New & Noteworthy Books
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Posted on November 24, 2008
Charro
Clause and the Tejas Kid
Fiction by Xavier Carza
Cinco Puntos Press, November 2008
ISBN-10: 193369324X
ISBN-13: 978-1933693248
Hardcover: 40pp; 17.95
All Christmas Eve, Vincente and Pancho deliver toys to the boys and girls on the border. Neither rain, cloudy skies, wire fences, or concrete walls keep them from covering every inch of their newly assigned territory. And they don't forget a single town or city. How could they? The border is their home. //
Drinks
at the Stand-Up Tragedy Club
Poetry by Jim Crenner
Hobart & William Smith Colleges Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1606431764
Hardcover: 109pp; $20.00
A collection of poems spanning about a 10-year period with 11 dramatic monologues scattered throughout, spoken by such odd narrators as Melpomene, the muse of tragedy, and the hare in Zeno's paradox. //
The
End of the Good Party
Stories by Jean Ross Justice
University of Tampa Press, December 2008
ISBN-10: 159732048X
ISBN-13: 978-1597320481
Paperback: 224pp; $14.00
Jean Justice is a writer's writer who enjoys a long-standing literary reputation among readers and fans who have followed her work for decades. This is her first book-length collection.
Labor
Pains and Birth Stories
Essays Edited by Jessica Powers
Catalyst Book Press, January 2009
ISBN-10: 0980208114
ISBN-13: 978-0980208115
Paperback: 228pp; $18.00
The majority of men and women in the world have given birth or supported their partners through that beautiful and terrifying experience. Giving birth is a time when one’s best dreams and ideas — and worst fears and nightmares — coalesce into a single moment of anticipation. Out of such moments come stories that reach into the deepest place of what it means to be human, what it means to be a spiritual being, what it means to love and be loved. Labor Pains and Birth Stories is a collection of stories written by ordinary men and women about the transformation, joy, hilarity and pain of childbirth. //
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received.
November 24, 2008
Poetry
Between Desert Seasons, Ellen Waterston (Wordcraft of Oregon) //
Drinks at the Stand-Up Tragedy Club, Jim Crenner (Hobart & Williams Smith College Press) //
Estuary, Barbary Chaapel (Lost Hills Books) //
The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature, Ed. William Pratt (UNO Press)
The Next Country, Idra Novey (Alice James Books)
Staying Blue, Gibbons Ruark (Lost Hills Books)
Tinderbox Lawn, Carol Guess (Rose Metal Press)
23rd Street Poets (Haight Ashbury Literary Journal Press) //
Fiction
The End of a Good Party and Other Stories, Jean Ross Justice (University of Tampa Press)
I Smile Back, Amy Koppelman (Two Dollar Radio)
Mad to Live: A Collection of Very Short Fiction, Randall Brown (Flume Press) //
Our People Stories, Ian MacMillan (BkMK Press) //
Children’s/YA
Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid, Xavier Carza (Cinco Puntos Press) //
Nonfiction
Against Joie de Vivre, Phillip Lopate (University of Nebraska Press)
The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery, Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (UNO Press)
Labor Pains and Birth Stories, Ed. Jessica Powers (Catalyst Book Press) //
Light of Fearless Indestructible Wisdom, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal (Snow Lion)
Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu (Snow Lion)
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