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Posted on 12 July 2012
The Branches, the Axe, the Missing
Chapbook by Charlotte Pence
Black Lawrence Press, June 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-9828766-7-1
Chapbook: 28pp; $9.00
She is the author of two chapbooks, one of which won Black Lawrence’s Black River Chapbook Award. The chapbook, The Branches, the Axe, the Missing, is scientific yet sexy, and explodes with startling imagery as it explores evolution, paranoid schizophrenia, and the nuclear family.
Kodoku
Children’s/YA Fiction by William Emery
Heyday Books, September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-59714-173-4
Hardcover: 32pp; $16.95
In 1962 a young adventurer, Kenichi Horie, left the shores of his native Japan in a small sailboat he called the Mermaid. Three months later he reached San Francisco, becoming the first person to sail across the Pacific Ocean alone. Author William Emery and artist Hanae Rivera recreate this legendary tale of a courageous boy who dared to follow his dreams.
Lady Business
A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry
Sibling Rivalry Press, August 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-937420-18-5
Paperback: 146pp; $16.95
It’s our Sapphic sisters turn to shine! In the spirit of Assaracus comes Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry, featuring some of the most talented and diverse voices from established and emerging female poets, including Sally Bellerose, Brit Blalock, Cassandra Christenson, Marty Correia, Teresa De La Cruz, Julie R. Enszer, Gina R. Evers, Andy Izenson, Ronna Magy, Mary Meriam, Maureen Seaton, and Jan Steckel. Cover art by Bil Donovan.
Paper Sons and Daughters
Growing up Chinese in South Africa
Nonfiction by Ufrieda Ho
Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press, September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-2020-1
Paperback: 248pp; $18.95
It tells the story of a stowaway, Ho Sing Kee, who hid for long weeks aboard a ship crossing the Indian Ocean. Leaving behind his village and his ancestors, he looked to the “mountain of gold” in Johannesburg as an escape from his bleak life in devastated 1950s China. In South Africa he became a “paper son,” a literal translation of the phrase used to refer to the illegal immigrants who bought or borrowed new identities from more established Chinese families to avoid detection by the authorities.
The Purple Runner
Fiction by Paul Christman
Aqueous Books, May 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-9847399-8-1
Paperback: 400pp; $16.99
The Purple Runner concentrates upon two stories evolving in London, one about a New Zealand marathoner looking to break her cycle of mediocre clockings in marathon running, and the other surrounding a mysterious world-class runner with a disfigured face. His return to competition finally occurs in spectacular fashion when both runners compete in the London Marathon.
Tell Everyone I Said Hi
Fiction by Chad Simpson
Univ of Iowa Press, October 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-126-4
Paperback: 138pp; $16.00
These eighteen stories by Chad Simpson roam the small-town playgrounds, blue-collar neighborhoods, and rural highways of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky to find people who’ve lost someone or something they love and have not yet found ways to move forward.
Without a Net
Poetry by Ana Maria Shua
Translated from the Spanish by Steven J. Sewart
Hanging Loose Press, September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-934909-28-7
Paperback: 128pp; $18.00
“Taking the circus as a creative pretext, Shua’s stories create an exhibition of double and triple flips, of walking a tightrope and performing the most difficult narrative acrobatics, all from an effervescent and powerful imagination.”
