{"title":"CLMP Titles","description":"Publishers who are members of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/clmp-publishers\"\u003eCLMP\u003c\/a\u003e is \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehundreds of small publishers creating print and digital books, magazines, online publications, chapbooks and zines, who have come together to do work as publishers better and to organize around a shared set of beliefs. More at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.clmp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CLMP.org\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ewww.CLMP.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wake-up-we-re-here","title":"Wake Up  We’re Here","description":"\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003eIn these collected stories of deeply human flawed men and women in search of connection consolation and better odds Dallas Hudgens once again taps into the powerful and resonant view of ordinary lives made less so that has earned him national praise for his novels \u003cem\u003eDrive Like Hell\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSeason of Gene\u003c\/em\u003e. In a Nation's Capital fully occupied by the ninety-nine percent going about the business of their lives and in Detroit Buffalo Winnipeg Oxnard and Tampa life lays down its rhythm in dreams promises and bills the truth in neon light through the hazy smoke and the telltale beat of inconstant hearts foreclosures and the everyday rigors of smoking drinking working parenting cheating and praying that just one break could make it. America down on her luck ready for redemption has never looked closer than this or more like us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDallas Hudgens\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eDrive Like Hell\u003c\/em\u003e (Scribner 2005) a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection and \u003cem\u003eSeason of Gene \u003c\/em\u003e(Scribner 2007) a Book Sense Notable and the short-story collection \u003cem\u003eWake Up We're Here\u003c\/em\u003e (Relegation Books 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hudgens doesn't shy away from the brutality of life on earth - the illness the decreptitude the humiliations and the teen suicides - but the grittiness is never gratuitous and his stories are infused with compassion and hope.\" -Emily St. John \u003cem\u003eMandel The Millions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A gritty collection of fiction about people who live rough complicated lives. Awesome endings in every story.\" - Roxane Gay \u003cem\u003e Treehouse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321556967574,"sku":"9780984764808","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_fa87ecc3-b8be-482b-a314-d3292c74aceb.jpg?v=1642156282"},{"product_id":"on-bittersweet-place-1","title":"On Bittersweet Place","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place\u003c\/i\u003e is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920's where Lena's impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena's new world is large and beautiful and full of promise but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden with danger. Ronna Wineberg delivers a moving universal story of family self-discovery young love and the always relevant experience of the immigrant the refugee the outsider struggling to create a new home and a better life in an unfamiliar place\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonna Wineberg \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place \u003c\/i\u003e which is her first novel and a debut collection \u003ci\u003e Second Language \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition and was the runner-up for the 2006 Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Way Colorado Review South Dakota Review\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere and been broadcast on National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a scholarship in fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and residencies to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She has been awarded a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the founding fiction editor of the \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review \u003c\/i\u003e and lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"Long before the phenomenon that is Lena Dunham Ronna Wineberg gives us the unforgettable Lena Czernitski. This incredible girl will steal your heart. She is passionate and practical fierce but also forgiving. Wineberg's debut novel \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place\u003c\/i\u003e will hold you in its gentle enthrall. A coming of age novel an immigrant story and an altogether moving meditation on life and the pursuit of happiness.\" -- Marcy Dermansky author of \u003ci\u003eBad Marie \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"In the pages of Ronna Wineberg's \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place \u003c\/i\u003eone finds echoes of Anzia Yezierska and Betty Smith in the fictional story of Lena Czernitski's immigrant family in the first quarter of the 20th century the reader recovers a piece of our larger American history. Quite impressive.\" -- Erika Dreifus author of \u003ci\u003eQuiet Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"A powerful evocation of the complexities of the early 20th-century immigrant experience too often sugar-coated and sentimentalized. Rich with precise period detail and iconic historical references \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life the travails and triumphs of one Jewish-American family readers will not easily forget.\" -- Joan Leegant author of \u003ci\u003eWherever You Go \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"Youth is never all sweet and \u003ci\u003eOn Bittersweet Place's\u003c\/i\u003e Lena a Russian-born Jewish teenager in 1920s Chicago certainly has her share of troubles. The sweetness is there though in this heartfelt coming-of-age tale -- in the tenderness of Wineberg's beautiful prose and the pluck of its resilient young heroine. A story that stays with you.\" -- Anne Korkeakivi author of\u003ci\u003e An Unexpected Guest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"normal\"\u003e\"A tender -- and tenderly rendered \u0026amp;ndash\u0026amp;ndash portrait of a young Russian emigre undergoing transplantation shock in the New World. Wineberg's wide-eyed protagonist never sheds her guileless idealism nor does Wineberg's limpid prose ever shed its unassuming grace.\" \u003ci\u003e-- \u003c\/i\u003ePeter Selgin author of \u003ci\u003eDrowning Lessons \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321557033110,"sku":"9780984764815","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_91a1598a-19ed-4223-80b6-5c664253092e.jpg?v=1642156291"},{"product_id":"the-loved-ones-1","title":"The Loved Ones","description":"\u003cblockquote type=\"cite\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/22\/books\/review\/road-trip-vacation.html\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0F4woCi_FwPQGZtLExPVSQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/22\/books\/review\/road-trip-vacation.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003efeatured Match Book recommends\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus’s \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/sonya-chung\/the-loved-ones-chung\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0ZLymoxVA9dj_WF8N5-dnO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/sonya-chung\/the-loved-ones-chung\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBest Fiction of 2016\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/diy\/16November.pdf\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2LDt1om9AVEuOiXe6qv7XE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/sites\/default\/files\/diy\/16November.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIndie Next List\u003c\/a\u003e selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory%3Dfall-indie-fiction-best-novels-and-short-stories-beyond-the-mainstream\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3Amsv0vFKP9JoZVCmnjiD2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory=fall-indie-fiction-best-novels-and-short-stories-beyond-the-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBest Indie Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/buzzfeed.createsend.com\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/EC8742EBCC22D2CC\/C67FD2F38AC4859C\/?tx%3D0%26previewAll%3D1%26print%3D1%26__utma%3D103424671.2136143216.1427727956.1477513493.1477513493.1%26__utmb%3D103424671.8.10.1477513493%26__utmc%3D103424671%26__utmx%3D-%26__utmz%3D103424671.1477513493.1.1.utmcsr%253D%2528direct%2529%257Cutmccn%253D%2528direct%2529%257Cutmcmd%253D%2528none%2529%26__utmv%3D103424671.%257C1%253Duser-type%253Dprospect%253D1%26__utmk%3D256777739%26_ga%3D1.80156500.2136143216.1427727956\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0GHoxuFcERJ9Zne-ddPQyH\" href=\"http:\/\/buzzfeed.createsend.com\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/EC8742EBCC22D2CC\/C67FD2F38AC4859C\/?tx=0\u0026amp;previewAll=1\u0026amp;print=1\u0026amp;__utma=103424671.2136143216.1427727956.1477513493.1477513493.1\u0026amp;__utmb=103424671.8.10.1477513493\u0026amp;__utmc=103424671\u0026amp;__utmx=-\u0026amp;__utmz=103424671.1477513493.1.1.utmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29\u0026amp;__utmv=103424671.%7C1%3Duser-type%3Dprospect%3D1\u0026amp;__utmk=256777739\u0026amp;_ga=1.80156500.2136143216.1427727956\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBuzzfeed Books Recommends\u003c\/a\u003e selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this masterful novel of inheritance and loss Sonya Chung (\u003ci\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eproves herself a worthy heir to Marguerite Duras Hwang Sun-won and James Salter. Spanning generations and divergent cultures \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e maps the intimate politics of unlikely attractions illicit love and costly reconciliations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee the young African American patriarch of a biracial family seeks to remedy his fatherless childhood in Washington DC by making an honorable choice when his chance arrives. Years later in the mid-1980s uneasy and stymied in his marriage to Alice he finds a connection with Hannah Lee the teenage Korean American caregiver whose parents' transgressive flight from tradition and war has left them shrouded in a cloud of secrets and muted passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA shocking and senseless death will test every familial bond and force all who are touched by the tragedy to reexamine who their loved ones truly are-the very meaning of the words. Haunting elliptical and powerful \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs the world we think we know and shows us the one we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead the interview with Sonya Chung on \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003ehttps:\/\/electricliterature.com\/sonya-chung-on-race-risk-reinvention-885d77c90633#.gwusewgq6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonya Chung\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sonya-chung.com\/books\/the-loved-ones\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/sonya-chung.com\/books\/the-loved-ones\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3a3Saq3EOj3qo3XslMdNIk\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Relegation Books, 2016) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781416599678\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781416599678\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw33Ch7-hXxQUBRLwSf3GhyJ\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLong for This World \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Scribner, 2010). She is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/bronxarts.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/bronxarts.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3-P0B7gpZi3uHeH1kHsYaG\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBronx Council on the Arts\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003eWriters’ Residency, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kwls.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.kwls.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw17MWjjn7-vh7NLZVnLKyNw\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKey West Literary Seminars\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e residency, a Studios of Key West residency, and an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.escape2create.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.escape2create.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3aFLYwPmgzdGJy9vOzfgoG\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEscape to Create\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e residency.  Sonya’s stories, reviews, \u0026amp; essays have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Review, Tin House, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sonya-chung\/art-before-life-questioni_b_655582.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sonya-chung\/art-before-life-questioni_b_655582.html\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2OAsF5djwrqgR0riPleaLr\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sonyachung\/my-pleasure?utm_term=.vygqN1G9l#.ki28Neq5X\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sonyachung\/my-pleasure?utm_term%3D.vygqN1G9l%23.ki28Neq5X\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw0cYyDHoLu5ciZpZSAmtDgP\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C01YTBI\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=9325\u0026amp;creativeASIN=B00C01YTBI\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;tag=bloom00e-20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00C01YTBI\/ref%3Das_li_tf_tl?ie%3DUTF8%26camp%3D1789%26creative%3D9325%26creativeASIN%3DB00C01YTBI%26linkCode%3Das2%26tag%3Dbloom00e-20\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2VCh2ILCwXE4HTli0KSa9j\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca title=\"More info about this book at powells.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/short-an-international-anthology-of-five-centuries-of-short-short-stories-prose-poems-brief-essays-other-short-prose-forms-9780892554324\/1-1\" rel=\"powells-9780892554324\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/short-an-international-anthology-of-five-centuries-of-short-short-stories-prose-poems-brief-essays-other-short-prose-forms-9780892554324\/1-1\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw3iIhQ0GqaDgYbWeJZudb9m\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eShort: An International Anthology\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781580056687\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781580056687\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw1t7t7dk3ouMi8vPnToxjGW\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThis is The Place: Women Writing About Home\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSonya has taught fiction writing at Columbia University, Skidmore College, NYU, Warren Wilson’s MFA program, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Currently she lives in New York City, where she is Director and a programmer at a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/filmforum.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/filmforum.org\/\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1740613336617000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2XE6zlLhezY718wU79Z91K\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enonprofit arthouse cinema\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Sonya Chung's stunning second novel \u003cem\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e charts the unexpected ways in which families form, fracture, and rebuild…The Loved Ones renders anguish with devastating precision — through the quiet confidence and grace of Chung's poetic prose. There's a heartfelt, heartbreaking purity to this novel unlike anything I've encountered in a long time. Read it, revel in it, and then go hold your loved ones tight”.  —\u003cstrong\u003eLincoln Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Buzzfeed Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I read \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with breathless urgency. It was as expansive as I needed it it to be while also telling the most personal of family stories. Much missing American immigration and great migration history was missing for me before this beautiful story helped piece it together. From the first page this novel is brimming with prismatic, intersectional moments I was not aware of between Korean and black Americans in the post war era. The intergenerational aspect just helps the pages race by as generations carry each other’s burdens and triumphs through the years. Fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomegoing \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will feel this novel is a blessing on their nightstands.”  —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHannah Depp\u003c\/strong\u003e, Loyalty Bookstores\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sonya Chung's prose is elegant sparse and heartbreaking in a way that reminds one of Elena Ferrante or Clarice Lispector. In this novel of two very different but interconnected families both named Lee she tells the story of love against the twin inheritances of shame and grief. This book is a complication of the immigrant narrative in a way that is long overdue and necessary. A gorgeous and important second novel.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eNayomi Munaweera, \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eWhat Lies Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sonya Chung's new novel \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e spans generations and cultures to capture what it means to be a lost child in a lonely world. In compelling prose Chung lays bare the devastating effects of tragedy on family-then boldly suggests the power to heal lies beyond our loved ones. Shattering assumptions about loss and longing this shimmering tale of dangerous love will break your heart and mend it too.\"---\u003cstrong\u003eBridgett M. Davis,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of\u003ci\u003e Into the Go-Slow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Within a multigenerational saga about family race and difference \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e unfurls an elegant love story about two people bound to one another through tragedy yet kept apart by time and circumstance. The pages of this gorgeous novel gave me insight upon insight characters I grew to love and the most satisfying ending I've read in a very long time.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eShannon Cain,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Certain Behaviors \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The story of Charles and Alice their children Veda and Benny and their babysitter Hannah and her parents pushes boundaries. Chung (\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Long-for-This-World-Sonya-Chung\/pid=3908500\"\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 2010) takes us from 1951 to 2005 and from Washington D.C. to Korea and Paris drastically reframing our world by exploring difficult ideas and raising awareness of our capacity for empathy. In achieving this she joins in the best tradition of world literature. Part immigrant narrative part coming-of-age fiction with interwoven themes of interracial marriage the role of absentee fathers and the continued hold of the past this tale charts a nuanced journey that follows no convenient tropes. This is particularly striking in the story of Hannah's Korean immigrant parents Chong-ho and Soon-mi. In a book full of complex characters and plot twists the sparse and elegant prose creates a quietness that allows contemplation of one of life's big questions \u003ci\u003eWhat is love?\u003c\/i\u003e Chung's adeptness in capturing the soaring drama of subdued interactions makes this worth a read. But it is her ability to be at once subversive and optimistic radical and reassuring that makes this a must-read.\" \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShoba Viswanathan,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A gorgeous multigenerational saga of love and race loss and belonging Chung's (\u003ci\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/i\u003e 2010) latest follows the intertwining lives of two very different families in Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Charles Frederick Douglass Lee, the young African-American patriarch of his biracial family… is doing for his family what his own father couldn't or wouldn't. As a young soldier stationed in Korea, Charles met Alice fresh out of the Peace Corps and avoiding medical school at home. Alice got pregnant, Charles proposed, determined to \"put his head down do right and make a family.\" And so they have built a life together stable if not easy. Then Alice returns to work after years at home and the family… hires Hannah Lee, the stoic 13-year-old daughter of Korean immigrants, to look after the kids… Quietly expansive, the novel moves between the stories of the two families alternating glimpses of the past with the present: Hannah's parents' forbidden courtship in Korea and a doomed family trip back to the Hadong countryside 10 years later; Alice's early adulthood and the night she met Charles. Every last one of Chung's characters is wholly alive and breathtakingly human but it's her portrait of teenage Hannah-always complicated never romanticized-that makes the novel such a heart-wrenching pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant and empathetic a book impossible to put down.\" \u003ci\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"meta-pub-date\"\u003eSept. 1st 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321569747094,"sku":"9780984764846","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_9ec36cf8-7ced-497a-9b8d-da2e885e7fdd.jpg?v=1642157000"},{"product_id":"mercy-spurs-the-bone-1","title":"Mercy Spurs the Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It is not often that one encounters mastery in a debut book of poems but that is exactly what happens in Chelsea Wagenaar's\u003cem\u003e Mercy Spurs The Bone\u003c\/em\u003e where the poems are crafted into light-filled islands of lyric selfhood small Edens of conceptual originality and rigorously precise language. Writing in an elliptical style Wagenaar achieves that articulation of being that mysterious symbiosis of self and world which is at the very heart of poetry. A double gift then: this brilliant beginning and more than sufficient promise of the wonders that are sure to follow.