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Kazim Ali is a well-known younger poet whose first book, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), sold through its first printing and continues to sell. Ali now writes a regular feature on contemporary poetics and culture for The American Poetry Review which will further establish his reputation. Ali has...

This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically...

This is a Bilingual English/Hindi edition. This Number Does Not Exist is the first English translation and U.S. publication of Mangalesh Dabral. He has been translated widely in other languages, including all major Indian languages and Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish, and Bulgarian. Dabral...

Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these twenty stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a woman who searches through her past lives...

Timeless yet timely and hopeful with a dark underbelly, these fables revive a tradition running from Aesop to W.S. Merwin. With a poet’s mastery, Craig Morgan Teicher creates strange worlds populated by animals fated for disaster and the people who interact with them, or simply act like them, including...

Threaded with echoes of familial trauma—a sister’s battle with cancer, a brother’s struggles with depression—the lyric poems in The Human Half reveal an open-hearted speaker who finds solace in the beauties of celestial navigation, the flowers along the railroad tracks, and the brushwork of...

"Aimee Parkison most often begins softly, slowly stripping away each layer of social interaction to get at what is numinous and frightening and necessary about living in the real world. These are stories both about the difficulty and the intense suddenness of human connection, about the profound...

Marosa di Giorgio has one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. Her surreal and fable-like prose poems invite comparison to Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, or even contemporary American poets Russell Edson and Charles Simic. But di Giorgio's voice, imagery, and themes—childhood,...

Joseph Salvatore has a high profile in the NYC literary community as a graduate and now professor at the New School and founder of the New School's literary journal, LIT. Salvatore is a regular fiction reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. These stories are exquisitely written, but also deal with sexuality in frank, refreshing, often humorous and also very human ways.