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Praise for the poet and his book

Poetry’s no slouch and Don Yorty is a master.
—Dennis Cooper

There is so much to enjoy in Don Yorty’s volume of selected early poetry, Fucking and Other Poems, it’s hard to pick. You could make a video of this book, or a string quartet. Or you could lie back and enjoy it.
—Alicia Ostriker

For all the passion (a lot) in Fucking and Other Poems, there’s an equal measure of compassion. Don Yorty sees with his heart. He walks with Whitman. His poems touch us in myriad ways.
—Elaine Equi

As I’m sure you know, there are all kinds of fucking. What the fuck. Fucking A. Fucked up. Fucked over. You’re fucked. But that’s not the kind of fucking Don Yorty’s Fucking and Other Poems is. This fucking is intimacy and vulnerability and emotion and clarity. These poems give to you as you give in to them and then you can give them away. This book is a gift.
—Bob Holman

In Fucking and Other Poems, Don Yorty liberates the poetic music hiding behind sex, love and relationships—behind art, nature and words. On every page you witness the celebration of a mind dancing with its body. What a gift it is to have this underground classic available in its entirety!
—Jerome Sala

Fucking and Other Poems, Don Yorty’s new poetry collection, has an acute awareness of the music inherent in language. The title poem, an epic-length meditation on love, sex, and mortality, propulsively weaves William Burroughs, Janis Joplin, and other alt-culture figures into a narrative whose structure ably draws upon his sensibilities as a classics scholar. Bookending this contemporary epic are smaller-scale works, including a selection of “dailyness” travel notebook poems, that display his impressive range. For Yorty, there’s music in the grand sweep of human history and there’s music in the sound of owls’ wings in the night.
—Peter Bushyeager

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Indolent Books reissue of the iconic 2013 memoir

Growing Up Golem
by Donna Minkowitz

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Praise for Growing Up Golem…

Brilliant, exciting, startlingly fresh. Donna Minkowitz comes to the conclusion that she must have been her mother’s golem, a manikin formed from clay and garbage and sacred letters, built to fall apart when it fails to serve its maker… She takes a dazzling leap of fancy and then writes a new bridge into being behind her for the rest of us to follow.
— Ellis Avery, author of The Last Nude and The Teahouse Fire

Rich and wild, dark and funny, as fearless as her legendary journalism and as scary as a fairy tale. A serious writer at the top of her game. I love this book!
— Terry Bisson, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

Holds nothing back… the same brutal introspection and clever humor [as Ferocious Romance] , but this book is much more personal and sexually explicit … Minkowitz brings a defiant, playful energy to writing about her difficult and dark past. Intelligent but not for the prudish or fainthearted.
— Kirkus Reviews

Fierce imagination and compelling prose. Captivating. Growing Up Golem contains all the power of her earlier work with its sharp social and political analysis, but it is written without the cloak.
— Julie Enszer, Lilith

Golem, schmolem — Minkowitz has sculpted a wonderful life for herself out of sheer dedication and grit, and her writing is magic. Two goyische maidel thumbs up!!”
— Lily Burana, author of I Love a Man in Uniform

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Imagine His Mother Witnessing
by Carolyn Cooley Joyner

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Here’s what people are saying about Carolyn Cooley Joyner’s
Imagine His Mother Witnessing

In Imagine His Mother Witnessing, Carolyn Cooley Joyner picks up where Langston Hughes left off in “Mother to Son,” to expand maternal wisdom into an epic journey. These poems read like a sacred text, a group of psalms both for the healing of loss and for the raising of a generation to come. Joyner, a master poet whose poems have inspired many for years, offers the gift of a long-awaited full collection, and the wait was well worth it: It’s “Now [we] need to hear [her] hushed voice speak.” Part elegy, part sonnet, part love poem, part Blues…it doesn’t matter where you enter; there’s a lesson, even a balm, for us all.
—A. Van Jordan

With heartbreakingly clear language, Carolyn Cooley Joyner counters platitudes of comfort with an unflinching account of her son’s final illness and her subsequent grief. Although “everything [is] backlit with his absence,” the son becomes vividly present even as the poet delves deeply into her own sorrow. Using a variety of strategies and forms, including a crown of “broken” sonnets that address the son directly, Joyner creates an emotionally complex blend of praisesong and lament that will be a welcome companion to anyone experiencing grief, and a gift to others as well.
—Martha Collins

Written after the devastating loss of a child, Imagine His Mother Witnessing is a work of deepest urgency. Over mortal thresholds, the text emerges as an act of continued mothering as Carolyn Cooley Joyner attends to the death of her beloved son, Damon. In facing the incomprehensible, imagination is forced into new shape. “This passing grows me around/ a jagged blade...” Incisive and honest—shining with lyrical wisdom—this book is a grieving, polytemporal record utterly forged by love and unceasing devotion.
—Aracelis Girmay

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Penelope in the Car
by Laurel Brett

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Here’s what people are saying about
Laurel Brett’s Penelope in the Car

Reading Laurel Brett’s magnificent debut collection, Penelope in the Car, I was awe-struck by her ability to reach into my heart, somehow calling up my own experiences through the specific, perfect imagery of her own. Here is the fullness of a woman’s life in poems that bring us the universal—the encumbrances of the body, the wonders of time and place, memories of desire and love felt through the grief of loss—through the intimacy and concreteness of the particular. And isn’t that exactly what great poetry gives us?
—Susan Bordo

