2Leaf Press Fall 2019 Catalog by 2Leaf Press

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2LEAF PRESS publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and bilingual works that connect to readers everywhere. We challenge the status quo by partnering with multicultural poets, authors, artists, activists and scholars who create stories that inform, entertain, educate, and inspire. Our press produces high quality and beautifully produced hardcover and paperback print editions, and ebooks. We also publish books through our series: 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY, 2LP TRANSLATIONS, NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES, 2LP CLASSICS, 2LP CURRENT AFFAIRS, CULTURE & POLITICS, and 2LP UNIVERSITY BOOKS.

Entre el Sol y la Nieve .................................. 4 Trailblazers, Volume 2.................................. 5 An Unintentional Accomplice ....................... 6 Borracho [Very Drunk] ................................. 7

2LP RECENT TITLES Designs of Blackness................................... 8 Ransom Street ............................................. 8 The Emergence of Ecosocialism ................. 9 Wounds Fragments Derelict ........................ 9 Dream of the Water Children.....................10 Strength of Soul .........................................10 Trailblazer, Volume 1 ..................................11 Mother of Orphans .....................................11 MONSTERS .................................................12 NO VACANCY ...............................................12 Substance of Fire .......................................13 The Beauty of Being ...................................13 P A P O L í T I C O ........................................14 Adventures in Black and White ................14 Critics of Mystery Marvel ...........................15 The Revlon Slough .....................................15

2LEAF PRESS is strongly attached to its home in New York City, its native language and landscape, and its vast richness of cultures, so we consider ourselves “local internationalists” who bring readers an eclectic mix of multicultural writers. As a small press, we publish a limited number of titles (approximately ten titles per year) during spring and fall, so we are committed to publishing the highest quality writing possible that can make a difference.

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2LP FAVORITES Branches of the Tree of Life ............................16 Black Lives Have Always Mattered ................16 The Fourth Moment ........................................ 17 The Beiging of America.................................... 17 What Does it Mean to be White in America? .......................................18

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FALL, OR AS IT IS FORMALLY KNOWN AS autumn, returns. Who doesn’t love autumn? Aren’t we all just counting the days to October, when the wind is crisp, and we begin wearing wool sweaters again? Or when the leaves are tumbling down and every twenty feet or so you have to step over the viscera of a shattered pumpkin? In literature, a reference to colorful leaves, a cold winter day or a ray of sunshine may allude to more than its literal meaning. Writers use symbols related to seasons to express ideas such as feelings, and the passing of time and age. But by noticing key words related to the time of year, a reader gets a better understanding of the meaning behind a writer’s voice.

This fall season, 2Leaf Press publishes four distinctively different books in multiple formats and voices: a bilingual collection of love poetry; a bilingual collection of historic essays; a memoir that exposes and challenges white racism; and the collected biographies of trailblazing African American women.

AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE, A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON WHITE RESPONSIBILITY by Carolyn L. Baker, is a brave book that acknowledges and challenges the realities of Baker’s white privilege, confronts white guilt, and navigates aspects of white identity in a personal memoir that will be familiar to many, while providing much needed insight to others. And finally, I am publishing the second volume of TRAILBLAZERS: BLACK WOMEN WHO HELPED MAKE AMERICA GREAT, AMERICAN FIRSTS/AMERICAN ICONS, which has recently evolved into four volumes. It is a book that will inspire anyone who reads it. The next volume will publish spring 2020.

Be sure to check out our amazing catalog that is growing by leaps and bounds with the help of our distributor, University of Chicago Press. As you snuggle under the covers or sit by a fire, read a 2Leaf Press book to nurture your bliss. We are a small press with big ideas. Visit our website at www.2leafpress.org for more information. Happy reading. — Gabrielle David, Publisher

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BORRACHO [VERY DRUNK], LOVE POEMS & OTHER ACTS OF MADNESS [POEMAS DE AMOR Y OTROS ACTOS DE LOCURA] by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez is his third poetry collection with 2Leaf Press, and second bilingual volume. Translated from the English to Spanish by Carolina Fung Feng, Meléndez deviates from his usual fare of political poetry, and reaches out on a more personal level that is serious yet filled with his usual sardonic wit. On the other hand, Myrna Nieves’ ENTRE EL SOL Y LA NIEVE/ESCRITOS DE FIN DE SIGLO (BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE SNOW/WRITING AT THE END OF THE CENTURY), is a collection consisting primarily of previously published essays written in Spanish that has been translated to the English by Christopher Hirschmann Brandt. The essays, which are cultural and historical in nature, are accompanied by a generous collection of photographs by Latinx photographers.

SPRING 2019

Ahhhh, the writer’s voice. It is not something you can measure, it is subjective, but you know it when you read it. The writer’s voice doesn’t include only wording, grammar or structure: it is much more. It is the personal way the writer sees the world, how she or he translates it. For example, when we look at an apple, when describing it, each of us will describe it differently, using unique approaches and perspectives. And it is those writers who write faithfully in their own voice that often capture the attention of editors and publishers who want to publish their work. Unfortunately, many people are so busy emulating authors they admire, they lose their writer’s voice. It is the person who writes with emotion, with their own feelings, passions and dislikes, beliefs, dreams, wishes, fears and attitudes that makes for a promising book. There is a lot to be said about the writer’s voice, but one key element to consider is this: how you say things is as important as what you say. You can write in different styles, deeper in one matter or scratch the surface in another; you can write memoirs, novels, short stories, or poems. But whatever you write, your voice should always remain a central element to your work.

