BLACK RADISH BOOKS publishes innovative books of poetry and hybrid writing! Here is our current catalogue of books. Click links to find out more about our books and purchase!
IT’LL NEVER BE OVER FOR ME Mark LamoureuxBlack Radish Books, 2016 Poetry.“WStyl(us)istically innovative, Baudelairian, ballsy and deliciously infectious as a record you want to lay the needle on again and again, reading Mark Lamoureux’s exhilarating and moving prose-poem/poetic-prose ‘album,’ IT’LL NEVER BE OVER FOR ME is a teleportive experience: time-traveling you back to land smack in the middle of the lover’s knot of city streets that forget as fast as they lay you out, flat on your face for a night on the town—a lover’s knot wrung out of Mods and Motown, strung out on speed and stay, Detroit to Manchester, the US and UK “...read more |
Where they would never be invited Jesse NissimBlack Radish Books, 2016 Poetry.“Jesse Nissim writes: ‘I am freely quoting a fantasy for less. / I call it a capitalism of the low roof, it is located / along the river with the continual pay per view.’ Jesse Nissim’s poems burn with a hard, gemlike flame; they call on us to become better and better and seeing and thinking and feeling. ‘I heard the suburbs found likable our business. / I dream of persons and pets. A family of staircases / measures space.’ How to be alone (how to be most alive), how to be with others (how to be most alive). “...read more |
Hunter Monies Jen TynesBlack Radish Books, 2016 Poetry.“Jen Tynes’ HUNTER MONIES is a tracking expedition. I find myself hooked on a voice, and I wander behind it. It echoes and distorts. It turns corners, and I hurry after it, and, only after catching it, do I realize the corner was a horse, the horse, a jar, the jar, a slaw or a bloodletting or a flea market emptied out after a busy morning. This is a world simultaneously strange and familiar. I hear talking and realize I’m been eavesdropping and try to figure out what I’m listening to: a voice consulting with itself, a voice talking to a corpse it refuses to admit is dead?”...read more |
the meshes Brittany Billmeyer-FinnBlack Radish Books, 2015 Poetry.“THE MESHES is a creative four-part record of the author’s imaginative engagement with the films and aesthetics of the late Maya Deren (1917-1961). Across the poetry, prose, polyphonic performance, and polyvocal bibliography contained herein, Billmeyer-Finn’s use of language is immediately evocative of the compelling images and salient issues inspired by Deren’s oneiric, choreographic, and nonfiction films.”…read more |
CANT David James MillerBlack Radish Books,2015 Poetry.“CANT is an evocative soundscape of verbal cues that propose ways to go beyond a semiotic account of phenomena. This immersive score brings into existence sustained listening zones where diachronic difference and sonic concatenation are finely tuned to the subtlest frequencies. David James Miller’s arrangement of tone clusters evokes auditory dimensions that hover between the specifics of attention and formless”…read more |
Orphan Machines Carrie Hunter Black Radish Books, 2015 Poetry.“In ORPHAN MACHINES, Carrie Hunter stages a kind of cyborgian theater where ideology is brilliantly dismantled to unmask the real. With each startling construction, spaced across aerated pages or set in tight prose blocks, she discovers a form of liberation struggle. Her subjects—philosophy, sexuality, sociality, music—always interpenetrate, because it is life that is at issue, and life is mixed up.”…read more |
Luci: A Forbidden Soteriology j/j hastainBlack Radish Books, 2015 Poetry.“j/j hastain’s Luci is the most seductive devil I’ve met in some time. A queer devil, she must learn to know her cursed body in all its mercurial forms—as black hole, cave lip, letter, fatty winged-thing, beauty, ravisher, mass of genres, thirsts, and images.”…read more |
a game of correspondence Valerie Witte Black Radish Books, 2015 Poetry.“In her astute new book, Valerie Witte investigates correspondence as both an act of communication and the prospect of communion; her poems are suffused with the necessary haunting of these urgent impossibilities, a kind of animal, a kind of seizure. Witte interrupts her smooth surfaces with gorgeously jagged punctuation, stuttered cadence, animate line breaks, and deft leaps”...read more |
