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A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.';What power. Smith's poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.'Marvin Bell';I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem.'Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judgeFrom Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation's premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decadea National Poetry Series winner weaving passionate, bluesy narratives into an empowering, finely tuned cele-bration of poetry's liberating power.

A legendary work of literary wizardry in which the author reckons with Christopher Columbus, America, myth, and his great-grandfather Herman Melville. First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf's literary masterpiece in which he attempts to purge the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothersone, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song. Includes an introduction by Rick Moody (The Ice Storm).

A slim but powerful poetic novel that tells the expansive story of a Southern woman's memories of her mother and a vanishing world. It Will End With Us is Sam Savage's latest deep dive into the mind and voice of a character, and his most personal work yet. With the raw materials of language and remembrance, Eve builds a memorial to the mother who raised her, emotionally abandoned her, and shaped her in her own image. Eve's memories summon a childhood in rural South Carolina, a decaying house on impoverished soil, and an insular society succumbing to the influences of a wider world. ';A wonderful, absorbing novel' (Atlantic Monthly) sculpted out of an ';aphoristic scattering of memoriesone- and two-sentence stand-alones that spill isolated down the page like little gems... showing us how memory works and how we make sense of our lives, drip by drip and sensation by sensation' (Library Journal). It Will End With Us is a portrait of a place full of hummingbirds and wild irises, but also of frustration and grief. It is the story of a family tragedy, provoked by a mother's stifled ambitions, and seized by the wide-open gaze of a child. Rarely has a novel so brief taken on so much, so powerfully. ';Reading the novel can feel like admiring dewdrops on a spider's web, each paragraph and sentence glittering exquisitely.... Savage's is a book of the heart as much as the head. Which is itself an accomplishment of no small note: to recognize the arbitrary, degraded thing that is memory, and allow it its loveliness for all of that.' The New York Times Sunday Book Review ';To call the book a novel, however, fails to acknowledge the poetry in its form.' Carolina Quarterly ';A novel written in a most unusual way: a series of brief paragraphs which sometimes read like diary entries, other times like descriptions from a book of recollections. The mosaic effect is enhanced by the author's skillful use of language, his vivid, poetically-charged prose style.' Lively Arts

Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspiratorthat is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act.Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.

A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.

The life and photographs of Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse. Can a man living in the shadows find redemption?

The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.

';With this hilarious and tragic novel, Travis Nichols has captured the menace and pathos and ridiculousness and dead-seriousness of the Internet.' Emily Gould, author of Friendship Charli and Nico's wedding blog has an uninvited guest: a commenter convinced the bride is being romanced by the brother of the groom. To save her from a terrible mistake he adopts multiple identities on multiple message boards, sharing his fears for Charli, his outrage at being thwarted, and the romance, years ago in his analog past, that first attracted his meddlesome care. Cranky, hilarious, and incisive,The More You Ignore Metakes on Internet etiquette, the distortions of voyeurism, and the incessant, expansive flow of words that may not be able to staunch loneliness, but holds out the hope of talking it to death. ';Nichols has engaged in a flabbergasting act of literary ventriloquism... The More You Ignore Meis aNotes from Undergroundby way of the Huffington Post.' The Stranger (Seattle) ';Want a reminder what you can do with fiction? Told entirely as a blog post comment from the perspective of a dude crashing a wedding website, this psychologically-driven novel is what you're looking for.' Bustle ';[Nichols] captures the wheedling tone, the aggravating escalation, the stultifying self-involvement of the Internet troll... Raw enough to bring the dark laughter of recognition.' Minneapolis Star-Tribune ';An experimental novel of obsession and violation that makes Nicholson Baker and Mark Leyner look positively banal.' Kirkus Reviews

Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.

The best of Davidson's forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.

With one eye unflinchingly trained on his own mortality, a soulful philosopher-poet laments a ravaged planet.

"e;Sam Savage [creates] some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. . . . Readers are left with a voice so strong that Savage is able to derive significance from these events by sheer literary force."e;--Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers"e;Savage's skill is in creating complex first-person characters using nothing but their own voice."e;--Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times"e;[Savage] creates one of the most intriguing stories--and one of the most vivid characters--that this reader has encountered this year."e;--The WriterSam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt.Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in "e;the now."e;Sam Savage is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, and Glass. A native of South Carolina, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin.

DANCE is poetry as performance, precarious and joyful, a three-part journey through hell, earth, and paradise.

A futuristic, stunningly imaginative poetic exploration of superheroes, religion, and myth.

Affirmation, indictment, and essay, The First Flag resists the confines an insidious patriarchy places on our bodies, sexualities, and selves.

Beautifully crafted poems that investigate the intersections of the living and the dead in stunningly simple language.

A National Poetry Series selection chosen by Ange Mlinko, these are virtuosic lyrics for the visionaries among us.

Spirited and restlessly imaginative, Shin's poems weave a lyrical collage of ancient fragments, fairytale, and both Korean and American history.

A ';profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving' antebellum tale of two slave girls who take their white mistress into captivity (Kirkus Reviews). In ';a novel that upends what we expect from slavery narratives,' teenage Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm ninety miles from nowhere (Roxane Gay). In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Lancaster's paradisea place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farmuntil Lancaster's attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and her only companions. The events that follow Lancaster's death change all three women for life. Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, Kind One is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in antebellum America, ';as devastating a piece of writing as anything one is likely to find in contemporary literature' (Contemporary Review of Fiction). ';This compact but reverberant 19th-century tale tracks a circle of hard-luck souls whose collective tears could fill a dry well.... Hunt passes the narration among the principle characters in woozily nonlinear fashion, lending a range of textures to this antebellum melodrama.' New York Times Book Review ';Opening with a prologue in the form of an extraordinarily beautiful meditation on loss, Hunt's writing deepens into allegory, symbolism and metaphor, all while spinning forth a dark tale of abuse, incest, and corruption reminiscent of Faulkner.' Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ';An unforgettable tale of the savagery of antebellum America.... Hunt deftly maintains an unsettling tone and a compelling narrative that will linger with readers long after the last page.' Publishers Weekly

A black veteran of Afghanistan searches for his missing brother in ';a rich and passionate' debut novel exploring issues of race, war, and family (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achillesalways his brother's keeperembarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever. Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It 'Til It Hurts is a modern-day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does.

A penetrating, richly metaphoric survey of the human landscape.

A brilliant collection of ';nineteen new and sixty-four previously published stories from one of America's masters of the form' (Largehearted Boy). In this volume, readers will be drawn into Herd's fertile literary cornucopia as his vivid prose captures the imagination. Written with brevity and stark economy of language, these short vignettes are a sampling of the American landscape as seen through the eyes of characters from the proud and stoic to the broken and tragic. From high school love notes to a drug runner's day; from a boy's first fistfight to the unexpected aftermath of a woman's first experience of marijuana, Herd's stories travel the backroads, sending postcards of life as it is lived and providing ';a fine overview to the work of a writer whose work eludes easy description, but remains ahead of its time' (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).