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eB.H. Fairchild\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChelsea Wagenaar\u003c\/strong\u003e received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas. She lives in Denton Texas with her husband, fellow poet Mark Wagenaar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321589211286,"sku":"9781934695418","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_c6ea5de7-b3d3-44a4-bfd3-32dc97de03c5.jpg?v=1642158042"},{"product_id":"ceremonial-1","title":"Ceremonial","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her debut poetry collection Carly Joy Miller surprises and enraptures on every page. The visceral poems of \u003cem\u003eCeremonial\u003c\/em\u003e figure the body at its most sublime and at its most feral with equal attention. With an unflinching eye Miller crafts psalms of petition and praise from the raw material of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarly Joy Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e's work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Adroit Journal Blackbird Boston Review Gulf Coast West Branch\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor at \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e and a founding editor of Locked Horn Press. Her chapbook \u003cem\u003eLike a Beast\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2016 Rick Campbell Prize and was published by Anhinga Press in 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In her luscious debut [...] [Miller] conjures powerful images of refusal to be confined by societal expectations of womanhood. On display is an inner life marked by the active embrace of both victories and defeats garnered in the face of defiance of others' demands. [...] In the process of discovering the self Miller cuts a new path through an old wood.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Miller's book is a strange testament teeming with some of the most original poems you'll encounter this year. ...Metamorphoses saturate this book suggest our bodies and souls are in flux. There's a lot of wonder to get lost within here this is a book to awaken the imagination.\"\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Carly Joy Miller is relentless. She doesn't want you to breathe normally.\"\u003cem\u003e -\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeremonial\u003c\/em\u003e disturb in such a way as to make us entirely rethink who we are and where. \u003cem\u003eCeremonial\u003c\/em\u003e offers a post-apocalyptic landscape to be navigated by poems that together become a moral compass-the compass Protean however ever-shifting maybe trustworthy and maybe not. Here to bless a thing can mean to put an axe to it the impulse to save what's broken competes with an impulse to look indifferently away from it the topography is one of damage-accident or what only looks or is meant to look like accident. And yet there is tenderness too and vulnerability. The poems variously revel in regret and feel strange compassion for the beast of desire-of restlessness-inside us all: \"Still I kiss \/ his jaw wild with yellow \/\/ jackets. I shepherd \/ too long in his furs.\" Part of the power of these poems is the coolness of their sensibility a refusal to back entirely down: 'Don't blink in disbelief ' we're told at one point 'ill from the chandelier with a pearl strand. Swing the lights.' I stand persuaded.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/strong\u003e judge of the 2017 Orison Poetry Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Carly Joy Miller's poems are wild restless creatures. They scare me in the best way balancing between pleasure and pain and brokenness and wholeness with lyricism intelligence and disarming composure: 'Nothing delights more \/ than his horns. \/\/ How they rouge me.' Reading Miller's thrilling debut \u003cem\u003eCeremonial \u003c\/em\u003e I'm reminded of what happens when something breaks: there's a brightness more facets to reflect the light.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMaggie Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Here is the poet who knows the sensual art of speaking in tongues. ...'To be young and lopsided in faith'- not a kind of prayer one would expect from the young poet in any age nevermind 2018. And yet here it is the surprise of discovery. The new voice which is instantly recognizable as that rarest of occurrences: \u003cem\u003ethe real thing\u003c\/em\u003e.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e lya Kaminsky\u003c\/strong\u003e from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321611362454,"sku":"9780996439770","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_819c93be-32de-4ac7-a270-481d74c049e1.jpg?v=1642159123"},{"product_id":"blood-vinyls-1","title":"Blood Vinyls","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe organization of the \u003cem\u003eBlood Vinyls\u003c\/em\u003e as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately and with such knowing - an edgy discography of Florida and the contentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands like Zora Neale Hurston how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspect of southern history and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYolanda J. Franklin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship, and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural  Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: \u003cem\u003eHayden's Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review \u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eApalachee Review. \u003c\/em\u003eHer poetry also appears in the recent anthology \"It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop\" and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian born in the state's capital - Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What an incredible collection of poetry. I love the organization of the book as tracks and each track has a theme. These are such soulful, gorgeous poems. Intelligently crafted. Franklin captures the black South and womanhood so intimately with such knowing. There is not a weak poem in the book which is quite a feat. Standout poems include White Room Syndrome, Black Writer, Southern Girl Hymn, Stiletto Wedged Drag Queen Bingo: Sarasota Florida Vindictive Grace and Southern Redactions, but again these are the very best among a whole book of excellent poetry. A must-must-must read.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eRoxane Gay \u003c\/strong\u003e(https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/39075833-blood-vinyls\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\"Yolanda J. Franklin writes poems marked by vitality and wonder, urgency and care. Like the best kind of album, \u003cem\u003eBlood Vinyls\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates Franklin's formal and vocal range. Even when she writes into hurt and despair, the expansiveness I find here fills me with joy. I am grateful for this book.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCamille T. Dungy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Trophic Cascade from back cover\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eBlood Vinyls\u003c\/em\u003e Southern vernacular gives Yolanda Franklin what poetry must give to the ear. This book is all sass and riot, which is to say that Franklin is unashamed by the fact of sorrow - an emotion that reminds us just how vulnerable we really are. This book calls and coos and confesses or as Franklin herself says 'know i know i know you still believe that i deserve this soundtrack i live but didn't i didn't i make you the most beautiful consequences of love?'\"- \u003cstrong\u003eJericho Brown \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe New Testament\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003efrom back cover\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\"Reader welcome to Florida -'Jim Crow's stiletto ' the land that time time and again forgets - where memory's a needle in a groove: that long heel in the Atlantic's swirl of Middle Passage salt and hurricane slap. Yolanda Franklin is homegirl to the Florida of my mind. She understands as Zora did its estranging rhythms and seasons and renders them like emergent systems. Here is how we imagine heaven: a porch where Janie Crawford and Phoebe Watson sit sipping sweet tea in dialogue about Katrina. From 'fish grease' to 'empty civility's bales\/of hey' the tracks that form this debut collection hold vibrations of Florida life etched into the lyric and amplified. 'These are not lies. This is the truth.' I hear these poems. I feel them.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eLyrae Van Clief-Stefanon \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Interval\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003efrom back cover\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\"'Black people love hip-hop!' says Yolanda Franklin in the first line of the first poem in this excitable over-caffeinated book. \u003cem\u003eBlood Vinyls\u003c\/em\u003e is jam-packed with 'grown-up shit' as another poem says and grown-up people (Tina Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Toni Morrison) as well as people who never got a chance to grow up (Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown). Roller-coastering from high to low, love to hate, silly to serious and back again, \u003cem\u003eBlood Vinyls \u003c\/em\u003espeaks with an authority seldom heard in poetry's low-key non-fat chilled-out too-laid-back-for-its-own-good atmosphere. Too many hyphens? Get used to it reader because this poet demolishes all the categories and makes new and better ones from the fragments of the old. You'll love Yolanda Franklin guaranteed.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Kirby \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e A Wilderness of Monkeys\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003efrom back cover\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321617621142,"sku":"9781934695579","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_7b5b1aa4-3dc9-4aaa-9cb9-89915a265396.jpg?v=1642159513"},{"product_id":"arsonist-1","title":"Arsonist","description":"\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003eWinner of the 2017 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize selected by Eduardo C. Corral \u003cem\u003eArsonist\u003c\/em\u003e is a shape-shifter of a book a book that leaves the reader with an existential \"shivering\" yet it is on fire. Loaded with lethal chemicals like let us say desire abandonment separation and industrialized lives without homelands burning in their brutal severance \u003cem\u003eArsonist \u003c\/em\u003eis a spilling and boiling caldron of zig-zag figures of wild colors split from their root \"a son's desperate attempt to \/ clear the air\" - of things that long to congeal yet they smash into blanks smoke and the questions of forgiveness and birth. Here a relentless piercing clarity a precious text without trappings an examination of loss and love. I salute Zihuatanejo for this blistering beauty among the ashes. -\u003cstrong\u003eJuan Felipe Herrera \u003c\/strong\u003e Poet Laureate of the United States 2015-2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\"\u003eJoaquín Zihuatanejo\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ereceived his MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico. His work has been published in \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner Yellow Medicine Review Sonora Review Southwestern American Literature \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHuizache\u003c\/em\u003e among other journals and anthologies. His poetry has been featured on HBO NBC and on NPR in Historias and The National Teacher's Initiative. \u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJoaquín\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas two passions in his life his wife A\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eí\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eacuteda and poetry always in that order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJoaquín Zihuatanejo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e brings us close right to him into the very thing one is made of: blood. Father. Mother. And it is not simple. He is fearless in his questions and the burning searing death of letting go all the more courageous in recovering the bright language left from that fire. What relief as Zihuatanejo faces absence head on embraces then transmutes it. These poems glow in moving forms and elegant punctuation yes even the periods serve as marks of light. He writes 'my dead father \/ is not in the dirt \/ nor is he in the poems- \/ he is in me.' And I can feel-because I am shown-how absence loss conflict and contradictions are not to be feared but with work with line and word become the very substance of self a fiery wholeness. Beautiful.\" -Layli Long Soldier Author of \u003cem\u003eWHEREAS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" style=\"color: #000000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;field-author=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;text=Joaqu%C3%ADn+Zihuatanejo\u0026amp;sort=relevancerank\u0026amp;search-alias=books\" data-mce-style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJoaquín Zihuatanejo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a brilliant poet. His testimonials and songs and explorations are multilingual structurally adventurous. The wide range of forms and dictions makes visible his ravenous curiosity and intellect. His language rippling with the loss of a father and racial and cultural tensions resists one-dimensional answers. His nouns and verbs wonder croon weep question and roar. The deep attention to language and to the shaping of language infuses the work with a riveting self-awareness of the self-in this case a Mexican American man unafraid to remember to love. Beautifully crafted and richly imagined Arsonist is a remarkable debut.\" -Eduardo C. Corral Author of \u003cem\u003eSlow Lightning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321621913750,"sku":"9781934695593","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_1ce37b19-08a1-4bac-ab5b-0b520285e60b.jpg?v=1642159780"},{"product_id":"with-paris-in-mind-talking-with-artists-of-this-generation-1","title":"With Paris In Mind: Talking with Artists of This Generation","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDead Hemingway. Dead Baker. Dead Joyce and Dead Fitzgerald. Dead Stein. Dead Picasso. Dead Barnes and Dead Truffaut. Piaf Dead and Breton Dead. Gainsbourg Dead and Monet Dead. Bernhardt Dead and Satie Dead. Baldwin Dead and Foucault Dead too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Parisian artists of our dreams have been dead a long time. It is now our chance to live in the moment. The romantic fantasy of mythic Paris is always close at hand, but what is it really like to be a resident artist today? Does hyper-connectivity help or hinder creativity? Are cities still necessary? Are artists? Will Mountain Cox, who has made a career out of identifying and championing young, fresh talent, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e who himself arrived in Paris as a newcomer in search of inspiration, pursues the elusive answers in this searching collection of conversations with the most intriguing emergent minds of our urgent time. Interviews with twenty-two vibrant new voices, accompanied by extensive photographs, give a candid and insightful look at making it (or moving on) in Paris today, sparking essential social dialogue about new art, how we make it, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor whom we make it, and above all, why now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing: Romy Alizée - Luis Miguel Andrade - Oscar d'Artois - Bagarre - Yotam Ben-David - Bianca Bondi - Gaëlle Choisne - Amélie Derlon Cordina - Julien Creuzet - John Denison - Wendy Huynh - Merryn Jean - Nina Leger - Léa Mysius - Adam Naas - Lucy K Shaw - Billie Tomassin - Alcidia Vulbeau\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill Mountain Cox\u003c\/strong\u003e is an American-born writer living in Paris; he serves on the Artistic Committee of the Mona Bismarck American Center there. His work has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Bohemyth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFor Every Year\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003ealeï journal\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2013, Will founded the Belleville Park Pages, which published more than 300 writers from 35 countries in three years and was described by \u003cem\u003eMonocle\u003c\/em\u003e as “the perfect, intelligent way to distribute new writing.” He holds degrees from Boston University and from Sciences Po in Paris, where he was named Graduate of Honor in 2017 for his research on the sociology of technology and urban life. Will is from Portland, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321647046806,"sku":"9780984764884","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_282a53ff-776e-47bd-b89c-659979fb32b6.jpg?v=1642160977"},{"product_id":"shimmer-1","title":"Shimmer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book of inquiry, Mark Irwin’s \u003cem\u003eShimmer\u003c\/em\u003e queries how the worlds of poverty, terrorism, ecology, species extinction, mortality and race interface and affect one another through electronic reproduction and transmission. Not as spectacles but as events that often seem too familiar, many are featured on YouTube: a horse still alive, dragged to be slaughtered; a homeless mother with an infant; a terrorist disguising a bomb, a Vietnam veteran attempting to commit suicide, a mother, unable to speak, who communicates by drawing different colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShimmer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores those places where metropolis and the natural world collide, where virtual technology attempts to convey the spirit. The incursion of electronic communication throughout society as a form of human language, has radically distorted and impacted notions of form and space in contemporary poetry, just as it has impacted the idea of what it means to be human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Irwin\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of ten collections of poetry: \u003cem\u003eShimmer\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eA Passion According to Green \u003c\/em\u003e(2017), \u003cem\u003eAmerican Urn: Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(1987-2014), \u003cem\u003eLarge White House Speaking\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eTall If\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eBright Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), \u003cem\u003eWhite City\u003c\/em\u003e (2000),\u003cem\u003e Quick, Now, Always \u003c\/em\u003e(1996), and \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Meanwhile \u003c\/em\u003e(1988). He has translated three volumes of poetry. His collection of essays is\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cem\u003eMonster: Originality in Contemporary American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e His poetry and essays have appeared in many literary magazines:\u003cem\u003e The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e. Recognition for his work includes The Nation\/Discovery Award, four Pushcart Prizes, two Colorado Book Awards, James Wright Poetry Award, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and fellowships from the NEA, Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis poetry has been translated into several languages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Reading a poem by Mark Irwin is like watching time-lapse photography of an iris coming into bloom: interesting and beautiful things unfold very quickly. His imagery is as varied as the twin towers, the “digital haze” on our device screens, or sunlight passing through a jar of marmalade. Many of the poems have the urgency of incantations to summon what has been lost. Through all of his work runs a quiet, restless probing, a shimmer, where 'the seconds fill us like a lake with rain.'\" -- \u003c\/span\u003eC. G. Hanzlicek,  Judge, \u003cem\u003e2018 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321672736918,"sku":"9781934695630","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_3c39ca29-e2b8-4aa2-ad2a-822a6d1d4880.jpg?v=1642161682"},{"product_id":"a-fretted-terrain-like-mars-1","title":"A Fretted Terrain, Like Mars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title, \u003cem\u003eA Fretted Terrain, Like Mars,\u003c\/em\u003e refers to a deserted gravel parking lot of a popular bar at 4 a.m. These poems are wild, sensual, funny, wise, dancing, fretting, longing -- a travelogue of desire with rendezvous in cheap motels or the stratosphere, on mountain sides and deserts, in London and Paris. A couple learns the tango, a kite breaks its tether, a body speaks and its owner protests, a body breaks and somehow heals. The language is lush and surprising, the imagery rich and abundant. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarol Lynne Knight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the co-director of Anhinga Press, where she designs covers and text, and edits books. She is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eSnakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets.\u003c\/em\u003e She is the author of two book of poetry,\u003cem\u003e A Fretted Terrain, Like Mars\u003c\/em\u003e (Apalachee Press, 2020) and \u003cem\u003eQuantum Entanglement (\u003c\/em\u003eApalachee Press, 2010). Her poetry has appeared in \u003cem\u003eAnother Chicago Magazine, Louisiana Literature, Tar River Review, Poetry Motel, Earth’s Daughters, The Ledge, Slipstream, Broome Review, J, Comstock Review, Northwest Florida Review, Epicenter, Redactions, Iconoclast, Epicenter, HazMat, So to Speak, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Cagibi, Rivet, Slink Chunk\u003c\/em\u003e and in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eOff the Cuffs \u003c\/em\u003e(Soft Skull Press), \u003cem\u003eTouched by Eros \u003c\/em\u003e(Live Poets Society), \u003cem\u003eThe Poets Guide to the Birds\u003c\/em\u003e (Anhinga Press),\u003cem\u003e Beloved on the Earth, \u003c\/em\u003e(Holy Cow! Press), and \u003cem\u003eNorth of Wakulla \u003c\/em\u003e(Anhinga Press). In other lives, she has worked as an art teacher, potter, videographer, and graphic designer. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Carol Lynne Knight’s \u003cem\u003eA Fretted Terrain, Like Mars, \u003c\/em\u003eis a lush evocation of a woman’s dance through her life — the romantic assignations in hotels and dilapidated houses to the full tango of a love affair in different cities and then the lone reckoning of the body and desire. The moon is the presiding goddess, or is it the phantasmagorical masks of a girl becoming a woman? This book is an unfurled fan — each slat a moment of beauty turning into a moving picture of love and loss. Knight’s images are rich and abundant as she offers up a glimpse of her place in time.\" — Barbara Hamby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Carol Lynne Knight’s \u003cem\u003eA Fretted Terrain, Like Mars,\u003c\/em\u003e is a travelogue of desire bound for Paris, Las Vegas, Savannah, Rome, and back again. Sexual intimacy and spirituality confront mortality head-on. Surely, Eros and Thanatos are both at play in these poems, but Eros gets the upper hand, and Knight’s eye for the indelible detail, her open-hearted approach, her lyricism and lush imagery, make so many of these poems unforgettable.