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Cover for Quincy Toupe's "Avalanche," featuring a sketched figure playing a horn which releases a black swirling mass.

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Avalanche

Cover of "10 Mississippi" by Steve Healey with multi-colored boxes of still water images.

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10 Mississippi

Cover of "The Marvelous Bones of Time," by Brenda Coultas, which features a drawing of a young child in small clothes, holding a stick with a speak bubble on top, and surrounded by a bright pink paint.

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The Marvelous Bones of Time

Cover of "Nice To See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan," edited by Anne Waldman, which features a blue background with an illustration of a man with long hair wearing glasses done in black ink and covered in a bright yellow.

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Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan

book cover featuring painting of a lightbulb and screw hanging from threads on a wall next to a firefly and polaroid on a green wall background

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Truth, War, and the Dream-Game

Book cover featuring three images of a woman speaking into a microphone blurred over each other and coming out of black darkness with the title in neon blue cursive at the top left

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the déjà vu

Book cover featuring a person's head, shoulders, and chest anatomically intertwined with flowers and botany in pastel colors over a beige background

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Madder

Cover of "For Keepsies," by Gary Fincke, which features sketches of a small town and shades of blue to show the shadows.

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For Keepsies

Cover of "Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things," by Dick Gallup, which features a rough illustration of three cherries with a white background.

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Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things

Cover of "Paul Metcalf Volume Two," by Paul Metcalf, which features a black and white image of a man in glasses smiling at the camera and leaning against a railing.

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Paul Metcalf, Volume II

Book cover featuring yellow textured cover with two images of a brown eye on the top and bottom of the title written in bold black text

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Echo Tree

Cover of the collection Relational Ethics and Epics, which features six different titles; "The Eros Conspiracy", "Fighting Is Like A Wife", "Margaret & Dusty". "Not Here", "They And We Will Get Into Trouble For This", and "Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet Born".

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Relational Ethics and Epics

Book Cover of "True Failure" featuring a man standing at train tracks watching a train go by with screens of varying images as the windows

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True Failure

Book Cover featuring a dark image of a mountainous field landscape and night sky over which the title and author is written in neon sign font

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Brown Neon

Cover of "Shut Up Shut Down," by Mark Nowak, which features an image of an industrial machine which is flying an upside down American flag from the top, and the entire image is shaded in red.

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Shut Up Shut Down

Cover of "Bright Brave Phenomena," by Amanda Nadelberg, featuring an abstract land meeting an abstract sky, as well as a smaller box containing an image of a more detailed land and sky with a blue vase and yellow flowers.

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Bright Brave Phenomena

Book cover featuring back background with sketchy imagery of rocks and landscape and a pink house half buried beneath. Title and author in white text against black background intertwined with cover art

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Jakarta

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Sacred Vows

Cover of "Exhibit of Forking Paths," by James Grinwis, which has a green circuit board and metallic holes.

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Exhibit of Forking Paths

Cover of "The Moon in Its Flight," by Gilbert Sorrentino, featuring a blurry photo of an old granite structure.

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The Moon in Its Flight

Cover of "The Exquisite," by Laird Hunt, featuring a closeup of a human eye that is blueish green with a golden rim around the pupil.

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The Exquisite

Book cover featuring gold paint across a black background with title in bold white font on top and bottom

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Gold Cure

Cover of "One Small Saga," by Bobbie Louise Hawkins, which is a plain deep red color that gets slightly brighter at the top of the cover.

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One Small Saga

book cover featuring a black background and door opening into orange negative space with a orange key next to it with the title written along the body of the key

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Unlocking the Exits

Book cover featuring image of a wooded forest canopy from above with a transparent blue circle in the middle of the image

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Brazil-Maru

Open Letter

Cover of "The Cotillion," by John Oliver Killens, which features a blue filtered photo of a Black man and woman looking out a window.

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The Cotillion

Book cover featuring a grey grainy background and a white drawn image of faces and hair blurring in and out of each other

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Song for the Unraveling of the World

Cover of "Routine Disruptions," by Kenward Elmslie, which has the repeating image of a woman wearing a red dress and a red hat with both arms outstretched in front of her.

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Routine Disruptions

Cover of "How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales," by Kate Berheimer, which features a photo of yellowed and dying grass as the background.

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How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales

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Cover of "The First Flag," by Sarah Fox, which features a close-up of some abstract structure in black and white.

