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Publisher of contemporary poetry and literary prose since 1995.

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Tahar Ben Jelloun 
9781956921779
…a lens on contemporary Morocco—its rampant corruption, the oppressed lives of women, the racism toward sub-Saharan Africans, and the enormous human cost extracted by a society that enforces silence on those it has already broken.

$19.95

Steve Hughes
9781956921786
Coming April 2027: Set in the years after American Axle, Hamtramck’s largest auto manufacturer, broke its union workforce by negotiating a 50% pay cut—a story of survival.

$21.95

Joel Chace
9781956921823
American director Tod Browning (1880-1962) had a particular attraction for the uncanny.

$18.95

Diane Simmons
9781956921755
Coming April 2027: For criminals after the repeal of prohibition this new crime of kidnapping is a godsend.

$23.95

Milena Marković
translated by Steven Teref & Maja Teref
Children 9781956921717
Marković’s voice is punk, tender, caustic, and visionary: the voice of a woman who applies the same unsparing gaze to herself that she turns on everything else.

$22.95

Pearl Kan
9781956921809
These spare, precise poems move between Zen practice, motherhood, and the mystery of everyday perception with utter clarity.

$19.95

Jake Levine
9781956921670
Fractured identities, mental illness, ecological anxiety, Jewish diasporic memory, and expatriate life between Lithuania and South Korea… “Jake Levine is a firesteed. Traditionally, a particularly marvelous horse was said, by poets, to have ‘bones of flame.'”— Charles Alexander

$22.95

Suzanne Burns
9781956921793
Coming March 2027: “Pornographically lush, explicitly bizarre, articulating messy human yearnings like a recipe for rhubarb pie.” —Matthew Thomas Meade

$22.95

Featured Titles

Tahar Ben Jelloun 
9781956921779
…a lens on contemporary Morocco—its rampant corruption, the oppressed lives of women, the racism toward sub-Saharan Africans, and the enormous human cost extracted by a society that enforces silence on those it has already broken.

$19.95

Milena Marković
translated by Steven Teref & Maja Teref
Children 9781956921717
Marković’s voice is punk, tender, caustic, and visionary: the voice of a woman who applies the same unsparing gaze to herself that she turns on everything else.

$22.95

Tahar Ben Jelloun 
9781956921410
“…a timeless scorched-earth indictment against those who would cower in “the fault-lines of… silence” while profiteers of political, economic, and religious orders trample a nation.”

$23.95

Susan M. Schultz,
I and Eucalyptus, 9781956921311
Poems and full color photographs
“I know you understand, Eucalyptus. It’s your bark that falls, not you.”

$28.95

Sandra Moussempès
Cassandra at point-blank range, 97819569211465
“From within the galaxy of French poetics, Sandra Moussempès’ work glimmers like the foreign body of a rare star….” –Liliane Giraudon

$24.95

Leopoldo María Panero
The Death of Poetry, 9781956921366
“Any person concerned with the human condition must read Panero.” —Lucina Schell

$32.95

Courtney Bush,
A Movie, 9781956921397
“…helps us understand that movies really are actually everything. I mean, really, everything!”–Brandon Brown

$19.95

Milena Marković
translated by Steven Teref & Maja Teref
sympathy for the salami 9781956921298
“…a vivid, honest, often funny, sometimes disturbing voice… [which] confronts her life more directly than most of us have the courage to do.” —Susanna Lang. 

$21.95

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The original imprint, founded in New Orleans in 1995 — contemporary (mostly) American poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in English.

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