New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted December 22, 2020
-
Fragments of a Mortal Mind
-
Image
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Donald Anderson
- Publisher (link) University of Nevada Press
- Date Published April 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-948908788
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 312pp
- Price $26.00
At once a memoir, a reading journal, and a novel, Fragments of a Mortal Mind is a daring, contemporary commonplace book. Donald Anderson shows us how the disparate elements of our lives collect to construct our deepest selves and help us to make sense of it all. Anderson layers personal experiences and reflections with those of others who have wrestled with inner and outer social, cultural, and political memories that are not as accurate as history might suggest but that each of us believe nonetheless. This is a powerful masterpiece that closely resembles our lived experiences and is a vivid reflection of our time. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
-
Image
-
Here Lies a Father
-
Image
- Book Type Fiction
- by Mckenzie Cassidy
- Publisher (link) Kaylie Jones Books
- Date Published January 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-617757570
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256pp
- Price $16.95
When Ian Daly and his sister arrive for their wayward father’s funeral, a secret that was kept from them their entire lives emerges: their father Thomas abandoned two other families. In the cold, lonely winter landscape of small-town New York, fifteen-year-old Ian sets out alone to learn the truth about his father’s past and the families he left behind. Here Lies a Father examines the long-term effects shameful secrets have on a family, and how difficult it is for a young man to reconstruct his own sense of right and wrong, when every value and moral principle he was ever taught was based on a lie. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
-
Image
-
The River People
-
Image
- Book Type Poetry
- by Polly Buckingham
- Publisher (link) University of Washington Press
- Date Published October 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-733340076
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $18.00
The poems in Polly Buckingham’s debut collection, The River People, move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is often in a state of not knowing that can be both terrifying and revelatory. It is a state in which windows and doors connect the living and the dead and the inner and outer worlds. Organized in four sections that move from Florida to the Pacific Northwest, the poems are heavily imagistic and reminiscent of deep image poetry and Spanish surrealism. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
-
Image
-
Semiotic Love [Stories]
-
Image
- Book Type Fiction
- by Brian Phillip Whalen
- Publisher (link) Awst Press
- Date Published March 2021
- ISBN-13 978-0-997193893
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128pp
- Price $15.00
Semiotic Love [Stories] draws upon symbols and objects to explore the loss of relationships. In these pages, Brian Phillip Whalen reaches deep into the throat of anxiety with a graceful hand and understated humor as he confronts mothers and best friends dying slow or sudden deaths, disappointing vacations, and vanishing sisters. While loss of all kinds permeates these compact stories, it is the tenderness and longing that attaches itself to the reader and propels them to turn the page. This book reminds us that for better or for worse, we're all a little rougher with the people we love the most.
-
Image
-
Women in the Waiting Room
-
Image
- Book Type Poetry
- by Kirun Kapur
- Publisher (link) Black Lawrence Press
- Date Published October 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-62557-823-5
- Format Paperback
- Pages 81pp
- Price $16.95
"From crushed bodies and crushed nouns, Kirun Kapur has composed an utterly original book. Unsparing, un-selfpitying, these poems make an imaginative whole from Hindu mythology, confessions from a hotline for sexual abuse, meditations on a friend’s mortal illness, and the poet’s private pain. Kapur makes a masterful style from the edges of experience where ‘the soul, whatever it is, struggles to articulate.’” —Rosanna Warren. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
-
Image
-
Anthology Posted October 21, 2020
By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's Capital, Ed. Kim Roberts, University of Virginia Press
The Powow River Poets: Anthology II, Ed. Paulette Demers Turco, Able Muse Press
-
Fiction Posted December 22, 2020
Answering Liberty's Call, Tracy Lawson, Fidelis Publishing
Here Lies a Father, Mckenzie Cassidy, Kaylie Jones Books
Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hebuterne, Linda Lappin, Serving House Books
Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces, Maceo Montoya, University of Nevada Press
Semiotic Love [Stories], Brian Phillip Whalen, Awst Press
This Here Is Devil's Work, Curtis Bradley Vickers, University of Nevada Press
-
Nonfiction Posted December 22, 2020
Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel, Donald Anderson, University of Nevada Press
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands, John L. Smith, University of Nevada Press
-
Poetry Posted December 22, 2020
Adjusting to the Lights, Tom C. Hunley, Rattle
The Charmed House, Deborah Diemont, Dos Madres
Count Four., Keith Kopka, University of Tampa Press
Giant Moth Perishes, Geoffrey Nutter, Wave Books
Guard the Mysteries, Cedar Sigo, Wave Books
Hoarders, Kate Durbin, Wave Books
Into Night's Tent, Stephen Frech, River Glass Books
Listen, Steven Cramer, MadHat Press
My Mother's Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986 - 2020, Roy Bentley, Lost Horse Press
Now It's Dark, Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan University Press
The River People, Polly Buckingham, Lost Horse Press
Seldom Purely, Linda Haviland Conte, Ibbetson Street Press
Set in Stone, Kevin Carey, CavanKerry Press
Sho, Douglas Kearney, Wave Books
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, Hoa Nguyen, Wave Books
Trump Sonnets: Volume 7: His Further Virus Monologues, Ken Waldman, Ridgeway Press
Women in the Waiting Room, Kirun Kapur, Black Lawrence Press