In his eighth book of poetry, Jeremy Sigler returns to an earlier style of his writing with poems that are lyrical: like verses in a song, with short, cropped lines. Playing with convention in their use of slant rhyme and imagery of city life or time spent at the Jersey Shore, they are occasionally populated by humans, or an encounter with a person. But most often, their introspection carves out a solitary place within the poet’s private headspace. Almost by chance, words seem to fall down a trapdoor of consciousness and appear immaculately on the naked white page. Abstract and . . . .go to book page >>

This volume is the debut book of photographs by the late photographer and collector Michel Hurst (1948–2023). Made in and around his adopted home of Mexico City over a period of roughly six years, Órale's photographs pulse with the lifeblood of a country marred by suffering but consistently renewed by the promise of redemption. Through Hurst's lens, the reader absorbs ancient rituals and new cults, beauty and degradation, danger and tenderness, lust and longing. With the flinty eye of a hard-bitten street photographer and the soft touch of an aesthete, Hurst shows us not just Mexico but the human condition . . . .go to book page >>