Poetry. "This collection refuses to be pinned into a corner and has enough corazon to face taboo square in the eye. This is Einstein mixed with Wu-Tang-thought experiments gone wild, the if/then propo
Poetry. These poems are based on the extraordinary career and personal struggles of Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter Paul Watson."Very powerful poems."—Andrew Motion
Poetry. Native American Studies. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON opens with the section "Influences": "where I have been/ most of my lives/ is where I'm going/--Lucille Clifton". The stories and poems of She
Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none
Poetry. Of her collection, FORBIDDEN WORDS: "Gorgeous writing and devastating…Patricia Traxler has done crucial work here: rigorous, faithful, tragic, hopeful, true."—Marie Howe
Poetry. "These poems are gorgeous and ironic and heartbreaking and angry and uplifting and tough-minded and compassionate and completely amazing. NEW LIFE is a triumph. Art wins, war loses." —Tim O'Br
Poetry. "Gerald Fleming is a remarkable writer, made more so by his commitment to the prose poem, a form which at its best, as here, is a delicious treat on almost every occasion... You'll probably lo
Poetry. BORROWED COATS, the fourth Hanging Loose collection of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel's work in the last twenty years, once again demonstrates the understated power of this poet who began writing as
Poetry. "I wish there were more poets like Wilma McDaniel. One wants to return to her book again and again. Little slices of real truth, to be long savored" -Pete Seeger.
Drama. Translated from the Italian by Ilaria Papini. "Building on a classic noir premise—the discovery of an unidentified dead girl, dumped on the side of a road—Fausto Paravidino's STILL LIFE IN DITC
Poetry. "Someone walks around town, sees things and writes them down. He remembers what people say to him: 'The planes kept going / transporting a strange cargo, bodies packed in ice and oranges.' He
Poetry. "A large masterpiece consisting of small poems... keeps reverberating like a percussion player who still hears the beat."—Hal Sirowitz. "So very, and beautifully, human."—Katie Ford "Spar
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the French by Yves Henri Cloarec. Winner of the Third Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. In France, winner of
Poetry. In this book, Kimiko Hahn manages to take the air of atrocity we breathe in daily and turn it into fierce political/ lyrical poetry, in the tradition of Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy. Curren
Nonfiction. Music. In a voice that "delivers both respect and irreverence with convincing authority," Terence Winch gives us "a world--two worlds in fact--his parents' New York immigran
