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Contents New Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Letter from the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Poetry, Prose Poetry, Cross-Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Fiction and Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Literary Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Title Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Publisher Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Multicultural Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Friends of SPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 SPD Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 HOW TO USE THIS CATALOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 CONTACT

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Small Press Distribution (SPD) connects readers with writers by providing access to independently published literature. SPD allows essential but underrepresented literary communities to participate fully in the marketplace and in the culture at large through book distribution, information services, and public advocacy programs. SPD nurtures an environment in which the literary arts are valued and sustained. SPD BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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New Publishers Once again we welcome a prodigious number of exceptional new independent presses to the SPD family. This catalog introduces the books of sixteen new publishers from eight states and two provinces. ABLE MUSE PRESS/ NIAGRA FALLS, CANADA

Catherine Chandler, Lines of Flight Margaret Ann Griffiths, Grasshopper: The Poetry of M A Griffiths Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Anthology Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Summer 2011 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Winter 2010 Wendy Videlock, Nevertheless ANVIL PRESS/ VANCOUVER, CANADA

Nelly Arcan, Exit Jackie Bateman, Nondescript Rambunctious Bonnie Bowman, Spaz Tony Burgess, Ravenna Gets Trevor Carolan, Editor, Making Waves: Reading B.C. and Pacific Northwest Literature Myrl Coulter, The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers Salvatore Difalco, The Mountie at Niagara Falls and Other Brief Stories Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action Gabor Gasztonyi, A Room in the City Ed Macdonald, Spat the Dummy Bob Robertson, Mayan Horror: How to Survive the End of the World in 2012 Kerry Ryan, Vs. Madeline Sonik, Afflictions and Departures Rachel Thompson, Galaxy Charles Tidler, Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers Calvin Wharton, The Song Collides AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS/ SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

CAPE ANN MUSEUM/ GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS

David Rich, Editor, Charles Olson: Letters Home 1949-1969 CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS/ NILES, MICHIGAN Nick Antosca, Fires Noah Cicero, Best Behavior Kane X. Faucher, The Infinite Library Kyle Muntz, Sunshine in the Valley Michael J. Seidlinger, The Day We Delay COMPLINE/ OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

C. J. Martin, Two Books THE CULTURAL SOCIETY/ BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Chris Glomski, The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems Peter O'Leary, Luminous Epinoia EDITIONS MICHEL EYQUEM/ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Miklos Radnoti, A Wiser, More Beautiful Death EOAGH BOOKS/ BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Andrew Levy, Nothing Is in Here LUMMOX PRESS/ SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA

Edward Nudelman, What Looks like an Elephant Laurie Soriano, Catalina LUNAR CHANDELIER PRESS/ BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

Vyt Bakaitis, Deliberate Proof Lynn Behrendt, petals, emblems Joe Elliot, Homework OWL CANYON PRESS/ BOULDER, COLORADO

Günther Freitag, Brendel's Fantasy Jerry Keenan, West of Green River: a novel of the Bonneville Expedition 1832-1835 PENINSULA ROAD PRESS/ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

alurista, Tunaluna Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors, Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English

Georgy Ivanov, On The Border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov Scott Wannberg, tomorrow is another song

BROOKLYN ARTS PRESS/ BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

TREMBLING PILLOW PRESS/ NEW ORLEANS, LOUSIANA

Joe Fletcher, Already It Is Dusk Carol Guess, Darling Endangered Christopher Hennessy, Love-In-Idleness

John Jay Osborn, Jr, The Paper Chase PERCEVAL PRESS/ SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA

Lee Meitzen Grue, Downtown Bernadette Mayer, Ethics of Sleep

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A LETTER FROM SPD’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Gentle Reader This will be the last time I write to from the first pages of our seasonal New Titles Catalog! Following the issue you now hold in your hands we will redirect our print catalog labors into a series of what we believe will be more effective strategies. We will launch a number of exciting new efforts that will expand and improve how you find out about the great books SPD makes available. You’ve probably “We will noticed that launch a we’ve number of dramatically improved our exciting new website and, as a efforts that result, site visitors will expand to spdbooks.org have exploded and improve over the last how you find three years, out about the going up from great books about 5,000 unique visitors a SPD makes month to over available.” 25,000 on average. Meanwhile, our internal sales analysis indicates that the vast majority of our current customers find out about new books from our website, other websites, or from our electronic data feeds, rather than from the print catalogs (we estimate that the print catalog now generates less than 4% of current sales). Rather than print two New Titles Catalogs each year, we’ll be sending out more frequent, smaller pieces to you going forward as we experiment with a variety of new features on the website and with other kinds of digital marketing. All of us here have loved flipping through each new SPD catalog just as you have, and certainly we’ll feel a great deal of nostalgia right along with you. I hope

you’ll enjoy seeing reproductions of past catalog covers serving as the wrapping to this catalog and scattered throughout. I also hope that you will value the new methods being introduced to let you know about SPD books. Until then, I thought you might enjoy a bit of trivia about the SPD New Titles Catalog. The earliest catalog in our archive is from 1973 (if you have one from 1968-1973 we would love to see it). SPD was called Serendipity Book Distribution back then, and distributed only twenty small publishers in total. That catalog was a saddle-stapled affair, without images, with most of its items priced at well under $10.00. Our current catalog boasts more than 500 new titles produced by some of our more than 400 publishers, and we are welcoming sixteen new publishers in this catalog alone. Over the years, we’ve especially enjoyed finding cover images for the catalog. They’ve included artwork by the likes of Richard Tuttle, Neo Rauch and Danya Tucker. Some of these have been favorite images borrowed (with permission!) from some of the wonderful books we carry, while others have been designed for the catalog itself. One recent SPD catalog even featured a drawing by our own Brent Cunningham. If you have not yet signed up for SPD Recommends, be sure to go visit spdbooks.org and add your email address. This way you’ll find out about selected new SPD titles as soon as they are available. And as always, let us know what you think about the new features we offer as you experience them. We’ll be trying new things and learning as we go. Our mission has been and continues to be to connect writers published by independent publishers with their readers. We want to do that as effectively as possible and want to hear from you.

All the best, Jeffrey Lependorf

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New from Kelsey Street An Atlas of Lost Causes

by Marjorie Stein

Mine is an atlas of lost causes. It is a relief to let go of hope. Its absence may allow the infinite to move in, where each wish can find its perfect candle to blow out. The murder mystery as an asymptote: throughout her exquisitely careful, relentless layering of stunning phrase after stunning phrase, we feel Stein getting closer and closer, forever approaching the impossible and unidentified crime that she’s exploring ever more minutely all the time. — COLE SWENSEN

PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT by Hazel White The canopy of a tree, say a poplar, like a round house, removes the site of vulnerability — the obvious entrance and back with no protection. Privacy can creep about in the leaves and below them, hang here as lungs on the outside. I set this book down and wept. . . . It is the most beautiful piece of writing I have read in many years. — BHANU KAPIL POETRY, PAPERBACK, $16.95

ELEVATORS by Rena Rosenwasser Amorphous forms alighted like film. Shapes gave up their names. Gender lost its essential glue. I was moving in and out of my substance as if I had numerous sleeves. This passionate psalm poem is a labyrinth inside a travelogue inside a dream. — JANE MILLER

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Poetry, Prose Poetry and Cross-Genre Writing Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton Stealth 978-0-925904-99-7, $17, paper, 88 pp. CHAX PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “STEALTH, this reeling motet, feels like a Tarkovsky film, all of them strung together, about the end of the world, these poems continuously spilling themselves into other spaces ad infinitum. And giving us a tiny window on that. It feels like a shellgame. Friendship and language. STEALTH is excited and joyous, while dying, dragging one’s tired ass through a desert, hallucinating. It feels like The Waste Land but the footnotes are fun. STEALTH is more boy than girl. I don’t think Philip Marlowe, I think of Philip Whalen with a pilot’s silk scarf tied around his neck. Man or a girl’s doll. These multiples never get solved, only raised here. I think I mean that stealth is simply the past tense of steal or living finally with everything you stole—living well in a paradise of your own”—Eileen Myles. Frank Adams Love Remembered 978-0-9841304-9-8, $10, paper, 92 pp. WILD OCEAN PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Frank Adams tells a lover’s tale in verse. This tribute to a lover long dead from AIDS touches what is most human in all of us. It is a story of love, desire, disease, mortality and loss exposing the human spirit as it maintains through the worst, and keeps going. Frank Adams is a poet whose gift is large enough for these subjects”—Sharon Doubiago. Etel Adnan Sea and Fog 978-0-9844598-7-2, $15.95, paper, 88 pp. NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Essays. Middle Eastern Studies. These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in SEA AND FOG, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once. “Etel Adnan sharpens the starkness of the world of matter and anti-matter. These texts are psalms that stretch from the sublime to the violent, journey from Yosemite Valley to a soldier’s jeep in the desert, and gather from Dostoevsky to Scalapino. A history, a gospel, a prayer book, it dwells in the divine” —Elmaz Abinader. Charles Alexander Pushing Water 978-0-9827926-7-4, $20, paper, 220 pp.

Listed alphabetically by author. See also Fiction and Drama (p.55), Literary Nonfiction (p.73), and Magazine sections (p.83)

Eugenijus Ališanka from unwritten histories 978-0-924047-84-8, $30, cloth, 173 pp. 978-0-924047-82-4, $15, paper, 173 pp. HOST PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Lithuanian by H. L. Hix. Eugenijus Ališanka’s astonishing poetry collection FROM UNWRITTEN HISTORIES shuns linguistic and symbolic conventions to create a poetic landscape that is rooted in his homeland yet also connects to the shared European literary canon. Poems set in a rural Lithuanian village of the post-communist period take on a universal dimension, while in other poems unidentified shadow figures from history are reimagined within a Baltic context. These lucid, earthy poems articulate intellectual struggles in an unpretentious manner, granting the reader that which the speaker himself fears he cannot attain: the expanded ability to identify with others, as when we see the entire history of a people in the poignant detail of a man being borne to his grave wearing “his wedding suit split slightly in the back” (“nothing much”); and the attainment of selfdetermination within a community of others, as in the extraordinary Dickinsonian concluding poem, “once in my life,” in which the speaker manages at his funeral to accomplish what “I wanted at least once in my life” to be able to do, and which these poems enable the reader to do, namely “to be myself without being alone.” Amal al-Jubouri Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation 978-1-882295-89-0, $17.50, paper, 160 pp. ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Rebecca Gayle Howell and Husam Qaisi. This translation of Iraqi author Amal al-Jubouri contextualizes America’s occupation of Iraq through the Qur’an’s story of Hagar. Complementary pairs of poems portray life before and after the war. This work simultaneously mirrors Hagar’s desperate running between Safa and Marwah, as we pace frantically between pre- and postoccupation Iraq—the poet begging in vain for poetry not to abandon her people. “Through these poems, Amal al-Jubouri connects us to the earliest known poems, and yet the dialectic tension between them is utterly contemporary. Al-Jubouri writes ‘This is my protest, this is my folly,’ yet these poems are neither simple protest nor in any sense folly. These poems are both essential and eternal”—Nick Flynn.

CUNEIFORM PRESS 2011

Poetry. “‘[T]hrough the tunnel pushing water’: the first appearance of this image in Charles Alexander’s serial poem arises as if in a dream, and that sense of dream persists throughout this long and complex work (‘the dream pushes up from under the water’). Yet, ‘pushing water’ also becomes a metaphor of body, of breath, of heartbeat, blood and brain, of consciousness itself, time and history, rendered in diverse poetic forms. Alexander embraces language and the bodies of work that comprise the touchstones of English poetry from the ‘word hoard’ of the Anglo-Saxons through Shakespeare and Greville, Dickinson, and Williams, Olson and Creeley. Without having done an actual word count, ‘love’ and ‘syllable’ (the beat or rhythm of the word) seem to me to be the most frequently used in this poem of love, language, and love of language”—Beverly Dahlen.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE alurista Tunaluna 978-0-9844415-0-1, $15, paper, 76 pp.

Amanda Auchter The Glass Crib 978-0-9786127-6-4, $14, paper, 88 pp.

AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS 2010

ZONE 3 PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. TUNALUNA is classic alurista: passionate, sensuous, and political. alurista’s tenth book of poetry is a collection of 52 poems that takes us on a time trip through the first decade of the 21st century where he bears witness to the “Dubya” wars, terrorism, oil and $4 gallons of gas, slavery, and ultimately spiritual transformation and salvation. The “Word Wizard of Aztlan” is at his razor-sharp best, playing with his palabras as well as with our senses and sensibilities. alurista is a Xicano poet for the ages and a chronicler of la Nueva Raza Cózmica. With TUNALUNA he trumpets the return of Quetzalcoatl, the featheredserpent of Aztec and Mayan prophecy, and helps to lead us out of war and into the dawn of a new consciousness and sun, el Sexto Sol, nahuicoatl, cuatro serpiente, the sun of justice.

Poetry. “Rendered with acute beauty, tenderness and measured dignity of expression, Amanda Auchter’s debut collection breathes life into her speakers and themes: a woman in a coma, biblical figures, the divine and the earthly, an unborn child, being and nothingness, a daughter given up for adoption, the body and the soul, a hungover unwed mother. These poems radiate insistent light, pure lyric courage and unflagging compassion”—Amy Gerstler.

Samuel Amadon The Hartford Book 978-1-880834-97-8, $15.95, paper, 74 pp. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2011

Poetry. In Samuel Amadon’s intense, second collection, a sequence of meditative and darkly comic postmodern narratives about what it is like to be from Hartford, Connecticut, we stagger with the speaker down the streets of his still-present past, together with a motley cast of crackheads, liars, scoundrels, and unlikely heroes. “The speaker is on the rack and only timidly aware of the torture he cannot help wreaking. Our poetry will never be the same now Amadon has spoken, our language can be entirely different. Happily for us”—Richard Howard. Daniel Ames Feasting at the Table of the Damned 978-0-9846212-6-2, $14.95, paper, 96 pp. AQUARIUS PRESS 2011

Poetry. With dark humor, spare language and a keen eye, Daniel Ames invites us all to pull up a chair to his first collection of poems. In FEASTING AT THE TABLE OF THE DAMNED, Ames celebrates, observes and reflects not only on how we choose to live, but how we ultimately live with those choices. Ames’s book is an exploration. It’s an examination of the ramifications of living life to the utmost degree. How do we reconcile the emotional extremes between love and death, joy and sorrow, hope and regret, trust and betrayal? There are no answers, but the poems in FEASTING provide a few clues. Loaded with themes ranging from war and the pursuit of happiness, to dreams and the fine line between sanity and insanity, FEASTING is a moving collection of poems that resonate long after they’ve been read...and savored. Ivan Argüelles The Death of Stalin: Selected Early Poems 19781989 978-0-9795651-6-8, $19.95, paper, 183 pp. BEATITUDE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Ivan Argüelles is one of this century’s finest, yet he remains known to only a few passionate partisans. His work is ‘difficult,’ but it is no more difficult than the work of many far better-known poets—and his work is better than theirs. Argüelles is wide-ranging, restless, full of ‘references’—the author’s learning is immense— but also, immediate, astonishing, visceral; his work communicates before it is fully, or, indeed sometimes even partially, ‘understood’”—Jack Foley.

Mary Azrael and Kendra Kopelke, Editors Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years 978-0-9836209-0-7, $18, paper, 300 pp. PASSAGER BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. BURNING BRIGHT: PASSAGER CELEBRATES 21 YEARS presents over one hundred of the most memorable and distinctive poems, stories and memoir published in Passager, the oldest literary journal in the country dedicated to promoting older writers. Sections include: Old age, War, Sex and Love, Generations, the Body, Death, and Time. Writers in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s give powerful expression to their lives. Yakov Azriel Swimming in Moses’ Well: Poems on Numbers 978-1-56809-144-0, $15.95, paper, 120 pp. TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Jewish Studies. In SWIMMING IN MOSES’WELL, the fourth in his series of verse commentaries on the Pentateuch, Yakov Azriel continues to probe the mysteries both of Torah and of life in this puzzling time, while demonstrating his mastery of both free and formal verse. Azriel’s sonnets are surely destined to take their place among the most significant works in that form. Among the searchings of contemporary literature, Azriel’s is an oeuvre that touches the hem of prophecy and looks toward its rebirth. Vyt Bakaitis Deliberate Proof 978-0-9846076-0-0, $15, paper, 131 pp. LUNAR CHANDELIER PRESS 2010

Poetry. “He penetrates unsparingly, out of generosity. His sentiments have shadows where he focuses his examination.... His poem, like a soliloquy, seems to open up while at the same time drilling inwards” —John Godfrey.

Svea Barrett I Tell Random People About You 978-1-934828-14-4, $16, paper, 74 pp. SPIRE PRESS, INC. 2011

Poetry. “Svea Barrett’s poetry fills the quiet intervals between disaster and response, the steaming car wreck prior to the arrival of the police, the protruding bone prior to the ambulance siren. ‘All the shit on the side of the road,’ along with the personal trauma of divorce and the early death of a child, are rendered with unadorned eloquence. And when she writes a love poem, it’s like the one girl in school who can throw like a boy falling in love: her unsentimentality, in other words, will stir you”—Douglas Goetsch.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen, Editors Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability 978-1-935955-05-4, $19.95, paper, 326 pp. CINCO PUNTOS PRESS 2011

Poetry. Edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen. The anthology provides an understanding of the history and contemporary vitality of the poetry and poetics of the non-normative body. Three sections—”Foremothers and Forefathers,” “The Disability Poetics Movement,” and “A Language of New Embodiment”—gather the poems and statements on poetics together in a meaningful whole. Contributors are Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, Norma Cole, John Lee Clark, Michael Davidson, Amber DiPietra, Kara Dorris, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Robert Fagan, Jim Ferris, Kenny Fries, Lisa Gill, C. S. Giscombe, Ona Gritz, Gretchen Henderson, Laura Hershey, Cynthia Hogue, Anne Kaier, Petra Kuppers, Stephen Kuusisto, Laurie Clements Lambeth, Alex Lemon, Denise Leto, Raymond Luczak, Bernadette Mayer, Rusty Morrison, Michael Northen, Danielle Pafunda, Susan Schweik, Hal Sirowitz, Ellen McGrath Smith, Dan Simpson, Brian Teare, Jillian Weise, Kathi Wolfe, and David Wolach. Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts The Obvious Flap 978-1-897388-78-5, $18, paper, 108 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. Sometimes language, thoughts, and emotions are a fixed structure like a warehouse. Sometimes they are fog, waves, light, or music. This is LSE: Language as a second English. English as a grammar of ghosts. Words as the snowfall of ideas. THE OBVIOUS FLAP is a musical, poetic flux of recurring and recursive images that explore the luminous fringes of language. The text weaves a variety of thematic threads of humor, literary allusions, and narrative into a fabric that spreads into an open, proprioceptive linguistic environment. Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts have concocted a collaborative jam session for multiple larynxes and have made an obvious flap as they have fallen through the mirror into Plunderland. Michael Basinski Trailers 978-1-60964-058-3, $16, paper, 124 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “With TRAILERS, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration offloOwering. As he ‘gave up and just repeated again and again singing softly, deeply with his eyes closed,’ the language bloomed past the letters, numerals, wingdings, webs and crickets into a dream language of the ‘noise for active space’” —derek beaulieu.

Marjorie Becker Piano Glass/Glass Piano 978-1-893670-56-3, $15, paper, 98 pp. TEBOT BACH 2010

Poetry. “Marjorie Becker’s second collection of poems, PIANO GLASS/GLASS PIANO, is a truly remarkable achievement. Novelistic in its narrative conception and operatic in its dramatic sweep, this sequence of poems charts the oscillations of identity and sexuality, following the story of its speaker/narrator, Marnie, who is first seamstress then shopkeeper, and whore then Madam. Unspoken racial anxiety, the construction of Southern Jewish identity, the potential transformation of the self by use of the body—all of these are at stake and under discussion in Marnie’s brilliantly interwoven stories.... Marnie is an extraordinary character, one of the most provocative and compelling female speakers in recent fiction or poetry.... Though the velvet sexual hammers within keep threatening to shatter the glass piano that is Marnie, the power of her endurance is that she remains held to its music, and to the songs of her own body and her own defiant dreams”—David St. John. Lynn Behrendt petals, emblems 978-0-9846076-1-7, $15, paper, 61 pp. LUNAR CHANDELIER PRESS 2010

Poetry. “At turns both delicate and demanding, Lynn Behrendt’s remarkable first book, PETALS, EMBLEMS, is an organic and dangerous work constructed from within.... She is a powerful and grieving guide to an underworld constructed with language and light” —Brenda Coultas. Mario Benedetti Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti 978-1-935210-31-3, $20, paper, 381 pp. WHITE PINE PRESS 2012

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Louise B. Popkin. Introduction by Margaret Randall. “It gives me great pleasure to see the work of Benedetti, one of the great poets of our language, made available to US readers in Popkin’s wonderful translations. Her carefully crafted adaptations of Mario’s poems convey all the wisdom, nostalgia, and irony that inform his verses in language that retains their musicality. Anyone who has translated poetry will appreciate what an accomplishment that represents”—Claribel Alegria. Maria Bennett Because You Love 978-0-89304-530-2, $25, cloth, 96 pp. 978-0-89304-531-9, $15, paper, 96 pp. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2011

Judith Baumel The Kangaroo Girl 978-0-9823594-3-3, $15, paper, 78 pp. GENPOP BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Comprising very sensual poetry, BECAUSE YOU LOVE is the second collection by a world-traveling translator, teacher, scholar, and lover of cross-cultural experience Maria Bennett.

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Judith Baumel’s third book of poetry, THE KANGAROO GIRL, detects religion at the scene of many crimes: from the great disasters of the past to the small calamities of Jewish American life in the ethnic neighborhoods of New York City. THE KANGAROO GIRL is also a personal book, a meditation on being a daughter and a mother, and what it means to survive loss. “Judith Baumel’s new poems are inspiring.... Sophisticated and subtle prosodic effects find their match in the poet’s intellectual alertness.... An important achievement by a remarkable poet” —Wayne Koestenbaum.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Bill Berkson Repeat After Me 978-0-615-53603-3, $25, paper, 48 pp.

Noel Black Uselysses 978-1-933254-89-0, $15, paper, 120 pp.

GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM 2011

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. Art. Translation. REPEAT AFTER ME comprises sixteen new poems—including translations from Mallarmé, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Pushkin— by Bill Berkson, accompanied by watercolor images by the painter John Zurier. “To you, / one of very few / good excuses / ever given / for life on Earth.” John Zurier is a painter who has lived in Berkeley, CA, since 1974. He is current Eminent Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2010.

Poetry. USELYSSES contains five discrete books of poems written over the last four years. Some of these are poems of experience. Others are night raids or open attacks on the reserves of meaning that, we’re almost convinced, derive from properly appreciated experience; meanings we back on faith so we can keep having meaningful experiences in the future. As a radical questioner of such faiths, Noel Black subjects his own skepticism to sufficient pressure to line a mine with prodigal kindness or absolute contempt, depending on the company. Most vital to the reader, his voice is clear throughout, natural, and the poems are fun to read over again. A peerless comic poet, Black’s poems have appeared widely, but few of the poems in this book have been published anywhere until now. USELYSSES is Noel Black’s first full-length book of poetry. “If he had written only the astonishing long poem, ‘Prophesies of the Past’, that concludes his book, Noel Black would have a huge heap of laurels to rest on, for it is the sort of reading experience they must have invented poetry for—it flings one into a state of complete exultation. But USELYSSES offers more than mere perfection. It is a Rube Goldberg contraption of highs and lows, pains and pleasures, built by a man committed to family and experiment in equal measure. Like Goldberg, Black knows how to disguise the real with the gloss of the zany, and his energy could push this riverboat up the side of a cliff. ‘Sometimes I feel genuinely happy’, he writes, and you will too” —Kevin Killian.

Richard M. Berlin Secret Wounds 978-1-886157-81-1, $14.95, paper, 100 pp. BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2011

Poetry. Selected for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. The poems in psychiatrist Richard M. Berlin’s second collection, SECRET WOUNDS, explore the emotional terrain of doctor-patient relationships and how doctors’ vulnerabilities and psychological scars become the secret wounds they must bear. “(Although) Berlin’s subject matter is inherently interesting...medicine is not the excuse for these poems; it is simply their occasion... Berlin’s poems are sure, spare, and always open to the task of revealing the mysteries he is privy to” —Gary Young. Antonio Sergio Bessa, Editor Mary Ellen Solt: Toward A Theory Of Concrete Poetry 978-91-85905-18-8, $40, paper, 448 pp. OEI 2010

Poetry. Literary History & Criticism. Primarily known for her important anthology of concrete poetry published in the late 1960s, Mary Ellen Solt also wrote a number of important critical essays on William Carlos Williams. Later in her career, Solt quietly developed an interest in semeiotics and wrote papers exploring the theories of Charles Sanders Peirce in close reading of Williams and of concrete poetry. Her scholarly essays as a whole makes an important connection between the early work of Objectivist poets like Oppen, Zukofsky, and Williams and the experimentation of Concretist poets around the world. Solt’s vast contribution to American and international poetry is recorded here in this book through newly edited versions of all her essays alongside many of her poems, and other documentary material. The volume, edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa, includes introductory essays by Bessa, Marjorie Perloff, and Kenneth Goldsmith; and it provides excellent insight into Solt’s practice as a scholar and poet. Michelle Bitting Good Friday Kiss 978-0-9815010-0-0, $14.95, paper, 80 pp. C&R PRESS 2008

Poetry. “There is something about these poems that is so immediate, so unflinching, so focused and visceral in their understatement, that I was, on first reading, astonished. On second reading I was astonished and deeply moved. On third reading I was astonished, deeply moved, and filled with joy!”—Thomas Lux.

Alberto Blanco Afterglow/Tras el rayo 978-0-9786335-5-4, $21, paper, 144 pp. THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Rathbun. This bilingual edition of Alberto Blanco’s AFTERGLOW/TRAS EL RAYO represents the first full book of his work in translation and offers the poetry reading public a glimpse into the wide ranging focus that Señor Blanco takes with his language and his perception. The impeccable translation by Jennifer Rathbun helps make the entire volume not only accessible to the reader whose Spanish was limited, but brings the Spanish language alive in an English that is very welcoming. Barbara Blatner LIVING WITH YOU 978-1-935520-37-5, $14.95, paper, 112 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2012

Poetry. Written in the first years of the poet’s marriage, inspired by a magical yard belonging to her and her husband’s first apartment, the poems in Barbara Blatner’s new book, LIVING WITH YOU, explore mysteries of beauty and decay, love and sex, ecstasy and temporality. In its use of silence and space, LIVING WITH YOU recalls the work of George Oppen, Robert Duncan, and poets of similar sensibility. Abstract in texture, specific in their music, these images probe the world we see and touch and the world we do not see but sense.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Stephanie Bolster A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth 978-1-926829-70-8, $19, paper, 76 pp.

Geoff Bouvier Glass Harmonica 978-1-935835-03-5, $14, paper, 92 pp.

BRICK BOOKS 2011

QUALE PRESS 2011

Poetry. A PAGE FROM THE WONDERS OF LIFE ON EARTH is a book with a coherent vision of nature—constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past— through zoos, aviaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time Life one named in the title. Informed by the author’s grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of honest, unsentimental elegy. The book is also a model of what might be called investigative poetry, taking the poet’s combination of perceptual acuity, craft, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of, monuments to, museums for the lost natural world) where “arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades,” and where questions of what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art are tangibly in the air. “Bolster’s work demonstrates a surety of vision supported by an insider’s eye for the telling aberrant detail everywhere matched by her impeccable ear”—Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail.

Poetry. When does the song become the singer? Is the instrument the conduit of the song, or of the one who sings? In each of GLASS HARMONICA’s rigorous texts, an intense formal density of aural, grammatical, cultural, and structural echoes takes on how the presence of an appreciating but critical “I” can alter the expressive registers of what might be called the “language of information.” Prosaically clear and direct, yet also poetically motivated and performed, this verbal music shows us how prose can speak an almost colloquial lyricism, creating imaginative locations where an “I” might reside, make sense, and finally even sing its own individual songs, with the aim of transforming otherwise impersonal codes and signs into the real sights and trued sounds of a more civilized humanity.

Bryan Borland My Life as Adam 978-0-9832931-4-9, $14.95, paper, 122 pp. SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2010

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet’s growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys and sorrows. MY LIFE AS ADAM is Bryan Borland’s full-length debut and was included as one of only five collections of poetry on the American Library Association’s inaugural “Over the Rainbow” list of best LGBT books of 2010. Marianne Boruch The Book of Hours 978-1-55659-385-7, $15, paper, 110 pp. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Endearingly strange, unsentimental, and uniquely structured, in true Rilkean fashion THE BOOK OF HOURS questions the meaning and significance of everything from the flaws of human interaction to perfect posture. Unrelenting honesty and exacting description are coupled with the trials of a dying mother, saint shadows, birds, and “shit drying to chalk.” David Bottoms We Almost Disappear 978-1-55659-331-4, $16, paper, 64 pp. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Rooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters practicing karate, and elderly parents, David Bottoms’s poems are generous, insightful, and lean headlong into familial wisdom. Past and present interweave with grandmothers spitting tobacco juice, ponds “filled with construction runoff,” and the boyhood home-site paved over for a KFC. This is Bottoms’s most personal and heartbreaking book. “David Bottoms’s poems just get better and better” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Timothy Bradford Nomads with Samsonite 978-1-60964-045-3, $16, paper, 106 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “Timothy Bradford gnaws on the big questions: should I run with my pack, or should I go it alone? Where to find enlightenment? What is a dead animal? What is the spirit’s realm? The mind falls into its quandaries, and the body, drunk with it, tags along. These poems, roving across continents, restlessly seek to locate consciousness in the world, a universe which ‘opens like a tulip / or closes like a fist,’ where the poet is not afraid to admit: ‘I forget / which’”—Eleni Sikelianos. Amanda J. Bradley Oz at Night 978-1-935520-45-0, $14.95, paper, 80 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Amanda J. Bradley’s second book, OZ AT NIGHT, lives up to its title: it is dark and fantastical, frightening and playful. A courageous vision is at the center of Bradley’s poetic project, and in this book of poems, that gaze never falters. OZ AT NIGHT tackles philosophical musings and personal insights with equal passion, yet its interlude section contains lightly comedic poems. Its poetic forms cover as much ground as its topics, incorporating everything from short-lined free verse to strict and loose sonnets, a prose poem, an acrostic, haiku. Through the variety of OZ AT NIGHT run a consistent sincerity and an unwavering desire to understand. Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern Snow Sensitive Skin 978-0-9822120-3-5, $17.95, paper, 99 pp. DISPLACED PRESS 2011

Poetry. “SNOW SENSITIVE SKIN is our most comprehensive document of poetics and poetry on both the ‘state’ and the coming-into-event of wartime since Ground Work and Trilogy, which is to say it resurrects the necessarily incomplete project of Leaves of Grass. Herein is the residue and legacy of Calamus, Drum-Taps, Driftwood, Songs of Parting and more. Herein is Halpern and Brady at their finest analytical, ethical and aesthetic pitch”—Tyrone Williams.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Rolf Dieter Brinkmann An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975 978-1-60235-198-1, $18, paper, 222 pp.

Brandon Brown The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus 978-1-928650-33-1, $17, paper, 190 pp.

PARLOR PRESS 2011

KRUPSKAYA 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by Mark Terrill. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s radical poetics was unique in postwar German literature. His strong affiliation with the New American Poetry provided a reverse-angle, cross-cultural perspective on one of the liveliest epochs in American letters, with a decisively German slant. His permanent confrontation with the postwar German literary establishment and his envelope-pushing experiments with language, syntax, and semantics led him further and further away from the literary scene. His confrontational nature and volatile personality were feared at readings, and together with his huge creative output and his early death, earned him a reputation as the “James Dean of poetry,” a true enfant terrible of contemporary letters. AN UNCHANGING BLUE spans the poetic career of the poet described by Heiner Müller as “Maybe the only genius in the postwar literature of West Germany.” AN UNCHANGING BLUE provides a generous sampling of translations (with German originals) taken from ten collections of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s poetry published between 1962 and 1975. An extensive introduction by Mark Terrill contextualizes Brinkmann’s place in postwar German literature.

Poetry. Ever since the poems of Catullus were discovered in a wine cask in Verona in the 13th century, translators have returned to them over and over, insisting on their continued relevance. These troubling poems have scandalized and delighted generations of readers in translation, as they apparently scandalized and perhaps delighted the literary coterie surrounding Catullus in pre-revolutionary Rome. Brandon Brown’s THE POEMS OF GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS is a translation in which the decadent excesses of ascending Roman hegemony meet the decadent excesses of collapsing American domination. The meeting is staged as half confrontation, half party. And this confrontation/party monster goes down in the overdetermined and hyper-privileged site of translation: the translator’s body. Instead of reduplicating what Lawrence Venuti calls the “translator’s invisibility,” Brown is all too visible, exposing himself in various costumes: abject hero, demonic oaf, pathetic provocateur, swaggy braggart. These poems exploit the specificity of times and places to their maximal debasement, so the Gods of ancient Rome can’t be distinguished from Brad Pitt watching Avatar, finally. And such spectacular cultural force doesn’t just live in the sky, but irrupts into this sustained act of interpretive reading. “Imagine if Brad Pitt came to your wedding. No, seriously.” Dead serious and impossibly fraught, Catullus’s poems lurch in the hallways of the social networks in which we live. The time just before the machines become part of our bodies. Dazzling and devastated.

Louis Daniel Brodsky Just Ours: Love Passages with Linda, Volume One 978-1-56809-141-9, $15.95, paper, 116 pp. TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Poetry. JUST OURS captures the tender passion of two lovers who’ve come to each other, as kindred souls, after full, separate lifetimes. Tracing the evolution of their relationship, from their first date to their first extended trip together, to Italy, this book of verse is a lyrical celebration of closeness, each poem a distillation of the loving oneness neither knew was possible—timeless “just ours” intimacies they create for themselves alone. Brandon Brown The Persians by Aeschylus 978-0-9822120-5-9, $14.95, paper, 78 pp. DISPLACED PRESS 2011

Poetry. “The Persians, an ancient play by Aeschylus, shows the Persian court during the time of the war between the Persians and the Greeks. It depicts the Persians learning of their massive defeat at the hands of the Greek army. I believed that the text which proceeded from my body should report on my total experience of reading The Persians by Aeschylus, not simply report on the ‘meanings’ of the ‘words’ of that work. This was an obviously impossible project. To help myself out, I tried to include many collaborators to intervene in the translation, especially including Edward Said, Jane Austen, Walter Benjamin, my Arabic class, the Clash, e-mail correspondence with a translator recruiter from the U.S. Army, and Rumi; also all the things I ate and drank and wore and said and did are in the translation; and most especially I tried to pay attention to the terrific war and the terrific language that the war made that completely infiltrated all of my food and beverages and clothes and words and actions, and I let that get in the way of the translation too. In this way, THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS transmits numerous reports: a report of a reading, a toxological report of the reading and the writing; those latencies did not lie down”—Brandon Brown.

Robin F .Brox Sure Thing 978-1-60964-017-0, $16, paper, 102 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “There is a kind of abstraction, based not on reductive form, nor on self-expressive mark making but on the endless variation of form, colour and shifting scale in the natural world. In this vigorous, detailed and abstracted poetry the most traditional matter: season, climate, weather, plants, is specified as human bodies move and make their lives in post-industrial landscapes that nature has recolonized. Focused on physical changes in state and their environmental and metabolic outcomes, these serial poems and binary arrays have a fierce grip on the complexity of our experience”—Tony Lopez. “Like the images in this thoughtful debut, Brox’s poems chart our attraction to surfaces, textures, and weathers with a calm hand intent on recording the “tenderest ambivalences” of our desires and senses” —Jennifer Moxley. Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell, Editors Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees 978-1-935218-21-0, $25, paper, 359 pp. THE BACKWATERS PRESS 2011

Poetry. In this remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees—each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees’s influence, magic, and power over the imagination of 20th Century American poetry—the editors Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell have scored a major coup in American letters. Coupled with these poems are nearly 20 essays by some of the greatest lights of 20th Century American poetry, including Dana Gioia and Joseph Brodsky.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE David Budbill Happy Life 978-1-55659-374-1, $16, paper, 160 pp.

Stephen Cain I Can Say Interpellation 978-1-897388-84-6, $16, paper, 48 pp.

COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. David Budbill continues his popular poetic ruminations on life in remote New England— an outward survey of a forested mountain and an introspection of self-reliance, anonymity, and the creative life. Inspired by classical Chinese and Japanese poets, Budbill contemplates the seasons, ambition, his questionable desire for fame and fortune, and simple, focused contentment: “Weed the beans. Pick the peas.” “Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort”—Wendell Berry.

Poetry. Art by Clelia Scala. Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance with authority each time they open a book of verse? I CAN SAY INTERPELLATION remedies these problems by reconfiguring some of the bestknown children’s rhymes for political purpose. Taking French theorist Guy Debord’s idea of détournement (a deflection or divergence of existing visual images and mass media), and applying it to children’s poetry, experimental poet Stephen Cain redeploys the rhymes and images of well-known juvenile poems against their dominant messages. The result is a new poetic landscape where the Fox in Socks becomes Marx on a Box, where Goodnight Moon is a meditation on possible nuclear annihilation, and “The Owl and the Pussycat” features debates on the importance of preemptive military strikes to U.S. foreign policy.

Ronnie Burk Sky*Boat 978-0-615-53558-6, $14, paper, 124 pp. KOLOURMEIM PRESS 2012

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Ronnie Burk, born in Sinton, Texas, April 1, 1955, was a visionary poet, a remarkable collagist, and a dedicated political activist. In his youth he studied Buddhism and literature at the Naropa Institute in Colorado. Mango Publications brought out his first book, En el jardín de los nopales, in 1979. He was active in the early Chicano movement of the 1970s and became a leading force in the controversial San Francisco branch of ACT UP, fighting for the rights of people diagnosed with HIV. Throughout his life Burk traveled widely and sought out like-minded friends and mentors, including Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Charles Henri Ford, and Philip Lamantia. He lived in the Southwest, Hawaii, and the two cities he was based in and loved most, San Francisco and New York. Ronnie Burk died in 2003 at the age of forty-seven. This is the first published volume of his writing. Christopher Bursk The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns 978-1-892471-64-2, $10, paper, 64 pp.

Chuck Carlise Casual Insomniac 978-0-9795325-4-2, $16, paper, 30 pp. BATEAU PRESS 2011

Poetry. Here are poems of passage—through the time and space of highways, laundromats, and late-night conversations that make up a known history. Though the past and future get blurry. Memory as a tool leaves more questions than answers: a reflection in the window. “CASUAL INSOMNIAC is a pensive, dark, highly intelligent collection of poems that examines the intricacies of memory and human contact in a world that seems constantly shifting. The voices at work here are like those I admire most in poetry, examining the familiar world in ways that are provocative and new” —Kevin Prufer.

BRIGHT HILL PRESS 2011

Poetry. THE INFATUATIONS AND INFIDELITIES OF PRONOUNS, a series of sonnets after Shakespeare, won Bright Hill Press’s Poetry Chapbook competition. “Christopher Bursk is our supreme poet of adolescent angst. He is passionate, sincere, brave and, yes— visionary. He knows that nowhere is the profane and the sacred more entwined than during adolescence, and comically so, humor being squeezed from anguished teenage pores. Of necessity, and natural bent, he is a high roller of risk. Who else would dare to riff on Shakespeare’s sonnets in such an audacious, irreverent, witty and pronoun-nuanced way? if you like your sex complicatedly raw, your adolescence complicatedly true, your Shakespeare respectfully adulterated, and most important, your language and poetics bluntly articulate...then, dear reader, this is the book for you” —George Drew.

Martha Carlson-Bradley If I Take You Here 978-0-9822495-9-8, $18, paper, 34 pp.

Richard Caddel Uncertain Time 978-0-9831975-5-3, $14, paper, 99 pp.

PARLOR PRESS 2011

PRESSED WAFER 2011

Poetry. UNCERTAIN TIME is Ric Caddel’s first book to be published in the United States. Here is a poet rare in his modesty and wit, who crafted by ear a music, in Ric’s words, “with scope to sing the things I love as they occur.” Poet Aaron Tieger edited and wrote the introduction to UNCERTAIN TIME.

ADASTRA PRESS 2011

Poetry. When you stand amid the rubble that was the house your mother grew up in and where you visited grandparents, the mind and heart grasp at fragments of memories. These poems, glorious and sad, are this story: “He doesn’t come out, the cuckoo / who counted the hours, / quick, his face a blur.” The accumulative effect is imagistic, mysterious, and touching. Limited to 250 copies of hand-set Kennerley types letterpress printed on archival Mohawk Superfine text, hand-sewn, and covered in Royal Fiber in Cottonwood. Emily Carr 13 ways of happily 978-1-60235-202-5, $14, paper, 76 pp. Poetry. Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize. “If ostranenie-to make strange-is the mandate of contemporary poetry, Emily Carr has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary Ruefle, it’s not their voices, but their facility for invention, itself here reinvented, that keeps waking us up into a world sometimes alarming, often unsettling, and always careening until we, too, arrive ‘delirious & shredded, sailing sideways through the greenly ravished vowels’”—Cole Swensen.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Jessie Carty Fat Girl 978-0-9832931-6-3, $12, paper, 48 pp.

Neeli Cherkovski From the Middle Woods 978-1-883197-07-0, $12.95, paper, 63 pp.

SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

NEW NATIVE PRESS 2011

Poetry. In FAT GIRL, Jessie Carty asks us to strip and stand naked in front of a mirror. These poems are our own reflection. Bittersweet in nature, they are self-perception. They size us up and tell the truth: that man or woman, we all struggle to feel at home in our own skins.

Poetry. In FROM THE MIDDLE WOODS, Neeli Cherkovski has done the nearly impossible: he has blended the sacred and the profane, as well as the essences of pristine nature and concrete commerce. Originally inspired by The Confucian Odes, the poems in this collection bring to mind the lovely acrobatics of Tu Fu and Marichiko in translations by Kenneth Rexroth. Cherkovski’s “elemental” poems, sprung from personal experiences, bring to life such landscapes and sensations as the pungent odors of ocean and pine needles along the tree-studded coast of northern California. Here, East meets West and politics meets wilderness head on, yet gently, in Cherkovski’s capable and caring sculptor’s hands. This book is masterful proof that modern irony and self-absorbed narrative do not rule the American literary psyche, nor is true compassion dead in America’s harbors and woods.

Catherine Chandler Lines of Flight 978-0-9865338-3-9, $15.95, paper, 98 pp. ABLE MUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. LINES OF FLIGHT is the first full-length collection from Catherine Chandler, an acclaimed American poet of quiet elegance whose simple style belies the range and depth of her poems. She is equally at ease with poems of nature as with those of people, relationships, landscapes and realms—the domestic, the foreign, even those scanning the vast unknown of space or the esoterica of science. These poems, carefully crafted with formal dexterity in contemporary idiom, are deployed with precision in a showcase of forms such as the villanelle, sapphic, ballad, pantoum, triolet, nonce, and the sonnet—Chandler’s specialty, for which she won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. “Catherine Chandler’s poems—I think particularly of the sonnet “Vermont Passage”—offer the reader a plain eloquence, a keen eye, and a graceful development of thought. Elsewhere in this fine book, she puts her gifts at the service of wit, as in the little anti-poetic poem “Supernova”. LINES OF FLIGHT is altogether a lively performance” —Richard Wilbur. Yu Yan Chen small hours 978-1-935520-42-9, $14.95, paper, 84 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Yu Yan Chen’s debut collection takes us on a wandering across continents. Whether it is a courtyard in rural China, a ferry in Istanbul, or Times Square in New York, each poem is an unbeaten track imbued with the poet’s at once intense but refreshing insights about family, home, identity and the quest for inner strength. The opening verse asks the readers to imagine guitar legend Django Reinhardt’s fingers grinding the strings after two of them were badly burned in a fire, and “every nerve aflame” is the prelude to poems that transcend memories and losses into melodies of hope and light. These distilled joys and fears, set against the backdrops of Yu Yan Chen’s creative use of language and her cinematic visions, will transport the readers to a passionate conversation about the essence of being alive. SMALL HOURS lights up your sky and brings flowers to your table.

Maxine Chernoff To Be Read in the Dark 978-1-890650-61-2, $11.95, paper, 36 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. TO BE READ IN THE DARK casts its strobe of radical vision on the dark crises of our common experience. Personal and prophetic, these compressed lyrics are capacious in meaning. Here is a penetrating appraisal of the underlying politics and philosophical disposition of our daily struggles, both formally relentless and epic in scope. These are poems you will want to read aloud, letting this language spotlight a navigable course into and through the dark. Susanna Childress Entering the House of Awe 978-1-936970-00-1, $15, paper, 85 pp. NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Poetry. “Readers familiar with Susanna Childress’s Jagged with Love will recognize her distinctive voice in these poems: her nerve, her honest, quirky, irreverent, immediate and embodied yearning that rushes, wordy, right up to the ragged margins! In this second collection, new formal approaches bring breath and space to the lines, even delicacy sometimes, but these fine poems move with no less urgency because they are compelled by her signature quest for truthfulness. This search refuses perfectionism and mere aestheticism, yet admits beauty en route, as Childress claims, There needs to be no right word / There needs to be a wide hole / a whole mouth / where the right word / isn’t” —Julia Spicher Kasdorf. Heather Christle The Trees The Trees 978-0-9801938-7-9, $12, paper, 72 pp. OCTOPUS BOOKS 2011

R. Cheran You Cannot Turn Away 978-1-894770-74-3, $24.95, paper, 160 pp. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Tamil by Chelva Kanaganayakam. This book provides, for the first time, a bilingual edition of forty poems by R Cheran. Written over a period of three decades, the poems cover a range of experiences, including love, war, despair, hope, and diaspora. Cheran is considered one of the finest contemporary poets in Tamil, and his poetry is read widely in North America, Europe, and South Asia. Both modernist and unfailingly lyrical, his work is a remarkable blend of tradition and innovation.

Poetry. In THE TREES THE TREES, the follow-up to Heather Christle’s acclaimed first collection, THE DIFFICULT FARM, each new line is a sharp turn toward joy and heartbreak, and each poem unfolds like a bat through the wild meaninglessness of the world. “You get the impression of the oracle at Delphi trying her hand at stand-up or jamming the broadcast of the nightly news: Christle’s gift for welding surreal visions to living speech rhythms keeps unlocking new surprises, page after page. At least once per poem, you feel like the triple-bars just lined up in the slot-machine window, and you laugh or cry out”—John Darnielle.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, Mark McMorris Another Instance: Three Chapbooks 978-0-9679854-9-7, $15, paper, 80 pp.

Valerie Coulton open book 978-0-9787667-8-8, $15.95, paper, 75 pp.

INSTANCE PRESS 2011

APOGEE PRESS 2011

Poetry. ANOTHER INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS is the second in an occasional series from Instance Press, collecting new chapbooks from multiple authors into a single volume. ANOTHER INSTANCE contains work by Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, and Mark McMorris.

Poetry. “In a triptych of agile forms, this marvelous book faces the foreign frankly and openly, opening it up and making openings for it, ultimately bringing it within, without domesticating it even slightly. At its center is the truly astonishing ‘open book,’ written in a startlingly inventive hybrid genre that plays narrative off against rapid-fire associations and saucy meta-fictional echoes. The whole works seamlessly and shows an extremely accomplished poet surpassing herself to enter brand new territory, territory that manages to be both foreign and intimate at the same time”—Cole Swensen.

CAConrad A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics 978-1-933517-59-9, $18, paper, 240 pp. WAVE BOOKS 2012

Poetry. Since their 2005 inception, CAConrad’s (Soma)tic exercises have been summoning the whole spectrum of human experience in the name of poetry. A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON collects 27 new and previously published exercises and their emerging poems, incorporating unorthodox steps in the writing process from the tangible everyday to the cosmos of the imagination. Together they manifest as an urgent call for a connective, concentrated, and unfettered creativity. Cyrus Console The Odicy 978-1-890650-52-0, $15.95, paper, 80 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. THE ODICY, Cyrus Console’s second book, uses pentameter in an attempt to take the measure of our epoch’s cultural and ecological crises. Tracking a mysterious central character named Tony, the book combines the end-time rhetoric of contemporary fundamentalism with meditations on artificial color and the rise of fountain drinks, revisiting Dante’s animus for the counterfeiter upon the purveyors of NutraSweet. Console’s English is straight out of 21st century Topeka, while his deployment of canonical meter posits the sustainability of verse form over a longer human term. Meira Cook A Walker in the City 978-1-926829-72-2, $19, paper, 96 pp. BRICK BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In this innovative and arresting narrative poem, Méira Cook’s walker, a young woman, is a character being written by an “old city poet,” who is in turn being written by another poet, for whom the young woman, “Ms. Em Cook,” has been an amanuensis. Always witty and often hilarious, feather-light in touch, the book is an entertaining exploration of serious issues: youth and age; life, death and rebirth; the (dis)connection of language and reality; tradition and the now. It is an assemblage of seven nesting sections, each of them a sort of chapbook speaking to each of the others and rounding out a long poem of great freshness. Tristan Corbière Poet by Default 978-1-933517-60-5, $15, paper, 22 pp. WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the French by Noelle Kocot. “ ...I have the clearness of the moon, / And for friends I have amorous vagabonds with no money.” A limitededition, hand-sewn volume of poet Noelle Kocot’s translations of some of the poems of Tristan Corbière (1845-1875), the young French poet whose only book, Les Amours jaunes, was largely ignored until the Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine wrote about him a decade after his untimely death. Marked by his use of irony and a distinctive local idiom, Tristan Corbière’s work is a cornerstone of modern French poetry, and has been influential to English and American modernists such as Pound and Eliot.

Olivia Cronk Skin Horse 978-0-9831480-3-6, $16, paper, 72 pp. ACTION BOOKS 2012

Poetry. Like a secret date with Lizzie Borden, these moody lyrics thrill as they incriminate. SKIN HORSE shows that history is a crime scene, and that crime is theatrical, rife with costumes, masks, hats, props, weapons, scripts, dialogue, wooden scenery and dreamlike reenactments. These poems are anachronistic yet uncannily alive, furtive yet frank like an incriminating note forgotten in an apron pocket. Cronk locks words together like a lace collar which flutters attractively even as it tightens at the reader’s throat. She writes, “with velvet trim / in the whistle of seeing.” She writes, “Is it too untoward to say Please Go Back to Normal Life?” She writes, “Gotta nest of woe a nest of wail / and pardon my tied-on prom.” Robert Crosson Daybook 978-0-9845289-1-2, $12.95, paper, 96 pp. OTIS BOOKS | SEISMICITY EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. DAYBOOK may be the quintessential work by Robert Crosson, distilling the raw materials of his working “daybooks” into a single pocketable volume. This book-length poem, completed in 1986, borrows its form from the daily record of the poet’s life, as he encounters it under his various guises as a housepainter, carpenter and sometimes actor. This is the third posthumous volume of Crosson’s work, and the second, along with SIGNS/ & SIGNALS (2008), to be published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions. Victor Hernandez Cruz In the Shadow of Al-Andalus 978-1-56689-277-3, $16, paper, 140 pp. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These poems mine the rich history and broad influence of Islam in Spain and beyond, and illuminate connections between places as diverse and far-flung as Puerto Rican villages, the bustling streets of New York, and the sun-drenched beaches of Morocco. “Mr. Cruz’s work has extended the linguistic, historical and geographical horizons within which we think of American poetry, doing so with masterful music, intelligence and humor” —Nathaniel Mackey.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Carlos Cumpián 14 Abriles: Poems 978-1-877636-23-3, $10, paper, 32 pp.

Carol Ann Davis Atlas Hour 978-1-936797-00-4, $16.95, paper, 80 pp.

MARCH/ABRAZO PRESS 2010

TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. A new chapbook of fourteen poems by veteran Chicano poet Carlos Cumpián.

Poetry. ATLAS HOUR is a collection of poem-maps whose cosmology embraces the works and lives of the painters Vermeer and Mark Rothko, Fra Angelico and Gerhard Richter, the anonymous child-artists of the Nazis’Terezin transit camp and the poet’s own children. Sifting and selecting moments in history and in the annals of art, these poems bring the stuff of everyday into relationship with the great mysteries of existence: what we believe, who we love, whom and what we choose to hurt or leave unharmed. “Carol Ann Davis’s ATLAS HOUR is formally inventive, visually striking, and fiercely intelligent. But it’s so much more than that, too: a thoughtful meditation on how family, history, and aesthetic beauty might help us understand our position in a complicated world filled with moments of joy, misgiving, and suffering. The minds at work in these finely wrought poems are at once intricate and expansive, reaching finally through art toward the unknowable and divine. This is an ambitious and riveting collection”—Kevin Prufer.

Brent Cunningham Journey to the Sun 978-1-891190-35-3, $13.50, paper, 120 pp. ATELOS 2012

Poetry. The subtitle to JOURNEY TO THE SUN offers this summary: “Wherein the Author recounts his travels, at the tender age of Thirteen, to the Source of All Life, accompanyied by his father’s employer, Mister George Westinghouse, and not neglecting the Author’s youthful opinions on the matters of Publick Education, Poetry, and Messianic Time.” Frequently borrowing from the texts of long-dead authors, including Cyrano de Bergerac, Robert Burton, William Blake, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and a host of other non-contemporaries, the result is an epic poem deeply at odds with the dominant styles and concerns of its time, which itself may prove timely. Mark Cunningham specimens 978-1-60964-054-5, $16, paper, 102 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “My introduction to Mark Cunningham came when a small swarm of [beetles] arrived in my inbox at Otoliths. Delightful things, that I was instantly enamored of. Something of a paradox, though. So detailed they could only have been examined at length whilst pinned to a plush velvet tray; & yet so full of life. Now he has expanded his purview to encompass the world & presents us with [specimens] of unknown taxonomy, instances of instants in time. They may be ontological rather than biological, but eat your heart out, Linnaeus, there’s a new kid in town who’s going to take your crown away”—Mark Young. Tadeusz Dabrowski Black Square 978-0-9815521-6-3, $15, paper, 105 pp. ZEPHYR PRESS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. When in 2006 Tadeusz Rózewicz won the Polish Culture Foundation’s Golden Sceptre lifetime achievement award, he presented the Little Sceptre-awarded by the major winner to his favorite younger artist-to Tadeusz Dabrowski, with the words: “One day he’ll swap his little sceptre for a big one.” “Restlessly inventive, sharp-witted, and intent on raising mischief, the poems in BLACK SQUARE are so much fun to read, it’s almost easy to overlook how deeply serious they are—and how dark. Dabrowski is part life of the party, part heavy-hearted metaphysician, and he plays his two sides off each other like an expert comedy team with a knack for aphorism and philosophical speculation. “Nothing would be bearable if I weren’t / endlessly somebody else,” he writes, embracing the ever-changing nature of identity—and leaving us thankful he remained himself long enough to complete this brilliant, unforgettable book”—Timothy Donnelly.

Christine Deavel Woodnote 978-0-9793745-8-6, $16, paper, 92 pp. BEAR STAR PRESS 2011

Poetry. WOODNOTE is Christine Deavel’s debut and winner of the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Indiana is the backdrop for poems that range through time and lyrically blend poetry, prose, and fragment to deliver their news: “Knowledge comes as a covering snow; below is the old understanding.” Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out 978-1-926708-14-0, $24.95, paper, 302 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2010

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative nonfiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis. Louis-René des Forêts Poems of Samuel Wood 978-0-907954-39-2, $18, paper, 34 pp. ALLARDYCE, BARNETT, PUBLISHERS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the French by Anthony Barnett. POEMS OF SAMUEL WOOD is a meditation on the mysteries of life and language and loss of others and the approaching loss of self by Louis-René des Forêts (1918-2000), author of The Children’s Room and Ostinato, co-founder of the review L’Éphémère and a painter of the fantastic.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Tsering Wangmo Dhompa My rice tastes like the lake 978-0-9787667-0-2, $15.95, paper, 88 pp.

Thom Donovan The Hole 978-0-9822120-7-3, $19.95, paper, 163 pp.

APOGEE PRESS 2011

DISPLACED PRESS 2012

Poetry. Asian American Studies. “Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s MY RICE TASTES LIKE THE LAKE echoes in the mind, mouth, and heart as its strangely calm English phrases settle into measured lines and stanzas. This is serious, beautiful, haunting work—a unique expression, in post-modern writing, of a contemporary Buddhist woman in exile, searching for a language capable of spanning her own past, present, and future. ‘It is not enough to have one tongue./It cannot point to everything/and in every direction’”—Norman Fischer.

Poetry. “The book I have in mind is a kind of model for forms of attention and exchange (i.e., distribution) that already exist and which can be dramatized and focused through a book’s form (something book artists have been aware of for a long time now, but which has also been a part of our Modernist heritage since the midtwentieth century, if not from the very ‘beginning’— think of certain movements of Zukofsky’s “A” for example or Williams’s Paterson). The book as a site for our sociality, our socialism. The book as a site for the examination of complicity, process, exchange. The book as a place where communal issues become shaped and reshaped. The book as a powerful circuit of mutual regard, conviction, and care. The book as a model of radical and extensive participation. The book as...” —Thom Donovan.

Emanuel di Pasquale Harvest 978-1-59954-028-3, $10, paper, 56 pp. BORDIGHERA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “HARVEST is a splendid collection, fresh and various”—X. J. Kennedy. “[Di Pasquale] writes out of strong experience, and by insisting on accuracy, he comes out both simple and surprising. He’s never decorative: there is always something human happening, and his words are close to it” —Richard Wilbur. Melissa Dickey The Lily Will 978-0-9844889-5-7, $14, paper, 76 pp. RESCUE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Oblique, intelligent, and sad, THE LILY WILL introduces readers to a voice beautifully sustained through compressed lyrics and long, meticulous sequences. The geography of this book is one of thistles and ice, love flashed with fear, and frail bodies seeking safety in heavy weather. In its warped miniatures (here an eye, there a red leaf, seen distended through iced glass) there is a commitment to smallness, vulnerability marked by precision, and intimations, too, of the eternal: “What is earthly? / An impulse to paradise.”

Geri Doran Sanderlings 978-1-932195-95-8, $16.95, paper, 72 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Like the wading birds of the title, the poems in this collection find their sustenance in the ground, tilling the earthly measure, even as they lift questions toward the heavens. Summoning the pastoral and the oracular by turns, the poems of SANDERLINGS achieve a preternatural rapture, both sensual and learned. “What I love about SANDERLINGS, besides the ripening imagery, is the variety of expression. The poems don’t fix on a single way to regard our sense of living. There’s a powerful willingness to look into the natural diversity of thought and feeling, and Geri Doran’s language is willowy and very fine”—Carol Frost. Franz Douskey West of Midnight: New and Selected Poems 978-1-935520-38-2, $16.95, paper, 130 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2011

Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and Eric Norris Nocturnal Omissions: A Tale of Two Poets 978-1-937420-00-0, $16.95, paper, 168 pp. SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. NOCTURNAL OMISSIONS is an unabashedly erotic, romantic, sometimes even philosophical dialogue between poets Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and Eric Norris on love, sex and art’s glorious life and afterlife. You will never pick up a pen, a lover, or a book of poetry quite in the same way again. Michelle Disler [BOND, JAMES]: alphabet, anatomy, [auto]biography 978-1-933996-25-7, $14.95, paper, 120 pp. COUNTERPATH PRESS 2011

Poetry. Invokes a narrative and intimate distance through the imbalance of power between men and detectives and women and wives, leaving a risky proposition like an alphabet or the simple complexity of memoir and writing about memory. A sobering examination of the ultimate spy-styled popular thriller, a nuanced deconstruction of model masculinity in mass culture.

Poetry. “A long overdue collection, WEST OF MIDNIGHT places new works alongside pieces drawn from a decades-spanning career to illustrate the breadth of an influential and singular voice in poetry. Franz Douskey’s insights are uniquely his, his voice direct and his imagination meteoric. Douskey has lived long and large.... The poems are rich in wit, irreverence and a furious honesty. Everything is autobiographical. From intimate relationships, political quagmires, baseball and eroticism, Douskey wields an acerbic wit and a delicate command of tone to dive into the contradictions that make us human. From the haunted urban alleys of a turbulent childhood to his rhapsodic journeys through the nocturnal deserts of the Southwest, Douskey revels both in the absurdity of modern civilization and the heart-stopping beauty of the natural world” —Robert Reinhardt. Mark DuCharme Answer 978-1-60964-053-8, $16, paper, 101 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “Enter a shimmering, wavering, vacillating, crinkly reality, the mysterious acrobatic disjointing of what you thought you knew. Enter Mark DuCharme’s ANSWER, where the self-evident succumbs to the agnostic as a wizardly lyric unpins certainty. Brilliantly unpredictable, these poems divine by assemblage of a familiar quotidian and set us wondering” —Maureen Owen.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Jacques Dupin Of Flies and Monkeys 978-0-9786335-4-7, $24, paper, 288 pp.

