Recent Arrivals from Sublunary Editions

One of two signed copies signed by the author at AWP 2023. ----------- "In a text born of procedural invention, each word is a making and simultaneously an unmaking. Strangely, almost like a ghost, the power of metaphor reigns. You will feel yourself inside the poems, shifting and shifted [. . .] as much poetry as it is wisdom: 'It is easy… Read more about this item

It has often been a source of much annoyance to me that to every preface I write I am obliged to append a book—like the endorsement on a bill of exchange—or an appendix to letters A to Z. Many a man who dabbles in authorship by way of amusement has his books sent to him all ready written and complete,… Read more about this item

By turns allegorical, visionary, and satirical, The City of Dreadful Night and Other Writings combines Thomson's poetic magnum opus with selections from his poetry and belletristic prose pieces, written for The Secular Review, National Reformer, and Cope's Tobacco Plant in the 1860s and 70s. Harrowing and musical in its nightmarish visions like "Insomnia" and in the title poem, wryly comic… Read more about this item

In early twentieth century Spain, the dominant literary currents of the day were divided between a push for a spartan, utilitarian prose and a retreat to the well-worn stylings of "old masters". But there was an intrepid group of writers, artists, and thinkers concerned with a new linguistic vitality, incorporating the latest scientific knowledge while … Read more about this item

Translated into English for the first time, the collected poems of Max Blecher—the lone volume of poetry published in his lifetime, Transparent Body, along with verse published in periodicals and posthumously—add important color to Blecher's body of work, most clearly displaying his early surrealist tendencies, as well as illustrating key moments in his prose works,… Read more about this item

"The sound of footsteps crunching on the gravel, just barely perceptible, woke my mother in the middle of the night. Someone was walking through the courtyard, straight towards her room. But maybe it was coming from the basement. She'd been asleep with the windows open and the shutters closed. She got up, pushed open one of the shutters and waited,… Read more about this item

"I died on the twelfth of September, at the height of happiness. Clothed in the shadow of the chestnut tree outside the house, my body preserved the posture of a living woman hours after my last breath. Whereas at first I struggled with snakes under my tongue, around my ankles and my wrists, snakes clotting the blood under the skin… Read more about this item

Kathleen Tankersley Young is one of the great ghosts of modernist literature, a poet and editor thoroughly engrossed in the most exciting stylistic currents of the time, influential in shaping publications and poets alike, and yet almost entirely forgotten after her tragic death in 1933, just shy of her thirtieth birthday. This volume offers the first… Read more about this item

"My whole being, my collapse, and my agony are a white and weary anguish until death, which will overtake me soon. Moment after moment, I expect to hear beyond silence, shredded and dotted by vertiginous distance, a remote crackling." As he neared the end of his troubled life, Horacio Quiroga penned a collection of stories that straddle thresholds, the… Read more about this item