New & Noteworthy Books

New Books from Independent & University Presses

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Posted on January 20, 2011

 

A Cloud of Witnesses

Fiction by Jason Stumpf

Quale Press, December 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-935835-01-1

Paperback: 62pp; $13.00

"A verse-novel that is not in verse and isn't a novel."

 

Georgic Stories

Fiction by Mariko Nagai

BkMk Press, December 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-886157-76-7

Paperback: 164pp; $15.95

Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Jonis Agee. //

 

The Mercy of Eternity

A Memoir of Depression and Grace

Nonfiction by Eric G. Wilson

Northwestern Univ Press, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2685-5

Hardcover: 126pp; $21.95

"The harrowing follow-up memoir from the best-selling author of Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy."

 

The Patience of Horses

Chapbook by Rick Lott

Ledge Press, November 2010

Chapbook: 33pp; $10.00

Winner of The Ledge 2009 Poetry Chapbook Award.

 

Pictures of Houses with Water Damage

Fiction by Michael Hemmingson

Black Lawrence Press, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9825204-2-0

Paperback: 173pp; $16.00

"These stories explore the meaning of the little things in every day lives, reaching for the greater end game of love, loyalty, and compassion."

 

Prayer Book

Poetry by Matt Mauch

Lowbrow Press, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9829553-0-7

Paperback: 95pp; $13.00

Paisley Rekdal writes, "A fresh and iconoclastic series of poems over which the spirit of Walt Whitman hovers."

 

Prodigal: Variations

Poetry by Ed Madden

Lethe Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-59021-340-7

Paperback: 70pp; $15.00

"A stunning and unflinching exploration in poems of the intersections between fathers and sons, religious traditions, and homosexual relationships."

 

Quiet Americans

Fiction by Erika Dreifus

Last Light Studio, January 2011

ISBN-13: 978-098270842-2

Paperback: 162pp; $13.95

"…stories that reframe familiar questions about what is right and wrong, remembered and repressed resolved and unending."

 

Sonja Sekula: Grace in a Cow's EYE

a memoir

Poetry by Kathrin Schaeppi

Black Radish Books, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9825731-5-0

Paperback: 80pp; $15.00

From the Author Statement: "Each poem is ekphrastically founded on one of Sekula's artworks. This is also memoir as remembering."

 

Triggermoon Triggermoon

Poetry by Julia Cohen

Black Lawrence Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9826364-2-8

Paperback: 63pp; $14.00

"A lyric disrobing, not of personal narrative or story, but of how to let go of one rung while jumping for the other.