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Posted on 27 February 2012
The Chalk Circle
Anthology Ed. Tara L. Masih
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, May 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-936214-716
Paperback: 218pp; $14.95
Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call for intercultural essays dealing with the subjects of “culture, race, and a sense of place” in 2007. The prizewinners are gathered for the first time in this ground-breaking anthology that explores many facets of culture not previously found under one cover. These voices—Native American, African American, Asian, European, White—speak on topics . . . such as racism, war, self-identity, gender, and societal expectations.
Chinoiserie
Poetry by Karen Rigby
Ahsahta Press, January 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1934103258
Paperback: 72pp; $17.50
Winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Chinoiserie travels through centuries in poems that carve wonder from ruin, from an illuminated manuscript to New York on the eve of disaster, the Emperor's nightingale to neon aquariums.
The Collected Poems of Jared Smith
Poetry by Jared Smith
NYQ Books, April 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-51-1
Paperback: 600pp
The Collected Poems of Jared Smith: 1971 - 2011 brings together almost 300 poems from 9 books along with over 60 poems that were previously uncollected. Actively involved in poetry for more than 40 years, Jared has served as an editor, board member, and advisory board member of The New York Quarterly; as a contributing editor for Home Planet News; as poetry editor of Trail & Timberline.
The Complete Perfectionist
A Poetics of Work
Nonfiction by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Translated from the Spanish by Christopher Maurer
Swan Isle Press, February 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0983322009
Paperback: 161pp; $18.00
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jiménez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements—the wellsprings of any kind of creation—are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.
Grand & Arsenal
Poetry by Kerri Webster
University of Iowa Press, April 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-091-5
Paperback: 94pp; $18.00
Winner of the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize. Grand & Arsenal begins, “Bless me I am not myself,” but it is not long before the probability of being blessed is revealed to be as remote as the concept of a whole self. Thus begins the book’s defining struggle, enacted by a multitude of voices which move from rush to stumble and back again—meanwhile using all the tools we as a culture use to hold fear at arm’s length.
Heiresses of Russ 2011
The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
Anthology Ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steve Berman
Lethe Press, November 2011
Paperback: 286pp; $18.00
Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year. Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman read countless books, periodicals, and webzines to collect a range of tales—from new voices as well as award-winning authors—that celebrate the spirit of Russ’s fiction: stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth. The transformative power of the written word becomes magic and tests the boundaries of gender, identity, and a woman’s dreams.
Molly's
Organic Farm
Children's/YA Fiction by Carol L. Malnor
Dawn Publications, March 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1584691679
Paperback: 32pp; $8.95
Whoosh . . . the wind blows open a creaky gate. Inquisitive and mischievous, a homeless little cat scampers through—and suddenly finds herself in the wondrous world of an organic farm! Affectionately named “Molly” by the farmers who discover her, she romps, naps, and hunts among the vegetables. Seen through Molly’s eyes, the reader discovers the interplay of nature that grows wholesome food.
Natural Selections
Poetry by Joseph Campana
University of Iowa Press, April 2012
978-1-60938-081-6
Paperback: 82pp; $18.00
Winner of the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize. Whether wandering the paths of the imagination, driving through sparsely populated countryside, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana’s poems attend to the ways we are indelibly marked by habitat.
Three Poems
Bassacksenglish, Monopoems, Coming(s) Together
Poetry by Richard Kostelanetz
NYQ Books, December 2011
978-1-935520-49-8
Paperback: 84pp; $14.95
Having already established his poetry as among the most inventive ever, Richard Kostelanetz realizes further radically formal steps in Three Poems. Each is a sequence of one-word texts continuously interleaved with the others in an unprecedented way, offering an unprecedented reading experience. The book concludes with Kostelanetz’s visual essay “Poetry I Shall Not Make.”
