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Magra Books presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing books that strive to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language, language that knows no borders.

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"the poems that they make in hell are done with mirrors" from Toward Morning: Selected Poems by Bruce Boyd edited by Bill Mohr Pre-order here: www.magrabooks.com/books/letter... #poetry #venicewest #thenewamericanpoetry #californiapoet

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"Pink is a direct result of rusting. / I’m gnawing on material like candy." from Pretty Punks: Poems, Portrait & Play by Jessie McCarty Pre-order here: www.magrabooks.com/books/pretty... #poetry #narrative #drama #southernlit #queerlit #irish #english

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

"A chime sounds / and because I’m using language / I know that I’m awake." from The Cartographer's Lament by Dennis Phillips Pre-order here: www.magrabooks.com/books/the-ca... #poetry #DennisPhillips #time

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“‘I’ll have what you want—’: never an opening line that reassured me … I preferred the less direct approach…” #daybooks #RobertCrosson #essays #collage #CourtneyGregg www.magrabooks.com/books/the-pr...

Two men dancing as they are superimposed over an arial shot of a city at night.

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“Look! What is there in my bare room? Nothing. Not even the shadow of a mirror. In my poor life, what do I have? Nothing. Not even the shadow of a woman. Nothing, not even a little bit.” #radioplay #CorradoCosta #doodles www.magrabooks.com/books/the-do...

A line drawing of an abstract face speaking to a larger seated figure.

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"As soon as the music starts the story's older than you think." #poetry #PaulVangelisti #collage #WilliamXerra #artistbook #librod’artista www.magrabooks.com/books/toodle...

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

"The way is clear and the stations mapped / hold tight your relics and effigies / the plumeria are in blossom." #poetry #DennisPhillips #CourtneyGregg www.magrabooks.com/books/desert...

Book cover for Desert Sequence by Dennis Phillips, published by Magra Books. The background features a pencil or charcoal drawing with abstract desert-like textures—vertical and horizontal hatch marks suggesting sand, grass, or windblown terrain. In the lower left corner, a simple hand-drawn fish appears, carrying an envelope in its mouth. The text reads:
“Dennis Phillips — Desert Sequence — Magra Books.”

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"NO PREXIES NO PROXIES / Get out and learn something / Get in and do something / Get out get in get in get out get get get" #poetry #RayDiPalma #collages www.magrabooks.com/books/for-a-...

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"A bartender and a butcher, a bath and / a barber. A game board with pieces, / and my own small selection of books..." #poetry #translation #Martial #ArtBeck #GiulianoDellaCasa #epigrams #Latin #classics www.magrabooks.com/books/epigrams

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Magra Books @magrabooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"It shadows you in an alternate universe of everything exactly the same exactly the same corridors into which darkness echoes its own expansion;" #poetry #literature #noir #chapbook #martharonk www.magrabooks.com/books/the-un...

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