Joe Elliot Homework 978-0-9846076-2-4, $15, paper, 118 pp.

THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS 2011

LUNAR CHANDELIER PRESS 2010

Poetry. Translated from the French by John Taylor. In the field of contemporary French poetry, Jacques Dupin (b. 1927) is a leading figure in a remarkable generation that also includes Yves Bonnefoy (b. 1923), Philippe Jaccottet (b. 1925), Pierre-Albert Jourdan (1924-1981), André du Bouchet (1924-2001), and Pierre Chappuis (b. 1930)— to mention only these five poets whose poetics and subject matter are remotely comparable. However, in contrast to Bonnefoy and Jaccottet especially, Dupin’s work has been little available in English. A single substantial volume, Selected Poems (Wake Forest University Press, 1992; translated by Paul Auster, Stephen Romer, and David Shapiro), collects early work, but none of the poet’s recent verse has appeared in Englishspeaking countries. Two pioneering anthologies dating back some forty years, respectively to 1970 and 1973— the poems from Gravir (To Climb) in the seventh issue of Cronopios (to which six translators contributed) and the Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin rendered by Auster for the second number in the Living Hand Editions series—provide more access to Dupin’s challenging oeuvre, yet several of those renderings were reprinted (sometimes with revisions) in the aforementioned Selected Poems. All told, these three initial gatherings have given a good look that can now be prolonged.

Poetry. “...[F]or Joe Elliot, doubt is a flexible, porous scrim through which the vagaries of human knowing pulse and stretch toward the great quotidian ensemble of unknowns”—Ann Lauterbach.

Craig Dworkin Motes 978-1-931824-44-6, $14.95, paper, 84 pp. ROOF BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Craig Dworkin’s MOTES is an unexpected delight of sparse poems that glitter, provoke, and beg for completeness. These pieces show Dworkin’s impressive range as he travels seamlessly into the reshaping of literary minimalism. Even though many of his conceptual works have echoed minimalist ideals, MOTES shifts into a more distilled frame, where both author and reader slide over a tiny handful of words only to arrive at other ends of the world: ‘BRICK / Buick.’ Each parcel is as hard and unstable as the gravel under our feet” —Robert Fitterman. Robert Edwards Rumors of Earth 978-1-890193-34-8, $15, paper, 126 pp. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2011

Poetry. RUMORS OF EARTH is the second volume in a trilogy of poetry collections, preceded by TRANSPARENCIES, followed by Amazements. These collections, pseudo-autobiographical, create a modern poetic landscape, beautifully and recognizably Midwestern, but their verve and vituperation betray an ancestry that goes much farther back, to the flytings and cursings of the medieval Makars. “In RUMORS OF EARTH, Robert Edwards seems to receive messages, Orpheuslike, from an alternative America more wise and just than our own. His constant awareness of the distance between our promise and what we’ve become, as individuals and as a nation, laces these poems with tough threads of regret, anger, and love. Edwards’s fusion of the personal and the political reaches its highest potency in the haunting long poem ‘Pen Pals.’ Addressing his poem-letter ‘to everyone who might be you,’ Edwards is ultimately, generously, writing to us all”—Thomas R. Smith.

Karen Enns That Other Beauty 978-1-894078-80-1, $19, paper, 80 pp. BRICK BOOKS 2010

Poetry. In her debut collection, Karen Enns’s focus is the beauty present to us in almost every moment, however mundane or apparently lost. Her argument is that the act of attention itself is the most fundamental of these beauties. THAT OTHER BEAUTY ranges across memories of a farm childhood, and further back, to the Mennonite exodus from Russia. We encounter immigrants, furnace repairmen and grocers, dead cats, a raven lifting into “the clear, bright density of rain.” Enns meditates on Bach, on solitude, and on exile both accidental and imposed, weaving darkness and light with great fidelity and authority. Julie R. Enszer, Editor Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry 978-0-9794208-8-7, $14.95, paper, 86 pp. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. In this land of MILK AND HONEY, poems flow. Contemporary Jewish, lesbian poets address an array of experiences— relationships between and among women, family relationships, politics, solitude, ethical responsibilities, history, solidarity, and community. MILK AND HONEY features beloved poets like Ellen Bass, Robin Becker, Elana Dykewomon, Marilyn Hacker, Eleanor Lerman, Joan Nestle, Lesléa Newman and Ellen Orleans, as well as new and emerging voices. With language and imagery that moves from the sensual and political to the tender and serene, MILK AND HONEY explores the vibrant, complicated, exhilarating experience of being Jewish and lesbian—or queer—in the world today. Ashur Etwebi Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi 978-1-60235-160-8, $14, paper, 136 pp. PARLOR PRESS 2011

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Brenda Hillman and Diallah Haidar. “In POEMS FROM ABOVE THE HILL, Ashur Etwebi compactly renders experience in a hauntingly classical way. His work is rooted in the landscapes of his country, and in inventing forms in his literary traditions that will capture his engagement with his place and culture. His poetry is intimate but grand, innovative but traditional, influenced by Modernist poetry...yet populist and accessible. His phrasing and syntax are often very unpredictable, risk-taking, experimenting with neologisms, inventing language. In his work, there is often a strongly elegiac note; his irony reminds one of Eliot, his imagistic purity reminds one of Pound. Yet he has an intimate knowledge of his fellow creatures that brings to mind William Carlos Williams. Ashur Etwebi enters the mysterious places of the land and sea through the experiences of the human beings he encounters, never engaging in sentimental homage but putting forward a powerful and delicious reverie and a poetic vision”—Brenda Hillman.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Rebecca Farivar Correct Animal 978-0-9801938-6-2, $12, paper, 84 pp.

Gary Fincke Reviving the Dead 978-1-56809-142-6, $15.95, paper, 100 pp.

OCTOPUS BOOKS 2011

TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “In CORRECT ANIMAL, Rebecca Farivar re-enlivens and re-imagines the art of the tiny poem. Forgoing both the high seriousness of imagism and the theatrics of conceptual gesture, these poems instead offer themselves up as graceful, wry, and surprising acts of compression illuminated from within by a mysterious and moving intelligence that is Farivar’s alone” —Maggie Nelson.

Poetry. The poems in REVIVING THE DEAD are triggered by the death of the poet’s father, but they work to do more than narrate events. Centered by the long, title sequence, these poems come at death and grief, as well as faith and skepticism, from as many angles as the poet can muster, using science and religion, history and myth, popular culture, and what seem to be trivial oddities, to create a particular way of seeing that has drawn praise from writers, editors, and readers alike. The poems are polished but electric; they are dark but vibrant with love and longing. This collection brings us the characters, places, and incidents of narrative poetry, but it also rises to the exacting lyricism of a singular voice that connects us to what it means to be human.

Charly “the city mouse” Fasano Next Analog Broadcast 978-1-934513-31-6, $13, paper, 56 pp. SUNNYOUTSIDE 2011

Poetry. NEXT ANALOG BROADCAST is a collection of poems set in the moments following the final shifts from analog to digital media. It is an exploration of everyday situations and observations of characters attempting to find their place in a society driven by automated convenience. NEXT ANALOG BROADCAST is the story of the human condition in an isolating and ever-changing digital culture that extends the assumption that ultra-reality and high definition are the only ways to document life experiences and share information. Hans Faverey Chrysanthemums, Rowers 978-0-9765820-5-2, $16.95, paper, 132 pp. LEON WORKS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Francis R. Jones. “Hans Faverey’s poems double as echolocations and tactile thought machines. They twist from speculative meditation into sensorial awe with Ponge-like focus and a penchant for grandeur akin to Barbara Guest. But Faverey’s curious lyrics are obsessed with the temporal, the fleeting, and the long-gone: developing a poetic landscape of arrested particulars, conversations with the dead, and memories plucked from Homeric visitants. And sometimes the lines just dumbfound me in their ghostlier demarcations: ‘First the message kills / the receiver, then / it kills the sender. / Whatever / the language’”—Joshua Marie Wilkinson. Steve Fellner The Weary World Rejoices 978-0-9846353-0-6, $15, paper, 64 pp.

Ira Joe Fisher Some Holy Weight in the Village Air 978-1-935520-03-0, $14.95, paper, 92 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2009

Poetry. Ira Joe Fisher’s first full-length collection of poems, SOME HOLY WEIGHT IN THE VILLAGE AIR, is written in a soft, pastoral tone, yet these poignant poems strike understanding in a subtle language that is as daring as it is beautiful. In this collection Ira Joe takes us all home only to return from the journey more enriched than when we began. Lisa Fishman Current 978-1-60235-200-1, $14, paper, 108 pp. PARLOR PRESS 2011

Poetry. Lisa Fishman’s CURRENT follows THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT (Ahsahta Press, 2007) further into an experience of time as theater, weather, myth, insect body, plantlife, transcription, synchrony, and figment. Her poems are pressed into argument and song by means of attention to the moment and to cross-currents of making, of music, over time. CURRENT enacts a poetics of the uncanny in very close touch with the actual, creating a field of vibrations in which the possibilities and limitations of vision and art collide and change. “Part of what makes Fishman’s work so pleasurable to read is the feeling of pure motion in the sounds and images [...], at once angular and wild, precise and hurtling”—Indiana Review.

MARSH HAWK PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Steve Fellner is not afraid to be unlikeable, which is precisely why I trust him completely. These are poems of rage and shame, confession in its purest sense—not employed to elicit sympathy or shock but because the stakes are very high: tell the truth or cease to exist. Prepare for journeys to psych wards and ERs; know that your guides will be Miss Piggy and meth, cyberspace and the shadows of the dead. Know, too, that you will meet forms of the divine, and forms of deeply earnest love. Steve Fellner fully understands— especially in his haunting cycle of poems to Matthew Shepard—the distance respect requires, and the intimacy poetry demands”—Lia Purpura.

Stacia M. Fleegal Versus 978-1-60964-043-9, $16, paper, 100 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “Grounded in our contemporary culture, where wealth and power are being redefined, Fleegal’s poems express the anger of a generation disenfranchised by its presumed privilege. She unceremoniously exposes an america that has lost its status as a proper noun, and she argues for the right to ‘love with a capital V.’ These are statements of protest, cries for solidarity—but cannot be mistaken for slogans. Each poem is a sharp-edged gem crafted into a collection that is in dialogue with itself and with the reader: where ‘I don’t’ follows ‘I do’ and ‘she can’t’ leads to ‘you can’”—Ren Powell.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Joe Fletcher Already It Is Dusk 978-1-936767-00-7, $8, paper, 52 pp.

Katerina Vaughan Fretwell Angelic Scintillations 978-1-926708-22-5, $18.95, paper, 102 pp.

BROOKLYN ARTS PRESS 2011

INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. “Joe Fletcher’s world is so rich in language and dense in experience, I wonder where it all comes from. He seems to have lived a thousand lives, each deep in feeling and insight. These are authentic adventures no matter where they take place, and each one brings us closer to the truth. What joy they bring to the reader who loves words and is willing to let go for the ride” —James Tate.

Poetry. While deeply embedded in the cultural, historical, ecological, and theological zeitgeist, ANGELIC SCINTILLATIONS continues the poet’s spiritual evolution. First, the poet dialogues with her ancestor, seventeenth century Welsh mystic poet Henry Vaughan, the religious practices of his time and mine, using current events and politics to situate the reader. Second, she resacralizes cronehood and attitudes toward aging through humor and healing and using historical and autobiographical references. Third, she revisions the relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, restoring their cosmic power via a feminist viewpoint. There is a cohesiveness here that melds a feminist perspective with questions about religion and Biblical stories—an attempt to situate all of this within a modern-day context with issues we face politically, geographically, and environmentally in today’s society. As it refers to contemporary and historic struggles for equality, respect and dignity, this collection chronicles the poet’s personalization of the divine experience into a more peaceful, harmonious way of being.

CB Follett Houses 978-1-893670-70-9, $12, paper, 36 pp. TEBOT BACH 2011

Poetry. “A house made of doors? A house sewn from pockets? A house constructed out of watches? To read this book is to take a delightful, wildly imaginative tour through a series of improbably desirable homes. I, for one, want to live in CB Follett’s house of straw where cows are spoked and nibbling. Or the hedgehog house where I can stick all my notes on the ends of their spines. Or the house of lemons with its ‘changing cinema of light.’ Or...”—Susan Terris. CB Follett One Bird Falling 978-1-56809-145-7, $15.95, paper, 114 pp. TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Poetry. The compassionate and penetrating poems in this collection focus on the natural, personal, and political. Of all the “steady and purposeful” birds that appear in ONE BIRD FALLING—ravens, doves, geese, meadowlarks, owls, vultures—the one that falls is never named but “[pulls] the sky after it,” indicating “Something terrible / is coming and we pretend otherwise.” The “we” of this and other poems is “far away...trying to do what’s right” in a world controlled by what is invisible, wordless, and unpredictable as the wind. Niels Frank Picture World 978-1-897388-85-3, $18, paper, 84 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Roger Greenwald. PICTURE WORLD is the first complete book by the Danish poet Niels Frank to be published in English. By turns funny and serious, ironic and sincere, droll and sly, conversational and playfully inventive, it draws the reader into a set of contemplations that grows more and more complex as its elements recur, reinforcing and undercutting one another, casting light but also doubt. As a poetic sequence in twenty-four parts, this is a work of high ambition. Its signal achievement is to use an accessible voice to present a deeply nuanced composition. Kathleen Fraser movable TYYPE 978-0-9844598-8-9, $17.95, paper, 160 pp. NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. MOVABLE TYYPE is the first new collection by Kathleen Fraser in seven years. This inventive new book showcases poems from four recent collaborative artist books that exhibit “her longtime love of words as objects into play” (The New York Times). These new poems, many created through her unique collage and hand paste-up techniques, continue Fraser’s ambitious exploration of the boundaries of language and the limits of the page.

Gloria Frym Mind over Matter: A Tribute to Poetry 978-1-60964-042-2, $16, paper, 95 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “How does the present imprint itself on language, on poetry? Gloria Frym’s MIND OVER MATTER shows us that: the outlines of the endless wars, the credit default swaps. But it also shows poetry resisting this. ‘No poem/would stand for such a line.’ Frym writes. ‘A poem is not a fool.’ This book makes me want to cheer”—Rae Armantrout. “MIND OVER MATTER is a thoughtful meditation on poetry in our age of posttheory and reminds us that the authority of poetry has always been ours (‘Without words we would fall on our faces’). Giving us ‘all of summer in one word,’ poetry is a form of ‘living attention’ It is our true home, bestows freedom in language, and understands best that ‘now is as old as time.’ I love this book for casting aside the postmodern clichés of poetry’s limitation, preferring to see world and language in fresh relation. Here, the ‘definite is infinite,’ and the real resonates. Not the ‘neo- / Looking out for numero uno,’ largely inspired by poetry’s professionalized culture, but a shrewd look at the actual and eternal worlds before us”—Paul Hoover. Marc Gaba Have 978-1-936797-06-6, $16.95, paper, 64 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. In Marc Gaba’s poems, austere typography reveals by suggestion, never declaration. In phrasing and imagery as precise as pencil drawings, the page’s white spaces are as active with import as what is visible. HAVE swerves formally among varied styles, constructing and awakening through the sign-language of a physical book an irrefutable question: Could any of us say that our life is our own? “Marc Gaba meditates on the nature of aesthetic beauty with an almost clinical passion, weaving expertly among the emblems of Christianity as well as Marie Curie, Watson & Crick, and other secular icons of the modern moment. HAVE shimmers, a tapestry hanging from the stone wall of faith, or more precisely, from an idea of faith, inside of which ‘what must you forgive’ and ‘what you would forgive’ wrestle.... (A) gorgeous debut”—G. C. Waldrep.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Susan Gardner Box of Light/Caja de luz 978-0-9799865-2-9, $16.95, paper, 96 pp. RED MOUNTAIN PRESS 2008

Poetry. Bilingual Edition in English and Spanish. Susan Gardner, an astute observer of human nature and the natural environment, is skilled at illuminating relationships and drawing contextual meaning from her surroundings. The strength and lyrical appeal of her poems, in English and in Spanish, bridge the gaps between the two languages with clarity of meaning and the best poetic values. Each poem in this collection appears in both languages. It is a challenging task to translate poetry from one language to another, given the differences in rhythmic feel and expressive syntax between any two languages. In this case, the work is characterized by rich imagery and a clear, concise means of expression, no matter which language serves as the starting point. Susana Gardner Herso 978-0-9825731-4-3, $15, paper, 116 pp. BLACK RADISH BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “I don’t know another poet so formally daring. Rebellious curlicue and lace significant: the pages gleam with pleasure, finesse and audacious measure of human becoming. A consideration of feminine inheritance, rebirth paroled by langue, a her(o)’s journey as decadently articulated as sea-froth. Find it too pretty at your peril—you’ll get pricked by the fine point on this punning”—Catherine Wagner. Alfonso Gatto The Wall Did Not Answer: Selected Poems 19321976 978-0-9823849-6-1, $20, paper, 228 pp. CHELSEA EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian and introduced by Philip Parisi. Alfonso Gatto (1909-1976) was among Italy’s foremost 20th-century poets. Italo Calvino considered his work “the largest poetic testimony of the man of the Resistance, felt as an eternal and necessary human prototype. Perhaps never as in the poems of Gatto...do we discover that temperament of the day and the sentiments of the struggle.” Here war, death and the search for justice are infused with beauty, metaphysical wonder and the celebration of life. The selection is drawn from ten collections, including Poesie d’amore/Love Poems (1941-1949), La storia delle vittime/History of the Victims (1962-1965), and Desinenze/Endings. Samantha Giles Hurdis Addo 978-0-9822120-4-2, $17.95, paper, 151 pp. DISPLACED PRESS 2011

Poetry. In this brilliant meditation on urban space and our place(s) within it, Samantha Giles confronts head on the question of ‘what is to be done?” “Start with a circle or something like it. Fear maybe. Circle as a symbol for the whole.” Through a shifting, multilayered account structured around the 148 murders that occurred in Oakland in 2006, Giles takes us deep into the core of a set of urban contradictions and the subjectivities produced by them and begins the necessary work of asking where we might start to find a somewhere else. “A gall is a symbol. A tricky agreement with allegory. The gall operates as a symbol to the plant. Is this text a plant or a gall?”

Lisa Gill Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges 978-0-9826968-5-9, $16.95, paper, 144 pp. WEST END PRESS 2011

Poetry. Memoir. Art by Kris Mills. CAPUT NILI: HOW I WON THE WAR AND LOST MY TASTE FOR ORANGES recounts the true story of what happened when awardwinning poet Lisa Gill threatened to hold up an MRI clinic in 2003. Using poetry, prose, and art, this memoir takes a powerful look at both personal and institutionalized violence and explores how a hard-won medical diagnosis left the author searching to understand the history of violence in her life and the consequences for her health. Anyone who has ever been ignored, discounted, invalidated, categorized into silence will love this book, and that’s just part of the audience. Gill’s quest through the Wonderland of our healthcare system is by turns harrowing and hilarious, a must-read for anyone interested in resilience and the capacity of the human spirit to survive. “CAPUT NILI is a powerful testament to the human spirit as it attempts to grow in a field of absurdity. Outrageous, funny, and brilliant!” —Joy Harjo. Martin Glaz Serup The Field 978-1-934254-23-3, $15, paper, 100 pp. LES FIGUES PRESS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Christopher SandIversen. What, or who, is THE FIELD? Martin Glaz Serup calls it “everybody’s autobiography” and Joanna Drucker calls it a “cosmology of banalities.” Cia Rinne says it “could be any average person living in a western society,” while Dmitry Golynko says “maybe the field equals the inner mapping of human psychic activity.” THE FIELD is place and character, poem and contemporary novel. The book’s text was originally installed in art galleries in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. First released in 2010 in book form, the original Danish title—Marken—quickly sold out of its first printing, and Finnish and Swedish translations are forthcoming. Is THE FIELD on its way to becoming an international phenomenon? THE FIELD is, after all, the perfect space and persona for readers’ self projections, old and new. This is the English-translation of THE FIELD, perfectly bound in book form. This is THE FIELD and it’s all about you. Chris Glomski The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems 978-0-9773401-5-6, $15, paper, 48 pp. THE CULTURAL SOCIETY 2011

Poetry. “What attracts one first to Chris Glomski’s poetry is its intricacy, that sense of hidden meanings and cryptic revelation shimmering in ‘its secret / curving rescissions / and negative spaces.’ Soon afterwards, one comes to understand that he is not merely a sphinx wrapped in Chicago enigma, but that, if one attends to these poems, to the structures they embody, the guy has some actual wisdom to impart, the lean mean kind that probably felt just as good to Melville and Poe as it does today. I’ve often wondered why poets don’t work more often with the compressed energies of steampunk. Certainly they work beautifully in this case, suffusing the book with a low, musical hum while whirling like modernist machines with all sorts of visual, sensory, and historical simultaneities. Plus he is funny. Plus he is amazing”—Kevin Killian.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Stacy Gnall Heart First into the Forest 978-1-882295-87-6, $15.95, paper, 80 pp.

Regan Good The Atlantic House 978-1-934639-08-5, $17, paper, 88 pp.

ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2011

HARRY TANKOOS BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Stacy Gnall’s brilliant debut collection, HEART FIRST INTO THE FOREST, explores those timeless yet inexplicable mysteries of worldly (and other-worldly) transformations we know from fable and fairy tale. With her exquisite lyric delicacy, Stacy Gnall weaves a candid, luminous perspective that reveals a forest whose intricate darkness can be lit, of course, only by the heart”—David St. John.

Poetry. “Everything that stands firm in THE ATLANTIC HOUSE is surrounded by loss, waste, and wreckage. Reading these vulnerable, resistant poems, one thinks of Otto Neurath’s image of a ship that must be rebuilt on the open sea, and of Eliot’s ‘fragments I have shored against my ruins,’ except that it is more than fragments that Good means—dares—to salvage”—Franklin Bruno.

Landon Godfrey Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Souffle Chiffon Gown 978-1-930781-06-1, $16.95, paper, 88 pp. CIDER PRESS REVIEW 2011

Poetry. “Never has the sumptuous materiality of language felt more seductive than in Landon Godfrey’s remarkable debut collection, SECOND-SKIN RHINESTONE-SPANGLED NUDE SOUFFLE CHIFFON GOWN. These exquisite poems are both sensually compelling and intellectually rigorous—a rare feat indeed. The iridescence of this marvelous volume continues to glow long after one has turned out the lights. Don’t be without this book a moment longer” —David St. John. “The secret of Landon Godfrey’s fresh and compelling poems seems to lie in their unexpected combination of lushness and asperity. How is it possible to be at once so lavish and so austere? Receiving a kiss, this speaker tells us, she felt ‘like the earth kissed by a homesick traveler—/ splendid in my borrowed costume of dirt and air.’ How delightful the finery put on in this splendid debut of a book, and how wise the poet is to let those gorgeous robes fall away, too, to the poor bare clay beneath them: in that tension lives this poet’s prodigious art”—Mark Doty. Judith Goldman l.b.; or, catenaries 978-1-928650-32-4, $17, paper, 220 pp. KRUPSKAYA 2011

Poetry. “The concatenated series of poems in Judith Goldman’s L.B. chart the narratives formed by texts of uniform density hanging freely from two fixed readings not in the same semantic line. On the one hand, the book dramatizes language under the regimes of contemporary communication—the protocols and phatics of privatized and publicly traded language— with all the false and inescapable sociality of networked media and commercial memoranda. On the other hand, the motivated material play of the signifer points to the paths of greatest resistance: chance, ludic laughter, and the recalcitrant residuum of the body. At the level of composition, L.B. is also a kind of catena patrum: a series of extracts from earlier writings, forming a commentary on some portion of scripture. Goldman’s finely sutured microcollage of forms and phrases moves from Aristotle to Andy Warhol, Kathy Acker to William Wordsworth, Abu Ghraib to Thomas Wyatt. Where the traditional catena is also a chronological series of extracts to prove the existence of a continuous tradition on some point of doctrine, here the discrepant result is a more thoroughly, honestly, chronic text: not the false time of doctrine and tradition, but something more true to its own time, and to linguistic time itself”—Craig Dworkin.

Sue Goyette outskirts 978-1-926829-68-5, $19, paper, 112 pp. BRICK BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Sue Goyette’s OUTSKIRTS is a tour de force. Its originality lies in Goyette’s refusal of despair, her conviction that the connections among people, their conversation, curiosity, empathy and awe, can help us see a way forward. Her aim is to find energy in human love, a way to walk the darkness rather than hide from it. This book will name you, and frighten you; make you laugh, and arm you for what is to come. Andrew Grace Sancta 978-1-934103-24-1, $17.5, paper, 96 pp. AHSAHTA PRESS 2012

Poetry. This book-length poem is in the voice of a speaker who brings the tatters of his life to a cabin in the woods and through brief, often fractured missives, breaks down and rebuilds himself by becoming, out of desperation, a naturalist for whom each of the landscape’s particulars offers a glimpse of salvation. Hillary Gravendyk Harm 978-1-890650-56-8, $15.95, paper, 88 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. Offering a new narrative of physical body constituted in perilous scenes of contact, HARM performs the loss of that fictive division between a unified body and its surrounding world. Terrifying and unlooked-for harmonies emerge in these poems, which dwell in a medicalized landscape where both the body and the land are monitored and laid bare. Troubling the idea of cure by recasting it in the terms of harm, HARM shifts between warning and error, nature and the body. In the sense of Baudelaire’s “correspondences,” bloodclots externalize into “sunclots” and the air is “rusty with blood.” The book troubles the idea of cure by casting it also as a form of harm itself. Moving amid the prose poem and the lyric, HARM navigates a landscape of extremity both frightening and filled with wonders. Margaret Ann Griffiths Grasshopper: The Poetry of M A Griffiths 978-1-904852-28-5, $24.95, paper, 384 pp. ABLE MUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Almost immediately after the death of poet Margaret Ann Griffiths was announced on the website Eratosphere, poets from all over the English-speaking world, from London, Derby, Scotland, Wales, Queensland, New South Wales, Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, Missouri, Maryland, California and Texas collected her work for this publication. The intention was to preserve her work, which previously was scattered around the Internet in dozens of different locations. GRASSHOPPER: THE POETRY OF M A GRIFFITHS is intended as an archive of Margaret’s work and contains 316 poems, some scraps, some work in progress, but mainly finished poems.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Rachel Eliza Griffiths Mule & Pear 978-1-936970-01-8, $15, paper, 97 pp.

David Hadbawnik Field Work Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010 978-1-60964-010-1, $16, paper, 138 pp.

NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. These poems speak to us with voices borrowed from the pages of novels of Alice Walker, Jean Toomer, and Toni Morrison—voices that still have more to say, things to discuss. Each struggles beneath a yoke of dreaming, loving, and suffering. These characters converse not just with the reader but also with each other, talking amongst themselves, offering up their secrets and hard-won words of wisdom, an everlasting conversation through which these poems voice a shared human experience.

Poetry. “In San Francisco, Austin and Buffalo a chiel’s among ye taking notes. David Hadbawnik like James Boswell has a knack for capturing all the things we wish we had said, as well as the street talk which shows up our culture as indescribably banal and fertile. On his way to developing a unique poetic, Hadbawnik kept writing it down; these twelve years of flaneuring perform a voyage of their own, a powerful and mysterious walk towards unknowing”—Kevin Killian. “The notebooks of Kafka and the late meditations of Wittgenstein echo deep inside David Hadbawnik’s marvelous FIELD WORK, whose investigations collect into something like a scrolling wunderkammer of anecdotal revelation. Or into a tour-de-force ostranenie of the quotidian, one might say... Which is to say, and more plainly, I suppose, that in these quasi-aphoristic sallies, daily moments are never quite what they first seem, always infolding much more than what we all almost always assume them to hold. So Hadbawnik looks carefully and insistently. And he does so again and again. And the mundane unfolds its mysteries. ‘One minute in the life of the world is going by. Paint it as it is,’ said Cézanne. That is the writer’s ethic here, and the result is nothing less than a strange, serial, and many-chambered gift. We haven’t had a truly great ‘poet’s daybook’ for quite some time, one that enacts a poetics. Here you are”—Kent Johnson.

James Grinwis Exhibit of Forking Paths 978-1-56689-280-3, $16, paper, 68 pp. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the National Poetry Series selected by Eleni Sikelianos. These poems pair electrical circuit diagrams with prose poems to create an artful labyrinth of science, intellectual landscapes, and urban scenes. The title of the collection comes from a story by Jorge Luis Borges, “Garden of Forking Paths.” “Words are squeezed into usage that had no right to be there—nouns, verbs, who cares what they once were? There is something illuminating at the core of this book, something bright and burning we can carry with us wherever we go”— James Tate. “James Grinwis is a poet of felt imagination and originality. His poems wander happily through landscapes and locations that at first appear slightly abstract, and then find resolve in exciting particularities of language—language that is continually sensitive to origins, images, and inviting juxtapositions. An exciting and utterly remarkable book”—Michael Burkard. Lee Meitzen Grue Downtown 978-0-9790702-4-2, $15, paper, 130 pp. TREMBLING PILLOW PRESS 2011

Poetry. Lee Grue is arguably one of the finest practitioners of poetry in New Orleans’ storied history. These superb writs are equal to the upwelling of jazz itself: from Tremé street corners, to the wayward French Quarter, to the carefree vibes of Bywater, all the way to back o’ town; this astonishing collection speaks from a mythic pantheon off yowls & beats as timeless as the Crescent City herself. “If you’re missing New Orleans, and you know what that means, you need to read Grue’s book front to back, place by place, time by time, name by name, everything that breaks your broken heart and asks it to sing. A generous, loving tribute to poetry and to New Orleans”—Dara Wier. “Lee Grue’s work is one of the majestic pylons that keeps New Orleans above water, a pylon woven thickly and subtly from the city’s history. Her poetry weaves her personal history to the five centuries of the city’s own, a fabric stronger than the dreams of engineers. Lee Grue holds us all on the warm open hand of her music; she emanates the love that raises the soul levees”—Andrei Codrescu.

Phil Hall Killdeer: essay-poems 978-1-897388-81-5, $18, paper, 122 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Hall is a surruralist (rural and surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to—Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. His notorious 2004 chapbook essay “The Bad Sequence” is also included here, for a wider readership, at last. It has been revised. (Its teeth have been sharpened.) In this book, the line is the unit of composition; the reading is wide; the perspective personal: each take a give, and logic a drawback. In Fred Wah’s phrase, what is offered here is “the music at the heart of thinking.” Rob Halpern Music for Porn 978-0-9844598-9-6, $15.95, paper, 120 pp. NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Taking Walt Whitman’s Civil War poems as an inspiration, Rob Halpern’s MUSIC FOR PORN moves across the landscape of battlefields and homoerotic affect in an encompassing engagement of desire and death. Halpern work, constructed of poetry and lyric prose, evinces a world in which the physical and linguistic body are permeated by, and implicated in, the globalized maneuvers of modern warfare and capitalist endeavor. This collection is a bracing lyrical exploration of the ethical limits of our militarized and eroticized landscape. “Rob Halpern’s body of work in toto constitutes a rigorous intervention into the normative grammar of lyricism”—Tyrone Williams.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Monica A. Hand me and Nina 978-1-882295-90-6, $15.95, paper, 80 pp.

j/j hastain a womb-shaped wormhole 978-1-60964-075-0, $16, paper, 119 pp.

ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2012

BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. “Monica Hand’s ME AND NINA is a beautiful book by a soul survivor. In these poems she sings deep songs of violated intimacy and the hard work of repair. The poems are unsentimental, blood-red, and positively true, note for note, like the singing of Nina Simone herself. Hand has written a moving, deeply satisfying, and unforgettable book”—Elizabeth Alexander.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “j/j hastain’s book A WOMBSHAPED WORMHOLE is one beginning for a world attempting to make itself in advance of its articulation. But it can be articulated by scents, which is to say, ‘traces’—like musk, patchouli, mustard, ‘split truffles,’ or even attar of long-dead altars and imagined memories. In this beginning lie the orgasms of fractals, revealing how fractions require flesh as condition precedent to existence—for who we may not at first recognize is nonetheless not that different from you and me” —Eileen R. Tabios.

Michael Hannon the lyrica poems, 2003-2010 978-0-9674720-7-2, $15, paper, 64 pp. IF SF PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. Two words make the prosodic “line,” three lines make a “lyrica,” linked lyrica make a serial poem. More koan than haiku, THE LYRICA POEMS work that thin vein where words are mistaken for things. Hannon’s poems are insects gathered at the crack of sap, blood, a trail of crumbs. They dissolve a thing, carry it off. Pauletta Hansel What I Did There 978-1-933675-59-6, $15, paper, 100 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Hansel takes the stuff of her life—that first person world—and spins a web which takes in all of us who have lived awhile. We travel through her poems blessed ‘with light for (our) journey,’ feeling not like voyeurs but companions for whom, Hansel claims, ‘I must still give thanks.’ Enlarged by our journey, we offer our thanks back to her”—Dana Wildsmith. Jim Harrison Songs of Unreason 978-1-55659-389-5, $22, cloth, 120 pp. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Jim Harrison’s compelling and provocative SONGS OF UNREASON explores what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and totemistic ways. “This can be disturbing to the learned,” Harrison admits. Using interconnected suites, brief lyrics, and rollicking narratives, Harrison’s passions and concerns—creeks, thickets, time’s effervescence, familial love—emerge by turns painful and celebratory, localized and exiled. “The great American writer is at it again, his voice as clear, bighearted and caustic as ever”—Star Tribune. Matt Hart Light-Headed 978-1-60964-013-2, $16, paper, 110 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “In Matt Hart’s poetry, crackling diction and soulful exuberance take the wheel for a happily bent ride through waking and dreaming spaces. Hart works the contours of his chosen forms with precision and humor, and emphasizes reoccurrence as poetic value and material dynamic through which to channel further depths of possibility for the imagination”—Anselm Berrigan. “Hart’s boisterous formal play recalls the work of other bravely errant iterants: Teds Berrigan and Greenwald; Lyn Hejinian; and Swinburne (if he got lost in Cincinnati in the 00s). Verse versus reverb makes for dazzlingly interlocking structures, sweet, urgent and local as difficulty. ‘Press playpen’!”—Catherine Wagner.

Lyn Hejinian The Book of a Thousand Eyes 978-1-890650-57-5, $24.95, paper, 350 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2012

Poetry. Written over the course of two decades, THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES was begun as an homage to Scheherazade, the heroine of The Arabian Nights who, through her nightly tale-telling, saved her culture and her own life by teaching a powerful and murderous ruler to abandon cruelty in favor of wisdom and benevolence. Hejinian’s book is a compendium of “night works”— lullabies, bedtime stories, insomniac lyrics, nonsensical mumblings, fairy tales, attempts to understand at day’s end some of the day’s events, dream narratives, erotic or occasionally bawdy ditties, etc. The poems explore and play with languages of diverse stages of consciousness and realms of imagination. Though they may not be redemptive in effect, the diverse works that comprise THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES argue for the possibilities of a merry, pained, celebratory, mournful, stubborn commitment to life. Brian Henderson Sharawadji 978-1-926829-69-2, $19, paper, 112 pp. BRICK BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Brian Henderson has established himself as a poet who brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instrument of discovery. In his work we realize, over and over again, that each of the mind’s worlds speaks a secret language, which it is the poet’s task to discover and translate. In SHARAWADJI, this includes not only such worlds as those created by the surreal paintings of Jacek Yerka, but the intense, re-humanizing experience of loss and grief. “Brian Henderson is one of the most innovative poets writing in Canada today. SHARAWADJI is his greatest achievement so far.... He is a master at distilling lived experiences down to their linguistic and emotional essences.... What he has created on these pages has my deep and lasting gratitude” —Don Domanski. Christopher Hennessy Love-In-Idleness 978-1-936767-02-1, $14.95, paper, 84 pp. BROOKLYN ARTS PRESS 2011

Poetry. LBGT Studies. “If I were to reduce this book to a single letter, it would be O. Opulence, obsession, orgasm and opera all start with an open throat, a gape, a release of pent-up desire. So, too, does Christopher Hennessy’s LOVE-IN-IDLENESS emanate from the opening of the throat to the shudder and release of the last and final word. Oh, I thought, reading these urgent, physical, dangerously beautiful poems, with ‘the terror ripping open my mouth at the corners.’ Yes, and Oh, yes and O...”—D. A. Powell.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Brian Henry Doppelgänger 978-1-58498-084-1, $13.95, paper, 88 pp.

Jean Hollander Counterpoint 978-1-892471-66-6, $10, paper, 64 pp.

TALISMAN HOUSE, PUBLISHERS 2011

BRIGHT HILL PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Brian Henry...entices the reader into the hidden crevices and empty spaces of daily existence” —Elizabeth Eger, PN Review (UK). “Henry is a keen observer who writes from a constantly changing perspective...”—Philip Nikolayev, Jacket.

Poetry. These poems illuminate both the beauty of living in the world, as well as the constant presence of grief and death as we go about our daily activities. As in Jean Hollander’s previous collections, these poems evoke memories of the past, or scenes and events so palpably presented, “they become alive.” This book celebrates our search for understanding as we go through life seeking love and pleasure, but encounter the loss of love, the death of a father, an ended trail. But this book also brings us a Lazarus returned to life, his mortality briefly overcome, or a long ago moment’s joy relived in the beginning of a new love, making us aware of the pleasure it is to feel and be alive, despite all sadness and grief.

Jack Henry Crunked 978-1-926860-01-5, $17.50, paper, 113 pp. EPIC RITES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “CRUNKED was not written. Not even close, not even for a second. CRUNKED was ripped from the very darkest, most sinister portion of my brain. Written over the course of seventy-two hours, CRUNKED is the full realization of who and what I had become at that point in time. I started putting the words down after a sixty-six hour high, words that spilled out like a stuck pig or a slashed femoral artery. When I came up for air after sleeping twenty-four hours, I read the thing, typed it up and put it in a box. This bitch should never see light, or so I thought. It is something so raw and so personal I didn’t want to publish it. I still don’t, but some spark tells me I should. CRUNKED is a nothing more than a narrative. It’s neither cautionary nor celebratory, it just exists as a document of experience”—Jack Henry, April 2011. Sean Patrick Hill Interstitial 978-1-60964-038-5, $16, paper, 66 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Picture the fire in everything burning and bursting between the lines and cracks. Now put it all on pause. That’s Sean’s book. The book you’re holding right now. The fire living in everything, on pause for us, for you”—Ben Mirov. “In INTERSTITIAL, Sean Patrick Hill lovingly renders the mundane into a world that is (quite literally) on fire. His poems are taut, perverse, and terrifying. As with all good poems, these leave the page to hound and haunt the reader”—Alan May. Chris Hoffman Realization Point 978-0-9827343-9-1, $16, paper, 111 pp. POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2011

Poetry. “I especially enjoy the tone of the poems in Chris Hoffman’s book, REALIZATION POINT, the union of his voice with the details and individual lives of his surroundings. Hoffman’s language and his close observation of the day, the night, and the moment become one in this work, along with his gratitude for each aspect of the living world and his presence within it”—Pattiann Rogers. “Chris Hoffman’s poems speak with a clear meditative voice that bridges the gap between our human lives and the healing spirit of nature” —Joseph Bruchac.

Paul Hoover Desolation : Souvenir 978-1-890650-58-2, $15.95, paper, 96 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2012

Poetry. Fiercely elegiac, the title poem of Paul Hoover’s DESOLATION : SOUVENIR began as a “filling in” of the blank spaces in A Tomb for Anatole, Paul Auster’s translation of Mallarmés grief-stricken notes for a poem that he never completed on the death of his ten-year-old son. However, Hoover’s writing soon turned to his own consideration of life, death, the breaking of family relations, and loss of love as experienced by all of us: “when death plays / with a child / it goes out nimble / comes back cold / life that traitor / aboard a razor boat.” Written in three terse stanzas, each of the poem’s 50 pages offers a phrase that becomes the title of its opposite number at the other end of the manuscript. The result is a haunting echoic effect that becomes especially rich as the phrases “cross” at the middle of the sequence. At times, the poem mourns the loss of the earth itself: “what will be enough / when the earth / contains no one / will the harvest still be full” and “no bees in the hive, no hive / sound returns to its bell.” Inspired by his reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, the companion poem, “The Windows (The Actual Acts),” consists of a series of philosophical propositions in everyday language: “An object is the actual awaiting further action. / It can wait a long time. / Time is fresh in objects even when they decay. / You can’t give one example of time getting old.” Another series of thoughts begins: “Have you every gazed from a window to see if everything’s still there? / And see your own face in the glass, superimposed on the view? / Consciousness rests among its objects. / Which makes the objects restless.” Long established as a poet of wit and intelligence, Paul Hoover now establishes himself as an important voice of deep emotional resonance and far ranging vision. Laura Horn Ordinary History 978-0-9725384-9-7, $16, paper, 76 pp. ARCTOS PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Laura Horn holds celebration and elegy in a thoughtful balance in her ORDINARY HISTORY. Between early griefs and the ‘big loss that is bound to break our hearts’ lie the gains and losses of midlife, chronicled here with a searching particularity. Horn brings intelligence and bodily wisdom to these rewarding poems”—Chana Bloch.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Sharon Howell Girl in Everytime 978-0-9831975-3-9, $14, paper, 70 pp. PRESSED WAFER 2011

Poetry. GIRL IN EVERYTIME is two serial poems that stretch the form in layout to achieve new musical effects and meaning. It’s not a stretch to say that Howell’s work descends from Jack Spicer’s. Lizzie Hutton She’d Waited Millennia 978-1-936970-02-5, $15, paper, 64 pp. NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Poetry. “Rarely—very rarely indeed—a poet arrives in the world full-blown, possessed of musical mastery, cognitive penetration, yea, wisdom of the sort that eludes almost all of us almost all of the time. And utterly fresh, with a voice not-heard-before. Lizzie Hutton is just such a poet. The vision in these poems is radical—it cuts to the root, and captures the ebb and flow, the actual felt textures of psychic and ethical awakening. And the forms devised to manifest the vision are radical too, in the true, best sense of the word, so confidently achieved they can dispense altogether with fanfare. This book is a cause for joy”—Linda Gregerson. Keely Hyslop Things I Say to Pirates on Nights When I Miss You 978-1-889292-52-6, $12, paper, 139 pp.

Georgy Ivanov On The Border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov 978-0-9774869-4-6, $24, paper, 532 pp. PERCEVAL PRESS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Russian, edited and annotated by Jerome Katsell and Stanislav Shvabrin. Mirrors reflect each other, / Mutually distorting their reflections. // I believe not in the invincibility of evil, / But only in the unavoidability of defeat. // Not in the music that burned my life, / But in the ash left from the burning. Philippe Jaccottet And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1990-2009 978-0-9823849-9-2, $20, paper, 422 pp. CHELSEA EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French, edited and introduced by John Taylor. Philippe Jaccottet (b. 1925) is one of Europe’s most distinguished poets. His precise observations locate reality and discover transcendence in the subtle particulars and correspondences of nature. “Hunter, do not aim: this bird is not wild game. / Look, do not aim: gather only the flash of feathers among the reeds and willows. / Uniting sun and sleep in its feathers.”—from the poem “As Kingfishers Catch Fire.” This first collection of poems and prose poems in English draws from the most recent work.

FOURTEEN HILLS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In both the historical and popular imagination of outlaw culture, the pirate occupies a central place as a swashbuckling, rogue seafarer driven by banditry and greed for treasures. In our literature and movies, he comes to us as skull-laden, eye-patched with gaudy earrings, a curved sword, in a ruffled, puffed-sleeve shirt. ‘Out of the marginal space between / ocean and sky,’ ‘out of the stack of history books,’ Keely Hyslop rescues Pirate Anne Bonny as female warrior and instigator of this robust collection of poems. Like her muse, the speaker in these poems is ferocious, eccentric, wild, and uncontained. And yet, in these poems, one encounters a measured yet nourishing and questing intelligence in love with language and song. This is the book we’ve been waiting for featuring a woman not afraid of the adventures of the mind nor the open seas of the heart”—Major Jackson. Elijah Imlay Monsoon Blues 978-1-893670-67-9, $15, paper, 88 pp. TEBOT BACH 2011

Poetry. “The poet goes to war in Vietnam as a clarinetist in the Army band and returns from hell to tell about it. It is vital that we read and hear Elijah Imlay—for our sense of history, for the truth of war, and for the ‘solace in stories’”—Maxine Hong Kingston. “The gutsy satire in Elijah Imlay’s MONSOON BLUES is balanced by his experience of war. These plainly spoken moments chronicle deep feelings and astute observations shaped by a vertical music that captures the speed of dangerous encounters. Imlay’s one-man ensemble knows how to gage the blues, how to get close to the bone” —Yusef Komunyakaa.

Paolo Javier The Feeling Is Actual 978-0-9846353-3-7, $16, paper, 156 pp. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. “In Paolo Javier’s THE FEELING IS ACTUAL, he writes: ‘I’ve been / a grandgesture guy in the past. & in all likelihood, / I will continue to be one in the future.’ Javier hits the big notes in this collection: sex, romance, even aging and regret. The poetry often comes in the form of prose, as the discussion of a play or movie takes the place of life, the characters you and I; of humorous investigation, both abroad (the Philippines) and at home (Queens); and of visual poetry, in which comics collide with sly wit. All this with the multi-cultural vantage we expect from the poet, which comes to the fore in later sections, abetted by found images and typography. ‘if im like a piece of bok choy / then you are probably / a piece of broccoli. /it’s just the communication thing.’ Listen to this book, watch it, lap it up”—Vincent Katz. Aisha Sasha John The Shining Material 978-1-897388-79-2, $18, paper, 62 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. In THE SHINING MATERIAL, Aisha Sasha John is a hostess; welcome to her house. Inside there is a party, a prayer, a painting that puts its fingers in your mouth—let it: in THE SHINING MATERIAL witness Aisha Sasha John braid selfportraiture, ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to create a collection of poems that is a tonic: dizzying in its open-mouthed, symphonic charge. These poems stage intimate encounters as they work against the language of the banal. Dancing across, between and at the interstices of the self, no poem is a single statement: they all recognize language as a perpetual subject of inquiry. THE SHINING MATERIAL is an opportunity to trace a fresh sensibility that will continue and make the work of this young innovative woman writer a powerful force in avant-garde writing around the world.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren, Editor Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay 978-1-84861-189-4, $22, paper, 220 pp. SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Edited by Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren. Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-French poet who wrote Maldoror under the name Comte de Lautréamont, and with a knowing nod to John Ashbery’s book of the same title, this is the first major Englishlanguage survey of contemporary Uruguayan poetry for some 40 years, and features the work of Roberto Appratto, Nancy Bacelo, Amanda Berenguer, Selva Casal, Marosa Di Giorgio, Roberto Echavarren, Eduardo Espina, Gustavo Espinosa, Silvia Guerra, Circe Maia, Eduardo Milán and Idea Vilariño. Linnea Johnson Augury 978-1-935218-12-8, $16, paper, 108 pp. THE BACKWATERS PRESS 2010

Poetry. Conjured from hen scratches and devil’s tales, from family stories and ancestral songs, Linnea Johnson’s poems migrate from a landscape of elegy to roost in the cliffs of lyric transformation. In musical lines that narrate both the natural history of birds and their folklore, as well as her family history of Swedish immigration to the Midwest, Johnson explores the darkness that leads to light. “‘It is flesh which remembers, bones which are/remembered....’ Who would not believe her?” —Catherine Anderson. Jamey Jones Blue Rain Morning 978-1-4565-3561-2, $12, paper, 110 pp. FARFALLA PRESS/MCMILLAN & PARISH 2011

Poetry. “BLUE RAIN MORNING is a transplant story clocking Jamey Jones from Pensacola, FL to Brooklyn, NY, dropping buoys of observations as and on excursions. Jones is both a resident and traveler of these poems, where ‘abroad here means elsewhere’ and elsewhere is ‘how to write / this new wave of lost.’ He wields a deft line-weather in wild prose poem visions, concise slivers of urban operation, or intricate musical dreams spinning out from consciousness ‘like a giant / whippoorwill / leaning inward’”—Edmund Berrigan. “Jamey Jones can communicate the truth in poetry. You sense no hesitation nor do you doubt his words” —Bernadette Mayer. Saeed Jones When the Only Light Is Fire 978-1-937420-03-1, $12, paper, 44 pp. SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mississippi, these poems wrap themselves in cloaks of masks and comfort; garments we learn are flammable if we stand too close to flames. D. A. Powell says of Saeed’s work: “Like Aeneas carrying his father from the ruined city of Troy, Saeed Jones brings all of his beginnings—the roots and tendrils of the kudzu vines, the ‘sky burned to blazing,’ the lore and pain and wisdom of salvation—into a new space where art and beauty stagger the mind; where the story of transformation becomes part of the cultural body of who we are. I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness and outright joy; they are the birth of a new poetry that baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire.”

Pierre-Albert Jourdan The Straw Sandals: Selected Prose and Poetry 978-0-9823849-8-5, $20, paper, 334 pp. CHELSEA EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French and edited and introduced by John Taylor. Pierre-Albert Jourdan wrote down observations, notes, aphorisms and diary entries with such dedication to clarity as to remove the distinction between prose and poetry. This is a book of original reflection, marvel at the beauties of nature and keen awareness of the fleeting moments of life. “For Jourdan, writing was a tool for exploring what it means to have come into being, for determining how to live in the world every single day and thus how to die, and for intuiting possible spiritual truths in our midst. This task was always more important than seeing his work in print and establishing a name for himself. This radical genuineness now radiates from all the pages that, thankfully, are in print”—John Taylor, from his introduction. George Kalamaras Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors 978-0-9786335-1-6, $18, paper, 136 pp. THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS 2008

Poetry. “The name Kalamaras means, as everyone knows, He Who Channels the Throat Songs of the Inflamed Detectives of Southern Surreality. He has more language at his command than Peter Mark Roget, but though we recognize the words, their electrifying combinations have never been heard before. Given Kalamaras’s impressively penetrating knowledge of English literature, and his pendant for Asian poetry, Tantric Buddhist texts, and 20th century contemporary international poetry in translation, the delicious eclecticism of the poems and the velocity of their outrageously wide range of reference should be no surprise. But the alarming fact is: they are as surprising as they are addictive”—Forrest Gander. David M. Katz Claims of Home 978-1-933675-58-9, $15, paper, 69 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Here is a quarter century of work from a poet who has patiently teased out the sounds of sense from American speech—overheard on a father-and-son tour of prospective colleges or at a ‘scrub-urban birthday barbecue.’ To read David Katz’s shapely, sonically savvy, poems is to enter with the poet into an ongoing dialogue between contemporary talk and our modern literary past (as Bishop, Crane, Borges, Rushdie, Moore, O’Hara, Stevens, Auden, and Lowell traverse the stage of his poetry in turn), as well as with ancient Jewish culture (as enunciated by Gabirol, Halevi, and the Bible). Katz’s CLAIMS OF HOME bestrides the new world and the old, claiming finally an enduring home in the heart” —David Yezzi.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Aby Kaupang Absence Is Such a Transparent House 978-1-893670-69-3, $15, paper, 82 pp.

Amin Khan Vision of the Return 978-0-942996-75-3, $12, paper, 62 pp.

TEBOT BACH 2011

THE POST-APOLLO PRESS 2011

Poetry. ABSENCE is insatiable, its boundless appetite preys upon the imagination in ways that language can only hint at. Which is perhaps why poetry is a so apt a vessel for responding to absence: its bare branch lines, its chapel whispers, its embodied silences encapsulate loss in ways other forms of art cannot. Aby Kaupang’s poems are inhabited by spirits; they literally speak in tongues; they are ‘a tender haunting in the glass beneath the waves.’ Anyone who has borne grief will recognize its teethmarks here: grief not just as an idea in the mind, but gnawing at the body, the place where it is most keenly felt”—D. A. Powell.

Poetry. Northwest Africa Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the French by Dawn Michelle Baude. “VISION OF THE RETURN is an ambitious work that wants to reinvent a space of writing (& breathing). Weary of earlier generations’ lyrical excesses, Khan thrives on the quasi-laconic statement (‘for him who travels / there is no sadness // there are blades in the heart / and traces in the sky / that are birds’) & proposes a language conscious of, & carefully focused on, its own movements”—Pierre Joris.

Robert Kelly Uncertainties 978-1-58177-122-0, $15.95, paper, 150 pp. STATION HILL PRESS OF BARRYTOWN 2011

Poetry. “Call and response. The breathing body of poetry from the beginning. The psalms of David, the wave of them, rise and fall of plainchant, verse and response. The constantly shifting pause between the half-lines of Old English poetry and the poems of the Edda, the half-lines of the Kalevala swayed out four-handed on the saga bench. So I thought towards the two-line stanza as experiments in duration, in complex syntactic and melodic demands. The melody of the first line necessitates the melody of the next. Shape shaping shape. Formally, the poem engages with one constraint: each line wants to be semantically intact—ideally, any line could stand alone, be my Last Words, my epitaph. Yet it also must link syntactically or narratively with the line that follows. And each stanza must stand in like relation with the stanzas before and after. This requirement extends to line structure something that I have worked with for years (usually furtively): hypersyntax, where phrases link with what comes before or after, or plausibly stand alone. UNCERTAINTIES tries to use these strategies in mental strife, to solicit the dissolving of certainties in between the inbreath and the outbreath, where nothing is fixed, and freedom begins”—Robert Kelly. Jake Kennedy Apollinaire’s Speech to the War Medic 978-1-897388-77-8, $18, paper, 96 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. APOLLINAIRE’S SPEECH TO THE WAR MEDIC is to Canadian poetry what Francis Ponge’s steaming brioches are to Parisian cobblestone. In other words, this is a book that revels in the that-which-gets-left-behind and is just plain old fascinated with the plop of things. Metaphor is plundered as a doorway into the attic of the basement of objects and animals and phenomena, and inside you’ll find poem-studies about hammers, tigers, grass, fire, cat piss, killing floors and many other oh my’s. You’ll also find several poems about the works and days of artsy folk like Samuel Beckett, Cy Twombly, Gertrude Stein, Kathe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, and John Cage. Dear Reader, you’ll even find to your ev.er.la.sting enjoyment a pantoum about your keyboard and a sestina about your (sorry!) George Bush. You’ll also see a lyric flashing devil horns. What else? Why, a poem about the sea, a poem about a moose, a poem about a frying pan. APOLLINAIRE’S SPEECH TO THE WAR MEDIC—please eat it up, yum.

Athena Kildegaard Bodies of Light 978-1-890193-36-2, $15, paper, 70 pp. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2011

Poetry. The book is divided into two sections, “Tenant” and “Transit,” and takes as its fundamental metaphor the fact that light from some stars reaches us long after the star itself has imploded. Poems in the first section focus on the body, on permanence, and poems in the second focus on movement, the ephemeral. These poems reflect the impressions left by all the places in which she has lived—Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Denmark, and prairie pothole country. Patricia Killelea Other Suns 978-1-930454-30-9, $12.95, paper, 36 pp. SWAN SCYTHE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Oscillating between alienation and wholeness, OTHER SUNS carves a path between light and darkness, grief and continuance. From the edges of violence and doubt to “ridiculous hope,” these poems are firmly grounded in both the material world and spiritual risk. Killelea’s clear lyrics speak to the ways in which land shapes perception, reminding us that natural space is, indeed, social space. “A marsh of all places—Patricia Killelea abides in this wild realm, writes of its character with respectful human engagement, and searches— by listening—the flow, temper, song, and silence of its birds and water. In the saturated earth of Northern California’s Montezuma Slough, where the poet lives deeply, Killelea is the sharpest spiritual eye. Her voice is important to all who would learn, from the very silt of Creation, how to navigate personal and ecological disasters with a bold and pure adherence to vision” —Sandra McPherson. Kim Hyesoon All the Garbage of the World, Unite! 978-0-9831480-1-2, $16, paper, 156 pp. ACTION BOOKS 2011

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi. The celebrated Korean poet Kim Hyesoon writes from a radiant black zone where matter becomes dark matter, human becomes trinket, garbage becomes god, a zero-point for our present moment’s grotesque and spectacular inversions. This volume includes a selection of recent work, the landmark poem “Manhole Humanity,” and the essay “In the Oxymoronic World.” With fiercely incisive translations and a preface by Don Mee Choi. “As garbage, love and death accumulate in her poems, your world will be changed for real!” —Aase Berg.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Amy King I Want to Make You Safe 978-1-933959-23-8, $15, paper, 87 pp.

Susan Kolodny After the Firestorm 978-1-936419-07-4, $13.95, paper, 62 pp.

LITMUS PRESS 2011

MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Amy King’s poems seem to encompass all that we think of as the ‘natural’ world, i.e., sex, sun, love, rotting, hatching, dreaming, especially in the wonderful long poem ‘This Opera of Peace.’ She brings these abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living: ‘Let the walls bear up the angle of the floor, / Let the mice be tragic for all that is caged, / Let time’s contagion mar us / until spoken people lie as particles of wind’” —John Ashbery.

Poetry. Susan Kolodny draws on her work as a clinical psychoanalyst in her first collection of poetry, AFTER THE FIRESTORM. Kolodny’s evocative style arises from an imagination both sensory and analytical. The poems suggest the unity of love and suffering, and walk a difficult line between the pleasures of the physical world and its dormant, invisible dimensions. Kolodny is a brilliant observer of nature, at once attentive and inquisitive, whose haunting questions provide a starting point for her lyrical investigations into the losses and traumas we all experience.

Scott King, Editor Perfect Dragonfly: A Commonplace Book of Poems Celebrating a Decade & a Half of Printing & Publishing at Red Dragonfly Press 978-1-890193-33-1, $30, paper, 350 pp. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2011

Poetry. Limited Edition. This anthology, selected from books published by Red Dragonfly Press over the press’s first fifteen years, includes over three hundred pages of poetry and represents the work of over sixty poets. Limited to 750 copies, the dust jacket of this hardcover edition was letterpress printed at Red Dragonfly Press. Includes an introduction by the editor, as well as a bibliography of Red Dragonfly Press books. Michael Klein then, we were still living 978-0-9823594-1-9, $15, paper, 68 pp. GENPOP BOOKS 2010

Poetry. LGBT Studies. A 2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Gay Poetry. “In these roughly whispered poems, Klein somehow—miraculously—manages to evoke a past of empty suitcases, of ghosts, while being fully present in the moment, in the now. In this way each phrase, each utterance, is completely weighted— their music enters us deeply, even as they seemingly drift past”—Nick Flynn. “Every once in a great while, someone writes a book that changes the way I read poems. Michael Klein’s is one of those books. Its language is so close to the bone, there’s nothing to interfere with or soften the intimate transactions between reader and poem. When the subject is death, or love, or the great metaphysical questions asked by the soul—and every poem in the book is on that scale— we see that meaning and language are one and the same”—Chase Twichell. “Everything in this book is terrifying and beautiful and necessary and there isn’t one syllable that isn’t absolutely required by the times we live in. This is a wholly original and essential book” —Lynn Emanuel.

