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The wallet and other thefts
Winner of the BOMB Fiction Prize and White Review Short Story Prize, Kristen Gleason’s debut is a collection of precise, surreal, and lightly linked short fiction, concerned with theft, shame, exile, masochism, and God, reminiscent of Anna Kavan, Jane Bowles, and Marie NDiaye.Closely observed and...
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A mouth holds many things
A ground breaking anthology that collects hybrid-literary works from 36 women and nonbinary BIPOC writer-artists, A Mouth Holds Many Things is the first book of its kind.
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The dust of a contact that is everywhere
the dust of a contact that is everywhere moves between theoretical reflection and aesthetic practice through essays, fragments, daybook entries, and lyrical experiments. It explores attention, the temporality of lyric lines, and the ethical implications of how we read, write, and live beside othe...
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Arrangements
In their hybrid debut collection Arrangements, Esther Kondo Heller creates stunning textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document. Can words hold a note? Can language foam like a mouth? In their hybrid volume Arrangements, E...
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If only for a moment (i'll never be young again)
Jaime Gil de Biedma is the most original and influential among the poets known as the ‘50’s Generation in Spain, and is considered the greatest Spanish poet to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. His life and literary career were bracketed almost entirely by the rise and fall of Genera...
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Wrong winds
Ahmad Almallah’s third collection considers the impossible task of being a Palestinian in the world today.When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian-American poet Ahmad Alm...
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They marched under the sun
Ana and Joan. The first, a woman of daytime, of the contemporary, bombarded by consumerism and the aesthetic and behavioral pressures of our times. The second, a woman immersed in the realm of the night, attuned to ancestralism, rites of passage, and the intuitions of her subconscious. Both are o...
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Failure is the only subject
A SEARING EXPLORATION OF FAILURE—PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL—THROUGH THE LENS OF DOCUMENTARY FILM AND THE PRISM OF SELF // In Failure Is the Only Subject, we encounter David Shields—memoirist, novelist, and filmmaker—undergoing psychoanalysis in the aftermath of divorce and in the throes of an addi...
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Cleave
At 21, Holly Pelesky gets pregnant after her second time having sex. She decides to place her daughter up for adoption and then move far away from her fundamentalist Christian upbringing to start a new life. Cleave is a tight collection of epistolary creative nonfiction that examines the ambiguou...
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Return signal
Return Signal catalogues transness and desire in daydreams and real dreams and distraction, reimagining queer obsession in elegies and lyric sequences. Return Signal is transmission. Is diversion as determination. Is obsession as communication. Transness and desire are catalogued in daydreams and...
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No Realtor Was Compensated for This Sale is the debut collection by the Athens-based poet, Helen Dimos. The co-organizer of the annual Paros Translation Symposium, she hosts a twice-monthly English-language radio show, peopletalk, at the Athens art center, Beton7. Dimos has chosen the following q...
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A cannibal explains himself to himself
A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself explores extra-dimensional states of being that place into the praxis of language a natural yoga. It is a meditation that seeks to alter planetary pressures that continue to accrue during this protracted stage of late capital. The essay form is a provisional...
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Of
Of, the indescribable poetry collection from Kai Ihns, is a book that thinks about both relation and grammar and relation as grammar: how orienting oneself through the process of making sense necessarily commits one to certain ways of seeing the world, an idea the book views as both a source of m...
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The general theory of social relativity
The General Theory of Social Relativity is a theoretical monograph that presents a radically innovative framework for thinking about social processes. In the early twentieth century, theories of quantum physics and general relativity exposed the limits of Newton’s classical, mechanical, approach ...
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Detonated mirror
Detonated Mirror is a hybrid text of poetry and poetic prose, situated in the otherworldly desert landscape of the Southwest, a place at once feral, magical, elemental and vast, while at the same time ubiquitously enclosed by brutal barbed wire fence. It is the place of aliens, the atom bomb, sco...