\"  — James Kimbrell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apalachee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321674113174,"sku":"9780940821149","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_06189cdb-2fa3-4a4b-915a-6c782f94acc3.jpg?v=1642161731"},{"product_id":"the-game-first-us-edition-1","title":"The Game (First US Edition)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBritish documentary photographer and social commentator Stuart Roy Clarke has been covering the game of soccer for more than thirty years, focusing his keen eye not just on the players but also the fans, stadiums, cities, and pubs; people and places that reveal the cultural and historical significance of soccer in the UK and beyond, telling intimate stories that we often miss as American fans following the top international clubs from a distance.  In 2017-18, Clarke got together with John Williams, a sociologist at the University of Leicester who writes about soccer and its fans, to try to tell the story of the game they love. Their lively conversations, along with a feast of Clarke’s exhilarating photos, form \u003cem\u003eThe Game, \u003c\/em\u003ea beautiful book that gets to the bottom and the top of what makes the beautiful game so enduring. First published in the UK in 2018 by Liverpool-based Bluecoat Press, Clarke and Williams have updated \u003cem\u003eThe Game \u003c\/em\u003ewith additional photos and conversation for a North American release of one-thousand copies by Relegation Books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVeteran soccer photographer Stuart Roy Clarke celebrates the triumphs of the English Premier League and the greater game of soccer in a feast of beautiful images and lively conversation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStuart Roy Clarke\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1961 in Hertfordshire, England, studied Film \u0026amp; Photographic Arts at The University of Westminster in London, graduating in 1984.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe spent most of that decade looking for his \u003cem\u003e‘big serious subject’ ‘that I would be taken seriously as a documentary street photographer’\u003c\/em\u003e. That subject turned out to be something that was right under his nose all along. Following three disasters befalling football, the British national game, in 1985 and 1989, Clarke began ‘The Homes of Football’ in 1990 and set himself 10 years to photograph and tell its story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA never-ending exhibition tour began, which carried on well into the following decade, visiting 95 museums and galleries in the UK. At the same time, he opened a permanent home to the work in the English Lake District. In the third decade, two major showings of ‘The Homes of Football’\/‘The Game’ were held at the National Football Museum in Manchester, attracting 750,000 visitors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Game is Clarke’s 12th hardback book (10th on football).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321682337942,"sku":"9780984764891","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_6ab26ce1-5bc8-452c-812d-e81003963d4d.jpg?v=1642162133"},{"product_id":"yellow-jessamine-1","title":"Yellow Jessamine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eYellow Jessamine\u003c\/em\u003e, shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu controls the dying city of Delphinium with trade deals and secrets. But when mysterious sickness sparks death and obsession, all leading back to her, Evelyn’s brittle existence is strained to breaking. She retreats to her estate, amidst paranoia and  poisonous secrets, intent on rooting out this plague before it destroys everything she has built.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaitlin Starling\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction and interactive media. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Luminous Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, is out now from HarperVoyager. She tweets at\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/see_starling\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e@see_starling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and has been paid to design body parts. You can find links to her work and ongoing projects at\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinstarling.com\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewww.caitlinstarling.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This story of witchery and death unfurls itself one  petal at a time until you will be happy to lay yourself amongst its  whispering tendrils and just breathe it in.”— Jordan Shiveley, \u003cem\u003eDread Singles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This powerful dark fantasy is as lovely as it is haunting.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)    \u003c\/span\u003e                                              \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“If Daphne du Maurier had pushed into fantasy, you might get something as good as this claustrophobic, Gothic-tinged story.”— C.S. Malerich, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Factory Witches of Lowell\u003c\/em\u003e                                                          \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Starling’s tale is rich, unsettling, and bleakly beautiful— like the poison garden at its heart, both lovely and deadly.”— Kate Alice Marshall, author of \u003cem\u003eRules for Vanishing \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eI Am Still Alive\u003c\/em\u003e                                                 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eYellow Jessamine \u003c\/em\u003eis rife with desire and bitter with re- venge, all of it cloaked in shadows. A creepy read perfect for a stormy night.”— Lara Elena Donnelly, author of the \u003cem\u003eAmberlough Dossier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321684762774,"sku":"9781952086038","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_b36e0f78-6f3a-45ff-8ec6-0abd828938e6.jpg?v=1642162207"},{"product_id":"a-sense-of-the-whole-stories","title":"A Sense of the Whole: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fable-like stories in A\u003cem\u003e Sense of the Whole\u003c\/em\u003e—reminiscent of the best of Kawabata, Hrabal, Lispector, and Kafka—feature characters who refuse to believe that we are unconnected, refuse to not aspire to the notion of the human family. These characters are girls and boys, men and women, Iranians and Americans, all seeking a home for the body and the soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSiamak Vossoughi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Tehran, Iran and currently lives in Seattle. His first story collection, \u003cem\u003eBetter Than War\u003c\/em\u003e, received the 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His stories have appeared in \u003cem\u003eGlimmer Train, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e The Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"These are moral tales with uncertain answers. One might read them as anecdotal for the Iranian-American experience, but rendered in Vossoughi’s epigrammatic prose they ultimately unfold through the language of the universal. Each lights on a minor encounter—between strangers, neighbors, lovers—and what emerges is the sense that anyone you meet has a story.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[This] collection examines human connectedness with short stories that are snapshots of seemingly ordinary moments as they take on a whole new perspective. Vossoughi’s stories are masterfully crafted with a tender honesty that will speak to readers.”\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Siamak Vossoughi is a flat-out brilliant writer, and his latest collection, \u003cem\u003eA Sense of the Whole\u003c\/em\u003e, fills me with awe and delight. How can stories so compact be so absorbing, so tender and truthful and funny? I have no answer, only gratitude that a book like this exists, a testament to the wonders all around us, hiding in plain sight.”—\u003cstrong\u003eTania James\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tusk That Did the Damage\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAerogrammes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“These are masterful short stories. Their wisdom, warmth, and beauty overwhelmed me. This is among the strongest and most artful collections I've read in some time.”—\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth McKenzie\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Portable Veblen \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e MacGregor Tells the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321695740054,"sku":"9781949039115","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_afdf5234-55e9-4427-9846-e71572105c12.jpg?v=1642162549"},{"product_id":"arsenal-with-praise-song","title":"Arsenal With Praise Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRodney Gómez's \u003cem\u003eArsenal With Praise Song \u003c\/em\u003esomehow manages to yoke together lament and celebration, reproach and veneration across the borders of eras and nations. Set in the stark desert landscape of the México–U.S. border all too familiar to so many refugees and migrants, these poems scrutinize human bodies and the body of the earth as the sites of great injustices and violences—political, social, and spiritual—and as the vehicles that carry our collective legacy generation to generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRodney Gómez\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eGeographic Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e (Pleiades Press, 2020), winner of the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, \u003cem\u003eCeremony of Sand\u003c\/em\u003e (YesYes Books, 2019), and \u003cem\u003eCitizens of the Mausoleum\u003c\/em\u003e (Sundress Publications, 2018). He is the winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize. Gómez is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop and edits an annual anthology for youth poets from the lower Rio Grande Valley. He works in mobility demand management as Executive Director of Parking and Transportation at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and lives in McAllen, Texas, where he serves as poet laureate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The nights were hive and I grew used to them\" writes Gómez as we follow the swarm through radiating deserts and dreamscapes. Something ancient troubles these poems into being. They are lit with the gleam of a knife's edge, as though the law declared: \u003cem\u003eyou will sing even though your throat be slit\u003c\/em\u003e. These praise songs drift over kin and graves, river-water and history, so tender in their tendering. 'She said the wind \/ would vole into a voice \/ plant its bugle \/ in every ear,' and we will listen.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Carolina Ebeid\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"There is a moment in Rodney Gómez's \u003cem\u003eArsenal With Praise Song\u003c\/em\u003e when the poet offers that \"Where there is fire \/ there is mourning,\" and yes, these poems indeed are fire. Rife with it. From the wounds and the owls to the knives and the gasoline and the rivers and the cages and the fire of belonging, Gómez's poems invite us to mourn but also to give honor and to live and to name things and to remember, because as Gómez tells us, 'We are all holy smoke.' In the beginning, Gómez dedicates this book 'For the missing,' and I leave his collection with this line written on my wall: 'We carry their dust \/ inside our bodies.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Joe Jiménez\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'If no one remembers, the stain disappears—' But Rodney Gómez won’t let that happen in his haunting collection, \u003cem\u003eArsenal With Praise Song\u003c\/em\u003e. And praise we do, as readers, joining in, when a father 'born \/ with bombardment in his mouth' must leave his family as 'cicadas wept'; when a 'wound is disarmed by the sound of waterfalls'; when faced with 'a salvage \/ birds rush to unpiece collapse \/ buzzard, vulture \/ the dove, surprisingly \/ with urn-like wings.' And we equally praise and come to examine those wings as much as the bee that comes 'projectile to the next world' and the 'brown recluse carries \/ the elevating poison of heaven.' In a world where violence and 'bullets \/ cannot possibly feed \/ a collapsar,' the speaker who is 'not a romantic \/ about pain' but wears it 'loose like the hand’s bones around my throat,' transforms lyrical testimony into a wounded but awakened landscape through a series of questions that refuse simple answers. We walk alongside the speaker and feel the force of praise that can only exist as unflinching candor, in which Gómez asks us all to reexamine the very myths we treat as truth, challenging us to look closer at our world where “every animal is a fuse” and 'the heart is a weapon.'\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Rosebud Ben-Oni\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"At its heart, this collection is an exploration of compassion itself, its rooms and its limits, which haunt the communities we create—like the family, like the borderlands, like the nation. Rodney Gómez's poetry, both intimate and expansive, is a gift to treasure.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—José Antonio Rodríguez\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321698099350,"sku":"9781949039139","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_8c21a2f9-d781-47f0-9edd-4285413e5b59.jpg?v=1642162782"},{"product_id":"life-cycle-of-a-bear","title":"Life Cycle of a Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSteven Kleinman’s \u003cem\u003eLife Cycle of a Bear, \u003c\/em\u003ewinner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize, selected by C.G. Hanzlicek, is an antidote to a moment defined by fatalism and fake news. The effort to imagine the specific, to show truth and prove it no matter how violent, dominates these poems: a man can be a bear, a death can happen again and again, a dead friend can be every villain while also being remembered as the source of everything good in the world. Kleinman’s poems cleave unapologetically to metaphor not in an effort to obfuscate the world, but in order to transform it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Kleinman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. Homeschooled, he grew up in suburban Philadelphia, where his parents ran a wood shop – first in a rented garage, and eventually in a large warehouse. His poems navigate the edge of the American Dream, the violence of work, where the lies and hopes are the thickest. His work has appeared in\u003cem\u003e Best American Poetry 2020,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other fine journals. A graduate of the University of Maryland with an MFA in poetry, he is the director of Creative Writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a contributing editor to \u003cem\u003ethe American Poetry Review.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I was instantly haunted by the rhythms in Steven Kleinman’s poems. Through parallel phrasing, he builds a momentum that seems partly song and partly incantation.  Incantations can be a dangerous thing, and he does indeed take us to some dark places, but he also has a playful mind that can lead to hilarity (see 'The Last Supper'). There are surreal touches in many of the poems, but those touches never seem arty or gratuitous but rather spring from the urgency of what he is witnessing, and witnessing is what the book is about. As Kleinman says, “It matters \/ what I could actually see and why.”  — C. G. Hanzlicek, \u003cem\u003eJudge, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The deep image is alive and well in the hands of Steven Kleinman, who, in \u003cem\u003eLife Cycle of a Bear,\u003c\/em\u003e has managed to talk to us about what’s on our minds once we turn off the news of the day. The biggest surprise is the 'Bear' poem sequence, which is one of the finest I’ve read in the past ten years. Once you read it, you’ll do like I did: you’ll flip back through the pages to read it again, realizing, Yeah, “what you wanted, what you want, is freedom,” which Kleinman offers in this inspiring debut.\"\u003c\/span\u003e — A. Van Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In Steven Kleinman’s \u003cem\u003eLife Cycle of a Bear, \u003c\/em\u003emen are bears, wolves, starfish, and clowns, but they are also fathers, addicts, veterans, failures, and friends. This is not another book about how bad men have it. There are no heroes here. Instead, it is a book of vast imagination and steadfast intimacy, of compassion and clear-eyed dissent, about one locality and thus our world. Kleinman’s reckoning with the mythologies and communities born of the violence of men is as tenderly wrought as it is tenacious and true.\"\u003c\/span\u003e — Jennifer Chang\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321698164886,"sku":"9781934695685","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_6b50416f-54aa-47c6-9b62-0e5eebe64ff2.jpg?v=1642162791"},{"product_id":"theatrix-poetry-plays","title":"Theatrix: Poetry Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLet's hear it for play! We've already got COVID and malfeasance in politics and police brutality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Terese Svoboda's eighth book of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"NL\"\u003eTheatrix: Poetry Plays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShakespeare, Beckett, Hair, absurdist theater, the usher (the Fall of the House of) and theater made behind bedsheets ghost through this book to explode our notion of subject and the fourth wall. Though the book also includes a Title IX report, the torture of a South Sudanese governor, Chernobyl, the murder of a NYC prostitute, and god-knows-what those schipperkes were doing for the French resistance – everywhere the poetic line claims its place as a stage for the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEven the title puns on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etricks” as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epoetry plays” at the genre of drama, and the suffix \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DA\"\u003etrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” does the job of turning the masculine POV into the feminine (e.g. aviator, aviatrix). Elements of dramatic writing like interruptions or asides found inside brackets and character names cast in majuscule punctuate, but do not dominate the book as the poetry slides in and through drama. Linked by an absurdist tone that combines the surreal, the political, and broad slapstick, often in one fell swoop, the poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"NL\"\u003eTheatrix: Poetry Plays \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003edon't want to be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\" lang=\"AR-SA\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eput on,” they want to play in the reader's head, the mind being the greatest stage of all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Guggenheim fellow,\u003cstrong\u003e Terese Svoboda\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of 19 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, and translation.\u003cem\u003e Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in paper in 2018, and \u003cem\u003eGreat American Desert,\u003c\/em\u003e a book of stories, in 2019. Doubleback Books reprinted \u003cem\u003eTreason,\u003c\/em\u003e her fourth book of poetry, in 2020. She has also been awarded the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry Award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has had Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Yaddo, McDowell, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera \u003cem\u003eWET\u003c\/em\u003e premiered at L.A.’s Disney Hall in 2005. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA native of Nebraska, she now divides her time between a houseboat in Victoria, BC and NYC with her husband and a moth-eared papillion named Fred.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321698951318,"sku":"9781934695692","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_46cfac6f-2dde-43e6-b0f5-e68b0ec8843b.jpg?v=1642162872"},{"product_id":"index-for-september-11th","title":"Index for September 11th","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndex for September 11th\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born out of a tumultuous adolescence spent in a rapidly changing world. It describes the transition from girl to woman that occurred between 2001 and 2011. During this decade, the author moved from Michigan to New York City, survived several bouts of major depression, graduated from college, and learned how to navigate the world as an adult. The index format of the text was inspired by a poem devised by the writer Ander Monson. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Howell, the index format felt well-suited to the subject matter — it allowed her to categorize and classify disparate events, emotions, and encounters that occurred over an extended period of time. She comes to terms with her heritage, her family, and her own unending (and at times agonizing) search for personal and professional fulfillment. Major themes include the resilience of the female body, mental health, and the terrorist attacks of September 11\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaronae Howell\u003c\/strong\u003e is a physician and writer living and working in Arizona with her husband and dog. She studied history and human rights at Columbia University and received her medical doctorate from Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Her poetry and essays have been published in a variety of local and national anthologies and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently training to become a vascular surgeon. She is particularly interested in the intersections between poetry, surgery, and the human body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"C\u003cspan\u003earonae Howell’s Index for September 11th teaches us how to keep steady in a world full of simultaneous wonder and violence. A switchboard of synaptical loss, this is a book which accumulates both personal and collective memory, a glimpse into an archive of survival.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — Ching-In Chen, 2019 Judge, Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"BasicParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In this deeply innovative debut, Howell explores a truth often lost around September 11th: it was experienced collectively and — for each person — alone. She writes, ‘You don’t go telling me how to throb \/ You don’t go telling me \/ where I was on the morning or \/ what I felt or \/ how I came to the skeleton all unbuttoned, \/ undone, naked, queasy: the last girl to mourn.’ And then, ‘An entire adolescence exploded in a building,’ a premise on which the book follows through. This collection transcends time and plunges into narratives of loneliness, desire, identity, resilience, and family lore. Howell’s eye for the real story is all encompassing, and her command of language is awe inspiring.