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The First Flag

book cover featuring black and white drawing of a person walking dogs on a cobblestone street during a storm with birds surrounding them and purple strips of color with the title and author

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Why We Live with Animals

Cover of "The Mountain in the Sea," by Victor Hernández Cruz, which shows an image of a red sand desert and a blue sky with grey clouds.

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The Mountain in the Sea

Cover of "Null Set," by Ted Mathys, which focuses on the image of a white brick wall and green grass below it.

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Null Set

Cover of "Civil Disobediences," with 14 separate black and white photos of the Statues of Liberty, all from the same angle.

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Civil Disobediences

Cover of "Easter Sunday," by Tom Clark, featuring a blue background with a focus on a painting of three ceramic jars in different styles.

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Easter Sunday

Cover of "The Complexities of Intimacy," byMary Capongro, which shows three wooden dolls in ragged clothing standing with their arms stretched wide.

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The Complexities of Intimacy

Cover of "Hold It 'Til It Hurts," by T. Geronimo Johnson, which features two blue envelopes sitting on a white marble surface.

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Hold It 'Til It Hurts

Cover of "Starred Wire," by Ange Mlinko, which has a colored drawing of a mountain and a cloudy sky.

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Starred Wire

Cover of "The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch," which features a painting of a body of water reflecting the moonlight through a pair of trees.

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The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch

Cover of "One Thing That Can Save Us," by Barry Silesky, which features chalk art of three humanoid figures in shades of pink and yellow against a black background.

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One Thing That Can Save Us

Book cover featuring sienna image of a cityscape with an orange transparent circle in the center of the image

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Tropic of Orange

Cover of "The Falling Down Dance," by Chris Martin, which shows a light purple background with a white liquid being poured in front of it.

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The Falling Down Dance

Cover of "At the Lightning Field," by Laura Raicovich, including blues, pinks, and grays, as well as bar graphs at the bottom and middle of the page.

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At the Lightning Field

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Cover of "How To Accommodate Men," by Marilyn Krysl, which features the image of a woman in a bikini lying on her side and shading her eyes. Above her is the image of an atomic bomb blowing up, which is shaded in red.

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How to Accommodate Men

Cover of "The Architecture of Language," by Quincy Troupe, featuring geometric swirls and shapes in various colors against a black background.

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The Architecture of Language

Cover of "The Abyss of Human Illusion," by Gilbert Sorrentino, which features a photograph of a black bowler hat with a white feather sticking out of the side sitting on top of a glass counter.

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The Abyss of Human Illusion

Cover of the Spring 2026 Subscription featuring images of the five titles; "...Again", "Squirming", "Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun", "Ada", and "Yniga".

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Spring 2026 Subscription

Book Cover of "Terry Dactyl" featuring open mouths with various diamonds collaged on a pink and black background.

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Terry Dactyl

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Cover of "Living Will," by David Hilton, showing an image of a path through a field and a tree in the background that is partially covered by fog.

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Living Will

Book Cover of "A Toast to St Martirià" featuring a darkly lit image of a dresser with a red lamp, bowl of shells, and a mirror above.

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A Toast to St Martirià

Cover of "Kind One," by Laird Hunt, which shows a hand holding a red string tied to a brass key.

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Kind One

Cover of "It Will End with Us," by Sam Savage, which features the image of a forest trail at dusk and many gnarled and creepy-looking trees.

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It Will End with Us

Cover of "Dark. Sweet.," by Linda Hogan, which features a black and white photo of a gnarled tree, a bush, and wild grass.

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Dark. Sweet.

book cover featuring two halves the left being a burnt orange with the title and the right being a black and white image of a Black woman standing against a beidge background

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The Weather That Kills

This image features the cover of the novel "Hyper" by Agri Ismaïl. The cover design is striking with its vibrant green background and white, bold text that states the title and author's name.

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Hyper

Cover of "The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies," by Pamela Ditchoff, which shows a distorted drawing of a man looking into a mirror.

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The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies

Cover of "The Man Who Swam with Beavers," by Nancy Lord, which is bordered by an illustration of tree branches, contains a painting of a foggy forest, and within this forest there is a streetlight, road sign, and a telephone.

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The Man Who Swam with Beavers

Cover of "High Holiday Sutra," by Allan Appel, featuring a green background, part of the title contained in a cartoon scroll, and the figure of a cartoon man sitting in the Lotus position.

