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Jenna Le's second full-length poetry collection, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, won Second Place in the 2017 Elgin Awards.Author: Jenna LePublisher: Indolent BooksPublication Date: May...

In bell lap, poet Laura Winberry explores her experience as a female athlete in cyclocross, a type of bicycle racing that combines pavement, wooded trails, steep hills, and obstacles. Innovative,...

This poetry collection weaves together the stories of three African American women--two historical figures, the third a fictional character--who share the same first name. From the ballads of...

Dante Micheaux's superb poetic aptitude is wedded to an eually superb poetic amplitude. Intimate soliloquy, lyric address, and linguistic allegory merge with resonating voices and personae. This poem...

These terse lyrics engage the reader with humor, brio, and bite. In these wildly imaginative poems, Karen Hildebrand reminds us of the strangeness of the everyday and the pleasure in those ripe...

John Deming creates poetry from the bizarreness that is contemporary American news. His deadpan mindfulness and avant-garde wordplay incorporate newspaper headlines in a way that creates meaning out...

Impure ActsAuthor: ??gelo N??StorePublisher: Indolent BooksPublication Date: Sep 15, 2019Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1945023236ISBN-13: 9781945023231

In Taking Apart a KaleidoscopeAuthor: Adam ZhouPublisher: Indolent BooksPublication Date: December 01, 2019Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1945023244ISBN-13:...

Stephen Zerance's Safe Danger is an anxious book about desire, dread, worry, wonder, about how it's possible to fear what feeds us. These marvelously brutal poems speak the body always on the verge...

In an homage to the Homeric tradition, McClure's epic hero is an astronaut, rife with self-loathing, flawed, and searching desperately for his heroine. While our hero drifts in an intergalactic sea...

Lisa Andrews's first full-length poetry collection, The Inside Room, is at once fairy tale and family mythology, gingerbread house and museum exhibit, childhood memories and grown-up yearnings. With...

The Ocd PoemsAuthor: Dennis RhodesPublisher: Indolent BooksPublication Date: April 20, 2021Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1945023279ISBN-13: 9781945023279

Poems by Antoinette Brim. Brim's poems sing of the ability women have always had to love and thrive in spite of the most oppressive odds, or as Brim herself would say, "His heavy breath filled her...

This Someone I Call Stranger, by James Diaz, is absolutely transcendent. Diaz's evocative and courageous writing conjures up cinematic imagery with heartbreaking vulnerability and unpretentious...

Joseph O. Legaspi writes, "How do languages speak to each other? Through poetry, of course, and Translucence illuminates such a correspondence, an exchange, a dance. Callihan and Abdel Jaber's...

Was BodyAuthor: Billie R. TadrosPublisher: Indolent BooksPublication Date: Jun 01, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1945023252ISBN-13: 9781945023255