These poems bear witness to various atrocities at large and domestically, but also to the role that liberal Democratic ideology plays in the atrocities of genocide and cultural imperialism. Poets like Dan Featherston go a long way toward making the reader aware of the artifice…

This book takes the idea that history is not linear as its starting point. Can “outmoded” discursive forms do more than appear as the junkyard backdrop for the imperatives of capitalist cultural production? What speaks through what is already there? If we can think of…

Linh Dinh’s third book of poems, Borderless Bodies, is a fierce yet playful investigation into the body as metaphors, with its various processes as allegories. The body as polity and politics is also given a serious patdown. This is perhaps Linh Dinh’s most ambitious and…

From the homeless streets and the poor places rubbled by war, the ‘I’ of these poems is that of the anonymous ‘nothing that is all.’ The voice of this singular and collective subject is the music of the fire that rises from the cracks in…

obedience, by kari edwards (1954–2006), offers a rhythmic disruption of the relative real, a progressive troubling of the phenomenal world, from gross material to the infinitesimal. The book’s intention is a transformative mantric dismantling of being. Factory School. 2005. 86 pages. Paper. ISBN: 1-60001-044-X out of…

Flim-Yoked Scrim continues Diane Ward’s exploration of the shifting points where form and content meet, where viewer and viewed log in “presence,” and where intent and action listen in to one another’s baited breath.  The desired result is the unending product. Factory School. 2006. 60…

This collection of chapbooks (Drugs, Hamburger, City That Sublets My Sleep, Tracheal Centrifuge) aims to inspire you to rise up against our corporate overlords, shout down the noise machine, dismantle a fast-food restaurant barehanded, turn left at Zen, cook veggie meals, start a band: in…

Prevallet’s third book of poems, SHADOW EVIDENCE INTELLIGENCE, is a fierce and direct confrontation of political insanity and poetic form. Drawing inspiration from the news, these poems seek to create epiphany out of the fallacious, tormented, and violent logic that is currently being used to…

Collecting poems from the past six years, What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers includes the successful chapbooks “The Window Ordered to be Made,” “Jai lai For Autocrats” and “Cull.” “What Does It Matter?,” a chapbook published in England in 2005, is a long sequence…

In Mediated, Carol Mirakove strives to integrate particular political situations with her emotional states of being. These poems, here in four sections — Mediated, Fuck the Polis, Propaganda, and Pornography — celebrate formal experiments towards structural integrity, such that we might realize other worlds as…

Wars. Threesomes. Drafts. & Mothers plays with September 11. It’s a book on war. A book of hate toward the United States. A book of love toward ghosts. Several stories are triggered around the war against Iraq, among them the story of a couple of…

These poems take the form of obituaries mourning lives that have been lost in the current War in Iraq. Attempting to exclude no group from this public display of grief, alongside obituaries for Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police, there are obituaries for American soldiers, suicide…

Gary Sullivan came over for a visit and we talked about blogs. He said, “Get an idea of what you want to do and a title and go with that.” Walking around Central Park on a cold day in January 2003, I thought about my…

Chanteuse / Cantatrice is a book about collaboration and complicity. Chanteuse starts with the surreal singer or radio operator giving voice to whose message, why, and ends with the absurd message of war and peace we hear, perpetuating it. “Ni de votre guerre, ni de votre paix.” Cantatrice begins…

Between a Cadillac and a Valiant sitting idly in the snow, Scrapmetal takes a provisional journey through the experience of work and the untangling of vampiric forces that sever life from our record of it. Part primer and part example, Scrapmetal offers a method of…

Over Here is a collection of works written for farewell parties in the era of endings. These poems are culled from notebooks kept during imaginary road trips across the late empire, serving as toasts to new futures. Come inside for a strange celebration, and watch…

the poems that assemble // the poem that is // RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY is made from / reliant upon CITY and SOUND. made from / reliant upon mis / translation / mis / perception / and mis / reading (?) of Sigmund Freud’s Abriß der…

Slosh Models celebrates poetic living, specifically through a New Orleans lens but not just, in a set of “books” of roughly 10 pages a piece, displaying a wide range of poetic modes, all eminently enjoyable to the reader. Factory School. 2009. 88 pages. ISBN: 978-1-60001-059-0…

Hegemonic Love Potion both rollicks and frolics. This collection is a social exercise in poetic possibility that–through détournement, personal reflection, and textual imbrication–presses the political to inflect the personal and vice versa. Along the way, this book brings together seemingly disparate thinkers, artists, actors, and…

Censory Impulse is a book length excavation of the body (both physical and psychological) disrupted. These poems take their calling from the relationship between the neurological and the political, the digestive and the subjective, the gendered and the cyborg. Kaufman’s verse is located somewhere between…

Kate Schapira asked about a hundred people to describe an imaginary town. Sixty-three of them did. She built their contributions into poems that explore how we live differently in the same world, who we mean when we say we, what we mean when we say here. Factory School.…

Allison Cobb wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth century Green-Wood Cemetery and discovers that its 500 acres–hills and ponds, trees and graves–mirror the American landscape: a place marked by greed, war, and death, but still pulsing with life. The book is a testament to what survives and…

In her second book-length collection, Sueyeun Juliette Lee suggests that suicide, K-pop, tourism, and atomic explosions have emerged as expressions of the forces upholding untenable national imaginations. Go underground with her and enter into a subterranean consideration of how History collides with human memory to…

Is all black desire corrupt? If American aspiration is linked to the desire to have whiteness, be male and make money, what, now, can a decent person want? Family, death, power, Poetry and blackness—each is implicated in a general failure of perfection and subjected to…

Wander with CAConrad & Frank Sherlock through this psychogeographical poem. Experience peoples’ histories and magical traditions rooted in the first capital of the american possible- the city of Philadelphia. Visit landmarks that remain standing, revisit citizens that live on in memory, and participate in the…