Poetry. 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
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish in a bilingual edition by Carolyne Wright. In 2008, Seattle-based poet Eugenia Toledo revisited her native Chile to reconnect with places and
Poetry. Pupek's bold narrative voice--which is laced with dark humor-takes us on a journey through beauty and brokenness. Pupek creates a world of sensuality emanating from the banal and the quotidian
Poetry. With IN WHICH WE SEE OUR SELVES, Eric Torgersen begins with the formal structure of the ghazal as popularized by Agha Shahid Ali and unapologetically makes a more American thing of it, arguing
Poetry. Science Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Veteran poet David Lunde's newest work, ABSOLUTE ZERO, paints an always fantastic, often tender, and occasionally frightening portrait of humanity's place among
Fiction. THE STARGAZER'S EMBASSY explores the frightening phenomenon of alien abduction from a different point of view. In this story, it is the aliens who seem fearful of Julia Glazer, the woman they
Poetry. This is a book of false memories and myth—and recollection and revelation excavated out of the author's unconscious, the pieces laid out and puzzled over. This is the moment's archeologi
Poetry. Women's Studies. WILD ROSES explores the ravishing complexities in the lives of women from the 18th through the 20th centuries, revealing how society's boundaries did not prevent some women fr
Poetry. In ENGLISH KILLS AND OTHER POEMS, Monica Wendel challenges and explores the norms of adulthood. Her speaker, teetering on the edge of marriage and pregnancy, weaves together the real world and
Poetry. This is a double collection of playful and surprisingly moving poems rooted in a theme of circus life. THE BOOK OF CLOWN BABY explores the fantasy existence of Gerry LaFemina's character, Clow
Poetry. The poems in FEVER sweat through the discontents of a love affair, a childhood, a marriage, a malfunctioning farm, the speaker's aging father and his own illness. Dream and the gritty details
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. HOUSE is a love affair between the poet and Chile. While making real the struggles of war, becoming an expatriate and the alienation that accompanies the immersion in a
Poetry. THE PERFECT HEART documents 45 years' worth of extraordinary work by a poet who is a true heir to Frost and Carruth--their tonalities and breadth of concern and vision, and their grounding in
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Soccer balls putter down dusty streets, classmates forage through dumps for toys, while friends carry on inexplicably hopeful conversations in bread lines. This extraordin
Poetry. Jane O. Wayne's THE OTHER PLACE YOU LIVE explores "the world's slow unwinding" with insight and lyric grace. With characteristic intensity of language and a bounty of imagery, she reveals thos
Poetry. African American Studies. Tenea D. Johnson's poems are uniquely observant; they captivate and surprise from choreographing butterflies turned to dust, to Kentucky woods and suburbia. Johnson's
Poetry. In these snappy and unique poems, Katz views the world from some slanted perspective most of us aren't careful enough to see. Katz imagines Emily Dickinson rolling dice in an Indian casino and
Poetry. Imagistic language and unique imagination shape this stunning book. These musical, detailed poems capture the intricacies of Keyes' worlds: her family, childhood, Boston, Key West and even Gre
Poetry. Sophia Rivkin's debut collection, THE VALISE, embraces all of the terrors and joys of life from the harrowing world of her Russian grandmother to the fragile body of a dead field mouse. Rivkin
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Don Cellini. Poet Amanda Reverón maintains a blog. Her writing habit is to begin a new book of poems each January 1st and end it on Decemb
Poetry. IN A WHITE PAGE DEMANDS ITS LETTERS, Toni Ortner records the pain of divorce and other loss. The poetic cycle, "Dream Sequence," placed here in chronological order, has a raw intensity that st
Poetry. The various speakers of Nola Garrett's LEDGE talk with each other even as they confront their crisis decisions, well aware of the treachery, beauty, danger, and history that have brought them
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Yiddish by Zelda Kahan Newman. Bilingual edition. Rivka Basman Ben Haim's poems are witty and wise. Lyrical and personal, their leng
Poetry. DISTANT MUSIC inhabits a harsh Midwestern America of damaged prairies and inward-turning small towns, whose people are nonetheless touched by moments of grace. Unmarked paupers' graves in a ru