Leigh Kotsilidis Hypotheticals 978-1-55245-249-3, $16.95, paper, 96 pp. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Science is a useful metaphor for understanding our lives, but it is often shown to be as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it. This lively, thoughtful, and refreshingly speculative debut collection turns scientific method around to question science’s faith in certainty, exploring the alternate meaning of “hypothetical” as something that is merely “supposed to be true.” Under the poet’s wide-angled, open-hearted gaze, scientific investigation begins to mirror the dark art of poetry, reinforcing what we believe about ourselves one minute, then abruptly throwing everything into question. Richard Krueger The Monotony of Fatal Accidents 978-1-897388-80-8, $18, paper, 112 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. Though at a passing glance it appears to deal primarily with geography and animals, THE MONOTONY OF FATAL ACCIDENTS in fact deals with neither; rather, it is an internal journey through the body of the poet. This body is a scene of violence, and this violence is mapped out across the hinterland of the poet’s mind. Alternating between short poems and long, sustained suites, Krueger revisits many of the same entry points (birds, roads) throughout, though the exits are always different—if any exit is to be found at all. This is not landscape poetry; indeed, what is presented is an antilandscape, an anti-geography, a rejection of the belief that the body travels through the land: an affirmation that it is the land that travels through the body. Damon Krukowski Afterimage 978-1-933254-88-3, $15, paper, 80 pp. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Elizabeth Knapp The Spite House 978-1-936196-06-7, $14.95, paper, 85 pp. C&R PRESS 2011

Poetry. “THE SPITE HOUSE is a book of dark vision and broad range, haunted by intimacy and anger, by a fierce fidelity to truth and to the elusiveness of truth, by emotional, spiritual, cultural, and political landscapes that are finally inseparable aspects of a single extended investigation. These pages’ season is late winter, when only a few rare swellings on the branches hint that change may come, even as an encasing ice glitters its own shard-sharp illuminations”—Jane Hirshfield.

Poetry. Illustrated with photographs by Naomi Yang. AFTERIMAGE is the testimonial of a survivor’s son. A hybrid work—part treatise, part memoir, part lyric— the text thinks through a problem prompted by confusions between the author’s imagination and his father’s history: “Do we only tell each other’s stories? Ask others to tell our own? Can we tell our own? Or is that what stories are for—to tell someone else’s, and allow another to tell yours?”

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Debora Kuan Xing 978-0-9833686-1-8, $14, paper, 80 pp.

Jenna Le Six Rivers 978-1-935520-46-7, $14.95, paper, 80 pp.

SATURNALIA BOOKS 2011

NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. XING is about fraught crossings: East versus West, doubt versus belief, conformity versus individuality, the external world versus the internal one. These haunting, startling poems re-cast the world as we think we know it into playfully offbeat and idiosyncratic new molds. Using an array of idiosyncratic voices—an answering machine, a Sixties sanitation worker, a post-war refugee, a marionette, and the head and body of a mannequin, to name just a few—Kuan reinvents the speaker’s voice as an entity that is unfixed, fragmented, peripatetic, and endlessly pleasurable to hear.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Jenna Le’s debut book is a meditation on love and life, as refracted through the waters of six rivers, ranging from the mighty Mississippi River to the gloomy River Styx. Inspired by her experiences as a Vietnamese-American woman who earned a degree in mathematics before becoming a physician, these poems are sometimes autobiographical, sometimes based on flights of imagination. Peopled by a diverse array of characters drawn from the pages of history and mythology (including the computer programmer Ada Lovelace and the sculptor Louise Bourgeois), and displaying familiarity with a broad gamut of forms ranging from the European sonnet to the Asian haibun, this sensual and often funny book introduces a strong, original new voice in poetry.

Frank Kuenstler The Enormous Chorus 978-0-9831975-4-6, $15, paper, 128 pp. PRESSED WAFER 2011

Poetry. “The retrieval here of a fair portion of Frank Kuenstler’s prolific work is an event of the utmost importance toward the mapping of a true history of American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century”—Jerome Rothenberg.

Jules Laforgue Last Verses 978-1-890650-54-4, $17.95, paper, 120 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Donald Revell. The LAST VERSES of Jules Laforgue is the first full-length collection of free verse published in the French language and, in many ways, it remains far in advance of any free verse innovations conjured in the past one hundred years and more. Laforgue, in his famous Complaints,was a profound influence upon such Modernist poets as Eliot and Pound. Yet in his LAST VERSES he set a precedent which no one as yet has managed to emulate or to advance. Why should this be? Simply put, LAST VERSES does not reject poetic formalism but, rather, projects it into uncharted and unvoiced regions of spiritual and sexual extremity. The freedom of these poems rests entirely in the purity of their despair, a purity not to be measured by any extant means. This music is made by no instrument but itself. This music is made on the farther shore of death. Krystal Languell Call the Catastrophists 978-1-60964-090-3, $16, paper, 68 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “Okay, what should I call them? Nyuk-nyuk-nyuknyuk. Anything but late for supper! Ah-cha-cha-cha! Krystal Languell’s poems are a lot funnier than those jokes. And sadder. And far more perceptive. And maybe they’re not so much about pulling the rug from under language as they are about getting down on the carpet and helping you to look for your lost contact lens or to scrub up the wine you just spilled. These are poems by a human being who reminds you that there are more of us (from wherever it is we came from) both behind and in front of this book”—Graham Foust.

Stacie Leatherman Storm Crop 978-1-60964-051-4, $16, paper, 120 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “More and more, I see those who want to figure out and document the puzzling emotions that come with an awareness of one’s involvement in global events turn to poetry. Stacie Leatherman’s STORM CROP is part of this. It is a psychogeographical accounting of contemporary experience. She turns to her subconscious in order to attempt an honest accounting of these emotions and then she organizes these with an alphabetical inclusiveness. It is a book of empathy and of longing”—Juliana Spahr. Ed Bok Lee Whorled 978-1-56689-278-0, $16, paper, 140 pp. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. In a world where “all love is immigrant,” WHORLED confronts and celebrates the many complications of global politics through meditations on war, migration, and culture. In settings from San Francisco to Seoul, the Midwest to Kazakhstan, Ed Bok Lee considers what it means to be a citizen in a world where “you can’t win the past / or stalk redemption.” Paul Legault The Other Poems 978-1-934200-50-6, $15.95, paper, 72 pp. FENCE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. These are “talky sonnets” in the vein of John Berryman’s and Ted Berrigan’s, written on the poet’s lunch hour in the spirit of Frank O’Hara. Winner of the Fence Modern Poets series.

Mark Leidner Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me 978-0-9835203-0-6, $15, paper, 94 pp. FACTORY HOLLOW PRESS 2011

Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner’s first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood, like the town was real, like she thinks swoon is a funnier word than mulligan, and he thinks swoon is a funny word too, but no way in hell is it funnier than mulligan, like he’s searching for the Holy Grail and she has little Holy Grail-shaped pupils, like an effusion of steam, like what’s cool changes, like hemisphere paint, like a blue flower, like the house you have lived above forever.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Piper Leigh my thin-skinned wandering 978-1-893003-04-0, $30, paper, 250 pp.

Andrew Levy Nothing Is in Here 978-0-578-05882-5, $17, paper, 82 pp.

TRES CHICAS BOOKS 2011

EOAGH BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Photography. MY THIN-SKINNED WANDERING embraces image, language and texture through poetry and photography. It is a powerful invitation for the reader to become more than a reader of poems—to engage with transparency, the literary fragment and the image in such a way that the book becomes feltexperience, both physically and emotionally. The poems are a testament to what is born of loss, to the abiding natural world, and to embracing the intensity of longing so that the door can be opened to what mystery reveals. In the words of the poet, “this dim notion of life’s myriad details matters.”

Poetry. Fiction. In this poet’s novella, midtown Manhattan unrolls into a parade of grotesque but sympathetic speakers who confront us in partial narratives with no overriding story except onwardness. Poems bloom inside of prose passages which get interrupted by journalistic accounts related to the credit crisis and wars overseas. A series of dramatic monologues without authorial selves, this book is loosely organized by an intelligence and an embodied understanding not unlike a political conscience. Levy writes to find out what living in the worlds of allegory and irony means, and what the cost of doing business there while tending one’s life might be. We can’t mistake his interest in intimacy and beauty.

Jon Leon The Malady of the Century 978-0-9822798-6-1, $16, paper, 88 pp. FUTUREPOEM BOOKS 2012

Poetry. THE MALADY OF THE CENTURY is written as a swansong to a generation that has lost the will to perceive the linear progression of time; a generation that is a collapse of occasions, wherein no discernible or dominant motif is present because Now is the mixture of all times, when every trend that ever was is the current mode. “Crossing platforms, from mirror to various pulsing LED screens and back, Jon Leon taps sublimity, rousing our daily patois to orgasm without interruption. THE MALADY OF THE CENTURY is a portrait of the artist as a young verb. Like R. Kelly covering Les Chants de Maldoror”—Bruce Hainley. Linda Lerner Takes Guts and Years Sometimes: New and Selected Poems 978-1-935520-31-3, $18.95, paper, 280 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Linda Lerner’s latest book, TAKES GUTS AND YEARS SOMETIMES, is a collection of poems dating from the early 80s to the present. An immigrant daughter’s courageous search for her identity, her refusal to compromise who she is for a paycheck or for love is viewed in the backdrop of major public events. Upheavals in her personal life are paralleled by those in the larger world. There’s the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the subsequent attack in 2001 six blocks from her home. This latter event triggers memories of stories her estranged father told about his escape from Russia. There are the hardships caused by gentrification. The locale is primarily New York City, but it could be any place, where the fault lines of vulnerability in individual lives suddenly give way to tremors outside, and the earth shifts beneath them. Louise Landes Levi The Book L 978-1-887276-55-9, $14.95, paper, 104 pp. COOL GROVE PRESS 2010

Poetry. “Louise Landis-Levi’s pure intentions, and her uncompromising, heroic effort to realize the true nature of mind, make her poems a continuous stream of wisdom”—John Giorno.

Lesle Lewis lie down too 978-1-882295-85-2, $16.95, paper, 96 pp. ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Lesle Lewis is alive with conflict. She wishes she were alive and not alive. Lucky for us readers, she is very alive. Scintillating with all her private and not so private mythologies, her poems beam down situations of utter contradiction both terrifying and calming. She sings the song of life in all its multitudinous guises. Finally, though, this is a book of joy, impossible to put down, impossible to deny”—James Tate. Paul Lieber Chemical Tendencies 978-1-893670-65-5, $15, paper, 100 pp. TEBOT BACH 2011

Poetry. “Paul Lieber’s hot, hip, exhilarating poems whirl like small tornadic stories or conversations with people from the poet’s life—his son, father, friends— all torqued up with the tough-love of gentle tough-talk, as well as lucid observation. Reading these poems I often felt I was watching short films in black and white, full of quick cuts—immediate, intense—where a ‘Bulky gray 49 Ford / with running boards’ might deliver a father in ‘a brimmed hat,/ saying groovy and hep / with the thick sound / of an outsider.’ More than once I thought of John Cassavetes. Witty, colloquial, taciturn, and deeply human, I found the poems in CHEMICAL TENDENCIES endlessly entertaining, and constantly surprising, even slightly shocking. In the end this is one of the best collections of love poems I’ve sat down with in a long time, poems that carry us toward acceptance and grace like a sock to the jaw”—David Dodd Lee. Tan Lin Heath Course Pak 978-1-933996-27-1, $17.95, paper, 140 pp. COUNTERPATH PRESS 2012

Poetry. Like its predecessor, HEATH (plagiarism/outsource), HEATH COURSE PAK exists somewhere between a Project Gutenberg version of Samul Pepys’ Diary and a minute-to-minute news feed and blog of Heath Ledger’s death. Sad, appropriated, lyrical and confused, the book contains a brief history of recent performance art, a legal defense of plagiarism, the diary of a poetry workshop at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, an MP3 protest song, and an examination of SMS and GMS technologies as distribution networks for human sadness. Multiauthored, and with numerous text blocks and photos, HEATH COURSE PAK adds a multivalent commentary to its first edition, once again in full color.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE R. Zamora Linmark Drive-By Vigils 978-1-934909-23-2, $18, paper, 80 pp.

Bill Luoma Some Math 978-0-9767364-6-2, $14.95, paper, 136 pp.

HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

KENNING EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. “R. Zamora Linmark’s extraordinary DRIVE-BY VIGILS takes readers on a high-speed chase to the heart of ‘today’s madness,’ where Manila intersects with Hollywood, and where a rap artist might croon pidgin translations of Federico García Lorca at the Korean karaoke bar. This global landscape thrives with conflicted hybridities and memory mestizajes, its speakers world history savvy and fluent ‘in the gay lingua of Goth and camp.’ Dazzling and dizzying, these startling poems talk back to the collage of pop-cultured contemporary society—a critical reckoning as the ‘ghosts of the past start colliding / with demons in the making’”—Rigoberto González.

Poetry. In SOME MATH, the syncopations of poetry meet the (ir)regularity of mathematical equations. Consider the “story problems” of high school math class. When encountering the word “and,” replace it with the addition symbol “+.” When encountering the word “of,” replace it with the multiplication symbol “x. ” Now reverse the process. The result is a series of sound poems that both employ and interrogate the global language of systems and networks. Astrophysics. Computer science. Short tetrameters. Long dactyls. 9/11. US military strategy. The energy pathways of acupuncture. The fish ladders of Gmail. The wires and electrodes of torture. The swirling products of global capital. Mathematician Benjamin Pierce called his field “the science that draws necessary conclusions.” You do the math.

Carol Lipszyc Singing Me Home 978-1-926708-15-7, $18.95, paper, 90 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2010

Poetry. SINGING ME HOME is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems which take the reader through an autobiographical journey and which feature facets of self as memoirist, teacher, musician, daughter of survivors of the Shoah. “SINGING ME HOME is a hymn of praise to memory, to witness, and to those mysterious elements of the past, both individual and collective, that live on inside us. Alternately solemn and playful, mournful and joyous, it speaks clearly and eloquently to the deepest wells of our own ever-strange, ever-wondrous lives” —Mark Freeman. Alexander Long Still Life 978-1-935210-29-0, $16, paper, 80 pp. WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “There is nothing ‘still’ in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long’s third collection, STILL LIFE, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in STILL LIFE attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems” —David St. John. Jessica Helen Lopez Always Messing with Them Boys 978-0-9826968-4-2, $13.95, paper, 94 pp. WEST END PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. “Here is a writer who started her career messing with the boys and ended up messing with poetry. The boys came and went; poetry endured. I feel lucky to be alive to witness this woman’s fire and fury, grace and light. Jessica not only survives her near-destruction, she conquers and rules” —Sandra Cisneros. Alexis Luna WOrd WITHDraWal 978-0-9815047-6-6, $15, paper, 81 pp.

Mary Mackey Sugar Zone 978-0-9846353-1-3, $15, paper, 82 pp. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In SUGAR ZONE Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to the interior, somewhere between Saint Theresa’s Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros— but also a place of desperate actuality, even if it is ‘on the other side of the world.’ Mackey joins other visionary poets of dépaysement—Henri Michaux in Asia, John Ash in Anatolia, Sharon Doubiago in Peru, Lorca in Manhattan. But Mackey really seems to recover a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forró, and death. Please read ‘Cold Snap’; who but Mackey could have written it? SUGAR ZONE authoritatively creates a language and a culture; but the lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home” —Dennis Nurkse. Jill Magi Slot 978-1-933254-87-6, $17, paper, 136 pp. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. An experiential investigation of how we move through cultural landmarks and institutions, SLOT presents a lyrical and thinking response to official, landscaped memory. In the book, a person slips in and out of highly designed museums and memorials, looks for a mentor who is more than a tour guide, rebels during the official tour, and occasionally finds the lament she is looking for: in comparisons across history, in ambiguous photo sequences, and in poetry. The resulting text stages a quiet argument between the persistent urge to “slot” things—into narratives, frames, archives—and a clear view of what, by resisting, remains. “SLOT pulls us through a beautiful yet harrowing poetic journey through the sediment of memory that has come to be called 9/11. By confronting the shock and desperation of violence on that achingly gorgeous autumn day, Jill Magi finds the words and images to allow us to re-member fragments of emotion and national identity that the act of memorializing has made us forget”—Robin Kelley.

BEATITUDE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Introduction by Sharon Doubiago. “It’s madness captured”—Floyd Salas, PEN Oakland.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Mary Makofske Traction 978-0-912592-11-4, $15.95, paper, 104 pp.

Gordon Massman 0.174: The Complete Numbers Cycle 978-1-935520-44-3, $24.95, paper, 400 pp.

ASHLAND POETRY PRESS 2011

NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “There is a quiet self-possession and maturity of vision in this volume that characterizes all of its poems; yet at the same time they range widely, addressing subjects as various as Neolithic customs, Whitman’s career as a Civil War nurse, the physiology of cetaceans, and a Muslim’s stealthy visit to an adult bookstore. The author is also capable of writing sly accounts of family history and a Cold War childhood that seem archetypal rather than generic, that show evidence of a strong social conscience that never devolves to cant. TRACTION is an altogether impressive book of great tonal and formal range”—David Wojahn.

Poetry. Gordon Massman’s 0.174: THE COMPLETE NUMBERS CYCLE is an intricate exposure of the self. In this 20 years’ culmination of work, he has dared to make the invisible visible. Perhaps on some level a perverse project, 0.174 lays open in depth-confession, in laboratory precision Massman’s innermost fantasies, obsessions, urges, and fears which might, he hopes, provide at least a splintered reflection into one’s own humanity. In either case—whether private or universal—here opens an increasingly cathartic examination of Massman’s particular psychology observed as acutely and honestly as he is capable. In so doing he has treated what mainstream society generally considers vulgar or unsavory, as valuable and often beautiful. It is his hope that some who attempt this book will agree that all human thought and feeling is worthy of song. Often satirical in tone, this book represents the nekyia, the down, inward going, of an epic tale that is life itself.

Donato Mancini Buffet World 978-1-55420-054-2, $21, paper, 128 pp. NEW STAR BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Exploring the relationships between industrial food production, eating, culture and the politics of language, Mancini organizes his controlled palette of words and images around metaphors of consumption and the formal device of the list. The numbers and statistics that fill the book stand as a critique of the grotesquely inhumane scales of capitalist production today—in—kind retort to the brutality of economic— fundamentalist abstractions that increasingly determine policy and regulate inner lives. Incisive humor permeates BUFFET WORLD. The poems capture Mancini’s diamond wit, as well as his dissatisfaction with the conditions of a world built on so many systemic cruelties. BUFFET WORLD underlines our inescapable complicity as (constantly) both victims and victimizers in a system that should leave us choked with rage, but more often dazzles us with a surreal spectacle of false hope. C. J. Martin Two Books 978-0-9835045-0-4, $15, paper, 205 pp.

Kristi Maxwell Re978-1-934103-23-4, $17.50, paper, 72 pp. AHSAHTA PRESS 2011

Poetry. These poem cycles explore relationships both human and linguistic. Responsive (and responses) to the multiple connections between words, the poems create a narrative where intimacy and sensuality are revealed in the spaces between: “Logic a device that keeps wonder at bay. / The bay where they docked and will dock again.” The repetitions-with-difference of RE- suggest that the seemingly contradictory notions of stability and change are reciprocal. Bernadette Mayer Ethics of Sleep 978-0-9790702-3-5, $15, paper, 96 pp. TREMBLING PILLOW PRESS 2011

Poetry. “What has always impressed me about Martin’s work is its rare attention to words as built worlds, as well as its choreopoetic virtuosity (the fact that the poems never stop moving, that the mind (perception, mindfulness, cognition) dances constantly within his lines). In Martin’s work one feels as though they are reading a totally new prosody, poetry in its firstness” —Thom Donovan.

Poetry. In ETHICS OF SLEEP, Mayer’s poetic voice is once again at its very best as she conjures up some of the most pioneering and experimental explorations in American letters today. This groundbreaking masterwork springs from the netherland of her dreams; surely to be considered by readers and scholars alike in the same legendary company of Memory, Studying Hunger, and Midwinter Day as one of her more triumphant and dynamically accomplished works to date.

Joseph Massey At the Point 978-1-84861-166-5, $15, paper, 103 pp.

Shara McCallum This Strange Land 978-1-882295-86-9, $19.95, paper, 80 pp.

SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In AT THE POINT, Joseph Massey’s second fulllength collection of poems, memory gives way to edges and angles, to “Sound heaped/on sound,” to spaces that “make the shade/tangible” as words arrange a place for the actual. “Massey’s poems are detailed and luminous, their nodes and clusters radiant. Light carves and bends, nudges and steels, dredges and etiolates. The eye in this illumined world is searching and unflinching as it surveys the microclimate landscapes of the northern California coast. But more than any environmental image, linguistic soundscapes hold sway. Massey, quite simply, has the surest ear of anyone now writing. A microtonal master, his handling of melopoeia is astonishingly subtle and precise. I find myself holding my breath as I read, the better to listen to the intricacies of echo even in the inner ear”—Craig Dworkin.

Poetry. Book + CD. “THIS STRANGE LAND is a remarkably accomplished book, ranging from childhood to parenthood, Jamaica to America, in a way that feels integrated and organic. With mature hindsight, Shara McCallum revisits early experience with a piercing clarity (even in dialect, as in the wonderful ‘Miss Sally’ poems), exposing its undercurrents in the present. Intimate, serious, and beautifully crafted, these poems scrutinize the griefs and beauties of familial life and memorialize them with meticulous care”—Chase Twichell.

COMPLINE 2011

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Julia McCarthy Return from Erebus 978-1-894078-78-8, $19, paper, 112 pp.

Tony Medina Broke on Ice 978-0-9846212-1-7, $14.95, paper, 128 pp.

BRICK BOOKS 2010

AQUARIUS PRESS/WILLOW BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy’s RETURN FROM EREBUS. The poems articulate this darkness with such keen and evocative vision and language that it appears to be made of light; they explore the richness of being, the ephemeral nature of our experience, and its inherent grief, where “jays smash like blue china/flung into the trees/and fly away mending themselves”; and you “hear rain and the river/the sound of water walking on itself again.”

Poetry. African American Studies. BROKE ON ICE is a nonlinear narrative in verse in the voice of a homeless everyman named Broke, talking about his existence and life experiences through conversational poems, tall tales, anecdotes, episodes, and jokes, much like that of Langston Hughes’s Simple. Broke is also in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, as well as Nicanor Parra’s Christ of Elqui, Zbigniew Herbert’s Mr. Cogito and Richard Pryor’s Mudbone, where these everyman personas critique modern society through satire, humor, irony and pathos. As poet Kelly Norman Ellis puts it, “Broke is an unflinching well of humanity who reminds us of the wicked wink inside the blues.”

Aaron McCollough No Grave Can Hold My Body Down 978-1-934103-22-7, $17.50, paper, 128 pp. AHSAHTA PRESS 2011

Poetry. The spectrum of American folk culture, “this stuff colloquial with tongues in dust / by stuff of high prophecy,” informs this book. McCollough offsets elevated language with manic and unheard prayers, folksongs that answer the mandates of the Bible, and a travelogue that speaks in Medieval lyrics. As McCollough leads us across “a land in love with want,” imagined thresholds become concrete landscapes, the things that bind us are cast aside, and we are encouraged to mourn the remains of the world as we exhume our buried wanderlust. David McGimpsey Li’l Bastard 978-1-55245-248-6, $16.95, paper, 152 pp. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Melding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, LI’L BASTARD is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to John Berryman and Robert Lowell, this sequence of sixteen-line poems—”chubby sonnets”—explores the poet’s obsessions (food, aging, baseball, beer, and Barnaby Jones) and maps his midlife crisis on a wild flight through Montréal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas, and Los Angeles. Poignant and often achingly funny, LI’L BASTARD will cement David McGimpsey’s status as a beloved original. “McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack”—The Washington Post. Ray McManus Red Dirt Jesus 978-1-934851-32-6, $14.95, paper, 60 pp. MARICK PRESS 2011

Poetry. RED DIRT JESUS is a triptych of harsh landscapes where a man reflects on what he has gained, what he is offering, and what he must lose. It begins with the relationship between father and son that delicately hinges on the tension between hills and ditches, between past and fiction, between throat and gut. Later the speaker is alone, trying on several narrative personas in order to chisel out an understanding of who he is as he moves away from the delicate and airborne. His story is one of dirt, dust, spit, and bone, and he finds solace in grit, knowing that things can only get worse if he lets them. In the end, McManus articulates the understated victory of giving in rather than giving up. As the speaker finds the distant acceptance of stone and rot, he realizes that the body breaks but the spirit doesn’t.

Erika Meitner Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore 978-1-934695-25-8, $17, paper, 97 pp. ANHINGA PRESS 2010

Poetry. Second Edition. Poetry. Winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. “The reader takes an unpredictable, exhilarating trip with the subject matter of Erika Meitner’s poems—from memories of a hormonecharged adolescence in the big city, to adult affairs of love and lust and loss; from learning to teach in a classroom filled with pubescent fireplug mirrors of oneself, to confronting one’s Jewish history at the hands of an equally fiery grandmother. But riding herd on all this range is Meitner’s distinctly snappy voice, a blend of assertiveness and vulnerability”—Stephen Corey. “These are poems like the tattoos she hymns and ponders—they mark our being with their delicate, indelible patterns”—Greg Orr. Erika Meitner Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls 978-1-934695-23-4, $17, paper, 98 pp. ANHINGA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “These cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the prowl, coming of age and being of age, are full of startling detail and vivid setting. Meitner’s range, wit, compassion and her alertness to the moments where domestic and collective experience intersect, make these poems memorable. This book is a seriously good read”—Daisy Fried. Thomas Meyer Kintsugi 978-0-9819520-9-3, $14.95, paper, 80 pp. FLOOD EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. In KINTSUGI, Thomas Meyer has written an intimate elegy for his partner of nearly four decades. As Robert Kelly observes in his foreword, this is “a text written in and through the very death it mourned.” Kintsugi is a Japanese word meaning “golden joinery,” and it describes the practice of repairing pottery with gold lacquer. As Kelly suggests, “the very rupture is what is highlighted”: Meyer’s presence to the loss, in the midst of daily life and its attendant concerns, serves as “the golden line that holds all this together.” Likewise, his supple poetic line joins formal lament with the quiet spontaneity of thinking. The result is poetry of deep grief and wonder: “Walk into a room. / Not know where I am. / Once it was Love / had me so distracted. / Now it’s Death.”

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Joan Michelson Toward the Heliopause 978-0-9827343-6-0, $15, paper, 73 pp.

Michael Montlack Cool Limbo 978-1-935520-40-5, $14.95, paper, 120 pp.

POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2011

NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In 1997, Joan Michelson’s husband, Geoffrey Adkins, a fellow poet, died unexpectedly on his way to work. The poems in TOWARD THE HELIOPAUSE are a response to this event and a dialogue between her poems and his. Progressing through grief and recovery, the narrative follows shifts in perspective up to the tenth anniversary of the death. The reading is heart wrenching and glorious, full of love and loss and a deep look at a deep love. Anyone who has lost a loved one will find solace and tears reading TOWARD THE HELIOPAUSE and will find a moment’s recognition where one’s heart, if closed, may open.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. COOL LIMBO is a series of dazzling portraits that are accessible yet complex, hilarious yet poignant, down-to-earth yet ethereal. Like its cover, which features the title poem’s sexy 70s chick lounging—stoned—by the pool (as she neglects the water-winged kids she’s supposed to be babysitting), the book is the best kind of party—unofficial, unpretentious, and unabashed. And everyone’s there “on plastic lawn furniture...with six packs and lit cigarettes:” From Liz Taylor, Gertrude Stein, and The Golden Girls, to Orpheus, Vanity Smurf, and Stevie Nicks. Poem after poem, these figures somehow mingle with the poet, in the not-sostill life studies of his boisterous family and friends, building a narrative about the departure from suburbia to the big city (from the ghost of a boy to a realized though sometimes-haunted man)—all while commenting on, as Elaine Equi puts it, the “constantly shifting sexual codes” assigned to men and women alike. Few places can you find a poem about a gay porn star that concerns itself with the meaning of objectivity and art just pages after a charged feminist manifesto called “If Hello Kitty Had a Mouth.” But beyond that colorful variety of subject and theme, not to mention his mastery of dialogue and what Mark Bibbins calls “devious oneliners,” what’s most remarkable about this poet in his debut collection is his ability to confront the serious and painful while never abandoning his sharp sense of humor and playful spirit.

Roy Miki Mannequin Rising 978-1-55420-056-6, $21, paper, 128 pp. NEW STAR BOOKS 2011

Poetry. MANNEQUIN RISING is the fifth book of poetry from Governor-General’s Award winner Roy Miki, his first since THERE in 2006. In MANNEQUIN RISING, Miki describes a world of consumerism, and answers the visual cacophony of commodities and window displays with a series of poems and photomontages that reflect the uncanny juxtapositioning he sees all around him. The centerpiece of MANNEQUIN RISING is a triptych of poem sequences, “Scoping (also pronounced Shopping) in Kits,” “A Walk on Granville Island,” and “Viral Travels in Tokyo,” where Miki closely observes three different neighborhoods and their mannequins / mannikins / manakins / manikins, almost alien yet familiar beings inhabiting and altering relationships between nature and culture.

Jeffrey Morgan Crying Shame 978-1-935402-77-0, $16, paper, 92 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

David Miller Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5) 978-0-925904-98-0, $17, paper, 104 pp. CHAX PRESS 2011

Poetry. “The word ‘spiritual’ is, in this volume, ripped away from the New Age and returned to its sources in Kabbalah and early Christian (gnostic) writings. But it carries with it the world as we have it now. A heap of horrors, remnants, a sense of the feminine under assault, and the drive to love. Therefore the dimensions are multiple and unstable. To be human is to be a spiritual entity more aligned with nature than with culture, and therefore to rebel. I am happy to have and to hold this book”—Fanny Howe. Stephen Paul Miller There’s Only One God and You’re Not It 978-0-9841177-8-9, $15, paper, 102 pp. MARSH HAWK PRESS 2011

Poetry. Jewish Studies. “Stephen Paul Miller has written the most swingin’, rockin’, jazzy history of Judaism, Jews, and our favorite one and only God there is, that you will ever read. In verse. And if you read it you will have to think about it. While tapping your foot. And is it unbelievably funny to see this maniac of a poet wrestling with a disembodied spirit aided by Plato and Irving Berlin? That too. With Hitchcock and John Cage wagging the dog? Enter this book, you enter Indie Poetry”—Alicia Ostriker. “Are Stephen Paul Miller’s playful lineated essays Midrashic form?” —Thom Donovan.

Poetry. “From the ugly stick to the dirty martini Jeffrey Morgan uncovers much to cry shame about in this book of crumbling points and ambiguous figures. Cry shame? I mean to suggest that there’s much exquisite articulation here, meaning jointedness, meaning manoa-mano encounters of the most uncertain kind, meaning a way—all through the book—of breaking-it-down that’s always verging on both collapse and a way of teasing out desire. Here, reading strategies rub torsos with rescue strategies; ‘an insatiable loneliness’ butts up against being bored. But Morgan’s gaze is always uptunnel, if you know what I mean; the power’s in Morgan’s ability to look and look and look. No one—neither rescuer nor castaway, not commuter, not gentle or base reader—walks away whole from CRYING SHAME” —C. S. Giscombe. Melanie Moro-Huber Axe in Hand 978-1-935520-56-6, $14.95, paper, 104 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Do you remember going out into the yard and spinning around and around until you couldn’t tell the difference between the sky and the ground anymore? Melanie Moro-Huber’s first full-length collection, AXE IN HAND, is very much like that. A mixture of humor and tragedy, experimental and traditional forms, MoroHuber 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 intergenerational concerns surrounding our daily environment and the way we communicate and learn from one another. Moro-Huber takes the reader from the mountains to the river to the sea and back again, and in the course of the journey the reader is always led right back to their own understanding of life and meaning and....

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Rusty Morrison Book of the Given 978-1-934819-09-8, $12, paper, 69 pp.

Edward Mullany If I Falter at the Gallows 978-0-9831706-5-5, $13.95, paper, 84 pp.

NOEMI PRESS 2011

PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “The openness of this sequence is heartfelt and heartbreaking.... Morrison courts those regions of thinking and being that society instructs us to suppress or ignore; and she does so by declaring, ‘Every object I am/is the rupturing it is built on.’ At the same time, she writes, ‘Pretend instead that words can make a humanness between us.’ What started and moved this reader is the calm forceful music, its tonal shifts and use of different registers, with which Morrison proceeded, her willingness to ‘plunge into the silence that most frightens us’”—John Yau.

Poetry. “The poems of Edward Mullany are both seeing things and ‘seeing things.’ They are devices that help us help ourselves to all the mirages and illusions—and then some—that we know to be true”—Graham Foust.

Eileen Myles Snowflake / different streets 978-1-933517-58-2, $20, paper, 232 pp. WAVE BOOKS 2012

Valzhyna Mort Collected Body 978-1-55659-372-7, $16, paper, 110 pp. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and COLLECTED BODY is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths. “Death hands you every new day like a golden coin,” she writes, then warns that as the bribe grows “it gets harder to turn down.” “Mort’s style—tough and terse almost to the point of aphorism—recalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska” —Los Angeles Times.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. In her first book of poetry since 2007, legendary poet, critic, and novelist Eileen Myles creates poet and poem anew as she pushes the boundaries of her craft ever closer to the enigmatic core. SNOWFLAKE finds the poet awash in an extended and distressed landscape mediated by technology and its distortion of time and space. In DIFFERENT STREETS, the poet returns home, to the familiar world of human connection. Two books meet as one: more Eileen Myles, more indelible connection, more fleeting ecstasy. Jeffrey Joe Nelson Road of a Thousand Wonders 978-1-933254-73-9, $17, paper, 232 pp. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Myriam Moscona Negro marfil / Ivory Black 978-1-934254-22-6, $15, paper, 140 pp. LES FIGUES PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer. “Myriam Moscona’s extraordinary book,” writes Francine Masiello, “is a treatise on the senses.” NEGRO MARFIL / IVORY BLACK, Myriam Moscona’s first book translated into English, is a book-length experiment in inversions: at times the text can be read from left to right or vice versa, the poems reverberate from top to bottom or the other way around, at moments the book itself can be read backwards or forwards. The visual and the textual converse acrobatically. Binaries become multiples. As any painter knows, “Ivory Black,” also known as “bone char,” is the name of a color: to obtain ivory black bone is burned. Introduction by Francine Masiello and visual art by Renee Petropoulos. Erin Mouré Pillage Laud 978-1-897388-83-9, $18, paper, 108 pp. BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. First published in 1999 in an edition of 300 perfectbound copies and 26 spiralbound copies lettered A-Z and signed, PILLAGE LAUD by “Erín Moure” is a lost cult item that now returns to print. As the 1999 edition announced, PILLAGE LAUD selects from pages of computer-generated sentences to produce lesbian sex poems (cauterizations, vocabularies, cantigas, topiary and prose) by pulling through certain found vocabularies, relying on context: boy plug vagina library fate tool doctrine bath discipline belt beds pioneer book ambition finger fist flow. It used MacProse, a freeware designed by American poet and jazz musician Charles O. Hartman as a generator of random sentences based on syntax and lexicon instructions internal to the program; the program worked on Apple systems prior to OS X and is now in the dustbins of computer history. In 1999, the news was shocking: Moure’s poems are written by a computer. In 2011, now that everyone is a computer, the book can be read anew.

Poetry. Composed of 10 chapters—each an excerpt from a self-published chapbook—ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS contains poems written from 1999 to 2010. An unofficial selected, the poems in this volume range in style from lyrical narratives to percussive one-liners, as well as from long poems like, “Rimbaud in New York,” and the opening serial sequence, “Sweet Nothings.” Murat Nemet-Nejat The Spiritual Life of Replicants 978-1-58498-081-0, $14.95, paper, 96 pp. TALISMAN HOUSE, PUBLISHERS 2011

Poetry. “In THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF REPLICANTS Murat Nemet-Nejat has found a way to filter the ‘peripheral relationship of consciousness to wider natural forces’ through a playful, deftly imaginative and nonetheless searing and immediate extended meditation on the binding necessity of disappearance [that] sounds, images, and physical forms must contend with. The book’s elaborate Film Lumiere form makes room for transformative interplay between lyric, prose, page-asvisual-field, collaboration, translation, and something like speculative sensory observation, which honors the insights on perception made by directors such as Bresson and Brakhage while clearing a vast and vital space for poetry. THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF REPLICANTS feels to me, on the level of feeling bringing about events, like a total breakthrough for the present art” —Anselm Berrigan. Raúl Niño A Book of Mornings 978-1-877636-24-0, $10, paper, 22 pp. MARCH/ABRAZO PRESS 2007

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. “A BOOK OF MORNINGS is by far the best book of nature poems to come out in 2007. Niño creates a vast landscape of life with this small chapbook. The twenty half-page poems in this book exist as parts to one epic poem that explores part of the author’s life, from falling in love to conception to childbirth to fatherhood. Each part of this epic is a glimpse, often no more than a second in time, of a morning in the life of the poet, but Niño manages to include infinity in each of these seconds”—C. J. Laity.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Kelli Anne Noftle I Was There for Your Somniloquy 978-1-890650-59-9, $15.95, paper, 72 pp.

Harry E. Northup Where Bodies Again Recline 978-0-9715519-9-2, $15, paper, 160 pp.

OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2012

CAHUENGA PRESS 2011

Poetry. Hypnagogia is the transitional stage between sleep and wakefulness—an intermediary moment of physiological limbo where hallucinations and out-ofbody experiences commonly occur. Kelli Anne Noftle’s poems reside in this space of “threshold consciousness” where a voice speaks to and from the other, hovering inside a liminal world of strange admissions and abstract silences. Rae Armantrout, who selected I WAS THERE FOR YOUR SOMNILOQUY for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, describes the collection as a “destabilizing meditation on our divided selves: our split brains and checkered evolutionary pasts.” A somniloquy, a speech one makes in one’s sleep, weaves itself through the language, continually disorienting the reader and subverting subject matter, insisting there is a very precarious boundary between the conscious and unconscious, logical and illogical, dream and waking life. Other poems in this book dip below an oceanic unconscious, describing mating habits, taxonomy, and defense mechanisms of deep sea Nudibranchs (sea slugs). Noftle suggests not merely the analogousness between this species and ourselves, but creates an emotional expansiveness, exploring mysteries within and beyond the self.

Poetry. “Harry Northup’s new series of poetic meditations is cast in an incantatory mold. The voice of a human coyote railing against the wondrous savage world it inhabits, in order to embrace it before final extinction. This world, although eponymous to Northup’s own West, reaches beyond its confines, as if to rescue it from dissolution. My words can only suggest the daring enormity of his vision. It will confound and enthrall the reader. I am filled with a lingering awe at his accomplishment”—Frank Corsaro.

Kiwao Nomura Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura 978-1-890650-53-7, $17.95, paper, 120 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Japanese by Kyoko Yoshida and Forrest Gander. If you think of haiku when you think of Japanese poetry, this book will be a huge surprise. The strange and wild poems of Kiwao Nomura deal with sex and loss and memory by making unpredictable leaps of association. Imagine Fugazi singing philosophy and you get close. Inspired by shamanism, Kiwao Nomura sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before and like something you want to hear over and over. He is one of the two or three of the most influential living Japanese poets, and his work will be as stunningly original and compelling to contemporary Americans as haiku was to the late Victorians. Anyone interested in making contact with Japanese culture will want to read SPECTACLE & PIGSTY. Charles North What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems 978-1-933527-48-2, $20, paper, 302 pp. HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. WHAT IT IS LIKE is the definitive selection of adventurous work by the man James Schuyler called “the most stimulating poet of his generation.” “The challenge of writing about the sensual qualities of New York City which seems so tired, by North’s pen becomes transcendent again. And that’s only one of the things his poetry accomplishes. He is witty when wit seems all but lost, gorgeous when gorgeousness is supposed to have crawled off to wherever Frank O’Hara’s odes come from”—Ange Mlinko.

Edward Nudelman What Looks like an Elephant 978-1-929878-91-8, $15, paper, 114 pp. LUMMOX PRESS 2011

Poetry. WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN ELEPHANT is not a question, but the title of a groundbreaking full-length poetry book by Ed Nudelman containing over 80 poems dealing with ambiguities and paradoxes in experience— how impressions of certainty and doubt affect everyday life. A cancer research scientist by trade, Ed has brought elements of scientific inquiry together with child and adolescent memories, and mixed in humor and stunning poetic metaphor, to make this a compelling and provocative read. Bill O’Connell Sakonnet Point 978-1-887628-11-2, $30, cloth, 79 pp. 978-1-887628-10-5, $15, paper, 79 pp. PLINTH BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Bill O’Connell’s poems are illuminations born under a rising moon or in the growing brightness of morning. These poems are fierce, quiet, and always tender celebrations in the living of our lives. O’Connell believes in the purity of joy in these cynical times, and is unafraid to seek the ineffable in our collective sorrow. He is a writer whose heart is haunted by the world. Because of this, he must sing. Peter O’Leary Luminous Epinoia 978-0-9773401-4-9, $21, cloth, 128 pp. THE CULTURAL SOCIETY 2010

Poetry. Luminous epinoia, a Gnostic notion, stands for the primordial imagination from which the whole of creation came into being. Likewise, Peter O’Leary’s poetry moves from a mythic unconscious to its manifestation in mutual dreaming: family, friends, literary forbearers, and political demons take their place in a Dantescan vision of order and strife. Yet the prevailing mode of this book is less narrative than devotional: O’Leary’s rich diction, full of archaisms and neologisms, tessellates dreadcomb, lutrescence, fogroom, and beatitude, the whole of it forming a complex, cathedralic figure for desire. Bea Opengart In the Land 978-1-933675-56-5, $15, paper, 57 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In the Diaspora, the Book replaces and compensates for the Land that is lost. But in Bea Opengart’s IN THE LAND, the Land and the Book are one. Opengart’s accounting weaves personal reflection with precise reportage, the awareness of tradition with an openness to the changes, the upheavals, of contemporary Israeli life. Neither tourist nor native, she is, rather, the lost lover strangely returned, the stranger forever falling in love. Give yourself to her Book as she gives herself to the Land”—Norman Finkelstein. With ten color photographs taken by the author.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Janine Oshiro Pier 978-1-882295-88-3, $15.95, paper, 80 pp. ALICE JAMES BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. “As if through an echolocation of brilliant and insistent off-rhyme, these poems effect a delicate placement of self into body, body into world, world into word. And at the center of it all is an even more delicate loss. Janine Oshiro’s PIER takes its measure in precise instances that ache with intelligence. A truly masterful first book” —Cole Swensen. Eve Packer New Nails 978-1-930083-20-2, $14.95, paper, 86 pp. FLY BY NIGHT PRESS 2011

Poetry. Eve Packer’s third volume of poetry encompasses her experiences of New York City from 2004 to now. From the ultimately personal aspect of female conversations to poetry memorializing and processing the large events of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Eve covers life’s moments in a book that is a diary in the form of a poem, a window to a world that is particularly New York. New NAILS is truly poetry of affirmation. Sometimes shocking but precise and infused with wit, wisdom and feeling, hip idiomatic language as alive on the page as on stage. Her observations startle, line breaks amuse, declarations astonish. This is what it means to be a woman living in the most dangerous/glamorous/historic city in the world. Ambar Past, Editor Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women 978-1-933693-09-5, $26.95, paper, 230 pp. CINCO PUNTOS PRESS 2009

Poetry. Native American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. This book of poems and stark, vivid illustrations is rooted in the female soul of indigenous Mexico. The Tzotzil women of the Chiapas Highlands are the poets and the artists. Ambar Past, who collected the poems and drawings, includes a moving essay about their poetics, beliefs, and history. The Cinco Puntos edition of INCANTATIONS is a facsimile of the original handmade edition produced by the Taller Leñateros. It was reviewed in The New York Times. The collection also features the collaborative efforts of Xalik Guzmán Bakbolom and Xpetra Ernandes. Alexander Pepple, Editor Able Muse Anthology 978-0-9865338-0-8, $16.95, paper, 220 pp. ABLE MUSE PRESS 2010

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. The ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY celebrates Able Muse’s journey through its first decade and beyond by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography, including a foreword by Timothy Steele. This anthology has received high praise and acclaim from Dana Gioia, David Mason, Charles Martin, Catharine Savage-Brosman, X. J. Kennedy, Catharine Savage Brosman and others.

Nathaniel Perry Nine Acres 978-0-9833008-1-6, $23, cloth, 60 pp. 978-0-9833008-0-9, $14, paper, 60 pp. COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Selected by Marie Howe from over one thousand submissions, NINE ACRES is the winner of the American Poetry Review/APR Honickman First Book Prize. Taking their titles from chapters of a 1930s small-scale farming handbook, the fifty-two poems in this cycle create a handbook for living and explore sustainability on many levels—on the land, in the family, and in the spirit. As Marie Howe writes in her introduction to the book, “Nathanial Perry has collected poems into this book as one plants a field, as an act of husbandry: each line a furrow where seeds flourish or fail. Husbandry—to create a dwelling place and to care for it—these are the ancient acts.” Sasenarine Persaud Lantana Strangling Ixora 978-1-894770-72-9, $17.95, paper, 112 pp. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. This collection is as much about love and people in and out of relationships as it is about origins and the process of estrangement. The lantana is a flower of South American origin, and the ixora of Asian origin. The lantana, a creeper that grows profusely, often engulfing other plants, provides a ready metaphor for the consciousness of the Americas overcoming that of India in the Americas—the mainstreaming and divesting of yoga from its Indian origins being the most visible manifestation. This collection ranges widely in its geographical and historical concerns, from Canada to Guyana to India and places in between, exploring the contradictions in our lives: familial influences, terrorism, literature, politics, race, and the power of language and representation. As always in Persaud’s work, love is ever present. This is a collection that displays mastery over nuances of language, and is at once quirky and humorous as it continues an engagement with the theme of “place as muse.” David A. Petreman Candlelight in Quintero/Luz de Vela en Quintero 978-1-933675-54-1, $18, paper, 91 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Book + CD. Bilingual Edition in English and Spanish. With accompanying CD of author reading in both English and Spanish. “In poems often slender as Chile itself, David Petreman has paid tribute to the country in a luminous sequence in which nature has an elemental presence and the people he comes to know so well retain their compassion in challenging circumstances. That they also retain a sense of culture’s value is no small part of their experience, and this is what we may first pick up from reading CANDLELIGHT IN QUINTERO. Replete with the scents and sights of the place, the poems still respond to the deeper challenge of showing the feelings and relationships that make up the real Chile”—David Chorlton, author of The Porous Desert and Waiting for the Quetzal.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Howard Pflanzer DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES 978-0-9637405-0-2, $15, paper, 108 pp.

E. Alex Pierce Vox Humana 978-1-926829-71-5, $19, paper, 76 pp.

FLY BY NIGHT PRESS 2011

BRICK BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Drama. Illustrated by Juliane Pieper. “With equally wonderful, vivid and fanciful illustrations by Juliane Pieper to match his wildly mythical texts, much in the vein of the Brothers Grimm, Maurice Sendak and Dr. Seuss, though a bit scarier and meant more for ‘grownups,’ Howard Pflanzer’s new collection of poems and plays has created a world which to some may seem simple on the surface but which actually takes us through the souls of man and beast alike. The short interlocking plays of the book’s first ½, using birds and beasts as metaphors, are surreal realities about survival, co-existence and in many cases inevitable collision and collapse. They, like the poems that follow, deal as equally with ecology as they do with the interdependence of species, are here examined through love and appetite, each play a little rhyming fable. The poems, divided into 2 sections, further examine Pflanzer’s fascination with birds and suddenly become the equivalence of digital photos (snapshots) displaying up to the moment descriptions of what is happening NOW in places as far-reaching as Tompkins Square Park, Bourbon Street and Baghdad. Pflanzer’s is a journey that will keep you riveted, always stirring up your cravings for more”—Steve Dalachinsky.

Poetry. E. Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to life with uncanny sensual details and an urgency that makes you realize some fires never really go out. The book’s scope is wide: beautifully crafted family reminiscences; Bach and Beethoven; Raphael and Goltzius; Shakespeare; the Greek Myths and the fate of the Romanovs. VOX HUMANA is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theater of the moment at its most alive.

Bao Phi Sông I Sing 978-1-56689-279-7, $16, paper, 170 pp. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Dynamic and eyeopening, this debut by a National Poetry Slam finalist critiques an America sleepwalking through its days and explores the contradictions of race and class in America.

Dennis Phillips Navigation 978-0-9845289-4-3, $14.95, paper, 288 pp. OTIS BOOKS | SEISMICITY EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. NAVIGATION is a 25-year retrospective look at the work of Dennis Phillips, from his first book in 1985, The Hero Is Nothing, to the most recent fine-print edition, Study for the Possibility of Hope (2010). Arguably one of the most overlooked of poetic innovators working in California over the last thirty years, Phillips’ is a profound and moving voice, tirelessly testing the limits of poetic language and its place in the world. About his work, Paul Vangelisti has written: “Dennis Phillips, a poet’s poet, a true, in Heidigger’s words, ‘shepard of Being.’” Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Love Cake 978-1-894770-69-9, $17.95, paper, 112 pp. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post 9/11, border crossings and internal and external wars in Sri Lanka and the diaspora, LOVE CAKE also documents the persistence of survival and beauty—especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of color loving and desiring. LOVE CAKE maps the joys and challenges of reclaiming the body and sexuality after violence, examining a family history of violence with compassion and celebrating the resilient, specific ways we create new families, take our bodies back, love, fight, and transform violence.

Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West She, A Blueprint 978-1-60964-060-6, $25, paper, 100 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. Art. Asian American Studies. Poems by Michelle Naka Pierce and images by Sue Hammond West. “It is an ekphrasis of the female form, one which writes a woman into being where the woman cannot be. It is a reverseekphrasis of the formal female, one which images what might be a woman were woman not imagined. Pierce and Hammond West’s SHE, A BLUEPRINT underscores that every grid is someone’s narrative, and there is only necessity in the thrust of us”—Vanessa Place. Red Pine P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd Edition 978-1-929355-20-4, $15, paper, 40 pp. EMPTY BOWL PRESS 2011

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese. In these translations of the mysterious P’u Ming’s work, Red Pine is demonstrating the way in which the ox became a significant metaphor in Chinese Zen literature. This revised edition includes a new preface and beautiful illustrations. Paul Pines Reflections in A Smoking Mirror 978-1-933675-60-2, $16, paper, 104 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Infused with an eerily adept understanding of Latin American history and culture dating from the 15th century to modern times, their collective duende, REFLECTIONS IN A SMOKING MIRROR will come to stand as a monumental work and as a companion piece to the epic Gabriel García Márquez novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This collection of poems takes on the true power of myth”—Wayne Atherton. “REFLECTIONS IN A SMOKING MIRROR tells the story of the fall of an ancient, vibrant civilization to Spain’s conquistadors under Cortez. Pines’s language is intelligent and refreshing, his ideas provocative, his images striking, and his narrative—however tragic—dramatically thrilling. This book is a smoking mirror”—Maurice Kenny. Paul S. Piper Dogs and Other Poems 978-1-933964-45-4, $15, paper, 80 pp. BIRD DOG PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. These are fine poems of Nature, place, and community. Paul S. Piper is an intuitive poet with a Zen sense of language and wonder. “In Paul Piper’s newest collection of poems, Dog, like a bodhisattva, leads the narrator and reader to a place that glistens with wonder and humor”—Charles Luckmann. “Powerful poetry here by Paul Piper—mystical and whimsical. These dog poems are fun yet meaty—definitely intellectual bones to gnaw on”—Tim Pilgrim.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Khadijah Queen Black Peculiar 978-1-934819-20-3, $15, paper, 64 pp. NOEMI PRESS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. BLACK PECULIAR sketches out power dynamics and faulty assumptions in terms of race and history, media and culture, and sex and gender in highly original lines of verse. An extraordinary mixture of wit and profundity, the three long works in the collection weave the personal and the political in both ruthless and tender ways. A fiction, a chorus, a leap into chaos, an unflinching love letter and a fierce indictment—BLACK PECULIAR collages observation and lived experience through a manyvoiced “I” as flawed and complex and unusual as the mind of the artist in the world. Ruben Quesada Next Extinct Mammal 978-0-9655239-9-8, $15, paper, 62 pp. GREENHOUSE REVIEW PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. “Like Whitman, Quesada is a poet of motion—journeying to the center of the US, where the traditions and innovations of first-generation Americans traverse the meditative starbursts of hills; ford rivers; cross prairies; and seek out ‘the alpenglow of tomorrow and tomorrow.’ From Costa Rica to Los Angeles and across the continent, Quesada’s poems chronicle one family’s history: from the courtship of his parents to their separation, from his childhood struggles to awakening desire from his mother’s lottery winnings to his own personal losses, Ruben Quesada carries us toward ‘that seam in space’ where dream and experience intersect. This isn’t the story of what it means to come to this country. It’s the story of what it means to belong here”—D. A. Powell. Carol Quinn Acetylene 978-1-930781-05-4, $16.95, paper, 80 pp. CIDER PRESS REVIEW 2010

Poetry. “The voice that calls over time distinguishes this shining debut book of poems, ACETYLENE. Moving through centuries, through other languages, through myths and stories, Carol Quinn’s work gathers emotions and events that call to the reader, making us aware of how difficult is it to connect, and how necessary. The poems carry a quiet charge that releases over their entire span”—Molly Peacock. Miklos Radnoti A Wiser, More Beautiful Death 978-0-9833309-0-5, $15, paper, 48 pp.

Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg, Editors Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug: 10 Years of 2 Idiots Peddling Poetry 978-1-893670-73-0, $25, paper, 244 pp. TEBOT BACH 2011

Poetry. For the last ten years, these two self-proclaimed idiots have been hosting a weekly reading series, peddling poetry at the Ugly Mug Cafe in Orange. These hosts, Ben Trigg and Steve Ramirez, have gathered poems from a selection of poets who have, at some point the past decade, made the trek from coordinates across the country to the Ugly Mug. The collection compiles poems by nearly 200 authors who have featured or read at the cafe. Bin Ramke Aerial 978-1-890650-60-5, $17.95, paper, 136 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2012

Poetry. AERIAL is concerned with the sky—its cloudladen aspects in the first section, its dry realms of severe spirituality in the second. And as poetry is always about attention to language, the words “cloud” and “clod”— a shape of vapor and a shape of dirt—are key to this book’s antithetical obsessions. But so, too, are words such as “father,” “hunger,” and “edge.” The implied narrative behind the poems has to do with family, but especially with loss of family members and how the connections they once formed live on for good or ill. The frail human community—always touching earth and touched by sky, by winds, weather, and words as if from God or the gods—lies behind every stanza. Ramke’s desire to bring “fact” into the sharpest focus (remembering the connection between fact and manufacture) results in a tumbling sort of movement through the shadowy areas of consciousness into the boundary areas where knowledge is adventure. Gurcharan Rampuri The Circle of Illusion 978-0-9843776-0-2, $12.95, paper, 79 pp. WEAVERS PRESS 2011

Poetry. South Asia Studies. Translated from the Punjabi by Amritjit Singh and Judy Ray. “The poems of Rampuri are wise and memorable—whether he is speaking to us about the timeless tension between reason and age, love, the experience of illusion, life under foreign skies, political corruption or the senselessness of war.... The important experiences of life are here in THE CIRCLE OF ILLUSION, rendered with the subtlety, beauty, and sometimes sadness of an expansive spirit that has traversed the East, the West, and many chambers of the human heart”—Charles Johnson.

EDITIONS MICHEL EYQUEM 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Hungarian by Solomon Rino. In Abda, Hungary, a mass grave was exhumed in 1946 and the corpse of Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti was found. In his raincoat pocket was a notebook containing his final ten poems. Written not in memory, but in the labor camp and on the proceeding forced march, the Bor Notebook was to become an invaluable Shoah document.

Jed Rasula and Tim Conley, Editors Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity 978-0-9831480-2-9, $35, paper, 600 pp. ACTION BOOKS 2011

Poetry. BURNING CITY acts as a “multisensory Baedecker” to the many incarnations of international modernism from 1910-1939. Inspired by the abandoned plans of the early avant-garde poet Yvan Goll to write a history of modernity through the poetry of that era, scholars Jed Rasula and Tim Conley have carried out Goll’s project, scouring the small journals and magazines of the period for both lost and seminal texts. BURNING CITY is organized not just according to the cities which inspired the texts—Paris, Cracow, Buenos Aires, and so on—but according to such icons of the modern urban experience as “Cineland,” “Music Hall,” “Electric Man.” BURNING CITY makes a new contribution to anthologies of both poetry and modernism by its thematic focus on city life, by its inclusion of poets from languages and nationalities seldom represented in standard US surveys, and by its preservation of the typographic versatility of the this feverishly innovating period.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Stephen Ratcliffe CLOUD / RIDGE 978-1-60964-072-9, $22, paper, 482 pp.

Ariana Reines Cœur de Lion 978-1-934200-48-3, $15.95, paper, 128 pp.

BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

FENCE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Ratcliffe’s site-based poetry channels the complex, intermeshing, and endlessly variable dimensions of place. Its calendar perpetually marks this very day. Things seen and heard through the ‘window’ of the shifting present include weathers; birds; planets and constellations; insects, animals and plants; soundscape; shape and color; land forms; men, women and children; sentences from reading; poetics. All inheres in the music and the metaphysics of these pages—all and nothing, but the words, placed exactly so”—Jonathan Skinner.

Poetry. Just a few months after the publication of her prize-winning, instant classic debut THE COW, Ariana Reines self-published this stunning book-length poem, now a cult object among readers of truly contemporary poetry. CŒUR DE LION is an intensely personal, monologic meditation on longing, sex, and love between a speaker and the object of all her passions, which include thinking and writing.

Stephen Ratcliffe Conversation 978-0-9821600-6-0, $12, paper, 98 pp. BOOTSTRAP PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In these seeming stage directions for the ‘play of the moment’ the characters face each other in multiple scenes of house, water, land and weather. The whole story rumbles through like a relentless flow of time out of time. If the story tells you it happened, it happened. It won’t let you down, you can rely on that”—Joanne Kyger. Jai Arun Ravine and then entwine 978-0-9824203-5-5, $18, paper, 86 pp. TINFISH PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. This powerful first collection by Thai American writer Jai Arun Ravine pulls itself and its readers across geographies, cultures, languages, identities, and genders in a performance of transformation. Ravine weaves Thai and English, the past and the present, the lyric and the narrative, into a hypnotizing poetic dance. Additionally, Ravine explores the documentation of identity and citizenship through re-articulating charts, pages of a child’s composition book, and a birth certificate. This collection explores the seams of identity and origin and how they are painfully and beautifully entwined. Pam Rehm The Larger Nature 978-0-9819520-8-6, $14.95, paper, 96 pp. FLOOD EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. THE LARGER NATURE addresses the longing to be at home everywhere. With characteristic humility, Pam Rehm seeks the common roots of life, proposing that “Whatever lives / lives equally with me.” Through austere language and an abstract, associational logic, she filters out the noise of so much communication in order to hear the familiar as if for the first time. Maureen N. McLane offers a description of SMALL WORKS that holds true of the present volume: “There are very few concrete nouns or visualizable places here; instead we move through a realm of language pondered and picked at, with words transposed, broken open, hymned. This is, then, not a poetry of deep image but of deep word, Rehm sounding out in almost Heideggerian fashion the ramifying levels of a word’s depths.... These poems move astonishingly close to a grim silence, yet they ward off that silence, taking the measure of our days as well as the ways we measure them.”

Ariana Reines Mercury 978-1-934200-47-6, $16.95, paper, 128 pp. FENCE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Composed in the direct, accessible, consciousness-piercing style readers of Ariana Reines’s first two books are wildly enamored of, MERCURY comprises a group of long poems. These interlocking works speak to the substance and essence of what is said, transmitted, transacted, “communicated” between persons. Reines proposes that substance and essence are opposites, and explores this in contexts including commercial cinema and internet porn. “This astonishing young poet—still in her twenties—is surely destined to be one of the crucial voices of her generation” —Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm. Karen Rigby Chinoiserie 978-1-934103-25-8, $17.5, paper, 72 pp. AHSAHTA PRESS 2012

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by Paul Hoover, CHINOISERIE travels through centuries in poems that carve wonder from ruin, from an illuminated manuscript to New York on the eve of disaster, the Emperor’s nightingale to neon aquariums. A sensory flight, intricate in its vision, Ecclesiastic in its hunger, and brutal in its portrayal of a solitude that “could surrender / to the hammer or the flame,” this book of curiosities draws inspiration from 15th century masters, Japanese animation, mid-century films, Marguerite Duras, and other sources. Inspired by an art created miles from its origins to become its own translation of landscape, texture, and pattern, CHINOISERIE disrupts boundaries between tribute and theft, reinvention and repetition. It evokes the fanciful as well as a darker potentiality, seeking a language “of pearl and roaring.” Monika Rinck to refrain from embracing 978-1-936194-07-0, $14, paper, 80 pp. BURNING DECK 2011

Poetry. Translated from the German by Nicholas Grindell. With linguistic sophistication and a great deal of selfirony and humor, Rinck sets in tension the most disparate ideas “along with their margins.” Her tonal register shifts from harsh to vulnerable, from formal to casual and playful, from mockery to dreaminess. Her subject matter combines reflection on language and philosophy with everyday problems, animals, pop culture. And she is equally at home with Kant and Bob Dylan, Hölderlin and bar talk. The book is indeed a “tour de trance.”

