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Guided by a poem assembled from ¿compliments¿ paid by a suitor to his girlfriend (which echo the endearments Anna Karenina¿s Count Vronsky directs toward his racehorse, before she collapses under his weight and is shot), You Darling Thing investigates bridehood and the concept of the vow through the voices of a variety of brides, ex-brides, courtesans, and wives. The book is ultimately less about marriage than about potentiality and promise, a...

From ancient Rome to post-9/11 Manhattan, Briccetti's keenly-observed poems connect us to the lives of those around us

Acclaimed author Eileen Pollack's most recent novel is a cross between Seinfeld and The Sopranos

Winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize as selected by Vievee Francis, Valerie Wallace¿s House of McQueen is a fascinating, glittering debut by an assured new voice. Inhabiting the life and work of Alexander McQueen, Wallace builds a fantastical world using both original language and excerpts drawn from interviews, supermodels, Shakespeare, Poe, and more. At turns fierce and vulnerable, precise and decadent, here is a collection that leaps fr...

A debut collection unfolding from the discovery of one man's body in the desert along the U.S./ Mexico border

The latest collection from an award-winning poet about the complications of romantic, familial, and patriotic love

Shadow-feast is a chronicle of dying¿the awareness, denial, pain, and hope surrounding incurable illness, as well as the aftermath of grief as told from three points of view: Hers, His, and Theirs (the couple). The collection as a whole is a kagezen, or shadow-feast, a traditional Japanese meal offered to the dead. However here it is set out not for an absent beloved, but for the reader. Praise for previous books. ¿To say that Houlihan is a un...

Carol Moldaw's most recent collection is a stunning tapestry of the ways we are marked by time

A novel told in short stories, The Affliction is an astounding fiction debut by an award-winning poet full of memorable characters across America and the Caribbean. Young beautifully weaves together the elaborate stories of many while holding together a clear focus: people are not always as they seem.

Ben Purkert's debut poetry collection celebrates and laments the disintegration of our relationships and our world

A stunning debut collection that interrogates what it means to be black and male in America

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This second collection by award-winning poet Cammy Thomas is a meditation on impermanence, focused on a family confronting death

Animalities reaches into the past, breathes in the present, and extends to the future in a lyric exploration of life

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That Kircher's poems are private ones constitutes the strength and disadvantage of her first collection. The book reads like miniature portraits of the interiors of a life: what happens to us in rooms, before sleeping or in the quiet of an empty house. While sometimes too private, not speaking beyond the argument between lovers or the grandmother's death, her skillful images weave quotidian scenes into subtle and disturbing landscapes. These p...

When Hollywood Comes to You explores the conflict between the story we tell ourselves about our life and the actual, everyday stuff that makes up our life, which, when looked at closely, is often surprising in its oddness, silliness, and sometimes mercy. The poems evoke the loneliness and anxiety of not living up to our life story as well as the transcendent feeling when these two lives align.

Within these stories, there are unusual love triangles and stirring family clashes. From overwhelmed single dads to free-diving housewives to infatuated martial artists, the characters in Gianopoulos¿s debut collection How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money find themselves tripping, sometimes painfully, sometimes hilariously, toward self-revelation. Here is life in all of its clumsiness, humor, and unexpected beauty.

These harrowing poems focus on how human connection can both transcend devastation as well as complicate our individual sense of existence

¿Whether the subject is the Holocaust, a summer house, the death of parents, maternal anxiety, gardening, love, or memory, the poems totter between sorrow at the passage of time and finding a way to face the future¿.¿ ¿From the preface by Jacquelyn Malone