\" — Jon Sands, author of\u003cem\u003e It’s Not Magic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIndex for September 11th\u003c\/em\u003e is full of unexpected, piercing lines that evoke recognition and awe in a cartography of disaster, desire, and coming of age. Howell brilliantly cleaves and alchemizes to make sense of the profound wreckage of September 11th in this love song turned spell turned litany. Unafraid to name, confess, and yearn, Howell’s book brings loss close to our faces in order to evoke the love and bravery of daring to live through disaster. \" \u003c\/span\u003e— Arhm Choi Wild\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321702949014,"sku":"9781934695708","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_fb87ea45-7309-46ee-b110-f03068f54567.jpg?v=1642162971"},{"product_id":"post-mortem","title":"Post-Mortem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanning ages and species and cultures, Heather Altfeld's \u003cem\u003ePost-Mortem \u003c\/em\u003epays tribute to the passing glory of this planet and all that our hands have made. These often long-form, expansive poems take many shapes and modes, including prose poem sequences, sestinas, kaddishes, and obituaries. No matter the form it inhabits, however, Altfeld's voice is unmistakable and one-of-a-kind. Whether considering mythical creatures, historical lives, or contemporary culture, Altfeld's poems are hilarious and deeply moving, somehow, at the same time. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeather Altfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disappearing Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2016 Poets at Work Prize, selected by Stephen Dunn. She is the 2017 recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eConjunctions, Orion, Aeon, Narrative Magazine, The Georgia Review, ZYZZYVA\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Essays.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Northern California, where she teaches in the Comparative Religion and Humanities Department and the University Honors Program at California State University, Chico.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Heather Altfeld and others of her inquisitive ilk lead the interrogation of a mad world.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"An extended meditation on language, an atlas of the visible and the invisible, as well as a memorial book to all that is lost and will be lost to us, \u003cem\u003ePost-Mortem\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant, baroque, and word-crazed collection of poems. While the primary mode of the poems is elegiac (many taking as their forms obituaries, autopsies, and kaddishes), one cannot help but delight in Altfeld’s reverie and in the breadth and depth of her inquiry, her exploration, her katabasis as she leads us like Virgil through a stunning and elaborate posthumous world.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Eric Pankey, judge of The 2019 Orison Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003ePost-Mortem\u003c\/em\u003e take on the weightiest subjects—the deaths of everything from the first-born of Egypt to no-longer-spoken languages to silence to the planet Earth—with an impressive mix of lyricism (“that wail of loss, the true noise of god, \/ holiness rising over the dunes”), intelligence (“Protons, electrons, neutrons, \/ all in an invisible symmetric vaudeville”), and humor (“Who are we kidding? \/ Our lives are the size of gnats”). “Now even the dead can hear us thinking” ends “Obituary for Silence,” and, given the distinctiveness and power of Heather Altfeld’s audible thinking in \u003cem\u003ePost-Mortem\u003c\/em\u003e, I find myself half believing that she’s right.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Jacqueline Osherow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'Listen, little ghost. Don't be confused. \/ You are not haunting anyone yet' writes Heather Altfeld in this most fun morbid book I have seen in a while, a book that is filled with beautiful obituaries to things as different as snow and elves and silence, and planet Earth itself. Make no mistake, reader, you will love it when \"Pliny's Traveling Apothecary\" stops in a town near you. You will love it, too, when you hear the \"Broadcast from the Sarcophagus.\" Rarely has there been a book about death so filled with life. Among the many elegies, dirges, and songs of this book, one thing is constant—the inability to stop seeing the wail of loss, and yet also the inability to stop seeking harmony. This tension, this duality, is what makes the book sing. I love it.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Ilya Kaminsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321703243926,"sku":"9781949039146","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_d9b486aa-c00d-4d0a-b8ba-20788c24bc73.jpg?v=1642162996"},{"product_id":"wolf-lamb-bomb","title":"Wolf Lamb Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the The 2021 \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eAward in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAviya Kushner's debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, revives and reimagines the Book of Isaiah in an intimate conversation between woman and prophet. In the aftermath of September 11\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e, ongoing violence in the Middle East, and resurgent antisemitism, Kushner reflects on a Biblical understanding of humanity and justice. \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e wonders equally about our relationship with an inherited past and our desire to understand the precarious present. These poems place the prophet Isaiah in the position of poet, crooner, and rival as they search for a guide in poetry and in life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAviya Kushner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible\u003c\/em\u003e (Spiegel \u0026amp; Grau \/ Penguin Random House), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, a Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist, and one of \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e‘s Top 10 Religion Stories of the year, as well as the poetry chapbook \u003cem\u003eEve and All the Wrong Men\u003c\/em\u003e (Dancing Girl Press, 2019). Kushner is \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e‘s language columnist, and previously wrote a travel column for \u003cem\u003eThe International Jerusalem Post.\u003c\/em\u003e She is an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, a founding faculty member at the Randolph College MFA program, and a member of The Third Coast Translators Collective. Her work has been supported by the Howard Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kushner channels the prophet Isaiah, 'lone \/ crooner in the wilderness,' and recasts his 'raving mad' vision for a post-9\/11 age of terrorism and geopolitical conflict.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eturns and turns Isaiah's verse, and dis­cov­ers the ways in which it speaks to our con­tem­po­rary strug­gles, but per­haps the most strik­ing poet­ry comes when Kush­n­er faces the bib­li­cal and speaks back.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eThe Jewish Book Council\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e] feels like a chevruta session with an especially humane and close reader...deeply affecting...Kushner’s fluency with her source text is something to behold.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Exponent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is verse that stretches from antiquity to tomorrow—prophetic to personal, exhilarated to anguished, lines that leave you breathless and lines that help you breathe. A gift from a new and vital poetic voice. \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi David Wolpe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'To live is a form of music,' writes Aviya Kushner in this devastating, luminous collection. To call \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e a poetic conversation with the prophet Isaiah does not capture the experience. Yes, a conversation; but also a tango, a song, a eulogy, a takedown, a meditation, and a midrashic re-singing, two and a half millennia later. In the great tradition of the Hebrew scriptures, these poems hold opposites in a single consciousness: feminine and masculine, wolves and lambs, subways and sacred text, Jerusalem and Iowa, text and lust, the blinding light of prophecy and the salve of human tenderness. Among vast visions of 'all the singers \/ on all the stages of the earth,' the intimate, undeniable voice of the human self never wavers. 'I traded love \/ for music,' writes Kushner; the distance between prophet and poet collapses, and we lucky ones listen to the song.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eAlicia Jo Rabins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e'In the imagined life,' Aviya Kushner writes in her first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, 'the next step is always \/ a problem.' Guided by her reverence for the poetry of the Prophet Isaiah, Kushner steps gingerly toward the problems of contemporary existence—which are, of course, but variations on the themes of faith and freedom, heartbreak and healing, that have inspired poets from time immemorial. 'In my body,' she writes, 'I carry clarity and crime and the harp.' Hear her!\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Merrill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, with their radiant clarity, encompass both the daily and the spiritual while casting light on the dark moments of our recent history. They ask unanswerable questions of the biblical Isaiah, and Kushner's tremendous power—like Isaiah's—stems from a depth of vision that is everywhere matched by the beauty of her imagery and music. Whether describing the aftermath of September 11th in New York City, or flooding in the Midwest, or a bomb in Jerusalem, she guides us through the wilderness of despair to that place where we might imagine, in some redemptive future, the wolf and the lamb lying down together. As charged and revelatory as lightning, his is an unforgettable book.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Barber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321705898134,"sku":"9781949039177","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_932cbc15-7cc0-4891-88e4-03b1c6ecab2a.jpg?v=1642163171"},{"product_id":"the-necessity-of-stars","title":"The Necessity of Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace in an increasingly climate-devastated world. \u003cem\u003eThe Necessity of Stars\u003c\/em\u003e brings the alien Tura to Bréone’s Normandy garden, a place removed from the world’s ruin. Within the garden’s shadows, Tura will show Bréone a way forward, even if she can’t remember it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 2000,\u003cstrong\u003e E. Catherine Tobler\u003c\/strong\u003e has sold more than 120 science fiction and fantasy short stories to markets such as Apex, Lightspeed, Fantasy, and Interzone. Her Clarkesworld story, “To See the Other (Whole Against the Sky)” was a finalist for  the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. She has published seven novels  with small press markets, and co-edited the fantasy anthology \u003cem\u003eSword \u0026amp; Sonnet\u003c\/em\u003e, which was on the Ditmar, Aurealis, and World Fantasy award ballots. In 2019, her thirteen year run as editor at \u003cem\u003eShimmer Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e made her a Hugo and World Fantasy finalist. In June 2020, her first short fiction collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Grand Tour\u003c\/em\u003e, was published with Apex Book Company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA Necessity of Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a lush story about memory and the games it plays, luring you further and further into Bréone’s beautiful, tangled world. An alien contact tale that is as charming as it is clever, Tobler gives the concept on a gorgeous and tender new spin.”\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAnya Ow, author of \u003cem\u003eCradle and Grave\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Necessity of Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a many-splendored and profoundly moving science fiction novella. It’s a love story, deftly woven into a tender and subtly shaded alien invasion story. It’s also a poignant tale about aging, with Tobler delving deep into the fears that haunt many in old age: that we might lose the people and the life we love, that we might lose our memories, and ultimately even our own Selves. More specifically, \u003cem\u003eThe Necessity of Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is the mind-bending, dizzying tale of what happens in the shadows beneath the trees in a French garden when the alien Tuva meets the human Bréone.”\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Haskins \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Tobler’s prose is always stunning, her characters rich, and her worlds immersive. The \u003cem\u003eNecessity of Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is no exception with its beautiful exploration of memory, perception, what we choose to see and what we choose to ignore, and our responsibility to each other and to the planet.”\u003cstrong\u003e—A.C. Wise, author of \u003cem\u003eWendy, Darling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In prose just as slippery, glimmering, and strange as the arboreal aliens it describes, Tobler probes the nature of memory and humanity’s impact on planet Earth.”—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321707176086,"sku":"9781952086182","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_cc0e58d2-94c5-48de-844c-12ff8485a96e.jpg?v=1642163326"},{"product_id":"and-what-can-we-offer-you-tonight","title":"And What Can We Offer You Tonight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, \u003cem\u003eAnd What Can We Offer You Tonight\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel’s world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePremee Mohamed\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is the author of novels \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Rising\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) and \u003cem\u003eA Broken Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), and novellas \u003cem\u003eThese Lifeless Things\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), \u003cem\u003eAnd What Can We Offer You Tonight\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), and \u003cem\u003eThe Annual Migration of Clouds\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of venues and she can be found on Twitter at @premeesaurus and on her website at http:\/\/premeemohamed.com.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAnd What Can We Offer You Tonight\u003c\/em\u003e is a deep dive into sacred revenge, a vivid, devastating and exquisite story of love and loyalty, among three friends who cannot ill afford such luxuries.  Premee Mohamed offers a meticulously balanced cocktail of heartbreak, compromise and consequence, a mixture whose flavour that will seep into your marrow and print itself into your blood forever.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—L.X. Beckett, author of Gamechanger and Dealbreaker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Mohamed weaves a most beautiful and powerful spell with a thin crust of gorgeous prose and coy smiles barely hiding the powerful, growing rage beneath. Much like the dead, it’s a tale that keeps haunting long after the story ends.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Leigh Harlen, author of Queens of Noise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Sometimes your own justice is the only kind you can get. Jewel lives in a future of luxury, spectacle, and wealth, but the rot doesn’t even bother to try to hide itself. Reveling in the disparity is the point, for the elite who come to the House of Bicchieri for the pleasure of doing anything they want. What follows after a client does just that is Jewel’s story to tell in the admiration-soaked narration of The Great Gatsby, if Gatsby rose from her coffin in her most elegant gown and avenged herself. And What Can We Offer You Tonight questions the notion that we must be better victims than the villains who don’t care how they hurt us—and then shows us how it feels when justice rings true.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—C.L. Polk, author of The Midnight Bargain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAnd What Can We Offer You Tonight\u003c\/em\u003e is an alluring fever dream where magic, science and death all blur together. Mohamed’s prose begs you to lean in close to its whispered song before seizing you by the throat without remorse, and the only choice that is left is to surrender yourself to it once and for all.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jordan Shiveley, author of Dread Singles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321707339926,"sku":"9781952086250","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_dfa2228a-9e9f-432f-b7ad-7feca763d4b2.jpg?v=1642163340"},{"product_id":"a-husband-and-wife-are-one-satan","title":"A Husband and Wife Are One Satan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis new collection of linked short stories from award-winning author Jeff Fearnside explores the lives of ordinary people in Kazakhstan as they face the challenges of post-Soviet transition in the early 21st century. These stories illuminate the soul of a people tested by their circumstances: a man struggling between tradition and his conscience, a woman remembering her coming of age during perestroika, a woman who through memory comes to identify with \"the other,\" a husband and wife who seek reconciliation through the words they've used to hurt, and a grandfather who lost his loved ones and now must face his past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeff Fearnside\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two full-length books, the short story collection \u003cem\u003eMaking Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air\u003c\/em\u003e (Stephen F. Austin State University Press) and the essay collection \u003cem\u003eShips in the Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming from the SFWP Press). His work has appeared widely in literary journals such as \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Pinch\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/em\u003e. Awards for his writing include a Grand Prize in the Santa Fe Writers Project's Literary Awards Program, the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize, and an Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission. Fearnside lived in Central Asia for four years and has taught writing and literature at the Academy of Languages in Kazakhstan and various institutions in the U.S.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Literature's best magic trick may be to entice us to enter lives\/countries\/cultures we otherwise have no access to—in this case contemporary Kazakhstan—whereupon we immediately recognize the Kazakh version of ourselves. In these poignant, good-humored, heart-breaking, and well-crafted stories, fiery women attempt to hold their own against toxic masculinity, tribalism dies hard, if at all, and the human heart most wants something to believe in.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this beautiful, solemn collection of stories, Jeff Fearnside has employed Chekovian precision to bring to life a place of transition and turmoil, its people holding to the traditions of old as a new world forms around them in all its damning weight and splendor, each tale intimate and soulful and profound. This book is moving and thoughtful, delivering insights into love and war and family and country with the depth and sincerity found only in the best of literature.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAlan Heathcock, author of VOLT and 40\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jeff Fearnside's A Husband and Wife Are One Satan captures everyday life in the Republic of Kazakhstan, a place that feels darkly different and hilariously familiar. Rich with memorable characters and stark beauty, Fearnside's stories are deft in their crafting, and often they pivot from funny to bleak in a flash. The truths here, of what it is to be a human being, are universal and a joy to read.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Malone, author of People Like You\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jeff Fearnside is a writer of great range, complication, and empathy. Rooted in place, awash in history, often cornered by cultural expectations, his characters are nevertheless living, breathing human beings, possessed of their own desires and dreams, their own failures and heroisms. I only wish there were more of these stories.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die and The Mountain and the Fathers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321711042710,"sku":"9781949039276","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_a01030c0-ae45-425a-8ad5-0ee907d85a63.jpg?v=1642163448"},{"product_id":"unfettered-hexes-queer-tales-of-insatiable-darkness","title":"Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe anthology includes work from:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRasha Abdulhadi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSharang Biswas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eC.B. Blanchard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDie Booth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePriya Chand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTania Chen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH.A. Clarke\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKel Coleman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmelia Fisher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig L. Gidney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiana Hurlburt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTamara Jerée\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuth Joffre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarianne Kirby\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL.D. Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanny Lore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHanna A. Nirav\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChelsea Obodoechina\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuzan Palumbo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicasio Reed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlmah LaVon Rice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJordan Shiveley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImani Sims\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCecilia Tan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR.J. Theodore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Twist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book also includes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComics from Grace Fong \u0026amp; Caleb Hosalla\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStory games from Mercedes Acosta \u0026amp; Allie Bustion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt from Matt Spencer \u0026amp; Frances P\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand the incredible cover from Robin Ha!