Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it's not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb.&am
Poetry. "Jenn Marie Nunes writes the body, but does not right it. Hers are not corrective gestures, but gestures that seek to trouble the very notion of 'correct.' In the performative AND/OR,
Poetry. Originally composed in English. Translated into facing-page Italian by Ned Condini. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, Tassi's inventing, astonishing poetry "exists in unexpected juxtaposi
Fiction. Maria Flook, author of New York Times Best Seller Invisible Eden, brings us another edgy, breezy-noir New England story. College professor April O'Rourke is in over her head when she moves ne
Poetry. "Counterpointing scenes from Poland to California, from village to city, family to politics, WWII to the present, this amazing book creates a vision of grace and redemption in the fac
Poetry. SOUND AND BASIN is a collection of poems rooted in geography, in landscapes, in the interstices where land and water collect and cohere to build memory. These poems carry the burden of ecologi
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
Nonfiction. Rumi is one of the great mystics of Islam. He founded in the XIIIth century a brotherhood in the Turkish city of Konya, famous for the use of music in the context of spiritual experience.
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Melissa Buzzeo's FOR WANT AND SOUND is a philosophical lyric in two parts. Part I, Book, is fashioned from a series of testimonial statements investigating boundarylessness—in la
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Cross-Genre. Art. Asian American Studies. Tan Lin's INSOMNIA AND THE AUNT is an ambient novel composed of black and white photographs, postcards, Google reverse searches,
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Film Studies. Dan Shurley's 2015 collection of noir short stories."I just finished your book. I think it's elegant, deft, and often brillian
Poetry.Why did the girls worry terribly? The title was found in Oliver Statler's book,The Black Ship Scroll. This has been an important book to my partner, Brandon Shimoda. A caption beneath a sketch
Poetry. "Are we the stories told about us, or the stories we tell ourselves? Barbara Brinson Curiel's MEXICAN JENNY, a fine, crazy quilt of a book, is her wise and wistful reply. Gaze into the mirror
Fiction. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Hawai'i Interest. In this beautiful and moving collection, Gail N. Harada deftly traverses the boundaries between poetry, memoir,
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Allie Marini's 2015 collection of poetry."Allie Marini's poems are tiny offerings that leave me wanting more. The women that inhabit these poems
Poetry. "In these newest of her poems, Harriet Zinnes has dared to accept the deepest challenge of all writing: i.e. to dwell in the moment that is the seed-time of moments and in the image that rests
Fiction. South Asian American Studies. "Moazzam Sheikh may be the Pakistani immigrant Woody Allen of our times, wringing guilt and manhood torments out of his multicultural background."—David Lincoln
Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Whither the Islamic world? Whither Pakistan? Revolution is on the streets of the Arab/Islamic world, Pakistan is experiencing a remote drone war and violence fomented
Poetry. "It really is gorgeous writing.... So much of it is just wonderfully lyrical and funny and moving. What a crazy/delicious world McIntosh invents."—Lanford Wilson
Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by John F. Deane. John F. Deane's translation of Tomas Transtromer's 1989 collection FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (For levande och doda) originally appeared with The
Fiction. This remarkable debut work brings together two powerful novellas that take a hard look at twenty-first century Southern California life and come up on the wry side of compassion. In a twist o
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.
Fiction. African American Studies. In fluid prose, the stories in this remarkably mature collection chronicle an African American experience in the New South that is both rich and complex. Oftentimes,
Poetry. "Bruce Williams's THE MOJAVE ROAD AND OTHER JOURNEYS is simply one of the most breathtaking and heartbreaking collections of poetry I've read in many years. These poems constitute a sequence o
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Ukrainian by Orest Popovych. "From Yehuda Amichai to the New York Group, from the state of the Union to the stables of Gertrude Stein, violins in their c
Poetry. "Brian Kim Stefans' KLUGE is cultural karaoke. It takes the last two decades, two centuries, of poetry making strategies and super-texts them under our live dramas of the original language. KL
Fiction. "Appel presents a cast of characters worthy of his quirky title. Among them Red Ziggy, a restaurateur from a distant planet who opens Birmingham, Alabama's only Latvian eatery, and H
Poetry. "Susan Terris's new and selected poems is described best in the surprising way its images align as proofs of story with and against voice. Sometimes the voice is made missile with the oddest l
Poetry. Foreword by Penny Harter. LIFTING THE SKY is the first in a new series from Dos Gatos Press: Poetry of the American Southwest. A perfect marriage of form—haiku—and subject—the limitless inspir
Poetry. Winner of the inaugural Les Figues Press NOS Book Prize as selected by guest judge Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.A family of five, Mrs. G, Mr. G and the daughter, along with a chorus and a collector (
Poetry. AND GOD SAID: LET THERE BE EVOLUTION! was written during Steve Henn's sometimes relieved, sometimes reluctant, and ultimately aborted return to the Catholic church. The poems express faith, do
Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Covino, this volume collects and expands on many of the ideas explored during the widely influential Italian American Discussion Group of the Mod
Poetry. "As the world swiftly disarticulates, AT ELEMENT provides an intensely considered poetry of witness. Turn by turn 'imbedded in the book' and spoken 'from within the thing,' AT ELEMENT navigate
Poetry. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk. Born in Gliwice in 1946, Julian Kornhauser is one of the most acclaimed figures of Polish poetry writing today. A major figure of the New Wave mov
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. EVIDENCE OF WHAT IS SAID is the complete correspondence between noted Beat Generation scholar and photographer Ann Charters andThe Maximus Poems author Charles Olson.
