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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.

Poetry. C.D. Wright says of this collection, "Any word be it 'rose' or 'usufruct' is occasion for a larkishness. 'We trip and drop deeply' over and into the drifts of her lines. A most inquisitive poet who relishes living inside her expansive vocabulary, one who has been faxing by the midnight oil while so many others were dipping their quills into dry sockets. Caroline Knox reminds us how 'whangy' and interesting it all is. Do themath, read A BEAKER." Caroline Knox's SLEEPERS AWAKE (Timken Publishers 1994) is also available from SPD. Her other previous collections are The House Party and To Newfoundland (The University of Georgia Press, 1984 and 1989).

Brilliantly assembled poetic fragments elucidate the undone and chaotic experiences surrounding a body in the midst of illness.

An epic journey through multiple hells taking place just below the surface of a college professor's day-to-day life.

A much-needed portable edition of Philip Whalen's inimitable masterpiece.

Capacious works that explore social and political strife with simultaneous tenderness and strength.

Poems that speak the literal language of dreams.

Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair.

A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.

Humorous and wildly inventive poems from a master of absurdist poetic theater.

With staggering emotional honesty, Prageeta Sharma confronts the sudden loss of her spouse to cancer.

Masterful poems that guide readers through the interconnections of natural and readerly life as it is powerfully expressed in the dynamic resonances of language.

A tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.

Twenty-three new (Soma)tic exercises and rituals for creating an "extreme present" and their resulting poems.

New poems that hurtle through time and space from an irrefutable force in American poetry.

"A vortex, a nexus, and a weather system all to himself."-Small Press Traffic

LA-based poet returns with humor, irreverence, and sincere longing to sever the distinction between dream and reality, person and animal.