New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
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Posted July 13, 2018
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16 Pills
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- Book Type Nonfiction
- by Carley Moore
- Publisher (link) Tinderbox Editions
- Date Published May 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-943981-10-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 117pp
- Price $16.00
16 Pills opens in the hospital as Moore navigates the medical gaze: becoming spectacle as she is videotaped walking down the hall, talked about as if she were an object, wondered over her body as she drifts, unmoored, before surgery. Moore's essays explore the experiences of a contemporary feminist within the worlds of co-parenting, the absurdities of online dating, the art of mothering in a time of protest, the complexity of prescription drugs, and reflecting on generations of men and women in her Swedish- and Cuban-American family.
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Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Allison Joseph
- Publisher (link) Red Hen Press
- Date Published June 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-59709-609-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 117pp
- Price $17.95
The poems in Allison Joseph’s latest collection are smart, shameless, and empowered confessions of the best kind. In semi-autobiographical verse highlighting in turns light-hearted and harsh realities of modern black womanhood, these poems take the reader down “A History of African-American Hair,” visit with both Grace Jones and the Venus de Milo, send Janis Joplin to cheerleading camp, bemoan a treacherous first pair of high heels, and discuss “vagina business.” Funny, but never flippant, and always forthcoming about the author’s own flaws and foibles, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is sure to keep readers entranced, entertained, and enlightened.
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Green Hill
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Lorna Knowles Blake
- Publisher (link) Able Muse Press
- Date Published July 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-77349-010-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 66pp
- Price $17.95
The recurrent theme of “home” connects the wide-ranging subjects of Lorna Knowles Blake’s Green Hill. These exquisitely crafted poems in free verse and metrical forms include conversations with such masters as Homer, Blake, Lorca, Saint John of the Cross, Giacomo Puccini, and Duke Ellington, in addition to reflections upon marvels of the natural world—oceans, flowering trees, birds’ nests. Green Hill is delightful, enlightening and inspirational, and an exceptional winner of the 2017 Able Muse Book Award.
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Something an Atheist Might Bring Up at a Cocktail Party
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Charles Rafferty
- Publisher (link) Mayapple Press
- Date Published May 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-936419-83-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 38pp
- Price $14.95
Something an Atheist Might Bring Up at a Cocktail Party explores what it means to encounter crisis in a godless world. The poems range from lyrics to dramatic monologues, and while they do not all address the idea of religion directly, the sense of our aloneness informs each of the poems.
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Jonah Mixon-Webster
- Publisher (link) Ahsahta Press
- Date Published May 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-934103-80-7
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96pp
- Price $18.00
Jonah Mixon-Webster urgently considers the poetics of space and body, of race and region, of sexuality and class in the present day within the architecture of the current collective crisis and imagination. To take up space in an experimental way, through lyric, sound, and conceptual art, this collection activates the contentious trope of “The Real Nigga” as zombie (embodiment of the thing already dead), linguistic substrata (the basis and site of identity through language formation and synthesis), and as precursor for colonizing archetypes.
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Tales from La Vida
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- Subtitle A Latinx Comics Anthology
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by Frederick Luis Aldama
- Publisher (link) Ohio State University Press
- Date Published September 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0-8142-5493-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184pp
- Price $17.95
In the Latinx comics community, there is much to celebrate, with more Latinx comic book artists than ever before. Tales from la Vida celebrate this space by bringing together more than eighty contributions by extraordinary Latinx creators, showcasing the huge variety of styles and worldviews of today’s Latinx comic book and visual creators. Taken individually and together, these creators—including such legendary artists as Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Roberta Gregory, and Kat Fajardo—and their works show the world that when it comes to Latinx comics, there are no limits to matters of content and form.
