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The coup of the river is known as the moment in which heavy rainfall turns a stream into an overwhelming body of water, violently washing away everything in its path as it rushes down the current. Taking into consideration this natural occurrence and the cultural/political status of Puerto Rico, Sebastián Meltz-Collazo studies these concepts as analogous structures evoked through the city of Ponce. Interconnecting photographs and memoirs, this book explores evidence and past experiences as results of varying yet synonymous episodes in the island's stream, culminating into a singular, chaotic event through time, "El Golpe del Río".

Surgery is not simply a medical procedure. Surgery can also be a dissection - when absent of an intent to treat and correct, the procedure becomes a hungry curiosity to examine and investigate. At its purest, a dissection intricately probes to behold the internal. Kobylarz practices this surgery of delicate incisions in his mélange. The essence of a miscellany of diverse things is not merely to catalog a wunderkammer of everyday objects, but moreover to hold up a double mirror: one to reveal the interior lives of objects, and another to reflect the depths of their creators and owners. Kobylarz's poetry may initially elevate the mundane, but its deepest design is to ask what the human possession divulges about the human being. The quotidian isn't only ecstatic; the quotidian is a book of revelations.With nods to Flaubert's Le Dictionnaire des Idées Recues and Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, Kobylarz moves beyond a contained lexicon to a flung-open cabinet of curiosities. Encyclopedic in its compilation (more than 400 entries in this dictionary volume), miscellany avoids the static inventory list of a storehouse to embody the world as theatre. There are no museum exhibits, with objects isolated and preserved in glass cases. Instead, Kobylarz places spotlights on the minute, under-appreciated, and even unloved. He regards common objects as pearls within the world of an oyster, but never forgets their genesis of grit and irritant. In these poems, wonder and oddity are fused as sure as Bowie lived.

In these modern times there is a lot to worry about. In I'm Worried That ... A List of Things I'm Worried About author Greg Farrell catalogues his wide-ranging and myriad worries with wit and verve in a unique list-poem format. From the rational to the neurotic, the dire to the absurd, the deeply personal to the universal, Farrell offers up a meditation on worry to which we can all relate.

"I don't want to be anyone anymore. I especially don't want to be a woman", Sabater writes in the opening piece of her art book and modern age confessional. Set Me On Fire Before I Blow is a mixed-medium monograph and curatorial exploration into Kiki Sabater's mind as she shares the deepest parts of herself in print form. Based upon a series of notebooks kept by Sabater from 2012 to 2018, this book explores the innermost thoughts of a young female artist in her daily journeys through converted journal entries into block type and handwritten excerpts from her notebooks. Stylized photos capture intimate moments and accompany the raw and unfiltered writings of Sabater. Bathing, looking in a mirror, curled up in bed, or sprawled on the pavement after a long night, we see Sabater through her private inner lens. In poems, lyrics, personal essays, stylized prose and auto-portraiture, Sabater examines what it means to be a woman, a writer, a musician, and a lover who wrestles with mental illness and shares these experiences without boundary or judgement with her readers.

You wrote letters in your head as soon as they walked out the door. These were the letters you couldn't work up the nerve to send. The unsent text messages. The phone calls you never made. Return to Sender is sending it out knowing they changed their address, and blocked your number. You have broken the letters into three sections: "Dear John": A series of letters from a woman to a man terminating a personal relationship. "Letters To Misha": A series letters that goes through the 5 stages of grief after a friend's suicide. These letters go through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance "Missed Connections": A series of letters that act as a personal ad after two people bump into each other but didn't get the chance to exchange contact details. Each letter acting as a personal reflection for how easily someone can come into and out of your life without ever getting a chance to confront them on how they have changed you. For better or worse, every person you meet will eventually end up defining you.

Meat & Milk is the debut poetry collection of Fury Young, a born and bred Lower East Side NYC poet. The poems, along with the original notebook pages they written on it, jump off each page of this collection with urgency and passion. Young writes of what's around him in face value fashion, with the unexpected surrealist and abstract explosion. Subway cars, city lovers, incarcerated lifers, sex, deep depression demons, rock n roll all the time, crackheads, and food is what you'll find in here. Walk inside the mind of a young poet coming of age in a jaded city, questioning society like an "amateur philosopher," but always questioning. Meat & Milk is a poetry book for the ages that is very much of this age. Whether you are living in a concrete city or doing a life sentence in a concrete cell, you will find truth in Fury's words and devour Meat & Milk.