Fiction. "Carol Novack's GIRAFFES IN HIDING mirrors our weltanschauung by using its own language against it or by using its own language to pry open the circus hidden within it. If we say the world is
Cooking. Food. Literary Nonfiction. DISCOVERING FLAVOR is an introduction to food appreciation for the average eater. It takes a commonsense approach to explaining flavor using everyday foods, like co
Poetry. "After a career of more than 40 years, John Tranter has become that paradoxical thing: the postmodern master. Ghosting others' poems, using 'proceduralist' approaches to composition a
Poetry. Art. ALPHABETAP is a lively visual collaboration using intense graphics, colors, text, book design, and collage to create a unique and compelling artists' book that is playfully based on the a
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Language Study. Edited by Zohra Saad. The purpose of this book is to provide detailed grammatical explanations, a pronunciation guide using English as a reference, notes o
Poetry. Art. DRILLING FOR SUIT MYSTERY is a collection of collaborative visual poems by two masters of their crafts—using paint, stampings, penmanship, and collage. The plates are all in full color.
Poetry. Limited Edition. Literary Nonfiction. Collaged from language collected using the obscure keyword "Finkl"—obituaries, case histories, old Chicago legends, gossip columns, political speeches and
Fiction. The daringly imagined, masterfully realized story of poet John Keats's second life abroad. What if Keats had not died in Rome at only twenty-five, just as he was coming to realize his poetic
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. THE TIN MAN is a moving homage to a little known but charismatic figure in the Christian biblical narratives, Saint Joseph of Arimathea. Completed after six years of re
Poetry. "This book ripped me the hell open. I felt like these poems written with dirt, bones, blood, and rust were my own forgotten memories that came rushing back into my wound. Sometimes I was afrai
Fiction. The imaginary author/teacher/father Sidney Fein (1942-1984) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family's fortune came from the business of clothing women of modest means. He attended
Poetry. Women's Studies. Aja Moore's debut collection of poetry is awash in sincerity and the ways in which we simultaneously crave, doubt, avoid, and totally disparage it. HOTWHEEL, in turn, reveals
Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the German by James J. Conway. To the fretful mother of a sick child it comes in the form of the long-awaited doctor. To a feeble old man it arrives as an oblig
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the German by James J. Conway. Where do we feel at home? What do our cities look like? How do we see? In 1908, architect and theorist August Endell set out to answ
Poetry. Women's Studies. The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick flourishes of co
Fiction. Short Stories. A set of linked stories with some of the same characters from PERSO and a lot of new ones and the world is the same but different from the world in PERSO and the stories
Poetry. "For decades, a certain photograph—I don't know who took the picture—has been lodged in my mind of an ash-smeared, half-naked, crazed-looking man peering through a thicket of brambles in what
Poetry. Women's Studies. In STUNT HEART, Mary Jo Thompson's debut collection, a female gaze locates the ironies inside the subjects of marriage and death, loneliness and love, speaking and silence. Th
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. The original 2012 essay collection, redesigned and with four new essays by the author.LEGS GET LED ASTRAY is a provocative collection of essays t
Poetry. Women's Studies. This collection of poems by the State Poet of Nebraska covers significant emotional territory while remaining firmly grounded in the landscape. From memories of the isolation
Poetry. Fiction. "KINGDOM COME is a big, imaginative feast for the senses, wry with humor and sizzling with sexuality. Liu's immersive style, each sentence a bracing plunge into a liquefied language,
Fiction. A novel/"autofiction" about the complexities of being a woman, an artist, a mother, and a wife; a novel about persona and obsession and loyalty and repression; an exorcism.Told in four volume
Aging. Self-Help. Health. Translated from the German by Michael Eskin. Learning to live with one's own aging is the new task: making an art of what once was a given—growing older; turning our society'
Fiction. Nikole Swensen has the drive and raw talent to compete in the rigorous sport of horse eventing—and win. But fear holds her back from realizing her full potential. So her husband, a wealthy Ve
Fiction. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. "Very smart, very funny. Kathy Anderson's collection, BULL AND OTHER STORIES, reminds us that the essential story-telling element is voice, and hers scream
Poetry. FLICKER by Lisa Bickmore is the winner of the 2014 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. "Lisa Bickmore gives us a powerful new collection, in which 'there are two lives, / the tranqui
Fiction. Native American Studies. Jackalope in Denise Low's trickster stories is a 21st century figure as real as Bigfoot. Part antelope and part rabbit, this denizen of the grasslands has a Twitter a
Poetry. Swinging between examination and revelation, Hannah Brooks-Motl's second collection of poems, M, holds a unique place in contemporary poetry, written almost as a document to chart the act of a
Fiction. By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep- hearted, TWISTER (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a youn
Poetry. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren. Slovenian poet Toma? ?alamun (1941-2014) is hailed as one of the most prominent poets of his generation, renowned for his impact on the E
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Navigating the subtle ways language (con)forms the body, LEVITATIONS spans childhood, community, and love to explore how we might break free from the cultural demands of normalcy
Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Seidman and David Shook. Introduced by Jorge Ortega. Bilingual Edition. "I feel that poetry," Salvador Novo confesses in a poem fromEsp
Poetry. Conceived as a series in five sets of twenty and written over the course of 12 years, WE PLIE enfolds a structure of a recurrent life very much in "the weighted west of I." T
Literary Nonfiction. In 2013, Daniel Nester's estranged father died penniless and alone in a small apartment in Tucson. The news brings back a flood of memories about Mike Nester, an enigmatic truck d
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Design. Information Science. Edited by Ariane Roth and Marina Schutz. Translated from the German by Alta L. Price.THE DYNAMIC LIBRARY presents essays in translation from an i
Poetry. "From the internet, I learn that 'complicated grief' designates a bereavement disorder in which, instead of fading with time, the pain of loss remains as acute as it was in the beginn
Fiction. Women's Studies. The thirty-six stories in this anthology, all by women authors, center around female characters who follow their own paths and tell the powers-that-be what they don't want to
Poetry. For over a decade, Abraham Smith has been pouring out into the night of American poetry a brilliantly made, variegated song. Smith's jangling, brainy, tonically surprising and lyrically cornuc
Poetry. Dot Devota's THE DIVISION OF LABOR, selected as the Editor's Choice for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize, tethers the eerie echoes of political and cultural rhetoric to a stunning and docu
