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Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe prose poems in Patrick Swaney’s debut collection, Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World, are suspended between a world we think we know and a world where anything can happen. Manatees take ove
- Author: Swaney, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1946303011
- Language: English
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Book of Exemplary Women
$22.00 Add to cart“Diana Xin’s debut story collection, Book of Exemplary Women, brings the pleasure of discovering a new voice-a fresh and original voice. One hears it immediately in the intonation of her witty, econom
- Author: Xin, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1946303097
- Language: English
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I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
$18.00 Add to cartIncluded in U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s feature, “6 Recent Collections that Deliver Truth with Originality and Grace” in O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2018
Finalist, CLMP Firecracker Award in Fi
- Author: Queen, Khadijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2017
- ISBN10: 193691946X
- Language: English
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$18.00 Add to cartWinner, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2016
Winner, John C Zacharis Award 2016 from Ploughshares
Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry, 2015
Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of Am
- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: December 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1936919281
- Language: English
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Inconsolable Objects
$18.00 Add to cartPart cautionary tale, part love letter to the broken objects and people of this world, Inconsolable Objects is driven by the search for beauty in the forsaken. The poems are populated with sentient to
- Author: Gomez, Nancy Miller
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1936919974
- Language: English
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Strange Flowers
$18.00 Add to cartBryan Byrdlong’s debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically
- Author: Byrdlong, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 194630302X
- Language: English
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To Love an Island
$18.00 Add to cartAna Portnoy Brimmer’s debut, To Love an Island, offers the stark recognition that disaster is political and colonialism the most violent of storms. Beginning with the aftermath of Hurricane Mar? and s
- Author: Portnoy Brimmer, Ana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1936919877
- Language: English
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Born Backwards
$18.00 Add to cartBorn Backwards, Tanya Olson’s third collection, reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life.
- Author: Olson, Tanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1936919990
- Language: English
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Cataloguing Pain
$18.00 Add to cartCataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins explores motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it juxtaposes the author’s diagnosis of MS with her partner’s gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamilia
- Author: Blevins, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1936919923
- Language: English
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Otherlight
$18.00 Add to cartJill Mceldowney’s Otherlight plunges us into the rarefied limbo of grief. Suspended in time, in action, in ice, its speaker is halfway out the door of this world-is half-turned to follow the beloved w
- Author: McEldowney, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1936919958
- Language: English
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Say It Hurts
$18.00 Add to cartSay It Hurts grapples with queerness, love, grief, masculinity, coming of age, and coming out in the context of cultural violence rooted in misogyny and familial violence rooted in catholicism. In the
- Author: Summe, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: January 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1936919869
- Language: English
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Love the Stranger
$18.00 Add to cartThrough the wide-eyed study of beauty and the eerie stations of the erotic, Love the Stranger maps the body in its struggle with desire and absence. Deshpande’s poems treat love, kinship, and loss as
- Author: Deshpande, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1936919338
- Language: English
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Helen Or My Hunger
$18.00 Add to cartHelen or My Hunger is a looping, serial sequence that explores the relationship between memory, language, the body, and power. In dialogue with H.D.’s 1961 epic Helen in Egypt, these poems address the
- Author: Thompson, Gale Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919842
- Language: English
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Landscape with Sex and Violence
$18.00 Add to cartThe poems in Landscape with Sex and Violence explore what it means to exist within a rape culture so entrenched that it can’t be separated from the physical landscapes in which it enacts itself. Lyric
- Author: Melnick, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1936919559
- Language: English
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Salt Body Shimmer
$18.00 Add to cartLyrical and rife with utterance, Salt Body Shimmer asks of the violence we inherit: who speaks from “the threshold throat” inside “the dark’s dark”? Interior driven and intimately political, the poems
- Author: Foreman, Aricka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919753
- Language: English
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Refusenik
$18.00 Add to cartIn this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th
- Author: Melnick, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1936919885
- Language: English
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40 Weeks
$18.00 Add to cart40 WEEKS, the newest collection from Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, navigates the world through a poet-mother’s sensibilities. She captures stories and lyric moments around and within the speaker’s body, m
- Author: Dasbach, Julia Kolchinsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1936919931
- Language: English
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Ugly Music
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER, 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry!
Diannely Antigua’s debut collection Ugly Music is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss whe
- Author: Antigua, Diannely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 99
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1936919648
- Language: English
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Bone Language
$18.00 Add to cartJamaica Baldwin’s poetry debut, Bone Language, is a testament to the specific ways women survive the world and its attacks on their bodies. At the core of this poet’s survival is an engagement with a
- Author: Baldwin, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 193691994X
- Language: English
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