New & Noteworthy Books

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Posted on March 3, 2011

 

The Alphabet Conspiracy

Poetry by Rita Mae Reese

Arktoi Books, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9800407-3-9

Paperback: 80pp; $17.95

Mark Doty writes, "Rita Mae's work artfully addresses itself to the way children are taught to enter--and then become trapped by--a world constructed of language."

 

The Archipelago

A Balkan Passage

Nonfiction by Robert Isenberg

Autumn House Press, November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-932870-44-2

Paperback: 198pp; $19.95

"Thirteen years after the cease-fire, writer Robert Isenberg explores five countries by bus, bike, and foot, to see what has become of these countries once crippled by genocidal war and largely forgotten by the American consciousness."

 

The Book of Freaks

Fiction by Jamie Iredell

Future Tense Books, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-892061-39-3

Paperback: 138pp; $11.00

"Both hilarious and straight-faced in equal measures, this faux encyclopedia categorizes mundanities and renders them starkly unexpected."

 

Click and Clone

Poetry by Elaine Equi

Coffee House Press, April 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-257-5

Paperback: 136pp; $16.00

"Click and Clone explores the tone and timbre of American life as it has been colored by the new metaphors and images brought to us by our continuing technological revolution. Equi is interested in a new form of realism--one that acknowledges the fact that what we think of as normal and everyday is now permeated with the fantastic."

 

Coming from an Off-Key Time

Fiction by Bogdan Suceava

Translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth

Northwestern Univ Press, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2684-8

Paperback: 212pp; $19.95

"In the apocalyptic novel Coming from an Off-Key Time, Bogdan Suceava satirizes events in his native Romania since the fateful end of the Ceausescu regime in 1989."

 

Cyclops Wearing Flip-Flops

The Best of Poetry Inside Out VIII

Ed. John Oliver Simon

Univ of Washington Press, February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-931883-18-4

Paperback: 218pp; $12.95

"Cyclops Wearing Flip-Flops, the eighth volume in the acclaimed Best of Poetry Inside Out anthology series, showcases poetry and translations from children freed to use the full potential of their imagination."

 

Damn Sure Right

Fiction by Meg Pokrass

Press 53, January 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-935708-17-9

Paperback: 171pp; $14.95

Kyle Minor writes, "Read Damn Sure Right, a collection of miniature tales sure to ruin your waking hours the way you'll want them ruined."

 

The Goodbye Town

Poetry by Timothy O'Keefe

Oberlin College Press, April 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9324404-0-2

Paperback: 76pp; $15.95

Winner of the 2010 Field Poetry Prize.

 

Le Spleen De Poughkeepsie

Poetry by Joshua Harmon

Univ of Akron Press, January 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-931968-92-8

Paperback: 94pp; $14.95

G.C. Waldrep writes, "[A] tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland."

 

Marry or Burn

Fiction by Valerie Trueblood

Counterpoint Press, 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-598-5

Paperback: 294pp; $15.95

"From the author of Seven Loves comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the heartbreak that often accompanies its collapse, and the fickle way in which the bonds between us can be broken, erased, and newly defined."

 

New Stories from the Midwest

Ed. Jason Lee Brown

Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press, May 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1135-8

Paperback: 300pp; $16.95

"The anthology includes an introduction from Lee Martin and short fiction by emerging and established writers such as Rosellen Brown, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Christie Hodgie, Gregory Blake Smith, and Benjamin Percy."

 

Prayer and Parable

Fiction by Paul Maliszewski

Fence Books, May 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-934200-44-5

Paperback: 248pp; $15.95

"In language that is at once simple and supple, plain-spoken and arresting, these twenty-eight stories describe complete lives in unerring detail, lives we may recognize as not unlike our own."

 

The Requited Distance

Poetry by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Sheep Meadow Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-931357-91-3

Paperback: 130pp; $14.95

Eric Pankey writes, "These poems soar with stunning lyric grace and yet we feel their earthly gravity along the lengths of our bones."

 

The Riots

Nonfiction by Danielle Cadena Deulen

Univ of Georgia Press, May 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3883-5

Hardcover: 192pp; $24.95

Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

 

So Bravely Vegetative

Fiction by Alan Davis

Hollywood Books, January 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-9829558-1-9

Paperback: 154pp; $16.00

Winner of Prize Americana for Fiction.

 

Wait

Poetry by Alison Stine

Univ of Wisconsin Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-299-28314-8

Paperback: 86pp; $14.95

Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Cornelius Eady.

 

Welcome to Our Hillbrow

A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa

Fiction by Phaswane Mpe

Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press, May 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1962-5

Paperback: 150pp; $16.95

"Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow--microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche."

 

The Whalen Poem

Poetry by William Corbett

Hanging Loose Press, March 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1-934909-13-3

Paperback: 64pp; $16.00

"William Corbett's homage to poet, zen master & beat fellow traveler Philip Whalen."

 

The White Museum

Poetry by George Bilgere

Autumn House Press, January 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1-932870-35-0

Paperback: 77pp; $14.95

Billy Collins writes, "Once again, George Bilgere has shown that imaginative wonders and deep emotional truths can be achieved with plain, colloquial American speech."