New & Noteworthy Books

New Books from Independent & University Presses

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Posted on December 16, 2010

 

Beauties

Fiction by Mary Troy

BkMk Press, December 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-886157-74-3

Paperback: 368pp; $16.95

Winner of the USABookNews.com Best Books 2010, Literary Novel award.

 

The Book Bindery

Zine by Sarah Royal

Microcosm Pub, December 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-934620-84-7

Paperback: 96pp; $5.00

Sarah Royal spent some time working in a Chicago book bindery. From the get-go, she dispels any of our illusions of book-making fantasy, "It's a glorified Kinko's..." and gives us a guided tour of her work and co-workers.

 

Cloud of Ink

Poetry by L.S. Klatt

Univ of Iowa Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-971-1

Paperback: 84pp; $17.00

Winner of the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize.

 

For Enid With Love

A Festschrift

Collection Edited by Barry Wallenstein

NYQ Books, October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-12-2

Paperback: 177pp; $16.95

"A gathering of essays, poems and recollections to the memory of poet, scholar, teacher, and political activist, Enid Dame (1943-2003)."

 

A Good Long Way

Children's/YA Fiction by Rene Saldana, Jr.

Piñata Books, October 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-607-3

Paperback: 128pp; $10.95

"In Rene Saldana, Jr.'s new book, A Good Long Way, the lives of three teens growing up on the Texas-Mexico border are revealed in short, affecting scenes.

 

The History of Violets

Poetry by Marosa Di Giorgio

Translated from the Spanish by Jeannine Marie Pitas

Ugly Duckling Presse, November 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-933254-70-8

Paperback: 87pp; $15.00

"Originally published in 1965, The History of Violets twists the familiar face of a family farm, populating the fields and grounds with gods, monsters, and a whole 'foamy army' of extras. With disarming grace, these poems leave the reader swirling about, among the flowers, where no one is safe."

 

Horizontal Surfaces

Nonfiction by George Bowering

BookThug, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-897388-71-6

Paperback: 93pp; $18.00

A new title in BookThug's Department of Critical Thought Series.

 

Invisible Strings

Poetry by Jim Moore

Graywolf Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-581-4

Paperback: 104pp; $15.00

"Brief, jagged, haiku-like, Jim Moore's poems in Invisible Strings observe time moving past us moment by moment."

 

Mapmaking

Poetry by Megan Harlan

BkMk Press, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-886157-77-4

Paperback: 66pp; $13.95

Selected by Sidney Wade as the Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry.

 

Pickled Dreams Naked

Poetry by Norman Stock

NYQ Books, September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-30-6

Paperback: 105pp; $14.95

Molly Peacock writes, "Here is the Colossus of Queens, performing a dark stand-up of the heart that is at once funny, pretense-puncturing, and profound."

 

Recipes From the Red Planet

Fiction by Meredith Quartermain

BookThug, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-897388-65-5

Paperback: 127pp; $18.00

"Suppose fiction is a mansion of mirrors where narrative, setting and plot are characters, and suppose this castle is haunted by Martians constantly rearranging, reversing and translating its furniture of myths, fables and nursery rhymes."

 

Smiles of the Unstoppable

Poetry by Jason Bredle

Magic Helicopter Press, December 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9841406-1-9

Paperback: 76pp; $11.95

"[G]raceful insights about loneliness, relationships, and whale orgies."

 

There Is Another Poem,
In Which the News Is Erased

Chapbook by Zachary Harris

New Michigan Press, December 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-934832-28-8

Chapbook: 41pp; $9.00

Finalist in the Diagram/New Michigan Press 2010 chapbook contest.

 

Touch Wood

Poetry by Albert Mobilio

Black Square Editions, January 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-934029-16-9

Paperback: 96pp; $14.00

Cole Swenson writes, "The heir to Modernism at its most terse and most oblique, Mobilio works line and sound forcefully together, managing amazingly acrobatic moves."

 

Unbeknownst

Poetry by Julie Hanson

Univ of Iowa Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-964-3

Paperback: 84pp; $17.00

Winner of the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize.

 

Zinester' Guide to NYC

the last wholly analog guide to NYC

Nonfiction by Ayun Halliday

Microcosm Pub, November 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-934620-46-5

Paperback: 256pp; $9.99

"A top-to-bottom, on-the-cheap, warts-and-all exploration of the city that never sleeps."