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Silent Anatomies
by Monica Ong
7.5 x 10", 96 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-69-7
In her sardonic, thus melancholic, Silent Anatomies, Monica Ong brilliantly skews the marking of surfaces. Writing—yes—but also defacement/effacement, surgical incision, racism. With text, photography, collage, and illustration, she maps the twisting way of familial shame; dissects metaphor; and hawks (and hocks) “Ancient Chinese Secrets” as medicinal cakewalks (who’s selling what to whom?). Slippery.—Douglas Kearney |
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Scorpyn Odes
by Laynie Browne
7 x 7", 56 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-70-3
The mysterious power of the scorpion, both animal and constellation, informs the complex emotions of wrenchingly ongoing departure in this beautiful collection of odes to distance, absence, connection, and memory. The scorpion is the "miniature vessel of time" that both poisons and heals: the gorgeous poetry around it is the "house of hope/constructed solely of words." In this world of departures, Browne allows us to "Say possibly nothing is forgotten.—Marcella Durand
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The Bright Field of Everything
by Deborah Fries
6 x 9", 64 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-49-9
Price: $16.95
Deborah Fries is a seer.—Leonard Gontarek
Fries puts us in the predicament of the fruit fly, for which “Life is short, and the landscape gorgeous".
—John Timpane |
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This Coalition of Bones
by Cori A. Winrock
6 x 9", 88 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-72-7
Price: $16.95
These poems blow me away.—Deborah Fries
A noteworthy debut. Tell your mama.—Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
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River Legs
by Jen McClanaghan
2013 First Book winner,
selected by Nikky Finney
6 x 9", 80 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-71-0
Price: $16.95
River Legs is a powerful and haunting debut---David Wojahn
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The Best of Kore Press: Poetry
edited by Ann Dernier
with Lisa Bowden
Gail Browne
Natalie Diaz
Niki Herd
Rebecca Seiferle
Joni Wallace
Introduction by Alison Hawthorne Deming
6 x 9", 88 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-74-1
Price: $16.95
This is an important collection because it demands that we, as female writers, not conform, rather, we must only write the things that are in us to be written.—Natalie Diaz
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Dead Meander
essays by Adria Bernardi
6 x 8", 152 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-54-3
Price: $18.95
Bernardi's poetic prose is hypnotic and original.—Eleanor Wilner
Adria Bernardi's Dead Meander
wins an IPPY Bronze
medal in creative non-fiction! |
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Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic
poems by Eva Heisler
6 x 9", 114 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-53-6
Price: $17.95
Eva Heisler has written a remarkable book.—Michael Burkard
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Skinny
by Carolyn Hembree
6 x 9", 72 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-50-5
Price: $16.95
Carolyn Hembree rips into language almost physically to make new phrasing out of her Southern lexicon. Skinny, an autobiographical tour de force, arrives full of swagger: In this debut volume of poems, Hembree gets as close to the original words for things as I can remember anyone doing in a long time.—Jane Miller
Click here to read an Interview by Lisa Levine
New review for Skinny in Pebble Lake Review. Click here to read.
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2011 First Book Award Winner
selected by Bhanu Kapil
Double Agent
by Michelle Chan Brown
6 x 9," 80 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN:978-1-888553-52-9
Price: $16.95
In this vivid, near-submerged world, I paid particular attention to the ways in which containment and incompetence were worked out by the writer. Chan Brown sets a strict boundary--"Don't wait"--only to assess its transgression: "Come quickly." Go. Come back. Stay. Double Agent is a flip-book of the very best kind.— Bhanu Kapil
Click here to read an Interview by Lisa Levine.
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Given Away
by Jennifer Barber
6 x 9," 80 pgs, perfect bound
ISBN: 978-1-888553-56-7
Price: $16.95
The skill of versification in these poems is what makes us hear them—and what we hear gives pleasure, even when it’s dark. Barber’s poems have a tragic grandeur. Natural description exhibits poise and tensile strength: ‘I don’t know/whether the freckled light//has swallowed the white arms//of the birch tree whole/or if the birch is light//bending the end of summer through its leaves.’ This is beautiful work.
— David Ferry
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