New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
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Posted May 16, 2019
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The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
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- Book Type Poetry
- by jayy dodd
- Publisher (link) Nightboat Books
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-93765897-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96pp
- Price $15.95
THE BLACK CONDITION FT. NARCISSUS is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the author’s gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing the cosmic impacts of our political landscape. Ranging from autobiographic melancholy to rigorously meditative, here is a necessary voice to process the world, predicated on unknowable desire and blossoming tragedy.
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LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
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- Book Type Anthology Ed.
- by Jeff Mann & Julia Watts
- Publisher (link) West Virginia University Press
- Date Published February 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-946684-92-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288pp
- Price $29.99
This collection gathers fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like much Appalachian literature, these works are pervaded with an attachment to family and the mountain landscape, yet balancing queer and Appalachian identities is an undertaking fraught with conflict. This collection confronts the problematic and complex intersections of place, family, sexuality, gender, and religion with which LGBTQ Appalachians often grapple. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Silas House, Ann Pancake, Fenton Johnson, and Nickole Brown, as well as emerging writers like Savannah Sipple, Rahul Mehta, Mesha Maren, and Jonathan Corcoran.
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Small Sillion
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Joshua McKinney
- Publisher (link) Parlor Press
- Date Published 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-64317-046-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 99pp
- Price $14.00
Joshua McKinney's fourth collection, Small Sillion, enacts a lyric struggle to perceive the numinous in a world marked by violence. The term sillion, as used by Hopkins in his famous poem, "The Windhover," refers to a furrow turned over by a plough. For McKinney it is both prelude to fertility, and wound, a scarring of the land. Maintaining a tension between the visionary and the mundane, these poems posit a border between language and the living world; they constitute a personal eco-poetics of skepticism, one that respects language's utility and radiance, while acknowledging that the world's complexity lies beyond the grasp of language.
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Some Unimaginable Animal
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- Book Type Poetry
- by David Ebenbach
- Publisher (link) Orison Books
- Date Published May 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-949039-23-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 60pp
- Price $16.00
In his much-anticipated second poetry collection, David Ebenbach addresses the full scope of the human condition—past, present, and future. Exploring the vast sweep of history, from our ancient evolutionary origins to our future archaeological remains, Ebenbach’s deceptively light-handed poems penetrate to the core of what it means to be human, a brief but exquisite being, full of appetites both healthy and harmful.
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throughsmoke
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- Subtitle an essay in notes
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Jehanne Dubrow
- Publisher (link) New Rivers Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-0-89823378-0
- Format Paperback
- Pages 108pp
- Price $17.00
“There are many ways I might describe Jehanne Dubrow’s riveting new project, throughsmoke: ‘a capacious lyric essay that distills many voices into one’ (true!), or ‘a stirring meditation on the olfactory sensibility’ (yes!), or even ‘a remarkable compendium of facts about perfume’ (indeed!). But THROUGHSMOKE is also an elegantly braided exploration of what fragrance opens up in us—a haunting and ephemeral guide, as the finest fragrances are, to memory, obsession, grief, and desire.”—Julie Marie Wade
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Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege
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- Subtitle Essays on Hawai'i
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Liz Prato
- Publisher (link) Overcup Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-7326103-0-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 310pp
- Price $15.95
Volcanoes, Palm Trees And Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i by Liz Prato explores what it means to be a white tourist in a seemingly paradisiacal land that has been formed, and largely destroyed, by white outsiders. Hawaiian history, pop culture, and contemporary affairs are woven with personal narrative in fifteen essays that examine how the touristic ideal of Hawai‘i came to be, and what it “is,” at its core. The book is a highly readable hybrid of the in-depth exploration of narrative journalism combined with the through-line of memoir.