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Michael Robins Ladies & Gentlemen 978-0-9833686-0-1, $14, paper, 80 pp.

Marjorie Saiser Beside You at the Stoplight 978-1-935218-17-3, $16, paper, 90 pp.

SATURNALIA BOOKS 2011

THE BACKWATERS PRESS 2010

Poetry. With lushness and a perplexity reminiscent of Wallace Stevens, the poems of Michael Robins’ second collection blend allusion—from late-20th century rock lyrics to the Gettysburg Address—and negotiate feeling amid a troubled history of the United States. These persistent, cunning voices claim prey and hunter alike: whether a tortured prisoner or the nation’s first colonists who might coexist among the indigenous populations if their “arms could hold steady,” but instead take aim by spreading disease to “the kind people of the new country.” LADIES & GENTLEMEN is an invitation to the spectacle—and spectral—of American life, where the plugs of ordinary billboards are as probable as the horrors suffered when any people are under siege. John Yau writes, “With the precision of a diamond cutter, Michael Robins taps into the harsh murmurs of the daily world.”

Poetry. “Marge Saiser’s poetry is wise and generous and altogether genuine. No poet in this country is better at writing about love and, in a sense, all of her poems are in some way about love”—Ted Kooser.

Elizabeth Robinson Three Novels 978-1-890650-51-3, $15.95, paper, 120 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. THREE NOVELS revisits the terrain of the Victorian novel, entering that world with a particular affinity for the feminine within its social and physical landscape. Taking cues from three different novels, these poems show the intimacies that make “adhesive relation” through troth, kin or links to landscape. Who owns this body, this estate? Where does the woman hide and what is the empowering eros of her role? THREE NOVELS proposes “disguise as clairvoyant,” and here the wily female body is resistant to ownership as it slips through the hidden paths and plot twists, through the downy lawns, the nocturnal byways, and the gritty train stations into the “accounts most accurate to the invention.” “Elizabeth Robinson’s new and original collection recasts three mysterious novels into poetic prose fragments each of which underscores questions also raised in the novels: what is to be believed, which clues should be followed, which layer of meaning represents any form of truth.... This original and intriguing exploration also urges reading itself as a way to grasp our lives” —Martha Ronk.

Jenny Sampirisi Croak 978-1-55245-250-9, $16.95, paper, 104 pp. COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2012

Poetry. CROAK is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates, and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender, and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculation, Jenny Sampirisi’s grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end. Zach Savich The Man Who Lost His Head 978-1-890650-50-6, $11.95, paper, 36 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. “Zach Savich’s THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it. Yet these poems elicit, like the ambiguity of life itself, our most fervent and strange fidelities. There’s such a thing as a willed poetic ignorance: it forms its own epistemological haven, and these poems live in that locale. Thus the poet can ask ‘Does dark mean blank?’ and, in the very asking, expand the horizon of possibility (that is, knowing) by which we recognize the interchangeability of absence and desire. In that dark, we grope into and through the rudiments of our own longing, ‘melted to its presences.’ When Savich writes ‘I suppose I do believe in nothing,’ his words resound as a positive statement of belief”—Elizabeth Robinson.

Joe Ross wordlick 978-1-55713-415-8, $11.95, paper, 62 pp.

H. E. Sayeh The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H. E. Sayeh 978-1-935210-27-6, $16, paper, 128 pp.

GREEN INTEGER 2011

WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Like many of his previous books, all of which have received considerable attention by readers and critics, Joe Ross takes his readers on a voyage through meaning, and in this work it is a jargon-spouting, adlingo, legalistic-nonsense, neopolitical doublespeak that we must face to get to the truth. The amazing thing is that the poet restores the world to all its wonder in the process.

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Persian by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi. This compelling selection is the first to span fifty years of H.E. Sayeh’s bearing witness to a turbulent Iranian century, especially the national crises which followed the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the CIA-led coup d’état of 1953. Sayeh shows tremendous range, from the inward, spare lyric to bardic incantations that roll off the tongue and resonate with the voice of the whole nation, blending traditional Persian verse in the spirit of Rumi and Hafez with issues of contemporary Iranian society. Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi have delivered exquisite translations of this important Iranian poet.

Kerry Ryan Vs. 978-1-897535-34-9, $16, paper, 96 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2010

Poetry. VS. is a collection of poems chronicling a foray into the world of amateur boxing by a shy, bookish woman you’d never expect could hit someone in the face. Throughout these poems the author reflects on what it means to be a woman and a boxer, as well as a poet and a boxer. Part instruction manual, part rationalization, VS. is ultimately about the fights, both mental and physical, we all must confront.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Kate Schapira The Bounty: Four Addresses 978-1-934819-22-7, $15, paper, 60 pp.

Leonard Schwartz At Element 978-1-58498-085-8, $16.96, paper, 133 pp.

NOEMI PRESS 2011

TALISMAN HOUSE, PUBLISHERS 2011

Poetry. THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES begins with the assumption that each human has a price on their head—the same price. Rushes and crystallizations of language probe our potential to do harm, or to lose our own minds, or respond to, refuse, erode or affirm the reality of another person. In four sections that move from chance encounters through love and fear to deliberate reflection, this book asks what states or what actions, our own or someone else’s, can make any one of us less real than any other.

Poetry. “As the world swiftly disarticulates, AT ELEMENT provides an intensely considered poetry of witness. Turn by turn ‘imbedded in the book’ and spoken ‘from within the thing,’ AT ELEMENT navigates the wasteland of Eros’s impoverishment, and retrieves its fundamental fire” —Rikki Ducornet.

Roy Scheele A Far Allegiance 978-1-935218-14-2, $16, paper, 84 pp.

BRICK BOOKS 2011

THE BACKWATERS PRESS 2010

Poetry. “In A FAR ALLEGIANCE, Roy Scheele offers us poems with the tough elegance of bleached bones. These poems are characterized by taut lines, crisp diction, and electric imagery and a search within each poem for a perfect expressive form—sometimes rhymed, sometimes stanzaic, sometimes blank verse, always with a compelling sense of closure in the way the last line seals the bond between form and meaning. Whether recalling childhood experience in Nebraska, ruminating on the nature of memory, or recalling a scene or work of art, these poems have the integrity of the well-wrought urn”—Les Whipp. Jared Schickling t&u& lash your nipples to a post history is gorgeous 978-1-60964-069-9, $16, paper, 84 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “Only a coherent perception of life, informed by artistic engagement, can offer the cynic of a dark age any hope or enlightenment, and make a largely brutish, inhuman existence bearable, enabling us to interpret life’s strangeness through the refined sensibility of what language pries open, allowing us to see, feel, touch and smell, if not intuit, the intimate war between perception and reality, ego and self, from which emerges the mind’s meaning and purpose for existing”—Chuck Richardson. Mather Schneider He Took a Cab 978-1-935520-21-4, $14.95, paper, 116 pp. NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Mather Schneider’s second full-length collection of poems, HE TOOK A CAB, takes the reader on an unforgettable ride of a lifetime. With each poem, Schneider propels the reader into a mindset of having just hailed a cab in a David Lynch movie—one where seemingly simple stories resonate deeper and deeper within the reader every time the book is read. Schneider’s voice is in control, honest, and in your face while reserving an underlying concern and caring for both humanity and language. Schneider is clearly in the driver’s seat, but you are safe in his backseat. Reading HE TOOK A CAB, you have the feeling that you will get where you are going—one way or another. Sit back and relax.

Ann Scowcroft The Truth of Houses 978-1-926829-67-8, $19, paper, 104 pp. Poetry. At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft’s THE TRUTH OF HOUSES is an elegant debut collection. While very intimate—even startlingly intimate at times—the voices of these poems are constantly taking a step backward, wrestling for a measure of distance and perspective. Reading them, we eavesdrop on the uncovering of a personal vernacular that might allow the present to be better lived; we have the sense of overhearing a particular yet eerily familiar inner struggle—a struggle for insight, for an equanimity with which both narrator and fortunate reader might re-enter life anew. Alan Semerdjian In the Architecture of Bone 978-0-9823594-0-2, $15, paper, 120 pp. GENPOP BOOKS 2009

Poetry. “IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF BONE is the spirit of Armenia streaming through the mnemonic of Semerdjian’s family and their abode. This ‘evidence’ exists by means of its words inscribed on a blank beatific hide. And this hide co-respirates as a biography of exile while lingering in the cells of language. Scenic registrations, interior postings via a vivid singularity. Semerdjian condenses the ‘undertow’ and the droning of the Armenian Diaspora through a stark imaginal thriving. IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF BONE is a book brimming with marvelous seepage and recollection” —Will Alexander. “Alan Semerdjian’s IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF BONE reads like a long poem cycle that pulls the reader into an open field in which Semerdjian weaves his explorations of language and art, Armenian history and family. These dynamic poems mingle the ghosts of the past with the pace of contemporary life. This talented, young poet is well worth your reading”—Peter Balakian. “The poems shuttle between the tender and the fantastic...at the core of the poetry is a kind of politic—though he isn’t what I would easily call a political poet. Adrienne Rich wrote, ‘the moment a feeling enters the body is political.’ Alan is that kind of political poet” —Michael Klein. Sohrab Sepehri Water’s Footfall 978-1-890650-55-1, $13.95, paper, 52 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Persian by Kazim Ali with Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. “There’s modernism & then there’s modernism—depending on where you are. Sohrab Sepehri was in Iran, a modernist Muslim for whom the black stone of the Kaaba was the sunlight in the flowers. He tried to invent a world in poetry and a poetry in the world as had not been seen, oh, maybe since the Nishapur of Omar Khayyam. He made it new, indeed—writing a poetry that is a geometry of breath from which music grows, with its cargo of light. And it took someone of Kazim Ali’s lyrical powers to ‘English’ Sepehri so that we can hear him today, loud and clear”—Pierre Joris.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Brandon Shimoda O Bon 978-1-933959-13-9, $15, paper, 93 pp.

Simone Muench and Philip Jenks Disappearing Address 978-1-60964-024-8, $16, paper, 82 pp.

LITMUS PRESS 2011

BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Shimoda’s world is a hushed world—his book, a silent prayer, not to a god, but to life, the life of survivors—that one can whisper, can join the dead— that whisper turns into a ritualistic text, a celebration of witnessing, of the minute manifestations of reality.... Insinuating itself in the memory of Hiroshima and the bomb—a disaster surpassing disasters—his work is the saying of the dead who return, is a Requiem” —Etel Adnan.

Poetry. “This collaboration feels entirely seamless, as though it were not a collaboration at all but the work of a single, virtuoso poet with a very broad range of imagery and a finely tuned sense of how diction can coalesce varied materials. There is some of the surreal bounce we expect of collaboration but very little in the way of bipolar diffusion or poetic jiu-jitsu contending egos can produce. This is wonderfully contemplative work, and though it’s hard to tell when Muench might begin or Jenks end, there is throughout, but particularly in the sequence addressed as letters to poets, a broadened set of concerns about poetry, especially, that these two poets seem to have negotiated in the act of joint (or should I say, mutual) composition. A genuinely wonderful collection”—Michael Anania.

Murray Shugars Songs My Mother Never Taught Me 978-1-933675-57-2, $18, paper, 64 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “This poet first writes: ‘There was no struggle when I was born.’ But clearly everything since then has gone into the burn of metaphor and memory, into ache and solace. Murray Shugars’s poems turn on a fierce honesty, go into story, go into song. By way of his dark, dazzling ‘Litany of Things Known,’ we move through ‘the distance between Heaven & Hell’ from Charlie Parker’s weeping at ‘predawn birdsong’ to ‘cancer & smoke,’ from an M-16 as lens and anchor to ‘ice-glazed poplars’ breaking in the woods, these flashes that amaze and sting until the world is richer and so much stranger” —Marianne Boruch. Kevin Simmonds, Editor Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality 978-0-9832931-9-4, $24.95, paper, 250 pp. SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere), COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions. Says Rigoberto González of National Book Critics Circle, “COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS sheds a shining light on a journey that no longer takes place in the dark. The glory of holding Kevin Simmonds’s anthology in one’s hands is that it burns as the sacred text of our queer times: heavy with burden, luminous with hope.” Sandra Simonds Mother Was a Tragic Girl 978-1-880834-96-1, $15.95, paper, 72 pp. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2011

Poetry. “What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren’t all bad, these words. But they aren’t all good either. And that is where MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough”—Juliana Spahr.

giovanni singleton Ascension 978-1-933996-26-4, $14, paper, 96 pp. COUNTERPATH PRESS 2011

Poetry. In this diary of intentionality, the behearer and the beholder approach the world with an attitude of longing—for less: less sorrow, less suffering. Daily practice delivers the speaker to profound meditations on the nature of the self. These poems press against our deepest held questions: what is an I? Where are my borders? What or how am I “with”? “From whom—from what—do we hide?” “This little book of few words is immense in its silences, depths of ambiguity, range of feeling—dark, light, umber, copper, sienna—full of strange inward jottings (graphically adventurous) that echo and dance in a reader’s mind. ASCENSION’s quiet absences are fully, passionately, present—you can almost hear the music the title suggests, and the loss and wonder that goes with it”—Norman Fischer. Jonathan Skinner Birds of Tifft 978-1-60964-036-1, $16, paper, 116 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “At once rigorous and casual, conceptual and hilarious, BIRDS OF TIFFT offers us a tour through a nature preserve reclaimed from industry. Sometimes our guide reads Tifft like an old-school naturalist, identifying flora and fauna and noting the weather; sometimes he reads it like a contemporary poet, delighting in the visual beauties and ethical ironies of a post-industrial landscape. Ultimately, however, our guide demonstrates that ecopoetics gains its power from inhabiting both positions at once. By neither idealizing nature nor demonizing industry, he shows us our own equal participation in both, and thereby animates a dialectic between ‘the bittern and the train / the tulip and the dump.’ Inviting us to think through our own participation in conjunctions such as these, Skinner enacts an innovative and deeply poethical practice— in these poems, ‘proportion’s restored / to think with others’”—Brian Teare. Edward Smallfield equinox 978-0-9787667-7-1, $15.95, paper, 90 pp. APOGEE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “These carefully crafted poems look, feel and sound like the human heart and its rhythms. Each line, each breath, a syncopated beat that enters through the lips and into the body and yet I have this overwhelming urge to read these poems out loud. The poet writes, ‘we are alive inside a sentence’ as are these poems inside my being. Beautifully conceived and painstakingly sculpted like much of its subject matter, EQUINOX is itself an inspired work of art”—Truong Tran.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE S. E. Smith I Live in a Hut 978-1-880834-98-5, $15.95, paper, 68 pp. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2012

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, selected by Matthea Harvey. The poems in S. E. Smith’s debut collection are caffeinated, wildly comic, assured maximalist performances introducing such characters as three slutty bears, a horse thief named Dirk, Becky Home-ecky, and a pony of darkness. Divided into sections appropriately titled “Parties,” “Beauty,” and “Devastation,” Smith’s book is at once free-spirited, metaphysically inquisitive, and romantically exuberant: “If god wanted us to be strangers, why would he place us / next to each other in the movie theater and make us think / our knees are touching when they’re really a few inches / apart? Looking at Anita Ekberg’s breasts, we can see / the future. It is soft, pink, and frolics in a fountain / where the sea gods bathe their weary feet.” Brandon Som Babel’s Moon 978-1-936797-04-2, $9.95, paper, 36 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. BABEL’S MOON eulogizes an immigrant grandfather, and in doing so explores boundaries that are at once geographic, historical, and cosmological. Brandon Som’s first book moves between vigorously detailed descriptive poems and austere, atmospheric lyrics as he finds new ways of reaching for (and even crossing) the horizons. “In BABEL’S MOON...Som demonstrates a stunning musical perceptiveness on a global scale.... I trust in his weird and delightful imaginings of the moon, cactus, kites, and the origins of tea. And he carries this responsibility well, ‘...because the opaque, in its refusing / of the light, affords us reflection.’ What a sparkling debut!” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Laurie Soriano Catalina 978-1-929878-87-1, $15, paper, 112 pp. LUMMOX PRESS 2011

Poetry. CATALINA begins on America’s east coast, where the “dense woods are full of secrets / full of children with their heads ducked against the weather.” The book’s first poems (in the “Coast” section) explore a gradual coming to awareness on that right coast. The book’s second section (“To Coast”) takes the long journey west to the Pacific, “through the great rippling heartland, a bridge between Oceans,” with an accompanying focus on the mysteries and conflicts that vie for our attention as we lose the momentum of youth and settle in to our real lives. The third set of poems (“Being Here”) celebrates the present moment, the self as a bridge between generations, as a conduit of the life force. The poems of the fourth and final section (“Looking Out”) study the view out beyond the continent one has crossed; to what is next, the possibility of flight into other worlds beyond the rituals of everyday. There, out in the “endless churning ocean” is the next body of land, an island that is “where to go next, where not to go.” The book’s poems calmly open the doors to reveal magic and tragedy and make the case for looking out while staying put. These are poems of the restless American spirit—”We ache for shuttling further, for the oblivion of the new”—and the peace that comes with the recognition that there is nowhere better to go.

Charles Squier Under the White Wing: Events at Sand Creek 978-0-89304-541-8, $25, cloth, 55 pp. 978-0-89304-542-5, $15, paper, 55 pp. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2011

Poetry. Native American Studies. “Charles Squier’s masterfully lean and fast-moving verse narrative vividly evokes the characters and motives convergent in one of the nation’s most unforgivable chapters, the Sand Creek massacre. Rarely, if ever, has any episode in that slow holocaust called ‘the winning of the West’ been revealed with such moving understated irony. The verse line of UNDER THE WHITE WING is clean, muscular, and mercifully free of the falsely ‘poetikal.’ Its illumination of the barbarism which in the American West once passed for civilization places Squier’s poem among the best of its genre”—Reg Saner, author of Reaching Keet Seel: Ruin’s Echo and the Anasazie. Marjorie Stein An Atlas of Lost Causes 978-0-932716-79-8, $16, paper, 112 pp. KELSEY STREET PRESS 2012

Poetry. AN ATLAS OF LOST CAUSES pulls the reader into a rich, internal world where perception is doubled and “stars are just dead light—falling behind schedule.” As her poetic noir unfolds, quotidian detail accumulates as evidence of human scenarios bleeding into the infinite: “You know how sometimes, at night in a city, you may hear someone crying out in distress? The stains were that sound and shape, spilled in a darkness that smashes into awareness.” At the core of the work are the narrator’s attempts to understand the mystery surrounding her twin sister and an unnamed crime. Her contemplations circle around references to camera obscura, Muybridge photographs, Marlene Dietrich, and more—all in an effort to fathom how each human life must eventually end. Yet as the narrative progresses, the reader is led to wonder: Is it the twin’s disintegration, or the narrator’s, we watch unfold? Original line drawings accompany the text. Suzanne Stein Tout va bien No ISBN, $0, paper, 93 pp. DISPLACED PRESS 2012

Poetry. Suzanne Stein’s TOUT VA BIEN extends its process of structural interventions in social, discursive, and lyric space with a “51rst” poetic activity: it is being distributed for free through SPD. In a register related to her longtime work as Bay Area publisher (of “free” chapbooks), and her day labor as community producer for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TOUT VA BIEN collects a series of talks, lyrics, performances, and related documents that punch a “hole in space” and time. The cross-coast 1980 artwork by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (HOLE IN SPACE), which linked storefronts and their passersby in New York and Los Angeles via satellite, with astonishing results, is the signal backdrop for “the poet’s body as a public communication sculpture” (Alli Warren). If David Antin, Hannah Wilke, and Sherrie Levine reinvented the happening for a 21rst century political art-in-language: The girl with the gun is that asks it. (This book is free; please, one per reader.)

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Wade Stevenson A Testament to Love & Other Losses 978-1-60964-055-2, $16, paper, 112 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “The suspicion that writing will be the last utopia is wonderfully fulfilled by the extraordinary promise and quivering present of Wade Stevenson’s lyrical, deep and lustrous oeuvre. Here is a writer of extraordinary adventure and imagination and in this book of poems he portrays the cycles of the human condition recognizable to us all. Lyric in its intensity, evenly paced, the delivery is light and swift, well suited to the tension and humor that are so much a part of this work. The states of being alive, in love, alone, in an embrace, a companion of small animals, and the life of a poet are all explored. The commingling of images is a prominent theme within this book, a doubling of ideas, as a mirror looking at itself to reveal the nakedness of all things”—Geoffrey Gatza. Jennifer Still Girlwood 978-1-926829-66-1, $19, paper, 128 pp. BRICK BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In GIRLWOOD, Jennifer Still’s second collection, her poems come of age: they take the dare; they cross out of sapling and into maturity’s thicket. But the poems don’t leave the girl behind, they bring her along: as sylph, as raconteur, as witness, as pure, unstoppable bravado. These songs of liberation and confinement arise from the rich and mysterious connection between mother and daughter. Here, the mother figure is as vulnerable as the daughter, caged by domestic duty, by the fear that snakes through sexuality, the longing and the repulsion that accompany mortal desire. The daughter is at once compassionate and defiant. This is the paradox at the heart of this collection.

Jennifer Tamayo Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes 978-0-9786172-6-4, $18, paper, 88 pp. SWITCHBACK BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Memoir. In this bold and energetic debut, temporal malapropisms become purposeful play through Tamayo’s poetics of code switching and homophonics. As Tamayo tackles the frustrations of the transnational immigrant experience, language “mistakes” become “missed aches” and she writes mother and mother-tongue into one as “mouth her.” A red thread intrudes throughout this frenetic mixed-genre assemblage, suturing identity to the page by erasing text, embroidering images, and stitching collage together. Cathy Park Hong, 2010 Gatewood Prize judge, promises the “brash, political, and bracingly original” [RED MISSED ACHES] will “startle you awake and demand your attention.” Anne Tardos Both Poems 978-1-931824-43-9, $14.95, paper, 111 pp. ROOF BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “What a joyful and intricate exhibit of the love of language, here in BOTH POEMS. After I Am You, nothing would work but both. Learn what metaphors aren’t and how autobiographies can be and not be” —Bernadette Mayer.

Peter Thabit Jones Poems from a Cabin on Big Sur 978-0-89304-575-3, $25, cloth, 96 pp. 978-0-89304-576-0, $15, paper, 96 pp. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2011

Mario Susko Framing Memories 978-0-9815560-6-2, $14, paper, 84 pp. HARBOR MOUNTAIN PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Susko leaves his readers with no easy answers. We must weigh dozens of opposing concepts in our own minds, and decide for ourselves what to keep and what to let go, to construct a self-defined sense of security in a disquieting world.... It is a small comfort, but at least it is a real one. Mario Susko’s poems make no false promises, but instead offer authentic experiences and, yes, pleasures”—Amy Schrader. Larissa Szporluk Traffic with Macbeth 978-1-936797-02-8, $16.95, paper, 64 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. A buffeting sequence of dramatic monologues that provoke and disturb, Larissa Szporluk’s TRAFFIC WITH MACBETH evokes a dark world linked to the black magic of Shakespeare’s tortured Scottish assassin, usurper of kings. Baroque in their sweep of high style and low slang, melody and dissonance, these poems use shifting animate and inanimate speakers and surrealist leaps to convey human brutality, the vulnerability of women and children, madness, and the struggle to escape the limitations of this world. “Larissa Szporluk is no coward soul, and her poems have always taken dark, unflinching, daring risks, thematically and linguistically. The turf of TRAFFIC WITH MACBETH is part heartland noir, part merciless domestic surreality, part fabular theater.... This book does ‘mouth honor’ to the entire spectacle of ‘come what may,’ from the ‘blood at war / within a self’ to the ‘ghost-waves’ of whatever music we can make of even our most brutal hours” —Lisa Russ Spaar.

Poetry. “I love the poems’ clarity of vision, this genuflecting before a life-affirming experience, part of the webwork of a world, so much in its purity, like that of the very dawn of Creation. The poems vary, both in length and in prosody, yet always with Peter’s dual vision and sensibility: ‘The man on Big Sur (observing) with the yes of maturity, but (feeling) with the open heart of the boy on Kilvey’”—Vince Clemente. Tod Thilleman A World of Nothing But Self-Infliction: A FourPart Inflection (Twice Told) 978-0-923389-84-0, $16, paper, 250 pp. MEETING EYES BINDERY 2011

Poetry. “...As if to leave the musical quality of composing behind and enter something made and un-made at the exact same time...came into thinking’s existing on the page and into its composing.... So I discovered a way of working, a mode that harnessed the movement of the moment alongside a stillness of the thought of the lyric...residing intention, at the heart of composition. And then I blew my brains out.”

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE G. Murray Thomas My Kidney Just Arrived 978-1-893670-74-7, $15, paper, 76 pp.

Chris Toll The Disinformation Phase 978-0-9831706-3-1, $12, paper, 68 pp.

TEBOT BACH 2011

PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “As we get older, many of us will develop diseases and conditions that will menace not only our bodies, but also the spiritual nature of our humanity and our most personal definitions of who we are. How do we value our lives when we are faced with onerous interventions of the body to staunch dwindling expectations of the soul? In his dry-eyed journey through 12 years of life with and despite polycystic kidney disease, G. Murray Thomas offers no easy answers, not even when he is presented with the boon of a new kidney and a revolutionary extension of his life. Instead, he chronicles the simple and personal truths— all seen through a refreshingly unsentimental lens. He allows his typewriter to do the thinking for him without digressions into self-pity, and he nixes unwieldy wrestling sessions with grandiosity in favor of pinpointing the truth, which sometimes pops up in the damnedest places. Thomas doesn’t mine his experience to forge poetry. He merely adds to the record, and the poetry arrives. This collection is an account of what happened, and it bristles with the gentle intelligence and humor of a poet of great maturity”—Amélie Frank.

Poetry. The 50 poems in this collection are short, witty, and heartfelt, and they explore the interplay between the sci-fi and the religious. Which is about what you’d expect from the poet Rupert Wondolowski dubbed “the Emily Dickinson of Mars.”

Tracy Thomas Runes 978-1-60964-032-3, $16, paper, 76 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Tracy Thomas’s poetry takes us to places we’ve never been even as we feel we’ve been there before. Sometimes mystical, sometimes comical, sometimes frightening and always overwhelming. His juxtapositions are dizzying, he creates language you can dance to. Tracy is an artist who is fully in control of his craft. His words grasp ahold of the human condition as he creates a sense of isolation, elation, sorrow and sacredness; life filled simultaneously with laughter and tears” —Jack Evans. Rachel Thompson Galaxy 978-1-897535-71-4, $16, paper, 104 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Poetry. GALAXY is about a wounded family (“Anger brimming until it overflows / into rage in the dark living room, / his undershirt soaked through / up the back to his collar”), a prairie place (“Ochre River girls / have a one-room school, / walk through fields of wheat, / play in silos, storing grain dust / in their lungs, / later to exhale it / like cloudy fire”), love that is queer and conventional, about longing and loss (“tempus fugit / my father emails, / now or never, / and I can’t I don’t / wish to speak to my mother. / I don’t believe the mere flight of time / is reason enough”) and a light shone into dark corners. James Tolan Red Walls 978-1-933675-61-9, $12, paper, 38 pp. DOS MADRES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “From the wellspring of a ramshackle youth emerges a poet capable of great empathy, whose eloquence is embodied in reticent, measured, sensuous verse. This poet resurrects the catastrophe of childhood with hard-won insight. Yet even the wise poet might not get inside of us and seize us. James Tolan, though, does and, in his wisdom, realizes that memory is always in danger from the words meant to perpetuate it. His attention to craft is what allows for his knifing, unforgettable testimony. I wonder what word in this extraordinary collection can be done without” —Burt Kimmelman.

Tomas Tranströmer Baltics 978-1-935635-14-7, $17, paper, 96 pp. TAVERN BOOKS 2012

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Swedish by Samuel Charters. In 1974 Tomas Tranströmer (winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature) published his groundbreaking collection BALTICS (Östersjöar). In this book-length poem, Tranströmer creates a literal and figurative landscape where his family history becomes the psychological, perhaps even the spiritual, history of the poet himself. Time, geography, a family, an island, a country, the labor of seamanship—these elements, and so many more, show a voice whose multiplicities and conjunctions intertwine to resemble something like the layers of a symphony, a symphony of narrative, of the minimal, the liminal, the image, collisions, and fragments. BALTICS, as its plural name suggests, is an experiment in the conflation of time, a theme that has come to define Tranströmer’s career as a poet. In 1975 Samuel Charters published the seminal translation of Baltics with Oyez. Out of print for nearly 40 years, this new edition contains a revised translation, a new afterword and translator’s note, and a series of photographs taken by Ann Charters. This definitive, bilingual edition of BALTICS is sure to delight longtime Tranströmer fans and new readers alike. David Trinidad Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems 978-1-933527-47-5, $19, paper, 512 pp. TURTLE POINT PRESS 2011

Poetry. “This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad’s place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects—dirty, glamorous, destructible. Jacqueline Susann meets Sei Shonagon? Trinidad manages to combine neo-formalist abstraction with dripping gorgeous figuration: Bonnard’s wet dream” —Wayne Koestenbaum. Sam Truitt Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete 978-1-58177-121-3, $14.95, paper, 114 pp. STATION HILL PRESS OF BARRYTOWN 2011

Poetry. STREET METE’s multimedia montage is a performative work in language/photo art. Truitt creates a poetics of transcribed voice recordings and on-the-spot photos made in the streets and subways of New York between 1996 and 2004.Infused journal entries give autobiographical edge to its sometimes harsh historical landscape that includes the fall of civilizations, yoking for example the Mayan ruins of Chichén-Itzá to our current walkways. At core is spontaneous composition on the hoof, the “sudden diction” arising from a language artist meeting the world with recorder in hand, speaking forward—”a bit of rubble wearing clothes walking past madison square garden with a pair of enormous inflated boxing gloves oldenbergian in the car line catching fire....”

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Malka Heifetz Tussman With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman 978-0-9828501-2-1, $15, paper, 180 pp. BROWSER BOOKS PUBLISHING 2011

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Yiddish, Edited, and Introduced by Marcia Falk. WITH TEETH IN THE EARTH is the first full-length collection in English of the poetry of acclaimed Yiddish-American poet Malka Heifetz Tussman. Selected from her six books of verse and from a last unpublished manuscript, these poems reflect her love of nature, her deep enjoyment of the physical and sensual world, and her experience of spirituality. “[Tussman’s] elegant, deft lyrics subvert the central myth of women’s lives: the belief that happiness and fulfillment come from devotion to others.... Marcia Falk has gracefully and intelligently captured Tussman’s subtle ironic tone”—Miriam Levine, American Book Review. Jen Tynes The End of Rude Handles 978-0-9764439-1-9, $12, paper, 58 pp. RED MORNING PRESS 2006

Poetry. A book-length sequence that draws together lyric, collage, and essay elements, THE END OF RUDE HANDLES explores landscape and the landscape of language with curiosity and tenderness. Jen Tynes’s distinctively handmade poems are at the same time intellectual and playful, elusive and inviting: “When I speak of you some object is / also formed in light of that. // I enfold the brimming object to you.” Jen Tynes Heron/Girlfriend 978-0-615-25511-8, $15, paper, 88 pp.

Cecilia Vicuña SABORAMI 978-1-930068-50-6, $16, paper, 166 pp. CHAINLINKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. First published in 1973, two months after the military coup in Chile, Cecilia Vicuña’s SABORAMI is a document of the times and the way in which history can change art. It is filled with the urgent hope that art, too, can change history. Put together when Vicuña was just twenty-five years old, the poems, paintings, and objects of SABORAMI enact a complex and multidimensional conversation. The meanings of the works (which were created over a seven year period) shifted radically after the events of September 11, 1973. Their meanings continue to shift and resonate in light of political events today. This recreation of the original SABORAMI is published with a new afterword Vicuña wrote especially for this edition. Wendy Videlock Nevertheless 978-0-9865338-4-6, $16.95, paper, 122 pp. ABLE MUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. NEVERTHELESS is the acclaimed first full-length poetry collection from American poet, Wendy Videlock. These are highly original poems written in Videlock’s unique style and inimitable voice. They cover the gamut from fun, quirky, witty, to wise, in the backdrop of the slopes of the American West, through the gradients of human experience. “Mother Goose jacked up on something barely legal? No, it’s Wendy Videlock, bewitching poet of the West, sister to those who have ‘failed to walk on water’. There is a formal zing to these poems of anarchy and grace. Videlock reminds us that serious poetry can be fun to read. Somehow, too, she has smuggled in a bag of wisdom”—David Mason.

COCONUT BOOKS 2008

Poetry. “‘Everything is hot when taken / out of the body and into town.’ If maps could have weather, I’d say: here’s a map of that journey, from the body into town and back. If a map could have sound—regional dialect sung by a shape-shifter ‘real buddy-buddy with the multiple / inlets.’ The Bo Diddley epigraph sets the tone, but HERON/GIRLFRIEND is a woman’s song. ‘Everyone looks / into my hollow and hollers / their own names. / I give holy hell / back in pieces.’ It’s hot” —Kate Greenstreet. Jen Tynes and Erika Howsare, Editors New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology 978-0-557-35776-5, $15, paper, 136 pp. HORSE LESS PRESS 2010

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. NEW PONY includes work by Erik Anderson, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Kristi Maxwell, Sarah Bartlett & Emily Kendal Frey, Eric Baus & Seth Perlow, Sommer Browning & Brandon Shimoda, Adam Clay, Gary L. McDowell, and Brandon Shimoda, Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina, Thomas Cook & Nate Slawson, Bruce Covey & Terita Heath-Wlaz, MTC Cronin & Peter Boyle, Mark DeCarteret, DZ Delgado & Sandy Florian, Jennifer K. Dick, Camille Dungy & Ravi Shankar, Annie Finch & Erika Howsare, Shawn Huelle & Jess Wigent, Kirk Keen, The Pines, Seth Perlow & Catherine Theis, Dani Rado, Andrea Rexilius & Susan Scarlata, Kate Schapira, Paul Siegell, Justin Taylor & Bill Hayward, and William Walsh.

Héctor Viel Temperley The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley 978-0-9843312-4-6, $15, paper, 96 pp. SAND PAPER PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Stuart Krimko. In his final two books, Héctor Viel Temperley sought to create a complete world, a surreal realm of profound spirituality that would be attained through intensely physical experience. In “Crawl,” the first of two book-length poems included here, a swimmer pulls his body alongside an urban coast, pounded by thunderstorms. His determined strokes establish the rhythm for an ecstatic meditation upon spirit and flesh, a tireless quest for secrets located “between the eye that trembles / and the eye of the abyss.” Viel Temperley’s pursuit would take on even greater urgency in “Hospital Británico,” written as the poet recovered from brain surgery, and named for the facility in which he was treated. This final, kaleidoscopic opus is a radical and literal recreation of his life’s work, a “version” of his present embedded by “splinters” from his past—boxers, pimps, sailors, sharks, and swimmers—that crests toward the future with the inexorable power of prayer. With an introduction by translator Stuart Krimko, and Viel Temperley’s sole published interview (with filmmaker and author Sergio Bizzio), this bilingual edition introduces the Englishspeaking public to one of Argentina’s most original and elusive poets.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Mark Vinz The Work Is All 978-1-890193-35-5, $10, paper, 42 pp.

Barry Wallenstein Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems 978-1-935520-43-6, $18.95, paper, 226 pp.

RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2011

NYQ BOOKS 2012

Poetry. A very personal collection of poems, in which Mark Vinz, editor of the legendary Midwest magazine Dacotah Territory, honors his lifelong passion for poetry and pays tribute to the poets that influenced him and that he counted as friends.

Poetry. “Drastic Dislocations” is the title poem of the section of new poems in DRASTIC DISLOCATIONS, and this title is consistent with many of his concerns registered in the poetry he began writing in his teens. His first publications were in the Transatlantic Review in 1964, but it was not until 1977 that BOA Editions published his first book of poems, Beast Is a Wolf with Brown Fire. This new volume includes the author’s choices from each of his six previous books, poems reflecting the socio-political life of the time as well as the perennial, transcendent themes of eros and thanatos.

Anastassis Vistonitis Mara’s Shade 978-1-893670-72-3, $15, paper, 116 pp. TEBOT BACH 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Greek by David Connolly. “Anastassis Vistonitis occupies a unique position in Greek letters: equally acclaimed as a poet and a journalist, he switches from one medium to the other with seeming ease, now composing poems and literary essays, now turning out book reviews and articles, often on the same day. Both streams feed the sea of his imagination— he calls his prose a continuation of poetry by other means—and his Greek readers are fortunate to have his work available to them in so many forms.... What good luck to have a selection of his poems in English, in the splendid translation of David Connolly” —Chrisopher Merrill, from his Introduction. Megan Volpert Sonics in Warholia 978-1-937420-04-8, $14.95, paper, 62 pp. SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Speaking directly to the pop icon’s ghost, Megan Volpert dives into a completely charted yet utterly unknown ocean that is Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of love letters and hate mail audaciously perforates the scene of the usual cultural suspects with icy shrapnel in a terrifying mirror game. This is not a biography, but a book that reflects Andy— detects him, the Andy who deflects. Working into territory that channels the essay as its more radical practitioners imagine, Megan revives the prose poem and rethinks herself. As the idea of a “real” Andy begins to decay, the author learns to invent him and discovers herself everywhere. Remaking this mythic man in the image of her own baggage, Megan gives us her most personal writing to date and a striking truth: everybody becomes Andy. Richard Wagamese Runaway Dreams 978-1-55380-129-0, $15.95, paper, 130 pp. RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Native American Studies. Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and nonfiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world where “the ancient ones stand at your shoulder...making you a circle / containing everything.” These are Medicine teachings told from the experience of one who lived and still lives them. He also describes his life on the road when he repeatedly ran away at an early age, and the beatings he received when the authorities tried “to beat the Indian right out of me.” Yet even in the most desperate situations, Wagamese shows us Canada as seen through the eyes and soul of a well-worn traveller, with his love of country, his love of people. Through it all, there are poems of love and music, the language sensuous and tender.

Mark Walton Frostbitten 978-1-926860-00-8, $17.5, paper, 103 pp. EPIC RITES PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that “Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood and you will discover that blood is spirit.” Mark Walton does not merely write with blood, he wields his pen like a scalpel - marbling away fat and dead tissue with economy and precision. FROSTBITTEN is not merely a collection of poetry, it’s the literary equivalent of open heart surgery. Scott Wannberg tomorrow is another song 978-0-9819747-7-4, $20, cloth, 172 pp. PERCEVAL PRESS 2011

Poetry. TOMORROW IS ANOTHER SONG is Perceval Press’s second collection from California kamikaze poet Scott Wannberg, again edited by Henry Mortensen. Once more Scott challenges and delights us, burning all flags, distilling them into long flashes of slow-glowing lightning. “His poetry can be political, polemical, personal, provocative, and it shies away from cheap alliteration. His work is contemporary and timeless, brave and honest, and fun as hell to read”—Ed Harris. Joshua Ware Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley 978-0-9826299-3-2, $12, paper, 90 pp. FURNITURE PRESS BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. “The fluctuating horizon of each page where poems dissolve into ‘Explanatory Notes’ suggests the contemporary poet’s struggle with lines and lineages entangling the lyric in a tradition shaped primarily by its hostility to tradition. Ware illustrates the writer’s task, alternately fruitful and frustrating, to accomplish the poem as discrete object while experiencing self as fluid and associational, with a promiscuous appetite for language stimulated and satisfied as much by Frankfurt School philosophy and schoolyard myth as by Aaron Sorkin’s television scripts and Lacan’s Disney. Ware’s book questions the possibility of transgression in a culture made by uncertain boundaries” —Elizabeth Savage.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman, and David Lunde, Editors 300 Tang Poems 978-1-935210-26-9, $19, paper, 370 pp. WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Translated by Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman, and David Lunde. THREE HUNDRED TANG POEMS includes great names like Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei, as well as a splendid sampling of the rest of poets who helped to make the Tang the golden age of Chinese poetry. “The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and translator, both of whom live on through the beauty of these poems. The night is young, and this book is full of music”—Red Pine. Jacqueline Waters One Sleeps The Other Doesn’t 978-1-933254-83-8, $15, paper, 104 pp. UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. The poems in Jacqueline Waters’s highly anticipated second book make the rounds of vigilance, distraction, absorption, conviction, and trepidation, via sudden bouts of vertigo and hard poetic work. Says the author, “Some of the poems are asleep, some try to stay awake long enough to learn something, and a few employ a strategy of excessive concern with the process of their own production. Some of the poems are awake at a time they would rather be asleep.” The serial poems in this collection ignite both halves of the brain, steering clear of unnecessary intimacy or excessive aloofness as they examine how the feelings of one person are modified by the presence of others. Laura Wetherington A Map Predetermined and Chance 978-1-934200-49-0, $15.95, paper, 60 pp. FENCE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Identified, pressed, touched ‘repeatedly or restlessly,’ pleasured, hankered after, pointed at with the finger. Laura Wetherington means everything, all of everything. ‘The map is not the territory,’ said Alfred Korzybski. Perhaps Wetherington’s map is the territory. ‘All I want is universe,’ she winks”—C.S. Giscombe, National Poetry Series judge. Strong, cathartic language on subjects ranging as wide as orgasm as deep as music, as timely as place, these debut poems speak clearly to history both personal and liberatory. Calvin Wharton The Song Collides 978-1-897535-68-4, $16, paper, 80 pp.

Marvin K. White Our Name Be Witness 978-0-9786251-5-3, $15, paper, 140 pp. REDBONE PRESS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. “Comprised of catalogs of dreams, questions, advice, recipes and observation, OUR NAME BE WITNESS describes the complicated communities that are the foundations of our neighborhoods, our aspirations, and our hearts. Raw and honest, Marvin K. White’s third collection reminds us that ‘every time you tell the truth, you become the truth.’ In one of the most striking of this book’s freewheeling prose poems, White claims, ‘Writing is magic. Is a grounding thing. Connects floating stories to paper and earth.’ Indeed”—Camille Dungy. Marvin K. White Status 978-0-9786251-8-4, $10, paper, 180 pp. REDBONE PRESS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. STATUS is a collection of commiserations, wisdoms, placeholders, remembrances, lessons, guiding principles, wives’ tales, riddles, puns, purges, time management tools, and helpful hints. It is an amalgamation of reiterations, fortunes, factoids, and foibles. There are spills and freezes. This representation is full of forgetme-nots, deciphers, misfires, and strikes. Somewhere between poem, prompt, and punditry lies Pithos, the quip, the quick, the truth, an emergent poetic form: the Facebook status. Sharon White Eve & Her Apple 978-0-9815560-5-5, $14, paper, 86 pp. HARBOR MOUNTAIN PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Sharon White has the remarkable talent of weaving the various times that poetry can summon— moments, histories of eras, seasons, human recollections, botanical cycles, even geology—into effortless wholes. The poems reverberate with the feeling that comes from deep observation and deep caring. That makes them precious in the fullest sense— not rare and self-conscious but shining with their own light”—Baron Wormser. Bill Wolak Archeology of Light 978-0-89304-528-9, $25, cloth, 72 pp. 978-0-89304-529-6, $15, paper, 72 pp. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2011

Poetry. ARCHEOLOGY OF LIGHT is a collection of poems of peace and love and harmony by one who has explored deeply in the Asian cultures.

ANVIL PRESS 2011

Poetry. THE SONG COLLIDES takes the reader on a highly personal and internal metaphysical investigation into the state of the natural world—and then back via more lyrical and local enquiries that speak to each and every one of us. Life as an exchange: each of us takes in the world and then expresses it for ourselves and for others. This is a simultaneous and nearly imperceptible process that lasts, we hope, at least until the exit. “Calvin Wharton’s poems in THE SONG COLLIDES pulse and soar with the sounds of beautiful music. Whether a specific one of THE SONG COLLIDES’ lyrics, prose poems, sonnets, or elegies mentions music or not, Wharton’s mastery of his art never fails to bring his words to resonant life in the ear and mind. He is a connoisseur of precise details that, transformed through his attention to the musicality of language, ring within the reader’s memory like a favorite tune”—Tom Wayman.

Bill Wolak and Mahoom Karimi-Hakak Love Emergencies 978-0-89304-480-0, $40, cloth, 132 pp. 978-0-89304-481-7, $20, paper, 132 pp. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2010

Poetry. Bilingual Edition in English and Persian. “LOVE EMERGENCIES evolved as an experiment in translation in which we sought to communicate our most intimate thoughts and feelings across language and culture without footnotes.... Although sealed in language on the page, these poems are seldom content to yield to their own limitations. Instead, they are always straining to reach beyond language into the turmoil of actual experience, where, as in a real emergency, when everything is at stake, language gets left behind and the body takes over—waving goodbye, touching a hand, opening into an embrace”—Bill Wolak and Mahmood Karimi-Hakak .

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE Jennifer C. Wolfe Somewhere over the Pachyderm Rainbow: Living in an Elephant-Controlled 2010 Election Diorama 978-1-60964-057-6, $16, paper, 115 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “In scores of vignettes, Jennifer Wolfe eviscerates the twisted path taken by today’s conservatives. Her scalpel leaves the ‘elephant’ crippled and drowning in a pool of its own speculation, conspiracy theories, and fear mongering. Wolfe synthesizes the vitriol encouraged and nurtured by Fox ‘News,’ et al., originating with the candidacy of America’s first African American president. Each character and incident is exposed, assessed, and stripped bare for the reader. This volume will edify anyone who is not current on the present mournful and despicable state of generic politics in an unapologetic, take-no-prisoners barrage”—Kathleen Bryce Niles. Jon Woodward Uncanny Valley 978-1-880834-99-2, $15.95, paper, 68 pp. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2012

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition. The unforgettable, idiosyncratic poems in Woodward’s highly musical and obsessively incantatory third collection bring to mind the metaphysical voids of Samuel Beckett’s plays and the voyages of Charles Darwin as they rediscover and seek to inhabit an uncomfortably familiar natural world: “A hurricane came and caused the land to open. / Also fire, pestilence, and benevolent compassion. / Much later there was a terrible car accident. / Whatever or whatever climbed out of the wreck alive.” Franz Wright Entries of the Cell 978-1-934851-29-6, $14.95, paper, 22 pp.

Margaret Young Almond Town 978-1-892471-65-9, $16, paper, 80 pp. BRIGHT HILL PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Nimble, spirited, marked by sharp and witty insights, ALMOND TOWN offers us a sensuous feast of music. This poet has an excellent ear for language, and affectionately celebrates hummingbirds, dogs, kingfisher, fox, as well as landscape.’Valentine’s Day’, a prose poem, richly sets the tone. ‘I wish for Luke a memory of this scene of white slat fences golden light, a pale / dog lapping sprinkler overflow, wheels grinding softly on the sidewalk / in the middle of California.’ We also spin through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and visit the newlyweds in Cape May and Costa Rica, all pictured with zest and unexpected turns of phrases. Sometimes a Latin flavor of Cinco de Mayo and La Cucaracha give the work a salsa piquant that thrills. It is a joy to read these poems”—Colette Inez, Awards Judge. Natan Zach The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1955-1979 978-1-935635-08-6, $17, paper, 120 pp. TAVERN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Hebrew by Peter Everwine. THE COUNTRIES WE LIVE IN is the most comprehensive collection of Natan Zach’s poetry in English. Selected, translated, and introduced by Peter Everwine, this volume of Zach’s essential early work showcases a poetry that is both complex and astringent, a poetry that bears witness to the existential dilemmas of the human condition. His modes are those of pervasive irony and wit. Zach’s is not an art of elegance, but one of rigorous perspective and distinction. This volume reintroduces North American readers to one of Israel’s major contemporary poetic figures.

MARICK PRESS 2010

Poetry. ENTRIES OF THE CELL is some of Franz Wright’s best writing in years. “The cell will teach you all things” is a saying of some early Christians who, in the third century, bewildered to find that no matter what they did and no matter how powerful their faith, the new world they dreamed of far too closely resembled the irreparably corrupt old world. Their remedy to this dilemma was to withdraw from the cities of their time into the desolate solitude in which they found God’s presence perpetually closer and more available to them. The saying has been adopted by the Society of the Brotherhood of St. John the Evangelist where, at their Cambridge branch, T. S. Eliot attended services while teaching at Harvard in the thirties. Dedicated to Franz Wright’s friend Palestinian poet Fady Joudah—good husband, dad, emergency room MD in Houston and American translator of Mahmoud Darwish—the book is a single poem. Its title is meant to suggest all kinds of cells—body, jail, but primarily the cell in the sense of the small functional bare room in which a monk prays, studies and sleeps. John Yamrus Can’t Stop Now! 978-1-926860-06-0, $17.50, paper, 133 pp. EPIC RITES PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Two major qualities prevail in Yamrus’s recent work: economy and punch. No word is unnecessary or out of place; the timing is impeccable; and, most difficult of all, the endings hit just the right balance of summation, revelation, and surprise”—Gerald Locklin, author of Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet.

Antonella Zagaroli Mindskin: A Selection of Poems 1985-2010 978-0-9823849-7-8, $20, paper, 230 pp. CHELSEA EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian and introduced by Anamaría Crowe Serrano. Antonella Zagaroli is a poetic phenomenon. She writes prolifically, applies poetry to psychological studies, runs poetic workshops and organizes poetry, art and awareness events in health-care centers, schools and libraries. Her work is fluid and constantly evolving. MINDSKIN offers a generous selection from two collections of poetry (La maschera della Gioconda/The Gioconda’s Mask and Serrata a ventagli/Fan-locked), a volume of prose poems (La volpe blu/The Blue Fox) and an epic poem (Vinera minima/Minimal Venus). Sondra Zeidenstein Contraries: New and Selected Poems 978-1-887344-13-5, $18, paper, 104 pp. CHICORY BLUE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Women’s Studies. CONTRARIES is a collection of poems about the life of a woman from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, erotic life, political and cultural context, children, grandchildren, and illness—all seen through the perspective of age. “[Sondra Zeidenstein] examines a long-term marriage from every possible angle—that of a daughter, of a loving wife and partner, of a passionate young woman and a passionate older one. She flinches from nothing; she remembers everything”—Sue Ellen Thompson.

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Year two books now available from Dorothy, a publishing project . . . The Ravickians Renee Gladman The second volume of Gladman’s Ravicka trilogy (after Event Factory) continues the author’s profound meditation upon translation and the ephemeral, now from the perspective of an insider who struggles to make plain the crises of Ravickian life that she knows to be untranslatable.

In the Time of the Blue Ball

Manuela Draeger (translated by brian evenson)

“With the calm strangeness of dreams, and humor deepened by a hint of melancholy, these wonderful stories fool around on the frontiers of the imagination. All musical dogs, woolly crabs, children and other detectives of the not-yet-invented should own this book.” —SHELLEY JACKSON

also available . . . “Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes. In Event Factory the details of her dream gleam specifically yet they bob on the surface of a deeper wider abyss we all might be becoming engulfed in. It has the strange glamour of Kafka’s Amerika, this book, but the narrator, lusty and persuasive, is growing up.” —EILEEN MYLES “Comyns is one of those writers you can barely believe ever goes out of print. Her books are so funny, so exact, so twisted, you imagine their appeal would last for generations. Luckily for us, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, originally published in 1954, has been rescued by the new publishing project Dorothy.” —JESSA CRISPIN, PBS.org

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Fiction and Drama

Listed alphabetically by author. See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.9), Literary Nonﬁction (p.73), and Magazine sections (p.83)

Erica Adams The Mutation of Fortune 978-1-4507-4209-2, $20, paper, 127 pp.

Nick Antosca Fires 978-0-9846037-9-4, $14.95, paper, 230 pp.

THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS 2011

Fiction. Art. THE MUTATION OF FORTUNE documents the parallel fortunes of one protagonist living multiple lives. As she navigates her Märchen landscape, she goes through varied transformations, becoming at times a wolf, a thief, an amputee, a hunter, a rabbit and a runaway. She sleeps with swans and suffers a sister that bites the back of her knees. The world of this book is unstable, delicious and carries with it an inexplicit sense of danger. Printed in an edition of 500 with silk screen covers by Aay Preston-Myint, this book hosts a series of color plate collages made by the author.

Fiction. Deer running through a ghost neighborhood. A boy trapped in a basement for eight years. Three young people locked in a violent sex triangle. Come inside. Already caught between the ambition and alienation of life at an Ivy League school, Jon Danfield must come face to face with a revelation about his smalltown past. His journey will take him away from the halls of privilege and into the heart of the monstrous forest fire threatening his childhood home. On deserted suburban streets lined with perfect houses, Danfield must confront an American dream corroded by unspeakable acts of cruelty. “FIRES is fantastic. It’s often dark, often startlingly beautiful, and it’s crammed with a smoky, foreboding atmosphere that kept pulling me along, thrilled and a little scared, toward the end” —Scott Heim.

Will Alexander Inside the Earthquake Palace: 4 Plays 978-0-925904-89-8, $18, paper, 142 pp. CHAX PRESS 2011

Drama. Poetry. African American Studies. “Will Alexander’s poetic universe could be a 1 + 1000 surface (‘folded-in expanse’) imbedded in a 1 + 1000 + X dimensional Historical Space-Time (the ‘transverse’), with Ancient-Future Language particles and ?elds trapped on the folded-in expanse while NonInstitutional Unrepressed Images (NIUI’s) are free to access the transverse. At least one of Alexander’s extra spatial dimensions could be very large (cosmic proportional) relative to the Standard Global Media Scale of Capitalist Misapprehension of ‘personhood,’ which lowers the Fundamental Human Individual’s Volitional Scale, possibly even down to Trans-SubCultural Electroweak Level. This revolutionary picture arises in the framework of recent developments in ÜberPerformativity in Contemporary Poetics ® as regards Spontaneous Mass Bubble Nucleation of Language as possible New Life Form Generation (NLFG’s). Generalized Over-Accumulated-Wealth SuckBot Aesthetics cannot describe Present Ever-Dying Noxious Cultures at high enough energies and so must be replaced by an Alexanderized PolyPerson Theory of Drama, picking up significant corrections as the Fundamental Ideological Corpus Energy Scale is approached. Thus, at high energies Infra-Continental Cultural Relevance ‘leaks’ into the transverse, behaving in a truly higher-dimensional way”—Rodrigo Toscano. Roberta Allen The Dreaming Girl 978-0-9637536-6-3, $14, paper, 142 pp. ELLIPSIS PRESS 2011

Fiction. Introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In THE DREAMING GIRL, Roberta Allen’s exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. “[A] literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy”—Ken Foster, The Village Voice. “Roberta Allen transmits the pain and compensating strangeness of living in vignettes as urgent and enigmatic as telegrams”—John Ashbery.

Nelly Arcan Exit 978-1-897535-66-0, $20, paper, 224 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Fiction. Translated from the French by David Scott Hamilton. Somewhere in Montréal, in the not too distant future, an obscure company offers custom-designed suicides for its clients with one condition: their desire to die must be pure and absolute. Antoinette Beauchamp is a successful candidate but her suicide is not. Now a bedridden paraplegic, hooked up to machines that monitor all her bodily functions. she tells her story, taking the reader into the Kafkaesque world of the company and its bewildering cast of characters. EXIT is at once a profound examination of what it is that drives someone to want to end their life, as well as how that urge can be turned on its head against all odds. Written with her signature brio and acerbic wit, Nelly Arcan’s last novel is a hymn to life. Robert Ashley Atalanta (Acts of God) 978-0-936050-29-4, $25, cloth, 208 pp. BURNING BOOKS 2011

Drama. Music. Opera. This innovative opera was developed and performed in the 1980s, widely praised internationally, and reviewed. This book is the first publication of the entire libretto, with an afterword by Robert Ashley. “ATALANTA is the second in a cycle of three operas (PERFECT LIVES and Now Eleanor’s Idea being the first and third) which have defined Robert Ashley as the single most important figure in American experimental music theater. The operas—particularly this one—are complex. It takes many listenings to explore the levels which Ashley combines effortlessly in his librettos. It has to be said also that he is a fine writer of prose and the depth of these works reflects the quality of a highly developed literary mind as well as that of a first rate composer. Having read the libretto several times now, I can say that the text is as inexhaustibly rich as that of PERFECT LIVES” —Paul Schultze, The Wire.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Kurt José Ayau The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories 978-1-60489-069-3, $18.95, paper, 192 pp.

Kevin Bartelme The Great Redstone 978-1-887276-59-7, $14.95, paper, 204 pp.

LIVINGSTON PRESS 2011

COOL GROVE PRESS 2009

Fiction. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award, THE BRICK MURDER is a funnily tragic collection of stories that always borders on wondrously correct incorrectness. A manic and angered sub-sub-librarian learns about cultural differences from a manic and angered patron. A junior faculty member gets paid to befriend a senior star philandering poet. Three kids and a rabbi discover the awful truth that God really is a process God. A token black man—Bob the Negro— accomplishes revenge in his work place—at a price. And, a brick plays a momentous part in a tragedy. This collection comes one short of a dozen, but nothing short in its style and reach.

Fiction. Martin Seward’s sojourn in the country is about to take an unexpected turn for the better, at least for those last golden, sunlit days of summer. However, the fateful intersection of his cousin Alicia and his neighbor Dacron Redstone will eventually lead to consequences that can only be described as disastrous. At least if you have no sense of humor. Bartelme’s comical account of life with the summer people will make you wonder if that country house is really worth it. Jackie Bateman Nondescript Rambunctious 978-1-897535-70-7, $20, paper, 224 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Joshua Baldwin The Wilshire Sun 978-1-933527-46-8, $10.50, paper, 128 pp. TURTLE POINT PRESS 2011

Fiction. THE WILSHIRE SUN is a mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless, over-aspiring, under-achieving young writer from Brooklyn who moves to Los Angeles hoping to write for the movies. With understated deadpan humor and dynamic, sly, original language and off-kilter imagery, Joshua Baldwin has created a novella that may remind readers of an improbable roundtable meeting of Tao Lin, James Thurber, S.J. Perelman, and Jack Benny. The elements of the novella’s constitution— clipped pieces of fast-paced immediate narrative interspersed with epistolary matter and off-the-cuff riffs on junk food, screenwriting, Walt Whitman, big brothers, bum grandfathers, and crackpot friends—magically hang together and offer a delightfully absurd portrait of the artist as a young man for our times in the City of Angels. “Baldwin’s characters search for fame in the shape-shifting landscape of Hollywood. He has a voice that follows the mirage even after it disappears. THE WILSHIRE SUN is a surreal, giddily original debut that plumbs the myth of Los Angeles”—James Frey. Rusty Barnes Mostly Redneck 978-1-934513-32-3, $18, paper, 156 pp. SUNNYOUTSIDE 2011

Fiction. In MOSTLY REDNECK, Rusty Barnes expounds on his upbringing in disadvantaged rural northern Appalachia to deliver a mastery of country idiom and setting. In one minimalist story after another, he gives perspective and breadth to the widely misunderstood world of a people who still hunt for food, occasionally join their neighbors for church, and sometimes enjoy it when their city kin step in cow shit. Dennis Barone Field Report 978-1-935835-02-8, $15, paper, 102 pp. QUALE PRESS 2011

Fiction. FIELD REPORT begins in affirmation and ends in doubt. Between start and finish there are archaic dictions and near-invented languages, simplistic jokes that a seven-year-old might tell and visions of what might be astonishments. One sentence states: “What wondrous things words”—what, the optimal word here, turns the statement toward a question, one left long unanswered. The twenty stories in this book comprise a field report filed by an anthropologist, providing a concise and complete outline of culture as seen through the tri-lens of sensation, perception and vision. Along the way some pancakes, frogs and gelato get mixed into our favorite pot—or is it plot? One particularly effusive informant offers a wealth of information—passionate in its despair, and the reader might find it—in response— not too late to consider the world presented in FIELD REPORT with a touch of mercy.

