New & Noteworthy Books

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Posted on March 31, 2011

 

Again the Far Morning

New and Selected Poems

Poetry by N. Scott Momaday

Univ of New Mexico Press, April 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-4842-5

Hardcover: 150pp; $29.95

The first collection of Momaday's poetry in over a decade. Complete with 11 color images.

 

American Masculine

Fiction by Shann Ray

Graywolf Press, July 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-588-3

Paperback: 192pp; $15.00

"A muscular debut story collection that reconfigures the American West." Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction.”

 

The Book of Interfering Bodies

Poetry by Daniel Borzutzky

Nightboat Books, 2011

ISBN-13: 9780984459827

Paperback: 103pp; $15.95

Rachel Loden writes, "If Franz Kafka had been a data entry specialist at Abu Ghraib, he might have written something as fiercely intelligent and voluptuously loopy as The Book of Interfering Bodies."

 

Called

Chapbook by Kate Greenstreet

delete press, 2011

Chapbook: 26pp; $10.00

A new chapbook from the author of The Last 4 Things. All copies have already sold out.

 

Dhaka Dust

Poetry by Dilruba Ahmed

Graywolf Press, June 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-589-0

Paperback: 112pp; $15.00

Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize.

 

Events Film Cannot Withstand

Poetry by Zach Savich

Rescue Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9844889-4-0

Paperback: 92pp; $14.00

A collection of new work that defies genre from the author of three previous full-length collections of poetry.

 

Helsinki

Poetry by Peter Richards

Action Books, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9799755-5-4

Paperback: 100pp; $16.00

From back cover: "This narrative lyric sequence is lit with ravishing light: part erotic, part nuclear, entirely mutagenic, dangerously Sublime."

 

Home/Birth

A Poemic

Poetry by Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker

1913 Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9779351-7-8

Paperback: 210pp; $11.00

Rachel Block writes, "Like birth itself, this conversation is not linear or predictable; it is messy and real and powerful, and a gift to be privy to."

 

The Honest Look

Fiction by Jennifer L. Rohn

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-193611311-8

Paperback: 344pp; $13.99

"The Honest Look is a tale of passion, betrayal and a devastating secret that threatens to bring down careers, a company and a widely accepted scientific theory."

 

The Kangaroo Girl

Poetry by Judith Baumel

GenPop Books, June 2011

ISBN-13: 9780982359433

Paperback: 78pp; $15.00

Wayne Koestenbaum writes, "Baumel's new poems are inspiring cabinets, loaded with gorgeous sounds, startling juxtapositions, and emotionally intricate quests."

 

The Leaves of Fate

Fiction by George Robert Minkoff

McPherson & Co, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-929701-82-0

Hardcover: 427pp; $24.95

The concluding volume in an epic fictional chronicle, In the Land of Whispers.

 

Man Years

Poetry by Sandra Doller

Subito Press, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9831150-2-1

Paperback: 90pp; $14.00

Rae Armantrout writes, "Doller is a pinball wizard, her attention ricocheting through America's flashy dystopias where, as she points out, 'The award goes / to the inventor of the situation / we're now in.'"

 

A Marriage of Convenience

Fiction by Andrew Plattner

BkMk Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-886157-78-1

Paperback: 180pp; $15.95

Sefi Atta writes, "A brilliant collection of short stories, honest, wise and full of warmth."

 

Master Siger's Dream

Fiction by A.W. Deannuntis

What Books Press, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9823542-7-8

Paperback: 229pp; $14.50

"Set in thirteenth century Europe which has twentieth century technology… [a] challenging romp in which readers encounter the Franciscan Highway Patrol, golf-playing Popes, and goddess-nuns."

 

Nobody Ever Gets Lost

Fiction by Jess Row

FiveChapters Books, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-982-93922-2

Paperback: 196pp; $14.95

"An emotionally searing story collection from an acclaimed writer named one of Granta's Top 20 Best Young American Novelists."

 

Of a Monstrous Child

An Anthology of Creative Writing Relationships

Ed. by Nate Liederbach, James Harris

Lost Horse Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9844510-4-3

Paperback: 412pp; $24.00

"The focus of this collection is not on its contributors' individual pieces, but the relationship between its featured authors. Assembled as organically as possible, these poets and prosists have partnered themselves—as mentor and mentee—in an exchange of introductions and creative works."

 

Parts of a World

Fiction by A.G. Mojtabai

Northwestern Univ Press, June 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2766-1

Hardcover: 208pp; $24.95

A story of "doubt, faith, obsession, and delusion" from the award-winning author of nine previous books.

 

That Summer in Franklin

Fiction by Linda Hutsell-Manning

Second Story Press, April 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-897187-89-0

Paperback: 242pp; $18.95

The accomplished children's book author releases her first novel for adults from what began as a short story called "Miss Purity Flour," a finalist in Glimmer Train Magazine's Very Short Fiction Contest.

 

This River

A Memoir

Nonfiction by James Brown

Counterpoint Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-721-7

Paperback: 180pp; $14.95

Brown's new memoir picks up where his last one, The Los Angeles Diaries, left off, "describing his tenuous relationship with sobriety, telling of agonizing relapses, and tracking his attempts to become a better father."

 

The Weather Stations

Fiction by Ryan Call

Caketrain, March 2011

Paperback: 210pp; $8.00

Robert Lopez writes, "The people in the crumbling worlds of The Weather Stations do what they can to survive and bear witness, and we, as readers, are the better for it."