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edave ring\u003c\/strong\u003e is a queer writer of speculative fiction living in Washington, DC. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Ones\u003c\/em\u003e (2021, Rebel Satori Press) and numerous short stories. He is also the publisher and managing editor of Neon Hemlock Press, and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBaffling Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. Find him online at dave-ring or @slickhop on Twitter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321717760150,"sku":"9781952086304","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_fde2caca-c486-4074-b389-dde1913d5951.jpg?v=1642163633"},{"product_id":"tragic-city","title":"Tragic City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeard's sojourn in Tulsa and the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre comes to a head in these poems that investigate the incident's resounding trauma with lyric and historic precision. The absence of reckoning a century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is soldered together by a series of poems based on Heard's time living on the fringes of the city's art district and what was once Greenwood, Tulsa's thriving Black neighborhood. Heard blends survivor testimonies, myths, and present intelligence with his own lived experience and a farrago of forms to feel his way to a more intuitive truth of what's isn't documented.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClemonce Heard\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in Uptown and Algiers New Orleans. At the beginning of his senior year of high school, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and his family evacuated to Natchitoches, Louisiana, where he stayed to attend Northwestern State University. A graphic communications major and culinary arts minor, Heard spent most of his undergrad working as a cook at several local restaurants. In 2010, Heard, along with Brandi (White) Gonzales, cofounded the presently active, campus organization, Brainy Acts Poetry Society. After graduating, Heard spent nearly three years working for Apple Inc. before attending Oklahoma State University, where he received his MFA in creative writing. In 2018, Heard was awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. He left the fellowship program early to accept a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Currently, Heard is an artist-in-residence at Sala Diaz in San Antonio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I have never in my life read a poet, a writer, an American artist so beautifully manipulate futurist proclamations and the minutiae of memory. This book is elite art born of Clemonce Heard’s stank genius. \u003cem\u003eTragic City\u003c\/em\u003e is here to break the unbroken and possibly shift how place and language can work. Stunning.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e Kiese Laymon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Though the nostalgic path that is memory often catalyzes a poets’ lyric search for both language and measured rhythms which define their immediate presence in the world, longing alone will not guarantee an end to the oblivion. One must attempt, as Clemonce Heard does here in \u003cem\u003eTragic City\u003c\/em\u003e, to confront the intractable reality that smashes illusions of any civilized code; one must “[groove] with the upright history \/ of a people.” Heard provides many occasions for readers to meditate on the Tulsa Race Massacre — not as an exercise in “wokeness,” but as a means of launching grace. These poems model benevolence and presence, and I for one will return again and again to their virtues and music.\u003cstrong\u003e\"  — Major Jackson, Judge, Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Clemonce Heard’s penetrative and muscular debut probes the blatant brutality perpetrated by white men from the towering perch of their self-imposed birthright — with unerring focus on the “tragic city” of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, in 1921, that mercenary privilege resulted in the utter decimation of the flourishing black community of Greenwood, and the deaths of hundreds of its citizens. Since the massacre is still unknown to so many, Heard urgently transports the reader into the moments of the tragedy, reviving the people and places that gave Greenwood its pulse — then moves into the disquieting present day, where the circumstances that led to that titanic loss still exist, and still resound.\"  \u003c\/span\u003e— \u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eIncendiary Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321717858454,"sku":"9781934695715","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_83c89c57-696b-4f4f-ae01-f98cc0789e57.jpg?v=1642163644"},{"product_id":"the-secret-skin","title":"The Secret Skin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Secret Skin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel's return to Storm Break, her family's estate. Things in the great house aren't what they used to be. Doors slam in the night. Faucets turn on, untouched. Something is always watching, whatever June does. And when her brother returns with his new bride, deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy everything she loves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy N. Wagner\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the horror novel \u003cem\u003eThe Deer Kings\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming summer 2021). Her previous work includes the SF thriller \u003cem\u003eAn Oath of Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e, plus two novels for the Pathfinder role-playing game, and over fifty short stories, essays, and poems. A Hugo award-winning editor of short fiction, she is also the incoming editor of \u003cem\u003eNightmare Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family, two large cats, and a small dog that might be a Muppet. You can keep up with her at winniewoohoo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Blends the vivid DNA of Rebecca and Jane Eyre with a glorious, muscular queer magnificence that is all Wendy's own. Sexy, scary, compelling, incredible.\"—Sam J. Miller, Nebula Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBlackfish City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A deeply compelling tale of family, secrets, betrayal and love at all costs. \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Skin\u003c\/em\u003e caught me in its gothic spell, and kept me turning pages into the witching hours.\"—Nebula Award-winning author Kelly Robson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A beautifully written piece of gothic horror, suffused with all the peculiarities of the 1920s in coastal Oregon. Pitch perfect language combines with the brilliant decision to make our narrator both the governess and the inheritor of the manor, a masterful twist on genre tropes.\"—Caitlin Starling, author of\u003cem\u003e The Death of Jane Lawrence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Secret Skin\u003c\/em\u003e is kind of what might happen if you crossed 'The Fall of the House of Usher' with Rebecca, supplemented the result with a child with supernatural powers, and transported it all to the Pacific Northwest. A lively, wild novella, with a nice dark edge to it.\"—Brian Evenson, author of \u003cem\u003eA Collapse of Horses\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Warren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Wagner's eerie, gorgeously rendered tale goes all in on gothic decadence...The evocative prose and insightful heroine make this a treasure.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Perfect for reading on a rainy night, Rebecca meets The Turn of the Screw in this jewel-box of a novella by Wendy Wagner.\"—Molly Tanzer, author of \u003cem\u003eCreatures of Will\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTemper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321717956758,"sku":"9781952086328","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_d672be12-6301-4910-bd9e-8b039c394707.jpg?v=1642163663"},{"product_id":"she-speaks-tongues-poems-asemic-writing","title":"She Speaks Tongues: poems || asemic writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe Speaks Tongues\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of the rising voices of five women, from silence (her image,) to gesture, to word. Each section starts with a woman's portrait and follows with her unique rising voice in asemic writing, and to word through poem. Asemic writing inhabits an essential space of expression, depicting what is not yet fully denotational. It embraces the mystery between silence, what is yet to be spoken, and the semantics of known language. What is represented are the feelings or ideas that the word, or markings, suggests, to the speaker, and to the viewer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarla Van Vliet\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom the Book of Remembrance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe River From My Mouth\u003c\/em\u003e, collections of poetry and paintings, \u003cem\u003eFluency: A Collection of Asemic Writings\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Shanti Arts, and a poem length chapbook, \u003cem\u003eFragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Folded Word.\/\/\/Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAcumen, Poet Lore, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Crannog Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. She is an Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist, and a three-time \u003cem\u003ePushcart\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBest of the Net nominee.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer paintings have been featured in\u003cem\u003eWomen Asemic Writers, UTSANGA.IT, Still Point Art Quarterly, Stone Voices Magazine, Champlain's Lake Rediscovered\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project.\u003c\/em\u003e She is a member of WAAVe Global (Women Asemic Artists \u0026amp; Visual Poets) and Asemic Writing: The New Post-Literate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe is a co-founder and editor of \u003cem\u003edeLuge Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, an Integrative Dreamwork analyst, artist, and administrator of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. She lives in Vermont, USA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eShe Speaks Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e hints of new language—not one of primal screams but whispers. It begs us, for this one moment, to simply be — speechless…aware.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTaylor Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321722871958,"sku":"9781934695722","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_36b9bb45-4b9e-404b-8dab-af3855017786.jpg?v=1642163802"},{"product_id":"waave-global-gallery","title":"WAAVe Global Gallery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is comprised of six sections, each with an editor who has chosen a theme or idea and several artists who represent that theme. The editors have worked tirelessly and with great respect to create their sections, that we have also referred to as galleries. Think of this as a museum filled with different galleries. The editors have diverse voices, theories and ideas, and backgrounds. You will see emerging artists as well as veterans, who are often highly-respected editors, practitioners, and curators. The choices for editors were very intuitive. This project was destined to be a serial one. The first edition draws heavily on the Italian roots of the fields. You will see two sections dedicated to primarily Italian artists. There is plenty of research and theory about Italian art, its creative spring among other things — and that shows up here, too. As a special addition, Cheryl Penn has written an essay exploring the history of the Bhubezi women and asemic writing. A brilliant piece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKRISTINE SNODGRASS\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist, poet, professor, curator, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the author, most recently, of American Apparell from AlienBuddha Press and Rather, from Contagion Press. The proud founder and curator of Women Asemic Artists \u0026amp; Visual Poets (WAAVe), Snodgrass searches to create an online space for women in the asemic and vispo communities to share work, offer support, and network. Her asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward and featured in Asemic Front 2 (AF2), South Florida Poetry Journal, Voices de la Luna, Brave New Word, and Talking About Strawberries. She is the art editor for SoFloPoJo. Snodgrass has collaborated with many poets and artists and is always searching for new collaborations. You can find some of her writing about collaboration at TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. Her most recent book, RANK, is published by JackLeg Press (2021). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This is without doubt an important book. There is so much there! I will study this book. I hope you will continue to publish similar books, or maybe make this a periodical of sorts, publish it once a year. I am no better at predicting the future than anyone else, but I feel certain that the international community of asemic writers will increasingly serve as a powerful area for explorations and expressions by and about women. There are already threads of radical feminism in the expanded history of asemic writing and its ancestors. I haven't attempted any kind of scientific evaluation of this, but it seems to me already that much of the best work currently being produced and circulated under the umbrella of asemic writing is being done by women. If we can identify that currently as a trend, then we can probably also identify it as a characteristic of the practice. Maybe when the dust settles on all of this it will turn out that the asemic movement.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJim Leftwich\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hysterical Books, an imprint of Apalachee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321723265174,"sku":"9780940821194","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_8337c09a-d5c0-4a04-a0ea-6ac2e77f8ad5.jpg?v=1642163837"},{"product_id":"not-yet-transfigured","title":"Not Yet Transfigured","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eNot Yet Transfigured\u003c\/em\u003e, Eric Pankey extends his poetic oeuvre in ways simultaneously foreseeable and fresh. Seeing itself becomes a metaphysical activity in these poems, whether the object in view is the unmediated natural world or a work of art. The influence of poetic masters in the meditative mode such as Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, and Charles Wright is evident in Pankey's latest collection. Concluding with a major new prose poem, \"Landscape in Theory: A Meditation,\" \u003cem\u003eNot Yet Transfigured \u003c\/em\u003eis an essential volume for every lover of contemporary poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric Pankey\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of fourteen collections of poems and a book of essays. His work has been supported by fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and The Brown Foundation. He is the Heritage Chair in writing at George Mason University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[Pankey's] wisdom, sometimes sidelong, sometimes direct, both knows and feels.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJane Hirshfield\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this age of both religious extremism and cynical atheism, Eric Pankey's poems gleam with authenticity. From his earliest work, his abiding interest has been in probing the place where human consciousness confronts what lies outside of our understanding.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Chase Twichell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eric Pankey's sensibility is an unerringly generous one: he is always willing to step first onto unsteady ground, to test it for those who might follow.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMary Szybist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it—where we can learn from what resists understanding, where even withholding reveals, where the future includes all the past, and though the mind might be obliterated by the light it seeks, it seeks it still, in the ruins and in the orchard.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDan Beachy-Quick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321723297942,"sku":"9781949039269","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_5d0a1553-c9b4-4abb-8a5c-23494f968086.jpg?v=1642163843"},{"product_id":"a-sleep-that-is-not-our-sleep","title":"A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Belli hands the stage to a \u003cem\u003eluminous constancy\u003c\/em\u003e in this deftly lyrical and incisive collection. Structured around a central poem, \"Billet Doux,\" which is a love letter to the bones—and their persistence when faced with the solemnity of ruin—these magnetic poems are illuminations, repositories for strong-willed, existential deliberations, and stoic reckonings of the ravaged, lone self and its forsaken \u003cem\u003ethou. A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e cuts to the bone with its sensual turns and its linguistic ingenuity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne introductory poem and four parts compose this volume, whose spirit is one of melancholic yet decisive persistence uttered in spare, spellbinding truths. A first section reckons with failed intimacy in terse and articulate lines that pace the small universes that are each one of Belli's poems. In a letter to the bones, which constitutes the temperamental and winged second section, the bones are dear companions that cannot be left, for, in their absence, the speaker asks, what \"would be left to break?\" The third section is inhabited by a shrewd stoicism that works to preserve the speaker from certain terror and keep a loosening grip on reality at bay. Lucidly, the speaker finds a sometimes cutting strength: \"I am… more of a household chemical \/ flammable \/ and if misused \/ will stain the skin.\" In the final section, an imaginary constitutes itself through the light of the surreal and a sultry lyricism. Although \"an ancient nakedness is being held against its will\" and \"to live is to learn to be barely there,\" the speaker hopefully begins \"considering the dahlias.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBelli's vision is tender and daring, at times indignant, but always intending to grasp with authenticity our transactions with intimacy through a succinct and pointed verse, whether the self lies face down in the grime or whether it is aimed at the sun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE.C. Belli\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eObjects of Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e (SIU Press, 2019). She is the translator of \u003cem\u003eI, Little Asylum\u003c\/em\u003e by Emmanuelle Guattari (Semiotext(e), 2014) and \u003cem\u003eThe Nothing Bird: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e by Pierre Peuchmaurd (Oberlin College Press, 2013). Her manuscript, \u003cem\u003eA Sleep That is Not Our Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.The recipient of a 2010 Paul \u0026amp; Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, her work in French has appeared in Europe: \u003cem\u003erevue littéraire mensuelle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePO\u0026amp;SIE\u003c\/em\u003e (France), among others. She is also the author of the chapbook, \u003cstrong\u003eplein jeu.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321723592854,"sku":"9781934695739","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_4d752c03-7e98-4849-9da4-f926a55caa91.jpg?v=1642163887"},{"product_id":"the-distortions","title":"The Distortions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Frayed relationships populate...\u003ci\u003eThe Distortions\u003c\/i\u003e..., set in and around Zagreb during and after the Serbo-Croatian War. [...] These vivid stories remind us how quickly perceived difference can lead to conflict.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This richly textured collection reminds us of the tether to our geographical homes.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Distortions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewe glimpse a pageant of characters struggling to understand their lives after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Scarred by the Serbo-Croatian War, the women and men of these stories question what such a violent past can mean in comfortable, capitalistic modern Europe. From London and Brooklyn and Norway, to the Blue Grotto of Biševo and the war-torn fields of Slavonia, this collection blends Yugoslavian and American stories of great emotional and geographical amplitude.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA former resident of Zagreb, \u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Linforth\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two previous story collections, \u003cem\u003eDirectory \u003c\/em\u003e(Otis Books\/Seismicity Editions, 2020) and \u003cem\u003eWhen You Find Us We Will Be Gone\u003c\/em\u003e (Lamar University Press, 2014). Linforth's stories have appeared in \u003cem\u003eNotre Dame Review, Witness, The Arkansas International, Fiction International, Consequence\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest Microfiction 2021\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Linforth's chiseled, captivating stories follow scarred, haunted people who are struggling to heal from the Yugoslav Wars. […] With compassion and brutal honesty, the stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Distortions\u003c\/em\u003e deal with how war tears people apart, but also with the stubborn resistance of those who search for redemption.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKristen Rabe, \u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Distortions\u003c\/em\u003e takes us deep into the transgenerational trauma of the Croatian-Serbian war, but it does so with skill and nuance that make each story shine as a well-crafted gem. […] This book is a perfect example of how art can be a vehicle for remembrance, understanding, and most importantly, healing.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSamrat Upadhyay, judge of The 2020 Orison Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In illuminating and perceptive prose, The Distortions bears witness to the haunt of postwar Croatia. These deeply felt stories illustrate the dilemma of a generation once removed from trauma, living amid the ghosts of war and tasked with the impossible—yet urgent—project of memorialization.