Fiction. NONDESCRIPT RAMBUNCTIOUS is a genrebusting thriller with a beating, human heart. More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, the novel takes the reader into the life of a family, the days of a community, and the very real possibility that evil is everywhere—maybe even inside us. Woven through this dark tapestry are the glittering threads of humanity, humor, and in the form of one young woman, the promise of redemption. Like a sinister dream, NONDESCRIPT RAMBUNCTIOUS pulls you in and doesn’t let go. There is no easy way out. S. Bell The Urban Fairytales, Book Two: Love Story 978-1-887997-71-3, $5, paper, 24 pp. BAKSUN BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Art. Graphic Novel. LOVE STORY is the second full-length volume of autobiographical comics by Sarah C. Bell. It is a funny and intimate look into the life of a woman stumbling through life. Bell’s URBAN FAIRYTALES are frank, sincere, hilarious and often poignant tales that readers can relate to their own lives. Kola Boof The Sexy Part of the Bible 978-1-936070-96-1, $15.95, paper, 224 pp. AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. African American Studies. Following in the footsteps of her idols Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Kola Boof asserts her own literary prowess with a chilling sociopolitical love story. Set in modern West Africa, Europe, and the United States, and featuring the kind of heroine readers rarely get to encounter in popular culture—beautiful charcoal-skinned Eternity, a spirited and diabolical young African hellcat whose life is stigmatized by a heart-stopping secret—THE SEXY PART OF THE BIBLE is an erotically astute novel filled with mystery and adventure. Jenny Boully not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them 978-0-9825416-7-8, $16, paper, 80 pp. TARPAULIN SKY PRESS 2011

Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. NOT MERELY BECAUSE OF THE UNKNOWN THAT WAS STALKING TOWARD THEM is a dark re-visioning of J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy—as only Jenny Boully could have written.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Bonnie Bowman Spaz 978-1-897535-27-1, $20, paper, 368 pp.

Brian Castro Shanghai Dancing 978-1-885030-42-9, $18.95, paper, 464 pp.

ANVIL PRESS 2010

KAYA PRESS 2009

Fiction. Meet Walter Finch, an ungainly kid who survives his cloying suburban childhood to make it only as far as the local mall, where he rises through the ranks to become manager of a shoe store. Unlike his other childhood friends who either flee suburbia or remain as resigned fixtures, Walter is content with his lot and finds the shoe store an ideal environment in which to pursue his grand ambition: designing the perfect woman’s shoe. As he delves further into his passion, alone in his apartment at night, Walter comes to believe that his path will ultimately lead him to the perfect foot to fit his creation. On an all-consuming mission to find his princess, Walter is plunged into a separate reality, his own fairytale. As things spin steadily out of control, Walter’s eventual salvation arrives in an unlikely form, should he choose to recognize and accept it.

Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls “Shanghai Dancing,” António seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family’s wanderings. Reversing his parents’ own migration, António heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A “fictional autobiography,” SHANGHAI DANCING is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W. G. Sebald. The Age has described the book as “an extraordinary polyglot mix of sources: Portuguese, Chinese, English, Jewish and Catholic, and a mysterious recessive black gene...told in Castro’s characteristically baroque prose, dense with its passion for language and serious wordplay.” The winner of some of Australia’s top literary prizes, SHANGHAI DANCING has been praised by its judges as “a work of major significance [that] challenges our expectations of storytelling.... It is impressive as history, as fiction, as a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience.” SHANGHAI DANCING marks the U.S. debut of a major Australian literary figure.

Charles Bukowski More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns 978-0-87286-543-3, $16.95, paper, 225 pp. CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Filled with his usual obsessions—sex, booze, gambling—MORE NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN features Bukowski’s offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly veiled autobiography to fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down-and-out sports promoters, climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure amoung French filmmakers, “My Friend The Gambler,” based on his experiences making the movie, Barfly. From his days at the post office through his later fame, MORE follows the entire arc of Bukowski’s career. Edited by Bukowski scholar David Stephen Calonne. Tony Burgess Ravenna Gets 978-1-897535-32-5, $18, paper, 96 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2010

Fiction. In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna tries to erase the population of Collingwood. The innocent, standing in their living rooms, cooking in their kitchens, and playing in their yards, are simply checked off by hunting rifles or crossed out by farmers’ tools. There is one thing missing, however, as the bodies fall from what might have been better stories, better novels, and it’s this: everything. “...out on the edge and experimental to the point of reader-confusion, but surprisingly alluring. When taking a reader to the cliff edge, then the writing must be as enticing as chocolate even if the story smells bad. I don’t get it and I didn’t enjoy it, but I couldn’t look away: This poetic, fast-flying nihilistic narrative of carnage is well done”—The Globe & Mail. Z. K. Burrus Senestre on Vacation 978-1-60489-075-4, $18.95, paper, 220 pp. LIVINGSTON PRESS 2011

Fiction. Thomas Senestre, insomniac and half-hearted cop, is haunted by the dead. He quotes Wordsworth in the rain. He broods on the claustrophobic nature of Hitler’s Bunker. He “jollies” himself through long nights by questioning...everything. Just now, he is the doing his best to impersonate a fellow delighted to be vacationing in the blustery burg of Pantego where seagulls foul the benches and high tides flood the streets. Summoned there by his mother’s (alleged) friend, he’s supposed to be helping discover Adora Phelps’s stalker.

Lee Cataluna Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa 978-0-910043-85-4, $18, paper, 225 pp. BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS 2011

Fiction. In her first novel, journalist and award-winning playwright Lee Cataluna follows the adventures of a small town miscreant through his alternately hilarious and tragic life. THREE YEARS ON DOREEN’S SOFA is the story of Bobby, a bumbling, affable ne’er-do-well, and his wildly misguided attempts to go straight after serving three years in jail for a stupid drug-related offense. His sister Doreen lets him stay on her sofa until he gets his life back together. Heartwarming and heartrending at the same time, this book, says the Honolulu Weekly “may open up a whole new era for Hawai’i literature.” Norma Charles Run Marco, Run 978-1-55380-131-3, $11.95, paper, 183 pp. RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Young Adult Fiction. In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his father yells at him, “Run Marco, run!” Marco manages to escape, and seeing no possibility of help in Colombia, he stows away on a freighter headed to Vancouver where a good friend of his father is living and who may be able to help. During his search, Marco encounters what seem like insurmountable odds and learns that he must call upon his inner strength and nerve to keep going. “Valeroso; courage,” he keeps saying to himself as he evades drug dealers, security guards, the police and the authorities who would send him back to Colombia—straight into the arms of his father’s kidnappers. RUN MARCO, RUN is a riveting adventure about a plucky boy who will dare anything to save his father, and who learns that running away is sometimes the heroic thing to do.

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FICTION AND DRAMA James E. Cherry Still a Man and Other Stories 978-0-9846212-3-1, $14.95, paper, 156 pp. AQUARIUS PRESS/WILLOW BOOKS 2011

Fiction. African American Studies. In fluid prose, the stories in this remarkably mature collection chronicle an African American experience in the New South that is both rich and complex. Oftentimes, James Cherry’s characters deal with the tragic and crippling—still there is humanity in the way he navigates each story plot without agenda or apology. Imbued with the complexities of the vernacular tradition, STILL A MAN is a beautiful exposition on what it means to be Black, Southern and Human. It is fearlessly honest while depicting economic class, violence and love in all their myriad forms. Noah Cicero Best Behavior 978-0-9846037-7-0, $12.95, paper, 164 pp. CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS 2011

Fiction. BEST BEHAVIOR, the new novel by Noah Cicero, is his boldest work yet. As the subject matter becomes increasingly autobiographical, the landscape more bleak, its impact is blunt, brutal, but somehow still hilarious. This is the literature of pain: of living in a world where nothing is right—a temple to capitalism with no room for any kind of human spirit—and, despite everything, trying to find some way to deal with it; then eventually failing. BEST BEHAVIOR might be the truest story ever told. Philip Cioffari Jesusville 978-1-60489-071-6, $18.95, paper, 260 pp. LIVINGSTON PRESS 2011

Fiction. All of the characters in JESUSVILLE have, in one form or another, lost faith—in God or the Church or the social order or themselves—and so are searching to reclaim what has been taken from them.

John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles, Editors blink again: sudden fiction from the upper midwest 978-0-9835478-0-8, $14, paper, 184 pp. SPOUT PRESS 2011

Fiction. Edited by John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles. In its most soulful incarnation, what actually transpires in the vastness of the northern plains? The forty-one short stories gathered for this collection, each less than 1,200 words, form a wide-ranging and occasionally confounding answer to this question. It’s the middle of a long, hallucinatory winter, and you’re writing a story. Anything can happen. Then it does. These are stories of loneliness, betrayal, ghosts, lost dogs, fantastic job applicants and men who want to light each other on fire. The thirty-nine authors explore the strobe-flash intensity of sudden fiction, beginning in medias res and ending at the edge of today’s cliff. It’s quite probably the feel-good book of the season, right down to the hummingbird cover. Contributors include Alan Davis, Dessa Wander, Diane Glancy, Jay Orff, Lon Otto, Pat Cumbie, Ray Gonzalez, Sun Yung Shin, and many more.

Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks 978-0-9846166-1-9, $15.95, paper, 248 pp. ROSE METAL PRESS 2011

Fiction. THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES contains—but just barely—five chapbooks of flash fiction, including the winner of the third annual Rose Metal Press short short chapbook contest, and four of the finalists from the fourth. Dropped toddlers, attempted drownings, juvenile promiscuity, road trips, and inappropriate therapy sessions compose the multivoiced family portrait in Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake by Elizabeth J. Colen. Yoga stalkers, guns and gold, babies with iron stomachs, drunkards with t-shirt cannons, and warlocks are the stuff of Do Not Touch Me Not Now Not Ever by John Jodzio. Dominatrixes and fetishists, face paint and goo, fierce parental love and perverse longings cohabitate in Evan’s House and the Other Boys Who Live There by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Leukemia, meteorites, Wal-Mart, bocce ball, Charlie Brown’s clinical depression, the language of talking crows and of Che Guevara’s omelets fill the eggs in How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace. And small stories about pretty girls who sit quietly and behave themselves (or not) populate the pages of Paper and Tassels by Mary Miller. Ry Cooder Los Angeles Stories 978-0-87286-519-8, $15.95, paper, 224 pp. CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Fiction. California Studies. LOS ANGELES STORIES is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America’s most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-ityourself culture of cool cats, outsiders, and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine. Ordinary working folks rubbed elbows with petty criminals, grifters, and all sorts of women at foggy end-of-the-line outposts in Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Rich with the essence and character of the times, suffused with the patois of the city’s underclass, these are stories about the common people of Los Angeles, “a sunny place for shady people,” and the strange things that happen to them. Musicians, gun shop owners, streetwalkers, tailors, door-to-door salesmen, drifters, housewives, dentists, pornographers, new arrivals, and hard-bitten denizens all intersect in cleverly plotted stories that center around some kind of shadowy activity. This quirky love letter to a lost way of life will appeal to fans of hard-boiled fiction and anyone interested in the city itself.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Lynn Crawford Simply Separate People, Two 978-1-934029-20-6, $15, paper, 153 pp. THE BROOKLYN RAIL/BLACK SQUARE EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. “SIMPLY SEPARATE PEOPLE, TWO is a magical machine whose innards are in plain view but whose operating principles remain profoundly mysterious. A dazzling feat of collage and reverse-engineering, Crawford writes in a deceptively easy-going style that’s both critical of and generous to all our sad and beautiful scurrying around”—Eugene Lim. “Lynn Crawford is a dead-on inventor of human dislocation. Her people, separated as they are from both themselves and the rest of the world, are skinlessly rendered by a writer who reminds us of who we are inside our own skins. At the center of the world stands Bry, a sort of unseen/unheard Everywoman. It is through her eyes and through her attempts at invention and singularity that we follow along and feel through the struggle and interplay between the binds of domestic reality and the desire to find and tell a story richer and taller and ultimately more mysterious than one’s own birthright. This novel is more than just a story, more than just a book; it is a world entire unto itself, and the people in it become more like real people, like made out of flesh neighbors, than simply characters made out of ink”—Peter Markus. Lisa de Nikolits West of Wawa 978-1-926708-24-9, $22.95, paper, 260 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. Emotionally battered and bruised, 29-year-old Australian immigrant Benny is looking for escape, not redemption. Escape from herself and the dismal failures of her life: her first solo art exhibition is panned by critics and her husband left her for an Andy Warhol look-alike. Isolated from her family, her career as an abstract artist in ruins, she comes to Canada and finds solace working eighteen hours a day as a graphic designer in a disreputable agency. Numbing her pain with hard work, she self-medicates with prescription meds, and becomes involved in a series of increasingly dubious relationships with ill-suited unreliable men who lead her into danger. Cutting all ties, Benny leaves her job and sets off on a road trip adventure across Canada, hoping she will discover who she wants to be and where she wants to be it. This coming-of-age novel is narrated with wry humor and filled with a cast of engaging characters. A tale of sexual adventure and feminist learning, Benny looks for escape but emerges a heroine instead; with mistakes, epiphanies and friendships helping forge her a home and a sense of identity in the true North. Edward J. Delaney Broken Irish 978-1-933527-50-5, $18.5, paper, 416 pp.

Ananda Devi Indian Tango 978-0-924047-80-0, $30, cloth, 163 pp. 978-0-924047-81-7, $15, paper, 163 pp. HOST PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. Translated from the French by Jean Anderson. INDIAN TANGO, published in French in 2007, is set in Delhi in 2004, against a background of monsoon rains and the general election that would see Sonia Gandhi briefly head a coalition government. A visiting writer becomes obsessed by Subhadra, a woman glimpsed on the street, and as this unconventional relationship develops, the cost of pursuing passion and desire in a vibrant but deeply conservative society comes into sharp focus. A sometimes bitter, always moving meditation on the limitations placed on women’s (and others’) lives by convention builds inexorably to a powerful and stunning conclusion. Salvatore Difalco The Mountie at Niagara Falls and Other Brief Stories 978-1-897535-33-2, $18, paper, 144 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2010

Fiction. Illustrations by Francesco Gallé. THE MOUNTIE AT NIAGARA FALLS is an astonishingly absurd and humorous collection of brief stories. Ranging in length from fifty to seven hundred words, these vital and sudden fictional forays transport the reader to worlds both big and small: a land where green goats roam, voodoo dolls inflict crushing migraine headaches, a typographer from South Porcupine kills a potential love affair with a discussion of sans serif type, a benevolent judge imparts clemency on an admittedly violent man, and the road of experience turns this way and that for a truffle-snuffing boar and a talking cat. These brief tales are alternately fantastic, humorous, menacing, contemplative, absurd, hallucinatory, violent, confessional, and always provocative. George Dila Nothing More to Tell 978-1-936419-05-0, $15.95, paper, 100 pp. MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Fiction. NOTHING MORE TO TELL brings together short stories that reflect the combined effects of history, family, and society on the men and women of Michigan’s small towns and big cities. Dila’s prose presents us with a view of middle-aged, middle-class men that is at once ruthlessly honest and understanding. Their lives are tightly woven chains of successes and failures, which culminate in episodes that are occasionally comic, often catastrophic. The pieces in this collection will sometimes cause laughter, sometimes outrage; but they are unflinching in their demand for compassion.

TURTLE POINT PRESS 2011

Fiction. BROKEN IRISH is a passionately written novel about revenge, redemption, and alcoholism. It’s a story driven by character, community, and coincidence set in south Boston in the late 1990s, a time when even the local parish church is party to a scandal about to unravel. With tight control and a powerful narrative drive, Edward J. Delaney’s BROKEN IRISH offers a vantage point from which to view the sad workings of an entire deteriorating society. The author tells his moving story in short chapters that are filled with incident and drive— jump cuts that can compete with any cleverly written HBO weekly series. “In Edward J. Delaney’s South Boston little is lost, nothing forgotten. Old sins, old wounds haunt his characters, young and old, and reverberate throughout his wonderfully complicated plot. BROKEN IRISH is an enthralling, satisfying novel” —Margot Livesey.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Sean Dixon The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn 978-1-55245-242-4, $18.95, paper, 248 pp.

Brian Evenson Contagion and Other Stories 978-0-9822252-4-0, $15.95, paper, 138 pp.

COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

ASTROPHIL PRESS 2011

Fiction. It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she was, Kip Flynn, standing beside her boyfriend’s dead body and agreeing to take a large sum of money from the young man’s father to keep quiet. As if she could have done anything else, being so scared and grief-stricken and maybe pregnant. But that’s not the end of it. You see, there’s some kind of connection between Kip and this rich developer’s son that keeps them tight in one another’s orbit. So when Kip awakens from her grief, intent on revenge, they find themselves pursuing one another with a ferocity they can barely understand, one that spirals outward, with subway accidents and arson and drainpipes and backhoe wars, to envelop roommates, two guilty fathers, a windowcleaner or two, landlords, family secrets, a Vietnamese gangster, a stand-up bass player and an activist tour guide. And concluding in the subterranean heart of Toronto itself, which, like Kip, is torn between vengefulness and growth.

Fiction. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson’s most sought after and lauded collections of fiction. It has been out of print for nearly a decade. With short stories like the O. Henry Award–winning “Two Brothers,” Evenson takes his readers into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES shows Brian Evenson at his best—taunt sentences, sharp dialogue, and deep psychological subtext. A must have for any fan of contemporary fiction or fans of Brian Evenson. “CONTAGION remains one of the most strange and powerful books of the new millennium”—The Believer.

Manuela Draeger In the Time of the Blue Ball 978-0-9844693-3-8, $16, paper, 134 pp. DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT 2011

Fiction. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. “With the calm strangeness of dreams, and humor deepened by a hint of melancholy, these wonderful stories fool around on the frontiers of the imagination. All musical dogs, woolly crabs, children and other detectives of the not-yet-invented should own this book”—Shelley Jackson. “Humane, impossible, homely and alien, Draeger’s extraordinary stories are as close to dreams as fiction can be”—China Miéville. Rosalyn Drexler To Smithereens 978-1-934029-63-3, $14, paper, 188 pp. THE BROOKLYN RAIL/BLACK SQUARE EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions is excited to publish a new edition of TO SMITHEREENS, a novel by Rosalyn Drexler that has been unavailable for far too long. When TO SMITHEREENS was originally published in 1972, the New York Review of Books said of it, “There’s hope for literature yet.” The novel, based on Drexler’s life, chronicles the adventures of a lady wrestler named Rosa Carlo the Mexican Spitfire. Rosalyn Drexler was born in 1926 and her creative career has been long and varied, as she has written novels, essays, and plays as well as painted explosive images that rival the best work of the Pop-art generation. Loren Edizel Adrift 978-1-894770-73-6, $20.95, paper, 200 pp. TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. He takes up work as a night-shift nurse and writes his reflections and impressions in a notebook that he carries with him at all times. By means of these personal entries, the novel allows us to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to those who come into contact with him. Based in a Montreal neighborhood called Carré St Louis, the story unfolds through nonlinear narrative connections that flow across city blocks, continents and oceans, and meander in and out of the characters’ minds, dealing with questions of displacement, identity, and meaning.

Katie Farris BoysGirls 978-1-934851-30-2, $14.95, cloth, 76 pp. 978-1-934851-31-9, $14.95, paper, 76 pp. MARICK PRESS 2011

Fiction. A host of characters emerge from a madwoman’s dreams, populating a world as strange and magnificent as a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. A boy with one wing seeks the secret to flight. A girl with a mirror for a face, adored by all, longs to simply eat. A pregnant girl reflects on the effects of metamorphoses. The stories of BOYSGIRLS are modern myths: tales that exist within our present time but also outside it, in a place as eternal as Shangri-La or Middle Earth. An unforgettable book of Ovidian imagination, BOYSGIRLS testifies that Katie Farris is one of the most talented prose stylists of a new generation. “BOYSGIRLS is one for the classic fairy-tale shelves, joining Borges/Lispector, Calvino/Carter, Andersen/d’Aulnoy with its spectral powers. Katie Farris’s spare and lyrical language levitates here—she is a haunting and new revelation” —Kate Bernheimer. Kane X. Faucher The Infinite Library 978-0-9846037-8-7, $19.99, paper, 546 pp. CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS 2011

Fiction. Follow Alberto Gimaldi, code-cracker and bibliophile, as he unravels the mystery of an infinite library and discovers the treachery of the librarian Castellemare. What is the hidden plot of the library, and how will this impossible place set into motion a catastrophic narrative by the artful textual manipulation of unwitting agents in the real world? What is the buried and secret connection between all text and all life? A novel of dark mystery, infinity, and a compelling story for all those who love books and book-related enigmas. Codes, ciphers, and the sinister await those who would set foot inside THE INFINITE LIBRARY. L. C. Fiore Green Gospel 978-1-60489-073-0, $18.95, paper, 295 pp. LIVINGSTON PRESS 2011

Fiction. Fleeing the FBI, eco-terrorist Edie Aberdeen escapes to the small, rural town of Arcadia, Florida. She hopes to reinvent herself and forget her criminal past. But when she falls in with a mega-church whose pastor preaches a fiery brand of environmental fundamentalism, she must choose between abdication and one final, radical act to save the church from financial ruin.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Matthew Firth Shag Carpet Action 978-1-897535-84-4, $18, paper, 160 pp.

Nelson George The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel 978-1-61775-024-3, $15.95, paper, 220 pp.

ANVIL PRESS 2011

AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. This collection continues Firth’s deep mining into the bowels of Canadian life. From there he unearths tales of forgotten people who survive with their wits and guts during these harsh times. Behind the covers of SHAG CARPET ACTION are stories about rival garbage collectors warring over a possible strike; suburban lust and yearning involving the creative use of a son’s SpiderMan toy; the travails of a man who has a vasectomy but then finds out there are far more painful events to deal with on his agenda; shameless and bombastic people who just don’t care who overhears their conversation— and on it goes. These are absurd, raunchy, funny stories whose sharp, salty characters are boldly credible and wonderfully rendered by one of Canada’s most adventurous and courageous fiction writers.

Fiction. African American Studies. THE PLOT AGAINST HIP HOP is a noir novel set in the world of hip hop culture. The stabbing murder of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard and security expert D Hunter, suspects there are larger forces at work. D Hunter’s investigation into his mentor’s murder leads into a parallel history of hip hop, a place where renegade government agents, behind-the-scenes power brokers, and paranoid journalists know a truth that only a few hardcore fans suspect. This rewrite of hip hop history mixes real-life figures with characters pulled from the culture’s hidden world, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Russell Simmons.

Tom Fitzgerald Poor Richard’s Lament: A Most Timely Tale 978-0-9845921-3-5, $30, cloth, 640 pp. HOBBLEBUSH BOOKS 2012

Fiction. From the West Wing of the White House to the “Celestial Trial” of Ben Franklin, to the slums of Philadelphia, POOR RICHARD’S LAMENT takes us on a whirlwind tour of time and space. Ben’s odyssey begins at his birth site in Boston, passes through New York, and ends, with wrenching poignancy, at his grave site in Philadelphia. Following in the traditions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, with intimations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, “POOR RICHARD’S LAMENT, nine years in the making, is an intricately woven, ultimately uplifting tale of revelations and redemption. Gunther Freitag Brendel’s Fantasy 978-0-9834764-8-1, $16.95, paper, 164 pp. OWL CANYON PRESS 2011

Fiction. Translated from the German by Eugene Hayworth. Höller, a successful businessman and Schubert enthusiast, has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. Without telling his wife and family about his illness, he decides to sell his business and travel to Tuscany, where he plans to organize the ultimate performance of Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasy.” Höller posts a series of letters to Alfred Brendel, inviting the pianist to Italy to perform the “Fantasy.” While searching for the perfect location to host the concert, Höller encounters a series of strange characters who share their bizarre stories with him, infusing the novel with a magical, darkly comic atmosphere. Hanay Geiogamah Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook 978-0-935626-66-7, $30, cloth, 144 pp. 978-0-935626-65-0, $16, paper, 144 pp.

Renee Gladman The Ravickians 978-0-9844693-2-1, $16, paper, 168 pp. DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT 2011

Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. The second volume of Gladman’s Ravicka trilogy continues the author’s profound meditation upon translation and the ephemeral. THE RAVICKIANS narrates the day-long odyssey of Luswage Amini, the Great Ravickian Novelist, who journeys through the city to attend the reading of an old friend. Where the earlier volume, EVENT FACTORY, explores Ravicka from the outside, via a visitor’s attempt to understand and interpret that city’s irreducible strangeness, THE RAVICKIANS faces the problem of translation from the perspective of an insider who struggles, throughout her account, to make plain the political and personal crises of Ravickian life that she knows to be untranslatable. Sarah Goldstein Fables 978-0-9825416-6-1, $16, paper, 92 pp. TARPAULIN SKY PRESS 2011

Fiction. Departing from the Brothers Grimm to approach our own economically and socially fractured present, Sarah Goldstein’s FABLES constructs a world defined by small betrayals, transformations, and brutality amid its animal and human inhabitants. We hear the fragmentvoices of ghosts and foxes, captors and captives, stable boys and schoolgirls in the woods and fields and cities of these tales. Anxious townsfolk abandon their orphan children to the nightingales in the forest, a bear deploys a tragic maneuver to avoid his hunters, and a disordered economy results in new kinds of retirements and relocations. Goldstein weaves together familiar and contemporary allegories creating a series of vibrant, and vital, tales for our time. Julien Gracq The Peninsula 978-1-933382-39-5, $12.95, paper, 120 pp.

UCLA AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CENTER 2011

GREEN INTEGER 2011

Drama. Native American Studies. Performing Arts. Approaching Native American theater as ceremonial performance comprised of centuries-old tribal traditions and aesthetic concepts, Hanay Geiogamah combines his thirty-five years of creative and experimental work and research in Native theater to illuminate the elements of myth, spirituality, and ceremony and their integration into dramatic performances. Specific observations on how ritual is constructed and activated are presented along with selected examples of the process from recent native theater works. Other topics include spirituality as the basis for dramatic text, the techniques of the shaman as director, and the creative process of integration.

Fiction. Translated from the French by Elizabeth Deshays. Simon is waiting on the Normandy coast for the arrival of his lover. While awaiting her, he decides to take a tour of the landscape wherein he plans to travel with her. His beautifully described and sensuous voyage along the coast reveals his varying emotions with regard to the woman he is about to meet.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Karl Taro Greenfeld NowTrends 978-0-9825301-5-3, $11.95, paper, 352 pp. SHORT FLIGHT/LONG DRIVE BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Asian American Studies. In the stories in Karl Taro Greenfeld’s NOWTRENDS, a reporter is sent to Chengdu, China, to interview a young, drug-addled starlet and finds that a fellow journalist with questionable political ties has been imprisoned; a struggling, Japanese artist is asked by government officials to invent a cartoon character that will prove as popular as Disney’s Mickey Mouse; and a man carries 2100 milliliters of his own urine as he encounters heckling youths, Meg Whitman, and his father, who may or may not be dead. Greenfeld writes beautifully crafted stories with an authority, humor, and confidence reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis, Phillip Roth, and Ernest Hemingway. His stories have been chosen for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2009 and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Carol Guess Darling Endangered 978-1-936767-01-4, $14.95, paper, 82 pp. BROOKLYN ARTS PRESS 2011

Fiction. LGBT Studies. The voice narrating Carol Guess’s newest book is that of a playfully effusive but meticulous cataloguer of our darker inquiries and oddities, a suburban former dancer with the inner life and vision of an epic librettist. DARLING ENDANGERED is nothing short of exceptional, a rare breed of hybrid that works between the “flash” of short fiction and the swift bite of the lyric. From the dizzying, battered nostalgia of youth remembered to the experiential trappings of maturity, Guess’s collection maps the journey of a singular, sensitive existence through an ever-illuminating world of wayward hawks and track star meth addicts, avalanches and hot dog carts, zombie buildings, the works of Balanchine and Pachelbel, and the promises of love and love’s disorders. You will not read another book quite like it. Richard Hague Learning How: Stories, Yarns & Tales 978-1-933964-46-1, $18, paper, 216 pp. BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2011

Fiction. “The fiction in this collection is as comforting as it is challenging, as familiar as it is surprising, and, in all of the aspects that matter to the serious reader of literature, it is thoroughly satisfying”—Chris Holbrook.

David Huddle Nothing Can Make Me Do This 978-1-936797-12-7, $27.95, cloth, 344 pp. 978-1-936797-11-0, $16.95, paper, 344 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Fiction. Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman’s family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. NOTHING CAN MAKE ME DO THIS, David Huddle’s tenth work of fiction, enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others over fifty years, leaping in chronology and intersecting the vantage points, in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets). “Huddle takes us into the intimate heart of a family, the desires that we keep from each other and often from ourselves. Huddle has the courage and skill to travel these secret spaces and bring to light our loneliness and our longing.... In NOTHING CAN MAKE ME DO THIS, Huddle gives us— that rare revelatory and redeeming experience of seeing and becoming those others, which is why we read and need his novels”—Julia Alvarez.

Jeong Chan Pilate’s Jesus 978-0-89304-142-7, $50, cloth, 296 pp. 978-0-89304-143-4, $25, paper, 296 pp. CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS 2011

Fiction. Southeast Asia Studies. Translated from the Korean by Yoo-Jung Kong. This literary rewriting of the life of Pontius Pilate is a South Korean contribution to the rich body of world literature based on the life of Jesus and other biblical characters. The novel focuses on Pilate as a pragmatic foreign leader striving to maintain peace in a region rife with religious and political tension. It brings to life a large, diverse cast of fictional and historical characters, including: the philosopher Philo; Saul, who later became the apostle Paul; and finally Jesus himself. Based on considerable historical research on the period, this novel is bound to spark controversy with its interpretations of sacred texts and figures. Howard Junker An Old Junker: a senior represents 978-1-4537-1719-6, $10, paper, 144 pp. IF SF PUBLISHING 2011

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. AN OLD JUNKER is a rambling multi-genre first book—a blognovel, a protomemoir, a novel of ideas, a coming-of-age narrative, a meta-parody whose rambling plot savages Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen and Richard Serra, denounces foodieism, and insists that Kierkegaard is Post-Avant. Along the way Junker details his day-to-day principles as an editor...and the agony of searching for a successor. Plus: candid snaps from his iPhone! Kirsten Kaschock Sleight 978-1-56689-275-9, $16, paper, 330 pp. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters’ opposing approaches to the form— Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. When a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it. In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, SLEIGHT explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy? Jerry Keenan West of Green River: a novel of the Bonneville Expedition 1832-1835 978-0-9834764-0-5, $16.95, paper, 200 pp. OWL CANYON PRESS 2011

Fiction. Was Benjamin L. E. Bonneville, captain of the U.S. Army, granted a two-year leave to try his hand as a fur trader in the Rocky Mountain West? Or did his superiors have ulterior motives, tasking Bonneville to spy on the British in the Pacific Northwest? The Bonneville expedition began in Missouri and made its way to the Oregon country, territory at the time shared through mutual agreement by the U.S. and Great Britain. Yet the British presence there caused grave concerns about the geographic boundaries of our nation. This fictional account of the Bonneville expedition brings to life the difficult trek facing Bonneville and his men in their encounters with Native Americans and their struggles against the harsh elements on their westward journey to Oregon.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Mandy Keifetz Flea Circus: a brief bestiary of grief 978-1-936970-04-9, $26, cloth, 202 pp.

Eleanor Lerman Janet Planet 978-1-936419-06-7, $17.95, paper, 200 pp.

NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2012

MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Pascal’s Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. A cat named Altamont. These are all that stand between a young mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover’s suicide. Narrow margins, you say? Not much to place between a slip of a brokenhearted Jersey Girl and the Abyss? Indeed, it is a treacherous twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn. Blink and you’ll miss it.

Fiction. JANET PLANET is a unique work that attempts to showcase the young and rebellious spirit of a Woodstock generation that eventually grew up and away from those glorious hippie days. In the novel, Janet Harris— known as Janet Planet—is the reader’s guide into and out of the psychedelic years as she joins Jorge Castelan (a fictionalized Castaneda) and his circle of women and then falls into the new age movement of alternative spirituality. Set in the hippie haven of Woodstock, Janet embarks on her own spiritual journey into the mystery that lies beyond life.

Josh Kornbluth Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues 978-1-56279-087-5, $14.95, paper, 199 pp. MERCURY HOUSE 1996

Fiction. Performing Arts. RED DIAPER BABY includes three comic autobiographical monologues by performer Josh Kornbluth: “The Mathematics of Change,” “Haiku Tunnel,” and the title piece. Together, and with the author’s introduction, the monologues compose a bildungsroman that is both comic and poignant. Kornbluth shows a deep affection for the wild, eccentric characters who people his universe. With a few deft strokes he paints unforgettable portraits, as true as they are funny. Together the monologues achieve real literary form and depth, as we witness a young man coming of age in a world that is anything but conventional. “These monologues have a performer’s personality even on the page. They read the way they play: with a delight in neurosis that turns it into intellectual slapstick” —Pauline Kael. Karl Koweski Blood and Greasepaint 978-1-926860-03-9, $17.5, paper, 203 pp. EPIC RITES PRESS 2011

Fiction. BLOOD AND GREASEPAINT is the first full-length collection of short stories by popular American author Karl Koweski. “In this remarkably varied collection of short stories, Koweski uses his blowtorch wit to expose the sad excesses and frailties of ordinary people he has come to love and hate”—George Anderson, Bold Monkey. “Karl Koweski’s writing makes me laugh out loud and cringe at the same time. It takes talent and endurance to pull that off and Koweski is a master at both”—Tony DuShane, author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk. “Karl Koweski has written a gritty collection of stories rooted in the long tradition of American realism with just enough weirdness and humor to keep readers unbalanced”—Nate Graziano, author of After the Honeymoon. Brigitte Kronauer Women and Clothes 978-0-924047-78-7, $25, cloth, 139 pp. 978-0-924047-79-4, $15, paper, 139 pp.

Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station 978-1-56689-274-2, $15, paper, 186 pp. COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or is it merely a projection of our desired interpretations? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam’s “research” becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the selfcontemptuous and the inspired, LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Rachel Levitsky The Story of My Accident Is Ours 978-0-9822798-2-3, $16, paper, 112 pp. FUTUREPOEM BOOKS 2012

Fiction. A product of over 15 years of writing, this multivalent new work both builds on and departs from Levitsky’s previous efforts, as she traverses a host of contemporary theoretical discourses and concerns: transgendered bodies, social movements, pharmaceutical management of the emotions, and countless others. “The movement revolves around an accident, the exact nature of which is not disclosed. Despite the abstractions inherent in these constraints, I want the document to be accessible, engaging, addictive, and uncomfortable to hold, as in the instance of a suitcase with something vibrating inside.” In this project, the formal poetics of expression confront fiction to create something utterly new.

HOST PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by Jutta Ittner. WOMEN AND CLOTHES (Die Kleider der Frauen, 2009), a collection of stories arranged chronologically around a single unifying motif, has been praised by critics as a wonderful and surprising novel. The stories are deeply anchored in society while mirroring its constant flux and the ways in which clothes express—and conversely affect—a woman’s sense of self from the cradle to the grave and beyond. Each story adds one more layer, facet, perspective, or color to the complex relationship women develop with their apparel and with themselves. WOMEN AND CLOTHES is a poignant and hilarious postmodern Bildungsroman that explores the external manifestations, the interior tensions, the seismic shifts, and the underlying fears and desires that determine the formation of female identity. SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION · order@spdbooks.org · edi orders via pubnet.org (san #106-6617) · 800-869-7553 · Spring 2012

FICTION AND DRAMA Tan Lin Insomnia and the Aunt 978-0-9846475-1-4, $13.95, paper, 56 pp.

Gary Lutz Divorcer 978-0-9831633-5-0, $13, paper, 120 pp.

KENNING EDITIONS 2011

CALAMARI PRESS 2011

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Cross-Genre. Art. Asian American Studies. Tan Lin’s INSOMNIA AND THE AUNT is an ambient novel composed of black and white photographs, postcards, Google reverse searches, letters, appendices, an index to an imaginary novel, reruns, and footnotes. The aunt in question can’t sleep. She runs a motel in the Pacific Northwest. She likes watching Conan O’Brien late at night. She may be the narrator’s aunt or she may be an emanation of a TV set. Structured like everybody’s scrapbook, and blending fiction with nonfictional events, INSOMNIA AND THE AUNT is about identities taken and given up, and about the passions of an immigrant life, rebroadcast as furniture. Ostensibly about a young man’s disintegrating memory of his most fascinating relative, or potentially a conceptualist take on immigrant literature, it is probably just a treatment for a prime-time event that, because no one sleeps in motels, lasts into the late night and daytime slots.

Fiction. DIVORCER is a collection of seven harrowing and hyperprecise short stories about ruinous relationships and their aftershocks.

Osman Lins Nine, Novena 978-1-55713-414-1, $15.95, paper, 305 pp. GREEN INTEGER 2011

Fiction. Translated from the Portuguese by Adria Frizzi. A collection of nine stories, NINE, NOVENA represents the turning point in Osman Lins’s noted career, as he tells tales that concern the entrapment and search for the self and the mythic aspects of existence in a context of Brazilian experimentalism. Brilliantly translated by Adria Frizzi, these tales will delight any reader in love with character and language. Norman Lock Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions 978-1-933132-85-3, $16, paper, 146 pp. SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2011

Fiction. “There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself is quite stylized, replete with a carefully eccentric vocabulary that Lock does very well. He has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world”—Brian Evenson. Sean Lovelace Fog Gorgeous Stag 978-0-9831706-2-4, $12, paper, 68 pp. PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2011

Fiction. “Like wrangling elastic flamingoes and dyspeptic hedgehogs around wondrous croquet pitches, like rolling bocce with hair-triggered hand-grenades in a downpour of jazz-scatting jarts, Sean Lovelace’s wondrous FOG GORGEOUS STAG staggers a mere mortal’s imagination with the sheer dervished dervish tattooed on the triumphant tympanic page, the centripetal paragraphs parachuting marginal corridors of ruin, and the Rorschaching sentences slicing through the winded wind-sheer of everything, everything going everywhere fast. This is prose that out-Jesuses poetry’s poetry. Reading it is to engage in the interval training of the syntaxes. The pant panting! The hypoxic breathlessness! The all of it that is the all of it!” —Michael Martone.

Ed Macdonald Spat the Dummy 978-1-897535-31-8, $20, paper, 272 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2010

Fiction. Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montréal by a bagman for the Irish mob, Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend of his father’s in a bar exposes the dark secret they’ve both been harboring, the secret that has shaped and defined Spat’s tumultuous life. Newly divorced and out of control, his decision to tell all and release himself from the past unleashes a storm of change in both his internal and external life. SPAT THE DUMMY is a confession—raw and unrestrained, a modern day hero’s journey to the Underworld and back, a novel about changing history by confronting it. Adam Mansbach Go the Fuck to Sleep 978-1-61775-025-0, $14.95, cloth, 32 pp. AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Illustrated by Ricardo Cortés. GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken— tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity. With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny— a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children. “A children’s book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud—hilarious!” —David Byrne. “Total genius”—Jonathan Lethem. Hilary Masters Post: A Fable 978-1-886157-75-0, $16.95, paper, 275 pp. BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2011

Fiction. Manhattan has been turned into the Perpetual Parking Plaza in an effort to thwart terrorism. The culprit is Kimball Lyon, New York’s late governor. There are plenty of objections to his ruinous urban redevelopment. A hapless special investigator, B. Smith (who constantly reintroduces himself as I, B. Smith), trying to search out the rebels, ends up at a crumbling Civil War-era castle in the middle of the Hudson River where he finds Leo Post, a writer, son-in-law of the late governor. Post is an enigma with a connection to, among other things, the long-extinct passenger pigeon. Part mystery, part environmental elegy, POST combines eccentric meta-fiction and magical realism in a riotous futuristic fable. Hilary Master’s POST—instead of the misbegotten parking plaza—may just be “the best defense against terrorism” we’ve got.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Suzette Mayr Monoceros 978-1-55245-241-7, $18.95, paper, 272 pp.

Jake Bohstedt Morrill Randy Bradley 978-0-9844142-2-2, $14, cloth, 40 pp.

COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

SOLID OBJECTS 2011

Fiction. A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend’s girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered; she wishes she had made friends with him that time she sold him an Iced Cappuccino at Tim Hortons. His English teacher, mid-divorce and midmenopause, wishes she could remember the dead student’s name, that she could care more about her students than her ex’s new girlfriend. Who happens to be her cousin. The school guidance counselor, Walter, feels guilty—maybe he should have made an effort when the kid asked for help. Max, the principal, is worried about how it will reflect on the school. And Walter, who’s secretly been in a relationship with Max for years, thinks that’s a little callous. He’s also tired of Max’s obsession with some sci-fi show on TV. And Max wishes Walter would lose some weight and remember to use a coaster. And then Max meets a drag queen named Crepe Suzette. And everything changes.

Fiction. For years, Lucy has visited her sister Miriam each summer, but now? No more. The invitation has been retracted. Maybe because of Lucy’s strange conversational word games? Or maybe the accidents that happen every time she visits? Randy Bradley, Miriam’s former companion, could solve the problem— but unfortunately, he’s been replaced. With this letter of vulnerability and protest, we enter the deranged and yet funnily human thought processes of a well-meaning plague of a houseguest, sympathetic but agitated, scholarly but naive, a misfunctioning buoy in a dark sea of repressed familial discomfort.”This taut and terrifying epistolary novella of toxicity between sisters is a triumph of thrillingly crazed elegance. Jake Bohstedt Morrill is a remarkable new writer”—Gary Lutz. “A cheerfully demented monologue on the subject of that which cannot be said, but which I’ll say here anyway: RANDY BRADLEY. Jake Bohstedt Morrill is a terrifically gifted writer”—Ben Marcus.

Brenda Missen Tell Anna She’s Safe 978-1-926708-20-1, $22.95, paper, 354 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. Based on a true story, TELL ANNA SHE’S SAFE is the tale of two women, one missing, the other searching for her. Driving home alongside West Quebec’s Gatineau River one April afternoon, researcher Ellen McGinn spots a parked car that looks like it might belong to her friend and colleague, Lucy Stockman. Lucy, a freelance writer, lives in nearby Ottawa. Shortly after arriving home, Ellen receives a phone call from Lucy’s common-law partner: Lucy has disappeared. That night Ellen has an unusual dream in which she receives three clear messages: she is to search and to write everything down—and Lucy is safe. Through the intertwining stories of Ellen and Lucy and the enduring presence of the river, TELL ANNA SHE’S SAFE takes the reader below the sometimes frightening, uncontrollable surface circumstances of our lives, to reveal the steady current of power and knowing we all hold within. Rosa Montero Beautiful and Dark 978-1-879960-82-4, $14.95, paper, 192 pp. AUNT LUTE BOOKS 2010

Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Adrienne Mitchell. Combining elements of the real and the fantastic, BEAUTIFUL AND DARK (Bella y oscura) is written from the perspective of Baba, an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives in a neighborhood called El Barrio. Trying to cope with the mystery and violence of the adult world around her, she is drawn to the Lilliputian Airelei, who fascinates Baba with her fantastic tales that mix myth and memory. “In her most thoughtful novel to date, Rosa Montero brilliantly combines intrigue and imagination with personal insight into human nature” —Javier Escudero, World Literature in Review.

Kona Morris, Leah Rogin-Roper, and Stacy Walsh, Editors The Incredible Shrinking Story 978-0-9817852-5-7, $15, paper, 157 pp. FAST FORWARD PRESS 2011

Fiction. Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up to read THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING STORY, Fast Forward’s fourth anthology of flash fiction. Enter a world of freaks and fantasies, literary contortionists and acrobats of language. This book contains 59 stories, ranging from 1,000 to 6 words, sure to tantalize and delight. More entertaining than a 3-ring circus and sexier than an orgy in a funhouse. Dive in, we dare you. The book has something for everyone with an extensive assortment of flash fiction from around the world. Read flash veterans such as Linh Dinh and Tom Hazuka as well as astounding stories from up-and-coming flash forces including Meg Tuite and Rob Geisen. Cover art by Chris Henry. Brane Mozetič Lost Story 978-1-58498-086-5, $18.98, paper, 148 pp. TALISMAN HOUSE, PUBLISHERS 2011

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Translated from the Slovenian by Erica Johnson Debeljak. LOST STORY is the celebrated novel by one of Europe’s foremost gay writers. “A terrifying, fascinating, authentic account of the ‘coolness’ of a relaxed and fatalistic generation” —Lambda Nachrichten. Kyle Muntz Sunshine in the Valley 978-0-9846037-1-8, $13.95, paper, 222 pp. CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS 2010

Fiction. SUNSHINE IN THE VALLEY is about the creation of life after the extinction of time. Taking place in a village surrounded by living walls, in which existence has become a frame of mind, a way of thinking, the narrative centers around a group of “childlike entities” whose age, like most everything in the world around them, eventually gets brought into question. Everything is alien, strange, and beautiful, as if written in hieroglyphics, illuminated by light, within a framework of existential clarity—or, perhaps, the shadow of that clarity, stipulated by its absence. “Its metalogic moves and Hericlitean universe make Kyle Muntz’s SUNSHINE IN THE VALLEY avant-garde science fiction at its most disconcerting and energizing”—Lance Olsen.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Phong Nguyen Memory Sickness 978-1-932418-41-5, $19, paper, 144 pp.

Joyce Carol Oates, Editor New Jersey Noir 978-1-61775-026-7, $15.95, paper, 290 pp.

ELIXIR PRESS 2011

AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Asian American Studies. MEMORY SICKNESS by Phong Nguyen is the winner of the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award. It is a loosely related series of short stories, set in Rhode Island, that illuminates our tentative and painful paths in this world. William Giraldi has this to say about it: “Dead-on in its depiction of modern malaise, MEMORY SICKNESS will burn in your own memory forever, assuring you of the sickness we are. Phong Nguyen has crafted stories with zero at the bone, stories of how the child is father of the man, of what we do to one another in this world, and what we do to ourselves. His Providence, Rhode Island, seems borne into being by the bastard offspring of Denis Johnson and Mary Gaitskill: a place of danger, horror, and the dim hope necessary for our survival. This book will scar you.”

Fiction. Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C. K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S. A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S. J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano. “Sitting between the great cities of New York and Philadelphia, New Jersey has been by tradition a heavily ‘organized’ Mafia state, as it was at one time a northern outpost of the Ku Klux Klan, with a concentration of members in Trenton, Camden, Monmouth County, and South Jersey. In such ways, the most civilized and ‘decent’ among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances—of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in NEW JERSEY NOIR”--Joyce Carol Oates, from the introduction.

Doug Nufer By Kelman Out of Pessoa 978-1-934254-24-0, $15, paper, 202 pp. LES FIGUES PRESS 2011

Fiction. In 2002, Doug Nufer wrote a story narrated by a tout, who proposed a novel way to beat the races. It was so absurd and ludicrous it gave him an idea. So Nufer went to Emerald Downs, home of thoroughbred racing in the Northwest. There, he split himself into three characters modeled on the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. Using a money management plan from a James Kelman short story, Nufer gave these characters money and set them free to gamble. He returned to the track every week for a full season, and his characters/heteronyms continued to bet, with real money and in the name of art. At the end of the season, he had pages of data in the form of a wagering diary, the outcome of a literary experiment that formed the basis of a literal experimental novel. Elizabeth Nunez Boundaries 978-1-61775-033-5, $22.95, cloth, 275 pp. AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. African American Studies. In an age of reality TV, a husband and wife cling to Victorian notions of privacy, though doing so threatens the life of the wife. Their daughter Anna yearns for her mother’s unguarded affection, and eventually learns there is value in restraint. But Anna, a Caribbean American immigrant, finds that lesson harder to accept when, eager to assimilate in her new country, she discovers that a gap yawns between her and American-born citizens. Told in spare and transcendent prose, BOUNDARIES is a riveting immigrant story, a fascinating look into the world of contemporary book publishing, a beautiful extension of the exploration of family dynamics that began in Nunez’s previous novel ANNA IN-BETWEEN, and a heartwarming love story.

John Jay Osborn, Jr The Paper Chase 978-0-9836980-0-5, $14.5, paper, 200 pp. PENINSULA ROAD PRESS 2012

Fiction. Fortieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author. A best-selling book and award-winning film and television series, THE PAPER CHASE is at its heart the story of a young Midwesterner, James Hart, who finds himself in the great classrooms of Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School, locked in a zero-sum game with a dominating, omniscient deity: Professor Kingsfield, who asks not just for the student’s mind, but for his soul. You quail at the exams, exult when you know the answers, love-hate Professor Kingsfield. It is also a love story that is as contemporary today as it was when the book was written, of a boy from the Midwest and a mysterious and demanding professor’s daughter, who refuses to accept accepted wisdom or role models and demands from Hart a love that transcends law school and conventional norms. Melinda Palacio Ocotillo Dreams 978-1-931010-75-7, $26, cloth, 198 pp. 978-1-931010-76-4, $16, paper, 198 pp. BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2011

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Set in Chandler, Arizona, during the city’s infamous 1997 migrant sweeps, OCOTILLO DREAMS is no run-of-the-mill border tale. In her captivating first novel, Melinda Palacio skillfully weaves a story of politics, intrigue, love, and trust. Isola, a young woman who inherits her mother’s Chandler home, relocates from California only to find that her mother had lived a secret life of helping undocumented immigrants. Isola must confront her own confusion and sense of loyalty in a strange and hostile environment. As she gets to know her mother from clues left behind, she grapples with questions of identity and belonging that eventually lead her to explore her life’s meaning and to reconnect with her roots.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Gary Phillips Monkology: 15 Stories from the World of Private Eye Ivan Monk 978-0-9838857-1-9, $18, paper, 320 pp. A BARNACLE BOOK 2011

Fiction. African American Studies. In this collection you’ll encounter starry-eyed sinners, street corner revolutionaries, Hollywood hustlers, over-heated politicians, rightwing assholes, a ghost or two, cavorting cops, architects with issues, and a little old lady with a popgun—all out to make their mark in the city of dreams and despair. Rob Plath We’re No Butchers 978-1-926860-07-7, $10, paper, 40 pp. EPIC RITES PRESS 2011

Drama. “Bumps, drunks, egoists, racists, creationists, darwinists—they all live under one roof...and they’re loud. ‘Don’t talk politics with your crazy family. / Don’t push people’s buttons. / Don’t fall asleep with a smoke in yer drunk yap. / Oh, and don’t misread a book.’ Cuz if you do, you’ll have a gang of one-dimensional freaks screaming at you—a gang at home with Beckett, Tarantino and the boys from A Clockwork Orange. And they’ll let you know, in no uncertain terms, amid a flurry of shattered ashtrays, broken angels and mind-numbing f-bombs, that they’re no butchers. And in the end, you’ll find out who’s entitled to what, be it religion or meatballs...or maybe a little cheese on the pasta” —R L Raymond. J. L. Powers This Thing Called the Future 978-1-933693-95-8, $16.95, cloth, 213 pp.

Lydia Riantee Rand Entre Nous: The Goosefoot Chronicles 978-0-9841304-7-4, $15.95, paper, 308 pp. WILD OCEAN PRESS 2011

Fiction. Memoir. ENTRE NOUS: THE GOOSEFOOT CHRONICLES, Lydia Riantee Rand’s fictionalized memoir, weaves a magic spell that shimmers between fact and fiction, past and present, the living and the dead. Told with amazing clarity and insight through the perceptions and voices of six family members, the tale unfolds to reveal the rich tapestry of a family rooted firmly in the ancient past by myth and folklore and the concepts of honor and duty, good and evil, love and hate. Slowly we come to understand that it is important to pass these myths and stories along from generation to generation in order to preserve the family’s identity and sense of place in the world. As the patriarch, Giovanni, puts it, “I need to tell [these stories] to you so our myths won’t be lost.” Jan Rehner Missing Matisse 978-1-926708-21-8, $22.95, paper, 268 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. MISSING MATISSE is a novel with a puzzle, set in the contemporary world of art theft and the historical reality of World War II, France. The heart of the story is the enigmatic and complex Lydia Delectorskaya, a Russian orphan who became Matisse’s muse, model, caregiver, administrator, and companion for twenty years. Lydia Delectorskaya is a fascinating figure, though little is known about her life after Matisse’s death. Jan Rehner gives Lydia a voice, and pays tribute to her remarkable contribution to some of Matisse’s greatest paintings.

CINCO PUNTOS PRESS 2011

Young Adult Fiction. African American Studies. Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother Gogo, her little sister Zi, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere warn of the disease of the day. Her Gogo goes to a traditional healer when there is trouble, but her mother, who works in another city and is wasting away before their eyes, refuses even to go to the doctor. She is afraid and Khosi doesn’t know what it is that makes the blood come up from her choking lungs. Witchcraft? A curse? AIDS? Can Khosi take her to the doctor? Gogo asks. No, says Mama, Khosi must stay in school. Only education will save Khosi and Zi from the poverty and ignorance of the old Zulu ways. School, though, is not bad. There is a boy her own age there, Little Man Ncobo, and she loves the color of his skin, so much darker than her own, and his blue-black lips, but he mocks her when a witch’s curse, her mother’s wasting sorrow, and a neighbor’s accusations send her and Gogo scrambling off to the sangoma’s hut in search of a healing potion.

Ribitch Carnival of Sleep: Selected Writings & Drawings 978-0-578-08422-0, $10.99, paper, 180 pp. OYSTER MOON PRESS 2011

Fiction. Poetry. Art. Between dream and hallucination, the CARNIVAL OF SLEEP opens its tent for the unwary somnambulist. Ribitch’s prose and poetry are sometimes dark and humorous, sometimes sublime lamentations of erotic beauty and deeply surrealist in storytelling. They are like ruptured blood vessels, gushing forth a spray of blood droplets, each bearing a different face. Illustrations by the author. David Rice Heart-Shaped Cookies 978-1-931010-79-5, $15, paper, 160 pp. BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2011

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. HEART-SHAPED COOKIES, David Rice’s new collection, consists of seven short stories from his first book, three stories reprinted from various anthologies, nine flash fiction pieces, and a play by Mike D. García based on Rice’s short story “She Flies.” Rice skillfully balances humor and sensitivity in his writing, and his imaginative tales and colorful characters appeal to young readers on many levels. Culture and place figure prominently in these narratives; most are set in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and explore issues encountered in contemporary Mexican American life near the border. The author’s distinctive wit and style are apparent throughout the collection and are sure to secure his place in Chicano literature.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Ryan Ridge Hunters & Gamblers 978-0-9830674-5-0, $12, paper, 125 pp.

Connie Barnes Rose Road to Thunder Hill 978-1-926708-28-7, $22.95, paper, 264 pp.

DARK SKY BOOKS 2011

INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Fiction. A sham pastor hires a cocaine-sniffing centaur to act as mascot for an Evangelical mega-church’s arena football team; Paul Revere flashes across a revolutionary sky on the back of a sunbird; an ammo-less infantry drummer and a bleeding medic are beat back to a Best Western parking lot in the Battle of Sacramento— such are the situations contained in Ryan Ridge’s HUNTERS & GAMBLERS. Winners of the negative lottery, these characters have learned to love to lose everything until there’s nothing left to lose. And the end is desperate, black, drenched in whiskey, but punctuated by poignancy and revelry and revelation. The tales in this lurid, edgy debut illuminate blackness with even blacker humor and a sense of outlandish beauty.

Fiction. Over the years, Trish has led a fairly stable family life, albeit one that was short on stimulation beyond that which rural living can offer. Suddenly Trish finds herself faced with an ailing marriage, a teenaged daughter who’d prefer to live with her alcoholic grandmother than at home, and a half-sister who seems bent on exposing Trish as an inferior to herself. Trish’s husband leaves her and takes a job in another town. Not only does Trish face the prospect of being left completely alone, but she feels she is living a nightmare, one that forces her to face her past and present circumstances.

Randall Robinson Makeda 978-1-61775-022-9, $15.95, paper, 350 pp. AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. African American Studies. Part coming-of-age story, part spiritual journey, and part love story, MAKEDA is a universal tale of family, heritage, and the ties that bind. It is about the people who help to shape and mold us, and lead us into the light. Appealing to the deepest sense of who we are, Robinson plumbs the hearts of brothers Makeda and Gray March, and summons our collective blood memories, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey of the soul that will linger long after the last page has been turned. “In Robinson’s majestic prose and sweeping historical vision, the tongues of Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Toni Morrison blend to remind us that we can renew our souls in the eyes of ancestors who return to us in whatever way our lives demand”—Michael Eric Dyson. Nico Rogers The Fetch 978-1-894078-82-5, $19, paper, 104 pp. BRICK BOOKS 2010

Fiction. Drawing on family recollections, interviews with elders and extensive research in archives and regional museums, THE FETCH, Nico Rogers’ first book, is a brilliant hybrid—neither a novel nor a collection of short stories. This compelling volume of tales and prose poems contains a broad range of characters. There is the slow-witted girl who has lost her mother and now has only the cow named Fatty for a friend; the hard-bitten captain of a schooner in recoil from the ways of his alcoholic father; the child born premature, swaddled in olive oil-soaked linen, placed in a pan and incubated in an oven. And so on, twenty-eight vignettes in all, all tightly written and highly evocative of outport Newfoundland before Confederation. Funny, tragic, and just. F. S. Rosa The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca 978-0-9793390-9-7, $25, paper, 568 pp.

Barney Rostaing Breeders 978-1-887276-51-1, $16.95, paper, 352 pp. COOL GROVE PRESS 2011

Fiction. When tough, self-made construction mogul and thoroughbred owner Pat McGoohey hires the smooth, talented, mahogany-skinned Len Thomas as his trainer, he breaks with longstanding protocol, taking Len across the color line into a rapidly accelerating adventure of crime, romance, racing and race. “America is a country in which the complexity of the truth runs so contradictory to clichés that it can always seem revolutionary just by being itself. What Barney Rostaing has achieved here is something so free of clichés about minorities, women, and privileged men that we are continually startled by his authority and insight. In the process, he almost reinvents the heist tale as a commentary on contemporary life as it is actually lived” —Stanley Crouch. Philip Roy Ghosts of the Pacific 978-1-55380-130-6, $11.95, paper, 254 pp. RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Young Adult Fiction. GHOSTS OF THE PACIFIC, the fourth volume in the best-selling SUBMARINE OUTLAW series, begins with Alfred and his crew of Seaweed the seagull and Hollie the dog undertaking a harrowing journey through the icy gauntlet of the Northwest Passage on the way to the South Pacific. Alfred wants to see those dark places of the earth where horrendous events have taken place. He sets his sights on exotic Micronesia— a beautiful place, but home to the nuclear testing of Bikini Lagoon; the Suicide Cliffs of Saipan; the airfields of Tinian, where the Enola Gay lifted off with the atomic bomb; and the Marshall Islands, which may conceal secrets to the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s final days. Yet even with these past tragedies in mind, Alfred discovers that the world is facing an even greater threat today. As they sail into the hot, hazy world of the Pacific, they encounter the ruthless killing practices of shrimp trawlers and an island of plastic the size of Texas. Along the way, Alfred, Hollie and Seaweed befriend the crew of an environmental protection ship, who help to inspire him to take on a new goal: to protect the oceans of the world.

ITHURIEL’S SPEAR 2011

Fiction. “A splendid, rowdy romp in the netherworld of revolutionaries—the Rebel Girl, Big Bill Haywood, multitudes of rebels and victims—all seen through the eyes of recently murdered anarchist Carlo Tresca finding his way through the very rambunctious world of the dead. What a panoramic ‘human comedy,’ a wild ride through the 20th century, through strikes, massacres, demonstrations, uprisings, wars. F.S. Rosa has brought us a tour de force of fantasy and freedom” —Hilton Obenzinger.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Joanna Ruocco A Compendium of Domestic Incidents 978-1-934819-17-3, $10, paper, 51 pp.

Michael J. Seidlinger The Day We Delay 978-0-9846037-5-6, $13.95, paper, 314 pp.

NOEMI PRESS 2011

CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS 2011

Fiction. A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS explores the notion of intimate space and the domestic affairs that constitute the proper subject of female knowledge. The prose pieces echo one another, but instead of creating one narrative they rather inhabit a shared terrain, the private realm where the playful, the erotic, the violent are compressed into a single gesture, something as quotidian as cutting the goose’s neck for dinner. Through spells, visions, fragments, and tableaux, A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS creates a frightening map of women’s wisdom. “In these linked stories, two girls ‘run, hatless, towards anything, a bridge, a public toilet, a street light, an iron chair’—and the sentences, matter-of-factly, towards the far reaches of the imagination: eerie, gruesome, funny, always delightful.”—Rosmarie Waldrop.

