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Man Suit by Zachary Schomburg Staff Pick 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Big World by Mary Miller Staff Pick Miller is in complete control of the scenes she creates. Full of character details that are illuminating, familiar, and often distressing, Miller's sharp and assured stories remind me of that people-next-door quality that Raymond Carver perfected in his... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hiding Out by Jonathan Messinger Staff Pick Hiding Out, Messinger's wonderful debut collection, is full of mishaps and mishaps waiting to happen, but he somehow transforms the uncomfortable moments into familiar sparks that shine and resonate.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Make Loneliness by J. Reuben Appelman Staff Pick Appelman is a poet for the ages. Make Loneliness is cool, crazy, hard to categorize.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno Staff Pick The world Joe Meno creates in this book is one full of infinite possibilities. The protagonist, somewhat of a superhero with sleuthing powers, spends his childhood solving mysteries and fighting crime. His adulthood is spent being frightened by the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian Staff Pick Break-ups, bad jobs, and sad literary aspirations add up to make one gritty, funny New York comedy.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Drunk by Noon by Jennifer L. Knox Staff Pick Knox does it again. She is one of the most hilarious and unpredictable poets working today. Drunk by Noon is refreshing and wild.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov Staff Pick This was one of those books that seemed like it came at just the right time in my life. I loved its muted sadness and the occasionally surreal descriptions of that sadness, and I loved the weird way the poems sample from each other throughout the book... (read more) Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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Bicycle by Paul Fattaruso Staff Pick An amazing meditation/fever dream/love song/mini epic about one man's love for a bike. Or is it a girl? All I know is that Bicycle is the ideal gift for any bike geek/poet out there.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno Staff Pick Hairstyles of the Damned is a very funny and sweet punk-rock coming-of-age story set in Chicago. Highly recommended!... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Misfits and Other Heroes by Suzanne Burns Staff Pick Suzanne Burns's Misfits and Other Heroes is a strange and compulsively readable collection. Her cast of characters is carnival-esque, her prose is fresh, and the stories are sad, bizarre, and resonant. This book is a fun-house mirror of human experience,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Widow by Suzanne Burns Staff Pick I'm not an avid poetry reader, but Suzanne Burns's The Widow hooked me as a lover of short stories. When read straight through, The Widow is a coherent narrative, the individual poems coalescing into a plot, with a beautifully-paced emotional arc... (read more) Your price: $5.00 New - Pamphlet
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Without Wax: A Documentary Novel by William Walsh Staff Pick Without Wax is one of the best novels about the porn industry since Terry Southern's Blue Movie.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Beginnings and Endings by Jenny Boully Staff Pick The Book of Beginnings and Endings begins with the perfect visual complement on its cover: an installation by Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers. An egg is a literal, biological, and metaphorical beginning. But an eggshell is an ending; emptied of its... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth Staff Pick From poet Joe Wenderoth comes one of the strangest epistolary books in years. Letters to Wendy's is a disturbing, hilarious, and even philosophical journey into a weirdo's mind.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Divorcer by Gary Lutz Staff Pick A breathtaking suite of sentence-driven stories that are as refreshingly funny as they are emotionally eviscerating. Linked by themes of broken relationships and mistrustful lovers, Lutz's newest stories are full of descriptions and observations so... (read more) Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper
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Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness by Amy L. Clark and Elizabeth Ellen and Kathy Fish and Claudia Smith Staff Pick This impressive anthology collects four of the best under-the-radar female writers of this decade. Each one presents a section of tight, angular, brave, funny, and innovative flash fictions. Clark writes explosive, playful brain candy. Ellen's work is... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry by Kim Chinquee Staff Pick Kim Chinquee's stories follow their own rules. They zigzag sentence by simple sentence, creating a dangerous territory that we can only detect by the emotional undercurrents she effortlessly creates. Like their titles, each piece is minimal in form but... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz Staff Pick Don't miss Stories in the Worst Way, the seminal collection by the writer who has been called "the master of the sentence."... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Golden Calf by Henry Baum Staff Pick This tight little novel is a burst of comic angst and venom in the tradition of Selby, Bukowski, and Nelson Algren. Originally published by Soft Skull back when their books were glued in a basement apartment, this new version of The Golden Calf is part... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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