New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on February 25, 2010
Bobcat Country
Poetry by Brandi Homan
Shearsman Books, January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-84861-085-9
Paperback: 80pp; $15.00
Featuring "My Mother Can't Stand This Poem," "Why I Hate Ian Harris," "Reality TV Has Ruined My Childhood," and much more. //
Currency
Fiction by Zoe Zolbrod
OV Books, May 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825204-3-7
Paperback: 232pp; $16.95
Robin, an American backpacker low on money but infatuated with travel and beauty, and Piv, her charismatic Thai lover who dreams of a better life, become embroiled in the dangerous world of international animal trafficking in this exotic literary thriller.
Dead Letter Office
Fiction by Daniel Natal
Black Lawrence Press, October 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-9815899-4-7
Paperback: 267pp; $18.00
From website: Daniel Natal has existed on the fringes of the literary world for his entire life, attending artists' parties with his Bohemian parents from a very young age. [This is] his first novel.
Entrepot
Poetry by Mark McMorris
Coffee house Press, February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-236-0
Paperback: 108pp; $16.00
From website: Missives from the entrepôt—or port city—where civilization trades in art, love, and war. //
Going through Ghosts
Fiction by Mary Sojourner
University of Nevada Press, February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-809-8
Paperback: 281pp; $25.00
Going Through Ghosts is a novel about a search for healing after pain and loss. //
Gurlesque
the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics
Edited by Lara Glenum, Arielle Greenberg
Saturnalia Books, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9818591-4-9
Paperback: 312pp; $20.00
Gurlesque brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists who do the same.
How Beautiful the Beloved
Poetry by Gregory Orr
Copper Canyon Press, April 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-283-6
Paperback: 103pp; $16.00
Gregory Orr explores the carnal ache of living and loving in this [. . .] collection.
The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats
Fiction by Hesh Kestin
Dzanc Books, November 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-9767177-8-2
Paperback: 372pp; $16.95
Jewish gangsters in 1960's New York City. A fast-paced, look at a time when America still seemed young and moving forward. A smart, young man is mentored by the gangster of his time. //
Light and Trials of Light
Poetry by Cynthia Reeser
Finishing Line Press, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-59924-543-0
Chapbook: 27pp; $12.00
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Lost Alphabet
Poetry by Lisa Olstein
Copper Canyon Press, June 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-301-7
Paperback: 104pp; $15.00
In Lisa Olstein’s new book, an unnamed lepidopterist—living in a hut on the edge of an unnamed village—is drawn ever deeper into the engrossing world of moths, light, and seeing.
Neighbour Procedure
Poetry by Rachel Zolf
Coach House Books, February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55245-229-5
Paperback: 87pp; $14.95
Plucked from a minefield of competing knowledges, media and public texts, Neighbour Procedure sees Zolf assemble an arsenal of poetic procedures and words borrowed from a cast of unlikely neighbours, including Mark Twain, Dadaist Marcel Janco, blogger-poet Ron Silliman and two women at the gym. //
Shoulder the Season
Poetry by Angle Mlinko
Coffee house Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-243-8
Paperback: 81pp; $16.00
Ange Mlinko is the author of Starred Wire, a National Poetry Series Award winner, and Matinées, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Poems from this collection have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere. A longtime East Coast resident and language columnist for The Nation, she currently lives in Beirut.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
February 25, 2010
Anthology
Gurlesque, Ed. Lara Glenum, Arielle Greenberg, Saturnalia Books
Seriously Funny, Ed. Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Univ of Georgia Press //
Chapbook
Light and Trials of Light, Cynthia Reeser, Finishing Line Press //
Pretending to be Italian, Katy Giebenhain, RockSaw Press //
Children's/YA
Sandy's Incredible Shrinking Footprint, Femida Handy, Carole Carpenter, Second Story Press //
Fiction
And What Have You Done?, Jose Castro Urioste, Latin American Literary Review Press //
Currency, Zoe Zolbrod, OV Books
Dead Letter Office, Daniel Natal, Black Lawrence Press
Fragile, Chris Katsaropoulos, Luminis Books //
Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, Dawn Raffel, Dzanc Books
Going Through Ghosts, Mary Sojourner, Univ of Nevada Press //
I, Benjamin, Theodore Enslin, McPherson & Co //
The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, Hesh Kestin, Dzanc Books //
Love in Tennessee, John Bowers, Red Hen Press //
The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories, Catherine Brady, Univ of Nevada Press
Moon is Cotton & She Laugh All Night, Tracy DeBrincat, Subito Press //
The Taste of Penny, Jeff Parker, Dzanc Books //
Welcome to Miami, Doctor Leal, Rene Vazquez Diaz, Latin American Literary Review Press //
Nonfiction
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute, George A. Cowan, Univ of New Mexico Press //
Revenge of the Saguaro, Tom Miller, Cinco Puntos Press //
Poetry
Bobcat Country, Brandi Homan, Shearsman Books
The Dance of No Hard Feelings, Mark Bibbins, Graywolf Press //
The End of the West, Michael Dickman, Copper Canyon Press //
Entrepot, Mark McMorris, Coffee House Press //
Find the Girl, Lightsey Darst, Coffee House Press
Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart, Malinda Markham, New Issues Poetry & Prose //
How Beautiful the Beloved, Gregory Orr, Copper Canyon Press
A Little Middle of the Night, Molly Brodak, Univ of Iowa Press
Long Distance, Steven Cordova, Bilingual Review Press //
Lost Alphabet, Lisa Olstein, Copper Canyon Press
Marbles, Mary du Passage, Box Turtle Press //
The Meditations, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Otoliths
My Heart Flooded with Water, Alfonsina Storni, Latin American Literary Review Press
Neighbor Procedure, Rachel Zolf, Coach House Books
Personification, Margaret Ronda, Saturnalia Books //
Rest in Black Haw, Emily Elizabeth Schulten, New Plains Press //
Rising, Falling, Hovering, C.D. Wright, Copper Canyon Press
Shoulder the Season, Ange Mlinko, Coffee House Press
Sky=Empty, Judy Halebsky, New Issues Poetry & Prose //
Song & Glass, Stan Mir, Subito Press //
Swerve, Cohen Bruce, Black Lawrence Press //
Tocqueville, Khaled Mattawa, New Issues Poetry & Prose //
The White Visitation, David Brennan, BlazeVOX [books] //
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