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Posted 16 March 2012

 

Axe in Hand

Poetry by Melanie Moro-Huber

NYQ Books, January 2012

ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-56-6

Paperback: 96pp; $14.95

A mixture of humor and tragedy, experimental and traditional forms, Axe in Hand pulls you into the absurd as well as the sacred moments of parenthood and familial relationships, delving into the daily chaos of life in an attempt to find meaning. The poetry in this collection invokes ghosts, giving voice to inter-generational concerns surrounding our daily environment and the way we communicate and learn from one another.

 

Burying the Typewriter

A Memoir

Nonfiction by Carmen Bugan

Graywolf Press, July 2012

ISBN-13: 978-1555976170

Paperback: 192pp; $15.00

Chosen by Lynn Freed for the Bakeless Creative Nonfiction Prize, Burying the Typewriter is a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years.

 

Chicago Stories

40 Dramatic Fictions

Fiction by Michael Czyzniejewski

Curbside Splendor, March 2012

ISBN-13: 978-0-9834228-5-3

Paperback: 168pp; $14.99

40 dramatic fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski, each told in the persona of a famous Chicagoan, from Mrs. O’Leary to Barack Obama.

 

Fjords vol. 1

Poetry by Zachary Schomburg

Black Ocean Press, March 2012

ISBN-13: 978-0-9844752-5-4

Paperback: 72pp; $14.95

Zachary Schomburg's previous books have enthralled thousands of readers with surreal landscapes populated by gorillas in people clothes, jaguars, plagues of hummingbirds, and even Abraham Lincoln. His poems have inspired art installations, shadow puppetry, rock albums, and string quartets. In Fjords, Schomburg inhabits the icy landscape, walking among all his little deaths as he explores the narrow inlets between the transcendent and the mundane.

 

Monkey Ranch

Poetry by Julie Bruck

Brick Books, March 2012

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-74-6

Paperback: 88pp; $19.00

Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us what is sufficient; what will suffice? A mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum—sometimes with rage, or plain persistence, sometimes with the furious joy of a dog who gets to ride with his head through a truck’s passenger window.

 

Special Ed

Voices from a Hidden Classroom

Poetry by Dennis J. Bernstein

NYQ Books, February 2012

ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-47-4

Paperback: 84pp; $14.95

Come into the special ed classroom, where the kids who don't fit in anywhere else spend their day. For these kids—real kids Dennis J. Bernstein taught in the New York City public schools before he became an internationally known investigative journalist—pistols, switchblades, police cars and hunger are more instructive than textbooks. Special Ed is about daily life under the siege of poverty, racism, and class warfare.

 

Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard

Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review

Anthology edited by Stephen Corey, Douglas Carlson, David Ingle, Mindy Wilson

University of Georgia Press, March 2012

Paperback: 384pp; $24.95

The year 2012 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of The Georgia Review, and Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard will acknowledge that milestone by presenting a selection of the remarkable short fiction published across the decades. The collection includes the work of well-known writers, many of whom were not yet so well known when first selected for publication by The Georgia Review, and also highlights compelling work from writers whose names may not be as familiar but whose stories are equally compelling and memorable.

 

A Very Funny Fellow

Poetry by Donald Lev

NYQ Books, February 2012

ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-55-9

Paperback: 112pp; $14.95

Donald Lev's latest book is a compilation of ninety-two short poems, mostly written over the last decade and a half. These are poems of inner observation, of quotidian magic or lack of magic, in which one finds wisdom, wry humor, and echoes of one's own complexities. The real subject of each poem is the knot in the core of human existence, which each reader is allowed the pleasure of untying.

 

 

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