Young Adult Fiction. In I'LL BE HOME SOON, Luanne Armstrong takes the reader on a tension-filled ride as Regan, a young girl living in the inner city, searches for her mother who has mysteriously disa
Poetry. "SLOPE MOVE is bittersweet indeed: a thorny junction between emotion, image, situation, abstraction. Discomfort hides (in plain sight) in details which ground the lyricism and allow complexity
Poetry. "John Ortenzio Bargowski has caught the quintessential soul of the Italian-American experience in a New Jersey we will recognize. Here are the subjects,familiar yet freshly observed: the centr
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by by Gayle Ridinger. Introduction by Simone Giusti. Camillo Sbarbaro (1888-1967) experimented for fifty years with a form of prose poetry that h
Fiction. African American Studies. Translated from the French. AMONG THE BLACKS consists of two works: Ron Padgett's translation of Raymond Roussel's early story "Parmi les noirs," first published in
Poetry. "These poems portray exactly what they intend to portray, true feelings and a quest to understand our physical and spiritual existence. Whitehouse's personal narratives and meditations...are n
Poetry. Asian-American. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is one of the very few poets writing in the United States today whose voice and writing style are immediately recognizable. In her new collection, NEST, t
Poetry. Cultural Writing. The poem looks back on the decades previous to the first Gulf War and forwards--toward a duration of events, which, because the poem is in history, do not cease to occur. In
Poetry. HER FAMILIARS is Jane Satterfield's third book of poetry. This collection winds its way through civilization, history, and popular culture like a newly imagined animal and becomes a "familiar"
A bilingual edition translated from the Estonian by Ilmar Lehtpere.Kristiina Ehin is one of Estonia's leading poets and is known throughout Europe for her poetry and short stories. She has an MA in Co
Poetry. "DeWeese's poems, a unified collection of stand alone meditations, offer a new myth composed straight out of our 21st Century's hideous beauty. The poems' heroic chronicle epics our s
Poetry. In THREE COLUMN TABLE, Harold Abramowitz offers a poetic analysis of languages that have helped invent, delimit, and reinforce domestic structures. By fusing an exterior and public language to
Poetry. Fiction. Translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop. This volume contains almost all of Elfriede Czurda's first book and all of her second, Fast 1 Leben. Czurda comes out of the experiment
Poetry. "You've stumbled upon the best travelogue you'll ever find...a book for the ages, and for our age and place."—Laura Kasischke"The tag-team poetry of Buckley and Ott is as much a kin to the wor
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.
Poetry. Taking formal and methodological inspiration from the speedcore, thrash-jazz "miniatures" of John Zorn's Naked City, the poems of TORTURE GARDEN: NAKED CITY PASTORELLES are dense, impacted cry
Poetry. "These carefully crafted poems look, feel and sound like the human heart and its rhythms. Each line, each breath, a syncopated beat that enters through the lips and into the body and yet I hav
Fiction. Southeast Asia Studies. Translated from the Korean by Yoo-Jung Kong. This literary rewriting of the life of Pontius Pilate is a South Korean contribution to the rich body of world literature
Poetry. AN ATLAS OF LOST CAUSES pulls the reader into a rich, internal world where perception is doubled and "stars are just dead light—falling behind schedule." As her poetic noir unfolds, quotidian
Poetry. Susan M. Schultz's MEMORY CARDS—prose poems composed to fit on an index card, each beginning with a randomly chosen line from a book by the poet for whom each of the nine sections is named—gen
Poetry. Two words make the prosodic "line," three lines make a "lyrica," linked lyrica make a serial poem. More koan than haiku, THE LYRICA POEMS work that thin vein where words are mistaken for thing
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
Poetry. Equine anatomy fills the room, a muzzle at the edge of the rug.Julia Johnson's THE FALLING HORSE is concerned with what is missing, misplaced, lost, fallen, and found.
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony, held at the Simon Fraser University Gallery from April 25 to June 27, 2009, THE INSU
Poetry."For those whose eyes remain open, whose hearts are not afraid to come closer, let them come and be pierced, let them come and read and turn the pages and be beholden to a poet who seems born t
Poetry. THE MALADY OF THE CENTURY is written as a swansong to a generation that has lost the will to perceive the linear progression of time; a generation that is a collapse of occasions, wherein no d
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. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. This powerful first collection by Thai American writer Jai Arun Ravine pulls itself and its readers across geographies, cultures, languages, identities, a
Poetry. "Emily Pettit has included a number of 'how to' poems in her nimble and dazzling first collection, such as: 'How to Make No Noise,' and the especially useful 'How to Avoid Confronting Most Lar
