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BoneshakerJAN BEATTY

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5779-9 • 104 pp.

“Restless with complacency and restriction, this book ricochets among a multitude of forms, tones, subjects. Boneshaker is a fierce, intelligent, terrifying interrogation of categories, among them the category of the book itself. Nothing is beyond the reach of this splendid new work.”—Lynn Emanuel

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Eternity & OrangesCHRISTOPHER BAKKEN

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6404-9 • 88 pp.

“The poems in Eternity & Oranges evoke myths, history, love and loss, ancient art, and more. Bakken’s words evoke haunting images of the sea, the sun, ancient figures, tales, and modern woes. The line between ancient and modern is erased, as he connects them in a way that only a poet can.”

—windycitygreek.com

Jackknife: New and Selected PoemsJAN BEATTY

$20.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6449-0 • 168 pp.

“Beatty’s lyric comes from the edge of a knife that continues to carve honest beauty from an America we learn only from gifted hands. The arc of this poet’s brave heart moving through her life brings back to us the song of who we are. This is a fabulous collection.” —Afaa M. Weaver

Mad RiverJAN BEATTY

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5570-2 • 64 pp.

Winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize “In every poem, she keeps her fury contained, but omnipresent, so that it resembles a cornered dog’s warning growl, yet she hints of happier possibilities.”—Booklist

Red SugarJAN BEATTY

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5987-8 • 80 pp.

“Red Sugar is tantalizing and forbidden, but it is no peepshow. The poems are raw, brash, and full of pluck, yet there is tenderness and honest emotion at the core.”—D. A. Powell

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Lake MichiganDANIEL BORZUTZKY

$15.95 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6522-0 • 88 pp.

“Borzutzky stages Lake Michigan in two ‘acts’ at an imaginary prison on the real and symbolic border of Chicago. Each poem-scene vividly dramatizes state violence and capitalist exploitation, while the tortured speakers perform a lyricism of estrangement. Throughout, we are compelled to radically cri-tique our political realities and to inscribe our vulnerable bodies into public song.”—Craig Santos Perez

The Switching/YardJAN BEATTY

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6241-0 • 80 pp.

“The Switching/Yard is Jan Beatty’s unflinching and unapologetic turn, a fierce conflagration of lyric and gorgeously rendered narrative that refuses to give the reader a chance, or reason, to turn away. There is no predictable rooting here, no way to dismiss these stanzas as simple leaps in the evolution of a starkly talented storyteller.”—Patricia Smith

Blessing the HouseJIM DANIELS

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5636-5 • 120 pp.

“Daniels’ strength lies in his ability to be simple and complex, sensuous and spiritual, social and private as he searches for ‘faith.’ . . . Through literate, unpretentious language, [his] lines reflect the complexities of parenting and religion.”—In Pittsburgh

M-80JIM DANIELS

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5497-2 • 96 pp.

“Jim Daniels gives voice to the voiceless. . . . He makes articulate the feelings of inarticulate people.”

—New York Times Book Review

CaptivityTOI DERRICOTTE

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5422-4 • 88 pp.

“Toi Derricotte has lifted herself, and so she is able to transform experience into significant thought.”

—Louis Simpson

“I”: New & Selected Poems TOI DERRICOTTE

$29.95 • Cloth • 978-0-8229-4566-6 • 320 pp.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“These exceptional new poems reveal one of America’s strongest and most ardent poets mid-strife, on fire, charging forward toward all that is false in our lives and in our world. How endlessly grateful I feel that, once again, she has allowed us to accompany.”—Robin Coste Lewis

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TenderTOI DERRICOTTE

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5640-2 • 96 pp.

“Derricotte delivers frankness and hope through her thoughtful probing of encounters with complex racial and sexual relations.”—Publishers Weekly

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The Undertaker’s DaughterTOI DERRICOTTE

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6200-7 • 104 pp.

“Let the reader of The Undertaker’s Daughter beware—it may make you burn to exorcise your own lifelong fears, and replace them with freedom. But you will have to find your own way, as Derricotte has.”—Women’s Review of Books

VelocityNANCY KRYGOWSKI

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5977-9 • 80 pp.

Winner of the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

“These are courageous poems. The music, the language, which I love, is based on a terrific sense of things, and I don’t know if it is the music or the knowledge which I most admire. This is a wide-eyed, assertive, wild, well-read, street-smart, edgy, loving, suffering, heaven-crazed poet. It’s a joy to find her.”

—Gerald Stern

Six O’Clock Mine ReportIRENE MCKINNEY

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-5415-6 • 64 pp.

“When Irene McKinney writes of the ‘black rooms your very body / can move through’ or of ‘the shaven hilly graves we own. / The babies there / that are not me,’ I am there. I am grateful for the poems that burst forth from her West Virginia roots to shape this fine collection.”—Maxine Kumin

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Iconoscope: New and Selected PoemsPETER ORESICK (EDITED BY JUDITH VOLLMER)

$20.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6380-6 • 144 pp.

“It’s rare to find a poet with such a laser focus on creating a lifelong legacy . . . His poems glitter like ornate glass drinking bottles-beautiful, yes, but equally aware of their utility. . . This seems to be Oresick’s great message, and I am grateful for it: that we all live a life that is capable of rising to the status of art.”—Coal Hill Review

Even ThenMICHAEL WURSTER

$17.00 • Paper • 978-0-8229-6581-7• 72 pp.

“Is it possible to be a dazzling Eastern European poet impersonating an American born and bred poet? Is it possible to live in both the day-to-day world of old Pittsburgh characters and streets, as well as in a secret surreal place where doors open into the sky? The answer is a double yes as Michael Wurster proves again and again in this marvelous, imaginative, and joyful collection.”—Mike James

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