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    • Karla Kelsey
    • Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy
    • Poet Karla Kelsey’s lyric-documentary rendezvous with iconoclastic writer and visual artist Mina Loy (1882–1966) invents a new form for engaging a life. 

    • Alan Gilbert
    • The Everyday Life of Design
    • Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilbert’s sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow.

    • Betsy Fagin
    • Fires Seen from Space
    • Betsy Fagin’s third book of poems dwells in the interstices of profound grief and abject wonder, softening into the complexities of human-driven extinction in search of what refuge remains for life in the pyrocene.

    • Heimrad Bäcker
    • Documentary Poetry
    • Translated by Patrick Greaney
    • The essays of Austrian documentary poet and photographer Heimrad Bäcker (1925–2003), collected here along with a selection of his photographs and two of his documentary poems, explore the poetic, philosophical, and political stakes of representing the Holocaust, and constitute a crucial source for considering the critical potential of contemporary literature.

    • Robert Fitterman
    • Creve Coeur
    • Robert Fitterman’s sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams’s postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth-century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape.

    • WE Authors
    • 2023 Box Set
    • Our first year of books — by Emily Simon, Garth Graeper, Robert Desnos (tr. Lewis Warsh), Richard Hell, Marina Tëmkina & Michel Gérard, Hélio Oiticica (tr. Rebecca Kosick), Monica McClure, Claire DeVoogd, and Ahmad Almallah — all boxed up together!

    • Hélio Oiticica
    • Secret Poetics
    • Translated by Rebecca Kosick
    • The first English-language translation of the “secret” poetry of Hélio Oiticica uncovers a crucial chapter in the development of one of Brazil’s most significant twentieth-century artists.

    • Ahmad Almallah
    • Border Wisdom
    • In his second book of poems, Ahmad Almallah seeks a language that captures the afterlives of the mother tongue. This collection blurs the borders between languages, between the living and the dead, between presence and absence.