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What happens to the story when the world of the story is under attack? As trees are felled and pollinators disappear, Paige Menton painstakingly erases narrative, opening up spaces of possibility to find that "the beauty remains." We can no longer speak the world that was; instead, in lines that inhabit the full emptiness of the page, Menton uncovers what stories may still be possible. A beautiful and haunting book that reveals the subtle ways we might speak our own ecology.

Armenteros evokes the dreamscapes and desires of Marquez, Joyce, and Ballard while asserting his own distinctive voice.

JohSchertzer cleverly writes, "the natural associations are often unnatural" which here is Second Nature.

Becker's poems struggle for the acceptance of aloneness, and the shunning of anything that hinders transcendence. She finds assurance in the story of the water spider-how something so small could bring the sacred light to the world after others had failed. Her work achieves autonomy through illness. "When one inherits trauma, / it is in the blood. In the bones.

In these radiant destabilizations of language, Dan Kaplan's 2.4.18 sizzles within the lineage of extraction books like Annie Dillard's Mornings Like This, Mary Ruefle's A Little White Shadow, and Srikanth Reddy's Voyager.

With a deft command of comic distance and abiding compassion for her characters, Lynn Levin in House Parties, her debut collection of short fiction, presents us with a broad range of characters who ardently, foolishly, and often with weird invention, relentlessly spar with their fates. Three friends hike through Yosemite in search of an awe-inspiring waterfall that may or may not exist...a girl on a high-school science trip finds herself abandoned on an island inhabited by aggressive monkeys...a lonely young rabbinical student creates and animates a female form only to see her beloved creature acquire free will...overwhelmed by surveys, an office worker rebels à la Bartleby...a couple believes that a move to a friendly and sophisticated exurban neighborhood will set the stage for happy marriage. Many of the characters in House Parties see themselves with a certain bemused humor and strive to stay self-possessed even as they struggle against the strange and undeserved things that happen to them. At other times, the characters-sometimes successfully, sometimes not-keep trying to escape the gravity of a plight they created or a problem they refuse to resolve. In observant and generous prose, Levin writes in tones that range from the wry, witty, and hilarious to the lyrical and deeply serious.

Weighing in at 389 pounds, Simeon Saint-Simone was doing just fine. He enjoyed laying on his cardiac tilt table next to a window facing the sea, gazing at scantily clad young people frolicking on the beach...

A product of poetic bundling is meaning, and making your own meaning... For the fortunate ones, bundling can make a diagram of influence, a love line between writers that is more than a glossary of poetic affinities. Pound launched the ship of Modernism on gushes about customs of love and a trickle of redactions from Remy de Gourmont and Cavalcanti.

intimations of personal devastation, and eruptions of sacred memory, compose the cadence of the day, of any day in the world of these poems, its skies wavering with whatever's coming next. Mossin's spare, seemingly notational lines, always on the edge of revelation, can stop you cold, mid-page, in wonder.

With the blood of Borges in its wanderers' rivers, is a book with worlds of myth and magical realism hovering. It seeks beginnings, invokes the inner-driven walker, ravenous for words

Saints of the Republic is an exultant song of queer identity, of history, of the present, and of the body. These poems celebrate the carnal, the elemental, the sacred and the profound.

The notion of the notational-We find ourselves asking, what exactly is a note? As these voice notes suggest, it's a beginning-and here, an endless series of endless beginnings that we can almost hear singing.

As the great Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector said, "Being alive is inhuman."

The Undying Guest shows Terrill at his most perceptive and connective, employing perfect blocks of text which seem to have been grafted from the nebulous atmosphere of thought, pressurized and framed on the page.

Most survivors of gun violence must bear the burden of uninvited fantasies of revenge. First against the perpetrator, then as the nightmare leaks into the waking world, against them - the cynical, morally deprived, depraved system that let it happen, that keeps letting it happen. Explored and "downloaded" by the author - himself a victim of American gun violence - a version of such a nightmare into Mooney's Manifesto.

Haunted by a terrible accident and adrift in love, Louise Nayer takes us on a captivating journey filled with danger and romance, through Morocco, New York City and finally on a solo journey to California, thousands of miles from her home. Set in the early 70's at a time of cataclysmic change in America, Narrow Escapes will resonate with all who need to release themselves from a difficult past as they search for joy and home.

Rebecca Goodman's Forgotten Night couldn't find a more laconic protagonist on a meandering quest, one that layers dream sequence with Medieval carnival and a necklace to offer protection with accidental artist-guides to the journey.

Priest/ess is part memoir, part anti-memoir, part somatic map, part queer rant, part aura correction, part cathartic scroll, part eco-erotics, part self-imposed violence...

Like Samuel Beckett, McGonigle observes what might be full is empty and what appears to be empty may, in fact, be full. In this collage of verbal snapshots (where remembering becomes forgetting and the attempt to forget becomes obsessive frustration), we wander through the byways of Bulgaria and America during the forty days via the Orthodox aerial toll booths until the soul is judged. Absurdity becomes sanity and vice versa.