Books published by Omnidawn Publishing

Lyrical elegies absorptive of contemporary political economic discourse

By one of America's most adventurous poets--Peace moves just beyond outrage and anger to bring the reader to revelations and shifts of consciousness, to possible visions and sightings in the shattered yards of the global dream|

A double book that echoes with the ecological and social crises of our times, this lyric meditation is interrogation and intervention, defying the limitations we place on story's potency and potential|

At once civil lyric and lament crying beyond civility, spiraling with kinetic intensity, a 21st century feminist book-length aria

Here, the many permutations of lyric explore slippage and fusion, of singular to multiple, personal to social, sentience to what seeks beyond the sensate world, of both our crisis and choral communion that is, and is always more than voice reveals |

Mortar is a text of stealth and volatility, of both explosive and empathic interactions.

Through exploring various disasters, Clarke ends up exploring memory-"the worst disaster since the last one"-writing about people lost through the prison system, disasters man-made we don't wish to think about, and just where the accumulation of disaster upon disaster might end up taking us.

Some would call Neptune Park a graphic novel-minus the pictures. Mumblecore, infidel pamphlet, lazy cento, its archive harbors a voice that sounds real enough-a verbal tranny-culled from the unhoused parley of shame (and its sisters), suburban squats, queer idylls, and teenage millionaires.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. LGBT Studies. "I think of aspiration as the state where a poet's thrown together life-structures both invite and are breached by the poet's preoccupations-known ones, new ones. It's the dream of meaningful placement and the open set.

In the flowing SUSQUEHANNA, language has been re-immersed in its origins. It is a coursing where "this human industry / compressed into earth- / rudders second emptiness / braids a fist.

The Middle is beautiful and powerful, and all that grace animates calm outrage, ghostlier awareness.

Transfer of Qualities addresses the uncanny and myriad ways in which people and things, but also people and those around them, exchange qualities with one another, moving in on, unsettling: altering stance, attitude, mood, gesture.

Michelle Taransky's second collection of poems, Sorry Was In The Woods is that landscape where perspective is not singular, where waiting, worrying, watching, and recording are able to both arrange and derange our understanding of place.

Prose poems that cut to the core of what it means to be human, our strife and our striving

Bright and bracing poems rich with humor and candor

Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest

Banishing poets from the well-ordered city did not prevent the creation of fictions: SHAM CITY is the capitol of fictitious capital.

To Be Read in the Dark casts its strobe of radical vision on the dark crises of our common experience.

Aerial is concerned with the sky--its cloud-laden aspects in the first section, its dry realms of severe spirituality in the second.

Kelli Anne Noftle's poems reside in this space of "threshold consciousness" where a voice speaks to and from the other, hovering inside a liminal world of strange admissions and abstract silences.

Zach Savich's The Man Who Lost His Head wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it.

Includes poem that assess culture at large and expose the constellating force of historical, biblical, and social influences on the human community.

Maps the interior of our deepest feelings and fears through reflections on money, commerce, and the capitalist machine.

Sharing insight into many private forms of suffering - mental illness, loss of loved ones, family crises - this work uses personal issues to assess continued struggles with the profound questions of what it means to be human, moral and conscious.

An assortment of poems that investigates subject matters such as possession and dominance as well as the destruction wreaked upon the planet's natural and social environments. It includes poems that examine both the savage and the beautiful aspects of existence.

Examining the African American position in the United States, this philosophical collection of poems offers insight into the personal, social, cultural, and racial networks that help to create identity. It is a venture that illuminates the human mind and the struggle faced when trying to communicate what we see and what we believe.

Offering 12 years of incisive writing about contentiously debated topics in modern poetry, this work features essays, interviews, and reflections that focus on two central themes - the changing nature of beauty in the lyric and the necessity of finding new ways to embody spirituality.

Contains poems which reach back to find where humans hold ideas and emotions: in the archives of their hearts and minds.

Features poems that discuss the ethics of interpersonal relations, the social identity's conflicted relationship to self discovery, and the family bounds that function as a frame that both supports and limits potential.