New & Noteworthy Books

New Books from Independent &
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Posted on July 1, 2010

Adam Robinson and Other Poems

Poetry by Adam Robinson

Narrow House, March 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9793901-3-5

Paperback: 77pp; $14.00

Robinson's first book. It is based on a collection of biographical poems on subjects such as Koerkagaard, Mike Schmidt, Black Diamond, Xanana Gusmao, Helene Cixous, and Robinson's grandmother.

 

Bound Like Grass

A Memoir from the Western High Plains

Nonfiction by Ruth McLaughlin

Univ of Oklahoma Press, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4137-4

Hardcover: 200pp; $24.95

In unvarnished prose, McLaughlin reveals the costs of homesteading on such unforgiving land, including emotional impoverishment and a necessary thrift bordering on deprivation. //

 

Dunstan Thompson

On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master

Ed. D.A. Powell, Kevin Prufer

Pleiades Press, June 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9641454-1-2

Paperback: 183pp; $12.99

The first in Pleiades Press's Unsung Masters Series

 

Hart's Grove

Fiction by Dennis McFadden

Colgate University Press, June 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-912568-20-1

Paperback: 200pp; $17.95

These ten tales planted in the small, hilly town of Hart's Grove, Pennsylvania, provide a glimpse of ordinary people going about the extraordinary business of living day to day... //

 

Kids of the Black Hole

Punk Rock in Postsuburban California

Nonfiction by Dewar MacLeod

Univ of Oklahoma Press, November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4041-4

Paperback: 240pp; $19.95

This book explores how, in the land of the Beach Boys, punk rock took hold.

 

Panopticon

Fiction by David Bajo

Unbridled Books, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-60953-002-0

Hardcover: 335pp; $25.95

A novel of dreamlike appearances and almost supernatural memories, a world of hidden watchers that evokes the dark recognition of just how little we can protect even our most private moments.

 

The Return

Fiction by Roberto Bolano

New Directions Books, July 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1715-6

Hardcover: 224pp; $23.95

Contains thirteen stories.

 

 

There Is No Other

Fiction by Jonathan Papernick

Exile Editions, September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1550961386

Paperback: 184pp; $17.95

Nine tender and darkly humorous short stories. //

 

 

Tongue

Poetry by Rachel Contreni Flynn

Red Hen Press, April 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-475-7

Paperback: 89pp; $18.95

Winner of the 2008 Benjamin Saltman Award

 

 

Water the Moon

Poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Marick Press, February 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-934-851-12-8

Paperback: 78pp; $14.95

A dynamic blend of Western and Asian sensuality and heritage, this debut collection carries the voice of a polyglot whose cross-cultural experiences in exile embrace the world with a penetrating eye and illuminating wit

 

When You Say One Thing
But Mean Your Mother

Poetry by Melissa Broder

Ampersand Books, February 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9841025-4-9

Paperback: 88pp; $13.95

First book of poetry from Melissa Broder, Chief Editor of La Petite Zine.

 

The Widow

Chapbook by Suzanne Burns

Night Bomb Press, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9840842-3-4

Chapbook: $5.00

Collection of prose poems from the author of Misfits and Other Heroes

 

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