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKate McQuade, author of\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTell Me Who We Were\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The remarkable Christopher Linforth is a storyteller at the top of his game, writing about shattered lives and broken dreams, about hopeless love and grieving families. […] You're not going to read many collections as powerful, as honest, and as compassionate as \u003cem\u003eThe Distortions\u003c\/em\u003e. Yes, it's that good, and you're going to thank me for telling you to buy this book of Chekhovian gems.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Dufresne, author of \u003cem\u003eI Don't Like Where This Is Going\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321724215446,"sku":"9781949039313","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_95f75886-bbb8-4da3-8cb2-a6772fba5d9b.jpg?v=1642163940"},{"product_id":"traveling-with-the-ghosts","title":"Traveling With the Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her latest collection of English-language poems, trilingual Romanian-American poet Stella Vinitchi Radulescu continues to explore the capabilities and limits of language itself as the nexus where thought and physicality meet. Gathering fragments of idea and image from a vast constellation of influences, Radulescu's nimble, ever-surprising poems weave a tapestry that embodies what it feels like to be both intensely alive and knowingly transient. \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003ecalls these \"meditative, metaphysical poems\" that are \"rewardingly dense with surprising turns and images.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStella Vinitchi Radulescu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Romania. She left the country in 1983, at the height of the communist regime. She holds a PhD in French Language \u0026amp; Literature, and she was a professor of French at Loyola University and Northwestern University for many years. The author of numerous poetry collections published in the United States, France, Belgium, and Romania, Radulescu writes in three languages, though she does not translate any of her work between languages. In 2019, a volume of Luke Hankins's English-language translations of her French poetry, \u003cem\u003eA Cry in the Snow \u0026amp; Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Seagull Books. Orison Books released a collection of Radulescu's English-language work, \u003cem\u003eI Scrape the Window of Nothingness: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The impressionistic latest from Radulescu weaves fragmentary poems that explore themes of time, memory, writing, and death. […] These meditative, metaphysical poems are rewardingly dense with surprising turns and images.\" - \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321725427862,"sku":"9781949039252","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_be9011a4-03be-477d-a582-2736db075e2f.jpg?v=1642163975"},{"product_id":"the-orison-anthology-vol-6-2021","title":"The Orison Anthology: Vol. 6, 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Orison Anthology\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an annual collection of the finest spiritually engaged writing that appeared in periodicals in the preceding year. Our anthology aims to not only fill, but expand the space left by the absence of the \u003cem\u003eBest American Spiritual Writing\u003c\/em\u003e series. In addition to reprinted material, each year the anthology will also include new, previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the winners of The \u003cem\u003eOrison Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e Awards, judged by different prominent writers each year. The judges for Vol. 6 were Blair Hurley (fiction), E. J. Koh (nonfiction), and Joy Ladin (poetry).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuke Hankins\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eRadiant Obstacles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWeak Devotions\u003c\/em\u003e, and a collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eThe Work of Creation\u003c\/em\u003e. A volume of his translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, \u003cem\u003eA Cry in the Snow \u0026amp; Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, was released by Seagull Books in 2019. Hankins is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321725624470,"sku":"9781949039344","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_452453d8-d253-4707-9d1e-1174ece53c9a.jpg?v=1642163988"},{"product_id":"sanctuary-vermont","title":"Sanctuary, Vermont","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\"Wisniewski’s debut builds to a novelistic sense of place and plenitude with shades of Thornton Wilder or Edgar Lee Masters.\" —\u003ci class=\"\"\u003e\u003cb class=\"\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected as the winner of The 2020 Orison Poetry Prize by Katie Ford, \u003cem\u003eSanctuary, Vermont\u003c\/em\u003e gives voice to present, past, and future residents of a richly imagined Vermont town. Laura Budofsky Wisniewski joins the lineage of Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Louise Glück in inhabiting and valorizing the extraordinary inner lives of everyday people. Sanctuary's townspeople endure hardships and loneliness, suffer injustice and racism, but still find moments of solace, beauty, and communion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Budofsky Wisniewski\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eHow to Prepare Bear\u003c\/em\u003e (Redbird Chapbooks, 2019). Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eImage\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHunger Mountain, Passager, Poetry International, Ruminate, The American Journal of Poetry, Confrontation\u003c\/em\u003e, and other journals. She is winner of The 2020 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, The 2019 \u003cem\u003ePoetry International\u003c\/em\u003e Prize, and The 2014 \u003cem\u003ePassager\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Prize. She lives and writes in a small town in Vermont.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Beware the soothing stories of history, that a town named Sanctuary in a Vermont known for bucolic, liberal values has no stories of systemic inequity and violence: 'My mother used to say \/ If you are ever drowning, raise your eyes; \/ a rich man will be watching.' This is a book of lost voices, of selfless persona poems shot through with a lyric control so unfaltering it seems Laura Budofsky Wisniewski has written an impossible book. [. . .] When Wisniewski illuminates one person, all of humanity suddenly brightens. This is an unbelievable, moving book that knows, in the end, the only true sanctuary is the one we make of our lives, and our language, for each other.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKatie Ford, judge of The 2020 Orison Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSanctuary, Vermont\u003c\/em\u003e creates a history of Vermont through a rich range of voices that evoke the state's nuanced and complicated past, a past that takes readers far beyond the mythic pastoral landscape many may conjure up when they think of Vermont. Here, the word sanctuary takes on the ironies of a complex history, and Wisniewski creates a tapestry of Vermont and its people.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMary Jane Dickerson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In\u003cem\u003e Sanctuary, Vermont\u003c\/em\u003e we see our neighbors—imagined, yes—but imagined so well we join each voice as it comes to us across a span of time, from the 19th century to our own present. These neighbors reveal their struggles with class and loneliness, racism and the damage of war, but also show us kindness, beauty, and resilience in a time of pandemic. Each poem is beautifully vivid and clear, but taken together they swell like a chorus—maybe one of those spontaneous crowd events that gets us all singing the Hallelujah Chorus with a host of strangers, until suddenly no one is a stranger and our hearts are open wide to each other. This is an enormous gift for which we should thank the poet and her poems.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBetsy Sholl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If the dead could talk—and here they do—the quaintness of American small-town life would quickly lose its veneer to reveal a more harsh and anguished reality. The locals in this stark book [. . .] are all too frequently sucked into the maw that is American history—particularly our adventures in war. The result isn't triumph, but temerity, and a sense of community based on endurance and the turn of season that may or may not bring with it promise. \u003cem\u003eSanctuary, Vermont \u003c\/em\u003eis a poignant collective song of going forth and going on.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMaurice Manning\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41681180721302,"sku":"9781949039337","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_b8d46187-4afc-4e7a-bccc-21cef1f5a9b2.jpg?v=1650377854"},{"product_id":"dear-if","title":"Dear If","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrounded in nature and the body's knowledge of death, Mary B. Moore's fifth poetry collection queries the divine, evoking its traces in doubt, dread, and awe; in language's music and its ability to make be; in earth's prismatic effulgence and its cataclysm and charism. Inventive in image, metaphor, and wordplay, Moore mourns belief and its loss. Moore's poems are influenced by Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in their keen eye toward the natural world, and by John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Mary Szybist in their ardor to stretch language to address the sacred.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary B. Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the full-length poetry collections \u003cem\u003eFlicker\u003c\/em\u003e (Dogfish Head Award, Broadkill River Press, 2016) and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Snow\u003c\/em\u003e (Cleveland State University Press, 1997), as well as the chapbooks \u003cem\u003eAmanda and the Man Soul\u003c\/em\u003e (Emrys Award, 2017) and \u003cem\u003eEating the Light\u003c\/em\u003e (Sable Books Prize, 2016). She is also the author of the scholarly volume \u003cem\u003eDesiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism\u003c\/em\u003e (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000). Moore's poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePoetry, Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Catamaran, Nelle, Nimrod\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBirmingham Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places. A native Californian with a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry and prose (University of California, Davis), she taught poetry, Shakespeare, and writing at Marshall University. She is married to the philosopher John Vielkind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The way one clocks spring moving northward in the coifs of the trees or collects the baseball card of a player bound for the Hall of Fame, cognoscenti of poetry will mark \u003cem\u003eDear If\u003c\/em\u003e as Mary B. Moore's emergence as a writer bearing the earmarks of a major American poet. A self-avowed agnostic and ex-Catholic, Moore wrestles with the orthodox concept of a Triune godhead, apprehending a more palatable presence that she is willing to entertain in the dear here of trees, birds, and cloud. [...] Her rapier deployment of conceit, metaphorical density, and word-music mark Moore as a contemporary American Metaphysical.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eLise Goett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary B. Moore's poems have always been deeply contemplative and brave, marked by the sonic and inventive brilliance of her craft. \u003cem\u003eDear If\u003c\/em\u003e extends this legacy, gifts us with new poems that confront and transcend the often-debilitating weight of doubt and uncertainty, especially when it comes to faith and health. [...] I'm sure this book will leave you stunned and transformed as well, its music continuing to reverberate through your heart long after you've read its last lines.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eFaisal Mohyuddin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Oh look…dear gaudy blue, dear if \/ and rift, dear void,' writes Mary B. Moore and, oh look, dear reader, how this poet is restless and questing, insisting on a new seeing of everything from the seed head of a sycamore to 'the cloud snit, snow thistle.' Oh listen to one who is as much a daughter of Hopkins as of the mother these poems so often invoke, her rhymes packed plentiful and tight as a peony's petals.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJessica Jacobs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41681180950678,"sku":"9781949039306","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_d7437d58-70ba-48b4-a9e2-c8111d41b7ad.jpg?v=1650377859"},{"product_id":"buried-a-place","title":"Buried [A Place]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuried [A Place]\u003c\/em\u003e tracks a woman's journey, through the shadowy realm of story, relationship, and trauma, in a haunting and challenging re-imagining of Dante's \u003cem\u003eInferno.\u003c\/em\u003e The poet's odyssey resurrects the self and the feminine from the crushing weight of cultural and personal history, while raising the question of self in relation and correlation to other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with, \"I was lost. You must understand, \u003cem\u003eutterly\u003c\/em\u003e,\" we are plunged into a world where stories and language clash dream-like. The narrator faces these clashes on her journey, but also encounters conflicts with the entities who appear to guide her. What to do when one is lost? Who do we follow or call upon for help when fighting internal monsters? External ones? When does a teacher, a mentor, a brother, a father, no matter how seemingly beloved, become something else? \"Which are you?\" the narrator asks over and over - even of herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn near-primal bracketed language, in external dialogues and internal asides, the poems of \u003cem\u003eBuried [A Place]\u003c\/em\u003e track an odyssey that curves, circles, and crashes in on itself, often leaving us breathless. This is one woman's revelation of the self, of the feminine, buried underneath the crushing weight of cultural and personal history. Along the way, \u003cem\u003eBuried [A Place]\u003c\/em\u003e, reclaims not just voice, but the body, not just knowledge, but raw knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSue Scavo\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Cincinnati, Ohio [in the middle], has lived most of her life at one edge [California] or another [New England]. Her work has been published in numerous publications including \u003cem\u003ePoet Lore, Blue Heron Review, Aster(ix), Burning House Press, Literary Mama, Panolopy\u003c\/em\u003e and others; and in anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eWhat Have You Lost?\u003c\/em\u003e ed. Naomi Shihab Nye (Harper Collins). She received her MFA from New England College. She was awarded a writer's residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT [and then stayed as a staff artist for several years]. Sue is co-editor\/co-founder of \u003cem\u003edeLuge Literary and Arts Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and is a Dreamwork Teacher\/Practitioner who has taught\/presented internationally at conferences\/venues such as Esalen Institute, Kripalu Center, Breitenbush Retreat Center, The Rowe Center, Hollyhock and the International Association for the Study of Dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"IN POEMS nearly pre-language and dream-born, in language bracketed and shifting, ruminant, Sue Scavo's poetic sequence, BURIED [A PLACE], excavates a woman's soul, 'not journey girl, not worthy girl,' from the patriarchal firmament. Questing, trusting, she follows a teacher's guidance but finds him 'greedy in [his] story taking, hoarder of what defines.' Here is myth re-making, the act of hunting for new language inside the body — 'the place of past, the place of never-changing, the place of gnarl.' These poems, talking back to Dante's Inferno and history itself, take us down the long path of coming into knowledge, from 'what [I thought] was my memory' toward 'our own words as lantern.' If 'once there was a girl who filled her breath with salt water \/ and remembered song,' drowning in order to sing, here, instead, is the story of being told, 'Watch your step,' and refusing. 'I stepped and stepped.' To dwell in Sue Scavo's imagination is to suspend time and what we have come to know.\" - \u003cb\u003eKerrin McCadden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41681186979990,"sku":"9781934695746","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_364db72f-f4bf-45f3-a0fd-1d8de9ceaa23.jpg?v=1650377960"},{"product_id":"all-the-hometowns-you-cant-stay-away-from","title":"All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her debut collection, Izzy Wasserstein pries the lid off fourteen different worlds from an already impressive short fiction career. In these pages, you'll meet ne'er-do-wells and orphans, investigators and revolutionaries, diplomats and doctoral students. Wasserstein has a gift for putting her finger on the meaty parts of grief, the catalysts of change, and the pain points of community.\u003cbr\u003eThis collection contains fourteen stories, two of which have never been seen before! \"Case of the Soane Museum Thefts\" unveils a crime of magical curation for its protagonist to puzzle over, while \"Blades, Stones, and the Weight of Centuries\" brings us the heir to an empire poised at the threshold of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIzzy Wasserstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is a queer and trans radical and a writer of fiction and poetry. Her most recent poetry collection is \u003ci\u003eWhen Creation Falls\u003c\/i\u003e (Meadowlark Books, 2018). She teaches writing, literature, and film at a public university in the American Midwest and shares a home with the writer Nora E. Derrington and their animal companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wasserstein's stories offer a finely-honed sense of place, precise and evocative writing, and a beautiful, sometimes chilling, exploration of what it means to be complicated and human.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eKate Elliot\u003c\/strong\u003et, author of \u003cem\u003eUnconquerable Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Across every genre and tone, Izzy Wasserstein imbues her stories with a unique power: to reach through the page and into your chest, where they hold your heart as if it's the last of its kind. These are gorgeously-told queer tales of grief and love, fear and wonder, for people and for entire worlds, and they give comfort and strength to the exact parts of our souls that this moment in history relentlessly erodes. Dress your wounds with these words. Drink up their warmth in the dead of winter. They'll take care of you.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eElly Bangs\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUnity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Izzy Wasserstein has a postapocalyptic sensibility. Her debut collection All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From contains many stories that deal with heart- and gut-wrenching destruction and loss, but this makes the shards of hope gleam all the brighter. Not everything is gone, and some things worth fighting for still remain. Izzy Wasserstein has an impressive range from epic fantasy to scientific mystery, but the emotional core of these stories is invariably resonant. All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From will remain timely for the foreseeable future, and help guide readers through moments of despair to hard-fought joy; it belongs on your bookshelf too.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eBogi Takács\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Trans Space Octopus Congregation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Izzy Wasserstein writes brilliantly about loss, revolution, change, and community—and I am so glad to see her short work collected in this exciting new book from Neon Hemlock. In All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From, Wasserstein explores trans and queer experiences in semi-familiar landscapes—some of them Midwestern, others unfolding in spaces and times far away. She has a memorable literary voice, and her stories of alienation and survival will haunt and sustain me for years to come.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eR.B. Lemberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Four Profound Weaves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Izzy Wasserstein bears witness to decay and decline and then scrapes away the rubble to find the haunting, beautiful, still-beating heart of every story.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eSarah Pinsker\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Are Satellites\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Izzy Wasserstein's stories wrestle with ideas of home, grief, and apocalyptic violence with a stunning urgency and clarity of vision. At every turn, we see people at their worst and trying to do their best. Her work is less a wake-up call than a tornado siren; it calls us home even as it reminds us, insistently, that home is not always a haven.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eNino Cipri\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eFinna and Defekt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Inventive, fascinating, and deeply moving, this collection will grab you by the throat and then tuck you into bed with infinite tenderness. I want to listen to Izzy Wasserstein tell stories all day and all night.\"  -  \u003cstrong\u003eAnnalee Newitz\u003c\/strong\u003e, Lambda Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eAutonomous\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41816688590998,"sku":"9781952086427","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/All-the-Hometowns-You-Cant-Stay-Away-From-Generic.jpg?v=1653671384"},{"product_id":"baffling-year-one","title":"Baffling Year One: Speculative Flash Fiction With a Queer Bent","description":"\u003cp\u003eQueer flash stories from the first four issues of Baffling Magazine, a quarterly online magazine of speculative fiction from Neon Hemlock Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories by Esther Alter, Bendi Barrett, Jen Brown, Jacob Budenz, Christopher Caldwell, Nino Cipri, Dare Segun Falowo, Tessa Fisher, Maxwell I. Gold, Rien Gray, Jewelle Gomez, S.M. Hallow, J. Kosakowski, M. L. Krishnan, Brent Lambert, AZ Louise, Jennifer Mace, Avra Margariti, Mari Ness, Hailey Piper, Brian Rappatta, Jae Steinbacher, Susan Taitel, Izzy Wasserstein, Rem Wigmore, A.B. Young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42000971792534,"sku":"9781952086526","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781952086526ita.jpg?v=1771612443"},{"product_id":"teaching-the-baby-to-say-i-love-you","title":"Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTeaching the Baby to Say I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e, Craig Beaven takes the reader on a heartfelt journey through the current American political landscape. In the first sequence, within the threat of classroom gun violence, he explores love, race, language, and terror. A second sequence makes those fears personal and individual, and the third traces these topics into a deep, historical roadtrip through the American South. He questions our ideas of terror in a world where dread and violence are perpetrated by the government, police officers, students, and neighbors hiding behind social media aliases. Throughout, Beaven's poems engage. