Tod Davies Exterminating Angel Press ($13) by Marjorie Hakala While it is not explicitly aimed at any age group, Snotty Saves the Day is mostly a middle

John Donovan Flux ($9.95) by Shawn Patrick Doyle Since few books are ever released in a 40th Anniversary Edition, John Donovan’s I’ll get there. It better

Gary Indiana Semiotext(e) ($17.95) by Justin Maxwell It’s easy to like Gary Indiana. Any successful novelist who steps up and says “plot is the sleaziest

Robert Bly W. W. Norton ($24.95) by Mark Gustafson “Oh, on an early morning I think I shall live forever!” —Robert Bly, “Poem in Three

Ravi Shankar National Poetry Review Press ($17.95) by Ralph Pennel Editor's Note: The book under review contains some poems originally published in Seamless Matter: Thirty

Deborah Landau Copper Canyon Press ($15) by Nick DePascal Deborah Landau’s second collection of poetry, The Last Usable Hour, is a sometimes beautiful, sometimes harrowing, sometimes

Joshua Harmon The University of Akron Press ($14.95) by Donna Stonecipher In his essay “Religion as a Cultural System,” the anthropologist Clifford Geertz differentiates between

Sommer Browning Birds, LLC ($16) by Marcus Slease Like Philip Whalen, whose poems all flow along on the same pitch, Sommer Browning displays a lightness

Alain Badiou translated by Bruno Bosteels Verso ($24.95) by Jeremy Butman After a century of what some might call abuse—beginning with Nietzsche’s anti-Platonism and ending

Wayde Compton Arsenal Pulp Press ($18.95) by Paula Koneazny Canadian poet and spoken-word/turntable artist Wayde Compton's first collection of essays explores complicated issues of race,