Books published by Hollyridge Press

Back in print in this new, revised edition featuring pieces that did not appear in the original, Joseph Massey's Illocality is a revelation of season and setting. In an ironic turn against the collection's title, his poems are all about place, all about the immediacy of the moment. His poems focus on details as small as, "A diseased shrub // [absorbing] / the leftover glow" to bring us a rendering of the beautiful chaos around us which reflects a chaos within. His work has been called a "poetry of the environment," and indeed, while "December / reverberates with decay," in the end the speaker lives life "condensed. . . to forsythia's / rhythm."

In his new chapbook, Present Conditions, Joseph Massey writes that "the weather within / is the weather without." His poems chronicle a difficult winter where the universe grows colder, his speaker taking all day to "filter out the debris of a dream." These poems bring us the aching beauty of the natural world, and the crushing sadness of interior space. A speaker's failed suicide. The return to sanity. The waiting where we can't go on, but we do go on, if nothing else when "the windows / . . . go blind."

To read Dean Young's Elegy for the Last Male Northern White Rhino is to know that "One idea is a door can be opened / by pressing your forehead against / a sheet of paper." Meanwhile he is passing through the entryway carrying reams. In this new chapbook he is at work, stacking the broken rowboats as he suggests that there is always one more dimension. He has spent years "in a steel cage counting syllables." Come now. Count with him.

In Los Angeles after a devastating earthquake, one man must negotiate not only the wreckage of the city, but the wreckage of his life. The Complex was the winner of the 2013 Colony Collapse Novella Prize.

The sixth issue of the award-winning poetry anthology 88 presents the best in contemporary American poetry from established and emerging writers, plus essays on poetry and poetics, and reviews.

After more than 12 years, Dean Young's second book of poetry, Beloved Infidel, is back in print.