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April’s SPD Staff Picks are here! & 20% off w/code SPDPICKS!

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Feast your eyes and your shelves on August’s

SPD Recommends *Backlist*,

ten titles that continue to rock our world. Maybe they’ll rock yours too…

1. Poems of the Black Object - Ronaldo Wilson

"[A] warning to anyone tempted to believe that in objectification lies freedom. Livid inside an apocalyptic negative capability, these poems are constructed through their maker's deconstruction, and reading, I too, felt unmade."—Claudia Keelan

2. Sherwood Forest - Camille Roy

"In its capacity to stop time, SHERWOOD FOREST opens its reader to a future made ‘suddenly visible.’ A ‘narration’ that's both ‘desire’ and what incubates it: the capacity to ‘float.’ Imagine a forest floating in the air. Camille Roy does this. She is a writer who lets her reader dream, past tree-line. Where the sentences flare and dim, like 'sexy bodies.' Like a memory of touch. Like ‘body parts’ and 'tissue' - a luminous genitalia - above a pond."—Bhanu Kapil

3. Maribor - Demosthenes Agafiotis

"MARIBOR gives us both artifact—of the ephemera of communication, institutions, power—as well as blueprint for imagining an 'alphabet of the future.' A master of the contemporary hermetic, Agrafiotis can bring to light in one stroke both the evanescence and endurance of the writing on the wall."—Eleni Stecopoulos

4. Hurdis Addo - Samantha Giles

"Conceptual poetics + wed to + a dedication to social justice = a book with sharp edges and intriguing reading dynamics. Definitely recommended." — Kevin Killian

5. The Lizard Club - Steve Abbot

"Steve Abbot's THE LIZARD CLUB is funny, angry, suspenseful and totally new. It's like a Xerox of tragedy, Pandora without her box. Read it and feel your tongue growing and growing until you can flick flies out of the air."—Kevin Killian.

6. Inter Arma - Lauren Shufran

"Laura Shufran's meter-making argument stings with ludic blows bent to send the line aquiver. Weaponized with duck soup and chicken rimes (a baker's dozen haptic hexes of heptameter), INTER ARMA is the neoclassical nude formalism that the times demand. With searing wit and virtuosic élan, Shufran's epic lyrics hit homers every time."—Charles Bernstein

7. Haecceities - Michael Cross

"In HAECCEITIES, Michael Cross has made an interim language, his invention a relation between the words—as if this unknown relation or 'noumenon' is 'a hide enthinned' of futuristic Elizabethan single words each at once tactile, optical, aural simultaneously traces and events of reinterpreted future-present spurred in 'the many hundred wing-lit hives'"—Leslie Scalapino.

8. C.C. - Tyrone Williams

"Slanging each other we drift apart. Maybe there is a war outside. Will web sites continue to explode? The poems in C.C. are tense, troubled, intricately terse. In this powerful collection Tyrone Williams explores the boundaries between poetry, politics, and history."—Susan Howe

9. Negativity - Jocelyn Saidenberg

"'Rejecting that which cannot be recaptured' makes negativity prelude to a form of freedom, and the psychosexual progress Saidenberg’s pilgrim traces from 'Destruction as a Cause of Becoming' to the knotty resolve of CARNAL achieves a “music of exhaust and darkening horizons” that’s entirely the poet’s own: 'Figures retie the circle, then release into shape.’” —Rodney Koeneke

10. Democracy Is Not for the People - Josef Kaplan

"This book works exactly as I expected (of course you have to use as directed). I was very happy with my purchase, and with the cop being on fire. I am not sure we should mug the wealthy, of course." —Diana Hamilton

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Feast your eyes and your shelves on May’s SPD Recommends *Backlist*, ten titles that continue to rock our world. Maybe they’ll rock yours too…

1. The Black Unicorn Sings - Aja Monet Bacquie

"There are people who come into your life, who come into this world with such velocity, bravery and beauty that whole hearts are changed, the whole earth is moved. Aja Monet is one of those rare people in my world, in this world. She is a lyrical shape-shifter, an ancient infant, bravely falling up. Her search for compassion and truth is relentless and voracious. Her time here, her work, here, her life is our poem. Here."—Michaela Angela Davis

