es ware ein aussichtsloses Unterfangen, alle Uber- und Unterangste zu klassifizieren, die Urangste zu suchen und ihnen Angststammbaume zuzuordnen. Vorgebliche Angstforscher sind oft -hasen, die es nicht wagen, die Sinnlosigkeit ihrer Arb ...
In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation. Set against the backdrop of a towering d ...
Blurbs: Dayne Ogilvie jury citation, Jordan Tannahill Ben just won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for the most promising body of work from an emerging LGBTQ writer. Otter is in its third printing, having sold incredibly well for a debut. Otter was nominated for a Lambda Award. ...
