Poetry. African & African American Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Peter Thompson. From the Foreword: "Can a poem (or a book—for this is a book-length poem) be topical and at the same tim
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by various translators in a bilingual edition. EARTH, WATER AND SKY: A BILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY showcases ten Argentine an
Poetry. Collaboration.This book continues a conversation between Brett Evans and Chris Shipman that was begun at a shared reading in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and (unbeknownst at the time) prequeled by
Poetry. Jewish Studies. From Lazer's ambitious ten-year Notebook shape–writing project, THINKING IN JEWISH challenges the way we read and write poetry and reframes the terms of spiritual autobiog
Fiction. African & African American Studies. "If you speak, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak and die."--Tahar DjaoutAlgeria, just after Independence. The inhabitants of a small Ka
Poetry. California Interest. DEEP WELL, Dan Bellm's fourth collection of poems, is an extended homage and elegy for a mother lost to Alzheimer's Disease in 2010. The sequence is a book of memory and c
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Donald Wellman. In THE VIRGIN MOUNTAIN, the great Uruguayan poet, novelist and essayist, Roberto Echavarren, continues hi
Poetry. Translated by Andrea Jurjevi?. This collection by poet, novelist and dramatist Olja Savi?evi?, one of Croatia's most important contemporary voices, is the first of her books of poetry to be tr
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Political poetry takes on a new definition in Jaime Huenún's FANON CITY MEU, where the voices of the colonized and their colonizers form a dissonant choir bearing t
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Inside the great landfill at Río Azul, Única and her friends, her family, society's cast-offs, struggle to survive on what those in the city throw away. This story of t
Poetry. African & African American Studies. MUHAMMAD'S MOUNTAIN, the first-ever book-length collection of poetry on the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali, consists of 45 poems, tracing the entire sp
Poetry. Jewish Studies. This collection of prose poems from the author of The History of Last Night's Dream, The Jew in the Lotus and To Die Next To You brims with respect for the genre, with homages
