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Texts that elucidate the poetics of a major American poet at the center of the vibrant Beat and Surrealist movements.

With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns.

Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle--moving, authoritative, generous.

New edition of a breathless prose work with a unique vision of suburbia.

"This mechanistic world…has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."—CAConrad

Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir—a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.

This important anthology full of fresh voices includes a CD of original love songs by well-known independent recording artists.

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translating the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

Assembled using recorded conversations with the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun, this book-length poem by Joshua Beckman spans the first forty years of Salamun's life in his own words. -- Tomaz Salamun

Cedar Sigo's fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.

From esteemed City Lights editor and poet Garrett Caples, Lovers of Today is not only a tender tribute to departed artists, it is a veneration of the evanescence of life.

From one of the greatest poetic minds of our century comes the latest collection from CAConrad.

Lyn Hejinian selected this, Nikolayev's first collection, as Winner of the 2001 Verse Prize.

Witty, compassionate, restless, Knox fearlessly takes on NASCAR, numismatics, canned Spam -- and makes it all fascinating.

Poetry. In this follow-up collection to the National Poetry Series winner A Hummock in the Malookas, Rohrer's poems play against convention, finding dark, surreal underpinnings in the seemingly innocent objects and experiences of everyday life. Direct, humorous and disquieting, SATELLITE demonstrates the unique sensibility of this important young poet. "The surface ease and playfulness of these poems belie their seriousness. In language as clean and surprising as that of dreams, they skate out onto the thin ice of consciousness. Actually, as my grandmother would have put it, they don't skate on thin ice; they skate on cold water. They're smart, inventive, and sneakily profound"--Chase Twichell.

Poetry. In the introduction to OUBLIETTE, Peter Richards's first book of poetry, Tomaz Salamun writes, It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art. I don't know and I don't want to tell you about it. Get wet by yourself. Dara Wier says about OUBLIETTE, I love to read a book approaching tragedy without recourse to literal analogy. Peter Richards' poems hesitate to simplify and they get close to knowing, thus they nearly push me over the edge, then they say, don't go, not yet. They electrify the mortal story that goes - there's only one way in, one way out of this world. And then these tender poems say, let's go everywhere, maybe there's another world.

Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to produce a singular 'autobiography of voice.' Across these lectures, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, while paying homage to revolutionary artists, teachers, and thinkers whom have shaped his poetic aesthetic. Simultaneously timeless and extremely timely, these talks ponder the presences that California Buddhism, LGBTQ+ experiences, and Native Nations occupy in the poetic world and the world at large.