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About to be young
In About to Be Young, his debut collection of poems, Monroe Lawrence sets out to write the most emotional poetry that he can. The sequence of poems, of which selections have appeared in venues such as Best American Experimental Writing, The Capilano Review, The Brooklyn Review, Flag + Void, and P...
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Seldom approaches
Seldom Approaches is a collection of poems, transcribed readings, and prose writings spanning nearly a decade, presented asynchronously, and interlaced with narrative passages, both abstract and autobiographical. It is a book both formed and unformed in a process of becoming. In Seldom Approaches...
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Kharlamov's ankle
In this anarchic, post-genre poem-as-novel, imagined by one of Canada’s leading experimental writers, the dystopian politics of our everyday inhale both a contra tenor opera singer who lured to China by the Kanadian embassy and the innocent cultural attaché who invited him. kHarLaMoV’s aNkLe: a u...
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Kith & kin
A poetic meditation on love and grief by a giant of the Bay Area literary community, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Kith & Kin is a serial poem composed (initially) over a one-year period. While each day might commence with its prompt, the writing inevitably would exceed the designation in its associati...
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The week
Straddling the zone between fantasy and imagination, between fiction and essay, The Week presents models of minds shaped by the twenty-first century American realities that they also construct. The stories are unconventional in their arcs and uses of characterization, and in their foregrounding o...
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An identity polyptych
an identity polyptych is a multi-part, multi-genre experiment that explores familial estrangement, identity as a mixed-race Black person, and movement towards reconciliation. It can be considered a memoir. The book works to find peace, even if it feels next to impossible. It keeps in mind the tri...
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What this breathing
What This Breathing is a poetic experience that journeys across opacities in the lived underside of the hetero-patriarchal organization of social life. It searches for a language through which to reimagine relation: to the past, to other people, to self, to historical and ecological time, and to ...
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Freedom & prostitution
FREEDOM & PROSTITUTION moves between histories of gendered violence, and the struggles against it, to argue for a notion of freedom as liberation and autonomy: the dream of a world without work, without money, without gender, while imagining forms of survival now for those who often have litt...
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My salvation lateral
My Salvation Lateral is a collection of poems written between 2019 and 2023 in Brooklyn, New York. It is both joyful and desperate. While working on this book, the author, Emily Martin, engaged with two notions of dependence, which became intertwined. The first had to do with dependence in langua...
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The swarm
A shapeshifting dream-diary and metaphysical thriller, The Swarm is inspired by the histories of dissident uprisings and migrational routes of Budapest; the geological depths of the hot springs, and the meandering flow of the Danube River. A polyphonic hum resounds in an octagonal domed chamber o...
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Hot fruit
Hallucinatory, evocative, and surreal in its own idiosyncratic way, Hot Fruit is Erinrose Mager’s long-awaited debut volume. Strange and incantatory, Erinrose Mager’s debut collection Hot Fruit investigates the longing for self, the longing for another, and the longing for connection between the...
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Mercurial, or is that liberty
One of Lit Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!A lyrical reckoning with a dualism that has been accepted, rejected, embedded in an endless cycle of self-critique, until the boarder between its apparent halves became chipped, scuffed, no longer fitting together, then scoured, submerged in ...
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Systems thinking with flowers
A poetry collection about conspiring to do right within the constraints of inherited structures, Systems Thinking with Flowers critiques unearned authority in its many guises. In two sections, the book chronicles the complex emotional gymnastics required for existence in male-dominated and coloni...
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Trouble finds you
To say Harry Stables’s life has hit a bit of a low patch lately is an understatement. In his mid-20s, he’s been kicked out of his MFA program for fighting, his ex-girlfriend turned down his spur-of-the-moment marriage proposal, and he’s spent the last ten days in his dad’s falling-down Montana fi...
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Landguage/mirror me
Formally distinct, the two chapbooks composing the tête-bêche Landguage/Mirror Me share the trappings of gendered and classed experiences where freedom isn't free. Located and then dislocated from place, grounded in Americanisms and warping them, self- and socially- conscious, Landguage/Mirror Me...
