New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted March 18, 2020
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Before the Fevered Snow
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Megan Merchant
- Publisher (link) Stillhouse Press
- Date Published April 2020
- ISBN-13 978-0-9969816-5-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 110pp
- Price $17.00
In this, her fourth collection, celebrated poet Megan Merchant plumbs the contemporary American social consciousness as she explores the ageless themes of love and loss. Using the landscape of the changing seasons as her canvas, she sketches the abstract shape of marriage, motherhood, and grief. Merchant invokes the vivid decay of autumn, drawing a fierce parallel to the slow loss of her dying mother. These sparse, powerful, and distinctly wrought poems recognize that too often the most painfully palpable moments of our lives are the ones we lack the language to illuminate.
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Diode Editions New Spring 2020 Titles
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- Publisher (link) Diode Editions
- Date Published Spring 2020
- Format Paperback
- Price $12.00 - $18.00
Preorder new titles from Diode Editions releasing in March. Titles include The Last Human Heart, a poetry chapbook by Allison Joseph; Good Timing & Gertrude Stein: Inside Snoopy’s snout maggots feast upon my blood, a poetry chapbook by Julia Cohen; Prismatics: Larry Levis & Contemporary American Poetry: Interviews from the Documentary Film A Late Style of Fire edited by Gregory Donovan and Michele Poulos; Wider Than the Sky, a full-length poetry collection from Nancy Chen Long; and The Minister of Disturbances, a full-length poetry collection from Zeeshan Khan Pathan.
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House of the Ancients & Other Stories
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Clifford Garstang
- Publisher (link) Press 53
- Date Published May 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-950413-18-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184pp
- Price $17.95
Nobody’s perfect, but some of us—mostly men—are blinded by our hubris and baser urges. Judgment is impeded. Mistakes are made. The stories in this collection, many of them set outside the U.S., explore some of the consequences of these common failings.
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One Summer on Cutthroat Lake
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Owen Duffy
- Publisher (link) Livingston Press
- Date Published June 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-60489-237-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 232pp
- Price $18.95
Braxton’s golden age of cattle, dude ranches, and Cutthroat Lake Lodge has ended in World War II’s aftermath. When strangers try to revitalize it, tensions escalate. Then a famous photographer shows for a magazine shoot.
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Wrenched from the Land
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- Subtitle Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by ML Lincoln & Diane Sward Rapaport
- Publisher (link) University of New Mexico Press
- Date Published April 2020
- ISBN-13 978-0-8263-6152-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 312pp
- Price $24.95
Wrenched from the Land features sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America’s uncompromising defenders of wilderness. The book includes interviews with Terry Tempest Williams, the late Charles Bowden, Sea Shepherd Society founder Paul Watson, Jack Loeffler, Doug Peacock, Ingrid Eisenstadter, John De Puy, Bob Lippman, Derrick Jensen, Shonto Begay, Ken Sanders, Ken Sleight, the late Katie Lee, Executive Director of the Center for Biological Diversity Kieran Suckling, Earth First! cofounder Dave Foreman, and climate activist Tim DeChristopher.
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Anthology Posted March 18, 2020
Wrenched from the Land: Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey, Ed. ML Lincoln & Diane Sward Rapaport, University of New Mexico Press
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Fiction Posted March 18, 2020
25 Trumbull Road, Christopher Locke, Black Lawrence Press
Baltic Mission: A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel, Richard Woodman, McBooks Press
Barbarians on an Ancient Sea: A Nicholas Fallon Sea Novel, William Westbrook, McBooks Press
Dyke (geology), Sabrina Imbler, Black Lawrence Press
House of the Ancients & Other Stories, Clifford Garstang, Press 53
I Have the Answer, Kelly Fordon, Wayne State University Press
One Summer on Cutthroat Lake, Owen Duffy, Livingston Press
Peripheral Visions and Other Stories, Nancy Christie, Unsolicited Press
We Were Called Specimens: An Oral Archive of Deity Marjorie, Jason Teal, KERNPUNKT Press
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Nonfiction Posted March 18, 2020
American Dreamer: How I Escaped Communist Vietnam and Built a Successful Life in America, Tim Tran (Tran Manh Khiem), Pacific University Press
Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession, Elizabeth Sutton, University of Iowa Press
Faculty Brat: A Memoir of Abuse, Dominic Bucca, University of Iowa Press
Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life, Ruby McConnell, Overcup Press
A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World, John Rember, University of New Mexico Press
Prophetic Voice Now, Rich Murphy, Common Ground Research Network
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Poetry Posted March 18, 2020
The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Wesleyan University Press
The Audible and the Evident, Julie Hanson, Ohio University Press
Before the Fevered Snow, Megan Merchant, Stillhouse Press
The Book of Dirt, Nicole Santalucia, NYQ Books
Dancing with Dali, Maureen Sherbondy, FutureCycle Press
DMZ Colony, Don Mee Choi, Wave Books
Falling Off the Empire State Building, Jimmy Pappas, Rattle
God's Green Earth, Noelle Kocot, Wave Books
Going Head to Head, Wade Stevenson, BlazeVOX
Golem Soveticus: Prigov as Brecht and Warhol in One Persona, Aleksandr Skidan, Ugly Duckling Presse
Half-Dreaming, Douglas Nordfors, Plain View Press
Like Bismuth when I Enter, Carlos Lara, Nightboat Books
The New Sun Time, Ish Klein, Canarium Books
Not All Saints, Sean Thomas Dougherty, The Bitter Oleander Press
Pierrot's Fingernails, Kit Schluter, Canarium Books
Practitioner Joy, Rich Murphy, Wipf and Stock
Repetition Nineteen, Mónica de la Torre, Nightboat Books
Scenes of Life at the Capitol, Philip Whalen, Wave Books
The Shore, Chris Nealon, Wave Books
The Sky Contains the Plans, Matthew Rohrer, Wave Books
Somewhere to Go, Laurin Becker Macios, Elixir Press
Toxicon & Arahne, Joyelle McSweeney, Nightboat Books
Tricks of Light, Thaddeus Rutkowski, great weather for MEDIA
