Books Received May 2023

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Poetry
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Abyss and Song, George Sarantaris, World Poetry Books
Awaiting, Charisse Pearlinna Weston, Ugly Duckling Presse
Bar of Rest, Sara Epstein, Kelsay Books
Before Wisdom, Paul Verlaine, World Poetry Books
Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems, ed. Nomi Stone & Luke Hankins, Orison Books
Bone Wishing, Tara Flint Taylor, Slapering Hol Press
The Book of Noah, Yoni Hammer-Kossoy, Grayson Books
Deep Are These Distances Between Us, Susan Atefat-Peckham, CavanKerry Press
Don’t Leave Me This Way, Eric Sneathen, Nightboat Books
Dream of Xibalba, Stephanie Adams-Santos, Orison Books
Embarrassed of the (W)hole, Ugly Duckling Presse
Gay Poems for Red States, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr., University Press of Kentucky
How to Shoot a Tourist (With a Bow & Arrow) In a Hot-Air Balloon, Joseph D. Reich, Sagging Meniscus Press

In Kind, Maggie Queeney, University of Iowa Press
The Knife Thrower’s Girl, Naomi Mulvihill, The Word Works
Lo, Melissa Crowe, University of Iowa Press, Kelsay Books
No One Is on the Line: The Poetry of Mohsen Mohamed, Laertes Press
Old Age & Young Hearts, eds Judie Rae and Ellen Reynard
The Optimist Shelters in Place, Kimberly Ann Priest, Small Harbor Publishing
Prayer Book for the New Heretic, Colin Pope, NYQ Books
Prayershreds, Bruce Beasley, Orison Books
Pulled Pork in Paris, Athar Pavis, Kelsay Books
Proximal Morocco, Mohammed Khair-Eddine, Ugly Duckling Presse
Rise Above the River, Kelly Rowe, Able Muse Press
Teeter, Kimberly Alidio, Nighboat Books
This Far North, Jason Tandon, Black Lawrence Press
Will You Remember Me, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Word Galaxy Press
Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile, Poems by Pablo Neruda; Photographs by Milton Rogovin, White Pine Press
Saint Ghetto of the Loans: Grimoire, Gabriel Pomerand, World Poetry Books
Worn Smooth Between Devourings, Lauren Camp, NYQ Books

Fiction
Do I Belong Here? Reme Colato Lainez, Pinata Books
Earth, Little Earth, Jorge Tetl Argueta, Pinata Books
Murmurations, Andrea Rinard, EastOver Press
Petrochemical Nocturne, Amos Wright, Livingston Press
Player’s Vendetta, John Lantigua, Arte Publico Press
Poppy and Mary Ellen Deliver the Goods, Roz Weedman and Susan Todd, Mission Point Press
A Season in Delhi, Scott Alexander Hess
Spending Time with Dad, Elias David, Pinata Books
Outer Sunset, Mark Ernest Pothier, University of Iowa Press

Nonfiction
Generation Exile, Rodrigo Dorfman, Arte Publico Press
Going Back to T-Town, Carmen Fields, The University of Oklahoma Press
I’m Alive, Wendy Larramore, iUniverse
Impossible Recovery, Julia Wertz, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Lies About Black People, Omekongo Dibinga, Rowman & Littlefield
The Principles of Comedy Improv, Tom Blank, University of Iowa Press
Stone Breaker, Kathleen L. Housley, Wesleyan University Press
Two States of Single, Julie A. Jacob, Leaping Poodle Press
Write What You Don’t Know, Allegra Huston and James Navé, Imaginative Storm Publishing