New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted March 21, 2019
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Amazing Things Are Happening Here
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Jacob M. Appel
- Publisher (link) Black Lawrence Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-62557-705-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 152pp
- Price $17.95
"In his new short story collection, Amazing Things Are Happening Here, Jacob Appel renders our post 9/11 world through a variety of personalities, each narrating their unique and startling stories. Meet the shy high school student with a crush on a girl dying of leukemia, the mother whale who beaches to save her offspring, the search for the VA hospital's lunatic who goes missing and never returns, and more. [ . . . ] These stories lift us far above the realm of entertainment, and instead enrich and enliven the psyche's oceanic heights and depths."—Marilyn Krysl
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And after All
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Rhina Espaillat
- Publisher (link) Able Muse Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-77349-022-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 130pp
- Price $19.95
Rhina P. Espaillat’s And after All meditates on the passage of time. The perspective sweeps from the panorama of foreign landmarks to the close view of a lover’s feet in failing health, held and cared for. And after All displays the wit, wisdom, subtle voice, and supple mastery of forms that have established Espaillat as a contemporary master. This long-awaited collection from Espaillat is a treat not to be missed.
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As One Fire Consumes Another
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- Book Type Poetry
- by John Sibley Williams
- Publisher (link) Orison Books
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-949039-01-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 86pp
- Price $16.00
What happens when metaphysics and social critique meet? Poetry that has to find a new form to express the tension it embodies. John Sibley Williams’ newspaper-like columns in As One Fire Consumes Another do just that. Here, transcendent vision and trenchant social insight meet, wrestle, and end up revitalizing one another.
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Bulletproof
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Matthew Murrey
- Publisher (link) Jacar Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-0-936481-30-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 69pp
- Price $16.00
The poems in Bulletproof look at the joy and dread of being alive in this world. Even pleasurable situations hold traces of danger and threat, while destructive or disturbing events contain the possibilities of redemption and beauty. Murrey has succeeded in using the direct and evocative powers of poetry to conjure up these contradictions—not so much to resolve them, but to dwell on and in them, to experience through language the wonder of being human.
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Here Is Where I Walk
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- Subtitle Episodes from a Life in the Forest
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Leslie Carol Roberts
- Publisher (link) University of Nevada Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-948908-07-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208pp
- Price $17.95
It is in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places, people, and travels emerge. The twelve episodes, each connected to a month of the year and interwoven with field notebooks, explore everything from Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in the fields where he spoke with the birds to the work of Western botanist Alice Eastwood. Here Is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.
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If the Girl Never Learns
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Sue William Silverman
- Publisher (link) Brick Mantel Books
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-941799-64-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $14.95
From the opening lines, it’s clear The Girl at the center of these poems is damaged—which is another way to say she’s a survivor. If the Girl Never Learns moves from the personal to the mythic to the apocalyptic, because The Girl would do anything to save her soul. So, she resists, takes action to overturn society’s suffocating ideal of Good Girldom. The poems’ sense of breathlessness reflects The Girl’s absolute need to control her own destiny, to outrun her past, while at the same time chasing a future she alone has envisioned and embodied. Because The Girl is, above all else, a badass.
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Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Elizabeth Jacobson
- Publisher (link) Parlor Press
- Date Published January 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-64317-028-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 102pp
- Price $14.00
Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air is a collection of poems wealthy with the speaker’s intimacy with nature and with the philosophical and spiritual insights that emerge from a deep practice of close observation. In a manner that is wonderfully relaxed and conversational, Jacobson’s poems enter into the most venerable and perennial of our human questions.
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Of Fathers and Fire
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Steven Wingate
- Publisher (link) University of Nebraska Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-4962-1186-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320pp
- Price $19.95
When Richie Thorpe and his ragtag religious band of ex-thieves arrive in the High Plains town of Suborney, Colorado, Tommy Sandor is captivated. As Tommy is increasingly drawn to the group, his mother, Connie, grows frantic. She has been hiding the truth from her son, telling him that his father was a saxophonist from New York who is lying low in Suborney to hide from Tommy’s actual father—Richie Thorpe. Connie knows Richie has come for his son, and the desperation to protect her lie, her son, and their life begets a venom with an elemental power that threatens the whole town.
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Anthology Posted March 21, 2019
Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, Ed. Lucille Lang Day & Ruth Nolan, Scarlet Tanager Books
Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees, Ed. Jehan Bseiso & Becky Thompson, Olive Branch Press
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Fiction Posted March 21, 2019
Aviaries, Zuzana Brabcova, Twisted Spoon Press
Children of God, David H. Lynn, Braddock Avenue Books
Clover Blue, Eldonna Edwards, Kensington Publishing Corp.
The Color Inside a Melon, John Domoni, Dzanc Books
Country Place, Ann Petry, Northwestern University Press
Empty Words, Mario Levrero, Coffee House Press
Fishing the Jumps, Lamar Herrin, University Press of Kentucky
From the Shadows, Juan Jose Millas, Bellevue Literary Press
Half-Burnt, Peter Grandbois, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
Horsebuggy, Joshua Kornreich, Sagging Meniscus
The Maze of Transparencies, Karen An-hwei Lee, Ellipsis Press
No Common War, Luke Salisbury, Black Heron Press
One Another, Monique Schwitter, Persea Books
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, Molly Reid, BOA Editions Ltd.
