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So often (let's be honest here) we poets will invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes. But this one is real, and one of the few I remember. I awoke in the future. --from "Mailbox" "To Be Read in 500 Years" is the poet Albert Goldbarth's time capsule for a future that none of us can now imagine--a world without mailboxes, without sexual reproduction, without oil or tillable soil, without the capacity to understand music or poetry or "lov...

New poetry by Jim Moore, who "elevates economy of phrase to an art" ("Minneapolis Star Tribune")"No, I don't know the way to get there. Two empty suitcases sit in the corner, if that's any kind of clue. "--from "Almost Sixty" Brief, jagged, haiku-like, Jim Moore's poems in "Invisible Strings "observe time moving past us moment by moment. In that accrual, line by line, is the anxiety and acceptance of aging, the mounting losses of friends to de...

Collects twenty-five years of essays and misadventures"--P. (4) of cover.

Now available in paperback, the award-winning retrospective by Linda Gregg, "one of the best poets in America" (Gerald Stern)"Worlds out of time still exist. Worlds of achievement out of mind and remembering just as the poem lasts. In the concert of being present. " --from "Arriving" Linda Gregg's abiding presence in American poetry for more than thirty years is a testament to the longevity of art and the spirit. "All of It Singing "collects t...

A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voiceOne man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his grief sets him off walking, mile after mile. A band of teens bent on destruction runs amok in a deserted town at night. As these men and women lash out at the inscrutabl...

This English translation first published in Great Britain by MacLehose Press in 2010"--T.p. verso.

Brian Culhane's deeply felt and accomplished debut, winner of the poetry foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award" "Let just one of those quicksilver hours be returned to me, "W"ith my knowledge now of the world, and not a boy's, "With all that I have become a lighted room. One hour "To ask the question that burned, once, in a King's throat. " "--from "The King's Question" In the poet Brian Culhane's "The King's Question, " fragments of t...

Contentious, rude, hilarious, moving, and truthful. A book you'll dip into for the rest of your life." --Ian Rankin "The male genitals are worn externally as evolution is in the process of expelling them from the body. Another million years and they'll be stored in a drawer." The award-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson has assembled a comic, intelligent, and cranky collection of brief truths and conjectures and, in the process, revitalizes th...

A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta) Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro ...

The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems "possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night" ("The New York Times Book Review") If you respect the dead and recall where they died by this time tomorrow there will be nowhere to walk. --"Earth" With gravity and resplendence, "Colosseum" confronts ruin in the ancient world and in the living moment, from historical accounts and from firsthand experience. Displaced from Ne...

Eamon Grennan's keen vision is "obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description" ("The Irish Times") Don't look back. Think Orpheus. Pillar of salt. One breath, then another. Sweat of apprehension. Still life with wind and breadcrumbs. --from "Injunction" Matter of fact. Matter of life or death. What does it matter? Eamon Grennan's new poems seek out criteria with which to question w...

The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 "New York Times" Notable Book "Look at her--It's as ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes."--from "Ode to History

Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, "The Adderall Diaries" is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Elliott presents a riveting journey through a landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex.

The new collection by the Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award "it could only have been elsewhere the sun's anger overturned the country men who came from the wounded side of the river knocked on our borders I say men so as not to say locusts " --from "Nettles" In "Nettles, " Venus Khoury-Ghata brings her impulses for lyric poetry and for stark narrative together into ...

An expansive and exhilarating world tour of innovative nonfiction writing"I think the reason we've never pinpointed the real beginning to this genre is because we've never agreed on what the genre even is. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art? It's not very clear sometimes. This, then, is a book that tries to offer a clear objective: I am here in search of art. I am here to track the origins...

The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature' s finest practioners. " Poetry is the sound of lan...

Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women with stark realism and plainspoken humor. A young military couple faces a future shadowed by injury and untold secrets. A dying alcoholic attempts to reconcile with ...

An exhilarating collection, as brash as it is wise, by one of our great storytellers Set mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. A man's obsessive visits to a fortuneteller leave him nearly homeless. Time collapses as two marriages slowly dissolve. And in the searing title story, a young man recounts the summer he spent in a mountain town, squatting in a borrowed house with a loose band of slacker...

Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize "The exploits you find in my comics are no more probable than snow in Sunnyvale. I'm not as black as you dream. "--from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.

A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the formMark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished "to improve the nick of time . . . to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future." At this bewildering convergence, Slouka asks us to consider what it means to be human and what we must revive, or reject, in order to retain our humanity in the modern world...