MAGRA BOOKS is a publisher featuring unique works by important writers.
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.
Taking its name from the Magra River in the Lunigiana region of Tuscany, a watershed rising high in the Appenine and flowing southwest into the fabled Gulf of Poets between Lerici and La Spezia, Magra Books publishes books of poetry, prose, and works in translation.
Editors: S. E. Pessin & Paul Vangelisti. Magra Books is located somewhere between Los Angeles, California, USA and Bagnone, Provincia di Massa-Carrara, Italy.
Books Published
David Lloyd. The Event of a Thread. Magra Books. 2027.
Bruce Boyd. The Uncollected Poems and Letters of Bruce Boyd, ed. Bill Mohr. Magra Books. 2027
Paul Vangelisti. Detours: A Westcoast Memoir. Magra Books, 2026.
Richard Milazzo. A World of Imperfect Haikus. Magra Books, 2026.
Avery Burns. Expectations Asunder. Magra Books, 2026.
Rachel Sherwood. Mysteries of Afternoon and Evening: Revised Second Edition. Ed. David Trinidad. Magra Books, 2026.
Bruce Boyd. Toward Morning: Selected Poems. Ed. Bill Mohr. Magra Books, 2026
Jessie McCarty. Pretty Punks: Poems, Portrait & Play. With drawings by Emma Wolgast. Magra Books, 2025.
Dennis Phillips. The Cartographer’s Lament. Magra Books, 2025.
Gianluca Rizzo. The Accelerated Abbott. Magra Books, 2025.
Bill Mohr. Displacements. Magra Books, 2024.
Amy Allara. Eight. Magra Books, 2024.
Lorenzo Mari. Cancellations. Magra Books, 2024.
David Lloyd. Terra Terra. Magra Books, 2023.
Dennis Phillips. Sonnets. Magra Books, 2023.
Amy Allara. Unfamiliar Terms. Magra Books, 2023.
Avery Burns. In the Margins. Magra Books, 2023.
Dennis Phillips. 17 Meditations on Time. Magra Books, 2022.
S.E. Pessin. Three Stories. Magra Books, 2022.
Jean Daive & Bernard Böschenstein. Close-Up: Paul Celan. Trans. Norma Cole. Magra Books, 2022.
Andrea Applebee. Anemones. Magra Books, 2022.
Amelia Rosselli. Document. Magra Books, 2021.
Art Beck. The Insistent Island. Magra Books, 2021.
David Lloyd. Furrow Archive. Magra Books, 2021.
Amy Allara. A Theory of Consquence. Magra Books, 2021.
Susanna Rabitti. More Fugues. Magra Books, 2021.
Milli Graffi. Mechanical Love. Magra Books, 2018.
Douglas Messerli. On Marriage: The Imagination of Being. Magra Books, 2018.
Susanna Rabitti. Fugues. Magra Books, 2018.
Neely Cherkovski. In the Odes: Confucius & Ezra Pound. Magra Books, 2018.
Corrado Costa. The Dodo: or the School for Night. Trans. Paul Vangelisti. Magra Books, 2017.
Gillian Conoley. Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar. Magra Books, 2017.
Robert Crosson. The Price of Lemons: or; Some of the Worst Movies Ever Made. Ed. Paul Vangelisti. Magra Books, 2017.
Paul Vangelisti. Toodle-oo. Magra Books, 2017.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum & Soo Kim. The Burglar. Magra Books, 2017.
Ray Di Palma. For a Curved Surface. Magra Books, 2016.
Dennis Phillips. Desert Sequence. Magra Books, 2016.
Marcus Valerius Martialis. Epigrams. Trans. Art Beck. Magra Books, 2016.
Martha Ronk. The Unfamiliar Familiar. Magra Books, 2016.