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High Holiday Sutra

Book cover featuring a black and white image of a city at night in motion with the title and author in blue and white bold text on the top and bottom

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American Heaven

book cover featuring black and white bolded drawings of animals, objects, and humans in a zig zag formation around the title that is in red text running along a banner

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The Song of Percival Peacock

Book Cover of "Out of the Blank" featuring a grey metal background with scratches and light reflections. Title in black and red lettering over background.

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Out of the Blank

Book cover featuring gray background with the title written vertically half on the left side and half on the right side of the cover.

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THRESHOLES

Cover of "Somewhere Else," by Matthew Shenoda, which has a water-stained paper background with a piece of cardboard in the lower left corner containing some letters.

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Somewhere Else

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Book Cover featuring an ivory ackground on which organic imagery is collaged in the center while the title and author is written along the border

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Groundglass

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Cover of the collection Karen Tei Yamashita: Short Stories and Essays, featuring the images of four of her works; "Sansei and Sensibility", "Letters To Memory", "Circle K Cycles', and "Anime Wong'.

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Karen Tei Yamashita: Short Fiction and Essays

book cover featuring black and white image of a man on the right side of the cover with the title and author in white text on the left side over a purple and pink background

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Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century

Cover of "Losing Absalom," by Alexs Pate, which shows several characters drawn in dark colors in various poses, as well as red wall and a staircase leading to a blue door. There is also a small graveyard next to the staircase that contains many small tombstones.

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Losing Absalom

Cover of "Legends from Camp," by Lawson Fusao Inada, which features a black and white photo of a man, woman, and a little boy, and the rest of the cover is a bright red.

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Legends from Camp

Cover of "A Bliss Case" by Michael Aaron Rockland, with a dark blue background featuring a circle filled with abstract shapes.

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A Bliss Case

Book Cover featuring black and white nature art with the title and author in minimalistic yellow text

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Alt-Nature

Cover of "So What So That," by Marjorie Welish, which features a light green background with the title in a charcoal grey color and large font.

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So What So That

book cover featuring image of a crow peering into a yellow window from the branch of a pine tree with snow along the windowpane on a black background

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The Shape of Wilderness

Cover featuring an image of plants and water with a filter split down the middle and white sketch lines in organic shapes

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HOMES

Cover of "Ripple Effect," by Elaine Equi, which has a lime green background and swirling red ribbons in the foreground.

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Ripple Effect

Cover of "How To Leave a Country," by Cris Mazza, featuring a black and white image of a wicker chair surrounded by windows and a crumbling wall.

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How to Leave a Country

Cover of "Bleed Through," by Michael Davidson, with text that is reversed and smudged, as if it has bled through the page.

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Bleed Through

Book cover featuring pink background of tissue imagery with a drawing of a person's face and an eyeball below the title

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Comemadre

Cover of the Fall 2021 Subscription, highlighting the covers of the eight featured titles; "The Breaks", "Search History", "Madder", "Borealis", "Jawbone", "The deja vu", "Written After A Massacre in the Year 2018", and "Look At This Blue".

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Fall 2021 Subscription

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Twelve Branches

Cover of "Blindsight," by Greg Hewett, focusing on different sizes and colors of rectangles. Colors range from purple, pink, and yellow.

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Blindsight

Cover of "The History of the Future: American Essays," by Edward McPherson, which shows a map of the United States that is bisected with roadways and contains red dots in varying sizes.

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The History of the Future: American Essays

Cover of "Sesame," by Jack Marshall, which focuses on half of the cover in a shade of dark blue with the other half in black with a small circle of white flecks that spreads across that half.

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Sesame

Cover of "Sarah— Of Fragments and Lines," by Julie Carr, which features a blue and green watercolor background and four little birds sitting on a wire.

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Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines

Cover of "Becoming Weather," by Chris Martin, which is a mix of blues, greens, and yellows on what looks like crumpled paper.

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Becoming Weather

Cover of Ron Padgett's "Alone and Not Alone," with a Pinocchio-like sketch illustration.

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Alone and Not Alone

Cover of "Teducation," by Ted Joans, which features an illustration of a crouched over figure that has the head of a fish and the body of some kind of monster.

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Teducation

Cover of "Niagara," by Richard Watson, which shows an illustration of a large waterfall as well as a dusky sky.

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Niagara