2. Compos(t) Mentis - Aaron Apps

"Knuckles digging in the knee and not knowing it, while reading! To be disturbed and to be reminded of something you never quite knew. To be reminded and made to know that memory a new way, this is the way Aaron Apps gives it. Morphine drip as the scalpel tears open the new machine. The petri dish is an appetite for the borderlands of experimentation which is now shattering. You are now under the spell, you have been since you started reading it. If poetry is a way to live then I want to live with these poems, permission without question!"—CAConrad

3. The Spring Flowers Own and the Manifestations of the Voyage - Etel Adnan

"With this book of poems Etel Adnan establishes herself as a major poet who belongs beside internationally acclaimed poets like Tranströmer, Bly, Neruda, Vallejo, and Pessoa."—Eric Sellin

4. Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression - Edited by Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser

From the publisher: “Shadow on a Tightrope is a collection of articles, personal stories, and poems by fat women, about their lives and the fat-hating society in which they live. Topics include: exposing the myths concerning fat; what it's like to grow up fat; a description of the medical crimes committed against fat women; stories of the daily hassles, verbal and physical harassment in the lives of fat women; inaccessibility to clothing, jobs, and public places for exercise and sports; effects on the emotional, spiritual, and intellectual selves of fat women living in a society that hates them, and how they have learned to survive.”

"Will open the eyes of even the most fat-phobic. If you read nothing else, read this."—Feminist Bookstore News

5. Catacombs - Safiya Sinclair

"Sinclair's is an arresting new voice that makes us sit up and re-think. Her mythopoeic imagination thrives on startling metaphors and combinations of images. Eschewing the naturalistic and consolatory, the poetry is alive in disturbing implosions of consciousness, drawn to cataclysm and apocalypse, whether in personal or communal histories."—Eddie Baugh

6. Platform - Rodrigo Toscano

From the publisher: "Rodrigo Toscano's Platform is a political one; his writings are predicated on the political conditions of contemporary life. But his work is not (and will never be) predicted by those conditions; indeed, outwitting, unnerving, and outspeaking the forces and figures clinging to control is one of his signal artistic strategies. It would be correct to read Platform as a triumphant product of precise and complex labor (thus adding to the tradition set by Louis Zukofsky). But where the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach informed Zukofsky's work, we would suggest that it is the spirit of the Teatro Campesino that informs Toscano's—his poems carry out brilliantly creative interventions. The work is bitingly inventive and yet delicately meticulous; outrageous, funny, anti-hypocritical, and 'unfuckingrightgaggable,' Platform is victory for the political intelligence whose exercise is now, more than ever, a human necessity."

7. The Activist - Renee Gladman

"The Activist begins in the middle of a revolution. There is a protesting group of commuters with a missing leader. There is a bridge that may or may not have been bombed. People speak in nonsense and cannot stop themselves. In the midst of all this, the language of news reporters mixes with the language of confession. The art of this beautifully written book is in how it touchingly illustrates that relations between humans and cities are linked in a more complex interface than most realize. The book is full of entrances and exits, alternate routes and incommensurate geographies. The Activist does not analyze or explain the hopeful desires of protest at the turn of the century, but it does enable us to see them differently."—Juliana Spahr

8. Four Year Old Girl - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

"Berssenbrugge has quietly written some of the most stylistically consistent and elegant poems of the last decade. Her latest volume, a related series of poems composed of her signature stretched-out lines, start from the concrete--an insect, a fish, a girl—and proceed to reveal how boundaries we think solid (of bodies, of images) are fluid and unstable...Berssenbrugge's probings yield radiant conclusions. Readers looking to be ravished by the beauty of sound and image—and willing to wrestle with some demanding philosophical conundrums—should look no further."—Publishers Weekly

9. WITHOUT A NAME - Yvonne Vera

"Vera is one of the freshest, most evocative prose writers since Ondaatje, her sophisticated lyricism offering a poised tension as it details shattered landscapes, bodies, and dreams."—Kirkus Review

10. mauve sea-orchids - Lila Zemborain, translated by Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre

"Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros."—Forrest Gander

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