Poetry

THE WIND-UP GODS

Stefi Weisburd

Winner of the 2005 St. Lawrence Book Award

“[T]hat rare book unafraid of ambitions and ideas... ”

— Paul Guest

I CAN ONLY GO AS FAST AS THE GUY IN FRONT OF ME

Frank Matagrano

“Frank Matagrano is a poet of compassion, wit, and wisdom." — Denise Duhamel

              

THE VIETNAM ECCLESIASTES

D.C. Berry

“Not porn and not comics.” — Chiller

“All of these short, like Berry in bed.” — Em Dick

INCONSIDERATE MADNESS

Helen Marie Casey

Finalist for the Julia Howe Award

“[P]owerful poems about a dark period of American history...” — Vivian Shipley

MY WINDOW SEAT FOR ARLENA TWIGG

James Reidel

“[B]rilliant — this book is long overdue.” — Thomas Lux

"Reidel’s debut collection is a marvel." — David Wojahn

AN HOUR IS THE DOORWAY

James Owens

“[F]ew younger poets today...have such a will to transfigure the ordinary.” — David Rigsbee

ISBN 978-0-9768993-8-9      $14.00

ISBN 0-9768993-5-3      $14.00

ISBN 0-9768993-1-0      $16.00

ISBN 0-9768993-7-X      $9.00

ISBN 0-9768993-2-9      $14.00

ISBN 0-9768993-4-5      $14.00

Contemporary Literature & Non-Fiction

THE BROTHER SWIMMING BENEATH ME

Brent Goodman

“...[T]he author's firm craft and uncommonly mature vision transform loss to a complex, buoyant beauty. ” — David Graham

ISBN 978-1-934703-39-7      $14.00

INK FOR AN ODD CARTOGRAPHY

Michele Battiste

“These poems are driven by some super high-octane duende...in tune with the mad universe.” — Jim Daniels

ISBN 978-1-934703-48-9 $14.00

THE NARCOLEPTIC YARD

Charity Ketz

"Mystical in its delicacy yet scientific in its exactitude, The Narcoleptic Yard  replicates the ineffable,  gives it a location and a name, even as it  acknowledges the mundane or punishing aspects of materiality." — Alice Fulton

ISBN 978-1-934703-48-9      $14.00

GIVE OVER THE HECKLER AND EVERYONE GETS HURT

Jason Tandon

Winner of the 2006 St. Lawrence Book Award

"In this book you can find the fingerprints of the trickster, the pilgrim, the lover, the philosopher. I urge you to buy it. You'll be reading it for years." — Mekeel McBride

ISBN 978-1-934703-48-9    $14.00

SAGITTARIUS AGITPROP

Matthew Gavin Frank

"Matthew Frank's new collection of poems exchanges ideas for music and music for pictures...This book is sort of miraculous. I love it." — Norman Dubie

ISBN 978-1-934703-55-7    $14.00

PULLEYS AND LOCOMOTION

Rachel Galvin

"Astonishingly original, Galvin's is one of the voices my generation will be remembered by." — Ilya Kaminsky

ISBN 978-1-934703-72-4    $14.00

TIPS FOR DOMESTIC TRAVEL

Hayden Saunier

"This is a breathtaking and stunning debut." — Eric Pankey

ISBN 978-1-934703-81-6    $14.00

A CIVIC PAGEANT

Frank Montesonti

Winner of the Spring, 2007 Black River Chapbook Competition

"Reading Frank Montesonti's poems is like finding a human heart in a gleaming grocery aisle." — Sommer Browning

ISBN 978-1-934703-74-8    $9.00

STALIN IN ARUBA

Shelley Puhak

"Deeply political and deeply personal, Stalin in Aruba is a startling debut." — Julianna Baggott

ISBN 978-0-615-31930-8    $14.00

SWERVE

Bruce Cohen

“This is terrific work from start to finish, by a bright new poetry star in the American sky.” — Tony Hoagland

ISBN 978-0-9826228-5-8      $14.00