New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted July 22, 2020
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Ancestry
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Eileen O’Leary
- Publisher (link) University of Iowa Press
- Date Published October 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-609387426
- Format Paperback
- Pages 152pp
- Price $17.00
How does one live a good life? If you’re Pat Graves, you change your name to Cecile Collette, move to Cleveland, and join three churches and the Rotary Club. In the title story, Mackenzie, a girl without looks or potential, builds a full life in Paris, based on the sketchy belief that she had an ancestor renowned for being dauntless. Whether set in Scandinavia, America, France, England, Australia, or Nepal, these stories champion those who are tenacious in the face of life’s surprises. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Even As We Breathe
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
- Publisher (link) The University Press of Kentucky
- Date Published September 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-950564064
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240pp
- Price $24.95
Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. This richly written debut novel explores the immutable nature of the human spirit and the idea that physical existence, with all its strife and injustice, will not be humanity's lasting legacy. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Far Villages
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- Subtitle Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by Abayomi Animashaun
- Publisher (link) Black Lawrence Press
- Date Published January 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-62557-714-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 550pp
- Price $45.95
Poetry manuals, at their most essential, are aimed at demystifying aspects of poetry, in order to make poetry less daunting—especially for beginner poets. Such manuals are also reminders that poetry itself is a discipline with a landscape and a history. Far Villages builds on the body of work in this tradition by bringing a number of established and emerging poets together in a single volume to welcome new and beginner poets to the art of poetry, its craft, and the long journey within it. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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Float True
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Deborah Jang
- Publisher (link) Shanti Arts
- Date Published March 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-951651-16-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $12.95
A flow of pieces that carry story and emotion via reflections on an immigrant family history, metaphysical musings, and earthly perplexities—with occasional outbursts of ecstatic appreciation of nature. The unsegmented order of pieces is intended to create a loose narrative "swirl" that ushers the reader through layers of reflection and memory into a moving experience of language, discovery, and insight. Buy this book from our affiliate Bookshop.org.
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In These States
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- Book Type Poetry
- by T.R. Hummer
- Publisher (link) Jacar Press
- Date Published April 2020
- ISBN-13 978-0-936481-39-5
- Format Paperback
- Pages 21pp
- Price $12.00
In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul. The poems in this book are haunted by precise and troubling questions: what, exactly is the condition of the body politic, and how does that condition affect us, both in large and small ways, in abstract and concrete symptoms, in dailiness and in eras? What is the relationship, exactly, between the individual citizen—a unique body in its own right, but also a cell, so to speak, in a greater body? The questions TR Hummer raises in these poems have no answers, but they have existential manifestations.
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Anthology Posted July 22, 2020
Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets, Ed. Abayomi Animashaun, Black Lawrence Press
Runaway: An Anthology, Ed. Luanne Smith, Michael Gills, Lee Zacharias, Madville Publishing
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Fiction Posted July 22, 2020
Even as We Breathe, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, University Press of Kentucky
Fairview Chronicles: A Wayward Proposition, Jonathan Paul, Madville Publishing
Long Gone & Lost: True Fictions & Other Lies, Bobby Horecka, Madville Publishing
Mistakes by the Lake, Brian Petkash, Madville Publishing
New Jersey Noir: Cape May, William Baer, Able Muse Press
Still a Man and Other Stories, James Cherry, Willow Books
Winter Honeymoon, Jacob M. Appel, Black Lawrence Press
The World Out There, John Talbird, Madville Publishing
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Nonfiction Posted July 22, 2020
American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness, Tea Krulos, Feral House
Earth A.D.: The Poisoning of American Landscape and the Communities that Fought, Michael Lee Nirenberg, Feral House
Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks & Fragments, Ed. Zachary Turpin & Matt Miller, University of Iowa Press
The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research, Iris Cushing, Ugly Duckling Presse
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation, Abram Leon, Pathfinder Press
Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Ugly Duckling Presse
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Poetry Posted July 22, 2020
Clerk of the Dead, Alan Perry, Main Street Rag Publishing
Code, Charlotte Pence, Black Lawrence Press
Convenient Amnesia, Donald Vincent, Broadstone Books
Echo of the Park, Romina Freschi, Eulalia Books
Float True, Deborah Jang, Shanti Arts Publishing
An Honest Hunger, Robert Lowes, Resource Publications
The Horse Who Bears Me Away, Jim Peterson, Red Hen Press
I Wish My Father, Lesléa Newman, Headmistress Press
In These States, T.R. Hummer, Jacar Press
The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening, Simon Baena, Jacar Press
Night in the North, Fabián Severo, Eulalia Books
Open the Dark, Marie Tozier, Boreal Books
Serving, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Crisis Chronicles
Sex & Violence, Kristy Bowen, Black Lawrence Press
Something Opened, Samantha Deal, Black Lawrence Press
Suitor, Joshua Rivkin, Red Hen Press
The Things I Didn't Know to Wish For, Linda Hillringhouse, NYQ Books
The Time of Your Life, J. R. Solonche, Adelaide Books
Wave If You Can See Me, Susan Ludvigson, Red Hen Press
What I Forgot to Say, Julie Suk, Jacar Press
What Kind of Man, Tony Gloeggler, NYQ Books