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTeaching the Baby to Say I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e examines our present, often chaotic world, with a powerful weapon — gripping, contemplative, and complex language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig Beaven's\u003c\/strong\u003e collections of poetry are \u003cem\u003eTeaching the Baby to Say I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, 2021), \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e (Gerald Cable Book Award, 2019) and \u003cem\u003eTeaching English Lit on the Day After a Shooting\u003c\/em\u003e (CutBank Chapbook Prize, 2022). He is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships to the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Carolina Quarterly, Hollins Critic, Atlanta Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, the Best New Poets anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. A Kentucky native, Beaven earned an MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD from the University of Houston. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From the first pages of Craig Beaven's memorable book, I care — deeply — about this speaker and his characters. Here is a white father trying to protect his Black children in a treacherous world. Here is a teacher whose students are twisted up in the maelstrom of racism and staggering gun violence.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eEllen Bass\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Craig Beaven's language isn't neutral or safe or defensive — it wrestles with the never-ending violence of racism and school shootings. There's no gulf between the personal and the public here.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eEduardo C. Corral\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Worry is central to these elegant, meditative poems, yet Beaven finds opportunities to hold fear and wonder simultaneously. His poems are reminders that gentle revelations can inoculate even as they help us to embrace the momentary joys around us.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Adrian Matejka\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"With insight into the constant, complicated work of the teacher and the parent, Craig Beaven leads his reader with narrative verve and emotional keenness through waves of accruing implication and out far into the deep, troubled waters of race, violence, and our country's ever-unfolding, always troubled present moment.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCarrie Fountain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42034855477398,"sku":"9781934695753","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781934695753ita.jpg?v=1660852119"},{"product_id":"whats-left-to-us-by-evening","title":"What's Left to Us by Evening","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow does one live in a world that is both beautiful and broken—a world of cherry blossoms and gun violence, fellowship and political enmity, plague and rebirth? \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat's Left to Us by Evening\u003c\/em\u003e, David Ebenbach's unsparing and timely new poetry collection, examines the obligation—and privilege—of carrying all these things. The wide-ranging influences on the poems in Ebenbach's third collection include Judaism, the Asian poetic tradition, the natural and built environments, and current events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Ebenbach\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of numerous books of fiction (\u003cem\u003eHow to Mars, Miss Portland, The Guy We Didn't Invite to the Orgy, Into the Wilderness, Between Camelots\u003c\/em\u003e), poetry (\u003cem\u003eSome Unimaginable Animal, We Were the People Who Moved\u003c\/em\u003e), and essays (\u003cem\u003eThe Artist's Torah\u003c\/em\u003e). He lives very happily with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing at Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"There’s something reassuring about the way David Ebenbach writes about even the most troubling issues of our time. His poems, often deceptively gentle, offer a kind of tender good humor born of long-suffering patience.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRon Charles, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'The world is on its way to you' writes David Ebenbach, and the world in these pages is one made of equal parts grit and tenderness. It's a world of work, violence, politics, and little apocalypses, but also singing, birdwatching, prayer, and flowers bursting into bloom. At one point, a 'worker lowers \/ his bag of tools \/ through the cherry blossoms'—and this might be an apt metaphor for the perspective of this evocative book: behind the world's tough machinery is an undeniable beauty, and these poems are made by a poet skilled enough to help us see it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Olzmann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"David Ebenbach's poems in \u003cem\u003eWhat's Left to Us by Evening\u003c\/em\u003e are funny, engaging, kind, generous-spirited, moving, clever, even childlike. It's almost easy to forget he's writing again and again about a world-wide pandemic, a bitterly-contested election, earth-threatening climate change—in short, the apocalypse. In this book, 'our children \/ ask for pie' while the poet carries with him the consciousness of great and irretrievable loss, 'the passport \/ of someone who died.' Ebenbach talks to us in such a way that we can't help but look. He hits all of our world's pressure points in a simple, straightforward, yet wholly imaginative and unforgettable fashion.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDana Roeser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"David Ebenbach asks us to look on as 'from the scaffolding \/ the worker lowers \/ his bag of tools \/ through the cherry blossoms.' The blossoms may put one in mind of Imagist poets, but Ebenbach won't settle for mere imagism. He suggests, as Walter Benjamin did, that every monument to civilization is a monument to barbarism. And yet however starkly aware he is of the human world's exploitations and injustices, he won't settle either for facile, fashionable despair. Considering an abandoned subway tunnel, Ebenbach claims that 'we light this expanse of \/ soda bottles and human waste and see the verdant \/ potential,' just as elsewhere he notes 'that joy is not passive, \/ but something \/ you move toward, \/ however awkward.' Precious few current poets move in that direction more deftly or affectingly than Ebenbach.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Sydney Lea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42034883133590,"sku":"9781949039368","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039368ita.jpg?v=1660853032"},{"product_id":"anchor","title":"Anchor","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of The 2024 Philosophical Society of Texas Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of The 2024 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThreaded with epistolary poems to Gravity—envisioned as a capricious god as the author's father began to fall frequently at the outset of a progressive illness—Aronson's latest poems contemplate and address what anchors us, literally and figuratively. The poems in Aronson's third collection excavate grief during the process of losing parents, one to physical illness and the other to dementia. But even in the midst of grief, Aronson never loses sight of the larger world, ever present in all its danger and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Aronson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eGhost Child of the Atalanta Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of The 2016 Orison Poetry Prize and The 2019 Margaret Randall Book Award from The Albuquerque Museum Foundation, as well as a finalist for The 2017 Arizona\/New Mexico Book Award. Her first collection, \u003cem\u003eCreature, Creature\u003c\/em\u003e, won The Main-Traveled Roads Poetry Prize (2007). She has received The \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schoone\u003c\/em\u003er Strousse Award, The Loft's Speakeasy Poetry Prize, and The Tennessee Williams Scholarship to The Sewanee Writers' Conference. Aronson is co-founder and host of Bad Mouth, a series of words and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rebecca Aronson's incredible new collection is full of verve and a syntax of ecstatic vocabulary. Whether it's through abecedarians or epistles to gravity, Aronson's poems carry the weight of a life, its pressures, its miraculous brevity. \u003cem\u003eAnchor\u003c\/em\u003e is a balm against grief. These poems face off against loss with 'Technicolor blooming and bird riot,' and every line hums with urgency.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTraci Brimhall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We know from Newton, who named it, that gravity is the force of attraction drawing bodies together. Etymologically, it shares itself with gravid and grave—beginning and end. In \u003cem\u003eAnchor\u003c\/em\u003e, Aronson has given us both the metaphor and the ballast: the harbor from which we venture into our lives on Earth, and the commonality of death that returns us to the earth. With a languid, meditative syntax reminiscent of Virginia Woolf—and an eye for detail equally sensuous and lethal—Aronson has achieved an intimate and artful collection about loss and the inevitable cycles of ebb and flow experienced by every life.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKathy Fagan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her splendid third collection of poems, Rebecca Aronson writes of the degeneration and death of her parents. The darknesses of the subjects, however, are magicked into beautiful balance in a stunning juggling act which holds opposite forces spinning and gleaming in the empty air—gravity and flight, body and spirit, absence and presence, love and grief. Aronson devises exquisite metaphors on every page to illustrate the tensions it is our human lot to suffer. Gravity itself is a wonderfully personified character in these pages—it loves the dying father, is jealous of other forces that vie for his body, is a class bully here, an ally of the moon there. The poems here are graceful, wildly gorgeous, enriched by Aronson's vivid animation of earthly and heavenly forces—wind, sand, fire, air, sky, stars. The relative slimness of this volume belies the genuine gravity of the enormous beauties, wonders, and surprises within it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSidney Wade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42035018268822,"sku":"9781949039351","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039351ita.jpg?v=1660855168"},{"product_id":"rumors-secrets-lies-poems-about-pregnancy-abortion-choice","title":"RUMORS SECRETS \u0026 LIES: Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion \u0026 Choice","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRumors, Secrets, \u0026amp; Lies\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of narrative poems, prose poems, flash fiction — stories about abortions, unplanned pregnancies, adoptions, and joyous births. 116 writers, including Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bass, and Alicia Ostriker, tell their stories — how women, and men, navigated this always-charged and emotional landscape before and during Roe v. Wade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis heart-felt collection was inspired by the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. The book was sent to the printer on Aug. 31, just two months later. Submissions arrived from all over the U.S., but also from as far away as South Korea and Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe book is divided into five sections: Rumors Secrets \u0026amp; Lies; Choice\/No Choice; Loss; Changes, Birth \u0026amp; Joy; and, Frontlines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcerpts follow:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \"In the late 1960s, girls just disappeared from high schools and were never seen again. One cocky boy would nod knowingly and say, Another victim, gone to the forests!\" — Naomi Shihab Nye, from \"Rumors\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Monet, Cezanne, Pissarro, Vincent, waiting room walls \/ are all the same, framed Impressions looking at you. \/ Sarah is waiting, watching a waiting room clock forget, \/ holding, tightly, my hand with both of hers.\" — Earl S. Braggs, from \"The Weight of Not Answering\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"My blood contains the risk \/ of something missing, a malformation \/ of the head \/ — or worse.\" — Rebekah Denison Hewitt, from \"Karotype\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I would have been dead \/ in twenty-four hours, \/ had the doctor not given me \/ the cruel diagnosis \/ Not a baby, but a lethal weapon \/ ready to explode inside.\" — Janet Yolen, from \"It Grew\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"... still \/ she gave this child every intricate bone of both feet, \/ the hollow vertebrae, tiny liver, \/ lungs that fill with air for the first time \/ and begin, without a lesson, \/ bringing this world in and releasing it.\" — Ellen Bass, from \"The Human Line\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"what is the womb, \/ but the notion that \/ you could replicate yourself?\" — Fariha Tayyab, from \"Blood and Glass\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"this baby won't come || I make peace with the birds || my body a branch left || now all sky || with the river I make peace || succumb to the eddy || I want this baby || from the moment I knew\" — Karla Van Vliet, from \"Delivery\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"and here she is \/ unbreathing on your chest, her skin so sheer \/ you can see her little blue heart slow its thump\" — Kari Teicher, from \"Undone\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Try the word abortion in a poem \/ it sits, a boulder in the center of the page \/ the other words tiptoe around it \/ too nervous for conversation\" — Nicolette Reim, from \"Pen in Hand\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCAROL LYNNE KNIGHT\u003c\/strong\u003e is co-director of Anhinga Press. Since 1992, she has edited and designed more than 100 literary publications for the press. She is the author of three books of poetry, A Fretted Terrain, Like Mars (Apalachee Press), Quantum Entanglement (Apalachee Press), and If I Go Missing (Fernwood Press). Her poetry has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, The Ledge, Slipstream, Comstock Review, Redactions, So to Speak, Rivet, and others. In her prose life, she has finished drafts of four novels about 1960s teenage life in Dade County, Fla. She is a graduate of the University of Miami and Florida State University. She taught college studio classes in digital art and has exhibited digital prints, video, and pottery. She also has worked as a copy writer and graphic designer. She lives in Tallahassee, Fla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKRISTINE SNODGRASS\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist, poet, professor, curator, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Fla., USA. She is co-director of Anhinga Press. The proud founder and curator of Women Asemic Artists \u0026amp; Visual Poets (WAAVe), she searches to create an online space for women in the asemic and vispo communities to share work, offer support, and network. The project aims to showcase more women in asemic and vispo galleries, exhibits, and publications. She is Managing Editor and Editor of the WAAVe Global Gallery (Hysterical Books), an anthology of women asemic writers and visual poets.Most recently, she is the author of American Apparell from AlienBuddha Press. She loves collaborating and is always searching for new projects with artists and poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What do poets do amidst the chaos created by the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade? They write — in a new anthology from Anhinga Press, over 100 poets re-examine the past, remind us of the days before the landmark ruling, and help us consider each pregnancy's complexities, for all involved.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Trammell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I sat down this afternoon and began reading the anthology of poems, and I am blown away. So powerful and moving and disturbing and real. Lynn, I can't believe you put this together so well, in such a short time. Bravo.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSusan Strauss\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thank you for creating this important project! So much anguish has been unsaid, unheard. So much anguish is coming. Thank God we have poetry and ways to share it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMarda Messick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42255475376278,"sku":"9781934695791","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781934695791ita.jpg?v=1666813914"},{"product_id":"best-spiritual-literature-vol-7-2022","title":"Best Spiritual Literature: Vol. 7, 2022","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest Spiritual Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is the new name of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Orison Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, under the same editorship and publisher, and it continues the same mission to collect the finest spiritually engaged writing that appeared in periodicals in the preceding year. In addition to reprinted material, each year the anthology also includes new, previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the winners of The \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest Spiritual Literature\u003c\/em\u003e Awards. The award judges for Vol. 7 were SJ Sindu (fiction), Molly McCully Brown (nonfiction), and Leila Chatti (poetry).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuke Hankins\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder and editor of Orison Books. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eRadiant Obstacles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWeak Devotions\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as a forthcoming chapbook, \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e (Texas Review Press, 2024). He is also the author of a collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eThe Work of Creation\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including \u003cem\u003ePoems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBetween Paradise \u0026amp; Earth: Eve Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (with Nomi Stone). A volume of his translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, \u003cem\u003eA Cry in the Snow \u0026amp; Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Seagull Books in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNathan Poole\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two books of fiction, \u003cem\u003eFather Brother Keeper\u003c\/em\u003e (Sarabande Books, 2015), a collection of stories selected by Edith Pearlman for The 2013 Mary McCarthy Prize and long-listed for The Frank O'Connor Award, and \u003cem\u003ePathkiller as the Holy Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e, selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of The 2014 \u003cem\u003eQuarterly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWest\u003c\/em\u003e Novella Contest. He has been awarded The \u003cem\u003eNarrative\u003c\/em\u003e Prize, a Milton Fellowship at \u003cem\u003eImage\u003c\/em\u003e, and a Joan Beebe Fellowship at Warren Wilson College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Tucker\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eBewilderness\u003c\/em\u003e (Catapult, 2021), which was selected as a \"Dazzling Debut\" by the American Booksellers Association and was longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and The Crook's Corner Book Prize. Tucker's short fiction can be found in \u003cem\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoulevard\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEPOCH\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. The recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers and a PEO Scholar Award, she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at UNC Chapel Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42299229831318,"sku":"9781949039375","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039375ita.jpg?v=1667936775"},{"product_id":"glastonbury-all-mine-pre-order-only-not-shipping-until-april-2023","title":"Glastonbury All Mine","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHaving shot Glastonbury Festival since the mid-80's, photographer Stuart Roy Clarke gives us his personal view of the famed UK performing arts event. Panoramic, yet intimate, his images present the full Glastonbury experience: the music and art, the immense landscape and its vibrant, pulsing community; the smiles and hugs and muddy boots, the dancing, and always the passionate faces of people bathed in the warm light of music and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"This book of mine, all mine, my cake, my adornments, my festival, is less about headline acts and more about the delight of being at the most anti-war, life-affirming \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ething\u003c\/em\u003e I have experienced.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eStuart Roy Clarke\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStuart Roy Clarke\u003c\/strong\u003e, born 1961 in Hertfordshire, England, is a photographer and author whose work has covered themes such as British football, pop music festivals, and the Lake District in Cumbria, UK. He is well known for his ongoing, thirty-year project \u003cem\u003eThe Homes of Football\u003c\/em\u003e and has more recently curated the exhibit \u003cem\u003eUkraine I Miss You\u003c\/em\u003e, featuring photographs taken by Ukrainian artists during Russia's 2022 invasion of the country. Clarke has been based in the Lake District throughout his career, although a move to the United States in 2024 is possible; in part to prepare for the FIFA World Cup 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e for Stuart Roy Clarke's \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Game\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In his new book, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Game\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed soccer photographer Stuart Roy Clarke and writer John Williams chronicle the fabric of the world's game over the past three decades in Great Britain. Through Clarke's lens, the players, the venues, the fans, the big cities and the villages come to life, and Williams's words allow the reader to get lost in the magical, sometimes mythical, world of British soccer.