Between the Sun and The Snow/Writing at the End of the Century by Myrna Nieves Translated by Christopher Hirschmann Brandt

EN ENTRE EL SOL Y LA NUEVE/BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE SNOW presents a collection of selected newspaper articles by writSN er, er cultural activist, and educator Myrna Nieves. The articles in th bilingual collection, which were originally written in Spanish this and an translated into English by Christopher Hirschmann Brandt, first appeared in Nosotros los latinos, a magazine published in New Yo York, between 1992 and 1995. Here, Nieves has brought together nineteen articles and a new essay in which the author navigates ni th the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, in including national origin and immigration status. Providing critical vi viewpoints from a Latinx perspective, these articles address a variet ety of issues including climate change, domestic violence, women’s ri rights, and trends in literature and the arts. Together, these articles se serve as a documentary history not only of the Latinx community ty, but also of the changing perspectives of the nation as a whole. The articles are accompanied by a generous collection of photogr graphs by Néstor Barreto, Roger Cabán, Betty “BP” Cole, Perla de Le León, Frank Gimpaya, Nereo López Meza, George Malavé, Hiram Ma Maristany, Eliud Martínez, Marlis Momber, Marina Ortiz, Marwi win Schwartz, and Louis Servedio Morales, offering a fresh visual ic iconography of Latinx experience. ENTRE EL SOL Y LA NUEVE/ BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE SNOW provides a rich collection of insights into this vast and diverse population. Cover art and design: Marguerite Z. Bunyan

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FALL 2019

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Entre El Sol y la Nieve/Escritos de Fin de Siglo

NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES PAPERBACK $24.99 |EBOOK $12.99 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES | 225 pp. | 8.5” x 8.5” ISBN: 978-1-940939384 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1-940939506 (ebk.) November 2019

MYRNA NIEVES is a writer and educator who was born in Puerto Rico. She is a founding member and professor at Boricua College, a cofounder of the artist group “7 Women in Movement,” and the author of four books. CHRISTOPHER HIRSCHMANN BRANDT is a writer, translator, and political activist.

Black Women Who Helped Make America Great American Firsts/American Icons, Vol. 2 by Gabrielle David Edited by Carolina Fung Feng Introduction by Chandra D.L. Waring, PhD

FALL 2019

TRAILBLAZERS, BLACK WOMEN WHO HELPED MAKE AMERICA GREAT, AMERICAN FIRSTS/AMERICAN ICONS, VOL. 2 is the continuation of Gabrielle David’s odyssey into the lives and careers of 150 brilliant black women from the eighteenth century to the present. TRAILBLAZERS brings biographies of women who blazed uncharted paths alongside powerful photographs that illustrate their lives. Organized into five sections, Volume 2 features artists, educators, women in the military, musicians, composers, and women in theater. David introduces us to the struggle of sculptors Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Augusta Savage; the impact of educators and scholars Anna J. Cooper and Georgiana Rose Simpson; the determination and bravery of Cathay Williams and Olivia J. Hooker, who served their country with distinction; in addition to musicians and composers like Florence Beatrice Smith Price, the first to have a symphonic composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra. David also provides a historical overview for each section written from the viewpoint of African American women that maps out the significance of the featured women that follow. With TRAILBLAZERS, David has created an expansive and accessible reference book that provides significant information on the histories of the movements for feminism and civil rights. From the foremothers who broke gender and racial barriers to the mighty women working today, TRAILBLAZERS turns a muchdeserved spotlight on these powerful and inspiring role models.

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GABRIELLE DAVID is the publisher of 2Leaf Press, and serves as the Executive Director Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-based organization that promotes multicultural literature and literacy. www.gabrielledavid.net. CAROLINA FUNG FENG is an ESL teacher, translator and copy editor. She earned a BA in Spanish-English translation and interpretation, and English Language Arts from Hunter College (CUNY), with honors. CHANDRA D. L. WARING holds a joint position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology, and Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Her work has been published in Race, Gender & Class, Sociological Imagination, Feminist Teacher, Social Identities, and the DuBois Review.

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Trailblazers

PAPERBACK $34.99 BIOGRAPHY | 800 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-940939995 (pbk.) November 2019

A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility by Carolyn L. Baker

AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE, A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON WHITE RESPONSIBILITY follows Carolyn L. Baker’s awakening to the realities of her own white privilege, confronting white guilt, navigating aspects of white identity, and searching out ways to be an ally who both acknowledges her own position and seeks to provide active support for those who live with a different set of circumstances. Baker grew up in Southern California during segregation and came of age in the countercultural climate of the 1960s. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett Till, sparking an investigation of her own position as a white woman in the midst of a world of racial trauma. We find Baker facing the painful reality that, no matter how unintentional, she plays a role within a system that continues to inflict racial harm. She comes to realize that, by not actively opposing discrimination, as a white person, she acts as an accomplice. AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE offers a nonjudgmental personal narrative that invites readers to explore the complexities of race in America and how to navigate the guilt that can arise in the face of these realities. The book defines institutionalized discrimination, illustrates the distance between the American dream and American reality, calls for a radically inclusive feminism, and suggests relevant ways to change direction and take action to build a more humane nation.

