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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Cynthia Cruz reevaluates the paradox of the death drive in her eighth collection of poetry, Back to the Woods. Could it be that in ceaselessly snuffing...

Creature is a complex poetics of vitality, and it immaculately cleaves: even as it underscores how living in an inherently inhospitable environment will dispossess us of the world and one another,...

The poems in Furs Not Mine display Andrea Cohen's masterful craft and lyricism and her keen wit. In Cohen's elegiac shoals, we see how "Great griefs are antidotes / for lesser sorrows," and in her...

In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move...

In How to Abandon Ship, Sasha West harnesses poetry as a vessel to ferry the inconceivable, to wreck upon the shores of what we've known thus far. Assessing the accelerating emergencies of climate...

Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Stahlecker Selections)Author: John MurilloPublisher: Four Way BooksPublication Date: March 02, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A. H. Jerriod Avant's debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grape's "thick...

In the book's eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, "How do you not love yourself when you / constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?" Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this...

In this new collection of short stories that Ben Fountain declares "all marvels," Robin Romm (author of The Mercy Papers) revels in the mess behind the slick veneer of modern life. A...

Regally bearing its Latin title, Rara Avis captures in sparse, moving verse both the splendor and the loneliness of what it means to be exceptional -- a rarified specimen, a strange bird. A son, a...

The energies animating Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto's electrifying debut in poetry, are a forceful quiet, a loud stillness, the caesura between a lightning strike and the sound of thunder...

About Andrea Cohen's poems, Christian Wiman has said: "One is caught off guard by their cumulative force. This is work of great and sustained attention, true intelligence, and soul." In The Sorrow...

The capstone of a quarter-century career in poetry, To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto González since 1999, including selections from five previous books as...

In her debut collection, TRANZ, Spencer Williams writes equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers...

Unalone : Poems in Conversation with the Book of GenesisAuthor: Jessica JacobsPublisher: Four Way BooksPublication Date: Mar 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

For seasons I was faceless // trying to swallow constellations, / to roll a star-map on my tongue, recounts Rajiv Mohabir's speaker in "Boy with Baleen for Teeth." As formally visionary and...

What if the Invader is Beautiful explores the ineffable yet primal connections between outer and inner landscapes -- the impact that the natural world has on the psychological terrain of our interior...

While Hoffman's debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection When There Was Light looks at the past for what it was...

You Don't Have to Go to Mars for LoveAuthor: Yona HarveyPublisher: Four Way BooksPublication Date: Sep 08, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194558856XISBN-13:...