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Anthology Posted May 16, 2019
Story Cities: A City Guide for the Imagination, Ed. Rosamund Davies, Cherry Potts, Kam Rehal, Arachne Press
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Fiction Posted May 16, 2019
A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do, Pete Fromm, Counterpoint Press
Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, Ron A. Austin, Southeast Missouri State Unviersity Press
The Feral Boy Who Lives in Griffith Park, Tim Kirk, Pelekinesis
Further Up the Path: Flash Fables, Daniel Oz, BOA Editions LTD
Jakarta, Rodrigo Marquez Tizano, Coffee House Press
Joytime Killbox, Brian Wood, BOA Editions LTD
Surrendering Appomattox, Jacob M. Appel, C&R Press
The Thousand Steps: Book 1 of The Fiery Spiral, Helen Brain, Catalyst Press
The Wall, Max Annas, Catalyst Press
What Could Be Saved, Gregory Spatz, Tupelo Press
When all else fails, Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Interlink Publishing
The Wild Impossibility, Cheryl A. Ossola, Regal House Publishing
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Graphic Novel Posted May 16, 2019
King Shaka: Zulu Legend, Luke W. Molver, Catalyst Press
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Nonfiction Posted May 16, 2019
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith, Thomas G. Alexander, University of Oklahoma Press, Nonfiction
Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them: How to Bring It Out, Ann Marie Sabath, Career Press, Nonfiction
Gentleman Gerry, Gerry Cooney & John Grady, Rowman & Littlefield, Nonfiction
Legal Tender: Women & The Secret Life of Money, Christian McEwen, Bauhan Publishing, Nonfiction
A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing Up in Ethiopia and America, Caroline Kurtz, Catalyst Press, Nonfiction
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Poetry Posted May 16, 2019
Alive & In Use, Charlotte Mandel, Kelsay Books
Ancient Maps and a Tarot Pack, Serena Fusek, Bitter Oleander Press
Animal, Dorothea Lasky, Wave Books
Atrophy, Jackson Burgess, Write Bloody Publishing
The Avalanche Path in Summer, Susan Tichy, Ahsahta Press
Big Cabin, Ron Padgett, Coffee House Press
Bright and Hurtless, Kristi Maxwell, Ahsahta Press
Bully Love, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Press 53
Cracked Piano, Margo Taft Stever, CavanKerry Press
Cyborg Detective, Jillian Weise, BOA Editions LTD
Dunce, Mary Ruefle, Wave Books
Every Present Thing a Ghost, Rebecca Doverspike, Slapering Hol Press
Ghost Moose, Margo Taft Stever, Kattywompus Press
Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma, Wave Books
Heft, Doyali Islam, McClelland & Stewart
Hour Book, Stefania Heim, Ahsahta Press
How the Universe is Made: Poems New & Selected 1985-2019, Stephanie Strickland, Ahsahta Press
Hurricane Protocol, Lasana M. Sekou, House of Nehesi Publishers
Into the Cracks, Holly Day, Golden Antelope Press
Laura Hershey: On the Life & Works of an American Master, Ed. Meg Day & Niki Herd, Pleiades Press
Leading with a Naked Body: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon & Leela Chantrelle, Slapering Hol Press
Live from the Mood Board, Candice Reffe, Elixir Press
Night Manual, David Hornibrook, Wayne State University Press
On the Shores of Welcome Home, Bruce Weigl, BOA Editions LTD
The Only Worlds We Know, Michael Lee, Button Poetry
Pomegranates, Robin Brox, Xexoxial Editions
The Problem of the Many, Timothy Donnelly, Wave Books
Refugia, Kyce Bello, University of Nevada Press
Some Unimaginable Animal, David Ebenbach, Orison Books
Something Sweet & Filled with Blood, Melissa Christine Goodrum, Great Weather for Media
Songs of the Sun Amor, Wade Stevenson, BlazeVOX Books
SoundMachine, Rachel Zucker, Wave Books
Teacher/Pizza Guy, Jeff Kass, Wayne State University Press
Things that go Trump in the Night: Poems of Treason and Resistance, Paul Fericano, Poems-For-All-Press
Tracing the Horse, Diana Marie Delgado, BOA Editions LTD
Wild, Again, Bertha Rogers, Dufour Editions
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Children's Lit Posted May 16, 2019
The Boy Who Touched the Stars / El Niño que alcanzó las estrellas, José M. Hernández, Pinata Books
The Global Warming Express, Marina Weber, Terra Nova Books
My Shoes And I / Mis Zapatos Y Yo: Crossing Three Borders / Cruzando Tres Fronteras, René Colato Laínez, Pinata Books
Sofi Paints Her Dreams / Sofi pinta sus sueños, Raquel M. Ortiz, Pinata Books
