"Levering's Breaking Down the Familiar offers beautiful elegiac reflections on family and the mystery of death. These wry, tender and questioning poems pull us in. We go to hospice and graveyards, journeys we resist but deeply recognize. At a hospital bed the speaker reflects - Not I who woke to diminishment/ though, loving you/ I am wounded too. There is joy, too; father's knuckle balls; mother's cracked hymn singing. The book is a paean to compassion....

"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."-- "Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream -- and work -- toward a more capacious 'we'. In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes...

"Poems at once angry and tender explore motherhood, race, sexuality, and a Black woman's complicated relationship with her country"--

"Traveling from the corporeal to the cosmic, from life to death and back again, [this book] is a full-throated performance of humanity in search of truth, ancestry, and artistic authenticity. Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles, and longing, Gonzalez's poems are a crescendo of the page. part ecstatic elegy, part spell, this is a betwixt poetics, a kaleidoscopic, disruptive,...

Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.

"The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America - including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in our annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains...