New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
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Posted on January 14, 2010
The
Butterfly Collector
Stories by Fred McGavran
Black Lawrence Press, December 2009
ISBN-10: 0981589952
ISBN-13: 978-0981589954
Paperback: 200pp; $16.00
This first collection of stories by Fred McGavran is full of people you know, from a beautician to a lawyer to a man with alzheimer's.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula Almanac
Ron Jolly, Karl Bohnak
University of Michigan Press, December 2009
ISBN-10: 0472032488
ISBN-13: 978-0472032488
Paperback: 600pp; $27.95
From website: [A] comprehensive guide for every resident, visitor, and student of Michigan's Upper Peninsula [that] covers every acre of the wild and beautiful U.P., including information on businesses, tourism, agriculture, sports, weather, casinos, and other topics.
The Horse has Six Legs
An Anthology of Serbian Poetry
Edited & Translated by Charles Simic
Graywolf Press, May 2010
ISBN-10: 1555975577
ISBN-13: 978-1555975579
Paperback: 272pp; $18.00
From back cover: Editor and translator Charles Simic has now updated and expanded this anthology for new readers in the twenty-frist century. Simic has brought together an extraordianry range of Serbian poets, from the oral tradition of folk songs to the great postwar poets.
Destruction Myth
Poetry by Mathias Svalina
Cleveland State Poetry Center, November 2009
ISBN-10: 1880834871
ISBN-13: 978-1880834879
Paperback: 83pp; $15.95
From website: Expanding the palette of contemporary surrealism while harkening back to the stories and prayers at the origin of poetry, Destruction Myth is a series of absurdist myths of creation and destruction.
No Blues This Raucous Song
Poetry by Lynn Wagner
Slapering Hol Press, December 2009
ISBN-10: 0982062621
ISBN-13: 978-0982062623
Chapbook: 32pp; $12.00
Winner of the 2009 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, Lynn Wagner's work has appeared in Shenandoah, subtropics, 5AM, and other literary journals. //
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
January 14, 2010
Poetry
As If Free, Burt Kimmelman (Talisman House) //
Destruction Myth, Mathias Svalina (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
Dirty August, Edip Cansever (Talisman House) //
I is to Vorticism, Ben Mirov (New Michigan Press)
My Heart Flooded with Water, Alfonsina Storni (Latin American Literary Review Press) //
Sum of Every Lost Ship, Allison Titus (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) //
Undetectable, Brent Armendinger (New Michigan Press)
Chapbook
Black Box Theater as Abandoned Zoo, Dana Elkun (Concrete Wolf)
No Blues This Raucous Song, Lynn Wagner (Slapering Hol Press) //
Fiction
The Butterfly Collector, Fred McGavran (Black Lawrence Press)
Family Parables, Boris Pinter (Talisman House)
Legend of a Suicide, David Vann (University of Massachusetts Press)
Precarious, Al Riske (Luminis Books) //
The Singer’s Gun, Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled Books)
An Unfinished Score, Elise Blackwell (Unbridled Books)
Anthology
The Horse has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry, Ed. Charles Simic (Graywolf Press)
To Everything on Earth, Ed. Kurt Caswell, Susan Leigh Tomlinson, Diane Heuter Warner (Texas Tech University Press) //
Nonfiction
How to be Inappropriate, Daniel Nester (Soft Skull Press)
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Almanac, Ron Jolly, Karl Bohnak (University of Michigan Press)
Zines
Doris 15: antidepression guide, Ed. Cindy Crabb (Microcosm Publishing)
Learning Good Consent, Ed. Cindy Crabb (Microcosm Publishing)
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