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FALL 2019

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An Unintentional Accomplice

PAPERBACK $19.99 SOCIOLOGY | 200 pp. | 5” x 8” ISBN: 978-1-940939230 (pbk.) November 2019

CAROLYN L. BAKER has spent decades working and investing in her native Los Angeles as a senior executive in the nonprofit sector. Formerly an adjunct professor in the community college systems, Baker earned a graduate degree in Organizational Development from Northern Arizona University and began a thirty year executive career in nonprofit settings as wide-ranging as Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, to the West Los Angeles Veterans Campus, to the Clinton Global Initiative. As a Development professional, Baker has directed capital campaigns, annual solicitations, and proposals to private and governmental funders raising hundreds of millions of dollars for safety net causes.

Love Poems & Other Acts of Madness [Poemas de amor y otros actos de locura] by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez Translated by Carolina Fung Feng | Introduction by Susana Torruella Leval

CAROLINA FUNG FENG is a ESL teacher, translator and copy editor. She earned a BA in Spanish-English translation and interpretation, and English Language Arts from Hunter College (CUNY), with honors.

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JESÚS PAPOLETO MELÉNDEZ is a New York–born Puerto Rican playwright, teacher, activist, and award-winning poet who is recognized as one of the founders of the Nuyorican Movement. He has published six poetry collections, the most recent of which is PAPOLíTICO.

FALL 2019

BORRACHO [VERY DRUNK], LOVE POEMS & OTHER ACTS OF MADNESS [POEMAS DE AMOR Y OTROS ACTOS DE LOCURA], Jesús Papoleto Meléndez ‘s latest collection reads as a poetic autobiography of a hopeless romantic. Borracho, or “very drunk” in English, invites us to find the essence of a man’s character laid bare in the foibles of his desire and passionate pursuit of love. Spanning the poet’s fifty-year career, this volume of fifty love poems takes us on a journey through the poet’s winding paths of love and life. Beginning with poems dedicated to his mother and father, the cascading style of Meléndez’s verse strings together a series of vignettes within a flowing narrative of the poet’s life in love. They offer lyrical glimpses into the struggle to find love and into a life lived in deep connection, and they lead us to bittersweet moments in the company of an aging man. The poems spring from times of exhilarating joy, sinking darkness, and painful absence, taking us on a journey through love’s highs and lows. This bilingual edition, with Spanish translations by Carolina Fung Feng, invites us to fall in and out of the winding complexities of love. Anyone who has navigated love and loss will find some affinity with BORRACHO [VERY DRUNK] and a sense of companionship with the poet. Cover art: Jorge Soto Sánchez.

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Borracho/Very Drunk

2LP TRANSLATIONS PAPERBACK $18.99 | $7.99 POETRY | 244 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-940939964 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1-940939988 (ebk.) November 2019

FALL 2019

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Designs of Blackness Mappings In The Literature and Culture of African Americans 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION by A. Robert Lee 2LP UNIVERSITY BOOKS

The wealth and breadth of literature produced by African Americans is staggering and dates to the earliest days of black presence in the United States. A. Robert Lee’s DESIGNS OF BLACKNESS takes on the critical and expansive task of mapping the traditions that influenced African American writing composed between 1746 and the present, in the process addressing the work of more than one hundred and fifty authors. Lee discusses the authors and their books, he also considers oral and vernacular genres, including the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Through this broad lens, Lee comments on significant moments in African American history, including cultural figures like musicians, singers, filmmakers, and visual artists, linking them to the literature. Newly updated in this twentieth-anniversary edition, DESIGNS OF BLACKNESS is a monument to the incredible creative force of literature by African Americans, and an invaluable tool to anyone interested in American culture and history. Cover Art: Romare Bearden.

Ransom Street Poems by Claire Millikin PAGE 8

RANSOM STREET is Claire Millikin’s third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for these unsettled histories. A fee paid to release a prisoner, ransom can, Millikin shows us, initiate a sacrificial act that drives people apart, but also, when paid, can bring the homeless home. The poems in RANSOM STREET move through the question of release elliptically, exploring these abstract implications of ransom through a fictional street in a southeastern American town. The presence of inherited violence, cultural and familial, haunt the terrain of RANSOM STREET, as the poems move through a geography of ghosts, always seeking “ransom,” the sacrificial act that returns the self to wholeness. Cover art and design: Dé-Jon Graves.

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Collected Essays by Joel Kovel

THE EMERGENCE OF ECOSOCIALISM is the first book published posthumously by author and activist Joel Kovel. In 2001, Kovel co-authored “An Ecosocialist Manifesto,” launching a global movement with ancient roots and prophetic horizons. Since that time, ecosocialist movements and organizations have emerged on every populated continent. THE EMERGENCE OF ECOSOCIALISM is a definitive collection of Kovel’s essays on ecosocialism, chronicling the emergence of its theory and practice. From the original manifestos and declarations, to essays and undelivered speeches, THE EMERGENCE OF ECOSOCIALISM offers a 360-degree orientation guide of an ecosocialist praxis written by one of its founding fathers. Cover art: Hannah Allen. FALL 2019

WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT is Carlos Gabriel Kelly’s debut poetry collection. It is a love narrative, a novella consisting of fragments of poetry that express the torment of a relationship that clings to the heart even with the passage of time. Throughout the collection, Kelly focuses on “Her” as he re-imagines his world through the prism of lost love, weaving ghosts of the past both metaphorically and figuratively, into a lush verse that is romantic, bold, erotic, and speaks to the heart. These are not your typical badly written, saccharine love poems, rather these poems are artfully written with bone rattling repetitions organized in couplets, tercets, and sometimes quatrains. In WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT Kelly distills the most exhilarating highs and heartbreaking lows of life and love into evocative lines that will become etched in the reader’s mind. Read this. We dare you. You will not be disappointed.