Fiction. “Michael J. Seidlinger writes, ‘It begins with the debut—the courageous must tear down the preceding blockades with a crippling catastrophe.’ To which I respond: It begins here, with this debut novel—the author courageously tearing down the preceding traditions with a formally crippling and linguistically catastrophical adventure”—Lily Hoang.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz Last Night I Sang to the Monster 978-1-933693-58-3, $16.95, cloth, 304 pp. CINCO PUNTOS PRESS 2009

Young Adult Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Zach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate. He’s also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn’t remember how he got there. He’s not sure he wants to remember. Something bad must have happened. Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive—well, what’s up with that? “Offering insight into [an adolescent’s] addiction, dysfunction and mental illness, particularly in the wake of traumatic events, Sáenz’s artful rendition of the healing process will not soon be forgotten” —Publishers Weekly. Benjamin Alire Sáenz Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood 978-1-933693-99-6, $11.95, paper, 240 pp. CINCO PUNTOS PRESS 2011

Young Adult Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. It is 1969, America is at war, “Hollywood” is a dirt-poor Chicano barrio in small-town America, and Sammy and Juliana face a world of racism, war in Vietnam, and barrio violence. SAMMY AND JULIANA IN HOLLYWOOD is a Young Adult Library Services Association Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adults. Sam Savage Glass 978-1-56689-273-5, $15, paper, 210 pp.

Bertrand W. Sinclair The Inverted Pyramid 978-1-55380-128-3, $18.95, paper, 328 pp. RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Bertrand W. Sinclair’s THE INVERTED PYRAMID, a best-seller when it was first published in 1924, appears now for the first time in a new edition. Writing in the period from 1908 onwards, Sinclair published over fifteen novels, some of which sold in the hundreds of thousands. In THE INVERTED PYRAMID, which critics often cite as his most ambitious novel, he explores Canada’s drift during WWI from a world of production to one based on finance, with all the attendant problems we are still enduring today. The novel offers a colorful account of British Columbia during this time through the history of two brothers—Rod and Grove Norquay— who belong to an old BC family. Grove, the older brother, takes the family’s assets and invests them in finance— with disastrous consequences. Floyd Skloot Cream of Kohlrabi 978-1-936797-10-3, $24.95, cloth, 174 pp. 978-1-936797-05-9, $16.95, paper, 174 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Fiction. Floyd Skloot’s new book gathers sixteen stories that combine unsentimental comedy and forceful emotion. As in his award-winning poetry and memoirs, Skloot’s fiction shows how individual people, families, and communities face the starkest of challenges, including bodily maladies, the most harrowing of which often come with aging. Yet alienating experience can lead to moments of powerful intimacy, as dark times are lit by sudden incursions of love and hope, and a yearning for community summons poignant expression. “This is a brave, luminous, searingly unswerving vision of the life that exists so powerfully in those persistent dreams we have for ourselves, good and bad—those secret passions that seem strong enough to survive us, and that endure all the way out to the end of our lives.... These stories are not only brilliant, they are necessary” —Richard Bausch.

COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Tasked with writing a preface to a reissue of her late husband’s long-out-of-print novel, Edna is unexpectedly asked to take care of a vacationing neighbor’s pet rat, fish, and potted plants. Sitting at her typewriter day after day, Edna becomes lost in a Proustian marathon of introspection, mixing philosophical reflection and humor with minute accounts of her daily life. What unfolds, as if by accident, is the story of a marriage and a portrait of a mind pushed to its limits by the emptiness of the hours and the pain of memory. “Sam Savage has become one of America’s funniest, cleverest, and most vital writers of fiction”—Michael Schaub, Bookslut.

Juliusz Slowacki Kordian 978-1-4507-4208-5, $20, paper, 143 pp. THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

Drama. Translated from the Polish by Gerard T. Kapolka. KORDIAN is a Polish classic written in 1833 by Juliusz Slowacki and features an amalgam of revolutionary spirit, tradition, modernist bravado and suffering— topics navigated by a young Romantic protagonist after whom the play is named. Within the canon of Polish literature KORDIAN offers pivotal insight into the development of Poland’s Romantic movement (her literary golden age), and Polish literature as a whole. The Green Lantern Press is pleased to publish the play’s first English translation by Gerard T. Kapolka. Illustrations by Lilli Carré and silkscreen covers by Aay Preston-Myint. This book was published in an edition of 500.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Mark Spitzer CHODE! 978-1-926616-10-0, $12, paper, 226 pp.

William Taylor Jr. An Age of Monsters 978-1-926860-08-4, $17.50, paper, 181 pp.

SIX GALLERY PRESS 2010

EPIC RITES PRESS 2011

Fiction. CHODE! is a completely absurd abomination of scatology, blasphemy and violence. It’s the epic epileptic history of a whacked-out island off Alaska that chronicles the chronic lives of scurvy slaves and sodomite pirates, creepy convicts and crippled fanatics, sadistic midgets and underage whores, plus madmen, mongoloids, feckless hags, pinheads and elephant men. It’s an anti-P.C. travesty, a smearfest on the handicapped, an all-out assault on every race and faith there is. A seizuring indignity riddled with exaggerated stereotypes, ludicrous slang, and no social value whatsoever, CHODE! drips with body slime and suicide, big-butt gutter-sluts, birth defects, torture, rape, genocide, incest, VD, orgiastic revelry, rug-munching bearded ladies, human torsos, Siamese twins, Cleveland Steamers and impossible fish. It’s an absolute abuse on the reader, totally devoid of any hope, just waiting to get banned and censored by hypocritical moralists who will surely reject its nouveau cartooniness as the shameless pornography of an extreme and graphic indecency.

Fiction. AN AGE OF MONSTERS is the first prose collection by William Taylor Jr. The book features fifteen short stories by Taylor, plus photography by Julie Michelle. “William Taylor Jr: What would you do if you were trapped in a cage? Hiss at the monsters outside, stained in your own piss and stink? And what would you dream about, should you get out? Maybe plot revenge on a lover. Maybe kill a man over $400 and a stupid insult. And what about all those other people on the outside: drunken clowns and murderous four year olds; wannabe artists and crazies in trains? Maybe, just maybe, when someone finally did open that door to let you out, you would just sniff the air, shake, then cower back into the farthest corner of your cell, listening to all the other prisoners, wailing and crying in theirs” —R L Raymond. Charles Tidler Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers 978-1-897535-69-1, $20, paper, 192 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Vincent Standley A Mortal Affect 978-0-9831633-4-3, $18, paper, 189 pp. CALAMARI PRESS 2011

Fiction. A MORTAL AFFECT is a satire of meaning systems targeting the role bureaucracy and cultural assumptions play in creating, distorting, and replicating the things we believe to be true. Informed by an absurdism in the Modernist vein, the novel is a celebration of error and folly that questions the wisdom of conviction and the faith in metaphysics. These themes play out in a fictional world inhabited by mortals and immortals, the oppressed and the oppressors. The former understand their condition of being oppressed but have no concept of freedom, while the latter emulate mortals but lack the ability to eat, reproduce, or die, even by suicide. Never allegorical or polemical, the novel operates comfortably within the bounds of comedy, avoiding the earnestness and self-conscious urgency common to the novel of ideas. Mathias Svalina I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur 978-0-9830263-5-8, $12, paper, 104 pp. MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS 2011

Fiction. “In this joyful critique of a Randian, postindustrial society, Mathias Svalina comments on both the compulsive desire to make the inconsumable and the often intangible recalcitrance of our attempts to create something useful in a world increasingly characterized by a manufactured sense of lack, anomie and disaffection, where we are daily beset by ‘a kind of numbness, a shadow of desire or fear offset against a blank world.’ Svalina refuses this numbness and offers something else, something completely stunning, in its place”—Gabriel Gudding. “This is a subversive and necessary book: the quixotic entrepreneurial spirit of individualist American capitalism is revealed as an inherently poetic construct, one that rests on theater, liminality, imaginative drive, contradiction, and failure. I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR is poignant and brilliant; it’s worth the investment” —Christian Hawkey.

Fiction. HARD HED is a contemporary retelling of the Johnny Appleseed story. Hoosier Chapman, local historian and apple orchardist, has just been released from a Northwestern Ohio jail after serving two years for planting wild apple trees in a city park. Dropped at the state line by a deputy sheriff, Hoosier treks west, overland and barefoot into Indiana state, recreating history and inventing myth, both public and private, along the way. Ranging in style from realism to fantasy to historical document to speculative fiction to lyric poetry, there is a joy of craft that shows through page after page. HARD HEN is part meta-story, part documentary, and part violent romance. It is an unabashedly original work of fiction that roams in and out of time and place and point of view. Tidler has created an Indiana as Faulkner created a Mississippi and Steinbeck a California. David L. Ulin, Editor Cape Cod Noir 978-1-936070-97-8, $15.95, paper, 224 pp. AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin has been vacationing in Cape Cod every summer since he was a boy. He knows the terrain inside and out; enough to identify the squalid underbelly of this allegedly idyllic location. His editing prowess is a perfect match for this fine volume. Includes brand-new stories by Paul Tremblay, Seth Greenland, Ben Greenman, Fred G. Leebron, David L. Ulin, Adam Mansbach, Lizzie Skurnick, Elyssa East, Dana Cameron, Kaylie Jones, and others.

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FICTION AND DRAMA Latha Viswanathan Lingering Tide and Other Stories 978-1-894770-75-0, $20.95, paper, 200 pp.

Sterling Watson Fighting in the Shade 978-1-936070-98-5, $15.95, paper, 330 pp.

TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. These poignant stories finely depict the lives of immigrants, through the themes of family adjustment, loss, and starting afresh in a new place. Set in suburban Toronto, New Jersey, Texas, and India, they draw out the conflicts in three generations of Indians whose lives interconnect even as they straddle the old and the new. What we sense is both the anguish of loss and the thrill of discovery. Viswanathan’s quiet prose imparts powerful emotions that ring true, and her rendering of cultural clash is truly skilful and nuanced. The depiction of her characters’ interior lives is so full and vital that they breathe and walk off the page. The reader is drawn in and completely absorbed into her world of transitions.

Fiction. In 1964, seventeen-year-old Billy Dyer is a newcomer to Oleander, a Gulf Coast Florida town whose old guard define football as the ancient Spartans did their Agoge. It is a mode of brutal tutelage that forges the hearts and minds of the town’s elite youth for a future of power. Billy’s parents are recently divorced and he lives in a bad neighborhood with his secretive, alcoholic father. Billy discovers in the course of the story that his attorney father has been forced by blackmail to serve Blake Rainey, the town’s most powerful and wealthy citizen, in a clandestine land-acquisition scheme that will raze the town’s black section. “A brilliant, fearless look at the savage rites of passage that exist in the fraternity of American sports. A book as gripping and unforgettable as any in recent memory” —Dennis Lehane.

Mark Wallace The Quarry and The Lot 978-1-935402-05-3, $18, paper, 340 pp. BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Fiction. Joseph Klein was a brilliant boy, talented— and dangerous. When he dies, at age 32, under uncertain circumstances, a group of his former friends gather for his funeral and see each other for the first time in some years. How did Joseph change them and what does he mean to them? What do they mean to each other, and why have their lives come to be what they are? THE QUARRY AND THE LOT is a novel about love and its limits, memory and history. It explores whether any truth can be stable when what’s happening is changed by what people understand and where what passes for normal is something far more frightening. “Mark Wallace’s THE QUARRY AND THE LOT is a big, complex, tender, angry, haunted charting of how each of us is many strangers, any past many pasts, our biographies always-already written by others. Ultimately, though, for me it’s about that bland, dangerous medication called the American suburb—how, once you’ve had a taste of that stuff, it’s almost impossible to kick, even as it turns you into a ghost, or a guerilla, or, sometimes, both at once”—Lance Olsen. Laura Maylene Walter Living Arrangements: Stories 978-1-886157-80-4, $15.95, paper, 175 pp. BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2011

Fiction. This collection of 13 stories feature characters, especially young women, who redefine their sense of belonging by reconciling with their pasts. Whether it is a plain looking woman winning ungainly notoriety as a lingerie window model, a young figure skater being lured by a stalker, or a daughter examining her mother’s accidental death at a horse farm, these stories’ protagonists surprise themselves and the reader by finding their places in the world through unpredictable turns. “Walter’s first book is a collection of fine and finely unsettling stories”—Kristin Ohlson.

Stephanie Powell Watts We Are Taking Only What We Need 978-1-886157-79-8, $15.95, paper, 221 pp. BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2011

Fiction. African Amercian Studies. African American women protagonists lose and find love, confront sanity and craziness, and strive to make sense of their lives in North Carolina. A Jehovah’s Witness girl goes door-todoor with an expert field-service partner from up north. At a call center, operator Sheila fields a caller’s uncomfortable questions under a ruthless supervisor’s eye. Forty-something Aunt Ginny surprises the family by finding a husband, but soon she gives them more to talk about. Pulitzer-Prize winner Edward P. Jones writes “Watts offers an impressive debut that promises only wonderful work to come.” Fiction writer Marly Swick agrees: “Each story seems, at the same time, to be a breath of fresh air and an instant classic.” Author Alyce Miller notes that “Watts writes with a penetrating eye for the extraordinary moments in the lives of ordinary people. As I read, I found myself holding my breath.” Vinnie Wilhelm In The Absence of Predators 978-0-9844889-6-4, $14, paper, 156 pp. RESCUE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Shot through with dark humor, desolate landscapes, and seemingly impossible plot turns, IN THE ABSENCE OF PREDATORS is a striking collection that haunts long after the stories have reached their outlandish conclusions. Here we discover the most captivating of human forms: dreamers, liars, thieves, murderers, and lovers—characters provoked to search, and those abandoned by their own fates and identities. Wilhelm’s narrative crescendos disclose the most terrifying corners of this world; there are wrecks, blizzards, asylums, agents, road trips, and an army of ghosts. IN THE ABSENCE OF PREDATORS is a masterful debut collection of five cracked and astonishing stories.

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Literary Nonfiction

Listed alphabetically by author. See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.9), Fiction and Drama (p.55), and Magazine sections (p.83)

Will Alexander Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents 978-0-578-08445-9, $10.95, paper, 152 pp.

Erica Baum Dog Ear 978-1-933254-71-5, $25, paper, 72 pp.

OYSTER MOON PRESS 2011

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. MIRACH SPEAKS TO HIS GRAMMATICAL TRANSPARENTS is a philosophical meditation vertically scripted. It is an extension of Alexander’s first book in this mode, TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD. Both books, in concert, exist as a double exploration in what, for the author, is a nascent odyssey, concerning the mind at non-limit through cellular transmogrification.

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. The concept of DOG EAR is simple and straightforward: dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks are photographed to isolate the small diagonally bisected squares or rectangles of text. The photographs are formally quite neutral and sedate—cursorily reminiscent of Alber’s “Homage to the Square” series of prints, paintings and tapestries—but the text also demands attention and it is what allows or coaxes the viewer to linger. As Kenny Goldsmith says in his introduction: “The idea that there’s no one correct way to engage with an artwork is at the heart of Erica Baum’s DOG EAR series. Do we see them or do we read them? If we choose to read them, how should we read? Across the fold? Through it? Around it? If we choose to look at Baum’s pictures, how should we see them? As artistic photographs? Documentation? Text art?” With essays by Kenneth Goldsmith and Béatrice Gross.

Leslie Atzmon, Editor Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design 978-1-60235-191-2, $40, paper, 472 pp. PARLOR PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Edited by Leslie Atzmon. The essays in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts. Rhetoric, normally understood as verbal or visual messages that have a tactical persuasive objective—a speech that wants to convince us to vote for someone, or an ad that tries to persuade us to buy a particular product—becomes in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN the persuasive use of a broad set of meta-beliefs. Designed objects are particularly effective at this second level of persuasion because they offer audiences communicative data that reflect, and also orchestrate, a potentially broad array of cultural concerns. Persuasion entails both the aesthetic form and material composition of any object. VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN features ten scholarly essays steeped in rhetorical analysis of artifacts, as well as two visual essays on the topic of ornamental typography with accompanying verbal texts. The essays in this collection span a number of design disciplines, including manufacturing design, graphic design, architectural design, and monument design. Contributors include Leslie Atzmon, Gerry Beegan, Guillemette Bolens, Kate Catterall, Barry Curtis, Michael Golec, Vladimir Kulik, Ryan Molloy, Teal Triggs, Jane Webb, Jack Williamson, and Lori Young. Anthony Barnett Antonyms & Others 978-0-907954-40-8, $18, paper, 70 pp. ALLARDYCE, BARNETT, PUBLISHERS 2012

Nonfiction. Literary History & Criticism. Poetry. This book collects six commentaries written for the journal of the English Association The Use of English. The writers discussed are Andrea Zanzotto, Robert Musil, Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Roth, José Saramago, Edvard Munch and Louis-René Des Forêts, while others who figure briefly there or elsewhere include Knut Hamsun, Kawabata Yasunari, Fernando Pessoa, Ai Weiwei, Robert Walser, Bohumil Hrabal, Cees Nooteboom, Roger Giroux, Paul Celan, Primo Levi, Valéry Larbaud, Tanizaki Jun’ichirõ, Guo Xiaolu. Also included are a discrete set of poems, a satire, a story of truth and untruth and a number of other prose pieces.

Sharon Morgan Beckford Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature 978-1-926708-12-6, $29.95, paper, 278 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. African American Studies. Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to faces the challenges of living in a multicultural society. NATURALLY WOMAN examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural country such as Canada without losing their sense of self. The author examines the texts of five major modern/ contemporary Canadian writers: Dionne Brand, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Tessa McWatt, Claire Harris, and Makeda Silvera, through prismatic criticism and by applying and extending a number of feminist discourses concerning Black women writing: identity, literary representations of female sojourn in Canada (as simultaneously aboveground and underground), feminist archetypal/myth criticism, and the discourse of mother/daughter/grandmother/substitute mother relationships. The book argues that there is a universal central myth on which the writings of these marginalized women are based and shows how some of the challenges of multiculturalism can be overcome, and how multiculturalism can become a site for creativity and innovation. Peter Bien Yannis Ritsos: Collected Studies & Translations 978-1-890193-44-7, $15, paper, 192 pp. RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Yannis Ritsos was, without question, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This collection of essays by Peter Bien is the first book of literary criticism in English devoted entirely to the work of Yannis Ritsos. A fine and substantial introduction to this great modern Greek poet.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Alan Broadbent and Ratna Omidvar, Editors Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success 978-1-55245-246-2, $22.95, paper, 250 pp.

Tony Cimasko and Melinda Reichelt, Editors Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices 978-1-60235-224-7, $32, paper, 360 pp.

COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

PARLOR PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Non-profits are big business. As the sector expands to embrace new issues, there is increased pressure for accountability, relevancy, and efficiency. Practitioners are expected to be experts in a variety of fields. In FIVE GOOD IDEAS, forty professionals from successful non-profits large and small offer information, strategies for action, and management solutions that are easy to implement and will improve how organizations function.

Nonfiction. Writing Reference. Language Arts. English as a Second Language. Much of what is known about teaching second language writing today has been based on research in English as a second language, writing in English in English-dominant countries and other contexts, without giving close consideration to the important work of teaching foreign language writing in many languages and contexts around the world. FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING INSTRUCTION: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES takes a significant step in addressing this imbalance by examining many of the topics that influence foreign language teaching. Fourteen chapters researched and authored by scholars working in nine different countries and regions explore the contexts of foreign language writing pedagogy, the diversity of national and regional approaches, the role of universities, departments, and programs in pedagogy, and the cognitive and classroom dimensions of teaching and learning. This volume provides a cross-section of the current status of foreign language writing instruction, while developing a fuller appreciation for the broadened perspectives that it can bring to second language writing. Both teachers and researchers in foreign language writing will benefit greatly from this collection. Contributors include Rachida Elqobai, Yukiko Abe Hatasa, Icy Lee, Natalie Lefkowitz, Rosa Manchón, Hui-Tzu Min, Marly Nas, Hadara Perpignan, Melinda Reichelt, Marcela Ruiz-Funes, Jean Marie Schultz, Oleg Tarnopolsky, Helga Thorson, Kees van Esch, and Wenyu Wang.

Chris Carlsson, Editor Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 978-1-931404-12-9, $18.95, paper, 344 pp. CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. California Studies. A collection of first-person and historical essays spans the tumultuous decade from 1968, the year of the San Francisco State College strike, to 1978 and the twin traumas of the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. This volume provides a broad look at the diverse ways those ten years shook the City and shaped the world we live in today. From community gardening to environmental justice, gay rights and other identity-based social movements, anti-gentrification efforts, neighborhood arts programs and more, many of the initiatives whose origins are described here have taken root and spread far beyond San Francisco. Trevor Carolan, Editor Making Waves: Reading B.C. and Pacific Northwest Literature 978-1-897535-29-5, $20, paper, 272 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. MAKING WAVES offers a mosaic of fresh approaches toward shaping a new “literacy of place”—a more coherent understanding of British Columbia and Pacific Northwest literature in the 21st century. Providing new insights into how vividly local—but never far removed from cosmopolitan developments—the region’s literary production has been, the collection features archival references to a constellation of the area’s essential literary figures. The fifteen essays by established and newer voices examine creation myths among West Coast literary institutions, gender roles, and ethnicity in the region’s expanding literary community, critical challenges to nationalist and ecological traditions, and also pay homage to some of our celebrated elders, including Earle Birney, George Woodcock, Robin Blaser, and P.K. Page, among many others from the 1950s onward. Features essays by Carolyn Zonailo, George Mcwhirter, Judith Copithorne, Susan Mccaslin, Hilary Turner, Joseph Blake, Michael Barnholden, Colin James Sanders, Mike Doyle, Frances Cabahug, Paul Falardeau, Chelsea Thornton, Martin Van Woudenberg, Ron Dart, and Trevor Carolan.

Myrl Coulter The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers 978-1-897535-72-1, $18, paper, 214 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women’s Studies. Unmarried and pregnant in 1968, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and perhaps unwilling) to support her child, Myrl’s parents forced her to give the baby up for adoption. After being sent to a home for unwed mothers, Myrl gave birth in a desolate hospital room and then found herself at the mercy of a closed adoption process that seemed determined to punish her. Myrl was left numb and filled with questions that no one was able to answer. In THE HOUSE WITH THE BROKEN TWO: A BIRTHMOTHER REMEMBERS, Dr. Myrl Coulter reflects on the family politics and social mores that surrounded closed adoption in the 1960s, and examines the changing attitudes that resulted in the current open adoption system and her eventual reunion with her first-born son. The book is an intimate, honest look at the way personal histories combine with political truths, and Coulter mixes revealing personal details with sharp political observations. THE HOUSE WITH THE BROKEN TWO could be called a personal essay or a feminist apologia, but perhaps most importantly, it is a book about motherhood, in its many variations.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Sky Curtis Doctored: A True Story 978-1-926708-18-8, $22.95, paper, 264 pp.

Diane Driedger, Editor Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader 978-1-926708-17-1, $29.95, paper, 364 pp.

INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women’s Studies. Many women are sexually abused by their doctors. DOCTORED is a moving true story about the devastating impact of this abuse of power. It is a first person account of one woman’s steely determination to recover and to find justice. Sky is a successful writer who suffers from anxiety. Like a surprising number of vulnerable women she is sexually abused by the doctor she turns to for help. And, as so many women abused by their doctors discover, the consequences are devastating: she loses her career, her friends, her family, her religion and ultimately, her mind. Through sheer force of will, Sky fights her way back from madness to strength. But then, when she reports the doctor, she faces the frustrating anti-female bias in the medical and legal systems. Can she win in an arena where women rarely do? At times hilarious, most often enraging, DOCTORED is a bold and important book that breaks through the protective barriers surrounding the medical profession.

Literary Nonfiction. Disability Studies. Poetry. Art. This collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities. The women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are women, and through ableism, because they have disabilities. For them, the personal is definitely political. Here, Canadian women discuss their lives in the areas of employment, body image, sexuality and family life, society’s attitudes, and physical, sexual and emotional abuse. While society traditionally views having a disability as “weakness” and that women are the “weaker” sex, this collection points to the strength, persistence, and resilience of disabled women living the edges.

Renee E. D’Aoust Body of a Dancer 978-0-9832944-1-2, $15, paper, 171 pp. ETRUSCAN PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. The award-winning writer Renée E. D’Aoust draws from her experiences as a modern dancer in New York during the nineties. Her luminous prose spotlights this passionate, often brutal world. Trained at the prestigious Martha Graham Center, D’Aoust intertwines accounts of her own and other dancers’ lives with essays on modern dance history. A dancer’s body, scarred, strained, and tough, bears witness to the discipline demanded by the art form. BODY OF A DANCER provides a powerful, acidly comic record of what it is to love, and eventually leave, a life centered on dance. “A remarkably clear-eyed descent into New York’s surreal world of modern dance peopled by the obsessed, dispossessed, sexy, suicidal, brutal, broke, and absurd”—Lance Olsen. Linda Dorricott and Deidre Cullon, Editors The Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862) 978-1-55380-127-6, $23.95, paper, 200 pp. RONSDALE PRESS 2012

Literary Nonfiction. History. Memoir. Native American Studies. Captain Richards’s journal is an account of three survey seasons on Vancouver Island aboard two British Navy ships, the HMS Plumper and the HMS Hecate. Between 1860 and 1862 Richards and his dedicated crew surveyed and charted the entire coastline of Vancouver Island, creating baseline information for the nautical charts we use today. This monumental task, faithfully and often humorously recorded, also includes a lively description of California on the eve of the American Civil War as Richards sits in dry dock following the near wreck of the Hecate. Part of the private collection of a direct descendant of Captain Richards, the journal is a little known and untapped resource. Extensively annotated and supplemented with excerpts from the journals of Second Master John Gowlland, the journal provides a unique and personal view of the aboriginal, colonial, nautical and natural history of Vancouver Island. Richards is revealed as a man of immense energy and diplomacy; the descriptions of the First Nations he encounters are remarkably unbiased for the time and his keen observations are a portal into the social and political life of Vancouver Island during these formative years of the colony. The journal will appeal to historians, anthropologists, sailors, meteorologists and the general reading public alike.

Ella Thorp Ellis Dune Child 978-0-9795285-9-0, $20, paper, 150 pp. EL LEÓN LITERARY ARTS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. California Studies. DUNE CHILD will be of interest to historians (California history) and child therapists. It tells the story of an artistic and bohemian community that existed in the dunes near San Luis Obispo during the Depression. John Steinbeck came there to read from Tortilla Flat and Ella remembers following him to a hobo camp; Ansel Adams and Edward Weston came to shoot photos for a journal called Dune Forum, and Ella followed them on their photography expeditions. Ella’s father, Dunham Thorp was Upton Sinclair’s press secretary when Sinclair ran for governor of California, and Ella was on hand as well as the two men discussed strategy—she found Sinclair annoying, he felt similarly with respect to her. Mr. Fish Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People 978-1-61775-014-4, $18.95, paper, 224 pp. AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Political Science. Art. This debut volume of political cartoons from the revered Mr. Fish spans politics, popular culture, the economic crisis, the Obama presidency, and much more, where nobody— right, left, nor middle—is safe from his razor-edged satire. The volume also includes original essays from Mr. Fish. “You’re the first person in the media I’ve talked to, in the forty years I’ve been in public life, who put his finger on really what [are] deep philosophical questions”—Dennis Kucinich. “You [Mr. Fish] get the gold medal for asking me things that nobody’s ever asked me before”—Joan Baez.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Jack Foley Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part One, 1940-1980 978-1-61364-067-8, $50, paper, 580 pp.

Fred Gardaphe The Art of Reading Italian Americana: Italian American Culture in Review 978-1-59954-019-1, $15, paper, 212 pp.

PANTOGRAPH PRESS 2011

BORDIGHERA PRESS 2011

Literary Nonficton. Poetry History & Criticism. California Studies. VISIONS & AFFILIATIONS: A CALIFORNIA TIMELINE 1940-1980 is the first of a two-volume chronoencyclopedia of a scene that stretches over sixtyfive years. People, ideas, and stories appear, disappear, and reappear as the second half of the century moves forward. Poetry is a major element in this kaleidoscopic California scene. It is argued about, dismissed, renewed, denounced in fury, asserted as divine, criticized as pornographic. Poetry is as Western as the Sierra foothills, and the questions raised here go to its very heart. Beginning with the publication of Kenneth Rexroth’s first book, this all-encompassing history-as-collage plunges us forward into the 21st Century. California authors keep generating massive anthologies in an attempt to tame the chaos of California, to pretend it isn’t there. Yet there it is—staring them in the face like a great bear, alive, hungry and more than a little dangerous.

Literary Nonfiction. THE ART OF READING ITALIAN AMERICANA is a celebration of the “Art of Reading,” in which the reader and writer engage in dialogue. This book covers the ten-year period since Fred Gardaphé’s DAGOES READ, from 1995-2005, and includes most of the reviews he published in Fra Noi during that period, along with a few longer reviews and review essays published elsewhere, to provide an in-depth view of the production of Italian American writers. This book, then, offers an answer to the question raised so many years ago in the New York Times: “Where are the Italian American Writers?”

Jack Foley Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part Two, 1980-2005 978-1-61364-068-5, $50, paper, 716 pp. PANTOGRAPH PRESS 2011

Literary Nonficton. Poetry History & Criticism. California Studies. VISIONS & AFFILIATIONS: A CALIFORNIA TIMELINE 1980-2005 is the second of a two-volume chronoencyclopedia of a scene that stretches over sixtyfive years. People, ideas, and stories appear, disappear, and reappear as the second half of the century moves forward. Poetry is a major element in this kaleidoscopic California scene. It is argued about, dismissed, renewed, denounced in fury, asserted as divine, criticized as pornographic. Poetry is as Western as the Sierra foothills, and the questions raised here go to its very heart. Beginning with the publication of Kenneth Rexroth’s first book, this all-encompassing history-as-collage plunges us forward into the 21st Century. California authors keep generating massive anthologies in an attempt to tame the chaos of California, to pretend it isn’t there. Yet there it is—staring them in the face like a great bear, alive, hungry and more than a little dangerous. Bill Freind, Editor Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada 978-1-84861-184-9, $23, paper, 322 pp. SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Asian American Studies. Edited by Bill Freind. SCUBADIVERS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS is a collection of essays on the poetry of Araki Yasuada. The book includes essays by Bill Freind, Eliot Weinberger, Marjorie Perloff, Forrest Gander, Mikhail Epstein, Kent Johnson, Brian McHale, Paisley Rekdal, Jenny Boully, Alex Verdolini, Eric R. J. Hayot, Jacob Edmond, Martin Corless-Smith, Farid Matuk, David Rosenberg, David Wojahn, Hosea Hirata and Dan Hoy. “Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasusada was an invention, and while no one claimed responsibility for the work, most readers agree that Kent Johnson was the creator, although Johnson insists the actual author is Tosa Motokiyu, the pseudonym for an unnamed writer who is now dead” —Bill Freind.

Gabor Gasztonyi A Room in the City 978-1-897535-28-8, $40, paper, 144 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Foreword by Gabor Maté. A ROOM IN THE CITY presents Gasztonyi’s five-year project of photographing the residents of the Cobalt, Balmoral, Regent, and Sunrise Hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the poorest postal code in the country. They are represented in private moments, with respect and dignity—in their rooms and on the streets—as they wish to be seen. Gasztonyi’s style continues in the great documentation tradition of Anders Petersen and Josef Koudelka. John Gibler To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War 978-0-87286-517-4, $15.95, paper, 200 pp. CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Latin American Studies. Politics. Combining on-the-ground reporting and in-depth discussions with people on the frontlines of Mexico’s drug war, TO DIE IN MEXICO tells behind-the-scenes stories that address the causes and consequences of Mexico’s multibillion dollar drug trafficking business. John Gibler looks beyond the myths that pervade government and media portrayals of the unprecedented wave of violence now pushing Mexico to the breaking point. Juan Gómez-Quiñones Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future 978-0-9844415-2-5, $18, paper, 120 pp. AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Native American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Philosophy. In INDIGENOUS QUOTIENT/STALKING WORDS, Gómez-Quiñones argues for readers to connect to the intellectual traditions of an ever-present American Indigenous civilization. With this new consciousness of lndigeneity, readers can better understand the intellectual and cultural heritage of all peoples in the Western hemisphere as a continuation of millennia of history and civilization. As such, GómezQuiñones demonstrates that Indigenous history is U.S. and Western hemisphere history and vice versa. A critical understanding of this is a necessary requirement for any useful understanding of the history of culture, politics, and economics in the Western hemisphere. Finally, Gómez-Quiñones’s essays demonstrate the necessity of the fundamental Indigenous “belief in the interdependence of all life and life sources.” This depicts the historic and present responsibility all humans have to each other and their environment.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Ted Greenwald Clearview/LIE 978-0-935992-28-1, $16, paper, 194 pp. UNITED ARTISTS BOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. “This autobiographical epic from American poetry’s best-kept secret dynamo goes streaming onward and veering between electric poles and templates of ‘anyway,’ deep in the heart of diction. The poem is a form of reading one life into another, a bridge-and-tunnel work, swift and huge as capital letters”—Bill Berkson. “CLEARVIEW/LIE affirms the virtues of necessity. It’s an account of getting real” —Lyn Hejinian. Carol Guess My Father in Water 978-1-84861-185-6, $15, paper, 88 pp. SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBT Studies. This interlinked collection of lyric essays documents Carol Guess’s relationship to her father, a brilliant scientist whose intensity and eccentricity shaped family life in humorous and often lonely ways. In musical prose, writing as a poet, teacher, and queer activist, Guess describes a life lived in service to language. At once accessible and enigmatic, funny and somber, MY FATHER IN WATER is a haunting examination of the impact of family history on one artist’s journey. Samuel Hawley I Just Ran: Percy Williams, The World’s Fastest Human 978-1-55380-126-9, $23.95, paper, 332 pp. RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Canadian History. Sports. At the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics an unknown Vancouver runner named Percy Williams shocked the sports world by capturing the 100- and 200-meter gold medals. Some said the feat was a fluke. It wasn’t. In 1929 Percy silenced naysayers by sweeping the US indoor track circuit, then he went on to set a world record in the 100 meters that would stand until the arrival of Jesse Owens. And in between he waged a speed duel with the fleetest men on the planet, a battle for track supremacy and the title “World’s Fastest Human.” Based on extensive research that included access to Percy’s private letters, diary and scrapbooks, I JUST RAN is the first full-length account of this sports legend, one of the most famous Canadians of his day but now largely forgotten. It begins as the Cinderella story of a youth who conquers a sport dominated by American sprinters. Then it gets grittier, for success and fame had a dark side. I JUST RAN follows Percy and his janitor-coach Bob Granger as they journey through the world of elite running in the 1920s and 30s—a world that was not always pretty beneath the veneer of amateurism. Gretchen E. Henderson On Marvellous Things Heard 978-1-4507-4211-5, $12, paper, 91 pp. THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Music. Poetry. Art. Derived in form from Aristotle’s “Minor Work” of the same title, this variation of ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD explores a range of literary appropriations of music, in terms of translation and metamorphosis. Part investigation, part inventory, and part invention (in the musical sense: a composition in simple counterpoint), this poeticallydriven essay assays the narrating subject as she assays the subjects of literature, of music, and of silence. Printed in an edition of 250 with color plate supplied by artist Carrie Gundersdorf and an introduction by G. C. Waldrep.

Alastair Johnston Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography and Poetry 978-0-9827926-6-7, $22, paper, 274 pp. CUNEIFORM PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Book Arts. Poetry History & Criticism. Conducted over the course of four decades, HANGING QUOTES is a landmark oral history project comprised of nineteen interviews with pioneer book artists, typographers, and poets. Alastair Johnston’s thoughtful questions evoke fascinating new stories and information from luminaries as diverse as Nicolas Barker and Robert Creeley. He discusses the transition from cast metal to digital type with the prime movers in the field: Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone, and Fred Smeijers; and he takes stock of the field of artists’ books in wide-ranging conversations with Sandra Kirshenbaum and Joan and Nathan Lyons, while his groundbreaking interviews with Dave Haselwood, Holbrook Teter, Bob Hawley, Walter Hamady, and Graham Mackintosh shed new light on the history of the book in the 20th century. Stephen Kessler The Tolstoy of the Zulus 978-0-9795285-8-3, $20, paper, 368 pp. EL LEÓN LITERARY ARTS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Music. Kessler’s lens is wide but his focus is sharp as he surveys, with clarity and fresh understanding, both famous and unsung figures of contemporary culture. Selected from more than thirty years of journalism, THE TOLSTOY OF THE ZULUS includes 55 essays on such diverse topics as the creative repercussions of September 11, the art of the letter, a trip to Disneyland, Google’s Universal Library, the Watts Towers, Marlon Brando, Charles Manson, Bob Dylan, Luis Buñuel, J. D. Salinger, Romare Bearden, Philip Roth, Harry Belafonte, Edward Hopper, Thelonious Monk, Charles Bukowski, Saul Bellow and an array of other, less celebrated but equally remarkable players in the multifaceted cultural life of our times. M. Akif Kirecci and Edward Foster, Editors Istanbul: Metamorphoses in an Imperial City 978-1-58498-080-3, $16.95, paper, 170 pp. TALISMAN HOUSE, PUBLISHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. ISTANBUL: METAMORPHOSES IN AN IMPERIAL CITY brings together essays and memoirs by noted scholars and writers. The book opens with an introductory essay on the history of Istanbul by M. Akif Kirecci, followed by a series of essays on the city and its development since the creation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Included are essays by Burcu Özgüven, “Creating Ideas on the Urban Modernization: Istanbul’s Development in the Thirties”; Laurent Mignon, “Istanbul Disorientated: From the ‘National Poet’ to the ‘Unnational’ Novelist”; Z. Esra Mirze Santesso, “Literary and Photographic Aura in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City”; Murat Nemet-Nejat, “Istanbul Noir”; and Iffet Evin, “Mehmet the Boatman,” translated by Robert P. Finn. A second group of essays concerns American perceptions of Istanbul. Edward Foster summarizes the deep admiration of the city and Turkish culture generally by visitors from the United States in the nineteenth-century. The book closes with reminiscences of the modern city by the critic Walter Andrews, the poet Sidney Wade, and the playwright Anthony P. Pennino.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Andrea Köhler The Waiting Game: An Essay on the Gift of Time 978-1-935830-03-0, $19.95, paper, 80 pp.

Jon Leon Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta 978-1-933254-90-6, $10, paper, 80 pp.

UPPER WEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERS 2012

CONTENT 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the German by Michael Eskin. Graced with lyricism, THE WAITING GAME is an engaging meditation on the ways in which human beings are forced—and choose—to mark time, from earliest childhood to the final moments of life. This is an unsparing, yet often poetic, essay on the ordeals and pleasures inherent in the universal experience of waiting.

Art. Content is a book series of fixed dimensions and page count, presenting original or appropriated work of any type. This is a new work by Jon Leon called ELIZABETH ZOË LINDSAY DRINK FANTA.

Petra Kuppers, Editor Somatic Engagement 978-1-930068-51-3, $16, paper, 126 pp. CHAINLINKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge and Community Performance: An Introduction), the book opens with Arnieville, a Californian protest camp of disability, homelessness, and poverty activists. From there, a series of enactments welcome trespass and incursion in the name of survival. Amy Sara Carroll on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS phone that uses poetry to lead the disoriented and thirsty to water caches and safety sites in the US-Mexican borderlands. Devora Neumark on washing Tali Goodfriend’s hands in Lebanese olive oil outside the hotel where Colin Powell speaks to the Jewish National Fund, hands gliding over one another in the middle of an angry public protest. Christian Nagler on writing an experimental novel while conducting an oral history of agricultural labor practices and migration patterns at the site of the Panamerican Highway in El Salvador. Georgina Kleege on touch and blindness as she discusses Katherine Sherwood’s paintings of magic and the human brain, paintings that Sherwood began after her stroke ten years ago. Eleni Stecopoulos on the healing quest as research and the complexities of cultural appropriation. Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto on the collaborative connections of breath, body, pause, pain, and form. SOMATIC ENGAGEMENT is an exploration of how relation and support play out in breaths, steps, and touch.

BURNING DECK 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. Champollion loved the novels of Fenimore Cooper, in particular The Last of the Mohicans. Macé explores Champollion’s twin interests: Egypt and “America’s savage nations,” his deciphering of the Rosetta stone and the Indians’ deciphering of the forest. He finally follows Champollion to the Louvre where he set up the Egyptian galleries and saw Indians of the Osage tribe. Angela Miles Women in a Globalizing World: Equality, Development, Peace and Diversity 978-1-926708-19-5, $34.95, paper, 364 pp. INANNA PUBLICATIONS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Women’s Studies. This collection of feminist articles provide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international authors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, indigenous, and subsistence perspectives on environmental, social, cultural, and political issues in women’s struggles (both local and global) and visions for another world. This anthology uniquely situates current theory and activism in a rare historically-contextualized account of Canadian and global feminisms’ deepening engagement with these issues.

Alex Landon and Elaine Halleck A Parallel Universe 978-0-9827343-7-7, $19.95, paper, 258 pp.

Bill Morgan Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America 978-0-87286-512-9, $15.95, paper, 225 pp.

POETIC MATRIX PRESS 2011

CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Criminal Law. Here is a unique bringing together of nonfiction (the lawyer’s perspective) and fiction (the writer’s view) on a topic of devastating concern to victims and the accused. Alex Landon (the lawyer) and Elaine Halleck (the writer) explore a particularly difficult topic, the effect of laws enacted in the aftermath of brutal child abductions and murders on those accused of lesser sexual crimes or those falsely accused and on society as a whole.

Literary Nonfiction. Reference. Travel. Photographs by Allen Ginsberg and others. Foreword by Nancy J. Peters. Companion to our Beat tour guides to San Francisco and New York, BEAT ATLAS: A STATE BY STATE GUIDE TO THE BEAT GENERATION IN AMERICA is a state-by-state guide to the rest of the nation’s significant Beat locales. Beginning with Jack Kerouac’s Lowell, BEAT ATLAS takes us through the terrain mapped out in his novels, as well as to sites depicted by poets like Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. From William Burroughs’s Lawrence, KS, to Neal Cassady’s Denver—and everywhere in between— BEAT ATLAS contains a wealth of historical information subdivided by region and state for easy reference and is illustrated with photographs by Ginsberg. It also follows the movements of Beat contemporaries like the New York School, the Black Mountain Poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Written by Beat authority Bill Morgan, and rich with literary lore, BEAT ATLAS makes an ideal companion for armchair travelers as well as those “on the road.”

Ann Lauterbach The Given & The Chosen 978-1-890650-62-9, $11.95, paper, 50 pp. OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Ann Lauterbach considers the animated, elastic relation between what is given and what is chosen through the lens of art, critical thinking and her own experience as a poet. More meditation than argument, the essay brings to focus compelling ideas and questions surrounding the significance of art for the contemporary world.

Gerard Mace The Last of the Egyptians 978-1-936194-11-7, $14, paper, 80 pp.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Charles Olson Charles Olson at Goddard College 978-0-9827926-5-0, $16.95, paper, 112 pp. CUNEIFORM PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Edited with an introduction by Kyle Schlesinger. Foreword by Basil King. In the spring of 1962, poet Charles Olson descended upon an experimental college in rural Vermont to read from The Maximus Poems and The Distances, and to lecture on Herman Melville. His captivating performance sparked lively debates with the audience on the nature of myth, history, etymology, narrative, knowledge, and sexuality. CHARLES OLSON AT GODDARD COLLEGE is an enthralling and indispensable annotated transcript that celebrates the intersection of Olson’s poetics and a hopeful moment in American education. William Parker Conversations 978-2-9531508-2-7, $45, paper, 450 pp. ROGUE ART 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Music. Book + CD. Interviews. Photographs by Jacques Bisceglia. During the last 12 years, William Parker interviewed 32 of his friends and colleagues, artists and musicians. “There is a special level of trust and understanding that artists reach when speaking with other artists. William Parker goes deep in these one-on-one conversations to reveal brilliance, truth, wit, humanity and a relaxed eloquence that is both illuminating and a fascinating read. Conversations sheds long overdue light on some of the most important musicians of our time and in so doing presents us with an essential piece of the creative music puzzle. This is oral history at its best”—John Zorn. CD includes CD excerpts from the interviews and William Parker bass solos, total time: 68:40. Edited by Ed Hazell. Phillip Pavia, Editor The Waldorf Panels on Sculpture (1965) 978-0-9824090-3-9, $16, paper, 120 pp. SOBERSCOVE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. In the Spring of 1965, dozens of New York artists met for the two-part, invitation-only Waldorf Panels on Sculpture. Organized by Phillip Pavia, the proceedings of THE WALDORF PANELS ON SCULPTURE were published in issue #6 of his magazine, IT IS. The discussions touch on a wide range of sculptural issues ranging from the status of found objects to thoughts on spontaneity vs. design to the expanding definition of sculpture to perspectives on Surrealism and Pop Art. In addition to heavy audience participation in both panels, Panel 1 includes Herbert Ferber, Reuben Kadish, Ibram Lassaw, Phillip Pavia, James Rosati, Bernard Rosenthal, and David Slivka. Panel 2 includes Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Phillip Pavia, George Segal, George Sugarman, and James Wines. These transcripts, reprinted for the first time since their 1965 original publication, convey a strong sense of a genre— and an art world—in transition. Terrence E. Poppa Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin 978-1-933693-85-9, $16.95, paper, 368 pp. CINCO PUNTOS PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. “Pablo Acosta was a living legend in his Mexican border town of Ojinaga. He smuggled tremendous amounts of drugs into the United States; he survived numerous attempts on his power—and his life—by rivals; and he blessed the town with charity and civic improvements. He was finally slain in 1987 during a raid by Mexican officials with the cooperation of US law enforcement. Poppa has turned out a detailed and exciting book, covering in depth Acosta’s life; the other drug factions that battled with him; the village of Ojinaga; and the logistics of the

drug operation. The result is a nonfiction account with enough greed, treachery, shoot-outs, and government corruption to fascinate true crime and crime fiction readers alike. Highly recommended”—Library Journal. Kevin Power Where You’re At: Poetics & Visual Art 978-0-918395-27-6, $19.95, paper, 210 pp. POLTROON PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Art. These eight interviews—with Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Duncan, Robert Bly, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, George and Mary Oppen, Bill Berkson, and David Meltzer—were conducted in the mid-1970s and constitute a mapping of American poetry during these dramatic years when a series of major alternatives were being opened in poetics. The conversations look at the relationships between poetry and other disciplines, focusing above all on the intense exchanges between contemporary art and the work and writings of these poets. Power discusses “deep image” and ethnopoetry with Rothenberg, subjective verse and myth with Bly, and lyrical philosophy and Objectivism with the Oppens. He also looks at the central role of West Coast Expressionism, collage and assemblage, focusing on the centricity of artists such as Hassel Smith, Corbett, and Jess in Duncan’s work, the dramatic impact of Abstract Expressionism on the poetics and writing of Creeley, the impact of Pollock and Surrealism on McClure, the presence of Herms and Berman in L.A. and the collaborations with Semina in his conversation with Meltzer, and the fluid and vital exchanges that were going on between abstract and figurative artists and the New York School of poets in his discussion with Berkson. The conversations bring us close to the ways in which contemporary art impacted so significantly on the work of these poets. Rich with anecdote, personal history, and sharp insights, this is an invaluable resource for students of modern American literature. Richard Rathwell Quicker & Deader 978-1-889960-23-4, $16.50, paper, 173 pp. FIRST INTENSITY PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In what he calls an “antimemoir,” Richard Rathwell (author of RE: THE DEAD ARTS and many other books) reveals some of his Asperger’s Syndrome-sponsored interactions with a world apparently bent on misunderstanding him (and vice versa). A hard book to categorize, QUICKER & DEADER has the grip of a well-crafted novel, the hilarity of the truth-is-funnier-than-fiction storytelling skill of, say, a David Sedaris, and the bite of a politically scathing exposé. “I am a born-again omnivore and coffee junkie. I’m a parent and a husband too,” Rathwell says of himself. He’s those and a lot more interesting. Paisley Rekdal Intimate: An American Family Photo Album 978-1-936797-08-0, $29.95, cloth, 300 pp. 978-1-932195-96-5, $19.95, paper, 300 pp. TUPELO PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. INTIMATE is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America. Typographically innovative, INTIMATE creates parallel streams, narrating the stories of Rekdal’s Norwegian-American father and his mixedrace marriage, the photographer Edward S. Curtis, and Curtis’s murdered Apsaroke guide, Alexander Upshaw. The result is panoramic, a completely original literary encounter with intimacy, identity, family relations, and race.

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LITERARY NONFICTION David Rich, Editor Charles Olson: Letters Home 1949-1969 978-0-938791-01-0, $25, paper, 152 pp.

George Scialabba The Modern Predicament 978-0-9831975-6-0, $14, paper, 81 pp.

CAPE ANN MUSEUM 2010

PRESSED WAFER 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. This book, published in Olson’s centennial year, is a study in letters of Charles Olson and a sampling of ten people in Gloucester who were part of his circle: artists, writers, a publisher, a museum president, an inventor, an architect. Editor David Rich has taken the unusual step of arranging each chapter by correspondent and presenting both sides of each exchange when possible: the result is a group portrait, with Olson at the center, of a vibrant literary and artistic scene.

Nonfiction. Politics. Literary Criticism THE MODERN PREDICAMENT is George Scialabba’s second essay collection, following his acclaimed WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOOD FOR? (Pressed Wafer, 2009). In 23 compact, lucid essays ranging across philosophy (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), literature (D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot), history (Michael Foucault, Christopher Lasch) and politics (Michael Harrington), Scialabba poses a number of searching questions, directly and eloquently, continually returning to one: Is moral progress possible, and at what price? In her introduction Barbara Ehrenreich writes, “As long as we exist as a species, we’ll be debating what constitutes morality and virtue, and we could hardly have a better guide than George Scialabba.” James Woods hails THE MODERN PREDICAMENT as a stimulating encounter with “one of America’s best all-round intellects.”

Bob Robertson Mayan Horror: How to Survive the End of the World in 2012 978-1-897535-87-5, $16, paper, 192 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Humor. When the Mayan Calendar runs out on December 21st, 2012, all manner of possible disasters will befall the earth, from a collision with a rogue planet, to biblical flooding, to being attacked by swarms of gnats. But just because life as we know it will come to a end, it doesn’t mean you can’t survive and even prosper financially in the post-apocalyptic world. Bob Robertson’s MAYAN HORROR: HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD IN 2012 gives you all the vital information you’ll need to come through smiling after Armageddon wreaks havoc on the planet. Danielle Rosen The Institute for Species Systemization: An Experimental Archive 978-0-9844889-7-1, $14, paper, 92 pp. RESCUE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Art. THE INSTITUTE FOR SPECIES SYSTEMIZATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL ARCHIVE documents the past projects and ongoing experimental processes of the ISS. This groundbreaking work of research, investigative scientific studies, neverbefore collected data, and interpreted evidence from the Institute for Species Systemization is concerned with the psychological, literal, and linguistic spaces between animals and humans. The archive cites theories of proxemics and zoosemiotics—as well as the infamous psychological studies of Skinner and Harlow—as both precedent and provocation. Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, and José Alfredo González Celdrán Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe 978-0-87286-470-2, $23.95, paper, 300 pp. CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. European History. Drugs. This illustrated book traces the history of an unlikely force in the shaping of Western civilization: the use of psychedelic mushrooms, namely by a secret society called the cult of Mithras. Nero was the first emperor to be initiated by the group’s “magical dinners,” and most of his successors embraced the ritual as a source of spiritual transcendence. The cult was officially banned after the Conversion, but aspects of their rituals were assimilated or co-opted by Christianity, and the brotherhoods persist today as secret societies such as the Freemasons. This is a fascinating exploration of a powerful force kept behind the scenes for thousands of years. “An important book—by far the most comprehensive account of this thunderingly neglected topic that I have seen”—Huston Smith.

Jo Scott-Coe Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School 978-1-879960-84-8, $16.95, paper, 192 pp. AUNT LUTE BOOKS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Education Studies. Memoir. Why would a high school teacher who loves teaching leave school—after half a career in the classroom? TEACHER AT POINT BLANK answers this question at a time when concerns about school performance, safety, and teacher attrition are at an all-time and often anxious high. Meditating on subtle and overt forms of violence in secondary public education from an up-close and “pink collar” point of view, Jo Scott-Coe defies clichés and cultural fantasies about teachers. She examines her own workplace as a microcosm of the national compulsory K-12 system, where teachers—now nearly 80 percent women—find themselves idealized and disparaged, expected to embody the dedication of parents, the coldness of data managers, and the obedience of Stepford spouses. In this groundbreaking memoir in essays, Scott-Coe recounts her own journey to recover a sane and independent voice. TEACHER AT POINT BLANK fuses her perspectives as teacher and former student, adult and child, educator and writer. Cassie J. Sneider Fine Fine Music 978-0-9819534-4-1, $15, paper, 144 pp. RAW ART PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. FINE FINE MUSIC is a collection of stories about the other side of rock and roll and coming of age in the land that time forgot. Lake Ronkonkoma is stuck in 1981, an alcoholic blackout of unnatually tan people waxing their Camaros to Foreigner on cassette and knowing the words to every Billy Joel song whether you want to or not. From an internship making Seamonkey costumes, a childhood fear of My Buddy dolls, and a heartbreaking crush on Aerosmith, funny lady Cassie J. Sneider delivers her tales of growing up in a land of fist-pumping Snookies with the antagonistic wit of a record store clerk.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Madeline Sonik Afflictions and Departures 978-1-897535-67-7, $20, paper, 184 pp. ANVIL PRESS 2011

Mark Spitzer Writer in Residence: Memoir of a Literary Translator 978-1-60801-020-2, $15.95, paper, 180 pp.

Literary Nonfiction. AFFLICTIONS AND DEPARTURES is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm of traditional memoir—in addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm of the daily events of her childhood and adolescence, and the social, historical, and scientific trends of the time. AFFLICTIONS AND DEPARTURES begins by considering the turbulent and changing nature of the world in the late 1950s and early 1960s—the world in which the author was conceived and born. Like many couples of that era, Madeline Sonik’s parents focused on shared social and economic ambitions at the expense of authentic personal feeling. These ambitions would erode and, by the 1970s, completely collapse. These essays are as incisive as they are moving, and leave the reader with a sense of history as it was lived, not as it is codified in countless textbooks.

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. An American translating punk in Paris living at the infamous Bohemian bookstore Shakespeare & Co. hooks up with a bipolar nymphomaniac who puts him through a mental sausage grinder. Enter the cops, hippy chicks, black hash, crazy old men, a major deluge, and a host of whacko international freaks and street people. Then POW!, the ultimate betrayal. This is the third memoir in an autobiographical series. “The poetry-intoxicated hero of Spitzer’s breathless saga runs smack up into history just as she’s changing her dress in the now-fabulous Paris of the late 20th century, and the result is electric. His choleric and vivid voice brings to life a story both breathless with life-dew and masterfully vivid, in the lineage of Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac, but in the tradition of Don Quixote, the timeless dreamer headed for the turbulent phantasm of art”—Andrei Codrescu.

Brent Spencer Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son’s Search for His Father 978-1-935218-18-0, $25, paper, 230 pp.

Michael Stipe Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith 978-1-61775-023-6, $23.95, cloth, 128 pp.

THE BACKWATERS PRESS 2011

AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. When the salvage crew finally arrived, they found the dead man and a halfsunken sailboat overflowing with receipts, journals, letters, lists, school notes—a lifetime’s accumulation of paper. Later, the woman’s body would be found. Brent Spencer’s father died as mysteriously as he had lived. Armed only with the soggy scraps of his father’s life, Spencer began a two-thousand-mile search for the man he never really knew. RATTLESNAKE DADDY is about that journey—a powerful, heartfelt, and often funny meditation on the bonds that unite and the boundaries that divide all fathers and sons.

Literary Nonfiction. Photography. This book comprises Michael Stipe’s intimate and evocative photos of Patti Smith on tour in 1995, along with other cultural celebrities who appeared with her, such as Allen Ginsberg. In addition to text by Stipe, William Burroughs, and Patti Smith, there is also commentary from Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lenny Kaye, Tom Verlaine, and more. “Some of the things that I remember...the saffroncolored dress Michael bought me, hanging on a hook in the locker room of a Connecticut gymnasium. All of us spending the day looking at Brancusi sculptures in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and being yelled at for touching them. I remember the warm camaraderie of the band. I remember Bob [Dylan] stopping on his way to the stage to speak with my son and daughter. And I remember performing ‘Dark Eyes’ with him, singing so close that a rosary of sweat, dripping from our foreheads, merged as we sang. I am grateful to have these pictures that resonate such an innocent and bittersweet time”—Patti Smith.

Mark Spitzer Proze Attack: Selected Essays, Reviews, Polemics, Rants and Red-Headed Step-Fictions 2004-2010 978-1-926616-31-5, $12, paper, 242 pp. SIX GALLERY PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. PROZE ATTACK is a collection of prose works ranging from essays on garfish and bigfoot to reviews of Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski to a polemical ping pong on water quality to scurvy fictions exiled from the transgressive novel CHODE! These killer essays and in-your-face stories are not only an attack on the reader, but an attack on literature itself. Mark Spitzer Riding the Unit: Selected Nonfiction 1994-2004 978-0-9782961-0-0, $10.99, paper, 190 pp. SIX GALLERY PRESS 2007

Literary Nonfiction. A mad mix of bohemian memoirs, polemics, exposes, roadtrips, fish essays, screeds on translating and linguistics, some Dylan crit, and an epic jaunt upon the rails make this collection a gritty, edgy, colorful romp through the raw imagination of America’s greatest gar advocate.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS PRESS 2010

Brenda Paik Sunoo Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies of the Sea 978-89-91913-78-3, $65, cloth, 240 pp. SEOUL SELECTION 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Southeast Asia Studies. Photography. Interpreted and translated from the Korean by Youngsook Han. Imagine strolling along the windy shores of Jeju Island, off the southwest coast of Korea. Suddenly, you hear whistling echoing from the sea. Turning to the water, you spot weathered faces bobbing to the surface, and you realize that the sound is the exhaled breath of sea women, known as haenyeo. With a sigh of gratitude, the aging divers have returned to the surface to replenish their aching lungs. Jeju Island’s haenyeo are a dying breed—perhaps the last of their generation. As their maternal ancestors did for centuries, they have scoured the island’s sea floor, harvesting seaweed, octopuses, sea urchins, turban shells, and abalone. Their numbers have dwindled from 15,000 in the 1970s to approximately 5,600 in recent decades. Driven by economics, these free-divers continue to labor well into their eighties—the hardier ones often plunging 65 feet while holding their breath for two minutes or longer. Brenda Paik Sunoo gathered these women’s stories while living in their diving villages for a total of seven months between 2007 and 2009.

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LITERARY NONFICTION Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English 978-0-9844415-1-8, $10, paper, 44 pp. AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS 2010

Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Native American Studies. Art. Trilingual Edition in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English. The 20 day signs included in the AZTEC CALENDAR COLORING BOOK are black and white computer-enhanced line drawings of the Aztec symbols representing Crocodile, Wind, House, Lizard, Serpent, Death, Deer, Rabbit, Water, Dog, Monkey, Grass, Reed, Jaguar, Eagle, Buzzard, Movement, Flint, Rain, and Flower. The simple, graphic designs of these symbols are perfect for coloring with crayons, markers, pencil colors, or oil pastels. It is a great artistic and linguistic tool that can be used by children of all ages, including adults, and it makes a fun, creative and educational gift. Marina Temkina and Michel Gerard Who Is I? 978-1-933254-91-3, $10, paper, 80 pp. CONTENT 2011

Art. Content is a book series of fixed dimensions and page count, presenting original or appropriated work of any type. WHO IS I? is an incidental art project years in the making.

Scott Thurston Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry 978-1-84861-191-7, $18.50, paper, 160 pp.

