Although Stewart Lupton is best known for being the singer and lyricist for seminal New York City band Jonathan FireEater, his love for language was always evident in his songs and also the poems he increasingly wrote and turned toward during his life. In close collaboration with Lupton’s estate, friends, and former bandmates, Third Man Books is honored and humbled to be a part of realizing Lupton’s longtime wish to publish a collection of his poems. The Plural Atmosphere is a first collection of poems by Stewart Lupton, a collection that will undoubtedly define Lupton’s legacy as a poet.

Written over the course of twenty days, coming in and out of trance states brought on by intermittent fasting and somatic rituals while secluded in the tower of a 100-year-old church, Ascend Ascend is award -winning poet Janaka Stucky’s most powerful collection to date. “Janaka Stucky is extraordinary, and his work riveting.” —Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin

Part savvy lit crit, part blues chart, part hip revenge-femme-lyric, part imagined Interracial romance saga disguised as poems, in Lucy Negro, Redux: the Bard, a Book, and a Ballet, poet Caroline Randall Williams plays the literary race card and cuts the whole deck, revealing the person and identity of Shakespeare’s legendary lover, the “Dark Lady.” “An unflinching investigation of otherness and a dead-sexy exploration of the intersection of identity and desire.”—The New York Times

The second title in Third Man Books’ limited edition chapbook series, Dan Hoy’s most recent collection of poetry chronicles the last days of an expedition stranded on a desolate planet and beset by depression, sabotage, and failing equipment. A finalist for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Elgin Award!

Ciona Rouse’s first collection of poems — and Third Man Books’ debut title in the publisher’s new chapbook series— Vantablack is Rouse’s quiet music waiting to scream; the music of place, race, sexuality, home, growing up, being grown; everything in the life of a word.