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Coolidge's embrace of the sonnet form - a continuation of the project begun in On the Nameways and Alien Tatters - is a gemlike amalgam of narrative urge, wacky name-dropping, and pure visuality...

A historical document so significant it requires two volumes. FENCE evades tedium with this anthology, co-edited by editors past and present. In addition to presenting a compendium of poetry,...

Fence evades the tedium of the decade with this anthology, co-edited by eleven editors, past and present. A stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative...

An engaged poet and prescient bard of American culture, Kearney reifies blackness and maleness in hard-cut, heard language.Author: Douglas KearneyPublisher: Fence BooksPublication Date: Nov 29,...

Set in a spaced-out future in which all cities have been evacuated after an "Emergency," FLET is named for its female protagonist, an Administration flunky who begins to suspect that the Emergency...

A classical frame--the agricultural year, its gleanings and turnings--rendered in a most modern mode, prismatic interiority with trimmings of digital criticality.Author: Tess Brown-LavoiePublisher:...

Brandon Downing, whose Lake Antiquity beguilingly combined painstaking full-color collage with painstaking found poetry and painstaking visual bravado, returns with this collection of new poems, his...

Kenneth Reveiz is an acerbic, deft commentator on queer eros, joy, and disappointment, and is at the same time a honey-pot, bringing hot feelings. These precisely shaped and distributed poems...

Winner of the 2014 Fence Modern Poets Series.Jennifer Mackenzie's debut is an unfettered travelogue of embodied intellect and flights of gorgeous observance.Go hang yourselfin the light...

On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, by poet and historian of early modern art Jennifer Nelson, makes exquisite trouble. These poems give voice to Nelson's encounters with turbulent...

Phantom Captain explores the poetry of psychoanalysis, feminism and gender, questions of the 21st century self, and the accelerating pressures of standardizing capitalism upon the human mind.Kim...

"James Shea brings us to the edge of the unknown and points into the darkness, until our eyes adjust and we see that he is pointing at himself, already there. These poems make me wish I had the same...

"Douglas Kearney's innovative new collection makes me tremble like a 'mouth and mind full of fish hooks.' . . . These poems literally vibrate with Kearney's precocious intellect and passion. They...

An ambitious project in which Alvarez sets out to catalog the many intersections of Spanish and English in Louisville, Kentucky.Author: Steven AlvarezPublisher: Fence BooksPublication Date: Jun 27,...

Valerie is an art worker in a big city, literally the product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to value objects and their promise. The magic of being, thinking, speaking,...

Ullsvik Miller's debut collection affirms the reader's need for a daily massaging of profanely innocuous, even corporate language into meaning.Author: Kaisa Ullsvik MillerPublisher: Fence...

"Juvenile mockery of poetry and the American poetry establishment, as well as excited reverence for both..."--Publishers Weekly"Decadent! Childish! . . . indulgent and melancholy . . . moments of...