New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses.
New & Noteworthy
Posted August 10, 2017
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Everyone Was There
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Anthony Varallo
- Publisher (link) Elixir Press
- Date Published May 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-932418-63-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168pp
- Price $19.00
"In so many of these stories, Anthony Varallo does something both rare and wonderful: he manages to be both funny and profound. Here you'll meet the life of the party who's secretly miserable and reconnect with the popular kids you knew in high school who now find themselves stalled out in melancholy middle age, their children and the world seemingly uninterested in them. Varallo is a master at characterization—his misfits and lonely divorced fathers, his vivid adolescents and tongue-in-cheek John Updike cameo—there is so much here that I admired and enjoyed." — Christine Sneed
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The Great Tower of Elfland
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- Subtitle The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Zachary A. Rhone
- Publisher (link) Kent State University Press
- Date Published May 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-60635-329-5
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 186pp
- Price $45.00
Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity. This text overturns the misapplication of a divided worldview among two Inklings, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and their forerunners, G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Analyzing their literary, scholarly, and interpersonal texts, Zachary A. Rhone’s The Great Tower of Elfland clarifies the unities of their thinking.
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Just Passing Through
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- Book Type Poetry
- by M. Scott Douglass
- Publisher (link) Paycock Press
- Date Published October 2017
- ISBN-13 978-0-931181-57-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 94pp
- Price $14.00
“M. Scott Douglass’s Just Passing Through bristles with direct, honest, often humorous tales of the road. A sharp observer of human behavior—on motorcycles and in cars, in rest stops and motels, at red lights and roadsides—he doesn’t miss a thing. Reading these poems, I feel like he’s nudging me in the ribs, and pointing, saying, ‘Get a load of that,’ and I’m happily following his gaze, trusting him not to know where we’re going.” —Jim Daniels
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Marvels of the Invisible
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Jenny Molberg
- Publisher (link) Tupelo Press
- Date Published February 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-936797-92-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 78pp
- Price $16.95
In this award-winning debut collection, the smallest things of the world bear enormous emotive weight. For Jenny Molberg, the invisible and barely visible are forms of memory, articulations of our place in the cosmos. Parsing the intersections between science and personal history, and contemplating archival letters from 17th- and 18th-century scientists along with new studies in biological phenomena, Molberg’s poems examine complexities of relationships with parents and the faultiness of certainty about earthly permanence. Marvels of the Invisible sounds the depths of both grief and amazement, two kinds of awareness inseparably entwined.
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Mean
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Myriam Gurba
- Publisher (link) Coffee House Press
- Date Published November 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-56689-491-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192pp
- Price $16.95
True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.
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¡Manteca!
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- Subtitle An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by Melissa Castillo-Garsow
- Publisher (link) Arte Publico Press
- Date Published April 2017
- ISBN-13 978-1-55885-842-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 422pp
- Price $21.95
Containing the work of more than 40 poets—equally divided between men and women—who self-identify as Afro-Latino, ¡Manteca! is the first poetry anthology to highlight writings by Latinos of African descent. The themes covered are as diverse as the authors themselves. Editor and scholar Melissa Castillo-Garsow writes in her introduction that “the experiences and poetic expression of Afro-Latinidad were so diverse” that she could not begin to categorize it. Some write in English, others in Spanish. They are Puerto Rican, Dominican, and almost every combination conceivable, including Afro-Mexican. Containing the work of well-known writers such as Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero and E. Ethelbert Miller, less well-known ones are ready to be discovered in these pages.