Daniel Tucker Visions for Chicago 978-1-4507-7523-6, $10, paper, 143 pp. THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Politics. VISIONS OF CHICAGO is a politically charged public art project taking place in front yards, empty lots and public spaces throughout Chicago, Illinois during a historic mayoral and city council election season. The question of “What is your vision for Chicago?” is important at this time because the mayor and the city council he controlled for over 20 years are retiring and the political culture of corruption, defeat and disengagement they have encouraged has an opening and opportunity to be changed. But change doesn’t happen in the small and busy window of time afforded by elections, it happens over long periods of time through the implementation of strategic vision by people acting collectively and individual-level internal transformation of how we think, behave and consider ourselves in relationship to other people and our surroundings. Jerry Zaslove and Bill Jeffries, Editors The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony 978-0-9813906-1-1, $24, paper, 128 pp. LINEBOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony, held at the Simon Fraser University Gallery from April 25 to June 27, 2009, THE INSURANCE MAN includes texts by Ian Angus, Lee Bacchus, Michael Barnholden, Michael Bourke, Rob Brownie, Willie Brisco, Kathi Diamant, Brian Graham, Mark Jaskela, Bill Jeffries, Tom McGauley, Tom Morris, ryan andrew Murphy, carl peters, Kaia Scott, Peyman Vahabzadeh, Jerry Zaslove.

SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. TALKING POETICS is a book of full-length interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Caroline Bergvall and Andrea Brady carried out between 2008 and 2009 in the UK and USA by Scott Thurston. During the course of these conversations, the poets explore a huge range of topics likely to interest anyone concerned with the state of innovative poetry today. Each interview considers the complete oeuvre of each writer and includes detailed engagements with selected texts as well as unfolding themes such as the role of innovation, the politics of poetry and reflections on lyric and autobiography. Each interview is footnoted and there is an extensive bibliography. Sarah E. Truman Searching for Guan Yin 978-1-935210-28-3, $16, paper, 220 pp. WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. Sarah E. Truman explores a lifelong affinity with Guan Yin in a two-year journey through China filled with unexpected encounters. She portrays China as a country where life is rooted in raw, street-level survival, and where Guan Yin can only be experienced after all concepts, preconceived notions, and spiritual illusions are abandoned. “Sarah Truman’s closely observed jaunt in China and Tibet offers some priceless scenes, from trying to hilarious. How lucky she is to be watched over in her travels by the gentle, lively Bodhisattva of Compassion Kwan Yin” —Sandy Boucher, author of Discovering Kwan Yin.

Robert Zweig Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries 978-1-59954-027-6, $16, paper, 216 pp. BORDIGHERA PRESS 2011

Liteary Nonfiction. Memoir. In these interconnected stories, Zweig takes readers on a journey deep into the every day life of Naples in the 1960s—Naples, the birthplace of his mother, the home of his extended family, and the impoverished city that American tourists avoided altogether. Upon his arrival each summer, Zweig, an American of Italian, German, and Jewish descent, was quickly immersed in the ways of the Neapolitans, where complaining, it seemed, was a moral imperative, the voices of singing salesmen rang out each morning, meals were not just meals—they were events—and the one and only rabbi in town greeted him in his underwear each time he arrived for his Bar Mitzvah lessons. Throughout, Zweig offers tender insights into the mind and heart of a young boy as he awakens to the wonders and disappointments of life during his annual visits to Naples. It is over the course of those summers that he uncovers new mysteries surrounding his heritage and gains a deeper understanding of his parents and the place where they met.

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Listed alphabetically by title. See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-Genre Writing (p.9), Fiction and Drama (p.55), and Literary Nonﬁction (p.73)

Alexander Pepple, Editor Able Muse Winter 2010 978-0-9865338-2-2, $14.95, paper, 174 pp.

Bryan Borland, Editor Assaracus Issue 03: A Journal of Gay Poetry 978-0-9832931-5-6, $14.95, paper, 142 pp.

ABLE MUSE PRESS 2010

SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. ABLE MUSE WINTER 2010 is the much anticipated inaugural print edition of Able Muse Review. It is an issue filled with the usual masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art, photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse. Thus, after more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse Press begins a bold new chapter with this print edition, highlighting works of the same superlative standard as presented all these years in the online edition and the recently released ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY (Able Muse Press, 2011). Edited by Alexander Pepple, ABLE MUSE WINTER 2010 features work from featured poet, Richard Percival Lister, and featured artist, Massimo Sbreni, as well as work from Steve Bucknell, Nancy Lou Canyon, Emily Cutler, Marge Lurie, Peter Filkins, Stephen Collington, Marilyn L. Taylor, Julie Stoner, John Whitworth, Catharine Savage Brosman, Catherine Tufariello, David Alpaugh, Ned Balbo, Steven Winn, Leslie Monsour, Rebecca Foust, Ted Mc Carthy, Gail White, J. Patrick Lewis, Kim Bridgford, Wendy Videlock, Peter Austin, Catherine Chandler, Diane Seuss, Susan McLean, Jamie Iredell, Maryann Corbett, John Slater, John Beaton, Gilbert Wesley Purdy, Frank Osen, Trina L. Drotar, Heather Hallberg Yanda, Richard Meyer, and Kevin Corbett.

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 03 features poetry by Antler, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Bryan Borland, Steven Cordova, Carl Miller Daniels, Jeremy Halinen, Terry Jaensch, Scott Wiggerman, Chuck Willman, and Nicholas YB Wong, plus ten poets on James Franco (Shane Allison, Bradley Bentz, Perry Brass, Philip Clark, Alex Dimitrov, Jory Mickelson, Stephen Scott Mills, Ed Rose, Sam Sanders, and Luke Shearfrond) and an introduction by Frank J Miles. Cover Art by Cody Henslee featuring Spencer Smith. Our biggest issue yet! Bryan Borland, Editor Assaracus Issue 04: A Journal of Gay Poetry 978-1-937420-02-4, $14.95, paper, 144 pp. SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 04 features poetry by Jeffery Beam, Joseph Harker, Walter Holland, Rob Jacques, George Klawitter, Ed Madden, Telly McGaha, D. Antwan Stewart, Daniel Nathan Terry, Isaiah Vianese, and Emanuel Xavier. Cover art by James Kaminski.

Alexander Pepple, Editor Able Muse Summer 2011 978-0-9865338-5-3, $14.95, paper, 158 pp.

E. Tracy Grinnell, Julian T. Brolaski, and Paul Foster Johnson, Editors Aufgabe No. 10 978-1-933959-21-4, $15, paper, 295 pp.

ABLE MUSE PRESS 2011

LITMUS PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. ABLE MUSE SUMMER 2011 is the much-anticipated second issue of the semiannual print edition of ABLE MUSE. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art, photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse—online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, the second print edition of ABLE MUSE is here, highlighting works of the same superlative standard as presented all these years in the online edition and the recently released ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY (Able Muse Press, 2011). Edited by Alexander Pepple, ABLE MUSE SUMMER 2011 features work from featured poet, Catharine Savage Brosman, and featured artist, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, as well as work from Timothy Murphy, Deborah P. Bloch, Catherine Sharpe, Traci Chee, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Waterman, David Mason, Leslie Monsour, Alexander Pepple, Reagan Upshaw, John Drury, Joanna Pearson, John Savoie, David Hedges, Brian Culhane, Rilke (Translated by Len Krisak), C. R. Resetarits, Emily Leithauser, Nicholas Friedman, Christine de Pisan (Translated by Maryann Corbett), Rory Waterman, Robert Cooperman, Mebane Robertson, and Laura Heidy-Halberstein.

Magazine. Poetry. Art. With art editor Rachel Bers and contributing editors Jen Hofer and Nathanaël. Featuring French poetry in translation guest edited by Cole Swensen. Contributors: Harold Abramowitz, Etel Adnan, Amaranth Borsuk, Oscarine Bosquet, Stéphane Bouquet, Paul Braffort, Rocío Cerón, Marie-Louise Chapelle, Suzanne Doppelt, Johanna Drucker, Caroline Dubois, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Frédéric Forte, Isabelle Garron, Lawrence Giffin, Robert Glück, Stephanie Gray, Éric Houser, Gabriela Jauregui, Reynaldo Jiménez, Pierre Joris, Paul Killebrew, Brian Laidlaw, Virginie Lalucq, René Lapierre, David Lespiau, Lauren Levin, Román Luján, Sabine Macher, Vannina Maestri, Jill Magi, Jérôme Mauche, Susan Maxwell, Catherine Meng, Erin Morrill, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Anne Parian, Véronique Pittolo, Virginie Poitrasson, Pascal Poyet, Nathalie Quintane, Joan Retallack, Prageeta Sharma, Lauren Shufran, Sébastien Smirou, Christopher Stackhouse, Gwenaëlle Stubbe, Éric Suchère, Mathew Timmons, G.C. Waldrep, Alli Warren, David Wolach, and Bénédicte Vilgrain, with artwork by Lee Etheredge IV.

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MAGAZINES Eric Chock and Darrell H. Y. Lum, Editors Bamboo Ridge No. 98 978-0-910043-84-7, $18, paper, 256 pp.

Lewis Warsh, Editor Brooklyn Paramount #1 No ISBN, $10, paper, 130 pp.

BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS 2011

BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT 2011

Magazine. Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. The latest issue of BAMBOO RIDGE opens the Editors’ Choice Awards winners—Tamara Leiokanoe Moan for poetry, Mary Lombard for prose, and Emil DeAndreis for new BR writer—followed by a special section, “War! What Is It Good For?” Featured in this section are Gail N. Harada, WWII veteran Don Matsuda, and Wing Tek Lum’s series of poems on the Nanjing Massacre, accompanied by artwork by cover artist Noe Tanigawa, along with her insightful artist’s statement on creating the images that are based on Lum’s poetry. In addition to a trio of surfing accounts by Carl Millholland, Patrick Moser, and Mark Thiel, the anthology includes new work by established writers previously published in BAMBOO RIDGE as well as by emerging voices: Rachel Ana Brown, Amalia B. Bueno, Donald Carreira Ching, Shoshana Hannemann, Jeffrey J. Higa, Frances H. Kakugawa, Brenda Kwon, Lanning C. Lee, Jennifer Santos Madriaga, Gavin McCall, Delaina Thomas, Lee A. Tonouchi, Jean Yamasaki Toyama, and Peter Van Dyke.

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT #1 is published by the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn and edited by Lewis Warsh. It features work by Barbara Henning, Jessica Hagedorn, Stephanie Gray, Willie Perdomo, Uche Nduka, John High, Anne Waldman, Gary Parrish, Tony Iantosca, Alex Mindt, Charles Thorne, Jamey Jones, Sarah Wallen, Aimee Herman, Lisa Rogal and many more.

Andrew Schelling, Editor Bombay Gin 37:1 978-0-9816129-8-0, $12, paper, 195 pp. THE NAROPA PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. BOMBAY GIN is the literary journal of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Emerging from the “outrider” lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream, BOMBAY GIN publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations, interviews, and book reviews. Each issue includes a lecture transcribed from the Naropa Audio Archives, comprised of six thousand hours of tapes documenting classes, performances, workshops, and lectures conducted at Naropa since 1974 by many of the leading figures of the literary avant-garde. Issue 37.1 is a tribute to Harry Smith’s years spent at Naropa and his famous Anthology of American Folk Music. This issue features work by Amiri Baraka, Jaime de Angulo, Ani DiFranco, The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Brenda Hillman, Greil Marcus, Shin Yu Pai, Reina Maria Rodriguez, and Anne Waldman. Andrew Schelling, Editor Bombay Gin 37:2 978-0-9835873-0-9, $12, paper, 182 pp.

Bin Ramke, Editor Denver Quarterly 45:3 No ISBN, $10, paper, 120 pp. DENVER QUARTERLY 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. In its forty-fifth year of continuous publication, the DENVER QUARTERLY is a journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and thought. The spring issue, Volume 45, Number 3, features work from contributors: Andrea Baker, Stephen Barbaro, David Bartone, Lauren Berry, Laurie Capps, Gladys Justin Carr, Aimé Césaire, Jack Christian, Dennis Etzel, Jr., M. T. Fallon, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Rebecca Goodman, Peter Grandbois, Eunsong K., Eson Kim, Nancy Kuhl, Patricia Lockwood, Gerard Malanga, David McAleavey, Amanda Nadelberg, Megan Pugh, Broc Rossell, D.E. Steward, Alison Strub, Mathias Svalina, Gale Marie Thompson, Cody Todd, G. C. Waldrep, Quintan Ana Wikswo, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Elizabeth Willis, Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo. Cover art by Laurel Sparks. Bin Ramke, Editor Denver Quarterly 45:4 No ISBN, $10, paper, 121 pp. DENVER QUARTERLY 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. In its forty-fifth year of continuous publication, the DENVER QUARTERLY is a journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and thought. The summer issue, Volume 45, Number 4, features work from contributors: Faith Barrett, Aase Berg (translated by Johannes Göransson), Sophie Cabot Black, Mary Ann Cain, André Du Bouchet (Englished by David Mus), Ben Fama, Sara Femenella, Matthew Gagnon, Karl Gartung, Fanny Howe, John Kinsella, Becca Klaver, Lorelei Lee, Joshua McKinney, Jessica Munns, David Mus, Alice Notley, Daniela Olszewska, Jen Palmares Meadows, Simon Perchik, Allan Peterson, Scott Reding, Eric Reymond, Lisa Robertson, Sean M. Rumschik, Craig Santos Perez, Kent Shaw, and David Yost. Cover art by Catherine Ryan.

THE NAROPA PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. BOMBAY GIN is the literary journal of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, cofounded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Emerging from the “outrider” lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream, BOMBAY GIN publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations, interviews, and book reviews. Each issue includes a lecture transcribed from the Naropa Audio Archives, comprised of six thousand hours of tapes documenting classes, performances, workshops, and lectures conducted at Naropa since 1974 by many of the leading figures of the literary avant-garde. Issue 37.2 features tributes to Akilah Oliver by Eleni Sikelianos and Rachel Levitsky, new writing by Brandi Wells, Corlé LaForce-McPherson, John E. Smelcer, Allison Hedge Coke, Kathyrn Cowles, José Hernández Díaz, Matt Reek, Dan Lewis, Kelly Jean White, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, and Sara Veglahn, art by Allie McDowell, Theresa Karsner, and James Herndon, a portfolio from the Jack Kerouac School, interviews, book reviews, and more.

Bin Ramke, Editor Denver Quarterly 46:1 No ISBN, $10, paper, 120 pp. DENVER QUARTERLY 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. In its forty-sixth year of continuous publication, the DENVER QUARTERLY is a journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and thought. The fall issue, Volume 46, Number 1, features work from contributors: Megan Alpert, Hannah Baker, Micah Bateman, Daneen Bergland, Adam Clay, Daniel Corrie, Carol Ann Davis, Christopher Davis, Jeff Downey, Rebecca Givens Rolland, Michael Hansen, Megin Jimenez, Zvonko Karanovic (translated by Ana Božicevic), Lawrence Mark Lane, Mina Loy, Askold Melnyczuk, Laura Mullen, Martin Nakell, Soham Patel, Vanessa Place, Deborah Poe, Karen Rigby, Margaret Ross, Kate Schapira, Pamela Stewart, Julia Story, Jay Thompson, Alexandra van de Kamp, John Emil Vincent, Danielle Vogel, Gillian Wiley Rose, Linda Zisquit, Elizabeth Zuba. Cover art by Katherine Rutter.

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MAGAZINES Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Editor Eleven Eleven Issue 11 No ISBN, $10, paper, 272 pp.

Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, Editors Mimeo Mimeo 5 No ISBN, $10, paper, 100 pp.

ELEVEN ELEVEN 2011

MIMEO MIMEO/CUNEIFORM 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Art. The new issue of ELEVEN ELEVEN features work by Katherine Riegel, Jessica Young, Joan Aiken, rob mclennan, Jehanne Dubrow, Laura LeHew, Derek Henderson, Shane McRae, Shelley Wong, Soha Al-Jurf, Bridget Bell, Farangis Siahpour, Brett DeFries, Zach Mory, Jules Laforgue, Nick Ekkizogloy, James Meetze, Kiwao Nomura, Abigail Gavit, Dana Teen Lomax, Anne Blonstein, Betty Fagin, Charlotte Wilder, Caroline Maun, Sara Schneckloth, Carolyn Zaikowski, Andrew Cothren, Stacy Levine, Stephen Massimilla, Evan Kennedy, Emily Meg Weinstein, Fiona Armour, Michael McCauley, Melissa Cooke, David Antonio Moody, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Joy Katz, Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert, Laura Sims, Travis Macdonald, Mary Ruefle, Khadijah Queen, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Rusty Morrison, Rachel Zolf, Susan M. Schultz, John Olson and many others.

Magazine. Art. Books. MIMEO MIMEO is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on artists’ books, typography and the mimeo revolution. This periodical features essays, interviews, artifacts, and reflections on the graphic, material and textual conditions of contemporary poetry and language arts. MIMEO MIMEO 5 opens with a lost and found (and lost and found again) essay on mimeo culture by mimeo-legend Paul Blackburn. We are particularly honored to have two interviews in this issue: one with Bay Area poet and printer Lyn Hejinian on Tuumba Press and the other with Larry Fagin, New York poet and editor of Adventures in Poetry. Steve Clay discusses Robert Creeley’s library with a focus on his copy of Presences and James D. Sullivan illuminates the little-known Gallery Upstairs. Other essays include: Abel Debritto on Charles Bukowski getting famous; Bill Stewart on the history of Vamp & Tramp Booksellers; Stephanie Anderson on Alice Notley’s Chicago; Michael Klausman on poetry LP art; Alan Loney on the graphic qualities of poetry; and a suite of images from a forthcoming anonymous artist’s book entitled Ark Codex.

Hollie Hardy, Editor Fourteen Hills Vol. 17 No. 2 978-1-889292-51-9, $9, paper, 160 pp. FOURTEEN HILLS PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Issue 17.2 of FOURTEEN HILLS features an interview with Toni Mirosevich, by Hollie Hardy, and contains poetry by Guy R. Beining, Joshua Bettinger, Nina Corwin, Steffi Drewes, Rae Gouirand, Liz Kay, Sara E. Lamers, Sally Wen Mao, Laura McCullough, Toni Mirosevich, Natasha Kochicheril Moni, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, J. A. Taylor, Jay Thompson, Chris Wilson, and William Winfield Wright; fiction by Daniel Larson, Liara Tamani McDyess, LaTanya McQueen, Joseph Rathgeber, and Brandi Wells; nonfiction by Erin Morey, Sean O’Neil, and Adriana P ramo; and art by Jose Alvarez, Arie Knoops, and Moshe Quinn. Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak, Editors Hanging Loose 98 No ISBN, $9, paper, 116 pp.

Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Editors New American Writing 29 No ISBN, $15, paper, 198 pp. OINK! PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. With beautiful cover art by Anna Gaskell, the new issue features eleven poets from Québec and includes new work by Cole Swensen, Andrew Joron, Donald Revell, Elaine Equi, Craig Rebele, Julie Carr, Clayton Eshleman, Karla Kelsey, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Donna de la Perrière, Noelle Kocot, Bin Ramke, Rachel Loden, John Olson, G. C. Waldrep, Shira Dentz, James Belflower, Linda Norton, Gloria Frym, Laura Mullen, Hector Ruiz, Valerie Coulton, Kristi Maxwell, and Scott Bentley, and translations by François Luong and Andrea Moorhead.

HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Art. HANGING LOOSE 98 features an art portfolio by Louise Hamlin and exciting new work from Cathy Park Hong, Breyten Breytenbach, David Kirby, Sharon Mesmer, Colin Greer, Stephen Lewandowski, Stuart Friebert, Elizabeth Swados, Mark Pawlak, Joanna Fuhrman, Sarah White, Kiyomi Dong, John Jones, Michael Cirelli, and many more, including our regular section of wonderful high school writing.

Blas Falconer, Barry Kitterman, and Amy Wright, Editors Zone 3 Vol. 26 No. 1 Spring 2011 No ISBN, $5, paper, 100 pp. ZONE 3 PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Interviews. The latest issue of ZONE 3 Journal features cover art by Malcolm Glass; interviews with Lia Purpura, J.C. Hallman, and Tan Lin; new stories by Jacqueline Guidry, Julian Zabalbeascoa, Lynn Gordon, Devin Murphy, William Torrey, and Jamey Bradbury; new essays by Don Moreau, J.C. Hallman, and D. E. Steward; and poems by Tan Lin, Amanda Auchter, John Chavez, Jaydn DeWald, Christopher Kondrich, Anthony Opal, John Pursley III, Martha Carlson-Bradley, Kay Cosgrove, and Gabriel Spera, whose poem “Opossum” won the Evelyn Scott Poetry Prize.

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Author Index Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton, Stealth / p. 9 Erica Adams, The Mutation of Fortune / p. 55 Frank Adams, Love Remembered / p. 9 Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog / p. 9 Charles Alexander, Pushing Water / p. 9 Will Alexander, Inside the Earthquake Palace: 4 Plays / p. 55 Will Alexander, Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents / p. 73 Eugenijus Ališanka, from unwritten histories / p. 9 Amal al-Jubouri, Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation / p. 9 Roberta Allen, The Dreaming Girl / p. 55 alurista, Tunaluna / p. 10 Samuel Amadon, The Hartford Book / p. 10 Daniel Ames, Feasting at the Table of the Damned / p. 10 Nick Antosca, Fires / p. 55 Nelly Arcan, Exit / p. 55 Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin: Selected Early Poems 1978-1989 / p. 10 Robert Ashley, Atalanta (Acts of God) / p. 55 Leslie Atzmon, Editor, Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design / p. 73 Amanda Auchter, The Glass Crib / p. 10 Kurt José Ayau, The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories / p. 56 Mary Azrael and Kendra Kopelke, Editors, Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years / p. 10 Yakov Azriel, Swimming in Moses’ Well: Poems on Numbers / p. 10 Vyt Bakaitis, Deliberate Proof / p. 10 Joshua Baldwin, The Wilshire Sun / p. 56 Rusty Barnes, Mostly Redneck / p. 56 Anthony Barnett, Antonyms & Others / p. 73 Dennis Barone, Field Report / p. 56 Svea Barrett, I Tell Random People About You / p. 10 Kevin Bartelme, The Great Redstone / p. 56 Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen, Editors, Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability / p. 11 Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts, The Obvious Flap / p. 11 Michael Basinski, Trailers / p. 11 Jackie Bateman, Nondescript Rambunctious / p. 56 Erica Baum, Dog Ear / p. 73 Judith Baumel, The Kangaroo Girl / p. 11 Marjorie Becker, Piano Glass/Glass Piano / p. 11 Sharon Morgan Beckford, Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature / p. 73 Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Editor, Eleven Eleven Issue 11 / p. 85 Lynn Behrendt, petals, emblems / p. 11 S. Bell, The Urban Fairytales, Book Two: Love Story / p. 56 Mario Benedetti, Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti / p. 11 Maria Bennett, Because You Love / p. 11 Bill Berkson, Repeat After Me / p. 12 Richard M. Berlin, Secret Wounds / p. 12 Antonio Sergio Bessa, Editor, Mary Ellen Solt: Toward A Theory Of Concrete Poetry / p. 12 Peter Bien, Yannis Ritsos: Collected Studies & Translations / p. 73 Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, Editors, Mimeo Mimeo 5 / p. 85 Michelle Bitting, Good Friday Kiss / p. 12 Noel Black, Uselysses / p. 12 Alberto Blanco, Afterglow/Tras el rayo / p. 12 Barbara Blatner, LIVING WITH YOU / p. 12 Stephanie Bolster, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth / p. 13 Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible / p. 56 Bryan Borland, My Life as Adam / p. 13 Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 03: A Journal of Gay Poetry / p. 83 Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 04: A Journal of Gay Poetry / p. 83 Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours / p. 13 David Bottoms, We Almost Disappear / p. 13 Jenny Boully, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them / p. 56

Geoff Bouvier, Glass Harmonica / p. 13 Bonnie Bowman, Spaz / p. 57 Timothy Bradford, Nomads with Samsonite / p. 13 Amanda J. Bradley, Oz at Night / p. 13 Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern, Snow Sensitive Skin / p. 13 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975 / p. 14 Alan Broadbent and Ratna Omidvar, Editors, Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success / p. 74 Louis Daniel Brodsky, Just Ours: Love Passages with Linda, Volume One / p. 14 Brandon Brown, The Persians by Aeschylus / p. 14 Brandon Brown, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus / p. 14 Robin F .Brox, Sure Thing / p. 14 Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell, Editors, Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees / p. 14 David Budbill, Happy Life / p. 15 Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns / p. 57 Tony Burgess, Ravenna Gets / p. 57 Ronnie Burk, Sky*Boat / p. 15 Z. K. Burrus, Senestre on Vacation / p. 57 Christopher Bursk, The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns / p. 15 Richard Caddel, Uncertain Time / p. 15 Stephen Cain, I Can Say Interpellation / p. 15 Chuck Carlise, Casual Insomniac / p. 15 Martha Carlson-Bradley, If I Take You Here / p. 15 Chris Carlsson, Editor, Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 / p. 74 Trevor Carolan, Editor, Making Waves: Reading B.C. and Pacific Northwest Literature / p. 74 Emily Carr, 13 ways of happily / p. 15 Jessie Carty, Fat Girl / p. 16 Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing / p. 57 Lee Cataluna, Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa / p. 57 Catherine Chandler, Lines of Flight / p. 16 Norma Charles, Run Marco, Run / p. 57 Yu Yan Chen, small hours / p. 16 R. Cheran, You Cannot Turn Away / p. 16 Neeli Cherkovski, From the Middle Woods / p. 16 Maxine Chernoff, To Be Read in the Dark / p. 16 James E. Cherry, Still A Man and Other Stories / p. 58 Susanna Childress, Entering the House of Awe / p. 16 Eric Chock and Darrell H. Y. Lum, Editors, Bamboo Ridge No. 98 / p. 84 Heather Christle, The Trees The Trees / p. 16 Noah Cicero, Best Behavior / p. 58 Tony Cimasko and Melinda Reichelt, Editors, Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices / p. 74 Philip Cioffari, Jesusville / p. 58 John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles, Editors, blink again: sudden fiction from the upper midwest / p. 58 Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks / p. 58 Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, Mark McMorris, Another Instance: Three Chapbooks / p. 17 CAConrad, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics / p. 17 Cyrus Console, The Odicy / p. 17 Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories / p. 58 Meira Cook, A Walker in the City / p. 17 Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default / p. 17 Myrl Coulter, The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers / p. 74 Valerie Coulton, open book / p. 17 Lynn Crawford, Simply Separate People, Two / p. 59 Olivia Cronk, Skin Horse / p. 17 Robert Crosson, Daybook / p. 17 Victor Hernandez Cruz, In the Shadow of Al-Andalus / p. 17 Carlos Cumpián, 14 Abriles: Poems / p. 18 Brent Cunningham, Journey to the Sun / p. 18

Mark Cunningham, specimens / p. 18 Sky Curtis, Doctored: A True Story / p. 75 Tadeusz Dabrowski, Black Square / p. 18 Renee E. D’Aoust, Body of a Dancer / p. 75 Carol Ann Davis, Atlas Hour / p. 18 Lisa de Nikolits, West of Wawa / p. 59 Christine Deavel, Woodnote / p. 18 Edward J. Delaney, Broken Irish / p. 59 Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out / p. 18 Louis-René des Forêts, Poems of Samuel Wood / p. 18 Ananda Devi, Indian Tango / p. 59 Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, My rice tastes like the lake / p. 19 Emanuel di Pasquale, Harvest / p. 19 Melissa Dickey, The Lily Will / p. 19 Salvatore Difalco, The Mountie at Niagara Falls and Other Brief Stories / p. 59 George Dila, Nothing More to Tell / p. 59 Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and Eric Norris, Nocturnal Omissions: A Tale of Two Poets / p. 19 Michelle Disler, [BOND, JAMES]: alphabet, anatomy, [auto]biography / p. 19 Sean Dixon, The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn / p. 60 Thom Donovan, The Hole / p. 19 Geri Doran, Sanderlings / p. 19 Linda Dorricott and Deidre Cullon, Editors, The Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862) / p. 75 Franz Douskey, West of Midnight: New and Selected Poems / p. 19 Manuela Draeger, In the Time of the Blue Ball / p. 60 Rosalyn Drexler, To Smithereens / p. 60 Diane Driedger, Editor, Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader / p. 75 Mark DuCharme, Answer / p. 19 Jacques Dupin, Of Flies and Monkeys / p. 20 Craig Dworkin, Motes / p. 20 Loren Edizel, Adrift / p. 60 Robert Edwards, Rumors of Earth / p. 20 Joe Elliot, Homework / p. 20 Ella Thorp Ellis, Dune Child / p. 75 Karen Enns, That Other Beauty / p. 20 Julie R. Enszer, Editor, Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry / p. 20 Ashur Etwebi, Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi / p. 20 Brian Evenson, Contagion and Other Stories / p. 60 Blas Falconer, Barry Kitterman, and Amy Wright, Editors, Zone 3 Vol. 26 No. 1 Spring 2011 / p. 85 Rebecca Farivar, Correct Animal / p. 21 Katie Farris, BoysGirls / p. 60 Charly “the city mouse” Fasano, Next Analog Broadcast / p. 21 Kane X. Faucher, The Infinite Library / p. 60 Hans Faverey, Chrysanthemums, Rowers / p. 21 Steve Fellner, The Weary World Rejoices / p. 21 Gary Fincke, Reviving the Dead / p. 21 L. C. Fiore, Green Gospel / p. 60 Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action / p. 61 Mr. Fish, Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People / p. 75 Ira Joe Fisher, Some Holy Weight in the Village Air / p. 21 Lisa Fishman, Current / p. 21 Tom Fitzgerald, Poor Richard’s Lament: A Most Timely Tale / p. 61 Stacia M. Fleegal, Versus / p. 21 Joe Fletcher, Already It Is Dusk / p. 22 Jack Foley, Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part One, 1940-1980 / p. 76 Jack Foley, Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part Two, 1980-2005 / p. 76 CB Follett, Houses / p. 22 CB Follett, One Bird Falling / p. 22 Niels Frank, Picture World / p. 22 Kathleen Fraser, movable TYYPE / p. 22 Bill Freind, Editor, Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada / p. 76

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AUTHOR INDEX Gunther Freitag, Brendel’s Fantasy / p. 61 Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, Angelic Scintillations / p. 22 Gloria Frym, Mind over Matter: A Tribute to Poetry / p. 22 Marc Gaba, Have / p. 22 Fred Gardaphe, The Art of Reading Italian Americana: Italian American Culture in Review / p. 76 Susan Gardner, Box of Light/Caja de luz / p. 23 Susana Gardner, Herso / p. 23 Gabor Gasztonyi, A Room in the City / p. 76 Alfonso Gatto, The Wall Did Not Answer: Selected Poems 1932-1976 / p. 23 Hanay Geiogamah, Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook / p. 61 Nelson George, The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel / p. 61 John Gibler, To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War / p. 76 Samantha Giles, Hurdis Addo / p. 23 Lisa Gill, Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges / p. 23 Renee Gladman, The Ravickians / p. 61 Martin Glaz Serup, The Field / p. 23 Chris Glomski, The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems / p. 23 Stacy Gnall, Heart First into the Forest / p. 24 Landon Godfrey, Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Souffle Chiffon Gown / p. 24 Judith Goldman, l.b.; or, catenaries / p. 24 Sarah Goldstein, Fables / p. 61 Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future / p. 76 Regan Good, The Atlantic House / p. 24 Sue Goyette, outskirts / p. 24 Andrew Grace, Sancta / p. 24 Julien Gracq, The Peninsula / p. 61 Hillary Gravendyk, Harm / p. 24 Karl Taro Greenfeld, NowTrends / p. 62 Ted Greenwald, Clearview/LIE / p. 77 Margaret Ann Griffiths, Grasshopper: The Poetry of M A Griffiths / p. 24 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mule & Pear / p. 25 E. Tracy Grinnell, Julian T. Brolaski, and Paul Foster Johnson, Editors, Aufgabe No. 10 / p. 83 James Grinwis, Exhibit of Forking Paths / p. 25 Lee Meitzen Grue, Downtown / p. 25 Carol Guess, Darling Endangered / p. 62 Carol Guess, My Father in Water / p. 77 David Hadbawnik, Field Work Notes, Songs, Poems 19972010 / p. 25 Richard Hague, Learning How: Stories, Yarns & Tales / p. 62 Phil Hall, Killdeer: essay-poems / p. 25 Rob Halpern, Music for Porn / p. 25 Monica A. Hand, me and Nina / p. 26 Michael Hannon, the lyrica poems, 2003-2010 / p. 26 Pauletta Hansel, What I Did There / p. 26 Hollie Hardy, Editor, Fourteen Hills Vol. 17 No. 2 / p. 85 Jim Harrison, Songs of Unreason / p. 26 Matt Hart, Light-Headed / p. 26 j/j hastain, a womb-shaped wormhole / p. 26 Samuel Hawley, I Just Ran: Percy Williams, The World’s Fastest Human / p. 77 Lyn Hejinian, The Book of a Thousand Eyes / p. 26 Brian Henderson, Sharawadji / p. 26 Gretchen E. Henderson, On Marvellous Things Heard / p. 77 Christopher Hennessy, Love-In-Idleness / p. 26 Brian Henry, Doppelgänger / p. 27 Jack Henry, Crunked / p. 27 Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak, Editors, Hanging Loose 98 / p. 85 Sean Patrick Hill, Interstitial / p. 27 Chris Hoffman, Realization Point / p. 27 Jean Hollander, Counterpoint / p. 27 Paul Hoover, Desolation : Souvenir / p. 27 Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Editors, New American Writing 29 / p. 85 Laura Horn, Ordinary History / p. 27 Sharon Howell, Girl in Everytime / p. 28 David Huddle, Nothing Can Make Me Do This / p. 62 Lizzie Hutton, She’d Waited Millennia / p. 28

Keely Hyslop, Things I Say to Pirates on Nights When I Miss You / p. 28 Elijah Imlay, Monsoon Blues / p. 28 Georgy Ivanov, On The Border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov / p. 28 Philippe Jaccottet, And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1990-2009 / p. 28 Paolo Javier, The Feeling Is Actual / p. 28 Jeong Chan, Pilate’s Jesus / p. 62 Aisha Sasha John, The Shining Material / p. 28 Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren, Editor, Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay / p. 29 Linnea Johnson, Augury / p. 29 Alastair Johnston, Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography and Poetry / p. 77 Jamey Jones, Blue Rain Morning / p. 29 Saeed Jones, When the Only Light Is Fire / p. 29 Pierre-Albert Jourdan, The Straw Sandals: Selected Prose and Poetry / p. 29 Howard Junker, An Old Junker: a senior represents / p. 62 George Kalamaras, Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors / p. 29 Kirsten Kaschock, Sleight / p. 62 David M. Katz, Claims of Home / p. 29 Aby Kaupang, Absence Is Such a Transparent House / p. 30 Jerry Keenan, West of Green River: a novel of the Bonneville Expedition 1832-1835 / p. 62 Mandy Keifetz, Flea Circus: a brief bestiary of grief / p. 63 Robert Kelly, Uncertainties / p. 30 Jake Kennedy, Apollinaire’s Speech to the War Medic / p. 30 Stephen Kessler, The Tolstoy of the Zulus / p. 77 Amin Khan, Vision of the Return / p. 30 Athena Kildegaard, Bodies of Light / p. 30 Patricia Killelea, Other Suns / p. 30 Kim Hyesoon, All the Garbage of the World, Unite! / p. 30 Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe / p. 31 Scott King, Editor, Perfect Dragonfly: A Commonplace Book of Poems Celebrating a Decade & a Half of Printing & Publishing at Red Dragonfly Press / p. 31 M. Akif Kirecci and Edward Foster, Editors, Istanbul: Metamorphoses in an Imperial City / p. 77 Michael Klein, then, we were still living / p. 31 Elizabeth Knapp, The Spite House / p. 31 Andrea Köhler, The Waiting Game: An Essay on the Gift of Time / p. 78 Susan Kolodny, After the Firestorm / p. 31 Josh Kornbluth, Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues / p. 63 Leigh Kotsilidis, Hypotheticals / p. 31 Karl Koweski, Blood and Greasepaint / p. 63 Brigitte Kronauer, Women and Clothes / p. 63 Richard Krueger, The Monotony of Fatal Accidents / p. 31 Damon Krukowski, Afterimage / p. 31 Debora Kuan, Xing / p. 32 Frank Kuenstler, The Enormous Chorus / p. 32 Petra Kuppers, Editor, Somatic Engagement / p. 78 Jules Laforgue, Last Verses / p. 32 Alex Landon and Elaine Halleck, A Parallel Universe / p. 78 Krystal Languell, Call the Catastrophists / p. 32 Ann Lauterbach, The Given & The Chosen / p. 78 Jenna Le, Six Rivers / p. 32 Stacie Leatherman, Storm Crop / p. 32 Ed Bok Lee, Whorled / p. 32 Paul Legault, The Other Poems / p. 32 Mark Leidner, Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me / p. 32 Piper Leigh, my thin-skinned wandering / p. 33 Jon Leon, Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta / p. 78 Jon Leon, The Malady of the Century / p. 33 Eleanor Lerman, Janet Planet / p. 63 Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station / p. 63 Linda Lerner, Takes Guts and Years Sometimes: New and Selected Poems / p. 33 Louise Landes Levi, The Book L / p. 33 Rachel Levitsky, The Story of My Accident Is Ours / p. 63 Andrew Levy, Nothing Is in Here / p. 33 Lesle Lewis, lie down too / p. 33 Paul Lieber, Chemical Tendencies / p. 33 Tan Lin, Heath Course Pak / p. 33 Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt / p. 64 R. Zamora Linmark, Drive-By Vigils / p. 34

Osman Lins, Nine, Novena / p. 64 Carol Lipszyc, Singing Me Home / p. 34 Norman Lock, Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions / p. 64 Alexander Long, Still Life / p. 34 Jessica Helen Lopez, Always Messing with Them Boys / p. 34 Sean Lovelace, Fog Gorgeous Stag / p. 64 Alexis Luna, WOrd WITHDraWal / p. 34 Bill Luoma, Some Math / p. 34 Gary Lutz, Divorcer / p. 64 Ed Macdonald, Spat the Dummy / p. 64 Gerard Mace, The Last of the Egyptians / p. 78 Mary Mackey, Sugar Zone / p. 34 Jill Magi, Slot / p. 34 Mary Makofske, Traction / p. 35 Donato Mancini, Buffet World / p. 35 Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep / p. 64 C. J. Martin, Two Books / p. 35 Joseph Massey, At the Point / p. 35 Gordon Massman, 0.174: The Complete Numbers Cycle / p. 35 Hilary Masters, Post: A Fable / p. 64 Kristi Maxwell, Re- / p. 35 Bernadette Mayer, Ethics of Sleep / p. 35 Suzette Mayr, Monoceros / p. 65 Shara McCallum, This Strange Land / p. 35 Julia McCarthy, Return from Erebus / p. 36 Aaron McCollough, No Grave Can Hold My Body Down / p. 36 David Mcgimpsey, Li’l Bastard / p. 36 Ray McManus, Red Dirt Jesus / p. 36 Tony Medina, Broke on Ice / p. 36 Erika Meitner, Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore / p. 36 Erika Meitner, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls / p. 36 Thomas Meyer, Kintsugi / p. 36 Joan Michelson, Toward the Heliopause / p. 37 Roy Miki, Mannequin Rising / p. 37 Angela Miles, Women in a Globalizing World: Equality, Development, Peace and Diversity / p. 78 David Miller, Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5) / p. 37 Stephen Paul Miller, There’s Only One God and You’re Not It / p. 37 Brenda Missen, Tell Anna She’s Safe / p. 65 Rosa Montero, Beautiful and Dark / p. 65 Michael Montlack, Cool Limbo / p. 37 Bill Morgan, Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America / p. 78 Jeffrey Morgan, Crying Shame / p. 37 Melanie Moro-Huber, Axe in Hand / p. 37 Jake Bohstedt Morrill, Randy Bradley / p. 65 Kona Morris, Leah Rogin-Roper, and Stacy Walsh, Editors, The Incredible Shrinking Story / p. 65 Rusty Morrison, Book of the Given / p. 38 Valzhyna Mort, Collected Body / p. 38 Myriam Moscona, Negro marfil / Ivory Black / p. 38 Erin Mouré, Pillage Laud / p. 38 Brane Mozetič, Lost Story / p. 65 Edward Mullany, If I Falter at the Gallows / p. 38 Kyle Muntz, Sunshine in the Valley / p. 65 Eileen Myles, Snowflake / different streets / p. 38 Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Road of a Thousand Wonders / p. 38 Murat Nemet-Nejat, The Spiritual Life of Replicants / p. 38 Phong Nguyen, Memory Sickness / p. 66 Raúl Niño, A Book of Mornings / p. 38 Kelli Anne Noftle, I Was There for Your Somniloquy / p. 39 Kiwao Nomura, Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura / p. 39 Charles North, What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems / p. 39 Harry E. Northup, Where Bodies Again Recline / p. 39 Edward Nudelman, What Looks like an Elephant / p. 39 Doug Nufer, By Kelman Out of Pessoa / p. 66 Elizabeth Nunez, Boundaries / p. 66 Joyce Carol Oates, Editor, New Jersey Noir / p. 66 Bill O’Connell, Sakonnet Point / p. 39 Peter O’Leary, Luminous Epinoia / p. 39 Charles Olson, Charles Olson at Goddard College / p. 79 Bea Opengart, In the Land / p. 39 John Jay Osborn, Jr, The Paper Chase / p. 66

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AUTHOR INDEX Janine Oshiro, Pier / p. 40 Eve Packer, New Nails / p. 40 Melinda Palacio, Ocotillo Dreams / p. 66 William Parker, Conversations / p. 79 Ambar Past, Editor, Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women / p. 40 Phillip Pavia, Editor, The Waldorf Panels on Sculpture (1965) / p. 79 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Anthology / p. 40 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Summer 2011 / p. 83 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Winter 2010 / p. 83 Nathaniel Perry, Nine Acres / p. 40 Sasenarine Persaud, Lantana Strangling Ixora / p. 40 David A. Petreman, Candlelight in Quintero/Luz de Vela en Quintero / p. 40 Howard Pflanzer, DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES / p. 41 Bao Phi, Sông I Sing / p. 41 Dennis Phillips, Navigation / p. 41 Gary Phillips, Monkology: 15 Stories from the World of Private Eye Ivan Monk / p. 67 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake / p. 41 E. Alex Pierce, Vox Humana / p. 41 Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West, She, A Blueprint / p. 41 Red Pine, P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd Edition / p. 41 Paul Pines, Reflections in A Smoking Mirror / p. 41 Paul S. Piper, Dogs and Other Poems / p. 41 Rob Plath, We’re No Butchers / p. 67 Terrence E. Poppa, Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin / p. 79 Kevin Power, Where You’re At: Poetics & Visual Art / p. 79 J. L. Powers, This Thing Called the Future / p. 67 Khadijah Queen, Black Peculiar / p. 42 Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal / p. 42 Carol Quinn, Acetylene / p. 42 Miklos Radnoti, A Wiser, More Beautiful Death / p. 42 Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg, Editors, Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug: 10 Years of 2 Idiots Peddling Poetry / p. 42 Bin Ramke, Aerial / p. 42 Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:3 / p. 84 Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:4 / p. 84 Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 46:1 / p. 84 Gurcharan Rampuri, The Circle of Illusion / p. 42 Lydia Riantee Rand, Entre Nous: The Goosefoot Chronicles / p. 67 Jed Rasula and Tim Conley, Editors, Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity / p. 42 Stephen Ratcliffe, CLOUD / RIDGE / p. 43 Stephen Ratcliffe, Conversation / p. 43 Richard Rathwell, Quicker & Deader / p. 79 Jai Arun Ravine, and then entwine / p. 43 Pam Rehm, The Larger Nature / p. 43 Jan Rehner, Missing Matisse / p. 67 Ariana Reines, Cœur de Lion / p. 43 Ariana Reines, Mercury / p. 43 Paisley Rekdal, Intimate: An American Family Photo Album / p. 79 Ribitch, Carnival of Sleep: Selected Writings & Drawings / p. 67 David Rice, Heart-Shaped Cookies / p. 67 David Rich, Editor, Charles Olson: Letters Home 1949-1969 / p. 80 Ryan Ridge, Hunters & Gamblers / p. 68 Karen Rigby, Chinoiserie / p. 43 Monika Rinck, to refrain from embracing / p. 43 Bob Robertson, Mayan Horror: How to Survive the End of the World in 2012 / p. 80 Michael Robins, Ladies & Gentlemen / p. 44 Elizabeth Robinson, Three Novels / p. 44 Randall Robinson, Makeda / p. 68 Nico Rogers, The Fetch / p. 68 F. S. Rosa, The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca / p. 68 Connie Barnes Rose, Road to Thunder Hill / p. 68 Danielle Rosen, The Institute for Species Systemization: An Experimental Archive / p. 80 Joe Ross, wordlick / p. 44 Barney Rostaing, Breeders / p. 68 Philip Roy, Ghosts of the Pacific / p. 68

Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, and José Alfredo González Celdrán, Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe / p. 80 Joanna Ruocco, A Compendium of Domestic Incidents / p. 69 Kerry Ryan, Vs. / p. 44 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster / p. 69 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood / p. 69 Marjorie Saiser, Beside You at the Stoplight / p. 44 Jenny Sampirisi, Croak / p. 44 Sam Savage, Glass / p. 69 Zach Savich, The Man Who Lost His Head / p. 44 H. E. Sayeh, The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H. E. Sayeh / p. 44 Kate Schapira, The Bounty: Four Addresses / p. 45 Roy Scheele, A Far Allegiance / p. 45 Andrew Schelling, Editor, Bombay Gin 37:1 / p. 84 Andrew Schelling, Editor, Bombay Gin 37:2 / p. 84 Jared Schickling, t&u& lash your nipples to a post history is gorgeous / p. 45 Mather Schneider, He Took a Cab / p. 45 Leonard Schwartz, At Element / p. 45 George Scialabba, The Modern Predicament / p. 80 Jo Scott-Coe, Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School / p. 80 Ann Scowcroft, The Truth of Houses / p. 45 Michael J. Seidlinger, The Day We Delay / p. 69 Alan Semerdjian, In the Architecture of Bone / p. 45 Sohrab Sepehri, Water’s Footfall / p. 45 Brandon Shimoda, O Bon / p. 46 Murray Shugars, Songs My Mother Never Taught Me / p. 46 Kevin Simmonds, Editor, Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality / p. 46 Sandra Simonds, Mother Was a Tragic Girl / p. 46 Simone Muench and Philip Jenks, Disappearing Address / p. 46 Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Inverted Pyramid / p. 69 giovanni singleton, Ascension / p. 46 Jonathan Skinner, Birds of Tifft / p. 46 Floyd Skloot, Cream of Kohlrabi / p. 69 Juliusz Slowacki, Kordian / p. 69 Edward Smallfield, equinox / p. 46 S. E. Smith, I Live in a Hut / p. 47 Cassie J. Sneider, Fine Fine Music / p. 80 Brandon Som, Babel’s Moon / p. 47 Madeline Sonik, Afflictions and Departures / p. 81 Laurie Soriano, Catalina / p. 47 Brent Spencer, Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son’s Search for His Father / p. 81 Mark Spitzer, CHODE! / p. 70 Mark Spitzer, Proze Attack: Selected Essays, Reviews, Polemics, Rants and Red-Headed Step-Fictions 2004-2010 / p. 81 Mark Spitzer, Riding the Unit: Selected Nonfiction 1994-2004 / p. 81 Mark Spitzer, Writer in Residence: Memoir of a Literary Translator / p. 81 Charles Squier, Under the White Wing: Events at Sand Creek / p. 47 Vincent Standley, A Mortal Affect / p. 70 Marjorie Stein, An Atlas of Lost Causes / p. 47 Suzanne Stein, Tout va bien / p. 47 Wade Stevenson, A Testament to Love & Other Losses / p. 48 Jennifer Still, Girlwood / p. 48 Michael Stipe, Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith / p. 81 Brenda Paik Sunoo, Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies of the Sea / p. 81 Mario Susko, Framing Memories / p. 48 Mathias Svalina, I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur / p. 70 Larissa Szporluk, Traffic with Macbeth / p. 48 Jennifer Tamayo, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes / p. 48 Anne Tardos, Both Poems / p. 48 William Taylor Jr., An Age of Monsters / p. 70

Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors, Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English / p. 82 Marina Temkina and Michel Gerard, Who Is I? / p. 82 Peter Thabit Jones, Poems from a Cabin on Big Sur / p. 48 Tod Thilleman, A World of Nothing But Self-Infliction: A Four-Part Inflection (Twice Told) / p. 48 G. Murray Thomas, My Kidney Just Arrived / p. 49 Tracy Thomas, Runes / p. 49 Rachel Thompson, Galaxy / p. 49 Scott Thurston, Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry / p. 82 Charles Tidler, Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers / p. 70 James Tolan, Red Walls / p. 49 Chris Toll, The Disinformation Phase / p. 49 Tomas Tranströmer, Baltics / p. 49 David Trinidad, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems / p. 49 Sam Truitt, Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete / p. 49 Sarah E. Truman, Searching for Guan Yin / p. 82 Daniel Tucker, Visions for Chicago / p. 82 Malka Heifetz Tussman, With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman / p. 50 Jen Tynes, The End of Rude Handles / p. 50 Jen Tynes, Heron/Girlfriend / p. 50 Jen Tynes and Erika Howsare, Editors, New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology / p. 50 David L. Ulin, Editor, Cape Cod Noir / p. 70 Cecilia Vicuña, SABORAMI / p. 50 Wendy Videlock, Nevertheless / p. 50 Héctor Viel Temperley, The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley / p. 50 Mark Vinz, The Work Is All / p. 51 Anastassis Vistonitis, Mara’s Shade / p. 51 Latha Viswanathan, Lingering Tide and Other Stories / p. 71 Megan Volpert, Sonics in Warholia / p. 51 Richard Wagamese, Runaway Dreams / p. 51 Mark Wallace, The Quarry and The Lot / p. 71 Barry Wallenstein, Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems / p. 51 Laura Maylene Walter, Living Arrangements: Stories / p. 71 Mark Walton, Frostbitten / p. 51 Scott Wannberg, tomorrow is another song / p. 51 Joshua Ware, Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley / p. 51 Lewis Warsh, Editor, Brooklyn Paramount #1 / p. 84 Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman, and David Lunde, Editors, 300 Tang Poems / p. 52 Jacqueline Waters, One Sleeps The Other Doesn’t / p. 52 Sterling Watson, Fighting in the Shade / p. 71 Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need / p. 71 Laura Wetherington, A Map Predetermined and Chance / p. 52 Calvin Wharton, The Song Collides / p. 52 Marvin K. White, Our Name Be Witness / p. 52 Marvin K. White, Status / p. 52 Sharon White, Eve & Her Apple / p. 52 Vinnie Wilhelm, In The Absence of Predators / p. 71 Bill Wolak, Archeology of Light / p. 52 Bill Wolak and Mahoom Karimi-Hakak, Love Emergencies / p. 52 Jennifer C. Wolfe, Somewhere over the Pachyderm Rainbow: Living in an Elephant-Controlled 2010 Election Diorama / p. 53 Jon Woodward, Uncanny Valley / p. 53 Franz Wright, Entries of the Cell / p. 53 John Yamrus, Can’t Stop Now! / p. 53 Margaret Young, Almond Town / p. 53 Natan Zach, The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1955-1979 / p. 53 Antonella Zagaroli, Mindskin: A Selection of Poems 19852010 / p. 53 Jerry Zaslove and Bill Jeffries, Editors, The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony / p. 82 Sondra Zeidenstein, Contraries: New and Selected Poems / p. 53 Robert Zweig, Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries / p. 82

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Title Index Beautiful and Dark, Rosa Montero / p. 65

Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook, Hanay Geiogamah / p. 61

Able Muse Winter 2 1 , Alexander Pepple, Editor / p. 83

A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, CAConrad / p. 17

Charles Olson at Goddard College, Charles Olson / p. 79

Absence Is Such a Transparent House, Aby Kaupang / p. 30

Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen, Editors / p. 11

Charles Olson: Letters Home 1 4 -1 6 , David Rich, Editor / p. 80

Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner / p. 32

Chinoiserie, Karen Rigby / p. 43

Because You Love, Maria Bennett / p. 11

Chrysanthemums, Rowers, Hans Faverey / p. 21

Beside You at the Stoplight, Marjorie Saiser / p. 44

The Circle of Illusion, Gurcharan Rampuri / p. 42

Best Behavior, Noah Cicero / p. 58

Claims of Home, David M. Katz / p. 29

Able Muse Anthology, Alexander Pepple, Editor / p. 40 Able Muse Summer 2 11, Alexander Pepple, Editor / p. 83

Acetylene, Carol Quinn / p. 42 Adrift, Loren Edizel / p. 60 Aerial, Bin Ramke / p. 42 Afflictions and Departures, Madeline Sonik / p. 81 After the Firestorm, Susan Kolodny / p. 31 Afterglow/Tras el rayo, Alberto Blanco / p. 12 Afterimage, Damon Krukowski / p. 31 An Age of Monsters, William Taylor Jr. / p. 70

Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America, Bill Morgan / p. 78

Chemical Tendencies, Paul Lieber / p. 33 CHODE!, Mark Spitzer / p. 70

Birds of Tifft, Jonathan Skinner / p. 46

Clearview/LIE, Ted Greenwald / p. 77

Black Peculiar, Khadijah Queen / p. 42

CLOUD / RIDGE, Stephen Ratcliffe / p. 43

Black Square, Tadeusz Dabrowski / p. 18

Cœur de Lion, Ariana Reines / p. 43 Collected Body, Valzhyna Mort / p. 38

Almond Town, Margaret Young / p. 53

blink again: sudden fiction from the upper midwest, John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles, Editors / p. 58

Already It Is Dusk, Joe Fletcher / p. 22

Blood and Greasepaint, Karl Koweski / p. 63

Always Messing with Them Boys, Jessica Helen Lopez / p. 34

Blue Rain Morning, Jamey Jones / p. 29

A Compendium of Domestic Incidents, Joanna Ruocco / p. 69

Bodies of Light, Athena Kildegaard / p. 30

Contagion and Other Stories, Brian Evenson / p. 60

Body of a Dancer, Renee E. D’Aoust / p. 75

Contraries: New and Selected Poems, Sondra Zeidenstein / p. 53

All the Garbage of the World, Unite!, Kim Hyesoon / p. 30

and then entwine, Jai Arun Ravine / p. 43 And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1 -2 , Philippe Jaccottet / p. 28

Bombay Gin 3 :1, Andrew Schelling, Editor / p. 84

Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Kevin Simmonds, Editor / p. 46

Angelic Scintillations, Katerina Vaughan Fretwell / p. 22

Bombay Gin 3 :2, Andrew Schelling, Editor / p. 84

Conversation, Stephen Ratcliffe / p. 43

Another Instance: Three Chapbooks, Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, Mark McMorris / p. 17

[BOND, JAMES]: alphabet, anatomy, [auto]biography, Michelle Disler / p. 19

Conversations, William Parker / p. 79

Answer, Mark DuCharme / p. 19

The Book L, Louise Landes Levi / p. 33

Correct Animal, Rebecca Farivar / p. 21

Antonyms & Others, Anthony Barnett / p. 73

The Book of a Thousand Eyes, Lyn Hejinian / p. 26

Counterpoint, Jean Hollander / p. 27

Apollinaire’s Speech to the War Medic, Jake Kennedy / p. 30

The Book of Hours, Marianne Boruch / p. 13 A Book of Mornings, Raúl Niño / p. 38

The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1 55-1 , Natan Zach / p. 53

Archeology of Light, Bill Wolak / p. 52

Book of the Given, Rusty Morrison / p. 38

Cream of Kohlrabi, Floyd Skloot / p. 69

The Art of Reading Italian Americana: Italian American Culture in Review, Fred Gardaphe / p. 76

Both Poems, Anne Tardos / p. 48

Croak, Jenny Sampirisi / p. 44

Boundaries, Elizabeth Nunez / p. 66

Crunked, Jack Henry / p. 27

The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H. E. Sayeh, H. E. Sayeh / p. 44

The Bounty: Four Addresses, Kate Schapira / p. 45

Crying Shame, Jeffrey Morgan / p. 37

Box of Light/Caja de luz, Susan Gardner / p. 23

Current, Lisa Fishman / p. 21

BoysGirls, Katie Farris / p. 60

Darling Endangered, Carol Guess / p. 62

Ascension, giovanni singleton / p. 46

Cool Limbo, Michael Montlack / p. 37

Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell, Editors / p. 14

Breeders, Barney Rostaing / p. 68

The Day We Delay, Michael J. Seidlinger / p. 69

Brendel’s Fantasy, Gunther Freitag / p. 61

Daybook, Robert Crosson / p. 17

Assaracus Issue 3: A Journal of Gay Poetry, Bryan Borland, Editor / p. 83

The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories, Kurt José Ayau / p. 56

DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES, Howard Pflanzer / p. 41

Assaracus Issue 4: A Journal of Gay Poetry, Bryan Borland, Editor / p. 83

Broke on Ice, Tony Medina / p. 36

At Element, Leonard Schwartz / p. 45

Brooklyn Paramount #1, Lewis Warsh, Editor / p. 84

The Death of Stalin: Selected Early Poems 1 -1 , Ivan Argüelles / p. 10

At the Point, Joseph Massey / p. 35

Buffet World, Donato Mancini / p. 35

Deliberate Proof, Vyt Bakaitis / p. 10

Atalanta (Acts of God), Robert Ashley / p. 55

Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years, Mary Azrael and Kendra Kopelke, Editors / p. 10

Denver Quarterly 45:3, Bin Ramke, Editor / p. 84

Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity, Jed Rasula and Tim Conley, Editors / p. 42

Denver Quarterly 46:1, Bin Ramke, Editor / p. 84

Aufgabe No. 1 , E. Tracy Grinnell, Julian T. Brolaski, and Paul Foster Johnson, Editors / p. 83

By Kelman Out of Pessoa, Doug Nufer / p. 66

Disappearing Address, Simone Muench and Philip Jenks / p. 46

Augury, Linnea Johnson / p. 29

Candlelight in Quintero/Luz de Vela en Quintero, David A. Petreman / p. 40

The Disinformation Phase, Chris Toll / p. 49

Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 2 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English, Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors / p. 82

Can’t Stop Now!, John Yamrus / p. 53

Divorcer, Gary Lutz / p. 64

Cape Cod Noir, David L. Ulin, Editor / p. 70

Doctored: A True Story, Sky Curtis / p. 75

Caput Nili: How I Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges, Lisa Gill / p. 23

Dog Ear, Erica Baum / p. 73

Babel’s Moon, Brandon Som / p. 47

Carnival of Sleep: Selected Writings & Drawings, Ribitch / p. 67

The Atlantic House, Regan Good / p. 24 Atlas Hour, Carol Ann Davis / p. 18 An Atlas of Lost Causes, Marjorie Stein / p. 47

Axe in Hand, Melanie Moro-Huber / p. 37

Baltics, Tomas Tranströmer / p. 49 Bamboo Ridge No. , Eric Chock and Darrell H. Y. Lum, Editors / p. 84

Broken Irish, Edward J. Delaney / p. 59

Call the Catastrophists, Krystal Languell / p. 32

Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems, David Trinidad / p. 49

Denver Quarterly 45:4, Bin Ramke, Editor / p. 84 Desolation : Souvenir, Paul Hoover / p. 27

The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca, F. S. Rosa / p. 68

Dogs and Other Poems, Paul S. Piper / p. 41

Casual Insomniac, Chuck Carlise / p. 15

Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug: 1 Years of 2 Idiots Peddling Poetry, Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg, Editors / p. 42

Catalina, Laurie Soriano / p. 47

Doppelgänger, Brian Henry / p. 27

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TITLE INDEX Downtown, Lee Meitzen Grue / p. 25

Good Friday Kiss, Michelle Bitting / p. 12

The Infinite Library, Kane X. Faucher / p. 60

Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems, Barry Wallenstein / p. 51

Grasshopper: The Poetry of M A Griffiths, Margaret Ann Griffiths / p. 24

Inside the Earthquake Palace: 4 Plays, Will Alexander / p. 55

The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen / p. 55

The Great Redstone, Kevin Bartelme / p. 56

Insomnia and the Aunt, Tan Lin / p. 64

Drive-By Vigils, R. Zamora Linmark / p. 34

Green Gospel, L. C. Fiore / p. 60

Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin, Terrence E. Poppa / p. 79

Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation, Amal al-Jubouri / p. 9

The Institute for Species Systemization: An Experimental Archive, Danielle Rosen / p. 80

Dune Child, Ella Thorp Ellis / p. 75

Hanging Loose , Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak, Editors / p. 85

Eleven Eleven Issue 11, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Editor / p. 85

