Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Stephen Paul Miller has written the most swingin', rockin', jazzy history of Judaism, Jews, and our favorite one and only God there is, that you will ever read. In verse. And
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. MIRACH SPEAKS TO HIS GRAMMATICAL TRANSPARENTS is a philosophical meditation vertically scripted. It is an extension of Alexander's first book in this mod
Poetry. Ever since the poems of Catullus were discovered in a wine cask in Verona in the 13th century, translators have returned to them over and over, insisting on their continued relevance. These tr
Poetry. "In SUGAR ZONE Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to the interior, somewhere between Saint Theresa's Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros—but also a place of desperate actuality, e
Poetry. "'[T]hrough the tunnel pushing water': the first appearance of this image in Charles Alexander's serial poem arises as if in a dream, and that sense of dream persists throughout this long and
Poetry. "If Carroll Kearley relied on mere reminiscence to propel the reader from poem to poem in THE PLAIN ABOVE THE RIVER, the collection might devolve to 'fragments of memory keep[ing] family toget
Poetry. Oblique, intelligent, and sad, THE LILY WILL introduces readers to a voice beautifully sustained through compressed lyrics and long, meticulous sequences. The geography of this book is one of
Poetry. In DIRT SONGS: A PLAINS DUET, Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom reflect on the influence of the Great Plains. These seasoned poems celebrate clouds, water and the earth; as well as thei
Poetry. Amanda J. Bradley's second book, OZ AT NIGHT, lives up to its title: it is dark and fantastical, frightening and playful. A courageous vision is at the center of Bradley's poetic project, and
Literary Nonfiction. This book includes essays on the phenomenon of the "guido": its origins and its relationship to the Italian/American community. The writers share their own views on a phenomenon t
Fiction. A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS explores the notion of intimate space and the domestic affairs that constitute the proper subject of female knowledge. The prose pieces echo one another, bu
Poetry. "What attracts one first to Chris Glomski's poetry is its intricacy, that sense of hidden meanings and cryptic revelation shimmering in 'its secret / curving rescissions / and negative spaces.
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. THE PITCHER'S KID is Jack Olsen's memoir of the first 18 years of his life, years that formed his voice, his ear, and his passionate concern for the underdog. It is a stor
Poetry. In CADASTRAL MAP, Jill Magi writes: "I enter as a writer, one kind of mapmaker, needing to ask, is traditional nature writing in English a cadastral map? Abstracting, narrowing, taking an espe
Poetry. In FAT GIRL, Jessie Carty asks us to strip and stand naked in front of a mirror. These poems are our own reflection. Bittersweet in nature, they are self-perception. They size us up and tell t
Literary Nonfiction. Art. In the Spring of 1965, dozens of New York artists met for the two-part, invitation-only Waldorf Panels on Sculpture. Organized by Phillip Pavia, the proceedings of THE WALDOR
Poetry. Volume 5 of Berengarten's Selected Writings. Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, UNDER BALKAN LIGHT presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither b
Poetry. Photography. MY THIN-SKINNED WANDERING embraces image, language and texture through poetry and photography. It is a powerful invitation for the reader to become more than a reader of poems—to
Literary Nonfiction. THE ART OF READING ITALIAN AMERICANA is a celebration of the "Art of Reading," in which the reader and writer engage in dialogue. This book covers the ten-year period since Fred G
Literary Nonfiction. Barone's work portrays how Italian American authors of different times and generations negotiated this challenging terrain called America. From the immigrant pick-and-shovel poet
Poetry. Ken, the publisher, here. I couldn't be more thrilled to make this book flesh. This collection of aphorisms—concise, eloquent truths—contains so much poetry and passion and deep thinking, I've
Poetry. Translated from the French by John Taylor. In the field of contemporary French poetry, Jacques Dupin (b. 1927) is a leading figure in a remarkable generation that also includes Yves Bonnefoy (
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women's Studies. DRAWING THE LINE is the story of personal adventure and redemption, tracing a life lived continually on the edge between chaos and harmony, tragedy and jo
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Yannis Ritsos was, without question, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This collection of essays by Peter Bien is the first
Liteary Nonfiction. Memoir. In these interconnected stories, Zweig takes readers on a journey deep into the every day life of Naples in the 1960s—Naples, the birthplace of his mother, the home of his
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. In this land of MILK AND HONEY, poems flow. Contemporary Jewish, lesbian poets address an array of experiences—relationships between and among women, family relat
Young Adult Fiction. In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-yea
Poetry. These poems illuminate both the beauty of living in the world, as well as the constant presence of grief and death as we go about our daily activities. As in Jean Hollander's previous collecti
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Frank Adams tells a lover's tale in verse. This tribute to a lover long dead from AIDS touches what is most human in all of us. It is a story of love, desire, disease, mortality
Poetry. "I like the vivid lines that James Tolan is able to produce. He knows how to hold onto the hog and let go at the right moment"—Robert Bly. "From the wellspring of a ramshackle youth emerges a
Poetry. South Asia Studies. Translated from the Punjabi by Amritjit Singh and Judy Ray. "The poems of Rampuri are wise and memorable—whether he is speaking to us about the timeless tension between rea
Poetry. "The openness of this sequence is heartfelt and heartbreaking.... Morrison courts those regions of thinking and being that society instructs us to suppress or ignore; and she does so by declar
Poetry. "Harry Northup's new series of poetic meditations is cast in an incantatory mold. The voice of a human coyote railing against the wondrous savage world it inhabits, in order to embrace it befo
Poetry. Child of our amorphous border and a lifetime boundary-walker, transcriber of unknown or scarcely remembered languages, in DEMOS ONEIRON Harry Polkinhorn hews fast to the bafflement of dreams a
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "j/j hastain's book A WOMB-SHAPED WORMHOLE is one beginning for a world attempting to make itself in advance of its articulation. But it can be articulated by scents, which is to
Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Writing Reference. WINGBEATS: EXERCISES AND PRACTICE IN POETRY is an exciting collection of exercises by fifty-eight wonderfully diverse teaching poets both in (Oliver de
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. California Studies. DUNE CHILD will be of interest to historians (California history) and child therapists. It tells the story of an artistic and bohemian community that e
Young Adult Fiction. African American Studies. For Charles Malik Jacobs, the summer of junior year will change everything. He dreams about being a writer someday, but for now, he's just dreaming. Exce
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Native American Studies. NATURAL THEOLOGIES: ESSAYS ABOUT LITERATURE OF THE NEW MIDDLE WEST is the first critical study of contemporary Mid-Plains literature. Denise Low s
Poetry. "In a triptych of agile forms, this marvelous book faces the foreign frankly and openly, opening it up and making openings for it, ultimately bringing it within, without domesticating it even
