New and forthcoming titles from independent book publishers and university presses. Blurbs provided by publishers.
New & Noteworthy
Posted January 22, 2020
-
Diode Editions New Spring 2020 Titles
-
Image
- 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.
-
Image
-
The People’s Field
-
Image
- Book Type Poetry
- by Haesong Kwon
- Publisher (link) Southeast Missouri University Press
- Date Published October 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-7320399-2-6
- Format Paperback
- Pages 62pp
- Price $15.00
With attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, The People’s Field reflects on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula. Of her selection, contest judge Jenny Yang Cropp writes, “Kwon’s manuscript contains a paradoxical experience of both movement and stillness, history and the eternal present. These poems, short and spare, carry the intensity of distillation but resist the epigrammatic as they show us a rich and complex landscape that asks for and earns reading after reading.”
-
Image
-
Prime Meridian
-
Image
- Book Type Poetry
- by Connie Post
- Publisher (link) Glass Lyre Press
- Date Published January 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-941783-65-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 67pp
- Price $16.00
"These poems are of a seer—unwrapping time, being, the Change we are igniting. The considerations are hard-won—who we are, what is coming upon us in this age, the passage we are entering and the exit—the seer knows it. There are no exhortations, no longings or forecasts, only the seeing, and the forthcoming Being that envelopes us more and more, “until all that is left of us.” We need this wisdom book, clear elixirs from the Source. True mind-beauty, carved with Humanity—beam, everyone must touch this volume in order to traverse the present age." —Juan Herrera
-
Image
-
River Teeth
-
Image
- Subtitle Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction
- Book Type Anthology Edited
- by Joe Mackall & Daniel W. Lehman
- Publisher (link) University of New Mexico Press
- Date Published February 2020
- ISBN-13 978-0-8263-6139-4
- Format Paperback
- Pages 360pp
- Price $24.95
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction since 1999. To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection. Contributors include Ann Hood, Lee Martin, Chris Offutt, Angela Morales, Brenda Miller, Judith Kitchen, Ted Kooser, and Andre Dubus III. This collection illuminates the importance, breadth, and reach of the journal and shows the diversity of nonfiction writing available in the twenty-first century.
-
Image
-
Shining Man
-
Image
- Book Type Fiction
- by Todd Dills
- Publisher (link) Livingston Press
- Date Published December 2019
- ISBN-13 978-1-60489-233-8
- Format Paperback
- Pages 327pp
- Price $18.95
In Shining Man, narrator Cash, an over-educated but under-achieving fry cook, decamps from a long period of floundering in suburban Charlotte, NC, to either find his vanished father in Chicago or settle his affairs, whichever comes first. The mission ultimately throws his own life into stark relief. The book explodes themes of economic opportunity, identity and the individual's place post-Great Recession in a politically polarized, culturally isolated, and class-stratified America—all through the eyes and voice of a young Southerner whose compatriots include both left-wing demonstrators and race car crew members.
-
Image
-
A Small Thing to Want
-
Image
- Book Type Fiction
- by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
- Publisher (link) Press 53
- Date Published May 2020
- ISBN-13 978-1-950413-17-1
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184pp
- Price $17.95
A Small Thing to Want, the debut short story collection by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, chronicles the choices people make about whom to love and whom to let go, their yearnings that either bind them or set them free, and the surprising ways love shows up, without reason or restraint. The characters in these stories long for freedom, truth, friendship, courage, and second chances, but each person will have to grapple with the consequences and costs of their desires.
