New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted June 18, 2019
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The After-Normal
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- Subtitle Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet
- Book Type Nonfiction
- by David Carlin & Nicole Walker
- Publisher (link) Rose Metal Press
- Date Published June 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-941628-17-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224pp
- Price $16.95
“A” is for Australia and “A” is for Arizona, over 9,000 miles apart but sharing the same Earth. In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays, David Carlin and Nicole Walker engage in a long-distance dialogue between two writers, creating an improvisational subversion of the encyclopedia, a witty-yet-serious send-up of the concept of a survival guide. With meditations on topics ranging from bitumen to plasmodia, elephants to xeric, The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet collects an A to Z of people, places, and phenomena to marvel at, to kick against, to let go, and to fight for.
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Ancient Maps and a Tarot Pack
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Serena Fusek
- Publisher (link) Bitter Oleander Press
- Date Published April 2019
- ISBN-13 978-0-9993279-5-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80pp
- Price $15.00
"Creative minds experience resistance and encounter turmoil when trapped inside the confines of a utilitarian culture. Universal harmony suffers. So, what do some imaginations do? They write poems. [ . . . ] Fusek, disenchanted with the status quo, rejects the mundane [ . . . ] in favor of harmony with nature [ . . . ]. Ancient Maps and a Tarot Pack is a sensitive and image rich journey through a private but shared universe. [ . . . ].” — Alan Britt
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Bulletproof
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Matthew Murrey
- Publisher (link) Jacar Press
- Date Published 2019
- ISBN-13 978-0-936481-30-2
- Format Paperback
- Pages 69pp
- Price $16.00
The poems in Bulletproof look at the joy and dread of being alive in this world. Even pleasurable situations hold traces of danger and threat, while destructive or disturbing events contain the possibilities of redemption and beauty. Murrey has succeeded in using the direct and evocative powers of poetry to conjure up these contradictions—not so much to resolve them, but to dwell on and in them, to experience through language the wonder of being human.
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deciduous qween
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- Book Type Poetry
- by Matty Layne Glasgow
- Publisher (link) Red Hen Press
- Date Published June 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-59709-258-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96pp
- Price $16.95
Through the creaking of bedazzled branches and the soft rustle of jeweled leaves, deciduous qween explores the queer world all around us—how we, like our environment, wear and shed different identities in our performance as human, as drag queen, as ancient tree. This collection reveals in the natural world those ephemeral moments which reflect our own truths and confront our fear of death, of loneliness, and of failure. How do our bodies and minds find equilibrium as we learn to let go, yet long to remember?
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A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How To Do
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- Book Type Fiction
- by Pete Fromm
- Publisher (link) Counterpoint
- Date Published May 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-64009-177-1
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288pp
- Price $26.00
Five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award Pete Fromm returns with his new novel, a love story about family and resiliency and second chances. For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer-upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, a beginning, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way. But the blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz when Marnie dies in childbirth, plummeting him headfirst into the world of fatherhood alone. With a rich supporting cast, the novel follows Taz's first two years as a father―a job no one can be fully prepared for.
