The Art of Waking Up

"Brenda Taulbee's poems give my spine reverb, like poetry is meant to, like only poetry that matters, can."

— Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Chronology of Water, Dora: A Head Case, and The Small Backs of Children

"Her poems are told like a secret, filled with yearning: both ephemeral and visceral at the same time."

— Amy Temple Harper, author of Cramped Uptown

Deathcats / El Gato Eficaz

Luisa Valenzuela (1938-) is an Argentine novelist and short-story writer, one of the earliest magical realists, avant-garde, feminist, anti-authoritarian, & recipient of many awards, whose parents Borges visited often when she was a child, and who began publishing herself at the age of 17.

Deathcats was first published in Mexico in 1972. This en face edition is the first full-length English translation of this howl of anger in the extended rhythms of a Missa Cantata.

A White Concrete Day

This collection of Douglas Spangle's poems was first published in September, 2013. This image is the cover of the second edition, published in March, 2015.

"There is a quietness about Doug Spangle's voice that allows you not to realize how much he has to say (so quietly), what superb art his craft conceals (to the point of invisibility), how large is the experience he offers the reader. This collection accumulates the power, skill, passion and intelligence of his poetry to the point where I wonder, is anybody writing better than this?"

— Ursula K. Le Guin, author of Hard Words, The Earthsea Trilogy, and Lavinia