-
Image
-
Anthology Posted February 19, 2020
River Teeth: 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction, Ed. Joe Mackall & Daniel W. Lehman, University of New Mexico Press
-
Fiction Posted February 19, 2020
Barbarians on an Ancient Sea: A Nicholas Fallon Sea Novel, William Westbrook, Rowman & Littlefield
Hillbilly Hustle, Wesley Browne, West Virginia University Press
I Am Faithful, Jenny Irish, Black Lawrence Press
Jesus and John, Adam McOmber, Lethe Press
Life's Tumultous Party Reduced to its Essential Partycycles, Marvin Cohen, Sagging Mensicus Press
Moon Trees and Other Orphans, Leigh Camacho Rourks, Black Lawrence Press
Neotenica, Joon Oluchi Lee, Nightboat Books
The OK End of Funny Town, Mark Polanzak, BOA Editions LTD
Skyland, Andrew Durbin, Nightboat Books
A Small Thing to Want, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Press 53
Wolf, Douglas A. Martin, Nightboat Books
The World Doesn't Work that Way but It Could, Yxta Maya Murray, University of Nevada Press
-
Nonfiction Posted February 19, 2020
Caribbean Counterpoint: The Aesthetics of Salt in Lasana Sekou, Sara Florian, House of Nehesi Publishers
Disparates: Essays, Patrick Madden, University of Nebraska Press
I Alone: Bernardo de Gálvez's American Revolution, Eduardo Garrigues, Arte Publico Press
The Nail in the Tree, Carol Ann Davis, Tupelo Press
Prismatics: Larry Levis & Contemporary American Poetry, Ed. Gregory Donovan & Michele Poulos, Diode Editions
Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging, Fred Arroyo, University of Arizona Press
Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place, Joan Frank, University of New Mexico Press
Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters, Geoffrey O'Brien, Marsh Hawk Press
-
Poetry Posted February 19, 2020
Bad Indian, J.C. Mehta, Brick Mantel Books
Blood Memory, Gail Newman, Marsh Hawk Press
Brand New Spacesuit, John Gallaher, BOA Editions LTD
Disparate Beasts, Basil King's Beastiary, Part Two, Basil King, Marsh Hawk Press
Enjoy Yourself: Poems, J.R. Solonche, Serving House Books
Girls Like Us, Elizabeth Hazen, Alan Squire Publishing
GOOD TIMING & GERTRUDE STEIN: Inside Snoopy’s snout maggots feast upon my blood, Julia Cohen, Diode Editions
Hedge Fund Certainty, Tomas Fink, Meritage Press
Hold Me Tight, Jason Schneiderman, Red Hen Press
Horologion, Mark Lamoureux, Poet Republik LTD
Improvisation Without Accompaniment, Matt Morton, BOA Editions LTD
Iola O, G.M. Monks, Bedazzled Ink
Karma, Yin Lichuan, Tolsun Books
The Last Human Heart, Allison Joseph, Diode Editions
Let's Become a Ghost Story, Rick Bursky, BOA Editions LTD
Love Songs from the End of the World, Katherine Reigel, Main Street Rag Publishing Co
Many Restless Concerns: (a testimony), Gayle Brandeis, Black Lawrence Press
Mezzaluna: Selected Poems, Michele Leggott, Wesleyan University Press
The Minister of Disturbances, Zeeshan Pathan, Diode Editions
Motherland, Sally Thomas, Able Muse Press
A Net to Hold the Wind, Memye Curtis Tucker, Main Street Rag Publishing Co
Our Bearings, Molly McGlennen, University of Arizona Press
Pep Talks for Broke(n) People, Caits Meissner
Prime Meridian, Connie Post, Glass Lyre Press
Refusal, Jenny Molberg, LSU Press
Rue, Kathryn Nuernberger, BOA Editions LTD
The Shadowgraph, James Cihlar, University of New Mexico Press
Shy, Theresa Hickey, Finishing Line Press
Spooky Action at a Distance: double-title poems, David Alpaugh, Word Galaxy Press
Still-Life with God, Cynthia Atkins, Saint Julian Press
to cleave: poems, Barbara Rockman, University of New Mexico Press
Ugly/Sad, Cassandra de Alba, Glass Poetry Press
Underworld Lit, Srikanth Reddy, Wave Books
Wider than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long, Diode Editions
Worship the Pig, Gaylord Brewer, Red Hen Press
Year of the Dog, Deborah Paredez, BOA Editions LTD
-
Children's Lit Posted February 19, 2020
The Everything I Have Lost, Sylvia Zeleny, Cinco Puntos Press
Jimena Perez Can Fly/Jimena Perez puede volar, Jorge Argueta, Cinco Puntos Press
