New & Noteworthy Books
New & Forthcoming Books from
Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on June 9, 2011
At-Risk
Fiction by Amina Gautier
Univ of Georgia Press, September 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3888-0
Hardcover: 160pp; $24.95
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Between
Parentheses
Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003
Nonfiction by Roberto Bolano
Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
New Directions Books, May 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1814-6
Hardcover: 400pp; $24.95
Editor Ignacio Echevarria writes, "Taken together, they make up a surprisingly rounded whole; offering in their entirety a personal cartography of the writer: the closest thing, among all his writings, to a kind of fragmented autobiography."
Circle's Apprentice
Poetry by Dan Beachy-Quick
Tupelo Press, April 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-932195-97-2
Paperback: 96pp; $16.95
From the back cover: "Building upon the visceral and conceptual fascinations of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay “Circles,” these poems trace patterned tensions to connections in existence on many levels, from molecular to millennial.”
The Double Life of Alfred Buber
Fiction by David Schmahmann
The Permanent Press, June 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-57962-218-3
Hardcover: 198pp; $28.00
Arthur Golden writes, "David Schmahmann has created a character with the vividness of J. Alfred Prufrock or Humbert Humbert."
Erasure
Fiction by Percival Everett
Graywolf Press, November 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-599-9
Paperback: 272pp; $15.00
Jennifer Berman writes, "With equal measures of sympathy and satire, [Erasure] craftily addresses the highly charged issue of being 'black enough' in America."
Flower Cart
Poetry by Lisa Fishman
Ahsahta Press, May 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-934103-21-0
Paperback: 96pp; $17.50
From the press release: "Being alive in acts of reading is writing in Fishman's fourth book, where the materiality of words, weather, plant life, handwriting, and decay are engrafted in a hybrid ecology that is archival and lyric."
Guadalajara
Fiction by Quim Monzo
Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush
Open Letter, July 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-934824-19-1
Paperback: 125pp; $12.95
"Quim Monzo is today's best known writer in Catalan. He is also, no exaggeration, on of the world's great short-story writers."
Journal of American Foreign Policy
Poetry by Jeff Hoffman
New Issues Poetry & Prose, May 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-97-5
Paperback: 77pp; $15.00
Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize, selected by Linda Gregerson.
Mid Drift
Poetry by Kate Hanson Foster
Loom Press, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-931507-27-4
Paperback: 62pp; $15.00
Major Jackson writes, "Hanson Foster dramatizes life (real people and places) in language; and thus, her brilliant poems are to my ears vivid and courageous."
Northerners
Poetry by Seth Abramson
New Issues Poetry & Prose, May 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-96-8
Paperback: 72pp; $15.00
Winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize.
Smith Blue
Poetry by Camille T. Dungy
Southern Illinois Univ Press, May 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3031-7
Paperback: 70pp; $15.95
Alan Shapiro calls Smith Blue "a gorgeous and powerful book,one of the best I've read in recent years."
They Could No Longer Contain Themselves
A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks
Fiction by Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, et al
Rose Metal Press, May 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-9846166-1-9
Paperback: 248pp; $15.95
Sherrie Flick writes, "A wonderful range of voices comes at you from this collection of flash fictions with stories that haunt, that tell of grit and love and loss and longing with the kind of detail and patience that makes your teeth ache."
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
June 9, 2011
Anthology
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers, Ed. Barnaby Conrad, Quill Driver Books
Children's/YA Fiction
I Kick the Ball/Pateo el balon, Gwendolyn Zepeda, Piñata Books
Pepita and the Bully, Ofelia Dumas Lachtman, Piñata Books
The Land of Lost Things/El Pais De Las Cosas Perdidas, Dina Bursztyn, Piñata Books
Fiction
After Lyletown, K.C. Frederick, The Permanent Press
Assumption, Percival Everett, Graywolf Press
At-Risk, Amina Gautier, Univ of Georgia Press
The Double Life of Alfred Buber, David Schmahmann, The Permanent Press
Erasure, Percival Everett, Graywolf Press
The Fool's Errand, R. Charles McLravy, Arbutus Press
Guadalajara, Quim Monzo, Open Letter
Lunar Savings Time, Alex Epstein, Clockroot Books
Normally Special, xTx , Tiny Hardcore Press
The Redemption of George Baxter Henry, Conor Bowman, The Permanent Press
The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom & Party Girl, Marc Schuster, The Permanent Press
They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks, Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, et al., Rose Metal Press
Nonfiction
The Autobiography of an Execution, David R. Dow, Twelve
Between Parentheses, Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003, Roberto Bolano, New Directions Books
The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Otoliths
The Pitcher's Kid, Jack Olsen, Aequitas Books
So You Know It's Me, Brian Oliu, Tiny Hardcore Press
Poetry
Circle's Apprentice, Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo Press
Coming To That, Dorothea Tanning, Graywolf Press
Flower Cart, Lisa Fishman, Ahsahta Press
I Am Not a Pioneer, Adam Fell, H_NGM_N BKS
Journal of American Foreign Policy, Jeff Hoffman, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Mid Drift, Kate Hanson Foster, Loom Press
Northerners, Seth Abramson, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Smith Blue, Camille T. Dungy, Southern Illinois Univ Press
Undone, Maxine Scates, New Issues Poetry & Prose
The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree, Kevin Pilkington, Black Lawrence Press
Vanishing-Line, Jeffrey Yang, Graywolf Press
Xicano Duende: A Select Anthology, Alurista, Bilingual Review Press