New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted November 27, 2018
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Another Phase
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Eloise Klein Healy
- Publisher (link) Red Hen Press
- Date Published November 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-59709-042-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $15.95
In April 2013, just five months after being named the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Eloise had a brain injury resulting in Wernicke's aphasia breakdown in the symbol system of language. Poetry was the guide and motivation for recovery. This collection is comprised of a series of five-line poems that began as a focusing exercise yet transformed into a remarkable channel for her creativity. These poems are filled with the same features that have pervaded her work, meaning they are serious, at times playful, sometimes beautiful and sometimes "goofy." But all have that twist, that meaningful point, that is unique to Eloise's consciousness.
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At Home in the Dark
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- Subtitle Conversations with Ten American Poets
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by David Elliott
- Publisher (link) Keystone College Press
- Date Published October 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-64042-501-9
- Format Paperback
- Pages 216pp
- Price $18.95
These conversations took place over a sixteen-year period starting in 1984. Each interview approaches the topic of poetry in different ways as David Elliott speaks with poets in multiple schools and styles. Some issues—the musicality of poetry, the process of writing, the relationship between the poetry and the life of the poet—are discussed by more than one writer, creating a kind of cross-talk between the poets. Interviews of ten American poets: W. S. Merwin, William Stafford, Robert Creeley, David Ray, Robert Morgan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Stephen Dunn, Lucien Stryk, Pattiann Rogers, and Marie Howe."
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Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Jen Julian
- Publisher (link) Press 53
- Date Published October 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-941209-91-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 161pp
- Price $17.95
In nine stories and one novella, author Jen Julian explores realms of the surreal and speculative. By way of ghosts and fish-men, nuclear threats, and giant spiders, each story seeks to capture the inherent otherworldliness of feeling displaced, while at the same time illuminating the intimate and tenacious beauty of human beings in constant search of human connection. Winner of the 2018 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses by Jen Julian is a collection worth exploring.
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Five Plots
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Erica Trabold
- Publisher (link) Seneca Review Books
- Date Published November 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0-910969-05-5
- Format Paperback
- Pages 120pp
- Price $15.99
Five Plots is a debut essay collection by Erica Trabold, winner of the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, selected by John D'Agata. Five Plots delves into notions of how we are shaped by the land every bit as much as we shape it. This is a book that eschews easy ways of understanding and experiencing the world by investigating place as a malleable psychological and phenomenological force.
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Intimations of Ghalib
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- Book Type Poetry Translated
- by M. Shahid Alam
- Publisher (link) Orison Books
- Date Published December 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-949039-19-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 60pp
- Price $16.00
These vibrant new versions of Ghalib’s ghazals bring his wit and irreverence, as well as his devotion, to a 21st-century English-language audience afresh. In presenting multiple versions of many of these poems, Alam highlights the tonal complexity of Ghalib’s work and both the limitations and possibilities of translation.
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You Cannot Shoot a Poem
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Paula Closson Buck
- Publisher (link) Louisiana State University Press
- Date Published November 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0-8071-6906-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72pp
- Price $17.95
In You Cannot Shoot a Poem, Paula Closson Buck offers sharp-witted, deeply felt, and skillfully structured poems. With clear and powerful imagery, these poems reveal an urgent need to rethink the way we interact with each other and the planet. Touching on racism, environmental exploitation, and failed political diplomacy, Closson Buck relies on the ability of poetry to enter otherwise hidden or forbidden territories.