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Introduction by Sean Frederick Forbes

FALL 2019

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Bo to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. KakBorn inami Cloyd, the narrator of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN, finds himin self not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a se cu cultural drifter, as well. Indeed, both his family and his society treat him as if he doesn’t entirely belong to any world. Tautly written in spare, clear poetic prose, do th this memoir explores the specific contours of Japanese and African American cu cultures, as well as the broader experience of biracial and multicultural identity. To tell his story, Cloyd incorporates photographs and Japanese writing, history, and memory to convey both rich personal experience and significant historical detail. Bringing together vivid memories with a perceptive cultural eye, DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN brings readers closer to a biracial experience, opening up our understanding of the cultural richness and social challenges people from diverse backgrounds face. Cover art and design: Kenji C. Liu.

Strength of Soul PAGE 10

In STRENGTH OF SOUL, Naomi Raquel Enright proposes tangible strategies and ideas on how to challenge systemic racism through naming and resisting the ideology of racial difference and of the white supremacy at its root. Enright explores racism and the language that upholds this ideology through personal narratives that include an examination of her family’s experience. Throughout this volume, Enright shares reflections of her identity growing up as a bilingual, multiethnic individual, and as the mother of a son presumed to be white. She also advances ideas about how to confront societal notions of an inherent difference between the lived experiences of white people and everyone else, notions which result in the widely held belief that there is an inevitable “us” and “them.” In these poignant and deeply personal stories, Enright allows readers to imagine a society on a genuine path towards justice, healing, and true transformation. Strength of Soul is for anyone who is willing to rethink the status quo and is interested in creating systemic change regarding institutionalized and internalized racism. Cover art: Sebastián Whittaker. Cover design: Adam Whittaker.

FALL 2019

TRAILBLAZERS, BLACK WOMEN WHO HELPED MAKE AMERICA GREAT, AMERICAN FIRSTS/AMERICAN ICONS is a biographical look at the lives and careers of 150 brilliant women from the eighteenth century to the present who blazed uncharted paths in every conceivable way. Written by Gabrielle David, TRAILBLAZERS is being released in four volumes over the course of 2019 and 2020, with this first volume. Organized into five sections, Volume 1 features women activists, business women and entrepreneurs, dancers, athletes, and politicians and individuals in government service. Besides biographical information replete with powerful and expressive photographs, David has provided a historical overview for each section written from the viewpoint of African American women that maps out the significance of the featured women that follow. An additional section consisting of approximately 100 names with short bios is also included. A clarion call for recognition of the transformative work black women have done and continue to do, David reminds us of the debt we owe to these unsung heroes—and the place black women deserve at the table.

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Black Women Who Helped Make America Great American Firsts/American Icons, Vol. 1

Mother Of Orphans: The True & Curious Story Of Irish Alice, A Colored Man’s Widow

MOTHER OF ORPHANS is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, Alice mysteriously surrendered her children to an orphanage. One hundred years later, her great-granddaughter, Dedria Humphries Barker, went in search of the reasons behind this mysterious abandonment, hoping in the process to resolve aspects of her own conflicts with American racial segregation and conflict. This book is the fruit of Barker’s quest. In it, she turns to memoir, biography, historical research, and photographs to unearth the fascinating history of a multiracial community in the Ohio River Valley during the early twentieth century. In lyrical, evocative prose, MOTHER OF ORPHANS ultimately leaves us hopeful about the world as our children might see it.

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by Dedria Humphries Barker APR 2019 | PAPERBACK $18.99/EBOOK $5.00 AMERICAN HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | 250 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-78-0 (pbk.) | ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-87-2 (ebk.)

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Monsters Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mathilda by Mary Shelley With an Introduction and Commentary by Claire Millikin Raymond 2LP CLASSICS JUN 2019 | PAPERBACK $21.99 | EBOOK $9.99 NOVEL, LITERARY CRITICISM | 316 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939704 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939841 (ebk.)

FALL 2019

MONSTERS: MARY SHELLEY’S “FRANKENSTEIN” AND “MATHILDA” presents Mary Shelley’s most popular works, accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary by scholar Claire Millikin Raymond. Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing them with characteristics derived from their most deep-seated fears and taboos. Millikin Raymond explores both Frankenstein and Mathilda from a feminist and cultural studies perspective, illuminating the cultural transgressions that each work presents through its monsters. MONSTERS includes the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, which Shelley revised as an adult, respecting the artistic maturity and agency of the author. Mathilda, edited by Elizabeth Nitchie in 1959 is presented here. Frankenstein and Mathilda capture readers by force of their astonishing fantasy and range of implication: the definition of “monster,” which Millikin Raymond explores alongside other aspects of Shelley’s work. MONSTERS will resonate profoundly with readers interested in science fiction, history, and literature, or intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and cultural change. Cover art: Dé-Jon Graves.

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NO VACANCY, HOMELESS WOMEN IN PARADISE describes an incredible journey of Michael E. Reid’s discovery of 500 women living without shelter in one of the most affluent sea-side communities in California, to uncovering the complicated reasons for its existence — even in the place so many call “paradise.” One by one, bodies were found dead in plain sight, high above the glittering cities of Monterey, Pebble Beach and Carmel. When Reid, an Episcopalian priest, found out he took action and co-founded the Fund for Homeless Women, which he now manages full time. NO VACANCY captures Reid’s journey with a personal story that delves into the complex realities of homelessness, and how existing well-intentioned policies and programs often widen the gap between indigent and mainstream societies. By sharing these women’s stories, Reid provides an unvarnished look at the culture of long-term homelessness with a fresh approach. NO VACANCY will inspire and encourage readers to take the next step to help make a difference for the greater good, and onto the circuitous road of grassroots social change. Cover design: Donna Murphy.