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Bird/diz
An innovative new erasure chapbook from Warren C. Longmire, BIRD/DIZ [AN ERASED HISTORY OF BEBOP] navigates the personal and artistic lives of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie through the author’s own roving imagination. stages, it strives to find, in the continued disappearance of Black Americ...
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Elegy for pangaea
Mark Leidner’s third poetry collection, Elegy for Pangaea, is as funny, strange, and epic as his two previous collections, Returning the Sword to the Stone and Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me. His new poems explore faith, grief, money, myth, parenting, and poetry itself to create a collecti...
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Low
Winner, 2025 Firecracker Awards Winner in Creative Nonfiction, given by the Community of Literary Magazines and PressesRaised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she s...
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To compare
A bracing and variegated debut, Xuela Zhang’s To Compare inhabits the fraught condition of living in and through translation in the age of globalization, social media, and the Chinese-American neo-Cold War. In To Compare, Zhang navigates the quagmire of transnational life, where one is always bot...
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At the river
Esteban Rodríguez's At the River asks what it means to live on the border, and how one can come to terms with the symbolic weight of crossing between two worlds.Combining sharp prose, poetic insight, and a series of incisive black-and-white photographs, At the River journeys to the U.S.-Mexican b...
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Bedroom vowel
Consisting of lyric love letters to friends and musings on daily desire, nostalgia, and thirst for connection, Bedroom Vowel traces the development of an everyday philosophy formed in the social life of a creative
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Hole studies
Hole Studies is a book about care and the forms it may take. An essay collection on writing and labor, art and activism, attention as a transformative practice, difference and collaboration, adjuncting and the margins of the academy, whiteness and its weapons, professionalization and its disconte...
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Lovability
The follow-up to her 2014 collection Sorrow Arrow (winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award for Poetry), Emily Kendal Frey’s volume LOVABILITY is a dialogue of social and interpersonal dynamics, as well as an exploration of the feelings of freedom and longing they produce. “Scourged the river bottom ...
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Deeper the tropics
Deeper the Tropics navigates the mythology of the self via the masked figure. These poems present the self as an accumulation of faces—or masks—over which we have only partial control. Yet it’s in this semi-public, semi-private space of self where the poems celebrate the imaginative leaps we take...
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Groceries
The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. On earth everyone is worried about objects—getting them, naming them, maintaining them, destroying them, getting rid of them. Some p...
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Dead winter
These twenty-seven poems of Dead Winter continue the poet’s ongoing “From a Winter Notebook” cycle which plays on traditional winter themes of stasis, ruin, aging, lost love, belatedness, dormancy, and decline. Aggressively personal, by turns ironic and sentimental, mixing colloquial and archly a...
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Home movies
Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thou...
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Bird watching and their first three books of poetry
Any future film director planning to make a movie of Myles’s iconic novel Chelsea Girls (it’s always just about to happen) would be wise to read Bird Watching first. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, the central character of the book is a twenty-something that is already filled with memo...
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A whale is a country
Named one of 75 Notable Translations of 2024 by World Literature TodayThe debut English language poetry collection by noted Mexican author Isabel Zapata, A Whale is a Country explores humanity's relationship to the natural world through a multitude of poignant angles.
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Little neck
Little Neck is a feverish and hypnotic excavation of grief and inheritance, told from the naïve perspective of a girl abandoned in a cemetery as she unearths her sinister family history. Haunting and cinematic, Dennigan's second novel is set in a small New England town steeped in secrets. It foll...
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A ten peso burial for which truth i sign
In A TEN PESO BURIAL FOR WHICH TRUTH I SIGN, debut poet Gabriel Palacios slipstreams through a hauntological, historicized Southwest, to make sense out of the life inherited. Episodes of modern decay, violence and indignity co-mingle with the colonial horrors sometimes visited upon, and often com...
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We sailed on the lake
We Sailed on the Lake, Bill Carty’s second collection of poetry, consists of lyrics of spiraling awareness. As a signal lamp, unused, mirrors the sky, these poems reflect approaching storms, near-misses, and the violence inherent in nature, country, and economy.The poems in We Sailed on the Lake ...