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
27 February 2012
Anthology
City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Ed., Univ of Iowa Press
Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, Ed. JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steve Berman, Lethe Press
Off the Beaten Track: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers, Igor Savelyev, Irina Bogatyreva, Tatiana Mazepina, Glas New Russian Writing
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Ed. Eduardo Jimenez Mayo, Chris N. Brown, Small Beer Press
Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching, Ed. Carol Smallwood, Colleen S. Harris, Cynthia , McFarland
Children's/YA Fiction
Ghost Readers, Victoria Brown, RoseDog Books
Jo MacDonald Had a Garden, Mary Quattlebaum, Dawn Publications
Molly's Organic Farm, Carol L. Malnor, Dawn Publications
Over in the Forest, Come and Take a Peek, Marianne Berkes, Dawn Publications
Cross-Genre
Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents, Alex Forman, Les Figues Press
Fiction
As a Machine & Parts, Caleb J. Ross, Aqueous Books
Autobiography of Childhood, Sina Queyras, Coach House Books
Bring Me One of Everything, Leslie Hall Pinder, Grey Swan Press
Cataclysm Baby, Matt Bell, Mud Luscious Press
The Dying Horse, Jason Jordan, Main Street Rag Pub Co
Eat Your Heart Out, Dayna Ingram, Lethe Press
Eye Lake, Tristan Hughes, Coach House Books
Fast Machine, Elizabeth Ellen, Short Flight/Long Drive Books
Float, Nate House, Aqueous Books
Four New Messages, Joshua Cohen, Graywolf Press
The Heart's History, Lewis DeSimone, Lethe Press
Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living, Daniel M. Jaffe, White Crane Books
Kino, Jurgen Fauth, Atticus Books
Lyric Novella, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Seagull Books
Ministers of Fire, Mark Harrril Saunders, Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press
No Animals We Could Name, Ted Sanders, Graywolf Press
The O'Briens, Peter Behrens, Pantheon Books
Omicron Ceti III, Thomas P. Balazs, Aqueous Books
Paradise Misplaced, Sylvia Montgomery Shaw, Swedenborg Foundation Press /
Sarmada, Fadi Azzam, Interlink Publishing Group
Small Economics, John Palen, Mayapple Press
Soul on Fire, John E. Forster, Black Rose Writing
Ugly to Start With, John Michael Cummings, Vandalia Press
Watergate, Thomas Mallon, Pantheon Books
We Are All Equally Far from Love, Paul Starkey, Clockroot Books
Nonfiction
The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir, Jeffrey Skinner, Sarabande Books
Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program, Kevin Begos, Danielle Deaver, John Railey, Scott , Gray Oak Books
All the Roads Are Open, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Seagull Books
America in the Forties, Ronal Allen Goldberg, Syracuse Univ Press
The Chalk Circle, Ed. Tara L. Masih, Wyatt-MacKenzie Pub
The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Swan Isle Press
Hemingway: Race, and Art, Bloodlines and the Color Line, Marc Kevin Dudley, Kent State Univ Press
Murdering the Mom: A Memoir, Duff Brenna, Wordcraft of Oregon
Niagara Digressions, E.R. Baxter III, Starcherone Books
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion, Alain de Botton, Pantheon Books
Valley of Shadows and Dreams, Melanie Light, Heyday Books
Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution, from Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army, to the birth of the Federation of Cuban Women, Vilma Espin, Asela de los Santos, Yolanda Ferrer, Pathfinder Press
Poetry
Allegiance, Francine J. Harris, Wayne State Univ Press
At Home In Hernandez, David Starnes, Finishing Line Press
A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, CAConrad, Wave Books
Blue Rust, Joseph Miller, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Booker T & Them: A Blues, Bill Harris, Wayne State Univ Press
Call the Catastrophists, Krystal Languell, BlazeVOX [books]
Chinoiserie, Karen Rigby, Ahsahta Press
Civil Twilight, Margot Schlipp, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
The Collected Poems of Jared Smith, Jared Smith, NYQ Books
Comet Star, James Harms, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
The Cupboard Artist, Molly Tenenbaum, Floating Bridge Press
Dream-Clung, Gone, Lauren Russell, Brooklyn Arts Press
Early Creatures, Native Gods, K. A. Hayes, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Easing into Dark, Jacqueline Kudler, Sixteen Rivers Press
Enigma and Light, David Mutschlecner, Ahsahta Press
Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Shearsman Books
The Girls of Peculiar, Catherine Pierce, Saturnalia Books
Grand & Arsenal, Kerri Webster, Univ of Iowa Press
Help Is on the Way, John Brehm, Univ of Wisconsin Press
Hurricane Party, Alison Pelegrin, Univ of Akron Press
The Kingfisher's Reign, Jonas Zdanys, Virtual Artists Collective Poetry
Lacemakers, Claire McQuerry, Southern Illinois Univ Press
The Light Between, Terry Blackhawk, Wayne State Univ Press
A Map of the Lost World, Rick Hilles, Univ of Pittsburgh Press
Me and Nina, Monica A. Hand, Alice James Books
Mother Desert, Jo Sarzotti, Graywolf Press
My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Ahsahta Press
My Scarlet Ways, Tanya Larkin, Saturnalia Books
Natural Selections, Joseph Campana, Univ of Iowa Press
Night Chant, Andrew Demcak, Lethe Press
Now Make an Altar, Amy Beeder, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Obedience, Chris Vitiello, Ahsahta Press
Onion Man, Kathryn Mockler, Saturnalia Books
Phyla of Joy, Karen An-hwei Lee, Tupelo Press
Sancta, Andrew Grace, Ahsahta Press
Scar Girl, Maureen Sherbondy, Finishing Line Press
Snowflake/Different Streets, Eileen Myles, Wave Books
Space/Gap/Interval/Distance, Judy Halebsky, Sixteen Rivers Press
Spitshine, Anne Marie Rooney, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Still Some Cake, James Cummins, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
That Was Oasis, Michael McFee, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press
Three Poems: Bassacksenglish, Monopoems, Coming(s) Together, Richard Kostelanetz, NYQ Books
To Embroider the Ground with Prayers, Teresa J. Scollon, Wayne State Univ Press
Unpublished Poems, Broc Rossell, Brooklyn Arts Press
Vision of the Return, Amin Khan, Post-Apollo Press
Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt, Karen J. Weyant, Main Street Rag Pub Co