New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted November 24, 2021
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Broadstone Books presents new poetry from David Hargreaves
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- Book Type Poetry
- by David Hargreaves
- Publisher (link) Broadstone Books
- Date Published October 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-937968-93-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96pp
- Price $21.95
Lush and allusive, tuned to a background in translating Nepal Bhasa poetry, Running Out of Words for Afterwards gives voice to cycles of desire, loss, and renewal. Like the many rivers that flow through this book, David Hargreaves’ poems, in various turns, can be urgent, expansive, unpredictable, or calm, conveying the reader through landscapes both mystical and mundane, through illusions of selfhood, and the struggles of language to accept its own limitations. "A truly exquisite book of poems." —Charlotte Pence -
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Invisible People now in paperback from Temple University Press
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Alex Tizon
- Publisher (link) Temple University Press
- Date Published October 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-4399-1831-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 264pp
- Price $17.95
Every human being has an epic story, according to the late Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Alex Tizon, who spent his career telling the epic stories of marginalized people—from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Invisible People collects the best of Tizon’s rich, empathetic accounts—including the Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured servitude, “My Family’s Slave.” Order online at tupress.temple.edu and mention offer code T30P for 30% professional discount.
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New Titles from Diode Editions
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Assorted Authors
- Publisher (link) Diode Editions
- Date Published 2021
- Format Paperback
- Price $12.00-$18.00
Visit the Diode Editions catalog for new and forthcoming titles like Dorothy Chan's Babe, Shanta Lee Gander's Ghettoclaustrophobia, and Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills' collaborative chapbook, Low Budget Movie.
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Philadelphians
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Tony DePaul
- Publisher (link) New Plains Press
- Date Published October 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-734571981
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144pp
- Price $18.95
Tony DePaul's shorts collection contains two true life events. Each story in this collection contains the elixir of living in the City of Brotherly Love as experienced by this retired executive who is as great at telling a story as he is at a round of golf on a Sunday afternoon if the wind is blowing just right. Cover art is by the very loved Jared Owens, and is titled Philaguernica.
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You Better Be Lightning
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Andrea Gibson
- Publisher (link) Button Poetry
- Date Published November 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-943735-99-0
- Format Paperback
- Pages 136pp
- Price $25.00
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson’s trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.
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You Never Get It Back
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Cara Blue Adams
- Publisher (link) University of Iowa Press
- Date Published December 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-60938-813-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 186pp
- Price $16.00
The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams's precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s hillsides, the New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.
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Fiction Posted November 24, 2021
Breaking Points, Chelsea Stickle, Black Lawrence Press
Cosmogramma, Courttia Newland, Akashic Books
Forum, Josh Wardrip, Tailwinds Press
God of Mercy, Okezie Nwọka, Astra House
The New Existence, Michael Collins, University of Iowa Press
Pity the Beast, Robin McLean, And Other Stories
Policing the City: An Ethno-graphic, Didier Fassin with Frédéric Debomy, Other Press
Rose Royal: A Love Story, Nicolas Mathieu, Other Press
Township, Jamie Lynn Smith, Cornerstone Press
Virgil Kills, Ronald V. Wilson, Nightboat Books
You Never Get It Back, Cara Blue Adams, University of Iowa Press
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Nonfiction Posted November 24, 2021
Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump, Danny Goldberg, Akashic Books
Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Coffee House Press
The Child is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori, Christine De Stefano, Other Press
Green Chili and Other Impostors, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, University of Iowa Press
Heir to the Crescent Moon, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, University of Iowa Press
Indigo, Padgett Powell, Catapult
The Kindness of Strangers, Tom Lutz, University of Iowa Press
Trace and Aura: The Recurring Livs of St. Ambrose of Milan, Patrick Boucheron, Other Press
We Heard It When We Were Young: Tales of Growing Up Mexican American in Small-Town Iowa, Chuy Renteria, University of Iowa Press
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Poetry Posted November 24, 2021
Aerial Concave Without Cloud, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Nightboat Books
And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, Lynn Xu, Wave Books
Copy, Dolores Dorantes, Wave Books
Dark Harvest: New & Selected Poems, 2001-2020, Joseph Miller, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Everything I Don't Know, Jerzy Ficowski, World Poetry Books
Flame in a Stable, Martin Edmunds, Arrowsmith Books
Home.Girl.Hood., Ebony Stewart, Button Poetry
I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom, Kim Dower, Red Hen Press
Multiverse, Celia Lisset Alvarez, Finishing Line Press
Plans for Sentences, Renee Gladman, Wave Books
Revenge Body, Rachel Wiley, Button Poetry
Shreela Ray: On the Life and Work of an American Master, Ed. Kazim Ali & Rohan Chhetri, Pleiades Press
The Stones to Keep Watch, John Whitney Steele, Kelsay Books
That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, Silvina Lopez Medin, word
Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina, Dara Barrois/Dixon, Wave Books
Translation for the Lilies Back into Lists, Laynie Browne, Wave Books
Yes and No, John Skoyles, Carnegie Mellon University Press
You Better Be Lightning, Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry
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Children's/YA Posted November 24, 2021
Broken Butterfly Wings: Alas de mariposa rotas, Carrie Salazar, Pinata Books
Josefina's Habichuelas: Las habichuelas de Josefina, Flor De Vita, Pinata Books
La Llorona Can't Scare Me: La Llorona no me asusta, Xavier Garza, Pinata Books
Little John Crow, Ziggy & Orly Marley, Akashic Books
