Negative Capability Press

Lucid, mysterious, inviting... These qualities of Janet Passehl's poems are the opposite of obscurity, though their lines evade simple resolution into narrative. Rather, they seem to open lit rooms...

Cruel Fever Of The SkyAuthor: Carey Scott WilkersonPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: April 28, 2021Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Steven Teref's hybrid collection Foreign Object follows in the lineage of his Balkan influences Vasko Popa, Novica Tadic, and Charles Simic. Teref populates his poems, experimental verse play, and...

furfulland Wonderfullyade -apeackAuthor: Donald JordanPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 190 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

I have often said that good poetry makes you think or feel deeply; great poetry makes you do both. And great poetry is not found in lofty ideals like Truth, Nature, God, or Love. It happens where...

Author: Carlos DewsPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: Oct 24, 2020Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0942544951ISBN-13: 9780942544954

Author: Jeanette WillertPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2021Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0578990431ISBN-13: 9780578990439

Author: Susan MartinelloPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: May 15, 2020Number of Pages: 212 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0942544064ISBN-13: 9780942544060

Live As If : A Teacher's Love Story - 9781734590210Author: Frye GaillardPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: Nov 26, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In our society, distinctive locales are being leveled. Drive across the country on an interstate, the distinction in landscape disappears into Burger Kings, Domino's and Walmarts. Vivian Shipley's...

How do you read a girl's bare feet, a fallen fuchsia blossom, or the act of throwing a gun into a reservoir's deep water? In this book, critically acclaimed essayist Chris Arthur continues his...

Poetry. Women's Studies. Religion & Spirituality. Winner of the 2015 Negative Capability Press Book Award. Follow Sister Nun as she escapes over the wall of her convent (even though she has, in no...

Poetry. Women's Studies. "'Lift off the roof / of your skull' writes Kate Angus in this confident, wonderful debut, and I do indeed feel my mind dangerously opened by the clarity and intimacy of...

The Rube Goldberg Variations (Paperback)Author: Leonard A. TemmePublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: 24-Aug-21Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Truth About Trees (Paperback)Author: Charles GhignaPublisher: Negative Capability PressPublication Date: 25-Aug-21Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Jim Murphy proclaims himself "always more lucky than wise," but he writes about his lucky life with rueful wisdom, even as his tender love for family and the simple delights of daily life are...

In Versions of May we are pushed from our present moments "forward into other histories, / no sights, no path, no guide." Every poem is a little trip, visiting cathedrals, temples, tombs,...