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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) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Home Land by Sam Lipsyte Staff Pick A caustic and hilarious story about Lewis Miner, a man afflicted by a terrible high school experience and blessed with an acid tongue that takes no prisoners. Lipsyte's sentences are creations of absolute wonder and terrific angst.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock Staff Pick This book, and its writer, came out of nowhere and knocked me square in the throat. You could see Knockemstiff as a dark, demented updating of Winesburg, Ohio, or you could simply notice it as the work of a new American master. Pollock goes where many... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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Poemland by Chelsey Minnis Staff Pick Minnis, a former Portlander (she used to read at the Café Lena open mic!), has been known to communicate through angsty verbiage and sullen silences (illustrated by her love of ellipses). Poemland, her third book, displays a fresh new confidence in her... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea Staff Pick Michelle Tea, a long-time favorite with streetwise memoir readers, proved she could pull off a novel with Rose of No Man's Land. It's like Freaks and Geeks with lesbians. Tea's writing dazzles and hurts in all the right places and her comic timing has... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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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Necessary Stranger by Graham Foust Staff Pick Foust's poems are built with quiet and contemplative building blocks that are nearly see-through enough to reveal the barest intentions behind their words. He uses repeated phrasing not for dramatic effect but instead to slow things down into a... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin Staff Pick Vlautin is a natural. He's managed to craft a debut novel that is funny, sad, uplifting, and honest, in a voice that seems effortless and yet leaves room for both the imagination of the reader and the growth of the writer. Vlautin is the kind of author... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Miss America by Catherine Wagner Staff Pick "Fence Books is a new division of the great literary magazine Fence, and Miss America (along with Chelsea Minnis's Zirconia) launches this venture nicely. Wagner's poems are playful and whimsical and sharply stylish (especially the last series of... (read more) Your price: $11.75 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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Please Don't Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope Staff Pick Please Don't Kill the Freshman is a totally honest (sometimes brutally so) look at surviving high school. The author was in high school when she wrote this funny, heart-breaking, kick-ass journal-cum-novel, and you can tell: all the blood and guts of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry by Gary Glazner Staff Pick One of the really cool elements about this thorough collection of slam celebrities are the many sidebar articles about the logistics and history of the slam. These articles include tips on how to memorize your work, how to do your own spoken word tour... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Primitive Mentor by Dean Young Staff Pick Dean Young looks like a normal guy, but on the inside you'll not find a trace of conformity anywhere. You can barely go three lines without your brain trying to rewire itself. The latest book in Young's influential career (his ninth!), Primitive Mentor... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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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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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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) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno Staff Pick This beautiful book is generous in so many ways. First off, it's to benefit 826 tutoring centers. Secondly, the stories here are funny, warm, and smart. They change constantly to keep the reader guessing. And third, each story features illustrations by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (American Indian Studies) by Trevino L. Plenty and Steve Pacheco and Luke Warm Water and Joel Waters Staff Pick A vastly entertaining collection that combines four Native American voices unlike any you'll find in today's marginalized poetry circles. These four young writers have been blazing a new, more modern trail in recent years and it is high time that their... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz Staff Pick "While this is a difficult book to pin down or pigeonhole, it isn't a difficult book to marvel at or enjoy. Budnitz traffics in contemporary, global themes....Provocative, disturbing, wry, and just plain fascinating, Nice Big American Baby is some of the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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