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Tsigan
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- Subtitle The Gypsy Poem (New Edition)
- Book Type Poetry
- by Cecilia Woloch
- Publisher (link) Two Sylvias Press
- Date Published May 2018
- ISBN-13 978-0998631479
- Format Paperback
- Pages 156
- Price $16.00
This New Edition of Tsigan includes new poems by Cecilia Woloch reflecting the ongoing saga of the Roma people and includes an expanded and updated timeline based on her new research. Praise for Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem (New Edition): "I read and reread it with admiration, indeed, but also with gratitude for the realization, the authenticity of its wandering fire. What depth and scope are given here to the very image of Tsigan, the Gypsy, until it becomes the spirit itself." —W.S Merwin
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Weather Inventions
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Emily Rosko
- Publisher (link) University of Akron Press
- Date Published April 2018
- ISBN-13 978-1-629220-96-3
- Format Paperback
- Pages 79pp
- Price $15.95
“First marvel; then record.” This tempered revision of Wordsworth’s famous definition of poetry as a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion recollected in tranquility serves as a useful guide to Emily Rosko’s Weather Inventions. The poems in Rosko’s third collection capture an enduring sense of wonder in the face of nature alongside the scientific impulse to observe and measure. The poems in Rosko’s Weather Inventions chart humanity’s enduring attachments to weather in science and art.
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Anthology Posted July 13, 2018
The Best Small Fictions: 2018, Ed. Aimee Bender & Sherri Flick, Braddock Avenue Books
The Obscure Hours: Translations, Richard Jones, Poetry East / East of Eden
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Fiction Posted July 13, 2018
Adult Teeth, Jeremy T. Wilson, Tortoise Books
The Alehouse at the End of the World, Stevan Allred, Forest Avenue Press
Black Iron, Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert, Thorntree Press
Edge of the Known Bus Line, James R. Gapinski, Etchings Press
Hider/Seeker, Jen Currin, Anvil Press
Neil and Other Stories, J. Bradley, Whiskey Tit
Pablo!, John Rechy, Arte Publico Press
Scoundrels Among Us, Darrin Doyle, Tortoise Books
The Sound of Holding Your Breath: Stories, Natalie Sypolt, West Virginia University Press
Stiff, Steve Hughes, Wayne State University Press
Tacoma Stories, Richard Wiley, Bellevue Literary Press
The Curse of the Gypsy: Ten Stories and a Novella, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Arte Publico Press
Three Sides Water, Peter Donahue, Ooligan Press
Unnatural Habitats: & other stories, Angela Mitchell, WTAW Press
Wrong Light: A Rick Cahill Novel, Matt Coyle, Oceanview Publishing
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Nonfiction Posted July 13, 2018
Brainstorm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology, Suzanne O'Sullivan, Other Press
Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative, Ed. Kate Harrad, Thorntree Press
Clinging to the Iceberg, Ron Hutchinson, Oberon Books
Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, Madeleine May Kunin, Green Writers Press
Fear Icons, Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel, Ohio State University Press
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, Jeffrey J. Kripal, Bellevue Literary Press
Kissing the Lobster, Peter Grandbois, Spuyten Duyvil
Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry, Jasminne Méndez, Arte Publico Press
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Poetry Posted July 13, 2018
Arsonist, Joaquin Zihuatanejo, Anhinga Press
Bewildered: Love Poems from Ibn Arabi's Translation of Desires, Michael A Sells, Post-Apollo Press
Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock, Elizabeth Bodien, Kelsay Books
Blue Mistaken for Sky, Andrea Hollander, Autumn House Press
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated, from the Library of John C. Calhoun, Percival Everett, Red Hen Press
Date & Time, Phil Kaye, Button Poetry
Don't Let Them See Me Like This, Jasmine Gibson, Nightboat Books
English Kills, Monica Wendel, Mayapple Press
Fluid States, Heidi Czerwiec, Pleiades Press
In Short Order, J.R. Solonche, Kelsay Books
The Jaguars that Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 - 2018, Mary Mackey, Marsh Hawk Press
The Lumberjack's Dove, Gennarose Nethercott, HarperCollins Publishers
Museum of the Americas, J. Michael Martinez, Penguin
No Small Gift, Jennifer Franklin, Four Way Books
The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Kathleen Hellen, Saddle Road Press
Quarrels, Eve Joseph, Anvil Press
What Is Not Beautiful, Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Glass Poetry Press
Wild Horses, Pam Baggett, Main Street Rag Pub Co