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Anthology Posted November 27, 2018
Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, Ed. Elly Blue, Microcosm Publishing
I Scream Social: A Community of Women Writers June 2015 - May 2017, Ed. Schandra Madha & Annar Verold, Host Publications
The Night's Magician: Poems About the Moon, Ed. Philip C. Kolin & Sue Brannan Walker, Negative Capability Press
Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan, Ed. Thom Tammaro & Alan Davis, New Rivers Press
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Fiction Posted November 27, 2018
77, Guillermo Saccomanno, Open Letter
Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny, Thomas D. Peacock, Holy Cow! Press
Black Magic Death Sphere: (Science) Fictions, James Brubaker, Urban Farmhouse Press
Bom Boy, Yewande Omotoso, Catalyst Book Press
Crackerjack, Peter Church, Catalyst Book Press
Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, Fernando A. Flores, Host Publications
Decals, Oliverio Girondo, Open Letter
Difficult People, Catriona Wright, Nightwood Editions
Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, Jen Julian, Press 53
Edju, RW Spryszak, Spuyten Duyvil
Flouride: Stories, Chad Meadows, Tolsun Books
Ghostographs: An Album, Maria Romasco Moore, Rose Metal Press
The Golden Havana Night: A Sherlock Homie Mystery, Manuel Ramos, Arte Publico Press
Great American Desert, Terese Svoboda, Ohio State University Press
Justice Gone, N. Lombardi Jr, John Hunt Publishing
Night School: A Reader for Grownups, Zsofia Ban, Open Letter
Once into the Night, Aurelie Sheehan, FC2 (Fiction Collective 2)
Please Let Me Help: "Helpful" Letters to the World's Most Wonderful Brands, Zack Sternwalker, Microcosm Publishing
The Song My Enemies Sing, James Reich, Anti-Oedipus Press
Temper CA, Paul Skenazy, Miami University Press
Time Is the Longest Distance, Janet Clare, Vine Leaves Press
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Nonfiction Posted November 27, 2018
Five Plots, Erica Trabold, Seneca Review Books
From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq: The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War, Scott A. Silverstone, Rowman & Littlefield Pub
Great Pan is Dead: My Encounters with Coincidence, Eric D. Lehman, Homebound Publications
Here is Where I Walk: Episodes from a Life in the Forest, Leslie Carol Roberts, University of Nevada Press
Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg, Other Press
A People's Guide to Publishing, Joe Biel, Microcosm Publishing
The Perpetual Motion Machine: A Memoir in Essays, Brittany Ackermann, Red Hen Press
This is Your Brain on Depression: Creating Your Path to Getting Better, Faith G. Harper, Microcosm Publishing
This One Will Hurt You, Paul Crenshaw, Ohio State University Press
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power, David Shields, Ohio State University Press
Unfuck Your Adulting, Faith G. Harper, Microcosm Publishing
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Poetry Posted November 27, 2018
Another Phase, Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press
Bec & Call, Jenna Lyn Albert, Nightwood Editions
Bright Stain, Francesca Bell, Red Hen Press
Disappearing, Inc., Brandon Amico, Gold Wake Press
Doomstead Days, Brian Teare, Nightboat Books
Dreamverse, Jinrdich Styrsky, Twisted Spoon Press
Footnotes, C. Perricone, Dufour Editions
For Lack of a Calling, Mark DeCarteret, Nixes Mate Books
The Geography of Jazz, Lenard D. Moore, Mountains and Rivers Press
Hear Trains, Caroline Knox, Wave Books
I Wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me, Gloria Mindock, Nixes Mate Books
Intimations of Ghalib, M. Shahid Alam, Orison Books
Invasive Species, Marwa Helal, Nightboat Books
Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse, Valerie Nieman, Press 53
Lethal Theater, Susannah Nevison, Ohio State University Press
The Life That I Have, Knute Skinner, Dufour Editions
Livingry, Gracie Leavitt, Nightboat Books
Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herbert, Aaron Kunin, Wave Books
Lubbock Electric, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, Nixes Mate Books
The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter, Gillian Cummings, Center for Literary Publishing
Past Imperfect, Neil Silberblatt, Nixes Mate Books
Past Lives, Future Bodies, Kristin Chang, Black Lawrence Press
Poems for Crones, Roxy Runyan, Ghost City Press
Roughly for the North, Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen, University of Alaska Press
Slapstick, Taylor Liljegren, Nixes Mate Books
Sleep in a Strange House, Jessica Purdy, Nixes Mate Books
Snake: Third Book (Hunger Sutras), Gary Lemons, Red Hen Press
The Stella Poems, Duane Locke, Bitter Oleander Press
Teeth Never Sleep, Angel Garcia, University of Arkansas Press
Temptation of Wood, Nancy Byrne Iannucci, Nixes Mate Books
This Luminous: New and Selected Poems, Allan Peterson, Panhandler Books
Time's Language: Selected Poems (1959-2018), Margaret Randall, Wings Press
The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom, Magdalena Zurawski, Wave Books
Too Many Questions About Strawberries, Jen Hirt, Tolsun Books
Totem, America, Debra Kang Dean, Tiger Bark Press
The Unbnd Verses, Kwame Opoku-Duku, Glass Poetry Press
Veterans Crisis Hotline, Jon Chopan, University of Massachusetts Press / Bright Leaf
War Zones, Zvi A. Sesling, Nixes Mate Books
What Your Hands Have Done, Chris Bailey, Nightwood Editions
Woods and Clouds Interchangeable, Michael Earl Craig, Wave Books
The World Began With Yes, Erica Jong, Red Hen Press
You Cannot Shoot a Poem, Paula Closson Buck, Louisiana State University Press
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Children's Lit Posted November 27, 2018
The Amazing Watercolor Fish, El Asombroso Pez Acuarela, Carolyn Dee Flores, Pinata Books
Growing Up on the Playground, Nuestro patio de recreo, James Luna, Pinata Books
Just One Itsy Bitsy Little Bite: Solo una mordidita chiquitita, Xavier Garza, Pinata Books
Vincent Ventura and the Mystery of the Chupacabras: Vincent Ventura y el misterio del chupacabras, Xavier Garza, Pinata Books
