New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on September 16, 2010
Asunder
Fiction by Robert Lopez
Dzanc Books, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982631812
Paperback: 165pp; $16.95
Robert Lopez has collected twenty-nine short stories, running from the very short on up to a novella in shorts to close out the book.
Earthquake Came to Harlem
Poetry by Jackie Sheeler
NYQ Books, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-34-4
Paperback: 120pp; $14.95
From Harlem to Bensonhurst, from a budget hairdresser to the junkie under the corner scaffold, Sheeler (a lifelong New Yorker) allows the people and places she knows so well to engage with the larger universe. //
I Looked Alive
Fiction by Gary Lutz
Black Square Editions, August 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934029-07-7
Paperback: 84pp; $17.00
An expanded second edition of Lutz's second book, which was originally published in the now defunct Hammer Books/Four Walls Eight Windows.
Indexical Elegies
Poetry by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Coach House Books, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-155245234-9
Paperback: 73pp; $14.95
Jon Paul Fiorentino’s new collection is a … poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations. Anxiety caused by geography, anxieties of influence and looming worries about loss inform the poems as they weave narrative threads that highlight both the treachery of language and its necessity in shaping human experience.
Lord Dragonfly
Five Sequences
Poetry by William Heyen
H_NGM_N BKS, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781453608005
Paperback: 90pp; $14.95
New edition of text restores material left out of the original 1981 edition. Includes notes by the author and appreciations by Nate Pritts and Matthew Henriksen.
Love Like Hate
Fiction by Linh Dinh
Seven Stories Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-909-5
Paperback: 238pp; $16.95
Linh Dinh weaves a dysfunctional family saga that doubles as a portrait of Vietnam in the last half century.
Pirate Talk or Mermalade
Fiction by Terese Svoboda
Dzanc Books, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0982631805
Paperback: 151pp; $16.95
[A] novel in voices about two brothers who meet a mermaid, fall into pirating, and end up in the Arctic.
The San Simeon Zebras
Poetry by C.J. Sage
Salmon Publishing, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-907056-22-2
Paperback: 72pp; $19.95
New book of poems from the editor of The National Poetry Review.
Striking Surface
Poetry by Jason Schneiderman
Ashland Poetry Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-912592-70-1
Paperback: 72pp; $15.95
Winner of the 2009 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize.
Yellow Plum Season
Poetry by Pui Ying Wong
NYQ Books, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-29-0
Paperback: 96pp; $14.95
Pui Ying Wong's first full-length collection of poetry … In Yellow Plum Season, Wong speaks as a traveler from lands known and unknown yet creates a terrain all her own //
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
September 16, 2010
Chapbook
The Real Politics of Lipstick, Mary Carroll-Hackett, Slipstream Publications //
Children's/YA Fiction
A Chanukah, Sharon Jennings, Second Story Press //
Penny Dreadful, Laurel Snyder, Random House
Children's/YA Nonfiction
Our Earth, Janet Wilson, Second Story Press //
Fiction
Asunder, Robert Lopez, Dzanc Books
I Looked Alive, Gary Lutz, Black Square Editions
Love Like Hate, Linh Dinh, Seven Stories Press
Pirate Talk or Mermalade, Terese Svoboda, Dzanc Books
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris, Little, Brown & Co
Nonfiction
Shorn, Dennis Milam Bensie, Coffeetown Press //
Poetry
At the End of Time, Richard Krech, Sunnyoutside //
Beach Tracks, rd coleman, NYQ Books
The Bodies Beneath the Table, W.D. Ehrhart, Adastra Press //
The Circus Poems, Alex Grant, Lorimer Press
Clockfire, Jonathan Ball, Coach House Books
Earthquake Came to Harlem, Jackie Sheeler, NYQ Books //
Indexical Elegies, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Coach House Books
Just Beautiful, Tim Suermondt, NYQ Books
Lord Dragonfly, William Heyen, H_NGM_N BKS
The Porcupinity of the Stars, Gary Barwin, Coach House Books //
The San Simeon Zebras, C.J. Sage, Salmon Publishing
Striking Surface, Jason Schneiderman, Ashland Poetry Press
Yellow Plum Season, Pui Ying Wong, NYQ Books //
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