Substance of Fire by Claire Millikin Introduction by R. Joseph Rodriguez | Contributors: Blake Calhoun, Richard Delgado, Reginald Wilburn, Riley Blanks and Roxana Trujillo 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY

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Gender and Race in the College Classroom

JUL 2018 | PAPERBACK $29.99 SOCIAL SCIENCES | 198 pp. | 8.5” x 8.5” | ISBN: 978-1940939681 (pbk.)

FALL 2019

SUBSTANCE OF FIRE: GENDER AND RACE IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM brings readers inside a college experience, unfolding multiple perspectives and voices. This multi-genre book by college professor Claire Millikin, explores how race and gender function within the privilege of the four-year college classroom. Additional contributions are from recent graduates and current faculty, who interrogate the forces of sexism and racism from the various perspectives of gay, straight, biracial, white, African American, and Latino writers and artists. As the title suggests, race and gender are not topics “under control” in higher education but instead they are flash points, waiting just under the surface of our culture that still makes the claims of equal access to higher education as many testify to the incompleteness of this so-called equality. Gender and race can ignite, causing pain in the college setting. This book goes to the place of that fire. Cover art: Dé-Jon Graves.

The Beauty of Being A Collection of Fables, Short Stories & Essays

THE BEAUTY OF BEING, A COLLECTION OF FABLES, SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS, is Abiodun Oyewole’s debut collection of prose. Oyewole writes frankly about his experience as a young poet and activist, and provides life lessons with fables and a fascinating travelogue, as he promotes resilience and self-care to his readers. Unbeknownst to many, Oyewole, a founding member of the Last Poets and a poet in his own right, has been writing short stories for years. As the title suggests, THE BEAUTY OF BEING investigates a natural, moral, and sacred spiritual being of self-love, reminding readers if they use these elements as part of the beauty within, endless possibilities await. Perhaps the most riveting part of this book are Oyewole’s short stories of remembrance, which at first glance read like a travelogue but under closer scrutiny are collectively a love story, and a beautiful mediation on grief and loss. In THE BEAUTY OF BEING, Oyewole connects to readers with sincerity, humor, heart and grace.

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by Abiodun Oyewole Introduction by Felipe Luciano

FALL 2019

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PAPOLÍTICO, POEMS OF A POLITICAL PERSUASION is award-winning poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez’ sixth book of poetry. Classical, contemporary, witty, wise, personal and political, Meléndez, often weary of the social issues and politics of the day, has created an exciting compilation of new and previously published poems to nudge people out of complacency and draw readers into his own kingdom of truth and justice. Investigating the serious and mundane, Meléndez’ poetry is written with the satirical and ironic wit and “cascading” style he has become known for. Throughout this volume, Meléndez maintains an eternal belief that it is never too late for our future to be changed for the better, making PAPOLÍTICO a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.

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ADVENTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE, a memoir-travelogue, was first published by worldrenown child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler in 1960. In this first revised edition of ADVENTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE since its initial publication, scholar Tara Betts provides a critical introduction, including minor edits, and annotations of the original text. Schuyler was heralded as America’s first internationally-acclaimed mixed race celebrity. When the transition from child prodigy to concert pianist proved challenging in America, like many black performers before her, she went abroad during the 1950s for larger audiences. She traveled to Latin America, and later throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, performing before royalty, dignitaries and celebrities, witnessing first-hand the dissemblage of European colonies in Africa and the Middle East, readers learn how this young musician would eventually find her way to become an author and a journalist.

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CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL is Youssef Alaoui’s third poetry collection, which explores human relationships between individuals, cultures, races, and genders. Alaoui deftly utilizes archaic tones that formulates an artistic approach to metaphor in verse creating images that appear wholly in the mind and not on the page. This volume consists of ten sections that explores Alaoui’s family and heritage, an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings, which blends surrealism, magical realism, and language alchemy as he explores the human mythos of love, gender, poverty, politics, racism, and war. A few of the poems are written in French and Spanish, translated to English. Post-beat verse from the San Francisco Bay area and the Big-Sur, CRITICS OF MYSTERY MARVEL touches the depth of the soul with poetry that is metaphorically luminous. Cover art: Amine Alaoui-Fdili. Cover design: Youssef Alaoui

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Collected Poems

The Revlon Slough New and Selected Poems

THE REVLON SLOUGH, Ray DiZazzo’s fourth poetry collection, represents fifty years of writing that explores his life’s observations in harmony with both the natural world and the often anomalous societies we inhabit. This volume is organized into seven sections, exploring creatures both exotic and mundane, the fragility of damaged individuals, social and political perspectives, personal observations, science fiction and space, and perhaps most important, what it means to be a human being in this contested, often volatile world. As the collection’s title elucidates, DiZazzo has created a narrative initially inspired by his discovery of a farmland slough, with its own biosystem, natural beauty and ugliness. His poetry, primarily written in free verse, projects an intimacy with nature that resists sentimentality and romanticism, giving the poetry a vivid, unadorned feel throughout the volume. THE REVLON SLOUGH is DiZazzo’s most intimate and eloquent poetry collection to date.

