New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
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Posted March 24, 2021
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Black Bear Creek
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- Subtitle Stories
- Book Type Fiction
- by Joshua Cross
- Publisher (link) Southeast Missouri State University Press
- Date Published March 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-73301531-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 130pp
- Price $18.00
The town of Black Bear Creek is well past its glory days and ravaged by the mining industry on which its people depend. The characters in Joshua Cross’s debut story collection struggle to survive against rampant poverty while their drinking water is poisoned and the mountains around them are stripped away. Spanning decades, these are stories of life shattering injuries inflicted by working in the mines. Of men and women forced to be so hard they are frequently surprised by their own vulnerability. Despite the bleak backdrop, these are stories about how they find ways to love and hope and fight. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Blue Swan, Black Swan
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- Subtitle The Trakl Diaries
- Book Type Poetry
- by Stephanie Dickinson
- Publisher (link) Bitter Oleander Press
- Date Published February 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-73465351-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72pp
- Price $18.00
“War, mental illness, narcotics, sickness, incest and a deep passion for poetry were all a part of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl's short and tragic life (1887-1914). Biographical accounts have been few, vague and speculative. [ . . . ] In Blue Swan, Black Swan: The Trakl Diaries, Stephanie Dickinson opens a new door, but not one into Trakl's psyche, rather from out of his psyche as if it were him relaying the incidents as they occurred in each particular moment and which these poems more than aptly provide. All is as if it originates from his mouth, from his dictation onto the pages of what is meant to be read as his unwritten diary. . . ." —Paul B. Roth. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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How Other People Make Love
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Thisbe Nissen
- Publisher (link) Wayne State University Press
- Date Published April 2021
- ISBN-13 978-0-8143-4836-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208pp
- Price $18.99
In the nine stories of How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Concerning husbands and wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen’s stories explore our search for connection and all the ways we undercut it when we do find it. How Other People Make Love asserts that there aren’t right and wrong ways to love; there are only our very complicated and contradictory human hearts, minds, bodies, and desires—all searching for something, whether we know what that is or not. These are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Lily-livered
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Wren Hanks
- Publisher (link) Driftwood Press
- Date Published March 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-94906510-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 56pp
- Price $7.99
“Lily-livered is a beautifully braided catalog of ways to live and not die. Wren Hanks writes on friendship, hunger, touch, transformation, and the inheritance of a trait for which the chapbook is named. ‘Imagine it happened in a barn, a meat cellar.’ These poems unfurl as an array of forms, forms of life, with sensuous patterns and particulars. With ‘stubble the possible field,’ Hanks breathes lines that combine ribaldry, romance, and refrain into stunning, surprising images and interconnections. This is a smart, moving collection that you will love reading alone or with friends. ‘The ground is safe.’” —Oliver Baez Bendorf. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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The Supposed Huntsman
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Katie Fowley
- Publisher (link) Ugly Duckling Presse
- Date Published March 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-946433-81-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88pp
- Price $18.00
In her debut full-length collection of poems, The Supposed Huntsman, Fowley creates spaces that blur the lines of gender, species, and self: “Every animal is deadly / even the shape-shifter.” Fowley uses incantatory anaphora to enact endless transformations, becoming by turns a motley, plume-lit teacher-creature and a bear longing, like a bro, for a maiden in a tree. Drawing inspiration from Brothers Grimm fairy tales and troubadour tradition, Fowley’s poems elate and interrogate, ever aware that “childhood is so intensely serious.” Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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The Ways We Get By
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Joe Dornich
- Publisher (link) Black Lawrence Press
- Date Published January 2021
- ISBN-13 978-1-62557-830-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 186pp
- Price $19.95
“This bizarre, charming, darkly comic irreality of paid cuddlers and mean-spirited parents, where intimacy is commodified and heroes nonexistent might at first resemble something far off and fanciful. But take another look. This is the desperate, inscrutable world we’ve come to inhabit. And those outsiders and losers our own bewildered selves. Dornich is a master of the present moment.” –Adam Prince. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Anthology Posted March 24, 2021
Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction, Ed. Gina Berreca, Woodhall Press
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Fiction Posted March 24, 2021
The Absolutist, John Boyne, Other Press
As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea, Robert Wallace, Mint Hill Books
Before Stonewall, Edward M. Cohen, Awst Press
Black Bear Creek, Joshua Cross, SEMO Press
The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, Tanguy Viel, Dalkey Archive Press
Fleeing Father, Carmen-Francesca Banciu, PalmArtPress
Gambled Dreams, Jim Sanderson, Moonshine Cove Publishing
Honey Mine: Collected Stories, Camille Roy, NightBoat Books
How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen, Wayne State University Press
Narcisse on a Tightrope, Olivier Targowla, Dalkey Archive Press
Public Reading Followed by Discussion, Danielle Mémoire, Dalkey Archive Press
Recruited, Lauren Anderson, Stormbird Press
Scattered Lights: Stories, Steve Wiegenstein, Cornerpost Press
Tales the Devil Told Me, Jen Fawkes, Press 53
To Zenzi, Robert L. Shuster, New Issues Poetry & Prose
Velvet Shipwrecks: Collected Stories, Tim Wenzell, Texas A&M University Press
The Ways We Get By, Joe Dornich, Black Lawrence Press
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Nonfiction Posted March 24, 2021
By Bus, Erica Van Horn, Ugly Duckling Presse
Forever Free: A True Sotry of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy, Tracy Swinton Bailey, Other Press
Things That Crash, Things That Fly, Scott Gould, Vine Leaves Press
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Poetry Posted March 24, 2021
At First & Then, Danielle Rose, Black Lawrence Press
Blue Swan Black Swan: The Trakl Diaries, Stephanie Dickinson, Bitter Oleander Press
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me, Conor Bracken, Diode Editions
Except for This Unseen Thread, Ra'ad Abdulqadir, Ugly Duckling Presse
GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander, Diode Editions
Giant Moth Perishes, Geoffrey Nutter, Wave Books
Her Here, Amanda Dennis, Bellevue Literary Press
Hoarders, Kate Durbin, Wave Books
Late Human, Jean Day, Ugly Duckling Presse
Lily-Livered, Wren Hanks, Driftwood Press
Losing It, Richard J. Fein, Box Turtle Press
The Matrix, N. H. Pritchard, Ugly Duckling Presse
Ova Completa, Susana Thénon, Ugly Duckling Presse
Paris, Richard Jones, Tebot Bach
Playing Poker with Tennessee Williams, Kevin Pilkington, Black Lawrence Press
A Plumber's Guide to Light, Jesse Bertron, Rattle
Poems for Time Travelers in Love, Robert Anbian, Night Horn Books
Qorbanot: Offerings, Alisha Kaplan, SUNY Press
Red Mountain Cut, Steve Brammell, Finishing Line Press
SHO, Douglas Kearney, Wave Books
Splendor, Laura Rogerson Moore, Kelsay Books
The Supposed Huntsman, Katie Fowley, Ugly Duckling Presse
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, Hoa Nguyen, Wave Books
Where the Wolf, Sally Rosen Kindred, Diode Editions