New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on April 19, 2010
Camino
del Sol
Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing
Ed. Rigoberto Gonzalez
Univ of Arizona Press, May 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2813-4
Paperback: 368pp; $24.95
From website: This volume celebrates fifteen years of books by bringing together some of the series’ best work, such as poetry from Francisco X. Alarcón, fiction from Christine Granados, and nonfiction from Luis Alberto Urrea. These voices echo the entire spectrum of Latina/o writing, from Chicana/o to Puerto Rican to Brazilian-American, and take in themes ranging from migration to gender.
The
Consequence of Skating
Fiction by Steven Gillis
Black Lawrence Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9826228-7-2
Paperback: 330pp; $18.00
Gillis’s fourth novel centers on Mickey Greene, an actor who has fallen from grace. The novel follows Greene on his adventures as he beings restructuring his life. //
Creating
a Life
The memoir of a writer and mom in the making
Nonfiction by Corbin Lewars
Catalyst Book Press, February 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0980208153
Paperback: 171pp; $16.00
From website: Creating a Life shares the bumpy road that led Corbin Lewars to motherhood and her career as a writer. Deformed sperm, a miscarriage, and quitting her job to become an editor only to have that publication become bankrupt were a few hurdles that she crossed along the way.
Diasporas
in the New Media Age
Identity, Politics, and Community
Ed. Andoni Alonso, Pedro J. Oiazabal
Univ of Nevada Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-815-9
Paperback: 368; $44.95
The explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced almost every aspect of contemporary life. Diasporas in the New Media Age is the first book-length examination of the social use of these technologies by emigrants and diasporas around the world.
Drake's
Bay
Fiction by T.A. Roberts
Permanent Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-57962-197-1
Hardcover: 240pp; $28.00
Academic Ethan Storey gets dragged to an open house at Willem’s Institute and ends up getting a job cataloging collections from the 15th- and 16-century. Life soon becomes complicated as murder, arson, and more begin happening around Ethan.
I
Hotel
Fiction by Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press, May 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-239-1
Paperback: 640pp; $19.95
A look at the Civil Rights movement as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown, I Hotel is a cross-genre work split into ten novellas spanning ten years starting in 1968 when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. //
In
the House
Fiction by Lynn K. Kilpatrick
Univ of Alabama Press, March 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-154-6
Paperback: 136pp; $13.50
From website: n Lynn K. Kilpatrick’s In the House, anything can happen. A collection of shorts—lists, character sketches, directions, scripts, and instructions—In the House reveals the often conspicuous, yet frequently overlooked, dangers of relationships gone awry.
Indivisible
An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry
Ed. Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam
Univ of Arkansas Press, May 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-931-5
Paperback: 288pp; $24.95
From website: Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. //
The
Inquisition Yours
Poetry by Jen Currin
Coach House Books, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55245-230-1
Paperback: 111pp; $14.95
From website: The Inquisition Yours speaks to the atrocities of our time – war, environmental destruction, terrorism, cancer, and the erosion of personal rights.
Man
Receives a Letter
Fiction by Peter Gordon
Red Hen Press, November 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-459-7
Paperback: 176pp; $18.95
From website: In Peter Gordon's debut collection Man Receives Letter and Other Stories, the fragility and mystery of human relationships are explored between husbands and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and colleagues at work.
Mysteriosos
& Other Poems
Poetry by Michael McClure
New Directions Books, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1842-9
Paperback: 144pp; $15.95
From website: Mysteriosos and Other Poems, Michael McClure’s newest book of poetry, explores the last seven years.
The
Name of the Nearest River
Fiction by Alex Taylor
Sarabande Books, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-80-2
Paperback: 184pp; $15.95
From website: The stories in The Name of the Nearest River reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fields, rusty riverbeds, and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky
Not
Blessed
Fiction by Harold Abramowitz
Les Figues Press, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934254-13-4
Paperback: 86pp; $15.00
From website: In Not Blessed, a story is told not once, but twenty-eight times in twenty-eight shifting versions.
