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Posted on August 4, 2011

 

Burning Bright

Passager Celebrates 21 Years

Anthology Ed. By Mary Azrael, Kendra Kopelke

Passager Books, July 2011

ISBN-13: -0-9836209-0-7

Paperback: 300pp; $18.00

From website: Passager celebrates its 21st anniversary with this collection of fiction, poetry and memoir by writers whose work has appeared in Passager.

 

Dead Beats

Poetry by Sam Cornish

Ibbetson Street Press, July 2011

ISBN-13: -0-9795313-6-1

Paperback: 52pp; $14.00

"Starting with Allen Ginsberg and ending with Charlie Parker, Sam Cornish takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the livelier segments of 1950s and early ’60s American culture.” —Martha Collins

 

Gloss

Poetry by Ida Stewart

Perugia Press, September 2011

ISBN-13: -0-9794582-4-8

Paperback: 84pp; $16.00

From website: Winner of the 2011 Perugia Press Prize. Like the Appalachian mountain setting from which GLOSS arises, the language in this collection is in flux, full of paradox and thresholds, each word and line a peak or a range.

 

Hustle

Fiction by Jason Skipper

Press 53, June 2011

ISBN-13: -1-935708-34-6

Paperback: 216pp; $18.95

From website: In this…debut novel, an alcoholic ex-con man grandfather, his restless, philandering seafood salesman son, and his hopeful musician grandson struggle to make up for their past and somehow set course for the future.

 

Into the Snow

Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi

Poetry by Gennady Aygi

Translated from the Russian by Sarah Valentine

Wave Books, November 2011

ISBN-13: -1-933517-53-7

Paperback: 128pp; $16.00

From website: Animated by an elemental sense of life, mortality, and humanity, the Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi wrote poems that fused his experience of ethnic difference with an avant-garde aesthetic. Artfully translated from the Russian by poet and scholar Sarah Valentine.

 

Loving Longing Leaving

3 Plays

Drama by Michael Weller

Theatre Comm Grp, July 2011

ISBN-13: -1-55936-399-0

Paperback: 240pp; $17.95

From website: In Fifty Words , a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; Do Not Disturb dramatizes Adam’s infidelity at a hotel with former lover Melinda; and in Side Effects, Melinda and her husband Hugh come to terms with their broken relationship.

 

Picture World

Poetry by Niels Frank

Translated from the Danish by Roger Greenwald

BookThug, July 2011

ISBN-13: -1-897388-85-3

Paperback: 88pp; $18.00

From website: Picture World is the first complete book by the Danish poet Niels Frank to be published in English. It draws the reader into a set of contemplations that grows more and more complex as its elements recur, reinforcing and undercutting one another, casting light but also doubt.

 

Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches
Red Mistakes Read Mistakes

Poetry by Jennifer Tamayo

Switchback Books, July 2011

ISBN-13: -0-9786172-6-4

Paperback: 86pp; $18.00

From website: Winner of the 2010 Gatewood Prize selected by Cathy Park Hong. Tamayo tackles the frustrations of the transnational immigrant experience, language “mistakes” become “missed aches” and she writes mother and mother-tongue into one as “mouth her.”

 

Vertical Motion: Stories

Fiction by Can Xue

Translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping

Open Letter, September 2011

ISBN-13: -1-934824-37-5

Paperback: 186pp; $13.95

From website: The stories in this new collection [are] populated by old married couples, children, cats, and nosy neighbors, the entire menagerie of the everyday.

 

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