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  • Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry

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    John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjuga… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Murillo, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 02 2020
    • ISBN10: 1945588470
    • Language: English
  • Seabeast

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    Organized as an alphabetical bestiary, Seabeast lyrically catalogues whale species by common name and behaviors, resulting in a poetic compendium that defies pathetic fallacy even as it sings the simi… [more below]

    • Author: Mohabir, Rajiv
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897482
    • Language: English
  • How to Abandon Ship

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    In How to Abandon Ship, Sasha West harnesses poetry as a vessel to ferry the inconceivable, to wreck upon the shores of what we’ve known thus far. Assessing the accelerating emergencies of climate cha… [more below]

    • Author: West, Sasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: March 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1954245920
    • Language: English
  • Burn Me Back

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    “My Spanglish,” Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, “drops the -s and makes it ma’ o meno’,” replaces accent marks with side-eye, “has a T?a sin papeles,” and recognizes that “there is no other way to say… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Robles-Alvarado, Peggy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897660
    • Language: English
  • Under: Stories

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    As wryly profound as ever, Glen Pourciau solidifies his reputation as a master of American short fiction with Under, a collection of brief yet meticulously elaborated stories that deconstruct daily li… [more below]

    • Author: Pourciau, Glen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: September 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897601
    • Language: English
  • Someone Else’s Hunger

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    Dislocated in her own skin after a sexual assault, Isabella DeSendi wrestles with the thorny border between desire and appetite in her incandescent debut collection. Poised between her Cuban matriline… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Desendi, Isabella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 196189758X
    • Language: English
  • Detonator: Stories

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    Sensorily rich and narratively captivating, the stories in Detonator are utterly addictive. Author Peter Mountford invites readers with a balance of humor, sensuality, and compassion while spanning co… [more below]

    • Author: Mountford, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897520
    • Language: English
  • Concerning the Angels

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    In his first full-length translation, celebrated poet John Murillo (Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Four Quartets Prize) brings Rafael Alberti’s Concerning the Angels (Sobre los ?ngeles) to… [more below]

    • Author: Alberti, Rafael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 190
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897423
    • Language: English
  • After the Operation

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    Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.’s After the Operation reports from the No Man’s Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor. What does the mind feel like after something has been … [more below]

    • Author: Gray, Elizabeth T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897407
    • Language: English
  • Tranz

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    In her debut collection, TRANZ, Spencer Williams writes equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers the… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Williams, Spencer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 123
    • Publish Date: September 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1961897164
    • Language: English
  • Red Wilderness

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    In defiance of life’s intractable march forward, Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman (Winner of the 2020 GLCA New Writers Award) sounds the strange fathoms of the past, weaving a living song beyond what h… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Coleman, Aaron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 135
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897245
    • Language: English
  • There’s Nothing Left for You Here

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    A luminous debut of timely, vibrant stories, There’s Nothing Left for You Here by Allegra Solomon is the winner of the 2023 Kimbilio National Fiction Prize, an honor that celebrates excellence in cont… [more below]

    • Author: Solomon, Allegra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 180
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 196189744X
    • Language: English
  • The Fire Passage

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    Winner of the 2025 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry selected by Pulitzer Prize recipient Diane Seuss, The Fire Passage is a lyric descent in the epic tradition, traveling unto realms unmoored by e… [more below]

    • Author: Wells, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897369
    • Language: English
  • No Small Thing

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    Like an itinerant evangelist, poet Gabriel Fried transforms every space he enters with a sacred kind of attention. If “the big-top makes a chapel of the fetid / lot between the ballpark and the river,… [more below]

    • Author: Fried, Gabriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897342
    • Language: English
  • One More World Like This World

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    Following When There Was Light (Winner of the 2023 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry), Carlie Hoffman’s third collection of poetry, One More World like This World, is a lyrical study of contemporar… [more below]

    • Author: Hoffman, Carlie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897288
    • Language: English
  • Reality Checkmate

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    A dynamic and philosophical debut collection, Daniel Ruiz’s Reality Checkmate choreographs the endless wrestling match between lyrical sensibility and ontological principles taking place on the mind’s… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Ruiz, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897385
    • Language: English
  • A Magnificent Loneliness

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    “I remember // once, turning to leave, a black purse over her shoulder. . .” Oneiric and surreal as always, Allison Benis White attempts to mediate, if not make sense of, inconceivable bereavement in

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    • Author: White, Allison Benis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897229
    • Language: English
  • Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems

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    C. Dale Young, Winner of the 2017 Hanes Award in Poetry from The Fellowship of Southern Writers, brings together decades of work in Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems. These lyrics cu… [more below]

    • Author: Young, C. Dale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1961897326
    • Language: English
  • Greater Ghost

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    In Christian Collier’s debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move b… [more below]

    • Series: Stahlecker Selections
    • Author: Collier, Christian J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: September 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1961897105
    • Language: English
  • Furs Not Mine

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    The poems in Furs Not Mine display Andrea Cohen’s masterful craft and lyricism and her keen wit. In Cohen’s elegiac shoals, we see how “Great griefs are antidotes / for lesser sorrows,” and in her str… [more below]

    • Author: Cohen, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 07 2015
    • ISBN10: 1935536516
    • Language: English
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