New in September: The Report, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards and Skin, Inc.
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane “The
Report is a graceful and dignified look at a single event that
quickly becomes something so much more expansive: a kaleidoscopic examination
of crowds, of disasters, of reverberations and reckoning. I was
absolutely riveted.”
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell
*now available in paperback*
“Like Richard Yates, Robert Boswell seems always to
wish he had better news for us. In the wide-ranging stories of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, he
wishes we weren’t so lost, so conflicted, so stubborn in our
misapprehensions. But he's been watching us too closely, with too
clear an eye, too keen an intelligence, and besides, Boswell’s real
talent, like Yates’s, is for telling us the truth.”
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis “Thomas Sayers Ellis is one of the most gifted poets of his
generation and more. . . . Ellis has something to say about the moment
we’re in, and he is that rare breed of Poet, the kind whose works will be
studied for generations to come, whose
name will be uttered alongside that other great T. S.”
—ROBIN D. G. KELLEY,
author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and
Times of an American Original
By Mary Leader "The best poems in this book are like looking at a great John Ford
film: something elemental within American experience, something born in
deprivation but capable of possessing grandeur, has found classic
expression. See (perhaps best of all) 'Among Things Held at Arm's
Length.' Mary Leader's book beautifully and eloquently recovers a world
in the act of discovering her distance from it." —Frank Bidart
By Tom Sleigh A witty and fiercely original book about poetry, the body, and the life
of the artist by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners
and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney).
By Kim Dana Kupperman "'Go fish, Kimche, go fish,' says her grandmother Fanya. And fish Kim Dana Kupperman does, down into the deep and uncertain pool of suicide, death by AIDS, religious identity, bodies altered by the radiation poured forth at Chernobyl. These linked stories add up to a life—her life—in ways that are both harrowing and affirming, and that command our readerly respect."
“For newcomers, it will be a guidebook; for experienced readers, Burt offers what may be the first concentrated statement explaining how and why we, consumers and writers of contemporary poetry, read.”
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