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Anthology Posted July 12, 2017
¡Manteca!, Ed. Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Arte Publico Press
Ask, Ed. Kitty Stryker, Thorntree Press
The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Ed. Gayle Reaves, University of North Texas Press
The Best Small Fictions, Ed. Amy Hempel & Tara L. Masih, Braddock Avenue Books
Cover Stories, Stefan Kiesbye, Volt Books
Little Boxes, Ed. Caroline Casey, Coffee House Press
MAKE X, Ed. Daniel Borzutzky, Joel Craig, Sarah Dodson, et al., Featherproof Books
Pie & Whiskey, Ed. Kate Lebo & Samuel Ligon, Sasquatch Books
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Fiction Posted August 10, 2017The Andersens of Eden, Ethel Barker, Ice Cube Press
Havanna Without Makeup, Herman Portocarero, Turtle Point Press
In Search of New Babylon, Dominique Scali, Talon Books
Insurrections, Rion Amilcar Scott, University Press Kentucky
Lords of the Schoolyard, Ed Hamilton, Sagging Meniscus
Madcap Masquerade, Janet Chapman, University of New Mexico Press
Montpelier Parade, Karl Geary, Catapult
The Out-of-Sorts, Gary Fincke, West Virginia University Press
The Passion of Woo & Isolde, Jennifer Tseng, Rose Metal Press
The Stargazer's Embassy, Eleanor Lerman, Mayapple Press
Tina Goes to Heaven, Lois Ann Abraham, Ad Lumen Press
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Graphic Novel Posted August 10, 2017
Indestructible, Cristy C. Road, Microcosm Publishing
Six Days in Cincinnati, Dan Mendez Moore, Microcosm Publishing
Soviet Daughter, Julia Alekseyeva, Microcosm Publishing
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Nonfiction Posted July 12, 2017
Belle Turnbull: Unsung Masters Series, Ed. David J. Rothman & Jeffrey R. Villines, Pleiades Press
It's Called "Polyamory", Tamara Pincus & Rebecca Hiles, Thorntree Press
Mean, Myriam Gurba, Coffee House Press
Partisans, Joe Oestreich, Black Lawrence Press
Playing Fair, Pepper Mint, Thorntree Press
Third Monday in May, Ross R. Moore, Broadstone Books
You, Me, and the Violence, Catherine Taylor, Ohio State University Press
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Poetry Posted August 10, 2017
Abandoned Earth, Linwood D. Rumney, Gival Press
Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts, Maya Jewell Zeller & Carrie DeBacker, Entre Rios Books
All My Heroes Are Broke, Ariel Francisco, C & R Press
All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Erica Wright, Black Lawrence Press
Appearances, Michael Collins, Saddle Road Press
Attributed to the Harrow Painter, Nick Twemlow, University of Iowa Press
Autopsy, Donte Collins, Button Poetry
Bad Summon, Philip Schaefer, University of Utah Press
Bird Years, Dicko King, Mayapple Press
Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past, Kathryn Nuernberger, Ohio State University Press
A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Jennifer Militello, Tupelo Press
A Certain Roughness in Their Syntax, Jorge Aulicino, Tupelo Press
Depression & Other Magic Tricks, Sabrina Benaim, Button Poetry
Dots & Dashes, Jehanne Dubrow, Southern Illinois University Press
Drugstore Blue, Susana H. Case, Five Oaks Press
Eros Zero, Daniel Rounds,
Every Species of Hope, Michael J. Rosen, Ohio State University Press
Flowers & Sky, Aaron Shurin, Entre Rios Books
Gallery Withheld, Jennifer Met, Glass Poetry Press
A Girl's a Gun, Rachel Danielle Peterson, University Press Kentucky
Holdfast, Christian Anton Gerard, C & R Press
Human Interest, Valerie Bandura, Black Lawrence Press
Instructions for Staging, Kristina Marie Darling & Carol Guess, Broadstone Books
Like Lesser Gods, Bruce McEver, C & R Press
Manhattanite, Aaron Poochigian, Able Muse Press / Word Galaxy Press
Map Traces, Blood Traces, Eugenia Toledo, Mayapple Press
Marvels of the Invisible, Jenny Molberg, Tupelo Press
Mary's Dust, Melinda Mueller, Entre Rios Books
The Moon is Almost Full, Chana Bloch, Autumn House Press
Of Cartography, Esther G. Belin, University of Arizona Press
Other Than They Seem, Allan Peterson, Tupelo Press
Oxygen, Julia Fiedorczuk, Zephyr Press
Rapture & the Big Bam, Matt Donovan, Tupelo Press
Reassurance in Negative Space, Elizabyth A. Hiscox, Able Muse Press / Word Galaxy Press
Silk Poems, Jen Bervin, Nightboat Books
The Stars of Earth, Emily Grosholz, Able Muse Press / Word Galaxy Press
Summer over Autumn, Howard Mansfield, Bauhan Publishing
Surge, Michelle Whittaker, Great Weather for Media
Sweet Velocity, Rachel Moritz, Lost Roads Publishers
Telling My Father, James Crews, Southeast Missouri State University Press
This Loss Behind Us, Jack Bedell, Paul Hostovsky, MK Punky, Pint-Size Publications
Two Halves of the World Apple, Yang Ke, University of Oklahoma Press
Vixen, Cherene Sherrard, Autumn House Press
Weather, Kelly Cherry, Rain Mountain Press
Wild Roses, Jan Minich, Mayapple Press
A Year of Mourning: Poems 271-322 of Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, translated by Lee Harlin Bahan , Able Muse Press / Word Galaxy Press