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Proof of stake
Focusing on immigration, colonialism, and the death of the speaker’s infant daughter, Proof of Stake: An Elegy, Charles Valle’s debut collection, details how “[t]here is an emotional debt accrued/ In grief, compounded daily by wordless songs.” “It’s 2019 and there’s a man who wants me/ to go back...
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Cataract
CATARACT begins in the desert, climaxes in fleeing wildfires, and ends in an OSHA conference call. From winery workers dying in the fields to endangered desert tortoises unable to outrun the flames, CATARACT is a venting of ecological rage, a communal cry in many voices against the few who keep u...
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An arbitrary formation of unspecified value
An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value is a fragmented book-length essay in which we see the city of Detroit through two distinct seasons: the summer Quartararo worked with a letterpress artist in a former veal locker, and the winter she lived on a dead end street slated for possible removal...
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Returning the sword to the stone
The followup to his beloved debut collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner’s Returning the Sword to the Stone is simultaneously profound and irreverent, in the same way that the world is flat as we walk and round as we live. “A child surprised that a neon sign / isn’t hot th...
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Instrument
Instrument is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of “voice”. Born in Vietnam and leaving the country at the age of two for Northern California, Strom’s life and work speaks to fragmentation—of/within selves...
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The thomas salto
The Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its Reagan-grained historicity, and in the human body that bears the leap’s flight and risk, the Thomas salto is a kinetic figure for...
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Fe
Fonograf Editions’ first ever magazine FE builds off the genre-defining work it has released since 2016.FE includes new material from Catherine Bresner • Suzanne Buffam • Arda Collins • Joel Craig • Michael Earl Craig • Corinne Dekkers • Mark Anthony Cayanan • Anaïs Duplan • Claire Donato • Peter...
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The speak angel series
The Speak Angel Series is composed of six full-length books in various forms but towards the achievement of a unifying epic narrative in which the poet, as character, leads all the souls of all the living and dead to a point zero where the remaking of the cosmos can be performed. As this is being...
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Firewatch
Firewatch lives in the porous recesses of recollection and the uncertainty felt when re-entering traumatic psychological and physical territories. White space as the natural silence of the page—the indefinable, yet present matter that pushes the text into place—permeates the collection as a kind ...
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Traceable relation
A collection of linked essays and poems concerned with the vitality of art and writing in the wake of grief. At the intersections of poetry, sonic/ visual text, nonfiction, and arts writing, Traceable Relation portrays a writer’s practice within a lineage of aesthetic and practical sensibilities ...
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Mother is a body
Sonic and typographic experimentation collide in this book-length poem in seven sections. MOTHER IS A BODY is a visceral and immediate exploration of the female body, and that which is continually forced upon it, as Herrera considers what it means to be mothered, and to mother in return. Through ...
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The green lives
It’s a month, a year. Wander, tramp, escape, trespass: people have every reason under the sun—and no reason at all. In new syntax and a fitful sense of the poetic line, The Green Lives finds joy in paradoxes from which felt sense can expand. It opens in familiar signs (safehouse, railroad, dog) t...
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The grimace of eden, now
Animate, emotive, sensory-rich and a little vicious, the poems in this collection take as their subject the earth as a planet, small and contaminated and alone in vast space, and the humans and creatures and technology swarming it with life. Formally inventive and playful with language, referenci...
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Debt ritual
Winner of the 2023 BUNNY chapbook contest, Katie Naughton’s Debt Ritual sees debt as intensely private yet nevertheless significantly interconnected with global financial systems and other systems of power. Naughton’s text is interested in the way that what appears as money is often funded by deb...
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Early works
Early Works collects Alice Notley’s first four out of print poetry collections, along with 80 pages of previously uncollected material. A must have for any Notley fan. Includes original collection cover artwork by Philip Guston, Philip Whalen and George Schneeman, among others.
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