A Grain of Sand in Lambeth Poems
Geoffrey Babbitt
In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’s own rejection of tradition and his relentless quest to challenge the boundaries of art, Geoffrey Babbitt confronts the tensions between genius and convention, life and death, light and dark.
DECEMBER
80 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 • $17.00 paper
978-1-64779-205-3 e-book 978-1-64779-206-0
The Test Site Poetry Series
Winner of the 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Poetry Prize
The Long Now Conditions Permit Poems
Jami Macarty
The Long Now Conditions Permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry that both names and resists the injustices shaping it. From the quiet sorrows of everyday slight to the overwhelming crises of ecological collapse and gendered violence, these poems document what is occurring—the horrendous and the intimate, the anguished and the magnificent.
DECEMBER
80 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 • $17.00 paper 978-1-64779-203-9 e-book 978-1-64779-204-6
The Test Site Poetry Series
Winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize
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SEPTEMBER
80 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 • $17.00 paper 978-1-64779-217-6 e-book 978-1-64779-218-3
2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Winner
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