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by Ray DiZazzo Introduction by Claire Millikin

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Branches of the Tree of Life The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 Introduction by Betty J. Dopson | Edited by Gabrielle David

FALL 2019

BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE is the first comprehensive volume of poems by Abiodun Oyewole, many of them never before published. Oyewole’s poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving. Using the spiritual, the sacred and the mystical, Oyewole turns to the tree as a symbol of change and growth. The poetry rebranches into different directions, becoming grandeur in its proportions, and more complexly diversified in its structure, that confirms Abiodun Oyewole’s place at the forefront of poetic achievement. Cover art: Vagabond.

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Black Lives Have Always Mattered A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Personal Narratives Edited by Abiodun Oyewole 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY MAY 2017 | PAPERBACK $24.99 | EBOOK $9.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE, DISCRIMINATION & RACISM | 388 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939612 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939629 (ebk.)

BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES, edited by Abiodun Oyewole, extends beyond the Black Lives Matter movement’s primary agenda of police brutality to acknowledge that even when affronted with slavery, segregation,Jim Crow, racial injustice and inequality, black lives have always mattered. This anthology consists of 79 contributors who address a wide range of hot-button issues that disproportionately impact the black community. While written primarily by African American poets, writers, activists and scholars, selections are also from people of the Latino and African diasporas, and white activists. Connecting the past to the present, the contributors of BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED provide an eye-opening and engaging collection that has the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation and equality for all. Cover photo: Ricky Flores, Cover design: Vagabond.

FALL 2019

THE FOURTH MOMENT, JOURNEYS FROM THE KNOWN TO THE UNKNOWN is a memoir by Carole J. Garrison. A child of humble beginnings, Garrison paved the way for herself to accomplish great things, but for her, the journey was far from your typical “rags to riches” tale. Through a series of tragedies and triumphs, blunders and epiphanies, Garrison’s life has been filled with a number of unusual detours from being a suburban housewife in Miami, to working in Cambodia as it emerged from decades of civil strife, all the while growing into the passionate humanitarian she is today. Eschewing the formulaic conventions of autobiography, THE FOURTH MOMENT consists of short stories—vignettes—that move back and forth across time and space to describe events and observations from a fascinating life. In THE FOURTH MOMENT, Garrison reveals truths not always within everyday reach, but certainly within everyday aspirations, something that readers will be able to connect to.

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The Beiging of America Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes, and Tara Betts 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY JUN 2017 | PAPERBACK, $24.99 | EBOOK $9.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE, DISCRIMINATION & RACISM | 286 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939544 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939551 (ebk.)

THE BEIGING OF AMERICA takes on “race matters” and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed race scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers, professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives articulate the complexities of interracial life. THE BEIGING OF AMERICA is an absorbing and thought-provoking collection of stories that explore racial identity, alienation, with people often forced to choose between races and cultures in their search for self-identity. While underscoring the complexity of the mixed race experience, these unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and empowering message to all readers. Cover art: Laura Kina, Cover design: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.

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Personal Narratives About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century

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What Does it Mean to be White in America? Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives Edited by Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY APR 2016 | PAPERBACK, $29.99 | EBOOK $12.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE, DISCRIMINATION & RACISM | 670 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939483 (pbk.) | ISBN: 978-1940939490 (ebk.)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? is a collection that asks just that. While the literature on “whiteness” has long been dominated by an academic point of view, editors Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes came to the realization that there was an unmet need for an anthology about white race and culture from the perspective of white Americans. The first of its kind, this collection of 82 personal narratives speak frankly and openly about race. The stories cover a wide gamut of American history from contributors around the United States; from reminiscing about segregation and Jim Crow, to addressing today’s headlines of police brutality, politics and #BlackLivesMatters. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA is a valuable starting point that includes numerous references and further readings for those who seek a deeper, richer, understanding of race in America.

AUTHORS | EDITORS | TRANSLATORS

GABRIELLE DAVID CAROLYN L. BAKER CHANDRA D. L. WARING PHYLLIS HUANG

JESÚS PAPOLETO MELÉNDEZ

MYRNA NIEVES

CAROLINA FUNG FENG

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Written Eye Visuals/Verse

shrimp

by A. Robert Lee

by jason elong vasser Introduction by Michael Castro

NOV 2017 PAPERBACK, $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 178 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939599 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939605 (ebk.)

WRITTEN EYE VISUALS/VERSE by A. Robert Lee offers poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, Lee seeks to engage and amplify their meaning. For those interested in the interplay between ekphrastic poetry and visual art, WRITTEN EYE VISUALS/VERSE is essential reading.

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Poems and Stories of Kashmir by Lalita Pandit Hogan NOV 2017 PAPERBACK $14.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 180 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939575 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939582 (ebk.)

APR 2018 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 174 pp. | 5” x 8” ISBN: 978-1940939674 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939810 (ebk.)

SHRIMP, the debut poetry collection of jason elong vasser, examines the African diaspora in a post-colonial context using “shrimp” as a metaphor for the “small” things in life. Using the shrimp motif, elong vasser weaves together his ancestral past and present through nature, the topography of the land, and all creatures “great and small,” the reclamation of self, a renaming tied to roots in Cameroon is all part of elong vasser’s quest for cultural truths. SHRIMP is the realization of that journey. Cover art: Dé-Jon Graves.

Hey Yo! Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry The Collected Works of Jesús Papoleto Meléndez NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES | BILINGUAL: SPANISH-ENGLISH

OCT 2012 PAPERBACK $25.00 | EBOOK $9.99 POETRY | 368. pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-0988476301 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-0988476318 (ebk.)

