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Posted on 7 June 2012
Black as Caviar
Poetry by Menno Wigman
Translated from the Dutch by Stephen Frech
Midwest Writing Ctr, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-098341163-5
Paperback: 72pp; $12.00
Menno Wigman is one of the Netherlands' most celebrated living poets and has published four poetry collections and two books of prose; he has also edited three anthologies. According to translator Stephen Frech, Menno's poems "have a Hopper-esque loneliness: solitary figures staring into the distance or the cup near at hand, occupied with sadness and regret."
Maleficium
Fiction by Martine Desjardins
Translated from the French by Fred A. Reed, David Homel
Talon Books, May 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0889226807
Paperback: 160pp; $14.95
In Maleficium, Martine Desjardins delivers to readers the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic Catholic priest who has violated the sanctity of the confessional. In Savoie's confession-within-a-confession, seven penitents, each afflicted with a debilitating malady or struck with a crippling deformity, relates his encounter with an enigmatic young woman whose lips bear a striking scar.
My Tranquil War and Other Poems
Poetry by Anis Shivani
NYQ Books, September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-58-0
Paperback: 134pp; $16.95
Composed over the last decade, My Tranquil War and Other Poems tackles head-on a question: What is the poet’s responsibility when terror becomes a general condition of dread, and even beauty and truth assume grotesque masks? Anis Shivani is a poet, fiction writer, and critic in Houston. He is the author of three other books, and his work has appeared in numerous journals. He studied at Harvard College and has won a Pushcart Prize.
New Poetry from Spain
An Anthology
Ed. by Marta Lopez-Luaces, Johnny Lorenz, Edwin M. Lamboy
Talisman House, April 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1584980872
Paperback: 192pp; $18.95
The poetic texts chosen and translated here represent a profound transition psychological and political undergone by the new Spanish citizen. This anthology focuses on the poetry written in Spain after 1975. All the poets included were raised under Franco's dictatorship, which lasted forty years. A new conception of the self had to emerge after Franco’s death in 1975 and the transition to democracy, and this was expressed in the work of many poets as a liberating, though painful, transformation.
The Place I Call Home
Poetry by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
NYQ Books, September 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-935520-67-2
Paperback: 84pp; $14.95
The place that Maria Mazziotti Gillan calls home is a universal haven built of enduring memories and peopled by loving family. In Gillan’s newest book of poetry, The Place I Call Home, we share her complex emotions of an immigrant childhood in Paterson, New Jersey, in the 1950s, her long marriage, her husband’s devastating illness, and her subsequent widowhood.
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Posted 7 June 2012
Anthology
New Poetry from Spain: An Anthology, Ed. Marta Lopez-Luaces, Talisman House
Chapbook
The Flood, Molly Brodak, Coconut Books
Nectar, Lisa Bellamy, Encircle Publications
Purgatory, Amelia Martens, Black Lawrence Press
The Spokes, Miranda Mellis, Solid Objects
Children's/YA Fiction
Alicia's Fruity Drinks / Las Aguas Frescas De Alicia, Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Piñata Books
A Day without Sugar / Un Dia Sin Azucar, Diane Deanda, Piñata Books
Sofia and the Purple Dress / Sofia Y El Vestido Morado, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Piñata Books
Fiction
As Close as You'll Ever Be, Seamus Scanlon, Cairn Press LLC
The Bird Saviors, William J. Cobb, Unbridled Books
The Block Captain's Daughter, Demetria Martinez, Univ of Oklahoma Press
The Canvas, Benjamin Stein, Open Letter
Captivity, Lander Hawes, Unthank Books
Crusoe's Daughter, Jane Gardam, Europa Editions
Flesh, Khanh Ha, Black Heron Press
Inukshuk, Gregory Spatz, Bellevue Literary Press
The Lemon Grove, Ali Hosseini, Northwestern Univ Press
Love, In Theory, E.J. Levy, Univ of Georgia Press
Maleficium, Martine Desjardins, Talon Books
People are Strange, Eric Gamalinda, Black Lawrence Press
The Pugilist's Wife, David Armand, Texas Review Press
Seven Houses in France, Bernardo Atxaga, Graywolf Press
The Six Granddaughters of Cecil Slaughter, Susan Hahn, Fifth Star Press
The Touch of the Sea, Ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press
Two, Two, Lily-White Boys, Geoffrey Clark, Red Hen Press
The White Forest, Adam McOmber, Touchstone Books
Nonfiction
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, Suzanne Roberts, Univ of Nebraska Press
Auspicious Good Fortune: One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfillment, Sumangali Morhall, Mantra Books
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics, Robert Mann, Louisiana State Univ Press
Democrips and Rebloodlicans: No More Gangs in Government, Dick Russel & Jesse Ventura, Skyhorse Publishing
Hiking to Siberia, Lawrence Millman, Sunnyoutside
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus, Kelly Barth, Arktoi Books
The Naked Author: A Guide to Self-publishing, Alison Baverstock, Bloomsbury Publishing
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands, Aatish Taseer, Graywolf Press
Poetry
And We'd Understand Crows Laughing: Poems (1997 - 2010), W. Nick Hill, Dos Madres
Armor, Amour, Amy Pence, Ninebark Press/RACA
Between Dusk and Night, Emily McGiffin, Brick Books
Black as Caviar, Menno Wigman, Midwest Writing Ctr
Blood Red Dawn, Jon Shutt, Kitsune Books
Bursts of Light, William Bronk, Talisman House, Pub
Coyote Bush: Poems from the Lost Coast, Peter Nash, Off the Grid Press
The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor, Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow, Dufour Editions
Desiring Map, Megan Kaminski, Coconut Books
Dire Straights, Edward Foster, Marsh Hawk Press
How to Survive a Hotel Fire, Angela Veronica Wong, Coconut Books
I see my love more clearly from a distance, Nora Gould, Brick Books
Infinite Variations, Marci Nelligan, Black Radish Books
Journey to the Sun, Brent Cunningham, Atelos
My Tranquil War, Anis Shivani, NYQ Books
The Occasions of Paradise, John Blair, Univ of Tampa Press
The Organ Builder, Austin MacRae, Dos Madres
Paradise, Indiana, Bruce Snider, Pleiades Group, Inc.
The Place I Call Home, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, NYQ Books
The Reindeer Camps, Barton Sutter, BOA Editions
Reveal, All Shapes & Sizes, Bruce Covey, Bitter Cherry Books
Ways We Hold, Jennifer Arin, Dos Madres
What Next, Old Knife?, David Axelrod, Lost Horse Press
Y, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Graywolf Press
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