Product Description: Joan Chase’s subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of “joy and ruin” deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women...read more

Product Description: “The poems in Once illuminate and echo themes of loss and grief.”―Vanity Fair The incandescent poems in Once, the second collection by an astonishing and formidable poet, explore loss, violence, and recovery. Facing a mother’s impending death, O’Rourke invokes a vanished childhood of “American houses, wet / kids moving through them in Spandex bathing suits; / inside, sandwiches with crusts cut off...read more

Product Description: "Magnificent."―New York Times Book Review The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive love affairs, aesthetic obsession, and encroaching war, but refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination...read more

A collection of poetic works features insomniac narrators who are coming of age in a threatening but promising mythical world, in a volume of poetry that follows its speakers' search for the true self in spite of destructive love affairs, encroaching war, and the fallen cathedrals of America.

Product Description: New book!