Laurel Brett is a metaphysical poet for our dark times. Her debut poetry collection, Penelope in the Car, maps both a deeply personal journey through a painful childhood and the loss of a beloved husband, as it nimbly traverses our stark political landscape. Although she draws on her expansive knowledge of literature, art, and history it is her deft touch with what is spoken and what she chooses to assign to subtext that makes these poems memorable “It’s true — at the foot of this peak / the very fabric of the earth unravels. / We each know this. No need / to speak.” And yet, Laurel Brett does speak in this book and we are richer for the words she shares.
—Jennifer Franklin

Laurel Brett’s remarkable debut, Penelope in the Car, unfolds in conversation with history, art, mythology, and the poetic voices that precede her. Reminiscent of O’Hara’s Lunch Poems, Brett’s verse charts the pulse of daily life, as it moves through an array of intimacies and fleeting encounters and honors the immediacy of lived experience. These poems inhabit the delicate tension between order and discord, inviting readers to dwell in its unease and to share in the speaker’s fear of falling “from the flat edge of the world.” This is a collection that encourages readers to cherish solitude, worship the creative spirit, persevere through loss, and trust in “the stubbornness of love.”
—Melinda Wilson

Laurel Brett’s debut collection marries the sensual and intellectual with stunning clarity and vulnerability. With passion and wit, she investigates art and myth, Einstein’s ideas of time, the beauty of Long Island, and the grief of widowhood. With the intimacy of a lover, she enters Rothko’s Pink, purple, blue. She makes every flower new as if she were Eve happening upon a garden for the first time. In search of wisdom to give to her grown children, Brett takes us to West Meadow Beach, where “the sunset transcends any postcard — all philosophy”. Penelope in the Car is everything you want from a debut collection: ambitious in scope, unsparingly self-reflective, and fiercely brave.
—Barbara Schwartz

Elegiac and vibrant, Laurel Brett’s Penelope in the Car explores womanhood in a complicated world of ever shifting relationships with people, things, and ideas. Her beautifully crafted poems remind us of the tenderness and vulnerability of the journey. She summons the reader to bear witness to a deeply felt and remembered life, to “the stubbornness of widowhood, / the stubbornness of love, of road, of paint, / of rock, of mind, of pi, refusing resolution.” Brett speaks in a truthful and emotional voice as a woman grappling with injuries, disclosures and wonders. Her poems paint a world in azure, scarlet, vermillion and a “promise of aquamarine” as the reader is awakened to “the silence between silences.”
—Buffy Shutt

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RE-ANIMATOR
by Jeffery Berg

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RE-ANIMATOR

Jeffery Berg’s Re-Animator comes at you with all the shock and surprise of a phantasmagorical horror movie, with ‘edits so quick it makes the
murders feel/ swift,’ a perfect way to encapsulate the 1980s for those
of us who lived through aids and the absolute indifference of the Reagan
administration. Reagan is re-animated here, too, as a sad and lonely
clown, along with the music, movies and fashions of that decade, ‘bygone
Big Mac days in rooms/ of erased people.’ The sexiness of pop culture
littered with a few Arby’s bags for verisimilitude and some Pier One
candles for flair lends this collection a richness of palette, the way
Bob Dylan and the Pointer Sisters and Willie Nelson enriched the sound
of ‘We Are the World.’ If you were alive and gay and ready for the world
in the 80s, you will get it, and if you weren’t, well...this book will
teach you about some of what you missed. Jeffery Berg is simultaneously
witty, funny, dirty, moving, eloquent and rhapsodic, like the lyrics to
a really good Queen song.
—D.A. Powell

In this incisive, deliciously specific collection, Jeffery Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught. Whether he’s evoking Jason from Friday the 13^th or invoking the lyrics of “We Are the World,” he traces the masks and acts that disguise and reveal, while unraveling and reweaving the veils of identity, gender, and place. “I rewrite, I myth-make / the discos, cracked records, / Astaire, and bodies that didn’t make it / this long,” Berg writes. “I rework them into air, / into glass, shimmering, pricked / into a slivery frock / above pits of this earth.” Re-Animator takes us back and leads us forward, as we revisit our past and so reclaim our present, with generosity and wisdom.
—David Groff

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Imagine His Mother Witnessing
by Carolyn Cooley Joyner

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Here’s what people are saying about Carolyn Cooley Joyner’s
Imagine His Mother Witnessing

In Imagine His Mother Witnessing, Carolyn Cooley Joyner picks up where Langston Hughes left off in “Mother to Son,” to expand maternal wisdom into an epic journey. These poems read like a sacred text, a group of psalms both for the healing of loss and for the raising of a generation to come. Joyner, a master poet whose poems have inspired many for years, offers the gift of a long-awaited full collection, and the wait was well worth it: It’s “Now [we] need to hear [her] hushed voice speak.” Part elegy, part sonnet, part love poem, part Blues…it doesn’t matter where you enter; there’s a lesson, even a balm, for us all.
—A. Van Jordan

With heartbreakingly clear language, Carolyn Cooley Joyner counters platitudes of comfort with an unflinching account of her son’s final illness and her subsequent grief. Although “everything [is] backlit with his absence,” the son becomes vividly present even as the poet delves deeply into her own sorrow. Using a variety of strategies and forms, including a crown of “broken” sonnets that address the son directly, Joyner creates an emotionally complex blend of praisesong and lament that will be a welcome companion to anyone experiencing grief, and a gift to others as well.
—Martha Collins

Written after the devastating loss of a child, Imagine His Mother Witnessing is a work of deepest urgency. Over mortal thresholds, the text emerges as an act of continued mothering as Carolyn Cooley Joyner attends to the death of her beloved son, Damon. In facing the incomprehensible, imagination is forced into new shape. “This passing grows me around/ a jagged blade...” Incisive and honest—shining with lyrical wisdom—this book is a grieving, polytemporal record utterly forged by love and unceasing devotion.
—Aracelis Girmay

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