New & Noteworthy Books

New Books from Independent &
University Presses

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Posted on November 11, 2010

 

A Life Crossing Borders

Memoir of a Mexican-American

Nonfiction by Rev. Santiago Tafolla

Translated from the Spanish by Fidel Tafolla

Arte Publico Press, September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-597-7

Paperback: 244pp; $16.95

"New bilingual memoir reveals life of Mexican-American Confederate Preacher." //

 

Beauport

Poetry by Kate Colby

Litmus Press, December 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-933959-11-5

Paperback: 120pp; $15.00

Julian T. Brolaski writers, "In Beauport, Kate Colby tells the tale of the decorator and designer Henry Davis Sleeper, braiding in prose-lyric reminisces of her own New England upbringing and 'anti-ekphrastic' poems after Currier & Ives lithographs of the Victorian-era leisure class."

 

Big Bright Sun

Poetry by Nate Pritts

BlazeVOX [books], October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-60964-020-0

Paperback: 90pp; $16.00

The fourth full-length collection of poetry from the editor of H_NGM_N and H_NGM_N B_ _KS.

 

Bone Fires

New and Selected Poems

Poetry by Mark Jarman

Sarabande Books, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-89-5

Paperback: 304pp; $16.95

"[C]ollects work from over thirty years and charts [Jarman's] spiritual development as he grows from a poet of childhood and nostalgia to a poet of adulthood and the struggle of faith."

 

Bound To Last

30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book

Nonfiction Ed. Sean Manning

Da Capo Press, November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81921-6

Paperback: 240pp; $15.95

"[A]n amazing array of writers come to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited and never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperpack that matters most to them--not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its meaning to them as a one-of-a-kind, irreplacable object."

 

The Captain Asks For a Show of Hands

Poetry by Nick Flynn

Graywolf Press, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-574-6

Hardcover: 104pp; $22.00

Nick Flynn's first new poetry collection in nearly a decade.

 

Climate Reply

Poetry by Trey Moody

New Michigan Press, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-934832-26-4

Chapbook: 27pp; $9.00

Finalist in the Diagram/New Michigan Press 2010 Chapbook Contest. //

 

 

Did You Hear About the Fighting Cat?

Poetry by Omar Perez

Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra

Shearsman Books, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-84861-132-0

Paperback: 149pp; $17.00

A new bilingual edition from the contemporary Cuban poet Omar Perez. "The question of Zen's potential relation to Cuban culture is at once raised for debate and answered (albeit indirectly) within these poems." //

 

Early Pleasures

Memoirs of a Sensual Youth

Nonfiction by Frederick Kohner

Black Heron Press, January 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-930773-96-0

Hardcover: 178pp; $23.95

Winner of the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction.

 

engulf - enkindle

Poetry by Anja Utler

Translated from the German by Kurt Beals

Burning Deck Press, December 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-936194-03-2

Paperback: 93pp; $14.00

"Stretching syntax and semantics, Utler's poems trace speech to its roots in the lungs, the throat, the tongue, and let it emerge as sound and song."

 

Glass is Really a Liquid

Poetry by Bruce Covey

No Tell Books, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0982600016

Paperback:” 137pp; $16.99

The fourth book of poetry from the editor of the web-based poetry magazine and book publishing press Coconut.

 

Greensward

Poetry by Cole Swenson

Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-933254-65-4

Paperback: 64pp; $14.00

"The short sections of poetry and prose, sometimes plainspoken, sometimes poised precariously on the line between sense and non-sense, are dovetailed into engravings of 18th century gardens by artist John Roque."

 

Heaven & Earth Holding Company

Poetry by John Hodgen

Univ of Pittsburgh Press, September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6114-7

Paperback: 73pp; $14.95

"New collection has aura of funky wit and deep emotion."

 

I'm Not Muhammad

An Ordinary Rendition

Fiction by Jason Trask

Red Wheelbarrow Books, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9759515-2-1

Paperback: 245pp; $14.95

"…chronicles an Arab-American's experience of the dark ad momentous days following 9/11." //

 

In the Next Room

or the vibrator play

Drama by Sarah Ruhl

Theatre Comm Grp, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-55936-360-0

Paperback: 160pp; $13.95

USA Today declared this play "Best Broadway Play of 2009."

 

The Last Jewish Virgin

A Novel of Fate

Fiction by Janice Eidus

Red Hen Press, November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-393-4

Paperback: 148pp; $24.95

"Janice Eidus has re-imagined the gothic novel for contemporary readers, adding a dash of thriller and keen insights into the complex psychological inner-life of Millennials who came of age post 9/11."

 

Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium

Poetry by Crystal Curry

Slope Editions, October 2010

IBN-13: 978-0-97776-985-8

Paperback: 94pp; $14.95

"The discomfort this book conveys, through lyric, image, and theme, leads readers into a kind of 'glee and mania' as a way to navigate through 'darker and emptier concerns.'"

 

Our Island of Epidemics

Fiction by Matthew Salesses

Pank, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-9824697-3-6

Paperback: 40pp; $10.00

A collection of shorts from the author of The Last Repatriate (forthcoming from Flatmancrooked). //

 

Outtakes

Poetry by Charles Wright

Sarabande Books, November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1932511864

Paperback: 64pp; $16.95

Pairs previously-unpublished sestets by Charles Wright with abstract images created by Eric Appleby.

 

Radical Healing

Nonfiction by Rudolph M. Ballentine

Himalayan Inst Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-89389-308-8

Paperback: 644pp; $19.95

Deepak Chopra says, "This book will be an instant classic." //

 

VENTRAKL

Poetry by Christian Hawkey

Ugly Duckling Presse, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-933254-64-7

Paperback: 152pp; $17.00

"Envisioned in the form of a scrapbook, VENTRAKL folds poetry, prose, biography, translation practices, and photographic imagery into an innovative collaboration with the 19th/early 20th century Austrian Expressionist poet George Trakl." //

 

Volt

Fiction by Alan Heathcock

Graywolf Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-577-7

Paperback: 208pp; $15.00

"In Volt, the work of a writer who's hellbent on wrenching out whatever beauty this savage world has to offer, Heathcock's tales of lives set afire light up the sky like signal flares touched off in a moment of desperation."

 

While the Women Are Sleeping

Fiction by Javier Marias

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

New Directions Books, November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1663-0

Hardcover: 176pp; $21.95

In the New York Times Book Review, Wyatt Mason has called Marias "one of the most original writers at work today."

 

You Know Who You Are

Poetry by Ian Williams

Wolsak & Wynn Pub, April 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1894987417

Paperback: 80pp; $17.00

Carolyn Smart writes, "…a dazzling concoction of loneliness and hope, a wild display of the endless sparks and twists that become our lives."

 

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