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
"Gary Jackson's Miss you, Metropolis embodies a voice uniquely shaped and tuned for the twenty-first century. Playful, jaunty, rueful, and highly serious
—sometimes within a singular poem
—this persona has been forged in the caldron of popular iconography, especially in the culture of the comic book. Anything is possible in such created time and space; immediate tension exists in a climate where other worldly figures are defined by earthly matters and concerns. The funny-book world is a perfect landscape for inuuencdo and signification, and Jackson uses these aptly. This first collection of poems is gauged by a sophisticated heart."
By Eamon Grennan The new collection from poet Eamon Grennan, whose keen vision is “obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description.” (The Irish Times)
Selected by the Poetry Foundation from more than 1,600 submissions, The King’s Question is the winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, which recognizes an American poet over the age of fifty who has yet to publish a book of poetry.
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By Dana Gioia "Here we have a truly exceptional poet. In his mid-thirties, Dana Gioia
can be compared to Wallace Stevens and not be routed by the
comparison." —Virginia Quarterly Review
By Madelon Sprengnether "In these insightful essays, even the writing itself is cinematic, as
Sprengnether's memories and quick film summaries meld into one another,
making it seem as if the author hasn't just seen many movies, but has
actually lived one." —Publishers Weekly
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell 
Skin, Inc. by Thomas Sayers Ellis
