New & Noteworthy Books
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Posted on February 11, 2010
Primeval
and Other Times
Fiction by Olga Tokarczuk
Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Twisted Spoon Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-80-86264-35-6
Paperback: 248pp; $15.50
From website: Set in the mythical village of Primeval in the heart of Poland [. . .] The village, a microcosm of Europe, is guarded by four archangels, from whose perspective the novel chronicles the lives of Primeval's inhabitants ove the course of the 20th century.
Ghost
on 3rd
Poetry by Jim Reese
NYQ Books, January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-17-7
Paperback: 88pp; $14.95
From website: Reese shows no sign of putting the hammer down—he takes his reader on the daily routine and long nights that are an inescapable part of raising two small daughters—shows us how family is not a burden but a complex source of joy. //
Lost
Poet
Drama by Jesse Glass
BlazeVOX [books], January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1935402398
Paperback: 145pp
From back cover:These plays explore the Challenger disaster of 1986 to the hallucinated lucubrations of Thomas Holley Chivers; cover the arrival of a cosmic, sexual vermiform lemure of the Kabbalistic Bohu-Tohu, and the changes on a young man’s sexual angst.
Manhatten
Poetry by Sarah Rosenthal
Spuyten Duyvil, May 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-933132-32-7
Paperback: 109pp; $14.00
From back cover: Proudly misspelled, Manhatten chronicles the adventures of a young woman as she searches for her life story in the ultimate American metropolis. //
(Nevertheless
Enjoyment
Poetry by Elizabeth Bryant
Quale Press, March 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9792999-9-5
Paperback: 74pp; $13.00
A collection of prose poetry by Elizabeth Bryant.
Urban
Bird Life
Poetry by Iris Lee
NYQ Books, January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-16-0
Paperback: 104pp; $14.95
From website: Swans, owls, and other urban birds soar through the poems in Iris Lee's first collection taking the reader along with them as she covers a broad range in her exploration of the interiors and exteriors of her much-loved New York City. //
Logic
of the World and Other Fictions
Fiction by Robert Kelly
McPherson & Co, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-929701-89-9
Hardcover: 244pp; $24.00
From jacket: [In] The thirty works in this fifth collection of short fiction [. . .] a woman waits at a window for the moon to return to her body; another reveals the triple identity of Don Juan; in still another, an itinerant tragedian invents a dangerous form of theatrical performance.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
February 11, 2010
Anthology
It's Not You, It's Me, Jerry Williams, Overlook Press
When the Muse Calls, Kathryn Ridall, Pomegranate Press //
Drama
Lost Poet, Jesse Glass, BlazeVOX [books] //
Fiction
The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits, Kim Gek Lin Short, Tarpaulin Sky Press
Captivity, Deborah Noyes, Unbridled Books //
Come Raw, Lars Rasmussen, Serving House Books //
The Logic of the World and Other Fictions, Robert Kelly, McPherson & Co
Man's Companions, Joanna Ruocco, Tarpaulin Sky Press //
Mattaponi Queen, Belle Boggs, Graywolf Press
Primeval and Other Times, Olga Tokarczuk, Twisted Spoon Press
The River Road, Tricia Currans-Sheehan, New Rivers Press //
Soldier in the Grass, Joanna Crispi, NYQ Books
Nonfiction
Quotidiana, Patrick Madden, Univ of Nebraska Press
Texas Ranger Biographies, Charles Harris, Frances Harris, Louis Sadler, Univ of New Mexico Press
Poetry
(Nevertheless Enjoyment, Elizabeth Bryant, Quale Press
100 Notes on Violence, Julie Carr, Ahsahta Press
A Boilmaker for the Lady, Fred Yannantuono, NYQ Books //
Bones & Jokes, Ted Jonathan, NYQ Books
Father Dirt, Miheala Moscaliuc, Alice James Books
Fifty Poems, Liana Quill, Mississippi Review Press //
Ghost on 3rd, Jim Reese, NYQ Books //
The Goddess of Goodbye, James R. Whitley, Word Press //
Hints and Allegations, Amanda J. Bradley, NYQ Books
If Not Metamorphic, Brenda Iijima, Ahsahta Press //
In the Eyes of a Dog, Kevin Pilkington, NYQ Books
Manhatten, Sarah Rosenthal, Spuyten Duyvil //
Minimum Heroic, Christopher Salerno, Mississippi Review Press //
Nothing Between Us, Wendy Barker, Del Sol Press //
Other Prohibited Items, Martha Greenwald, Mississippi Review Press //
The Plumber's Apprentice, Joe Weil, NYQ Books
Poems, Grace Zabriskie, NYQ Books //
Rain When You Want Rain, Betsy Johnson-Miller, Mayapple Press //
Recircuits, Richard Kostelanetz, NYQ Books //
Small Talk, Raffaello Baldini, Gradiva Publications //
Songs from an Earlier Century, Ira Joe Fisher, NYQ Books
The T-Bone Series, Quincy Scott Jones, Whirlwind Press //
Tourist, Sanford Fraser, NYQ Books
Urban Bird Life, Iris Lee, NYQ Books //
Venison, Thorpe Moeckel, Etruscan Press //
Voluptuous Gloom, Oren Wagner, NYQ Books //
The Warm Animals, Mike Tyler, Art Cannot be Damaged //
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