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William Allen creates an imagistic world undergoing momentous changes in a series of poems based on titles of long-disappeared paintings from 19th-century New England painter Edward Mitchell...

The Mayfly Codex unfolds with such a deftly woven oscillation between high and low (though which is which in the 'frothy brew?'): mechanical and organic, bawdy and reverential, declarative and...

James Berger takes up the question with a sly, ironic wit that interrogates the idea of poetics and subjects his own assumptions and biases to a ruthless and delightfully honest self-critique. Many...

The literary dormitory at Moscow University becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of empire to a host of writers gathered from every corner of the continent, and beyond...

Collaborative flash fictions regarding the immutability of children in an age of dissolution. Dystopian flashes that render the fictional part of the absurdity involved in any form of realist genre...

This intimate and haunting collection is a love song, a soliloquy, a work of praise, a call to arms, an offering of abundance. There's an urgency to The Runner's Almanac: what's inside the poet must...

Poetry. "Jade Sylvan's poems are ornaments to holidays that don't exist yet. Something with candles. Our firstinstinct is to treat them with extreme care, but not out of fragility, just the...

Buckeye captures a rare emotional authenticity and realism attained by few authors .... the piece is a testament to Robert Buckeye's ability to craft a truly honest and powerfully real work of...

Juana Culhane gathers together fictions inspired by her late husband, the artist Shamus Culhane. These fourteen stories chronicle their relationship of almost forty years while at the same time...

I wrote my first two books fighting the liberality of my graphomania by imitating writers with a simple prose line, though I was mediocre at that too. Lyrical, convoluted, and often incomprehensible...

The Water DraftAuthor: Alexandria PearyPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: October 01, 2019Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949966283ISBN-13: 9781949966282

Varvara Eng is a flamboyant, 79 1/2 year old Danish actress who has lived a very colorful life. When the struggling young writer Pelle is hired to write Varvara's memoir, he's told that Varvara wants...

Extraordinary content with spiritual insight and academic depth...Few, if any writers of our day can ground one part of the mind in the material world while allowing the other to roam in...

Poetry. THERE WHERE YOU DO NOT THINK TO BE THINKING speaks from a stock of some 26 "characters," numinous "objects," oddly configured "abstractions" one for each letter of the English alphabet which...

Laurie Price is a poet we poets should have been clamoring for these last three decades. Her work operates in the here and now with the tools of up there and way deep. She is a high-grade lyric...

Poetry. "Quirky, electric poems, spare and challenging." Peter Matthiessen "Martine Bellen is a poet of refreshing complexity. Her unpredictable disjunctions and conjunctions and her baroque mix of...

Poems in three sections: one memory of a visit to a park; two ruminations on Pythagoras's life and meaning; three enduring lifetimes--Author: Lee SlonimskyPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date:...

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK! Jeff Wright has become the first human being to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Take that, Equines! He did it the poet's way-he crowned himself with sonnets, and...

The implicit heart of Gavronsky's imaginary meditation lies in the daunting similarity of the dialogues on the two fronts of the war between terror and authority. Harold Bloom, "On Gavronsky"Author:...

In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through Ukraine. The chaos of the transitional post-Soviet era seems infinitely more appealing...

Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, and others write in tribute to Sam Abrams, Poet and Teacher.Author: John F. RochePublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Jan 12, 2008Number of Pages: 88...

What a bounty to have Jamey Jones' first seven chapbooks, with original covers and illustrations, collected together in one volume! Here is a poet's passage of song, where an opera of living comes at...

"I wrote my experimental novel, Vague Semblances, in a fit, or seizure of inspiration over ninety days of writing, working for two hours a day to produce four pages. Alternating between abstract and...

Would her life have been better if she'd had sex with her supervisor when she was 23? Hester Smith is a woman who always played life near the sidelines-until she decides to rescue a teenage Mexican...

WatchfulnessAuthor: Peter O'LearyPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Apr 04, 2011Number of Pages: 114 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 188147173XISBN-13: 9781881471738

Way Out There : Inside the Jargon Society, Late-20th-century America's Most Curious Cultural Outfit and Its Raiders of the Lost ArtAuthor: Tom PattersonPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Jun...

A combination of memoir, cultural critique, and manifesto, Weird Girls traces the art monster-the writer, often coded monstrous and male, single-mindedly dedicated to the work-from ancient myth to...

The inventor of the Hempattery quits her corporate job to pursue her visionary biotech experiments only to find a back-burnered idea of hers was stolen, bioengineered, and disseminated by mysterious...

Marco Simonelli was born in Florence, where he still lives today. A leading voice in the Italian LGBTQ movement, he defies homophobia with mordant humor. Though still in his forties, he has published...

Innovative writing by 39 women writers, including Lidia Yuknavitch, LilyGrace, Laurie Foos, Kass Fleisher, Barbara Baer, Cynthia Reeves, Lauren Schiffman Karen Lillis, Megan Milks, Lyn Halper, Fanny...