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Check out some of our new releases from this season, supported by donors like you!

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Keen, pithy meditations on a world that continues to surprise us, the poems in Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout’s new book are concerned with “this ongoing attempt/ to catalog the world” in a time of escalating disasters. 
“[F]ull of the delights of Armantrout’s inquisitive mind, sleight of language, and distinctive telescopic and microscopic juxtapositions.”
—Mandana Chaffa,
Chicago Review of Books

Remica Bingham-Risher’s Room Swept Home is her latest poetry collection, which treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women’s rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living?

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Danielle Vogel’s A Library of Light is a memoir that begins and ends in an incantatory space, one in which light speaks. Written in elegant, crystalline prose poems, A Library of Light shows that to language is to take part in transmission, transmutation of energy, and sonic (re)patterning of biological light.

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