Bird at My Window
Rosa Guy's powerful novel follows a young and brilliant black man who wakes in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister. Unable to recall the circumstances that brought him to commit this unthinkable act, he retraces his steps and reveals the rich complexity of mid-twentieth-century Harlem and its mothers, sons, and daughters whose aspirations prevail and perish within both white and black America.

Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems 1965 - 2000
Required reading for students and fans of the masters of modern poetry, this volume "treads the fine line between farce and pathos," and offers the best work from the past thirty five years by Anselm Hollo. Wry, sly, and thoroughly enjoyable, this long awaited retrospective is an important addition to all poetry lovers’ bookshelves.

Circle K Cycles
When second-generation Japanese-Brazilians emigrate to Japan to assume the manual work its citizens no longer want, their need for cultural belonging, along with their homesickness for the food, culture, and language they left behind is exacerbated by Japan’s reverence for all things "purely Japanese." This stunning book of hybrids merges fiction, essay, and pop culture to illustrate a global society that resists heritage-by-hyphenation.

Vow to Poetry
Vow to Poetry is a trumpet call that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes. Some books are so forward-thinking that we don’t know how essential they are until they arrive. This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews, essays on poetics, politics, and more, reveals a life dedicated to the imperatives of experimental poetry and cultural activism. You’ve seen the "safe" versions, now comes this unconventional, irreverent, transgressive volume. This is more than a "how to write" book- it is a "how to live the life of poetry" book.

Necessary Distance
Bringing together critical essays, articles, and reviews by 1999 National Book Award for Poetry finalist, this landmark collection is an impressive look back - and forward - by one of our most visionary authors. From essays on the craft of writing, to critiques of contemporary and classic African-American authors and their work, to observations on the quirkiness of the writing and publishing life, Necessary Distance is a compendium of the best nonfiction prose by an important figure in contemporary American letters.

The Man Who Swam with Beavers
Inspired by Alaska Native legends and myths of her adopted state, Nancy Lord explores humankind’s innate need for contact with nature in the contemporary fables that make up The Man Who Swam with Beavers. The title refers to a Dena’ina Indian story about a man who lives with beavers, and realizes that all creatures have "their own lives, as complete and legitimate as any others."

Earliest Worlds
This impressive diptych by a major new voice in poetry begins with Blue Guide, a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing the opposing/complementary nature of these universal principles and their manifestation through words.