. . . AGAIN

Award-winning poet Mark Nowak returns with a harrowing documentation of the expansive landscape of MAGAmerica.

Told through five abecedarian prose sections, . . . AGAIN is a photo-text commentary on MAGAism in America. In his sobering voice, Nowak captures the depredations of capitalism, the desensitizing regularity of mass shootings, and the extremism that has fueled white nationalism. From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6 insurrection through Donald Trump’s re-election, Nowak chronicles the transformations as the seasons change around him, attempting to make sense of a bitterly divided nation that elected a polarizing figurehead . . . again.

Publication date: April 7, 2026

Format: Trade Paper

Page count: 200 pages

Dimensions: 6 x 9

ISBN: 9781566897518

Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and . . . AGAIN, all from Coffee House Press. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Creative Capital foundations. Nowak recently wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School.

“Mark Nowak’s . . . AGAIN is a work of structural fury. Through a relentless abecedarian progression that cycles through the American seasons—from one autumn to the next—the book builds a damning index of the mundanity and terror of our times. This is a masterful, harrowing, and formally audacious work.”

—Anne Boyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Undying