A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness and exile. A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS is an invaluable collection for all who are interested in cultural remembrance and meditations, and for students of South Asian literature and culture.

HEY YO! YO SOY! is a historical poetry collection comprised of legendary Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez’ three previously published books. Meléndez shares stories about growing up Puerto Rican in New York City’s El Barrio during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the first book to be translated from the English to the Spanish, which links cultural connections in the Spanishspeaking community. Cover art Jaime “Shaggy” Flores.

Brassbones & Rainbows

by Odi Gonzales Translated by Lynn Levin 2LP TRANSLATIONS BILINGUAL: SPANISH-ENGLISH

The Collected Works of Shirley Bradley LeFlore Foreword by Amina Baraka Introduction by Gabrielle David

SEP 2014 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 FICTION, NOVEL | 162 pp.| 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939261 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939278 (ebk.)

MAY 2013 PAPERBACK 18.99 | EBOOK $9.99 POETRY | 120 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-0988476349 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-0988476387 (ebk.)

BRASSBONES & RAINBOWS is the debut poetry collection of Shirley Bradley LeFlore, an oral poet and performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri. Her poetry weaves the fabric of verse through jazz, blues and gospel in an easy going, smooth and soothing Southern American dialect mixed with African American vernacular that will certainly roll off your tongue. This collection also includes historical photos of LeFlore and other prominent poets and writers. Cover art: Frank Frazier.

The Death of the Goddess

Poems by Claire Millikin Introduction by Fred Marchant

A Poem in Twelve Cantos

MAY 2016 PAPERBACK, $14.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 126 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939421 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939438 (ebk.)

TARTESSOS AND OTHER CITIES continues Claire Millikin’s exploration homelessness. Named for Tartessos, a lost city in Andalusia, Spain that was likely buried by a devastating tidal wave in BC, the poems in TARTESSSOS gather lost cities and places that were not myths, but were once real. Throughout the collection, Millikin leads readers to discover that home is not just the place where you happen to live, it is the place where you become yourself.

Patrick Colm Hogan Introduction by Rachel Fell McDermott OCT 2014 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 132 pp. | 5” x 8” ISBN: 978-1940939346 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939353 (ebk.)

THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS is an epic, narrative poem that is a moving account of affection, personal loss, and grief. Inspired by Buddhism and Indic thought, its central figures are two lovers who refuse to accept unjust social hierarchies and suffer separation and death for that choice. This groundbreaking narrative is a literary achievement to be read by serious poetry lovers and students in mythology or epic literature alike. Cover art: Lalita Pandit Hogan.

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Tartessos and Other Cities

FALL 2019

BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE by Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales presents poems that sing in the voices of native birds and speak through the devout, but subversive, Quechua artists of Peru’s colonial era. Originally published in Peru in 2005 as La Escuela de Cusco (The School of Cusco), BIRDS ON THE KISWAR TREE stands as an elegant and richly imagined tribute to these indigenous and mestizo artists. This is Gonzales’ first book published in a bilingual Spanish/English edition. Cover art: Eugen Berlo.

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Our Nuyorican Thing

Providencia

The Birth of a Self-Made Identity

A book of poems by Sean Frederick Forbes

by Samuel Diaz Carrion Introduction by Urayoán Noel

Introduction by V. Penelope Pelizzon

NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES

MAY 2014 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 132 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939070 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939087 (ebk.)

In OUR NUYORICAN THING, BIRTH OF A SELF-MADE IDENTITY, poet, writer and activist Samuel Diaz Carrion explores the question, “What is a ‘Nuyorican’?” OUR NUYORICAN THING is a compendium of blog correspondence for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s website (2001-2004), which includes Diaz Carrion’s poetry, seen through the eyes of a “Puerto Rican Indiana Jones.” This collection is riveting, informative and delightful, and will satisfy any reader with an appetite for cross-cultural discussions. Cover art: Clare Ultimo.

OCT 2013 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 104 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939018 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939025 (ebk.)

PROVIDENCIA, Sean Frederick Forbes’ debut poetry collection, is a deeply personal, coming-of-age narrative. This lovely collection traces the experience of a gay, mixed-race narrator who confronts the traditions of his parents’ and grandparents’ birthplace in Providencia, Colombia against Forbes’ rough and lonely life in Southside Jamaica, New York, that explores the struggles of self-discovery. Cover art: Holly Turner.

The Morning Side of the Hill

Boricua Passport

A Novella by Ezra E. Fitz

by J. L. Torres

Introduction by Ernesto Quiñonez

NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES

OCT 2014 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 NOVEL | 132 pp., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939070 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939087 (ebk.)

MAY 2014 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 116 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939193 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939209 (ebk.)

In THE MORNING SIDE OF THE HILL, Ezra E. Fitz’ debut novella, asks readers: What if you anted up and kicked in everything you had on a belief, a hope, a dream, on faith, and you lost? This is one of the questions facing the two insecure, incomplete protagonists that was inspired by William Faulkner’s classic novel The Wild Palms. THE MORNING SIDE OF THE HILL exposes an unexpected coincidence that Faulkner may have hinted at but never fully explored. Cover art: Vagabond.

BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres’ life experience. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. It’s your passport into a world both real and imaginary. A must read! Cover art: Vagabond.

Poems by Not4Prophet Graphics by Vagabond Introduction by Tony Medina

Imaginarium Sightings, Galleries, Sightlines Poetry by A. Robert Lee

NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES

NOV 2013 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 132 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-0988476332 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-0988476325 (ebk.)