—José María Merion (member of the Royal Spanish Academy)
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Posted 12 July 2012
Anthology
Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry, Sibling Rivalry Press
Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry, Ed. Andrena Zawinski, Scarlet Tanager Books
Chapbook
Black Birds: Blue Horse: An Elegy, Natalie Peeterse, Gold Line Press
The Branches, the Axe, the Missing, Charlotte Pence, Black Lawrence Press
Circle Straight Back, Noel Sloboda, Cervena Barva Press
So Below, Noel Sloboda, Sunnyoutside
To The One Wo Raped Me, Dustin Brookshire, Sibling Rivalry Press
Children’s/YA Fiction
Animal Jamboree: Latino Folktales, Judith Oritz Cofer, Arte Publico Press
Body Slammed!, Ray Villareal: Arte Publico Press
Dancing with the Devil: And Other Tales from Beyond, Rene Saldana, Jr., Arte Publico Press
Kodoku, William Emery, Heyday Books
Children’s/YA Nonfiction
Fat No More: A Teenager’s Victory over Obesity, Alberto Hidalgo-Robert, Arte Publico Press
Fiction
Apostle Islands, Tommy Zurhellen, Atticus Books
The Beautiful Wishes of Ugly Men, Adam Prince, Black Lawrence Press
Bonsai, Alejandro Zambra, Melville House Pub
For You, Madam Lenin, Kat Meads, Livingston Press
Hold It ‘Til It Hurts, T. Geronimo Johnson, Coffee House Press
The Hound of Westover County, Glynn Custred, Aqueous Books
The House Enters the Street, Gretchen E. Henderson, Dzanc Books
The House of Jasmine, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, Interlink Publishing Group
Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant, Edmond Caldwell, Say It with Stones
The Invisibles, Hugh Sheehy, Univ of Georgia Press
Kind One, Laird Hunt, Coffee House Press
A Last Resort for Desperate People, Jeremy Griffin, Stephen F. Austin State Univ Press
A Million Heavens, John Brandon, McSweeney’s Books
Miss Peabody’s Inheritance, Elizabeth Jolley, Persea Books
Mr. Scobie’s Riddle, Elizabeth Jolley, Persea Books
The Naming of Ghosts, Steve Mitchell, Press 53
Other Kinds, Dylan Nice, Short Flight/Long Drive Books
A Prayer to Saint Jude, Vicki Salloum, Mint Hill Books
Priors, Marcel Jolley, Black Lawrence Press
The Pulpit vs. the Hole, Jay Shearer, Gold Line Press
The Purple Runner, Paul Christman, Aqueous Books
The Radiance of Fossils, Pat Carr, Mint Hill Books
Revelation, Colin Winnette, Mutable Sound
Rondo and Fugue for Two Pianos, Lawrence Dunning, Mint Hill Books
Safe as Houses, Marie-Helene Bertino, Univ of Iowa Press
Sudden Death, Over Time, John Rember, Wordcraft of Oregon
Tell Everyone I Said Hi, Chad Simpson, Univ of Iowa Press
Trading Dreams, J.L. Morin, Harvard Square Editions
Wanderers, Edward Belfar, Stephen F. Austin State Univ Press
Nonfiction
American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations, Thomas S. Hischak, McFarland
Beyond the Screenplay: A Dialectical Approach to Dramaturgy, Zachariah Rush, McFarland
The Language of Men, Anthony D’Aries, Hudson Whitman
Legends of Vietnam: An Analysis and Retelling of 88 Tales, Nghia M. Vo, McFarland
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle, Wave Books
Masters of the “Humdrum” Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-: Curtis Evans, McFarland
Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master, Ed. Dan Chaon, Norah Hardin Lind, Phong Nguyen, Pleiades Press
Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa, Ufrieda Ho, Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, Jonathan Gottschall, Houghton Mifflin Co
Stripping Down, Sheila Hageman, Pink Fish Press
Poetry
Cemetery Chess: Selected and New Poems, Sandy McIntosh, Marsh Hawk Press
Congress of Strange People, Stephanie Lenox, Airlie Press
The Custom House, Dennis Daly, Ibbetson Street Press
Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit, Stacy Doris, Nightboat Books
For the Comfort of Automated Phrases, Jane Cassady, Sibling Rivalry Press
From the Belly, Virginia Bell, Sibling Rivalry Press
And, God Said: Let there be Evolution, Steve Henn, NYQ Books
The Hello Delay, Julie Choffel, Fordham Univ Press
Music for Porn, Rob Halpern, Nightboat Books
The Obituary, Gail Scott, Nightboat Books
Robinson Alone: A Novel in Poems, Kathleen Rooney, Gold Wake Press
Shine, Donelle McGee, Sibling Rivalry Press
Singing Back the Darkness, KP Liles, NYQ Books
Snake, Gary Lemons, Red Hen Press
Then Go On, Mary Burger, Litmus Press
Upper Level Disturbances, Kevin Goodan, Univ Press Colorado
Uttering the Holy, Adam Hughes, NYQ Books
The Wishing Tomb, Amanda Auchter, Perugia Press
Without a Net, Ana Maria Shua, Hanging Loose Press
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