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Man Suit
Man Suit
by Zachary Schomburg
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I think Schomburg may be my new favorite Portland poet. While reading The Man Suit, I felt both an eerie sadness and joyful wonder. These little poems, with their odd recurring themes and sober delivery, are full of untraceable magic and humor. After... (read more)

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Gowanus Atropolis Signed Edition
Gowanus Atropolis Signed Edition
by Julian Brolaski
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"Gowanus Atropolis attempts to reconcile the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in "Manahatta" with the poet's search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have been prior to thought... (read more)

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Beast
Beast
by Lisa Wells
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"Unflinchingly honest and deeply compassionate, the poetry of Lisa Wells demands our attention. Here is a compelling voice that speaks to things as they are, but that also echoes a hope for what they, and we, might become." --W.E. Butts... (read more)

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L. B.; Or, Catenaries
L. B.; Or, Catenaries
by Judith Goldman
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Poetry. "The concatenated series of poems in Judith Goldman's L.B. chart the narratives formed by texts of uniform density hanging freely from two fixed readings not in the same semantic line. On the one hand, the book dramatizes language under the... (read more)

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Fjords
Fjords
by Zachary Schomburg
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Poetry. As one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry, Zachary Schomburg's previous books have enthralled thousands of readers with surreal landscapes populated by gorillas in people clothes, jaguars, plagues of hummingbirds, and even Abraham... (read more)

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Scary, No Scary
Scary, No Scary
by Zach Schomburg
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This follow-up to Zachary Schomburg’s acclaimed first collection of poems The Man Suit, is a book of skeleton gloves and skeleton keys — at once dark and playful. With loneliness and levity Schomburg takes the reader on a tour through a... (read more)

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Over the Anvil We Stretch
Over the Anvil We Stretch
by Anis Mojgani
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Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three-legged frog on the lawn, and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the... (read more)

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Sorry, We're Close
Sorry, We're Close
by J Tarin Towers
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J. Tarin Towers writes about the politics of human relationships in a fiercely distinctive voice. She has a keen ear for the rhythms of everyday speech and a form that flirts with tradition. In a framework of love and sex and betrayal, these poems and... (read more)

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In the Time of Assignments
In the Time of Assignments
by Douglas A Martin
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In the Time of Assignments transforms a decades worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martins work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided... (read more)

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Elegy for Dead Languages
Elegy for Dead Languages
by Francesco Levato
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Poetry. ELEGY FOR DEAD LANGUAGES collects in print the long documentary poems "War Rug," "Elegy for Dead Languages," and "Hood, Handgun, Power Drill." "Francesco Levato's powerful documentary, War Rug—like Eliot Weinberger's What I Heard About... (read more)

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Make Loneliness
Make Loneliness
by J. Reuben Appelman
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Appelman is a poet for the ages. Make Loneliness is cool, crazy, hard to categorize.... (read more)

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Remember To Wave
Remember To Wave
by Kaia Sand
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Poetry. "Kaia Sand's REMEMBER TO WAVE maps the temporal palimpsests and traumatic political history of Portland, Oregon. Sand writes the seen and unseen city in the spirit of William Carlos Williams's Paterson, Charles Olson's Gloucester, or Barbara Jane... (read more)

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And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow
And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow
by Filip Marinovich
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Filip Marinovich's second book spans the Otts, the outs, and many outposts. Travel with Filip and meet the phantoms of airplane chewing gum and beat on a drum with a Molotov cocktail.... (read more)

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Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me
Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me
by Mark Leidner
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Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have... (read more)

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Ok, Goodnight
Ok, Goodnight
by Zachary Schomburg and Emily Kendal Frey
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A new book of collaborations by two of the most exciting young poets in the United States.... (read more)

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Three Islands
Three Islands
by Micah Ling
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Poetry. THREE ISLANDS, Micah Ling's first full-length collection, brings together the three colossal figures of Amelia Earhart, Robert Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), and Fletcher Christian to examine the solitude and madness that comprises their... (read more)

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Dear Jenny, We Are All Find
Dear Jenny, We Are All Find
by Jenny Zhang
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Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial... (read more)

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Mouth: Eats Color -- Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals
Mouth: Eats Color -- Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals
by Sawako Nakayasu
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Poetry, Translation. Ten poems by Sagawa Chika are conveyed into English and other languages through a variety of translation techniques and procedures, some of them producing multilingual poems. Languages used include English, Japanese, French, Spanish,... (read more)

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Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting
by Gregory Sherl
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Poetry. "HEAVY PETTING is a hell of a sexy book. A sexy and generous book. A book where thighs are 'spread like warm apple butter,' where one eye is so close to another there is no sight, where we don't 'feel clean unless...burning,' where the not... (read more)

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Texture Notes
Texture Notes
by Sawako Nakayasu
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Poetry. Asian American Studies. Is there a relationship between the population density of Tokyo and the pinkest part of a hamburger? Can one touch the inside of a noun to learn the difference between one bicycle and a field of bicycles? How close is... (read more)

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