IMAGINARIUM SIGHTINGS, GALLERIES, SIGHTLINES, A. Robert Lee’s latest collection of poetry, turns on two connecting keynotes imagination and sight. Each sequence provides a broad canvas that explores the ways we go about imagining as much as seeing reality. A delightful yet informative collection that invites readers into a two-way exchange, imagination as seeing, seeing as imagination.

Rivers of Women, The Play

by Tony Medina Introduction by Ishmael Reed

by Shirley Bradley LeFlore Photographs by Michael J. Bracey

JUL 2013 PAPERBACK $18.95 | EBOOK $9.99 POETRY | 176 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-0988476356 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-0988476394 (ebk,)

MAY 2013 PAPERBACK $12.99 PLAY, POETRY | 104 pp, | 8.5” x 8.5” ISBN: 978-0988476370 (pbk.)

BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of “Broke Books” by award-winning poet, Tony Medina, who articulates Broke’s erratic experiences as a homeless person on the streets of Any City, USA. Funny and perversely sharp, whimsical and impassioned, this poetry collection is compulsively readable, and will connect with fiction and poetry lovers alike. Cover art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cover design: Miriam Ahmed.

In RIVERS OF WOMEN, THE PLAY, Shirley Bradley LeFlore has outdid herself in this groundbreaking collection of dramatic poems written in vivid and powerful language that is simply breathtaking. Here is the complete text, including stage directions, accompanied with photographs by award-winning, Chicago-based photographer Michael J. Bracey. This poignant and powerful play explores family, love, woman-to-woman experiences, race and religion, speaking to the very soul of the reader. Cover photo: Michael J. Bracey.

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Broke Baroque

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LAST OF THE PO’RICANS Y OTROS AFRO-ARTIFACTS, the debut poetry collection of Not4Prophet, provides an incredible verbal and musical profusion of poetry that reflects the cultural landscapes of Puerto Rico and New York City through the eyes of a Puerto Rican born in Ponce, living in El Barrio and the South Bronx. A poetry collection that breaks boundaries and challenges us with iconic imagery and word play that dares to speak of the unspeakable. Cover photo: Jeffrey Akers, Cover design: Vagabond.

OCT 2013 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 126 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939056 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939063 (ebk.)

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The Last of the Po’Ricans y Otros Afro-artifacts

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After Houses

Off Course

Poetry for the Homeless by Claire Millikin

by A. Robert Lee

Introduction by Tara Betts MAY 2014 PAPERBACK $16.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 160 pp,| 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939308 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939315 (ebk.)

AFTER HOUSES is an extended meditation on homelessness. In unflinching, raw poetry, poet Claire Millikin explores states of homelessness, and a longing for, even a devotion to, houses — houses as spaces where one could be safe and at ease. Millikin’s verse echos the voices of girls who have not quite survived, but who persist, intact in the way that Rimbaud insists on intactness, in words. Cover photo: Gary Baller.

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Roundabouts & Deviations

Stepping Out of Place An Outside in Literary & Travel Magazine Anthology Edited by Brandi Dawn Henderson

MAY 2016 PAPE0RBACK $14.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 138 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939407 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939414 (ebk.)

OFF COURSE ROUNDABOUTS & DEVIATIONS by A. Robert Lee’s interleaves poetry and prose. Beneath the carefully crafted and accessible surface of Lee’s work lies a profound, complex voice that deliberately disrupts traditional literary boundaries and distinctions. Different takes on the odd, oftentimes the antic, at work in the daily round. Of course, it’s all OFF COURSE. Read without discretion, and take out some personal insurance before reading.

Incessant Beauty, A Bilingual Anthology Ana Rossetti Edited and translated by Carmela Ferradáns 2LP TRANSLATIONS | BILINGUAL SP./ENG.

OCT 2013 PAPERBACK $19.99 | EBOOK $9.99 ESSAYS | 212 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-0988476363 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939001 (ebk.)

WHEREABOUTS STEPPING OUT OF PLACE is an anthology of the best nonfiction stories from Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine, an online journal founded in 2011. Editor Brandi Dawn Henderson presents thirty-eight emerging and established global storytellers who share what it means to enter a new place, exploring the question Why does anyone take the first step to anywhere he or she doesn’t “belong?”

MAY 2014 PAPERBACK $18.99 | EBOOK $6.99 POETRY | 168 pp. | 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1940939216 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1940939223 (ebk.)

INCESSANT BEAUTY offers to an English-speaking audience a first glimpse into Ana Rossetti’s eclectic and voracious symbolic universe. Editor and translator Carmela Ferradáns has selected poems that offer a wide range of themes that span more than thirty years, varying from the more brooding meditations on transcendental human qualities, to the latest festive celebrations of the poetic word itself. Cover art: Spencer Sauter.

COVER ART The etching on the cover is “Autumn’s Grey and Melancholy” (1884) by American artist Henry Farrer (1844-1903) was an English-born American artist known for his tonalist watercolor landscapes and etchings. Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 6 in. (9.8 x 15.2 cm). Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917. QUOTE ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning is now popularly known for such poems as “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix,” and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” He is also accredited with certain famous lines, such as: “Grow old along with me!” (from the poem, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”); and “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” and “Less is more” (from the poem “Andrea Del Sarto”). JOIN OUR MAILING LIST & RECEIVE 2LP UPDATES We periodically email our newsletter about new books, special discount offers, and upcoming events. You can sign up on our website at www.2leafpress.org

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