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Hallelujah ScienceAuthor: Kelli Stevens KanePublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Oct 20, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952419379ISBN-13: 9781952419379

Mateo Morrison has published many books of poetry, essays, and prose. His first collection of poems, Aniversario del dolor (Anniversary of Pain), published in 1973, is the starting point of his...

Individual volume of poems addressing independence and wild nature--Author: Hailey HigdonPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Nov 15, 2018Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Streaming straight out of the Surrealist matrix, Valery Oisteanu's poetry takes us back to the movement's origins and simultaneously propels us forward, giving us the energy and values of what...

Fiction. After three years in Afghanistan, Otis is adjusting to life back home. Struggling with post- traumatic stress disorder, he obsessively replays the traumas of war, cataloging the names of the...

In this memoir, Zack Rogow tries to solve the mystery of the father he never knew. Lee Rogow was a widely published fiction writer, drama critic for the Hollywood Reporter, glamorous man-about-town...

In these days when most short fiction is so affected that it seems to move across the page like a vain actor across the stage, Watson's words give us something good and something real. In this his...

In a recent essay, "The Case for Never Reading the Book Jacket," Tajia Issen writes: "Rarely do I buy a book because I was seduced by the summary on the back or inside flap..." I share Issen's...

As celebrated as Akutagawa Ryunosuke is as a short story writer, his haiku-the first of which was composed in 1906, the same year Akutagawa began to read contemporary Japanese literature-is...

Harold Jaffe is a master of the disembodied voice. These fictions-transgressive, political, dryly comic-are grounded in an ancient tradition, that of the speech of the storyteller. Interlocutors talk...

Knots - 9781949966770Author: David ThorburnPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Mar 03, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949966771ISBN-13: 9781949966770

Poetry. Translated from the French by Eric Gans. "For sheer reading pleasure and fidelity to its source, this entirely new translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus is matchless. With admirable...

The missives in Ezekiel Black's Letters from the Junta arrive from 'a world called elsewhere' that nevertheless looks eerily familiar: dystopian, pre-apocalyptic.Author: Ezekiel BlackPublisher:...

Fiction. "As if I've come to some lovely new abode: my dazed eyes alit in awe; my capacity for alive lucidity developed in a mere minute to be purely moved in a dedicated anatomy Nufer avowed in a...

Heather Woods is a lightning rod; her poems abundant with the evanescent, sensual pleasures of God and spirit in this remarkable, transformative first collection. 'May all beings be full of light and...

With gentle humor and passionate meditation, Lion, Gnat, Lee Slonimsky's latest poetry collection, soars above the clamor of modern life and "steel against indifference". These poems argue vigorously...

In Listenings, Weiss "listens to the world breathing" in this insightful, often humorous, personal journey. These adventures in listening to music (iconic Woodstock, live concerts, on the radio),...

Nona Caspers' Little Book of Days accretes like a pearl, layer upon layer, around her evocation of experience through language. The perfect beauty of her record of daily living will call out to you,...

Two young immigrants, Masha from Ukraine and Alejandro from El Salvador, move to rural, forested Trinity County, California. Masha works as a nurse in a regional hospital and Alex in an auto body...

Miller's poetry in Matrix is minimalist, but it is not austere; it is spare, but generous rather than dry. As with his prose poetry, there are buried quotations and allusions, a richness of layering...

This is a deep, long poem, not for those addicted to the surface pleasures of the quick cut. Each section is seventeen lines and certain themes return again and again - the ocean, relations between...

A tu lado soy la sombra de la luna que aun te inventa. By your side I am the moon's shadow that invents you. A tu lado soy la sombra de la luna que aun te inventa. By your side I am the moon's shadow...

Fiction. "Open MULTIFESTO anywhere, careful reader, and your feet will come unmoored from the ground, your liver will be eaten by hungry jackals, substituting for an eagle, and your eyes, feeding...

Poetry is an enrapturing process that intensifies the discovery of experience and only what arises out of this urgency produces utterance that is distinctive and honest. Here in these sinewy acts...

Mickey seems to see and hear everything, revealing as he does, Michael Rumaker's amazing abilities as a novelist. Rumaker has a wonderful eye for realistic detail and an exceptional ear for dialogue...

Fiction. "There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself...

Michael's work beautifully negotiates a complex territory between lyric utterance and a more experimental, intertextual or 'open' mode of composition. I am struck by the fineness of his ear and of...

PrettyAuthor: Jeffrey DeShellPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: May 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1963908023ISBN-13: 9781963908022

Tim Shaner's Radio Ethiopia: Testimony of a Development Brat, is a fantastic hybrid that reflects and refracts the memories and fluid identities of a boy raised in Ethiopia and Ethiopian and African...

"I wrote my experimental novel Reap Violet Hiss in my 20s through the 1970s in my East Village apartment. It is an abstract, almost cubist novel, where planes of thought intersect with one another,...