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
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
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Turning seventy, Thomas Farber appraises the writing life, aging, love, his own fate, and ours. In this spare, elegant volume he takes the measure of both his vocation and
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Travel Writing. "Matt Potter unflinchingly allows us inside his mind and heart, sharing fears and insecurities that most of us would never dare to reveal. His book is
Poetry. "In REPORTS FROM BABYLON AND BEYOND, David Schloss delivers a blistering 'report' on disaster and war. It is also an intimate look at people—journalists, civilians, soldiers, official
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. "Marjorie Keyishian doesn't write about anything special. Just wind and water, trees and sky, birds and fish, family and friends, day and night, life and death. Just what matters most
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,
Fiction. Short Stories. In William Baer's TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES, there are everyday characters walking extraordinary paths for love; there are smart, skillful characters struggling to reconci
Poetry. SLINGSHOTS AND LOVE PLUMS, Wendy Videlock's third full- length collection, sometimes evokes the lightheartedness of THE DARK GNU AND OTHER POEMS previous to it, sometimes enchants with the fro
Poetry. "In this debut from a grownup poet, heartfelt scenes are filmed by a jittery cameraman, making for a moving read that will appeal to those who don't take their poetry quite straight,
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
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
Fiction. From the author of the bestselling KNOW YOUR BAKER, John M. Keller's second novel explores the gated city of Beverly Hills, Brazil, capital and seedbed of the world's soap opera industry, sit
Fiction. Iver Arnegard's debut short fiction collection takes us into the desolate landscape of the Northern Plains and Western states, where man is but another animal seeking sustenance. The hardscra
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies and Literary Criticism. Performing Arts, Film & Video. This collection of essays is born out of the inaugural conference of the Mediterranean Centre for Interc
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Poetry. In THE REAL PEOPLE OF WIND AND RAIN—a remarkably wide- ranging set of essays—Andrew Schelling takes on poetry, Buddhism, baseball, ecology, and the art of translat
Literary Nonfiction. THANKS AND SORRY AND GOOD LUCK compiles a dozen years of disappointment transmitted via e-mail from a single editor to hundreds of writers around the world. Performative and funny
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
Poetry. "The 'psalm-poets' of the Reformation wanted to bring ethereal ideas down to earth. 'Thou, once a body, now but air/ Arch botcher of a psalm or prayer/ From Carfax come/ And patch us up a zeal
Poetry. These poems are uniquely about everyday life: getting up in the morning, sitting in the kitchen with pets, buying buttons and meeting a salesman, politics, polio, christmas, about time lost, l
Poetry. Two poem-sequences: Pigeons, and Pussy. A short poem on every page, 3 or 4 lines. The sequences presented on facing pages, emphasising the fact that the title word could be subtitled by the ot
Drama. African American Studies. Queer Studies. Djola Branner's first collection of dramatic work, SASH & TRIM AND OTHER PLAYS, "takes the reader on a journey through blackness and queerness in wa
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,
Literary Nonfiction. Art Criticism & Theory. A monograph on contemporary photography, emphasizing the theme of ruins, by the winner of the first Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Wr
Poetry. Translated from the Greek by Peter Bien. OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS, the first collection by this prolific poet to be published in English, interleaves poems of brilliant hope with poems of d
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. 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
Poetry. GOLDFISH AND ROSE is Robert Herson's thirteenth book of poems. "One of the funniest, wittiest poets I know, and he's also one of those rare ones who can hit you right in the heart."—Bill Zavat
Fiction. Set in the narrow streets of a historic Madrid neighborhood between 1937 and the 1950s, THE ROAD, AND NOTHING MORE centers on struggling, interrelated families during the Spanish Civil War an
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. "In many ways, focusing on the topic of Pound and education seems at once self-evident and sharply problematic, given the poet's numerous rants aga
Poetry. There are many journeys encompassed in the pages of this mature and well-crafted first collection; literal travels to different parts of the world, to Europe and Africa, are the outward manife
Fiction. Edited with an Afterword by Michael Boughn. Primarily known as a poet, H.D. was also a prolific prose writer. In fact her writing career began with the publication of children's stories in Su
