Steel Toe Books

These witty, poignant poems--eco-feminist in their approach, abundant in their gestures and forms--engage our cultural moment while re-imagining the world's flawed history that got us here. . . The...

Hovering over and shooting through this collection is the spirit and symbolic heft of an ancient faith under contemporary pressures, to mean at all much less be found meaningful. Who is left, these...

don't call us punk because we hate that is about learning to let go so you can escape a stifling suburban existence into a real community through the joys and heartbreaks that come from youthful...

MAMMAL's lush, multivalent verse lifts the veil off romanticized motherhood, challenging the notion that sacrifice is a virtue and giving voice to what is left unsaid in that all important space of...

Set in 1978, a time of Ditto jeans and rabbit's foot keychains, Raising Panic captures the bond of sisters struggling to find security in an alcoholic home and their attempt to escape. PJ McCormack...

Author: Brian RiggPublisher: Steel Toe BooksPublication Date: Dec 12, 2021Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949540308ISBN-13: 9781949540307

moving, unflinching poems -- Aimee Nezhukumathil, author of OceanicAuthor: Jim DanielsPublisher: Steel Toe BooksPublication Date: Nov 01, 2017Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The poems in The Ghost Owl Says Go Now range widely over the geographical, historical, and cultural topographies of Americana, depicting encounters with the people, places, and cultural artifacts...

Curtis L. Crisler sings a midwestern blues filled with Mama's cake batter and ashy legs, boomboxes and T-ball. Walking through these pages, I swear I could hear the music of the streetlights turning...

Magic the real writes Nancy Botkin in The Honeycomb. These poems explore the necessity of art and the imagination, the ability to see that even the darkest places can resonate with beauty when the...

Christopher Citro may be the love child of poet Russell Edson and The Twilight Zone... From the ashes of domesticity and order a new American surrealism blooms, in which the charming, the unsettling,...