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Orchid Alpha

Kimberly Ann Southwick's Newest Collection Orchid Alpha is available for preorder.

Compassion Fountain

Liz Bowen's New Collection is now available.

CAW CAW PHONY

Michael Sikkema's new book is available now.

"Sikkema hails from a long line of Dada tricksters, from Apollinaire and Schwitters, BpNichol to Décio Pignatari. Jokes swish around his canteen." Read full review here: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2023/03/09/caw-caw-phony/

Mantic Compost

Jake Syersak travels the reader in and out of the vortex of language and place he constructs to examine the urgency of the news that shapes our lives.

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The Wound is (Not) Real: A Memoir

Marty Cain's second collection from Trembling Pillow Press is a deep dive into the trauma of childhood, secrets, poetics, and place grounded in lines and QR codes.

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Always Know: A Book of Monk

John Sinclair's newest collection on Thelonious Monk

Book of Levitations

A modern day spell book of poems to guide us through these times.

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Unoriginal Danger

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In Unoriginal Danger, Dominique Salas traces a Latinx familial lineage of pain threaded through an account of the raped female body. Alternately numbed or distressed, her speaker maps a circuitous route from violence to reflection and on toward emergence. Salas’s use of linguistic and logical twists conveys the near-impossibility of reckoning with the state of being-looked-at. The speaker in an early poem asks: “Would I dare / untranslate applause / on which I’ve built my existence,” questioning her own desire to please the male gaze. This collection zaps with laser beam honesty, resisting a simple narrative of resilience. Throughout, femme strength reigns. "At times," Salas writes, "I win."

-Krystal Languell

Marginal Utility

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