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Anthology Posted June 18, 2019
The Best American Newspaper Narratives: Volume 6, Ed. Gayle Reaves, University of North Texas Press
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Fiction Posted June 18, 2019
The Bear, Andrew Krivak, Bellevue Literary Press
Blink If You Love Me, David Moscovich, Adelaide Books
The Color of Rock, Sandra Cavallo Miller, University of Nevada Press
A Death in Harlem, Karla FC Holloway, Northwestern University Press
Dreaming the Marsh: An Environmental Fable, Elizabeth McCulloch, Twisted Road Publications
Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, Kate Wisel, University of Pittsburgh Press
The Glass Eye, Yolanda Gallardo, Arte Publico Press
History. A Mess., Sigrun Palsdottir, Open Letter
Hurry Up and Relax, Nathan Leslie, Washington Writers Publishing House
If One of Us Should Die, I'll Move to Paris, Brandon French, Tolsun Books
This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love., Jennifer Wortman, Split Lip Press
The Translator's Bride, Joao Reis, Open Letter
You Can See More From Up Here, Mark Guerin, Golden Antelope
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Nonfiction Posted June 18, 2019
The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, David Carlin & Nicole Walker, Rose Metal Press
The Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels, Richard A. Freund, Rowman & Littlefield
Democracy and the Next American Economy: Where Prosperity Meets Justice, Henry A. J. Ramos, Arte Publico Press
Dream of the Water Children, Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific, Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd, 2Leaf Press
East Texas Troubles: The Allred Rangers' Cleanup of San Augustine, Jody Edward Ginn, University of Oklahoma Press
Fatherless: A Memoir, Keith Maillard, West Virginia University Press
Me & Other Writing, Marguerite Duras, Dorothy, a publishing project
Roadside Baseball: The Locations of America's Baseball Landmarks, Chris Epting, Santa Monica Press
The San Francisco Civic Center: A History of the Design, Controversies, and Realization of a City Beautiful Masterpiece, James W. Haas, University of Nevada Press
Saving Grand Canyon, Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth, Byron E. Pearson, University of Nevada Press
Spirituality and the Writer: A Personal Inquiry, Thomas Larson, Swallow Press
Toward Antarctica, Elizabeth Bradfield, Red Hen Press
Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, Ed. Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, Dan Campion, Holy Cow! Press
Water Connections: What fresh water means to us, what we mean to water, Jim Rousmaniere, Bauhan Publishing
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Poetry Posted June 18, 2019
An Accident of Blood, Charles W. Brice, WordTech Editions
Adamantine, Naomi Foyle, Red Hen Press
Animal/Flame, Michelle Lewis, Conduit Books
Blackdamp, Michele Harris, David Robert Books
Crucial Blue, Madeline Mysko, Cherry Grove Collections
Did You Know?, Elizabeth S. Wolf, Rattle
Dolores in Spanish is Pain, Dolores in Lolita is a Girl, Ashley Miranda, Glass Poetry Press
Early Morning Koffee Klatch at the Egg 'n Hash Sitdown, Philip Raisor, Turning Point
Epistle, Osprey, Geri Doran, Tupelo Press
Exile Home, Mark Statman, Lavender Ink
Fingerprints, Mark Chartier, Turning Point
Human Tetris, Vi Khi Nao & Ali Raz, 11:11 Press
Immigrant Songs, Kareem Tayyar, WordTech Editions
In My Cottage, Martha Deborah Hall, Word Poetry
Intrusive Beauty, Joseph J. Capista, Ohio Unviersity Press
The Language of Bones: American Journeys through Bardic Verse, Elizabeth Spencer Spragins, Kelsay Books
The Last Note Becomes Its Listener, Jeffrey Morgan, Conduit Books
Lot for Sale. No Pigs, Sandy Green, BatCat Press
Mezzanine, Susan Kay Anderson, Finishing Line Press
The Ocean Cannot Be Blue, Kirsten Hampton, Turning Point
Patterns: Moments in Time, Carol Smallwood, Word Poetry
The People's Field, Haesong Kwon, Southeast Missouri State University Press
Perimeter Homespun, Marcia Arrieta, BlazeVOX
Phoenix: Transformation Poems, Jessica Goody, CW Books
Small Waiting Objects, T.D. Walker, CW Books
The Song of Lies, James Scannell McCormick, David Robert Books
This American Autopsy, Jose Antionio Rodriguez, University of Oklahoma Press
Time, Etel Adnan, Nightboat Books
Will There Be Music?, Sharon Olson, Cherry Grove Collections
Wings Apart, Burt Kimmelman, Dos Madres
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Children's Lit Posted June 18, 2019
#NotReadyToDie, Cate Carlyle, Common Deer Press
The Math Kids: An Unusual Pattern, David Cole, Common Deer Press
Stop Reading This Book!, Caroline Fernandesz, Common Deer Press