Electrical Theories of Femininity Sarah MangoldBlack Radish Books, 2015 Poetry. “What does it mean to be a poet in the age of smartphones, big data, and microblogs? Sarah Mangold returns us to an earlier disorienting era—of gramophones, manual typewriters, and hand-cranked telephones—when sound and facts also traveled too far, too fast. She thinks through and with that modernist moment as a means of providing insight into the ‘astonishingness’ of the twenty-first century”...read more |
A House Without A Roof Is Open To The Stars Mackenzie CarignanBlack Radish Books, 2015 Poetry.. “In A HOUSE WITHOUT A ROOF IS OPEN TO THE STARS, Mackenzie Carignan’s poems make their way into the reader’s consciousness by way of scrupulous perception. Carignan’s acuity creates a vision of the world that the reader trusts even as it proves itself strange, eccentric. ‘Spectacle and skeptical,’ she writes, ‘they both come from a speck / a fleck / a flicker a sliver / of what we see.’...read more |
Tax Dollar Super Sonnet, Featuring Sarah Palin as Poet Nicole MauroBlack Radish Books, 2014 Poetry.“Featuring one giant ‘super’ sonnet of text from presidential speeches (Obama to Washington) and prose poems using Sarah Palin’s autobiography, Going Rouge, and Emily Dickinon’s Books”...read more |
Dear Jack Jill StengelBlack Radish Books, 2013 Poetry.“In this collection of short poems, some only a few words, Jill Stengel has written a large book in psychological scope and emotional depth…read more |
Caddish Susana GardnerBlack Radish Books, 2013 Poetry. “CADDISH mourns dishonorable modes of historical masculinity by celebrating our slutty embodiment in a studied poetry that is hyper-literary,…read more |
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DISCLOSURE Dana Teen LomaxBlBlack Radish Books, 2011 Poetry. In the age of data mining and identity theft, Dana Teen Lomax’s DISCLOSURE has been called“the new memoir.” Recently anthologized…read more |
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Gaze Marthe ReedBlack Radish Books, 2010 Poetry. In the de-stabilized intersection of fashion, the war on terror, and cultural constructions of the feminine, GAZE explores the resulting…read more |
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 Herso An Heirship in WavesSusana Gardner Black Radish Books, 2011 Poetry. “I don’t know another poet so formally daring. Rebellious curlicue and lace significant: the pages gleam with pleasure, finesse and audacious …read more |
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Infinite Variations Marci NelliganBlack Radish Books, 2012 Poetry. Composed from source-text randomly selected from On the Origin of the Species and the Old Testament, INFINITE VARIATIONS seeks… read more |
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| Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children  Dana Teen Lomax, EditorBlack Radish Books, 2013 Poetry. Drama. Young Adult Fiction. KINDERGARDE: AVANT-GARDE POEMS, PLAYS, STORIES,…read more |
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 OCCULTATIONSdavid wolach Black Radish Books, 2010 Poetry. Joan Retallack writes that OCCULTATIONS enacts the “courage of paradoxical evocation.” For David Buuck, such evocation helps us consider that …read more |
Sonja Sekula : Grace in a cow’s EYE : a memoir Katrin Schaeppi Black Radish Books, 2011 Poetry. LGBT Studies. Art. “‘I love words—to me writing is drawing.’ So says artist SonjaSekula. And so it is in her hands…read more |
 SpectreMark Lamoureux Black Radish Books, 2010 Poetry. “Lamoureux’s disturbing and often distinctly American landscapes explore the interface between fantasy and fatalism, magic and machine. In the…read more |
| The Arakaki Permutations James Maughn  Black Radish Books, 2011 Poetry. “In THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS, James Maughn continues his uncompromising engagement with the catechisms of martial kata and their intersection …read more |
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 The Dead Love: Hands and More Hands TogetherJared Hayes Black Radish Books, 2012 Poetry. “I understand Jared Hayes is conducting here a deep spelunking into connected caverns of other texts. What I don’t yet quite grasp is how …read more |
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 The IncompossibleCarrie Hunter Black Radish Books, 2011 Poetry. “Every once in a while there’s a collection of poems that cancels my way of thinking for a better way. Carrie Hunter’s THE INCOMPOSSIBLE…read more |
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