New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on June 17, 2010
(made)
Poetry by Cara Benson
BookThug, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-897388-56-3
Paperback: 63pp; $17.00
From the back of the book: "These prose poems / juxtaposing the individual / intertwine / objects and occurrences repeatedly / a cosmological chronology / inhabits." //
The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven
Poetry by Mairead Byrne
Publishing Genius, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982081358
Paperback: 208pp; $14.95
This 208-page collection is a book translation of Heaven, Mairead Byrne's poetry blog, begun in 2003.
Brazil
A Novella
Fiction by Jesse Lee Kercheval
CSU Poetry Center, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-880834-86-2
Paperback: 126pp; $9.95
Winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest, Selected by Josip Novakovich
Clamor
Poetry by Elyse Fenton
CSU Poetry Center, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-880834-89-3
Paperback: 77pp; $15.95
Winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, selected by D.A. Powell //
Clara and Merritt
Fiction by Peter Donahue
Wordcraft of Oregon, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-877655-66-1
Paperback: 288pp; $15.00
Encompassing the West Coast labor movement, the rise of McCarthyism, the Northwest School of Art, and much more, this multi-layered novel explores how people reckon with the larger forces of world events in their everyday lives. //
The Dance Boots
Fiction by Linda Legarde Grover
Univ of Georgia Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3580-3
Hardcover: 149pp; $24.95
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Every Natural Fact
Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting
Nonfiction by Amy Lou Jenkins
Holy Cow! Press, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9823545-1-3
Paperback: 180pp; $14.95
A July, 2010 Midwest Connections Pick from the Midwest Booksellers Association //
Forty Wolves
Fiction by Mark Jacobs
Talisman House, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-58498-074-2
Paperback: 255pp; $19.95
Riots, kidnapping, and murder link the fates of Americans and Turks in a storm of menacing religious extremism.
Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies
The Dry Fly and the Nymph,
Evolution and Conflict
Nonfiction by William C. Black
Univ of New Mexico Press, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-4795-4
Paperback: 302pp; $19.95
Fly-fishing history details long debate on relative merits of dry or wet flies. //
Meeks
Fiction by Julia Holmes
Small Beer Press, July 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-65-2
Paperback: 192pp; $16.00
Meeks portrays a world at once hilarious and disquieting, in which frustrated revolutionaries and hopeful youths suffer alongside the lost and the condemned, just for a chance at the permanent bliss of marriage... //
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
Graphic Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
Cinco Puntos Press, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-933693-23-1
Paperback: 64pp; $17.95
Be careful growing up in the green, wet, mango-sweet Mexican village of Rosario, where dead corpses rise up out of the cathedral walls during July when it always floods; where vast silver mines beneath the town occasionally collapse causing a whole section of the village to drop out of sight; where a man with a paintbrush, to wit Mr. Mendoza, is the town’s self-appointed conscience.
Please Come Back To Me
Fiction by Jessica Treadway
Univ of Georgia Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3584-1
Hardcover: 238pp; $24.95
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction //
Skin, Inc.
Identity Repair Poems
Poetry by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Graywolf Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-567-8
Hardcover: 176pp; $23.00
Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers Ellis's big, ambitious argument in sound and image for an America whose identity is in need of repair.
The Smaller Half
Poetry by Marc Rahe
Rescue Press, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-9844889-0-2
Paperback: 75pp; $14.00
This collection of poems is the debut publication of Rescue Press. //
Stranger Here Below
Fiction by Joyce Hinnefeld
Unbridled Books, October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-60953-004-4
Hardcover: 288pp; $24.95
This is a novel about three generations of women and the love that makes families where none can be expected. //
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
June 17, 2010
Anthology
The Loudest Voice Volume 1, Ed. Amaranth Borsuk, Bryan Hurt, Genevieve Kaplan, Figueroa Press
Children's/YA Fiction
Saltypie, Tim Tingle, Cinco Puntos Press //
Fiction
Bliss Inc., Ron Burch, BlazeVOX [books] //
Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval, CSU Poetry Center
Clara and Merritt, Peter Donahue, Wordcraft of Oregon //
The Dance Boots, Linda Legarde Grover, Univ of Georgia Press
Forty Wolves, Mark Jacobs, Talisman House, Pub
The Gravedigger, Rob Magnuson Smith, Univ of New Orleans Press //
Meeks, Julia Holmes, Small Beer Press //
Please Come Back To Me, Jessica Treadway, Univ of Georgia Press //
Snaketown, Kathleen Wakefield, CSU Poetry Center //
Stranger Here Below, Joyce Hinnefeld, Unbridled Books //
Comic
Codex Danier, Dan Rhett
Graphic Novel
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush, Luis Alberto Urrea, Cinco Puntos Press
Nonfiction
Every Natural Fact, Amy Lou Jenkins, Holy Cow! Press //
Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies, William C. Black, Univ of New Mexico Press //
Green Fields, Rob Magnuson Smith, Univ of New Orleans Press //
Poetry
(made), Cara Benson, BookThug //
Bar Napkin Sonnets, Moira Egan, The Ledge //
The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven, Mairead Byrne, Publishing Genius
Clamor, Elyse Fenton, CSU Poetry Center //
Death-Defying Acts, Erin Keane, WordFarm //
The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney, Trans. Chad Sweeney, Forklift, Ink //
Skin, Inc., Thomas Sayers Ellis, Graywolf Press
The Smaller Half, Marc Rahe, Rescue Press //
You Don't Know What You Don't Know, John Bradley, CSU Poetry Center //
Z213: EXIT, Dimitris Lyacos, Shoestring Press //
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