On
Wonderland & Waste
Poetry by Sandy Florian
Sidebrow Books, April 2010
ISBN-10: 0-9814975-1-9
Paperback: 104pp; $20.00
“A bellow that is not a bucket. A bucket that is not a bone. There is wisdom in slipping into oceans.” //
Requiem
for the Orchard
Poetry by Oliver de la Paz
Univ of Akron Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-931968-74-4
Paperback: 88pp; $14.95
Winner of the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize chosen by Marin Espada //
Rhapsodomancy
Poetry by kevin mcpherson eckhoff
Coach House Books, 2010
ISBN-13: 9-781552-452318
Paperback: 87pp; $14.95
From website: Exploring two phonic alphabets as image, these poems interrogate the relationship between voice and visual poetry. Can pictures represent voice? Can unutterable writing express thought? //
The
Second Trial
Children's Fiction by Rosemarie Boll
Second Story Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-897187-72-2
Paperback: 320pp; $11.95
From website: Danny McMillan never knew that his father was abusing his mother, until a night of violence that shattered his family forever. Watching in the courtroom as his father is sentenced, Danny struggles with divided loyalties – to his mother on one side and to his father whom he wants to forgive on the other. After one trial is over, another begins for Danny. //
The
Sleep Hotel
Poetry by Amy Newlove Schroeder
Oberlin College Press, April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-932440-39-6
Paperback: 71pp; $15.95
Winner of the 2009 FIELD Poetry Prize
To
Build My Shadow a Fire
Poetry by David Wevill
Truman State Univ Press, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935503-04-0
Paperback: 272pp; $24.95
From website: This collection showcases the creative range and essential writing of David Wevill, an elusive and enigmatic poetic figure. [. . .] A Canadian born in Japan, Wevill was educated in England, and lived in Burma and Spain before he moved to Austin, Texas, where he has spent more than 40 years as a writer, translator, teacher, and editor. These selections were chosen from more than one thousand pages of published work largely unknown in the U.S. //
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
April 19, 2010
Anthology
Camino del Sol, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Univ of Arizona Press
Telling it Real, Ed. Peter Anderson, Pilgrimage Press
Children's/YA
Grandpa Used to Live Alone, Amy Costales, Arte Publico Press //
No Time for Monsters, Spelile Rivas, Arte Publico Press //
The Party for Papa Luis, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Arte Publico Press //
Patrick's Wish, Karen Mitchell and Rebecca Upjohn, Second Story Press //
The Second Trial, Rosemarie Boll, Second Story Press //
Fiction
Antwerp, Roberto Bolano, New Directions Book
The Ballad of Two Tom Mores, Corey Mesler, Bronx River Press //
The Consequence of Skating, Steven Gillis, Black Lawrence Press //
Drake's Bay, T.A. Roberts, Permanent Pres
Drowning Tucson, Aaron Michael Morris, Coffee House Press //
Elysiana, Chris Knopf, Permanent Press
Fall Asleep Forgetting, Georgeann Packard, Permanent Press //
I Hotel, Karen Tei Yamashita, Coffee House Press //
In the House, Lynn K. Kilpatrick, Univ of Alabama Press
The Last River Child, Lori Ann Bloomfield, Second Story Press //
Man Receives a Letter, Peter Gordon, Red Hen Press
The Name of the Nearest River, Alex Taylor, Sarabande Books
Not Blessed, Harold Abramowitz, Les Figues Press
Now Playing, Shellie Zacharia, Keyhole Press //
Pretend All Your Life, Joseph Mackin, Permanent Press //
The Report, Jessica Francis Kane, Graywolf Press
A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia, Rick Collignon, Unbridled Books
Shabbytown, Michael Hemmingson, Black Mask Books //
Thirty Miles to Rosebud, Barbara Henning, BlazeVOX [books] //
Time Among the Dead, Thomas Rayfiel, Permanent Press //
Nonfiction
The Art of Description, Mark Doty, Graywolf Press
The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young, Graywolf Press
Creating a Life, Corbin Lewars, Catalyst Book Press
Diasporas in the New Media Age, Ed. Andoni Alonso, Pedro J. Oiazabal, Univ of Nevada Press
Knocked Up, Knocked Down, Monica Murphy Lemoine, Catalyst Book Press //
Poetry
2X2, Martine Bellen, BlazeVOX [books]
The Angel Voices, William Heyen, Mayapple Press //
Appetite for the Divine, Christine Gelineau, Ashland Poetry Press //
The Available World, Ander Monson, Sarabande Books //
Bartab: An After Hours Ballad, Cesca Janece Waterfield, Two-Handed Engine Press //
A Book of Unknowing, John High, Talisman House, Pub
The Casanova Chronicles, Myrna Stone, Etruscan Press //
Chora, Sandra Doller, Ahsahta Press //
Cities and Memory, Barbara Henning, Chax Press //
Collected Poems, Gustaf Sobin, Talisman House, Pub //
The Contortions, Nicole Mauro, Dusie //
Dream Detective, David Mills, Straw Gate Books //
Gallowglass, Susan Tichy, Ahsahta Press
The Gate of Horn, L.S. Asekoffrthwestern Univ Press //
Girl on a Bridge, Suzanne Frischkorn, Main Street Rag Pub Co
Giving Way, Shawn Fawson, Bitter Oleander Press //
House Envy of All the World, Simone White, Heretical Texts/Factory //
houses are fields, Taije Silverman, Louisiana State Univ Press //
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl, Karyna McGlynn, Sarabande Books
Indivisible, Ed. Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni , Univ of Arkansas Press //
Inheritance, Margaret Kaufman, Sixteen Rivers Press //
The Inquisition Yours, Jen Currin, Coach House Books
The Last Estate, Conor Bowman, Permanent Press //
Love Over 60, Robin Chapman and Jeri McCormick, Mayapple Press //
Museum of False Starts, Chip Livingston, Gival Press
Mysteriosos & Other Poems, Michael McClure, New Directions Books
On Wonderland & Waste, Sandy Florian, Sidebrow Books //
Orange Crush, Simone Muench, Sarabande Books
Phantom Noise, Brian Turner, Alice James Books
The Place That Inhabits Us, Sixteen Rivers Press //
Requiem for the Orchard, Oliver de la Paz, Univ of Akron Press //
Rhapsodomancy, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Coach House Books //
Saints & Cannibals, Christine Hume, Plain View Press
The Salt Ecstasies, James L. White, Graywolf Press //
Selenography, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Sidebrow Books
The Sleep Hotel, Amy Newlove Schroeder, Oberlin College Press
To Build My Shadow a Fire, David Wevill, Truman State Univ Press //
Voices from the Bitter Core, Ursula Krechel, Host Publications //
Page updated August 26, 2010