The Remainder, Alia Trabucco Zeran, Coffee House Press
The Scottish Book of the Dead, Gavin Broom, Island City Publishing
The Shaman of Turtle Valley, Clifford Garstang, Braddock Avenue Books
Someday Everything Will All Make Sense, Carol LaHines, Adelaide Books
Something Like the End, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, Black Lawrence Press
Stella Maris: and other Key West Stories, Michael Carroll, Turtle Point Press
This Side of Water, Maureen Pilkington, Regal House Publishing
Vintage 1954, Antoine Laurain, Gallic Books
You Could Stop It Here, Stacy Austin Egan, [PANK] Books
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Nonfiction Posted March 21, 2019
Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball, James Duane Bolin, University Press of Kentucky
Anxious Attachments, Beth Alvarado, Autumn House Press
The Block Manager, Judy Mundle, Open Books Press
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith, Thomas G. Alexander, University of Oklahoma Press
The Coffeehouse Resistance: Brewing Hope in Desperate Times, Sarina Prabasi, Green Writers Press
Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation, Faith G. Harper, Microcosm Publishing
The Desk on the Sea, Jonathan Johnson, Wayne State University Press
Dream of the Trenches, Kate Colby, Noemi Press
Interview from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations About Writing and Resistance, Ed. Mark Yakich & John Biguenet, Bloomsbury Academic
Love Three, Aaron Kunin, Wave Books
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1960s, Martha Long, Seven Stories Press
Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites, Jennifer K. Ladino, University of Nevada Press
No Apocalypse: Punk, Politics & The Great American Weirdness, Al Burian, Microcosm Publishing
Obtuse Diary, Amelia Rosselli, entre rios books
Socialist Realism, Trisha Low, Coffee House Press
Something's Happening Here: A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock, Mark Berger, State University of New York Press
Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness, Roberto Tejada, Noemi Press
Street Journalist: Understand & Report the News in Your Community, Lisa Loving, Microcosm Publishing
To the Bones, Valerie Nieman, West Virginia University Press
Topographies, Stephen Benz, Etruscan Press
Unfuck your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating, Faith G. Harper, Microcosm Publishing
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back, Naja Marie Aidt, Coffee House Press
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Poetry Posted March 21, 2019
Action in the Orchards, Fred Schmalz, Nightboat Books
After Party, Noah Blaustein, University of New Mexico Press
All Its Charms, Keetje Kuipers, BOA Editions Ltd.
All That Once Was You, Thomas Griffin, Finishing Line Press
All the Fires of Wind and Light, Maya Khosla, Sixteen Rivers Press
American Samizdat, Jehanne Dubrow, Diode Editions
Be-Hooved, Mar Ka, Univeristy of Alaska
The Black Condition FT. Narcissus, Jayy Dodd, Nightboat Books
Black Hole Factory, Eric Smith, University of Tampa Press
The Body at Loss, Cati Porter, CavanKerry Press
Cracked Piano, Margo Taft Stever, CavanKerry Press
Diary of a Ghost Girl: A Séance in Eighteen Parts, Shay Alexi, Glass Poetry Press
Documents, Jan-Henry Gray, BOA Editions Ltd.
Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms, Su Dong-Po, White Pine Press
Fretwork, Lynne Thompson, Marsh Hawk Press
The Gates of Pearl, Jill Hoffman, Box Turtle Press
Grand Marronage, Irene Mathieu, Switchback Books,
Gravity Assist, Matha Silano, Saturnalia Books
Hear Trains, Caroline Knox, Wave Books
The Human Half, Deborah Brown, BOA Editions Ltd.
Just Because, Neetha Kunaratnam, Dufour Editions
Light Reading, Stephan Delbos, BlazeVOX
Little Million Doors: An Elegy, Chad Sweeny, Nightboat Books
Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet, Caroline Randall Williams, Third Man Books
Negative of a Group Photograph, Azita Ghahreman, Dufour Editions
The News as Usual, John Kelly Yenser, University of New Mexico Press
Night Angler, Geffrey Davis, BOA Editions Ltd.
Notes for a Love Poem, Mary du Passage, Box Turtle Press
Personal Volcano, Laura Moriarty, Nightboat Books
Pet Sounds, Stephanie Young, Nightboat Books
The Popular Vote, Star Black, Saturnalia Books
Principles of Economics, Kristen Case, Switchback Books
Ragged Anthem, Chris Dombrowski, Wayne State University Press
Rain, Like a Thief, Barbara Swift Brauer, Sixteen Rivers Press
Rattle Young Poets Anthology, Assorted Authors, Rattle
Returning to Jaffa, Philip Metres, Diode Editions
Rogue States, Fred Johnston, Dufour Editions
Sink, Desiree Dallagiacomo, Button Poetry
Spectral Pegasus / Dark Movements, Jeffery Beam, Kin Press
Sweet World, Maureen Seaton, CavanKerry Press
Take me with You, Wherever You're Gaining, Jessica Jacobs, Four Way Books
Tasting like Gravity, Peter Meinke, University of Tampa Press
Ten, Jennifer Firestone, BlazeVOX
Threads, Laurence McKeown, Dufour Editions
The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom, Magdalena Zurawski, Wave Books
The Tiny Journalist, Naomi Shihab Nye, BOA Editions Ltd.
True Ash, Elizabeth J. Colen & Carol Guess, Black Lawrence Press
Trysting with the Divine, Rosalind Kaliden, John Gosslee
What I Knew, Eleni Sikelianos, Nightboat Books
Woods and Clouds Inter-change-able, Michael Earl Craig, Wave Books
