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SCARED VIOLENT LIKE HORSES

JOHN MCCARTHY

In this poetry collection, the author of Ghost Country deeply examines violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being. McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch ...

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ANOTHER KIND OF MADNESS

ED PAVLIC

"An ode to Chicago, Kenya, and soul music as humanity's worldwide hum . . . [a] remarkable and groundbreaking novel." — Colorado Review Ndiya Grayson returns to her hometown of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes...

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WILDER

CLAIRE WAHMANHOLM

A prize-winning debut poetry collection touching on themes of nature, loss, and history. In Wilder—selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—Claire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the a...

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THE TREE OF THE DOVES

CHRISTOPHER MERRILL

"A unique travelogue" that "explores the nature of terror, its place in the post-9/11 world and how it unites and galvanizes those in the throes of it" ( Kirkus Reviews). Using several ageless questions—"Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?"—as his point of departure, journalist and award-winning poet Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of te...

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WILLOW ROOM, GREEN DOOR

DEBORAH KEENAN

The author of Good Heart presents "lyric poetry that sings, enchants, debunks and then reconstructs the truths and mysteries of our lives" (Jim Moore, author of Prognosis). Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry Included in the Book Sense Picks Poetry Top Ten Written over the course of three decades, this extraordinary collection of new and selected poems presents a body...

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THE FACT OF THE MATTER

SALLY KEITH

"Part-epic, part-elegy" this collection presents "a wonderfully involuted tableau where ancient Greek myth . . . strip malls, and natural history swirl together" ( Kenyon Review). In this intricately crafted poetry collection, Sally Keith shows the self as a crucible of force—that which compels us to exert ourselves upon the world, and meanwhile renders us vulnerable to it. Mov...

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INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR

MURRAY FARISH

Short fiction about people on the edge that "masterfully balances the absurd, the horrific, and the humorous" ( Booklist). The characters in Inappropriate Behavior teeter on the brink of sanity, while those around them reach out in support, watch helplessly, or duck for cover. In their loneliness, they cast about for a way to connect, to be understood, though more often than no...

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RIVER HOUSE

SALLY KEITH

"This heartbreaking and robust poetry collection . . . explores the complexity of the mind in the midst of grief" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). These are poems of absence. Written in the wake of the loss of her mother, River House follows Sally Keith as she makes her way through the depths of grief, navigating a world newly transfigured. Incorporating her travels abroad...

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THE STUNTMAN

BRIAN LAIDLAW

Musings on the modern epidemic of narcissism in "deadpan, witty poems that flash with plangent images and macabre moments" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune). "THE EARTH BROKE OPEN CAUSE WE BROKE IT OPEN," blares the first line of this enrapturing debut collection mapping the myth of Narcissus and Echo and the Iron Range roots of Bob Dylan onto a world growing increasingly self-obsess...

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WHITE

DENI ELLIS BÉCHARD

The award-winning author blends fiction and memoir in this "captivating, careening, thrilling, and magical" novel of neocolonial corruption in the Congo ( Foreword Reviews, starred review). Assigned to write an exposé on the elusive conservationist Richmond Hew, a journalist finds himself on a plane to the Congo, a country he thinks he understands. But then he meets Sola, a w...

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WE THE JURY

WAYNE MILLER

Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Poetry A boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in We the Jury: the hard ones, the impossible ones. From an academic dinner party disturbing in ...

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TETHERED TO STARS

FADY JOUDAH

A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos—intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams. Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even th...

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VESTMENTS

JOHN REIMRINGER

A priest struggling with temptation moves back into his working-class childhood home in this "suspenseful, illuminating, and highly readable saga" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in its entirety, the obstacle that constantly keeps me from Thy Love . . . Taught this prayer...

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GATEKEEPER

PATRICK JOHNSON

A prize-winning poetry collection that delves into the dark wood of the digital underworld: "Impressive . . . thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) What is the deep web? A locked door. A tool for oppression and for revolution. "An emptying drain, driven by gravity." And in Patrick Johnson's Gatekeeper—selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Balla...

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THE CENTURY

ÉIREANN LORSUNG

A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery ...

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WORLD OF WONDERS

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL

"A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir." — Kirkus Reviews As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier clim...

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THE SHAME

MAKENNA GOODMAN

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make" (Alexander Chee, Paris Review). Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods o...

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THROWN IN THE THROAT

BENJAMIN GARCIA

"An unabashed celebration of complexity in queerness and gender, an arresting snapshot of survival and a triumphant reclamation of language." — Shelf Awareness (starred review) "Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages." And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat. In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer li...

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THE CLEARING

ALLISON ADAIR

A poetry debut that's "a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively" (Henri Cole). Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair's debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live...

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A SONG FROM FARAWAY

DENI ELLIS BÉCHARD

In this, his fourth work of fiction, Béchard takes readers from nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island to modern-day Iraq, tracing the story of a North American family that is at once singular and emblematic, and exploring the cultural repercussions of war and violence. Reinventing themselves in often unexpected ways, the characters in this tapestry defy simplification. A pair...

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BLOOD MOON

PATRICIA KIRKPATRICK

"Why would I expect to feel blameless?" Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one woman's life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even if—with the onset of physical infirmity—they sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together moral and mortal peril as Patricia Kirkpatrick's speaker ages. From a c...

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MAPS AND TRANSCRIPTS OF THE ORDINARY WORLD

KATHRYN COWLES

This "innovative" poetry collection "uses text and image to explore the strangeness inherent in everyday experience" ( Publishers Weekly). "I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping," Kathryn Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is capt...

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TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE SEA

ADAM CLAY

"The more I sit with these poems, the more they resonate with me and with universal patterns and themes—existential inquiries, loneliness, spiritual doubts." — Green Mountains Review To Make Room for the Sea reckons with the notion that nothing in this world is permanent. Led by an introspective speaker, these poems examine a landscape that resists full focus, and conclude that...

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THE GALLEONS

RICK BAROT

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful, Rilkean attention to the layered world that surrounds us. In The Galleons, he widens his scope, contextualizing...

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IN ACCELERATED SILENCE

BROOKE MATSON

"Anguished and unblinking . . . Accomplished poetry that will move those who have sorrowed—that is, everyone." — Library Journal "The thin knife that severed your tumor," writes Brooke Matson in these poems, "it cleaves me still." What to do when a world is split—terribly, wholly—by grief? When the loss of the beloved undermines the most stable foundations, the most sacred spac...

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WHEN THE WHALES LEAVE

YURI RYTKHEU

This fable of an indigenous Arctic people "offers profound considerations about stewardship of and people's relationships to the natural world" ( Publishers Weekly). Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky above the Shingled Spit. But her greatest joy is to visit ...

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OWL OF MINERVA

ERIC PANKEY

A Walt Whitman Award–winning poet seeks the spiritual within everyday physical objects in this luminous collection. Taking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, Owl of Minerva turns astonishingly precise attention to the physical world, scouring it for evidence of the spiritual as the poet travels through such places as Appalachia, New England, Venic...

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THE BLESSING

GREGORY ORR

An acclaimed poet's "gripping" memoir of an accidental tragedy, a childhood haunted by guilt, and a quest to find healing through art ( Publishers Weekly). When Gregory Orr was twelve years old, he shot and killed his brother in a hunting accident. From the immediate aftermath—a period of shock, sadness, and isolation—it quickly became clear that support and guidance would not ...

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21 | 19

Essays on the modern relevance of Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, and more "suggest the ways poetry might be both agitator and balm in times of social crisis" ( Poets & Writers). The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were pro...

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LATE MIGRATIONS

MARGARET RENKL

From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her...

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