The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony, Jerry Zaslove and Bill Jeffries, Editors / p. 82 Interstitial, Sean Patrick Hill / p. 27

Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta, Jon Leon / p. 78

Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography and Poetry, Alastair Johnston / p. 77

Intimate: An American Family Photo Album, Paisley Rekdal / p. 79

The End of Rude Handles, Jen Tynes / p. 50

Happy Life, David Budbill / p. 15

The Enormous Chorus, Frank Kuenstler / p. 32

Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers, Charles Tidler / p. 70

Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Erika Meitner / p. 36

Entering the House of Awe, Susanna Childress / p. 16

Harm, Hillary Gravendyk / p. 24

The Inverted Pyramid, Bertrand W. Sinclair / p. 69 Istanbul: Metamorphoses in an Imperial City, M. Akif Kirecci and Edward Foster, Editors / p. 77

Entre Nous: The Goosefoot Chronicles, Lydia Riantee Rand / p. 67

The Hartford Book, Samuel Amadon / p. 10

Entries of the Cell, Franz Wright / p. 53

Harvest, Emanuel di Pasquale / p. 19

Janet Planet, Eleanor Lerman / p. 63

equinox, Edward Smallfield / p. 46

Have, Marc Gaba / p. 22

Jesusville, Philip Cioffari / p. 58

Ethics of Sleep, Bernadette Mayer / p. 35

He Took a Cab, Mather Schneider / p. 45

Journey to the Sun, Brent Cunningham / p. 18

Eve & Her Apple, Sharon White / p. 52

Heart First into the Forest, Stacy Gnall / p. 24

Just Ours: Love Passages with Linda, Volume One, Louis Daniel Brodsky / p. 14

Exhibit of Forking Paths, James Grinwis / p. 25

Heart-Shaped Cookies, David Rice / p. 67

Exit, Nelly Arcan / p. 55

Heath Course Pak, Tan Lin / p. 33

Fables, Sarah Goldstein / p. 61

Heron/Girlfriend, Jen Tynes / p. 50

A Far Allegiance, Roy Scheele / p. 45

Herso, Susana Gardner / p. 23

Fat Girl, Jessie Carty / p. 16

The Hole, Thom Donovan / p. 19

Feasting at the Table of the Damned, Daniel Ames / p. 10

Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley, Joshua Ware / p. 51

The Feeling Is Actual, Paolo Javier / p. 28

Homework, Joe Elliot / p. 20

Lantana Strangling Ixora, Sasenarine Persaud / p. 40

The Fetch, Nico Rogers / p. 68

Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay, Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren, Editor / p. 29

The Larger Nature, Pam Rehm / p. 43

The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers, Myrl Coulter / p. 74

Last Night I Sang to the Monster, Benjamin Alire Sáenz / p. 69

The Field, Martin Glaz Serup / p. 23 Field Report, Dennis Barone / p. 56 Field Work Notes, Songs, Poems 1 -2 1 , David Hadbawnik / p. 25

The Kangaroo Girl, Judith Baumel / p. 11 Killdeer: essay-poems, Phil Hall / p. 25 Kintsugi, Thomas Meyer / p. 36 Kordian, Juliusz Slowacki / p. 69 l.b.; or, catenaries, Judith Goldman / p. 24 Ladies & Gentlemen, Michael Robins / p. 44

The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley, Héctor Viel Temperley / p. 50

Houses, CB Follett / p. 22

The Last of the Egyptians, Gerard Mace / p. 78

Fighting in the Shade, Sterling Watson / p. 71

Hunters & Gamblers, Ryan Ridge / p. 68

Last Verses, Jules Laforgue / p. 32

Fine Fine Music, Cassie J. Sneider / p. 80

Hurdis Addo, Samantha Giles / p. 23

Fires, Nick Antosca / p. 55

Hypotheticals, Leigh Kotsilidis / p. 31

Learning How: Stories, Yarns & Tales, Richard Hague / p. 62

Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success, Alan Broadbent and Ratna Omidvar, Editors / p. 74

I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur, Mathias Svalina / p. 70

Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner / p. 63 lie down too, Lesle Lewis / p. 33

I Can Say Interpellation, Stephen Cain / p. 15

Light-Headed, Matt Hart / p. 26

I Just Ran: Percy Williams, The World’s Fastest Human, Samuel Hawley / p. 77

Li’l Bastard, David Mcgimpsey / p. 36

I Live in a Hut, S. E. Smith / p. 47

Lines of Flight, Catherine Chandler / p. 16

I Tell Random People About You, Svea Barrett / p. 10 I Want to Make You Safe, Amy King / p. 31

Lingering Tide and Other Stories, Latha Viswanathan / p. 71

I Was There for Your Somniloquy, Kelli Anne Noftle / p. 39

Living Arrangements: Stories, Laura Maylene Walter / p. 71

Framing Memories, Mario Susko / p. 48

If I Falter at the Gallows, Edward Mullany / p. 38

From the Middle Woods, Neeli Cherkovski / p. 16

If I Take You Here, Martha Carlson-Bradley / p. 15

Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader, Diane Driedger, Editor / p. 75

from unwritten histories, Eugenijus Ališanka / p. 9

In The Absence of Predators, Vinnie Wilhelm / p. 71

LIVING WITH YOU, Barbara Blatner / p. 12

Frostbitten, Mark Walton / p. 51

In the Architecture of Bone, Alan Semerdjian / p. 45

Los Angeles Stories, Ry Cooder / p. 58

Galaxy, Rachel Thompson / p. 49

In the Land, Bea Opengart / p. 39

Lost Story, Brane Mozetič / p. 65

Ghosts of the Pacific, Philip Roy / p. 68

In the Shadow of Al-Andalus, Victor Hernandez Cruz / p. 17

Love Cake, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha / p. 41

Flea Circus: a brief bestiary of grief, Mandy Keifetz / p. 63 Fog Gorgeous Stag, Sean Lovelace / p. 64 Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices, Tony Cimasko and Melinda Reichelt, Editors / p. 74 14 Abriles: Poems, Carlos Cumpián / p. 18 Fourteen Hills Vol. 1 No. 2, Hollie Hardy, Editor / p. 85

Girl in Everytime, Sharon Howell / p. 28 Girlwood, Jennifer Still / p. 48

In the Time of the Blue Ball, Manuela Draeger / p. 60

The Lily Will, Melissa Dickey / p. 19

Love Emergencies, Bill Wolak and Mahoom KarimiHakak / p. 52

Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women, Ambar Past, Editor / p. 40

Love Remembered, Frank Adams / p. 9 Luminous Epinoia, Peter O’Leary / p. 39

The Glass Crib, Amanda Auchter / p. 10

The Incredible Shrinking Story, Kona Morris, Leah Rogin-Roper, and Stacy Walsh, Editors / p. 65

Glass Harmonica, Geoff Bouvier / p. 13

Indian Tango, Ananda Devi / p. 59

Makeda, Randall Robinson / p. 68

Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People, Mr. Fish / p. 75

Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future, Juan Gómez-Quiñones / p. 76

Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Erika Meitner / p. 36

The Given & The Chosen, Ann Lauterbach / p. 78 Glass, Sam Savage / p. 69

Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach / p. 64 Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors, George Kalamaras / p. 29

The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns, Christopher Bursk / p. 15

Love-In-Idleness, Christopher Hennessy / p. 26 the lyrica poems, 2 3-2 1 , Michael Hannon / p. 26

Making Waves: Reading B.C. and Pacific Northwest Literature, Trevor Carolan, Editor / p. 74

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TITLE INDEX The Malady of the Century, Jon Leon / p. 33

New Nails, Eve Packer / p. 40

Pilate’s Jesus, Jeong Chan / p. 62

The Man Who Lost His Head, Zach Savich / p. 44

New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology, Jen Tynes and Erika Howsare, Editors / p. 50

Pillage Laud, Erin Mouré / p. 38

Mannequin Rising, Roy Miki / p. 37 The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn, Sean Dixon / p. 60 A Map Predetermined and Chance, Laura Wetherington / p. 52

Next Analog Broadcast, Charly “the city mouse” Fasano / p. 21 Next Extinct Mammal, Ruben Quesada / p. 42

The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel, Nelson George / p. 61 Poems from a Cabin on Big Sur, Peter Thabit Jones / p. 48

Mara’s Shade, Anastassis Vistonitis / p. 51

Nine Acres, Nathaniel Perry / p. 40

Mary Ellen Solt: Toward A Theory Of Concrete Poetry, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Editor / p. 12

Nine, Novena, Osman Lins / p. 64

Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi, Ashur Etwebi / p. 20

The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems, Chris Glomski / p. 23

The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Brandon Brown / p. 14

No Grave Can Hold My Body Down, Aaron McCollough / p. 36

Poems of Samuel Wood, Louis-René des Forêts / p. 18

Nocturnal Omissions: A Tale of Two Poets, Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and Eric Norris / p. 19

Poor Richard’s Lament: A Most Timely Tale, Tom Fitzgerald / p. 61

Mayan Horror: How to Survive the End of the World in 2 12, Bob Robertson / p. 80 me and Nina, Monica A. Hand / p. 26 Memory Sickness, Phong Nguyen / p. 66 Mercury, Ariana Reines / p. 43

Poet by Default, Tristan Corbière / p. 17

Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, Julie R. Enszer, Editor / p. 20

Nomads with Samsonite, Timothy Bradford / p. 13

Post: A Fable, Hilary Masters / p. 64

Nondescript Rambunctious, Jackie Bateman / p. 56

Mimeo Mimeo 5, Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, Editors / p. 85

not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, Jenny Boully / p. 56

The Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1 6 -1 62), Linda Dorricott and Deidre Cullon, Editors / p. 75

Mind over Matter: A Tribute to Poetry, Gloria Frym / p. 22

Nothing Is in Here, Andrew Levy / p. 33

Nothing Can Make Me Do This, David Huddle / p. 62

Proze Attack: Selected Essays, Reviews, Polemics, Rants and Red-Headed Step-Fictions 2 4-2 1 , Mark Spitzer / p. 81

Mindskin: A Selection of Poems 1 5-2 1 , Antonella Zagaroli / p. 53

Nothing More to Tell, George Dila / p. 59 NowTrends, Karl Taro Greenfeld / p. 62

P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd Edition, Red Pine / p. 41

Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents, Will Alexander / p. 73

O Bon, Brandon Shimoda / p. 46

Pushing Water, Charles Alexander / p. 9

The Obvious Flap, Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts / p. 11

The Quarry and The Lot, Mark Wallace / p. 71

Ocotillo Dreams, Melinda Palacio / p. 66

Quicker & Deader, Richard Rathwell / p. 79

The Odicy, Cyrus Console / p. 17

Randy Bradley, Jake Bohstedt Morrill / p. 65

Of Flies and Monkeys, Jacques Dupin / p. 20

Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son’s Search for His Father, Brent Spencer / p. 81

Missing Matisse, Jan Rehner / p. 67 The Modern Predicament, George Scialabba / p. 80 Monkology: 15 Stories from the World of Private Eye Ivan Monk, Gary Phillips / p. 67 Monoceros, Suzette Mayr / p. 65 The Monotony of Fatal Accidents, Richard Krueger / p. 31 Monsoon Blues, Elijah Imlay / p. 28 Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies of the Sea, Brenda Paik Sunoo / p. 81 More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns, Charles Bukowski / p. 57

An Old Junker: a senior represents, Howard Junker / p. 62 On Marvellous Things Heard, Gretchen E. Henderson / p. 77 On The Border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov, Georgy Ivanov / p. 28

Ravenna Gets, Tony Burgess / p. 57 The Ravickians, Renee Gladman / p. 61 Re-, Kristi Maxwell / p. 35 Realization Point, Chris Hoffman / p. 27

One Bird Falling, CB Follett / p. 22

Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues, Josh Kornbluth / p. 63

One Sleeps The Other Doesn’t, Jacqueline Waters / p. 52

Red Dirt Jesus, Ray McManus / p. 36

open book, Valerie Coulton / p. 17

Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes, Jennifer Tamayo / p. 48

Ordinary History, Laura Horn / p. 27

Red Walls, James Tolan / p. 49

The Other Poems, Paul Legault / p. 32

Reflections in A Smoking Mirror, Paul Pines / p. 41

Other Suns, Patricia Killelea / p. 30

Repeat After Me, Bill Berkson / p. 12 Return from Erebus, Julia McCarthy / p. 36

movable TYYPE, Kathleen Fraser / p. 22

Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out, Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors / p. 18

Mule & Pear, Rachel Eliza Griffiths / p. 25

Our Name Be Witness, Marvin K. White / p. 52

Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe, Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, and José Alfredo González Celdrán / p. 80

outskirts, Sue Goyette / p. 24 Oz at Night, Amanda J. Bradley / p. 13

Riding the Unit: Selected Nonfiction 1 4-2 4, Mark Spitzer / p. 81

Music for Porn, Rob Halpern / p. 25

A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, Stephanie Bolster / p. 13

Road of a Thousand Wonders, Jeffrey Joe Nelson / p. 38

A Mortal Affect, Vincent Standley / p. 70 Mostly Redneck, Rusty Barnes / p. 56 Motes, Craig Dworkin / p. 20 Mother Was a Tragic Girl, Sandra Simonds / p. 46 The Mountie at Niagara Falls and Other Brief Stories, Salvatore Difalco / p. 59

The Mutation of Fortune, Erica Adams / p. 55 My Father in Water, Carol Guess / p. 77

The Paper Chase, John Jay Osborn, Jr / p. 66

Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries, Robert Zweig / p. 82 Reviving the Dead, Gary Fincke / p. 21

Road to Thunder Hill, Connie Barnes Rose / p. 68 A Room in the City, Gabor Gasztonyi / p. 76

My Kidney Just Arrived, G. Murray Thomas / p. 49

A Parallel Universe, Alex Landon and Elaine Halleck / p. 78

My Life as Adam, Bryan Borland / p. 13

The Peninsula, Julien Gracq / p. 61

Run Marco, Run, Norma Charles / p. 57

My rice tastes like the lake, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa / p. 19

Perfect Dragonfly: A Commonplace Book of Poems Celebrating a Decade & a Half of Printing & Publishing at Red Dragonfly Press, Scott King, Editor / p. 31

Runaway Dreams, Richard Wagamese / p. 51

my thin-skinned wandering, Piper Leigh / p. 33

Rumors of Earth, Robert Edwards / p. 20

Runes, Tracy Thomas / p. 49 SABORAMI, Cecilia Vicuña / p. 50

Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature, Sharon Morgan Beckford / p. 73

The Persians by Aeschylus, Brandon Brown / p. 14 petals, emblems, Lynn Behrendt / p. 11

Navigation, Dennis Phillips / p. 41

Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, Benjamin Alire Sáenz / p. 69

Piano Glass/Glass Piano, Marjorie Becker / p. 11

Negro marfil / Ivory Black, Myriam Moscona / p. 38

Sancta, Andrew Grace / p. 24

Picture World, Niels Frank / p. 22

Nevertheless, Wendy Videlock / p. 50

Sanderlings, Geri Doran / p. 19

Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions, Norman Lock / p. 64

Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada, Bill Freind, Editor / p. 76

Pier, Janine Oshiro / p. 40

Sea and Fog, Etel Adnan / p. 9

New American Writing 2 , Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Editors / p. 85 New Jersey Noir, Joyce Carol Oates, Editor / p. 66

Sakonnet Point, Bill O’Connell / p. 39

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TITLE INDEX Searching for Guan Yin, Sarah E. Truman / p. 82 Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Souffle Chiffon Gown, Landon Godfrey / p. 24 Secret Wounds, Richard M. Berlin / p. 12

Takes Guts and Years Sometimes: New and Selected Poems, Linda Lerner / p. 33 Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry, Scott Thurston / p. 82

Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part Two, 1 -2 5, Jack Foley / p. 76 Visions for Chicago, Daniel Tucker / p. 82

The Sexy Part of the Bible, Kola Boof / p. 56

Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School, Jo Scott-Coe / p. 80

Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design, Leslie Atzmon, Editor / p. 73

Shag Carpet Action, Matthew Firth / p. 61

Tell Anna She’s Safe, Brenda Missen / p. 65

Shanghai Dancing, Brian Castro / p. 57

Vs., Kerry Ryan / p. 44

Sharawadji, Brian Henderson / p. 26

Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1 6 1 , Chris Carlsson, Editor / p. 74

The Waiting Game: An Essay on the Gift of Time, Andrea Köhler / p. 78

She, A Blueprint, Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West / p. 41

A Testament to Love & Other Losses, Wade Stevenson / p. 48

The Waldorf Panels on Sculpture (1 65), Phillip Pavia, Editor / p. 79

She’d Waited Millennia, Lizzie Hutton / p. 28

That Other Beauty, Karen Enns / p. 20

A Walker in the City, Meira Cook / p. 17

The Shining Material, Aisha Sasha John / p. 28

then, we were still living, Michael Klein / p. 31

Simply Separate People, Two, Lynn Crawford / p. 59

There’s Only One God and You’re Not It, Stephen Paul Miller / p. 37

The Wall Did Not Answer: Selected Poems 1 32-1 6, Alfonso Gatto / p. 23 Water’s Footfall, Sohrab Sepehri / p. 45

They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks, Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller / p. 58

We Are Taking Only What We Need, Stephanie Powell Watts / p. 71

Senestre on Vacation, Z. K. Burrus / p. 57

Singing Me Home, Carol Lipszyc / p. 34 Six Rivers, Jenna Le / p. 32 Skin Horse, Olivia Cronk / p. 17 Sky*Boat, Ronnie Burk / p. 15

Vox Humana, E. Alex Pierce / p. 41

We Almost Disappear, David Bottoms / p. 13

Things I Say to Pirates on Nights When I Miss You, Keely Hyslop / p. 28

The Weary World Rejoices, Steve Fellner / p. 21

Slot, Jill Magi / p. 34 small hours, Yu Yan Chen / p. 16

13 ways of happily, Emily Carr / p. 15

Snow Sensitive Skin, Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern / p. 13

This Strange Land, Shara McCallum / p. 35

West of Green River: a novel of the Bonneville Expedition 1 32-1 35, Jerry Keenan / p. 62

Snowflake / different streets, Eileen Myles / p. 38

3 Tang Poems, Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman, and David Lunde, Editors / p. 52

Sleight, Kirsten Kaschock / p. 62

Somatic Engagement, Petra Kuppers, Editor / p. 78 Some Holy Weight in the Village Air, Ira Joe Fisher / p. 21

This Thing Called the Future, J. L. Powers / p. 67

Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa, Lee Cataluna / p. 57

What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems, Charles North / p. 39

To Be Read in the Dark, Maxine Chernoff / p. 16 To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War, John Gibler / p. 76

Where Bodies Again Recline, Harry E. Northup / p. 39

To Smithereens, Rosalyn Drexler / p. 60 The Tolstoy of the Zulus, Stephen Kessler / p. 77 tomorrow is another song, Scott Wannberg / p. 51

Spaz, Bonnie Bowman / p. 57 specimens, Mark Cunningham / p. 18 Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura, Kiwao Nomura / p. 39

When the Only Light Is Fire, Saeed Jones / p. 29 Where You’re At: Poetics & Visual Art, Kevin Power / p. 79

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me, Murray Shugars / p. 46

Spat the Dummy, Ed Macdonald / p. 64

What Looks like an Elephant, Edward Nudelman / p. 39

to refrain from embracing, Monika Rinck / p. 43

Sông I Sing, Bao Phi / p. 41

Sonics in Warholia, Megan Volpert / p. 51

West of Wawa, Lisa de Nikolits / p. 59 What I Did There, Pauletta Hansel / p. 26

Some Math, Bill Luoma / p. 34

Songs of Unreason, Jim Harrison / p. 26

West of Midnight: New and Selected Poems, Franz Douskey / p. 19

Three Novels, Elizabeth Robinson / p. 44

Somewhere over the Pachyderm Rainbow: Living in an Elephant-Controlled 2 1 Election Diorama, Jennifer C. Wolfe / p. 53 The Song Collides, Calvin Wharton / p. 52

We’re No Butchers, Rob Plath / p. 67

Tout va bien, Suzanne Stein / p. 47 Toward the Heliopause, Joan Michelson / p. 37 Traction, Mary Makofske / p. 35 Traffic with Macbeth, Larissa Szporluk / p. 48 Trailers, Michael Basinski / p. 11

Who Is I?, Marina Temkina and Michel Gerard / p. 82 Whorled, Ed Bok Lee / p. 32 The Wilshire Sun, Joshua Baldwin / p. 56 A Wiser, More Beautiful Death, Miklos Radnoti / p. 42 With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman, Malka Heifetz Tussman / p. 50

The Trees The Trees, Heather Christle / p. 16

Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti, Mario Benedetti / p. 11

The Truth of Houses, Ann Scowcroft / p. 45

a womb-shaped wormhole, j/j hastain / p. 26

Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5), David Miller / p. 37

Tunaluna, alurista / p. 10

Women and Clothes, Brigitte Kronauer / p. 63

The Spiritual Life of Replicants, Murat Nemet-Nejat / p. 38

Two Books, C. J. Martin / p. 35

Women in a Globalizing World: Equality, Development, Peace and Diversity, Angela Miles / p. 78

The Spite House, Elizabeth Knapp / p. 31

Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith, Michael Stipe / p. 81

Status, Marvin K. White / p. 52

Uncanny Valley, Jon Woodward / p. 53

Woodnote, Christine Deavel / p. 18

Stealth, Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton / p. 9

Uncertain Time, Richard Caddel / p. 15

WOrd WITHDraWal, Alexis Luna / p. 34

Still A Man and Other Stories, James E. Cherry / p. 58

Uncertainties, Robert Kelly / p. 30

wordlick, Joe Ross / p. 44

Still Life, Alexander Long / p. 34

An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1 62-1 5, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann / p. 14

The Work Is All, Mark Vinz / p. 51

Storm Crop, Stacie Leatherman / p. 32 The Story of My Accident Is Ours, Rachel Levitsky / p. 63 The Straw Sandals: Selected Prose and Poetry, PierreAlbert Jourdan / p. 29 Sugar Zone, Mary Mackey / p. 34 Sunshine in the Valley, Kyle Muntz / p. 65 Sure Thing, Robin F .Brox / p. 14 Swimming in Moses’ Well: Poems on Numbers, Yakov Azriel / p. 10 t&u& lash your nipples to a post history is gorgeous, Jared Schickling / p. 45

Under the White Wing: Events at Sand Creek, Charles Squier / p. 47 The Urban Fairytales, Book Two: Love Story, S. Bell / p. 56

A World of Nothing But Self-Infliction: A Four-Part Inflection (Twice Told), Tod Thilleman / p. 48 Writer in Residence: Memoir of a Literary Translator, Mark Spitzer / p. 81 Xing, Debora Kuan / p. 32

Versus, Stacia M. Fleegal / p. 21

Yannis Ritsos: Collected Studies & Translations, Peter Bien / p. 73

Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete, Sam Truitt / p. 49

You Cannot Turn Away, R. Cheran / p. 16

Vision of the Return, Amin Khan / p. 30

.1 4: The Complete Numbers Cycle, Gordon Massman / p. 35

Uselysses, Noel Black / p. 12

Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part One, 1 4 -1 , Jack Foley / p. 76

Zone 3 Vol. 26 No. 1 Spring 2 11, Blas Falconer, Barry Kitterman, and Amy Wright, Editors / p. 85

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Publisher Index ABLE MUSE PRESS Catherine Chandler, Lines of Flight / p. 16 Margaret Ann Griffiths, Grasshopper: The Poetry of M A Griffiths / p. 24 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Anthology / p. 40 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Summer 2011 / p. 83 Alexander Pepple, Editor, Able Muse Winter 2010 / p. 83 Wendy Videlock, Nevertheless / p. 50 ACTION BOOKS Olivia Cronk, Skin Horse / p. 17 Kim Hyesoon, All the Garbage of the World, Unite! / p. 30 Jed Rasula and Tim Conley, Editors, Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity / p. 42 ADASTRA PRESS Martha Carlson-Bradley, If I Take You Here / p. 15 AHSAHTA PRESS Andrew Grace, Sancta / p. 24 Kristi Maxwell, Re- / p. 35 Aaron McCollough, No Grave Can Hold My Body Down / p. 36 Karen Rigby, Chinoiserie / p. 43 AKASHIC BOOKS Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible / p. 56 Mr. Fish, Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People / p. 75 Nelson George, The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel / p. 61 Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep / p. 64 Elizabeth Nunez, Boundaries / p. 66 Joyce Carol Oates, Editor, New Jersey Noir / p. 66 Randall Robinson, Makeda / p. 68 Michael Stipe, Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith / p. 81 David L. Ulin, Editor, Cape Cod Noir / p. 70 Sterling Watson, Fighting in the Shade / p. 71 ALICE JAMES BOOKS Amal al-Jubouri, Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation / p. 9 Stacy Gnall, Heart First into the Forest / p. 24 Monica A. Hand, me and Nina / p. 26 Lesle Lewis, lie down too / p. 33 Shara McCallum, This Strange Land / p. 35 Janine Oshiro, Pier / p. 40 ALLARDYCE, BARNETT, PUBLISHERS Anthony Barnett, Antonyms & Others / p. 73 Louis-René des Forêts, Poems of Samuel Wood / p. 18

Charles Tidler, Hard Hed: The Hoosier Chapman Papers / p. 70 Calvin Wharton, The Song Collides / p. 52 APOGEE PRESS Valerie Coulton, open book / p. 17 Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, My rice tastes like the lake / p. 19 Edward Smallfield, equinox / p. 46 AQUARIUS PRESS Daniel Ames, Feasting at the Table of the Damned / p. 10 James E. Cherry, Still A Man and Other Stories / p. 58 Tony Medina, Broke on Ice / p. 36 ARCTOS PRESS Laura Horn, Ordinary History / p. 27 ASHLAND POETRY PRESS Mary Makofske, Traction / p. 35 ASTROPHIL PRESS Brian Evenson, Contagion and Other Stories / p. 60 ATELOS Brent Cunningham, Journey to the Sun / p. 18 AUNT LUTE BOOKS Rosa Montero, Beautiful and Dark / p. 65 Jo Scott-Coe, Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School / p. 80 AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS alurista, Tunaluna / p. 10 Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future / p. 76 Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors, Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English / p. 82 THE BACKWATERS PRESS Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell, Editors, Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees / p. 14 Linnea Johnson, Augury / p. 29 Marjorie Saiser, Beside You at the Stoplight / p. 44 Roy Scheele, A Far Allegiance / p. 45 Brent Spencer, Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son’s Search for His Father / p. 81 BAKSUN BOOKS S. Bell, The Urban Fairytales, Book Two: Love Story / p. 56

ANHINGA PRESS Erika Meitner, Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore / p. 36 Erika Meitner, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls / p. 36

BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS Lee Cataluna, Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa / p. 57 Eric Chock and Darrell H. Y. Lum, Editors, Bamboo Ridge No. 98 / p. 84

ANVIL PRESS Nelly Arcan, Exit / p. 55 Jackie Bateman, Nondescript Rambunctious / p. 56 Bonnie Bowman, Spaz / p. 57 Tony Burgess, Ravenna Gets / p. 57 Trevor Carolan, Editor, Making Waves: Reading B.C. and Pacific Northwest Literature / p. 74 Myrl Coulter, The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers / p. 74 Salvatore Difalco, The Mountie at Niagara Falls and Other Brief Stories / p. 59 Matthew Firth, Shag Carpet Action / p. 61 Gabor Gasztonyi, A Room in the City / p. 76 Ed Macdonald, Spat the Dummy / p. 64 Bob Robertson, Mayan Horror: How to Survive the End of the World in 2012 / p. 80 Kerry Ryan, Vs. / p. 44 Madeline Sonik, Afflictions and Departures / p. 81 Rachel Thompson, Galaxy / p. 49

A BARNACLE BOOK Gary Phillips, Monkology: 15 Stories from the World of Private Eye Ivan Monk / p. 67

BATEAU PRESS Chuck Carlise, Casual Insomniac / p. 15 BEAR STAR PRESS Christine Deavel, Woodnote / p. 18

THE BITTER OLEANDER PRESS Alberto Blanco, Afterglow/Tras el rayo / p. 12 Jacques Dupin, Of Flies and Monkeys / p. 20 George Kalamaras, Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors / p. 29 BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIKANSAS CITY Richard M. Berlin, Secret Wounds / p. 12 Hilary Masters, Post: A Fable / p. 64 Laura Maylene Walter, Living Arrangements: Stories / p. 71 Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need / p. 71 BLACK RADISH BOOKS Susana Gardner, Herso / p. 23 BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] Michael Basinski, Trailers / p. 11 Timothy Bradford, Nomads with Samsonite / p. 13 Robin F .Brox, Sure Thing / p. 14 Mark Cunningham, specimens / p. 18 Mark DuCharme, Answer / p. 19 Stacia M. Fleegal, Versus / p. 21 Gloria Frym, Mind over Matter: A Tribute to Poetry / p. 22 David Hadbawnik, Field Work Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010 / p. 25 Matt Hart, Light-Headed / p. 26 j/j hastain, a womb-shaped wormhole / p. 26 Sean Patrick Hill, Interstitial / p. 27 Krystal Languell, Call the Catastrophists / p. 32 Stacie Leatherman, Storm Crop / p. 32 Jeffrey Morgan, Crying Shame / p. 37 Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West, She, A Blueprint / p. 41 Stephen Ratcliffe, CLOUD / RIDGE / p. 43 Jared Schickling, t&u& lash your nipples to a post history is gorgeous / p. 45 Simone Muench and Philip Jenks, Disappearing Address / p. 46 Jonathan Skinner, Birds of Tifft / p. 46 Wade Stevenson, A Testament to Love & Other Losses / p. 48 Tracy Thomas, Runes / p. 49 Mark Wallace, The Quarry and The Lot / p. 71 Jennifer C. Wolfe, Somewhere over the Pachyderm Rainbow: Living in an Elephant-Controlled 2010 Election Diorama / p. 53 BOOKTHUG Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts, The Obvious Flap / p. 11 Stephen Cain, I Can Say Interpellation / p. 15 Niels Frank, Picture World / p. 22 Phil Hall, Killdeer: essay-poems / p. 25 Aisha Sasha John, The Shining Material / p. 28 Jake Kennedy, Apollinaire’s Speech to the War Medic / p. 30 Richard Krueger, The Monotony of Fatal Accidents / p. 31 Erin Mouré, Pillage Laud / p. 38 BOOTSTRAP PRESS Stephen Ratcliffe, Conversation / p. 43

BEATITUDE PRESS Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin: Selected Early Poems 1978-1989 / p. 10 Alexis Luna, WOrd WITHDraWal / p. 34

BORDIGHERA PRESS Emanuel di Pasquale, Harvest / p. 19 Fred Gardaphe, The Art of Reading Italian Americana: Italian American Culture in Review / p. 76 Robert Zweig, Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries / p. 82

BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS Melinda Palacio, Ocotillo Dreams / p. 66 David Rice, Heart-Shaped Cookies / p. 67

BOTTOM DOG PRESS Richard Hague, Learning How: Stories, Yarns & Tales / p. 62

BIRD DOG PUBLISHING Paul S. Piper, Dogs and Other Poems / p. 41

BRICK BOOKS Stephanie Bolster, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth / p. 13 Meira Cook, A Walker in the City / p. 17

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PUBLISHER INDEX Karen Enns, That Other Beauty / p. 20 Sue Goyette, outskirts / p. 24 Brian Henderson, Sharawadji / p. 26 Julia McCarthy, Return from Erebus / p. 36 E. Alex Pierce, Vox Humana / p. 41 Nico Rogers, The Fetch / p. 68 Ann Scowcroft, The Truth of Houses / p. 45 Jennifer Still, Girlwood / p. 48 BRIGHT HILL PRESS Christopher Bursk, The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns / p. 15 Jean Hollander, Counterpoint / p. 27 Margaret Young, Almond Town / p. 53 BROOKLYN ARTS PRESS Joe Fletcher, Already It Is Dusk / p. 22 Carol Guess, Darling Endangered / p. 62 Christopher Hennessy, Love-In-Idleness / p. 26 BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT Lewis Warsh, Editor, Brooklyn Paramount #1 / p. 84 THE BROOKLYN RAIL/BLACK SQUARE EDITIONS Lynn Crawford, Simply Separate People, Two / p. 59 Rosalyn Drexler, To Smithereens / p. 60 BROWSER BOOKS PUBLISHING Malka Heifetz Tussman, With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman / p. 50 BURNING BOOKS Robert Ashley, Atalanta (Acts of God) / p. 55 BURNING DECK Gerard Mace, The Last of the Egyptians / p. 78 Monika Rinck, to refrain from embracing / p. 43 C&R PRESS Michelle Bitting, Good Friday Kiss / p. 12 Elizabeth Knapp, The Spite House / p. 31 CAHUENGA PRESS Harry E. Northup, Where Bodies Again Recline / p. 39 CALAMARI PRESS Gary Lutz, Divorcer / p. 64 Vincent Standley, A Mortal Affect / p. 70 CAPE ANN MUSEUM David Rich, Editor, Charles Olson: Letters Home 1949-1969 / p. 80 CHAINLINKS Petra Kuppers, Editor, Somatic Engagement / p. 78 Cecilia Vicuña, SABORAMI / p. 50 CHAX PRESS Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton, Stealth / p. 9 Will Alexander, Inside the Earthquake Palace: 4 Plays / p. 55 David Miller, Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5) / p. 37 CHELSEA EDITIONS Alfonso Gatto, The Wall Did Not Answer: Selected Poems 1932-1976 / p. 23 Philippe Jaccottet, And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1990-2009 / p. 28 Pierre-Albert Jourdan, The Straw Sandals: Selected Prose and Poetry / p. 29 Antonella Zagaroli, Mindskin: A Selection of Poems 1985-2010 / p. 53 CHICORY BLUE PRESS Sondra Zeidenstein, Contraries: New and Selected Poems / p. 53

Ambar Past, Editor, Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women / p. 40 Terrence E. Poppa, Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin / p. 79 J. L. Powers, This Thing Called the Future / p. 67 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster / p. 69 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood / p. 69 CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns / p. 57 Chris Carlsson, Editor, Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 / p. 74 Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories / p. 58 John Gibler, To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War / p. 76 Bill Morgan, Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America / p. 78 Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman, and José Alfredo González Celdrán, Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras: The Drug Cult That Civilized Europe / p. 80

Tan Lin, Heath Course Pak / p. 33 giovanni singleton, Ascension / p. 46 CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS Maria Bennett, Because You Love / p. 11 Jeong Chan, Pilate’s Jesus / p. 62 Charles Squier, Under the White Wing: Events at Sand Creek / p. 47 Peter Thabit Jones, Poems from a Cabin on Big Sur / p. 48 Bill Wolak, Archeology of Light / p. 52 Bill Wolak and Mahoom Karimi-Hakak, Love Emergencies / p. 52 THE CULTURAL SOCIETY Chris Glomski, The Nineteenth Century and Other Poems / p. 23 Peter O’Leary, Luminous Epinoia / p. 39 CUNEIFORM PRESS Charles Alexander, Pushing Water / p. 9 Alastair Johnston, Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography and Poetry / p. 77 Charles Olson, Charles Olson at Goddard College / p. 79 DARK SKY BOOKS Ryan Ridge, Hunters & Gamblers / p. 68

CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS Nick Antosca, Fires / p. 55 Noah Cicero, Best Behavior / p. 58 Kane X. Faucher, The Infinite Library / p. 60 Kyle Muntz, Sunshine in the Valley / p. 65 Michael J. Seidlinger, The Day We Delay / p. 69

DENVER QUARTERLY Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:3 / p. 84 Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:4 / p. 84 Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 46:1 / p. 84

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER Samuel Amadon, The Hartford Book / p. 10 Sandra Simonds, Mother Was a Tragic Girl / p. 46 S. E. Smith, I Live in a Hut / p. 47 Jon Woodward, Uncanny Valley / p. 53

DISPLACED PRESS Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern, Snow Sensitive Skin / p. 13 Brandon Brown, The Persians by Aeschylus / p. 14 Thom Donovan, The Hole / p. 19 Samantha Giles, Hurdis Addo / p. 23 Suzanne Stein, Tout va bien / p. 47

COACH HOUSE BOOKS Alan Broadbent and Ratna Omidvar, Editors, Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success / p. 74 Sean Dixon, The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn / p. 60 Leigh Kotsilidis, Hypotheticals / p. 31 Suzette Mayr, Monoceros / p. 65 David Mcgimpsey, Li’l Bastard / p. 36 Jenny Sampirisi, Croak / p. 44 COCONUT BOOKS Jen Tynes, Heron/Girlfriend / p. 50 COFFEE HOUSE PRESS Victor Hernandez Cruz, In the Shadow of Al-Andalus / p. 17 James Grinwis, Exhibit of Forking Paths / p. 25 Kirsten Kaschock, Sleight / p. 62 Ed Bok Lee, Whorled / p. 32 Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station / p. 63 Bao Phi, Sông I Sing / p. 41 Sam Savage, Glass / p. 69

DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT Manuela Draeger, In the Time of the Blue Ball / p. 60 Renee Gladman, The Ravickians / p. 61 DOS MADRES PRESS Pauletta Hansel, What I Did There / p. 26 David M. Katz, Claims of Home / p. 29 Bea Opengart, In the Land / p. 39 David A. Petreman, Candlelight in Quintero/Luz de Vela en Quintero / p. 40 Paul Pines, Reflections in A Smoking Mirror / p. 41 Murray Shugars, Songs My Mother Never Taught Me / p. 46 James Tolan, Red Walls / p. 49 EDITIONS MICHEL EYQUEM Miklos Radnoti, A Wiser, More Beautiful Death / p. 42 EL LEóN LITERARY ARTS Ella Thorp Ellis, Dune Child / p. 75 Stephen Kessler, The Tolstoy of the Zulus / p. 77

COMPLINE C. J. Martin, Two Books / p. 35

ELEVEN ELEVEN Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Editor, Eleven Eleven Issue 11 / p. 85

CONTENT Jon Leon, Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta / p. 78 Marina Temkina and Michel Gerard, Who Is I? / p. 82

ELIXIR PRESS Phong Nguyen, Memory Sickness / p. 66

COOL GROVE PRESS Kevin Bartelme, The Great Redstone / p. 56 Louise Landes Levi, The Book L / p. 33 Barney Rostaing, Breeders / p. 68

CIDER PRESS REVIEW Landon Godfrey, Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Souffle Chiffon Gown / p. 24 Carol Quinn, Acetylene / p. 42

COPPER CANYON PRESS Marianne Boruch, The Book of Hours / p. 13 David Bottoms, We Almost Disappear / p. 13 David Budbill, Happy Life / p. 15 Jim Harrison, Songs of Unreason / p. 26 Valzhyna Mort, Collected Body / p. 38 Nathaniel Perry, Nine Acres / p. 40

CINCO PUNTOS PRESS Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen, Editors, Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability / p. 11

COUNTERPATH PRESS Michelle Disler, [BOND, JAMES]: alphabet, anatomy, [auto]biography / p. 19

ELLIPSIS PRESS Roberta Allen, The Dreaming Girl / p. 55 EMPTY BOWL PRESS Red Pine, P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd Edition / p. 41 EOAGH BOOKS Andrew Levy, Nothing Is in Here / p. 33 EPIC RITES PRESS Jack Henry, Crunked / p. 27 Karl Koweski, Blood and Greasepaint / p. 63 Rob Plath, We’re No Butchers / p. 67 William Taylor Jr., An Age of Monsters / p. 70 Mark Walton, Frostbitten / p. 51 John Yamrus, Can’t Stop Now! / p. 53

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PUBLISHER INDEX ETRUSCAN PRESS Renee E. D’Aoust, Body of a Dancer / p. 75 FACTORY HOLLOW PRESS Mark Leidner, Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me / p. 32 FARFALLA PRESS/MCMILLAN & PARISH Jamey Jones, Blue Rain Morning / p. 29 FAST FORWARD PRESS Kona Morris, Leah Rogin-Roper, and Stacy Walsh, Editors, The Incredible Shrinking Story / p. 65 FENCE BOOKS Paul Legault, The Other Poems / p. 32 Ariana Reines, Cœur de Lion / p. 43 Ariana Reines, Mercury / p. 43 Laura Wetherington, A Map Predetermined and Chance / p. 52 FIRST INTENSITY PRESS Richard Rathwell, Quicker & Deader / p. 79 FLOOD EDITIONS Thomas Meyer, Kintsugi / p. 36 Pam Rehm, The Larger Nature / p. 43 FLY BY NIGHT PRESS Eve Packer, New Nails / p. 40 Howard Pflanzer, DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES / p. 41 FOURTEEN HILLS PRESS Hollie Hardy, Editor, Fourteen Hills Vol. 17 No. 2 / p. 85 Keely Hyslop, Things I Say to Pirates on Nights When I Miss You / p. 28 FURNITURE PRESS BOOKS Joshua Ware, Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley / p. 51

HORSE LESS PRESS Jen Tynes and Erika Howsare, Editors, New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology / p. 50 HOST PUBLICATIONS Eugenijus Ališanka, from unwritten histories / p. 9 Ananda Devi, Indian Tango / p. 59 Brigitte Kronauer, Women and Clothes / p. 63 IF SF PUBLISHING Michael Hannon, the lyrica poems, 2003-2010 / p. 26 Howard Junker, An Old Junker: a senior represents / p. 62 INANNA PUBLICATIONS Sharon Morgan Beckford, Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature / p. 73 Sky Curtis, Doctored: A True Story / p. 75 Lisa de Nikolits, West of Wawa / p. 59 Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out / p. 18 Diane Driedger, Editor, Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader / p. 75 Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, Angelic Scintillations / p. 22 Carol Lipszyc, Singing Me Home / p. 34 Angela Miles, Women in a Globalizing World: Equality, Development, Peace and Diversity / p. 78 Brenda Missen, Tell Anna She’s Safe / p. 65 Jan Rehner, Missing Matisse / p. 67 Connie Barnes Rose, Road to Thunder Hill / p. 68 INSTANCE PRESS Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, Mark McMorris, Another Instance: Three Chapbooks / p. 17 ITHURIEL’S SPEAR F. S. Rosa, The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca / p. 68 KAYA PRESS Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing / p. 57

FUTUREPOEM BOOKS Jon Leon, The Malady of the Century / p. 33 Rachel Levitsky, The Story of My Accident Is Ours / p. 63

KELSEY STREET PRESS Marjorie Stein, An Atlas of Lost Causes / p. 47

GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM Bill Berkson, Repeat After Me / p. 12

KENNING EDITIONS Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt / p. 64 Bill Luoma, Some Math / p. 34

GENPOP BOOKS Judith Baumel, The Kangaroo Girl / p. 11 Michael Klein, then, we were still living / p. 31 Alan Semerdjian, In the Architecture of Bone / p. 45 GREEN INTEGER Julien Gracq, The Peninsula / p. 61 Osman Lins, Nine, Novena / p. 64 Joe Ross, wordlick / p. 44 THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS Erica Adams, The Mutation of Fortune / p. 55 Gretchen E. Henderson, On Marvellous Things Heard / p. 77 Juliusz Slowacki, Kordian / p. 69 Daniel Tucker, Visions for Chicago / p. 82 GREENHOUSE REVIEW PRESS Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal / p. 42 HANGING LOOSE PRESS Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak, Editors, Hanging Loose 98 / p. 85 R. Zamora Linmark, Drive-By Vigils / p. 34 Charles North, What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems / p. 39 HARBOR MOUNTAIN PRESS Mario Susko, Framing Memories / p. 48 Sharon White, Eve & Her Apple / p. 52 HARRY TANKOOS BOOKS Regan Good, The Atlantic House / p. 24 HOBBLEBUSH BOOKS Tom Fitzgerald, Poor Richard’s Lament: A Most Timely Tale / p. 61

KOLOURMEIM PRESS Ronnie Burk, Sky*Boat / p. 15 KRUPSKAYA Brandon Brown, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus / p. 14 Judith Goldman, l.b.; or, catenaries / p. 24 LEON WORKS Hans Faverey, Chrysanthemums, Rowers / p. 21

LUNAR CHANDELIER PRESS Vyt Bakaitis, Deliberate Proof / p. 10 Lynn Behrendt, petals, emblems / p. 11 Joe Elliot, Homework / p. 20 MARCH/ABRAZO PRESS Carlos Cumpián, 14 Abriles: Poems / p. 18 Raúl Niño, A Book of Mornings / p. 38 MARICK PRESS Katie Farris, BoysGirls / p. 60 Ray McManus, Red Dirt Jesus / p. 36 Franz Wright, Entries of the Cell / p. 53 MARSH HAWK PRESS Steve Fellner, The Weary World Rejoices / p. 21 Paolo Javier, The Feeling Is Actual / p. 28 Mary Mackey, Sugar Zone / p. 34 Stephen Paul Miller, There’s Only One God and You’re Not It / p. 37 MAYAPPLE PRESS George Dila, Nothing More to Tell / p. 59 Susan Kolodny, After the Firestorm / p. 31 Eleanor Lerman, Janet Planet / p. 63 MEETING EYES BINDERY Tod Thilleman, A World of Nothing But Self-Infliction: A Four-Part Inflection (Twice Told) / p. 48 MERCURY HOUSE Josh Kornbluth, Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues / p. 63 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S PRESS Julie R. Enszer, Editor, Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry / p. 20 MIMEO MIMEO/CUNEIFORM Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, Editors, Mimeo Mimeo 5 / p. 85 MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS Mathias Svalina, I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur / p. 70 THE NAROPA PRESS Andrew Schelling, Editor, Bombay Gin 37:1 / p. 84 Andrew Schelling, Editor, Bombay Gin 37:2 / p. 84 NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE Susanna Childress, Entering the House of Awe / p. 16 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mule & Pear / p. 25 Lizzie Hutton, She’d Waited Millennia / p. 28 Mandy Keifetz, Flea Circus: a brief bestiary of grief / p. 63 NEW NATIVE PRESS Neeli Cherkovski, From the Middle Woods / p. 16

LES FIGUES PRESS Martin Glaz Serup, The Field / p. 23 Myriam Moscona, Negro marfil / Ivory Black / p. 38 Doug Nufer, By Kelman Out of Pessoa / p. 66

NEW STAR BOOKS Donato Mancini, Buffet World / p. 35 Roy Miki, Mannequin Rising / p. 37

LINEBOOKS Jerry Zaslove and Bill Jeffries, Editors, The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony / p. 82

NIGHTBOAT BOOKS Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog / p. 9 Kathleen Fraser, movable TYYPE / p. 22 Rob Halpern, Music for Porn / p. 25

LITMUS PRESS E. Tracy Grinnell, Julian T. Brolaski, and Paul Foster Johnson, Editors, Aufgabe No. 10 / p. 83 Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe / p. 31 Brandon Shimoda, O Bon / p. 46 LIVINGSTON PRESS Kurt José Ayau, The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories / p. 56 Z. K. Burrus, Senestre on Vacation / p. 57 Philip Cioffari, Jesusville / p. 58 L. C. Fiore, Green Gospel / p. 60 LUMMOX PRESS Edward Nudelman, What Looks like an Elephant / p. 39 Laurie Soriano, Catalina / p. 47

NOEMI PRESS Rusty Morrison, Book of the Given / p. 38 Khadijah Queen, Black Peculiar / p. 42 Joanna Ruocco, A Compendium of Domestic Incidents / p. 69 Kate Schapira, The Bounty: Four Addresses / p. 45 NYQ BOOKS Barbara Blatner, LIVING WITH YOU / p. 12 Amanda J. Bradley, Oz at Night / p. 13 Yu Yan Chen, small hours / p. 16 Franz Douskey, West of Midnight: New and Selected Poems / p. 19 Jenna Le, Six Rivers / p. 32 Linda Lerner, Takes Guts and Years Sometimes: New and Selected Poems / p. 33

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PUBLISHER INDEX Gordon Massman, 0.174: The Complete Numbers Cycle / p. 35 Michael Montlack, Cool Limbo / p. 37 Melanie Moro-Huber, Axe in Hand / p. 37 Mather Schneider, He Took a Cab / p. 45 Barry Wallenstein, Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems / p. 51 Ira Joe Fisher, Some Holy Weight in the Village Air / p. 21 OCTOPUS BOOKS Heather Christle, The Trees The Trees / p. 16 Rebecca Farivar, Correct Animal / p. 21 OEI Antonio Sergio Bessa, Editor, Mary Ellen Solt: Toward A Theory Of Concrete Poetry / p. 12 OINK! PRESS Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff, Editors, New American Writing 29 / p. 85 OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING Maxine Chernoff, To Be Read in the Dark / p. 16 Cyrus Console, The Odicy / p. 17 Hillary Gravendyk, Harm / p. 24 Lyn Hejinian, The Book of a Thousand Eyes / p. 26 Paul Hoover, Desolation : Souvenir / p. 27 Jules Laforgue, Last Verses / p. 32 Ann Lauterbach, The Given & The Chosen / p. 78 Kelli Anne Noftle, I Was There for Your Somniloquy / p. 39 Kiwao Nomura, Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura / p. 39 Bin Ramke, Aerial / p. 42 Elizabeth Robinson, Three Novels / p. 44 Zach Savich, The Man Who Lost His Head / p. 44 Sohrab Sepehri, Water’s Footfall / p. 45 OTIS BOOKS | SEISMICITY EDITIONS Robert Crosson, Daybook / p. 17 Dennis Phillips, Navigation / p. 41 OWL CANYON PRESS Gunther Freitag, Brendel’s Fantasy / p. 61 Jerry Keenan, West of Green River: a novel of the Bonneville Expedition 1832-1835 / p. 62 OYSTER MOON PRESS Will Alexander, Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents / p. 73 Ribitch, Carnival of Sleep: Selected Writings & Drawings / p. 67 PANTOGRAPH PRESS Jack Foley, Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part One, 1940-1980 / p. 76 Jack Foley, Visions & Affiliations: A California Literary Time Line, Poets & Poetry Part Two, 1980-2005 / p. 76 PARLOR PRESS Leslie Atzmon, Editor, Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design / p. 73 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975 / p. 14 Emily Carr, 13 ways of happily / p. 15 Tony Cimasko and Melinda Reichelt, Editors, Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices / p. 74 Ashur Etwebi, Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi / p. 20 Lisa Fishman, Current / p. 21 PASSAGER BOOKS Mary Azrael and Kendra Kopelke, Editors, Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years / p. 10 PENINSULA ROAD PRESS John Jay Osborn, Jr, The Paper Chase / p. 66 PERCEVAL PRESS Georgy Ivanov, On The Border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov / p. 28 Scott Wannberg, tomorrow is another song / p. 51

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Multicultural Index AFRICAN AMERICAN TITLES Will Alexander, Inside the Earthquake Palace: 4 Plays / p. 55 Will Alexander, Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents / p. 73 Sharon Morgan Beckford, Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature / p. 73 Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible / p. 56 James E. Cherry, Still A Man and Other Stories / p. 58 Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out / p. 18 Nelson George, The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel / p. 61 Renee Gladman, The Ravickians / p. 61 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mule & Pear / p. 25 Monica A. Hand, me and Nina / p. 26 Aisha Sasha John, The Shining Material / p. 28 Saeed Jones, When the Only Light Is Fire / p. 29 Tony Medina, Broke on Ice / p. 36 Elizabeth Nunez, Boundaries / p. 66 Gary Phillips, Monkology: 15 Stories from the World of Private Eye Ivan Monk / p. 67 J. L. Powers, This Thing Called the Future / p. 67 Khadijah Queen, Black Peculiar / p. 42 Randall Robinson, Makeda / p. 68 Marvin K. White, Our Name Be Witness / p. 52 Marvin K. White, Status / p. 52 ASIAN AMERICAN TITLES Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing / p. 57 Yu Yan Chen, small hours / p. 16 Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out / p. 18 Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, My rice tastes like the lake / p. 19 Bill Freind, Editor, Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada / p. 76 Marc Gaba, Have / p. 22 Karl Taro Greenfeld, NowTrends / p. 62 Paolo Javier, The Feeling Is Actual / p. 28 Jeong Chan, Pilate’s Jesus / p. 62 Kim Hyesoon, All the Garbage of the World, Unite! / p. 30 Debora Kuan, Xing / p. 32 Jenna Le, Six Rivers / p. 32 Ed Bok Lee, Whorled / p. 32 Tan Lin, Heath Course Pak / p. 33 Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt / p. 64 R. Zamora Linmark, Drive-By Vigils / p. 34 Phong Nguyen, Memory Sickness / p. 66 Kiwao Nomura, Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura / p. 39 Janine Oshiro, Pier / p. 40 Bao Phi, Sông I Sing / p. 41 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake / p. 41 Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West, She, A Blueprint / p. 41 Red Pine, P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd Edition / p. 41 Gurcharan Rampuri, The Circle of Illusion / p. 42 Jai Arun Ravine, and then entwine / p. 43 Paisley Rekdal, Intimate: An American Family Photo Album / p. 79 Brenda Paik Sunoo, Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies of the Sea / p. 81

Sarah E. Truman, Searching for Guan Yin / p. 82 Geoffrey Waters, Michael Farman, and David Lunde, Editors, 300 Tang Poems / p. 52 JEWISH TITLES Yakov Azriel, Swimming in Moses’ Well: Poems on Numbers / p. 10 Judith Baumel, The Kangaroo Girl / p. 11 Julie R. Enszer, Editor, Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry / p. 20 Stephen Paul Miller, There’s Only One God and You’re Not It / p. 37 Malka Heifetz Tussman, With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman / p. 50 Natan Zach, The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1955-1979 / p. 53 LATINO/LATINA TITLES alurista, Tunaluna / p. 10 Mario Benedetti, Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti / p. 11 Alberto Blanco, Afterglow/Tras el rayo / p. 12 Victor Hernandez Cruz, In the Shadow of Al-Andalus / p. 17 Carlos Cumpián, 14 Abriles: Poems / p. 18 Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future / p. 76 Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren, Editor, Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay / p. 29 Jessica Helen Lopez, Always Messing with Them Boys / p. 34 Myriam Moscona, Negro marfil / Ivory Black / p. 38 Raúl Niño, A Book of Mornings / p. 38 Melinda Palacio, Ocotillo Dreams / p. 66 Ambar Past, Editor, Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women / p. 40 David A. Petreman, Candlelight in Quintero/Luz de Vela en Quintero / p. 40 Terrence E. Poppa, Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin / p. 79 Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal / p. 42 David Rice, Heart-Shaped Cookies / p. 67 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster / p. 69 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood / p. 69 Jennifer Tamayo, Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes / p. 48 Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors, Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English / p. 82 Cecilia Vicuña, SABORAMI / p. 50 Héctor Viel Temperley, The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley / p. 50 LGBT TITLES Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton, Stealth / p. 9 Frank Adams, Love Remembered / p. 9 Bryan Borland, My Life as Adam / p. 13 Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 03: A Journal of Gay Poetry / p. 83 Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 04: A Journal of Gay Poetry / p. 83 Ronnie Burk, Sky*Boat / p. 15 CAConrad, A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics / p. 17

Gavin Geoffrey Dillard and Eric Norris, Nocturnal Omissions: A Tale of Two Poets / p. 19 Julie R. Enszer, Editor, Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry / p. 20 Steve Fellner, The Weary World Rejoices / p. 21 Renee Gladman, The Ravickians / p. 61 Carol Guess, Darling Endangered / p. 62 Carol Guess, My Father in Water / p. 77 Rob Halpern, Music for Porn / p. 25 j/j hastain, a womb-shaped wormhole / p. 26 Laura Horn, Ordinary History / p. 27 Keely Hyslop, Things I Say to Pirates on Nights When I Miss You / p. 28 Saeed Jones, When the Only Light Is Fire / p. 29 Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe / p. 31 Michael Klein, then, we were still living / p. 31 Paul Legault, The Other Poems / p. 32 R. Zamora Linmark, Drive-By Vigils / p. 34 Thomas Meyer, Kintsugi / p. 36 Michael Montlack, Cool Limbo / p. 37 Brane Mozetič, Lost Story / p. 65 Eileen Myles, Snowflake / different streets / p. 38 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake / p. 41 Ruben Quesada, Next Extinct Mammal / p. 42 Jai Arun Ravine, and then entwine / p. 43 Kevin Simmonds, Editor, Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality / p. 46 Megan Volpert, Sonics in Warholia / p. 51 Mark Walton, Frostbitten / p. 51 Marvin K. White, Our Name Be Witness / p. 52 Marvin K. White, Status / p. 52 MIDDLE EASTERN TITLES Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog / p. 9 Amal al-Jubouri, Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation / p. 9 Ashur Etwebi, Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi / p. 20 Amin Khan, Vision of the Return / p. 30 H. E. Sayeh, The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H. E. Sayeh / p. 44 NATIVE AMERICAN TITLES Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, Editors, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out / p. 18 Linda Dorricott and Deidre Cullon, Editors, The Private Journal of Captain G.H. Richards: The Vancouver Island Survey (1860-1862) / p. 75 Hanay Geiogamah, Ceremony, Spirituality, and Ritual in Native American Performance: A Creative Notebook / p. 61 Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future / p. 76 Ambar Past, Editor, Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women / p. 40 Paisley Rekdal, Intimate: An American Family Photo Album / p. 79 Charles Squier, Under the White Wing: Events at Sand Creek / p. 47 Juan Tejeda and Anisa Onofre, Editors, Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Espanol, and English / p. 82 Richard Wagamese, Runaway Dreams / p. 51

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MULTICULTURAL INDEX TRANSLATIONS Eugenijus Ališanka, from unwritten histories / p. 9 Amal al-Jubouri, Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation / p. 9 Nelly Arcan, Exit / p. 55 Mario Benedetti, Witness: The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti / p. 11 Alberto Blanco, Afterglow/Tras el rayo / p. 12 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, An Unchanging Blue: Selected Poems 1962-1975 / p. 14 R. Cheran, You Cannot Turn Away / p. 16 Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default / p. 17 Tadeusz Dabrowski, Black Square / p. 18 Louis-René des Forêts, Poems of Samuel Wood / p. 18 Ananda Devi, Indian Tango / p. 59 Manuela Draeger, In the Time of the Blue Ball / p. 60 Jacques Dupin, Of Flies and Monkeys / p. 20 Ashur Etwebi, Poems from Above the Hill: Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi / p. 20 Hans Faverey, Chrysanthemums, Rowers / p. 21 Niels Frank, Picture World / p. 22 Gunther Freitag, Brendel’s Fantasy / p. 61 Alfonso Gatto, The Wall Did Not Answer: Selected Poems 1932-1976 / p. 23 Martin Glaz Serup, The Field / p. 23 Julien Gracq, The Peninsula / p. 61 Georgy Ivanov, On The Border of Snow and Melt: Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov / p. 28 Philippe Jaccottet, And, Nonetheless: Selected Prose and Poetry 1990-2009 / p. 28

Jeong Chan, Pilate’s Jesus / p. 62 Pierre-Albert Jourdan, The Straw Sandals: Selected Prose and Poetry / p. 29 Amin Khan, Vision of the Return / p. 30 Kim Hyesoon, All the Garbage of the World, Unite! / p. 30 Andrea Köhler, The Waiting Game: An Essay on the Gift of Time / p. 78 Brigitte Kronauer, Women and Clothes / p. 63 Jules Laforgue, Last Verses / p. 32 Osman Lins, Nine, Novena / p. 64 Gerard Mace, The Last of the Egyptians / p. 78 Rosa Montero, Beautiful and Dark / p. 65 Myriam Moscona, Negro marfil / Ivory Black / p. 38 Brane Mozetič, Lost Story / p. 65 Kiwao Nomura, Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura / p. 39 Red Pine, P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures and Verses, 2nd Edition / p. 41 Miklos Radnoti, A Wiser, More Beautiful Death / p. 42 Gurcharan Rampuri, The Circle of Illusion / p. 42 Monika Rinck, to refrain from embracing / p. 43 H. E. Sayeh, The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H. E. Sayeh / p. 44 Sohrab Sepehri, Water’s Footfall / p. 45 Juliusz Slowacki, Kordian / p. 69 Brenda Paik Sunoo, Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies of the Sea / p. 81 Tomas Tranströmer, Baltics / p. 49 Malka Heifetz Tussman, With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman / p. 50

Héctor Viel Temperley, The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley / p. 50 Anastassis Vistonitis, Mara’s Shade / p. 51 Natan Zach, The Countries We Live In: The Selected Poems of Natan Zach 1955-1979 / p. 53 Antonella Zagaroli, Mindskin: A Selection of Poems 1985-2010 / p. 53

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