Books Received September 2022
NewPages receives many wonderful titles each month to share with our readers. You can read more about some of these titles by clicking on the “New Books” tag under “Popular Blog Topics.” If you are a publisher or author looking to be listed here or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us!
Poetry
Almost Obscene, Raúl Gómez Jattin, CSU Poetry Center
Ancestry Unfinished, Yasmin Kloth, Kelsay Books
Bright Shade, Chelsea Harlan, Copper Canyon Press
The Empty Bowl, Judith H. Sherman, University of New Mexico Press
Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, ed. Christopher Nelson, Green Linden Press
If Not These Things, Kenneth Chamlee, Kelsay Books
In Our Now, Valyntina Grenier, Finishing Line Press
Innocence, Micahel Joseph Walsh, CSU Poetry Center
The Gospel of Wildflowers & Weeds, Orlando Ricardo Menes, University of New Mexico Press
The Lost Notebook of Zhao Li, J.R. Solonche, Dos Madres
My Aunt’s Abortion, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, BlazeVOX
My Secret Place, Max Talley, Main Street Rag Publishing
Mouth, Sugar, & Smoke, Eric Tran, Diode Editions
Of the Florids, Shawn Hoo, Diode Editions
A Passable Man, Ralph Culver, Mad Hat Press
Reflections Through the Convex Mirror of Time, E.A. Mares, University of New Mexico Press
Unlettered Longings, Abin Chakraborty, ukiyoto
Sandman, Huan He, Diode Editions
Threads of Trust, Ankit Mishra, Inkfeathers Publishing
Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet, Michael Mark, Rattle Poetry
Volo, Nathalie Handal, Diode Editions
Yearn, Rage Hezekiah, Diode Editions
Fiction
The 666 Murders, Alan Golbourn, Gelbs Publishers
The African Desperate, Martine Syms & Rocket Caleshu, Nightboat Books
Cash Grab, Andy Spain, Humorist Books
Famuli Cani, Alan Golbourn, Gelbs Publishers
Girl Flees Circus, C. W. Smith, University of New Mexico Press
Lester Lies Down, James Thomas, Vine Leaves Press
McKenzie Rising, Caddie Dufurrena, University of Nevada Press
The Most Excellent Immigrant, Mark Budman, Livingston Press
The Nobodies, Alanna Schubach, Blackstone Publishing
Soulful Return, Fidelis O. Mkparu, DX Var os Publishing
Nonfiction
Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, University of New Mexico Press
Essentially, Richard Terrill, Holy Cow! Press
Fandom, the Next Generation, ed. Bridget Kies and Megan Connor, University of Iowa Press
Fired!, Steven Mitchell Sack, Legal Strategies Publications
Good Naked, Joni B. Cole, University of New Mexico Press
Haunted Detroit, Nicole Beauchamp, Arcadia Publishing & The History Press
Hidden Cargoes, Chris Arthur, EastOver Press
Lakȟóta, Rani-Henrik Andersson & David C. Posthumus, The University of Oklahoma Press
Music Gigs Gone Wrong, ed. Richard Peabody & Gerry LaFemina, Paycock Press
Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art, Shawn Crawford, The Calliope Group