New & Noteworthy Books
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Posted on March 3, 2009
Raking
the Hollow Bones
Poetry by Bryan Tso Jones
Fairweather Books, January 2009
ISBN-10: 0977197395
ISBN-13: 978-0977197392
Paperback: 87pp; $14.00
From front cover: Winner of the 2007 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition.
The
Conqueror
Novel by Jan Kjaerstad
Translated from Norwegian by Barbara Haveland
Open Letter Press, February 2009
ISBN-10: 1934824038
ISBN-13: 978-1934824030
Harcover: 481pp; $17.95
From back cover: Jonas Wergeland is in prison for the murder of his wife. The most beloved and celebrated television personality in Norway, Wergeland's programs on the history of Norway held the country in his thrall. The spectacle of his downfall has done the same.
Breathing
in the Fullness of Time
Memoir by William Kloefkorn
University of Nebraska Press, April 2009
ISBN-10: 0803219326
ISBN-13: 978-0803219328
Hardcover: 244pp; $22.95
From website: The “tell-all” memoir takes on new meaning in the work of poet William Kloefkorn, whose accounts of the moments and movements of life touch on everything that matters, the prosaic and the profound, the extraordinary in the everyday, and the familiar in the new and strange.
History
Matters
Contemporary Poetry on the
Margins of American Culture
Literary Criticism by Ira Sadoff
University of Iowa Press, April 2009
ISBN-10: 1587297973
ISBN-13: 978-1587297977
Paperback: 228pp; $39.95
From back cover: In this capacious and energetic volume, Ira Sadoff argues that poets live and write within history, our artistic values always reflecting attitudes about both literary history and culture at large.
Disposition
for Shininess
Poetry by Arisa White
Factory Hollow Press, 2009
Chapbook: 18pp; $7.00
A collection of nine poems by Arisa White, who was awarded the 2007 Pavel Strut Fellowship in Poetry by the University of Michigan.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received.
March 3, 2009
Poetry
Micrographia, Emily Wilson (University of Iowa Press)
Perpetual Care, Katie Cappello (Elixir Press)
Raking the Hollow Bones, Bryan Tso Jones (Fairweather Press)
Something has to Happen Next, Andrew Michael Roberts (University of Iowa Press)
This Side of Everything, Naomi Ayala (Curbstone Press)
Too Long a Solitude, James Ragan (University of Oklahoma Press)
Vertebrae Rosaries, Philip Dacey (Red Dragonfly Press)
Chapbooks
Disposition for Shininess, Arisa White (Factory Hollow Press)
Fiction
The Conqueror, Jan Kjaerstad (Open Letter Press)
Forgetting English, Midge Raymond (Eastern Washington University Press)
Private Midnight, Kris Saknussemm (Overlook Press)
Resistance, Owen Sheers (Anchor Books)
You Are Here, Donald Breckenridge (Starcherone Books)
Children’s/YA
Classic Poetry, Ed. Michael Rosen (Candlewick Press)
The Cuckoos Haiku and Other Birding Poems, Michael J. Rosen (Candlewick Press)
A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout, Ed. Paul Janeczko (Candlewick Press)
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (Candlewick Press)
Nonfiction
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, S. L. Wisenberg (University of Iowa Press)
Breathing in the Fullness of Time, William Kloefkorn (University of Nebraska Press)
Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering, Ed. Suzanne Kamata (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing)
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, Robert D. Richardson (University of Iowa)
History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of America, Ira Sadoff (University of Iowa Press)
We Saw the Light, Daniel Kane (University of Iowa Press)
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, Fanny Howe (Graywolf Press)