New & Noteworthy Books
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Posted on October 14, 2010
absolute bob
Poetry by Anne Portugal
Translated from the French by Jennifer Moxley
Burning Deck Press, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-936194-02-5
Paperback: 120pp; $14.00
From back cover: bob (joker, operator, bundle of energy?) is let loose in the circuits in the manner of a video game. He tests the ways a poem inhabits sense or nonsense, speeds or slows, slides into forms or undoes them. //
Answer
to an Inquiry
Drama by Robert Walser
Translated by Paul North
Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-933254-74-6
Hardcover: 64pp; $20.00
From website: A short work written in the form of a letter. Walser assumes the voice of a great man of the theater responding to an aspiring actor's request for advice.
Bolitas de Oro
Poems of My Marble-Playing Days
Poetry by Nasario Garcia
Univ of New Mexico Press, July 2010
ISBN-10: 978-0-8263-4791-6
Hardcover: 126pp; $24.95
Written first in Spanish, then translated to English, these poems paint Garcia’s young life and the lives of his family members and neighbors in west central New Mexico in the mid-twentieth century. //
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom
Cross-Genre Prose by Leslie Scalapino
Post-Apollo Press, August 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0942996-72-2
Paperback: 176p; p$29.00
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom, in short chapters usually not more than a page or half page, was composed by process of alexia, word-blindness: unknown words were chosen by randomly leafing through Webster's Dictionary; these generate characters and events that cohere as a sci-fi novel in which the characters are apparently divided from their senses. //
The Divine Comedy
Poetry by Dante
Translated from the Italian by Burton Raffel
Northwestern Univ Press, October 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2672-5
Hardcover: 888pp; $35.00
In what he has deemed his final translation, Burton Raffel takes on Dante with an introduction by Paul J. Contino and notes by Henry L. Carrigan, Jr.
Missing You, Metropolis
Poetry by Gary Jackson
Graywolf Press, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-572-2
Paperback: 80pp; $15.00
Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa
Museum of the Weird
Fiction by Amelia Gray
FC2, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-156-0
Paperback: 171pp; $15.50
Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize.
No Space for Further Burials
Fiction by Feryal Ali Gauhar
Akashic Books, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-60-2
Paperback: 200pp; $15.95
The novel's narrator, a U.S. army medical technician in Afghanistan helping "liberate" the country from the Taliban, has been captured by rebels and thrown into an asylum. The other inmates are a besieged gathering of society's forgotten and unwanted refugees and derelicts, disabled and different, resilient and maddened, struggling to survive the lunacy raging outside the asylum compound.
Old Photographs
Children's/YA Fiction by Sherie Posesorski
Second Story Press, September,2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-897187-78-4
Paperback: 224pp; $10.95
A crime in her neighborhood turns Phoebe's summer vacation into a real-life mystery tale. //
Parable of Hide and Seek
Poetry by Chad Sweeney
Alice James Books, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-882295-82-1
Paperback: 72pp; $15.95
In this surreal expose of the human condition, Sweeney transforms intangible space into poetic playground
What I Didn't See and Other Stories
Fiction by Karen Joy Fowler
Small Beer Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-68-3
Hardcover: 200pp; $24.00
New collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. //
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
October 14, 2010
Children's/YA Fiction
Old Photographs, Sherie Posesorski, Second Story Press //
Space Between Trees, Katie Williams, Chronicle Books
The Way It Is, Donalda Reid, Second Story Press //
Children's/YA Nonfiction
Dazzling Women Designers, Jill Bryant, Second Story Press //
Crose-Genre
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom, Leslie Scalapino, Post-Apollo Press //
Drama
Answer To an Inquiry, Robert Walser, Ugly Duckling Presse
Fiction
Calendar of Regrets, Lance Olsen, FC2 //
Color Plates, Adam Golaski, Rose Metal Press
The Dead Detective, William Hefferman, Akashic Books //
Foxybaby, Elizabeth Jolley, Persea Books //
Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally, Northwestern Univ Press //
Gojira, King of the Monsters, Jim Shepard, Solid Objects //
Hassie Calhoun, Pamela Cory, Scarletta Press //
The Last Brother, Nathacha Appanah, Graywolf Press //
Museum of the Weird, Amelia Gray, FC2
No Space for Further Burials, Feryal Ali Gauhar, Akashic Books
The Sugar Mother, Elizabeth Jolley, Persea Books //
What I Didn't See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler, Small Beer Press //
Who Occupies This House, Kathleen Hill, Northwestern Univ Press //
The Wind Came Running, Marianne Gage, Plain View Press //
Nonfiction
Crafting the Personal Essay, Dinty W. Moore, Writer's Digest Books
Please Take Me Off the Guest List, Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez, Stacy Wakefield, Akashic Books
Poetry
absolute bob, Anne Portugal, Burning Deck Press //
Before I Came Home Naked, Christina Olson, Spire Press //
Bolitas de Oro, Nasario Garcia, Univ of New Mexico Press //
The Book of Frank, CA Conrad, Wave Books
Chinese Notebook, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Ugly Duckling Presse //
The Divine Comedy, Dante , Northwestern Univ Press
Love in the City of Grudges, Will Nixon, Foothills Publishing //
Missing You, Metropolis, Gary Jackson, Graywolf Press
The New Make Believe, Denise Newman, Post-Apollo Press //
The New Poetics, Mathew Timmons, Les Figues Press //
Otherwise Elsewhere, David Rivard, Graywolf Press
Parable of Hide and Seek, Chad Sweeney, Alice James Books
Reliquaries of the Lesser Saints, Amy Fleury, RopeWalk Press //
Then, We Were Still Living, Michael Klein, GenPop Books
Twenty Danses Macabre, Jay Rogoff, Spring Garden Press //
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