\"  - \u003cstrong\u003eDave Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e, WTOP News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Game\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a book you are buying, it is a legitimate work of art you are investing in. With a layout designed by Ben Clarke Hickman, the photographs from Clarke (as well as the older pictures he mixes in with them) provide a handheld gallery of the beauty of the game and its people.  - \u003cstrong\u003eZhhicks\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePat Mariboe\u003c\/strong\u003e, Royal Blue Mersey\/SB Nation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44063470158141,"sku":"9798986767000","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9798986767000ita.jpg?v=1668803589"},{"product_id":"impossible-belonging","title":"Impossible Belonging","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 19th recipient of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Maya Pindyck's \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImpossible Belonging\u003c\/em\u003e weaves personal and family histories with contemporary events and politics in the U.S. and Israel\/Palestine, asking what it means to belong — to our bodies, cultures, histories, and each other. In vivid and lyrical language, Pindyck explores how we lay claim to and surrender identities shaped by historical trauma, diaspora, motherhood, statehood, and the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDelving into complicated relationships between Jewishness and whiteness, the poems reckon with feelings of cultural belonging and visualize shared hopes and longings. In this collection, everything is interrelated and spiritually equal: human, moth, pear, linoleum tile, language, memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt once profound, playful, and rebellious, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImpossible Belonging\u003c\/em\u003e collapses distances between people, species, times, and places, opening up difficult questions and fresh, revelatory connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaya Pindyck\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eEmoticoncert\u003c\/em\u003e (Four Way Books, 2016) and \u003cem\u003eFriend Among Stones\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Many Voices Project Award (New Rivers Press, 2009), and co-author of \u003cem\u003eA Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, and grants from the Historic House Trust of New York City and Abortion Conversation Projects. Her visual, collaborative, and community-based work has been exhibited at the Milton Art Bank (Milton, PA) and in New York City at the Art in Odd Places Public Festival, the Governors Island Art Fair, the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, The Clemente, and elsewhere. Currently, Pindyck lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art \u0026amp; Design. She grew up in Boston and Tel Aviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Your poems … read as carefully orchestrated, beautifully imagined exercises in scale. While this question of scale, and the relationship it cultivates with the spectator, is often taken into account in the visual arts, it's not as common of a consideration in poetry.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKristina Marie Darling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Maya Pindyck's Impossible Belonging is a collection of elemental folklore conceived from the inside and outside of bodies and the yearnings that shape them. Diaspora is complicated by the Anthropocene in this prescient collection. Pindyck unpacks the stories we shake off to seek out our own paths as mothers, Americans, as artists, and sisters with urgency and hope. At the same time, Impossible Belonging honors those legacies through the tender utterances of these crystalline poems.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCarmen Giménez Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \" 'You have to touch the fire of letters,' writes Maya Pindyck in a startling collection of poems where we are forced to not look away from the war of language and its gouged field of bodies, blood, blossoms, and ideas. Here is the memory of a self and her home, bleakly dissonant as a war-stained country … Impossible Belonging is defiant, immediate. Beyond geographies of war, love, and words, Pindyck commands the past, present, and future: 'Remember our country\/banning the book noting\/our refusal to see.\/Remember this compass\/mapping our last past.' \" - \u003cstrong\u003eRachel Eliza Griffiths\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"By extending her curiosity and wit to both big and small, Pindyck collapses the distance between dialectical categories: the literary and mundane, public and personal, home and exile, god and mortal, mother and child, poem and reader – creating at once an oracular intimacy and a radical democracy. We are invited to commune with ancestors, poets, pears, moths, the 'all in small,' where all creatures, peoples, and artifacts, are animated as spiritual equals.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Schwartz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \" ... there are poems, like Maya Pindyck's, that you need to read with others. All through Pindyck's forthcoming collection, Impossible Belonging, I found myself wanting to share her poems with various friends, to read them out loud to my partner or children, and above all, to teach them ...\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJake Marmer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44339193643325,"sku":"9781934695760","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781934695760ita.jpg?v=1673378315"},{"product_id":"somethings-missing-in-this-museum","title":"Something's Missing in this Museum","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen texts about paintings try to reach each other across space, pages that query how we experience art become poetic experiments in seeing\/reading. What clings to what on these page walls? And do paintings from other centuries (older materialities, differently-moving) themselves re-make each other through their almost touch? Are we momentarily part of a painting when we consider such things? And what's the changing position of the museum which poses us by country, by technique, by year and by foot pattern? In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSomething's Missing in This Museum\u003c\/em\u003e, the subjects are love, torture, transaction and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerri Witek\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of seven previous books of poetry and has been featured in the anthologies: \u003cem\u003eJUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), and in the \u003cem\u003eWAAVe Global Gallery of Women's Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). Her many collaborations with artists and writers have been featured in performances, museum shows, and gallery exhibitions. Witek teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University's MFA of the Americas with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes, and their work together is represented by the liminal in Valencia, Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You're in for a walloping good time with Terri Witek's 'Something's Missing in This Museum.' Sure, she goes to the Louvre, but not one you've ever visited. Ekphrasis never had it so wild and so accurate with paintings that 'bestrange us earthers, \/ cog in certain civic fears.' Earlier 'phones flash their ten-secondside chapels.' This is the end of 'Vermeer:' 'You look away, light – light wounds.' Perfect. She imagines 'the sexual smell of night remountained' and 'what water looks like to water as interpreted by 8 black ribbons.' So good. 'Let's cabinet this,' she writes. We will.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTerese Svoboda\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"What's a museum for? Some people say they are not only spaces for contemplation and dialogue but also for use and abuse. Probably not since the famous and curious race through the Louvre staged by Jean-Luc Godard in his film, 'Bande à part,' have we seen such a challenging and provocative approach to what a museum should be used for. Terri Witek's poems aim precisely at that, and like an intense and risky journey through art history, they reveal the gaps our ways of seeing create, either by omission or neglect. What's the political utility of art? Can art heal the original wound of the world, which is also its very origin? If this world works by amazement, then Terri Witek's poems should be mandatory reading.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCarlos Soto Román\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44396274123069,"sku":"9781934695777","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781934695777ita.jpg?v=1674162433"},{"product_id":"the-body-problem","title":"The Body Problem","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe voice in Margaret Wack's remarkable debut chapbook is drenched in myth but also with the knowledge that all myths must fade in time, like every body, like every culture—like humanity itself. In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of The 2021 Orison Chapbook Prize, a vatic magnetism pulls the reader in as these poems reckon with impermanence and the impending end of the Anthropocene, but also unapologetically revel in the numinous viscerality of each present moment, insisting on making new songs to the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Wack's\u003c\/strong\u003e work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including \u003cem\u003eEcoTheo Review, Ruminate, Passages North, Grist, Arion, Strange Horizons, Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Smith College and an interdisciplinary master's degree from St. John's College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Visceral, vivid, voracious—what struck me most in Margaret Wack's stunningly lush \u003cem\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e is how organic it is. Organic in the way of the densest heart of an old growth forest, where green bubbles up from decay and wood sinks into soil in a relentless cycle of wild abundance. 'You must be born each instant and rot each hour,' Wack declares as her images build on themselves like amino acids, proliferate like cells, and transform like 'flowers of fungi will bloom upon your bones.'\" - \u003cstrong\u003eErin Rodoni\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e is a field guide to a world fluttering between promise and ruin, where ripeness is always turning the corner into rot. There is too much to harvest, too much to hunger for. Like Tantalus, we reach and reach, but 'cannot possibly close our hands upon the sweetness of it.' And the problem with time is that there is never enough of it. The problem with the body is that it will inevitably 'rot like a peony, over-plump and full of starving ants.' So be it. If these poems feel timely right now—if it feels like the world is pulsing with losses beyond calculation—Wack reminds us that some problems are timeless. We are no more or less cursed than we've ever been, no more or less desperate for beauty or survival. We steady ourselves with myth, and we will become the myths that steady whoever comes next.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eClaire Wahmanholm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e comes 'caught on the edge \/ of a new century like a colt on its raw legs in the first darkness.' Margaret Wack has given us a work in which love and instinct offer return from the letdowns of what we've been calling enlightenment. Reading this book means realizing you've had 'your back pressed up against the world,' the same world we've learned to 'navigate by touch alone.' Like the rain the poet's speaker describes, \u003cem\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e won't clean you of yourself, but offers a world swallowed in its own thick atmosphere.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eC. T. Salazar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44498135122237,"sku":"9781949039405","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039405ita.jpg?v=1675111187"},{"product_id":"between-paradise-earth-eve-poems","title":"Between Paradise \u0026 Earth: Eve Poems","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe recent and contemporary poems about the biblical figure Eve gathered in this anthology refuse given narratives. Here, poets of diverse backgrounds and traditions conjure a heterogeneous concert of Eves to reckon with desire, blame, power, gender, the body, race, politics, religion, knowledge, violence, and time. She becomes a door for dreaming of origins, for considering naming and language, for challenging assumptions and structures of power, and for examining the human condition. In these poems, Eve loves, grieves, rages, and proves a perennially relevant figure in our contemporary mythos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet and anthropologist \u003cstrong\u003eNomi Stone\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eStranger's Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKill Class\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003ePinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press, 2022), a finalist for The Atelier Prize. Stone has received a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright Award, and has conducted fieldwork across the Middle East and the United States. She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Texas, Dallas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuke Hankins\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder and editor of Orison Books. He is the author of two full-length poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eRadiant Obstacles\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWeak Devotions\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as, most recently, a poetry chapbook, \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e (Texas Review Press, 2023). He is also the author of a collection of essays, \u003cem\u003eThe Work of Creation\u003c\/em\u003e, and a volume of translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, \u003cem\u003eA Cry in the Snow \u0026amp; Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Stone and Hankins prove that Eve remains a perennial poetic inspiration in this strong selection.\"  - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This anthology features some famous names such as Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Ada Limón, and Toni Morrison, and their work is exemplary. It's the lesser known but remarkably talented poets, however, who repeatedly caught my eye.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Volck\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44598626189629,"sku":"9781949039399","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039399ita.jpg?v=1676487502"},{"product_id":"prayershreds","title":"Prayershreds","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuppose the shreds of our prayers and of our faiths could themselves become a radical new form of devotion. In \u003cem\u003ePrayershreds\u003c\/em\u003e, Bruce Beasley confronts the apocalyptic zeitgeist of our time (political turmoil, societal division and isolation, spiritual despair, environmental catastrophe) and the crisis of faith in the human future. These poems make of the vocabulary of doubt a strange kind of sermon, summoning into chorus Heraclitus, Zeno, the Buddha, Roget's Thesaurus, ancient prayers and hymns and scriptures, and an AI chatbot. In these fractured and ecstatic psalms, Beasley makes his ruptured way toward a faith that relies not on dogmas and creeds, but on a broken utterance for a torn and living faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBruce Beasley\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight previous poetry collections, including \u003cem\u003eAll Soul Parts Returned\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 2017), \u003cem\u003eTheophobia\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, 2012), and \u003cem\u003eThe Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Washington Press, 2007). He has received The University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award, The Colorado Prize for Poetry (selected by Charles Wright), The Ohio State University Press\/\u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e Award, fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Artist Trust of Washington, and three Pushcart Prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One thinks of Hopkins on psilocybin, the Psalmist translating the Dhammapada. Our iconoclastic guide through this antic, homophone-driven, thesaural minefield of the discourse of belief and unbelief is as conversant with AI chatbots as with the Biblical gospels.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Russ Spaar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"As a fan of Bruce Beasley's earlier work, I am glad to see this volume of new verse in which he makes an even deeper dive into the nature of language. Like E. E. Cummings and James Joyce, Beasley is a poet of language, someone who loves words so deeply he can't resist wrestling with them, sometimes syllable by syllable.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKathleen Norris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In Prayershreds, Bruce Beasley approaches prayer with a postmodern sensibility, but without irony—a rare combination. Or the irony is disarmed in wonder, a wide-eyed wonder equally accustomed to postures of terror and pleasure, of ecstasy and dismay. [. . .] I have never read a book more richly concerned with language-in-prayer, with prayer-in-language. It speaks with ancient knowledge, and yet somehow its song is wholly new.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eG. C. Waldrep\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44756242432317,"sku":"9781949039412","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039412ita.jpg?v=1678308582"},{"product_id":"hybrid-heart","title":"Hybrid Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pop idol in near future Japan. Her every move controlled in the present and haunted by the past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stage is the surveillance society of near-future Tokyo. In order to become an idol, Rei has sacrificed her private life as she focuses on her solo activities. Haunted by guilt, the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, and the corporate bioapps colonizing her body, Rei must find a way to reclaim her discarded anonymity and autonomy within a cyberpunk society where Vocaloids and V-singers flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart of the 2023 Neon Hemlock Novella Series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neon Hemlock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44757113143613,"sku":"9781952086588","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781952086588ita.jpg?v=1771612453"},{"product_id":"roundabout","title":"Roundabout","description":"\u003cp\u003eA group of friends and lovers in Paris weather the polycrisis of contemporary life together and explore cycles of connecting, belonging, departing, and inevitable change in Will Mountain Cox's debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcerpt:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring, the Seine promptly flooded its promenades with water. Yellow was the water, and murky too. It matched the spring sky of election season and some of us spoke in documentary voices. One evening we crossed the river on our way to an election party. From the bridge we looked down in. There were no answers in the river. It was just pretty in its drawn-out, yellow-tough question. At the party, Brassens was playing. His music was starting to mean something new. The party had no television, but it had a view onto a tall new-build building with rows and rows of windows. We listened to the election on the radio, pausing Brassens to listen, some of us watching the living rooms of the building we could see into. There were dozens of living rooms, each with their own television making colors. When the results burst in we watched the living rooms begin churning. Hands were thrown toward the sky, toward God we guessed. And remote controls were thrown screenward, useless. The apartments with nice decorations looked angry. So too the apartments with no decor at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill Mountain Cox\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer from Portland, Oregon living in Paris, France. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eForever Magazine, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShabby Doll House\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Drunken Canal.\u003c\/em\u003e He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWith Paris in Mind\u003c\/em\u003e and was previously a co-founder of the literary magazine, \u003cem\u003eBelleville Park Pages\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a graduate of Boston University and Sciences Po. This is his debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I can sometimes find experiments with the form of the novel a bit tiresome – I’m an Edwardian at heart – but Cox’s novel bucked that trend for me.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003cstrong\u003eTash, Burley Fisher Books’ Books of the Year 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected as a \u003ci\u003eDennis Cooper favorite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2023.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\"\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\"\u003e\"It's kinetic in a way I haven't experienced before... this feels like a poet's novel.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eLo Fi Lit Podcast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWill Mountain Cox is a writer of consequence and vision. Reading his work, both fiction and poetry I can feel the author's need to reveal something just out of reach, be it a truth hidden or an emotion disguised. Will's new novel, \u003ci\u003eRoundabout, \u003c\/i\u003esearches for such truths and the emotions we sometimes hide from ourselves so as to carry on. Sometimes a writer comes along who speaks for his generation. Will Mountain Cox is such a writer.  \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Katakis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45134148174141,"sku":"9798986767017","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798986767017ita.jpg?v=1683321224"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/clmp-publishers.oembed?page=35","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}