Complete Catalogue

Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum

"Wayne Koestenbaum's brilliant new collection is like a lurid coloring book of Fauvist Depravity. Playfully perverse, his poems reinvent the lyrical, satirical barb for our moment. And they're as telling as they are outrageous. Where else could we meet the Mrs Robinson of Abstract Expressionism or experience the joy of biting the wolfman's wombat ass. This scholar of excess is off the cuff, over the top, and always on the money!" — Elaine Equi

The Drug of Choice by Christopher Cahill

"Cahill has reinvented the Roman erotic elegy for modern New York: lust, rage and longing are given play in verse that ranges from the raw to the exquisitely formal." — Edward Conlon

"Christopher Cahill uses poetry and prose, truth and fiction, frank obscenity and polished formal verse to reflect back to us the only contemporary love that dare not speak its name -- male heterosexual adulterous desire....The Drug of Choice is powered by a love of truth and a love of women. It is shocking and it is a masterpiece." — Caitlin Flanagan, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Dear Prudence, New and Selected Poems, by David Trinidad

Publishers Weekly once described Trinidad's work as “utterly deadpan and astonishingly fine.” With assurance, grace, honesty and brilliant craftmanship David Trinidad writes about collecting, losing, and recollecting in poems of great energy, tenderness and formal ingenuity. Elaine Equi once wrote of Trinidad, “No other writer makes the interface between our private memories and cultural ones appear so seemless.” Wayne Koestenbaum writes, “This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have.”

What It Is Like, New and Selected Poems, by Charles North

“North's joy in words, and the things words adumbrate, is infectious: we catch a contagion of enlightenment. To me he is the most stimulating poet of his generation.” — James Schuyler

“He is witty when wit seems all but lost, gorgeous when gorgeousness is supposed to have crawled off to wherever Frank O'Hara's odes came from.” — Ange Mlinko

Charles North's poetry has received the highest praise from a wide variety of aesthetic camps. Among his awards are a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, four Fund for Poetry Awards and a Poets Foundation Award.

In This House, by Howard Altmann

“Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. If he seldom finds reassuring answers, he finds something better: ‘When all that consoled consoles no longer/ loneliness finds a room inside the one it knows.’ These poems are as essential as a glass of water.” — John Ashbery

Without Saying by Richard Howard

In Richard Howard's new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail, if only by means of prevarication — the voice of Medea's mother trying to explain her daughter's odd behavior to an indiscreet interviewer; or first and last the voice of Henry James, late in life, faced with the disputed prospect of meeting L. Frank Baum and then, even later on, "managing" not only Maetrlinck's Bluebeard but his own unruly cast of characters, including Mrs. Wharton and young Hugh Walpole…

Sources, by Devin Johnston

“Sparkling with energy and intelligence, these poems are likes chips in a mosaic, spare, hard, precise, and with a classic humanity and grace.” — David Malouf

Clouds, Leaves, Waves: A Painter's Poem, by Gregory Botts

Introduction by Harold Bloom.

“Botts is a celebrated and critically respected painter devoted to the American Sublime. These writings gathered from his journals and notes, attest that he is a remarkable poet as well.”—Library Journal

Committed To Memory, by John Hollander

“Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into Tales, Sonnets, Songs, Meditations, and Counsels. Committed to Memory is a wonderful gathering of poems for memorization.”—Harold Bloom

Talking Cures, by Richard Howard

“This collection is a vivid reminder of the gifts that have made him a powerful presence in American poetry for forty years.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Silent Treatment, by Richard Howard

"I don't like direct self-expression. All the work that I do is some kind of invocation of or transaction with others, whether it's criticism, translation, or poetry. There are poems that are direct self-expression, but certainly, with some sense of preference, there is an enterprise which involves speaking through a mask, a persona."—Richard Howard

Trappings, by Richard Howard

“Trappings...reminds us how, for decades, Howard's work has served as a gold standard for those who care about the shape, sound, and wit of a poem.”—Boston Review

Work Life, by Paul Kane

“Work Life, Paul Kane's wonderfully varied and assured third volume, is simultaneously literal and lyrical, imbued with the magic of the matter-of-fact....I can think of no other poet whose work is as polished, pleasurable, and affecting as Paul Kane's.”—John Koethe

Bestselling Jewish Porn Films: New Poems, by Wayne Koestenbaum

“These latest poems reach swoony, unforeseen heights of mental raucousness and worshipful style.”—Dennis Cooper

The Memory Theater Burned, by Damon Krukowski

“Damon regards language as prayer thought. His lines move with a strange speed of wonder yet with an ear towards newfound sound. This is good music.”
—Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth

The Emperors, by Frank Manley

“Frank Manley ranks among the best of our contemporary story-tellers.”—Tim O'Brien

Posthumous Diary / Diario Postumo, by Eugenio Montale

“There have been eloquent versions of Montale in English, but they did not catch his agonistic, complex relation to his predecessors: Foscolo, Leopardi, D'Annunzio. Montale culminates what Dante and Petrarch began, and Galassi subtly conveys this fulfillment of Italian poetic tradition.”—Harold Bloom

I Have Not Been Able To Get Through To Everyone, by Anna Moschovakis

“An auspicious debut... Stripped of artifice and the mere effects of formal pyrotechnics, these poems move by ear and intellect, pushing and pulling at the real with precision and mystery.”—Ammiel Alcalay