SPD Fall 2011 Catalog

Small Press DistributionPOETRY, FICTION AND LITERARY NONFICTION

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ContentsNew Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Poetry, Prose Poetry, Cross-Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Fiction and Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Literary Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Title Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Publisher Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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NewPublishersOnce again we welcome a prodigious numberof exceptional new independent presses to theSPD family. This catalog introduces the booksof seventeen new publishers from elevenstates and one province.

THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES,THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY/ NEW YORK,

NEW YORKAmmiel Alcalay, Editor, Lost & Found:The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative,Series 2

DARK SKY BOOKS/ VASHON, WASHINGTONSeth Berg,Muted Lines from Someone Else’s

MemoryMichael Bible, Cowboy Maloney’s Electric CityKevin Murphy, Editor, Dark Sky MagazineBen Mazer, January 2008Ethel Rohan, Cut Through the BoneGregory Sherl, I Have Touched YouStephen Sturgeon, Trees of the Twentieth

Century

GUERNICA EDITIONS/ TORONTO, CANADAMary Bucci Bush, Sweet HopeGiuseppe Conte, Angelina’s LipsThomas DePietro, Editor, Frank Lentricchia:

Essays on His WorksRichard Gambino, Blood of My Blood: The

Dilemma of the Italian AmericansLorenzo Madalena, Confetti for Gino

HORSE LESS PRESS/ DENVER, COLORADORichard Froude, FABRIC: Preludes to the Last

American BookSusan Scarlata, It Might Turn Out We Are Real

LIGHTFUL PRESS/ IOWA CITY, IOWASasha Chernyi, Poems from Children’s Island

MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS/FORT COLLINS, COLORADOBen Brooks, An Island of FiftySasha Fletcher,When All Our Days Are

Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill theStreets & We Will Not Hear Them BecauseWe Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds

Molly Gaudry,We Take Me ApartNorman Lock, Grim TalesMichael Stewart, The Hieroglyphics

PORTABLE PRESS AT YO-YO LABS/BROOKLYN, NEW YORKPaul Foster Johnson, Study in Pavilions and Safe

Rooms


RED MOUNTAIN PRESS/TOWSON, MARYLANDSusan Gardner, Drawing the LineSusan Gardner, Stone Music: The Art and Poetry

of Susan GardnerFord Robbins, Connections: A Visual JournalMarc Talbert, Altogether Ernest

RESCUE PRESS/ MILWAUKEE, WISCONSINShane McCrae, In CanaanMadeline McDonnell, There Is Something

Inside, It Wants to Get OutMarc Rahe, The Smaller HalfAndrea Rexilius, To Be Human Is to Be a

ConversationZach Savich, Events Film Cannot Withstand

SHORT FLIGHT/LONG DRIVE BOOKS/ANN ARBOR, MICHIGANMary Miller, Big WorldAdamNovy, The Avian Gospels, Book IAdamNovy, The Avian Gospels, Book II

SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS/ALEXANDER, ARKANSASBryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 01:

A Journal of Gay PoetryBryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 02:

A Journal of Gay PoetryRaymond Luczak, Road Work AheadSteven Reigns, InheritanceTheresa Senato Edwards, Voices Through SkinOcean Vuong, Burnings

SOBERSCOVE PRESS/ CHICAGO, ILLINOISRobert Goodnough, Editor, Artists’ Sessions at

Studio 35 (1950)Kristin Lucas, RefreshNancy Shaver, Henry at Home

SOLID OBJECTS/ NEW YORK, NEW YORKJim Shepard, Master of MiniaturesMacWellman, Left Glove

SPIRE PRESS, INC./ NEW YORK, NEW YORKChristina Olson, Before I Came Home NakedAnthony Russell White, The Faith of Leaping

TAVERN BOOKS/ SALT LAKE CITY, UTAHLeonardo Sinisgalli, Night of Shooting StarsDavid Wevill, Casual Ties

WEAVERS PRESS/SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIASyed Afzal Haider, To Be with Her

WORDFARM/ SEATTLE, WASHINGTONAlan Michael Parker,Whale ManPaul J. Willis, The Alpine Tales




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Poetry, Prose Poetry andCross-Genre Writing

Will AlexanderCompression & Purity978-0-87286-541-9, $13.95, paper, 100 pp.CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. Few poets writingtoday can compare with L.A.-based surrealist WillAlexander in terms of the intensity of his imagination orhis radically experimental approach to language asmaterial object. Through the use of automatic writing,Alexander practices a surrealism of the word, creatingdensely textured layers of signification from its soundedand written forms. COMPRESSION & PURITY, volumefive of City Lights’ Spotlight poetry series, is Alexander’sseventh full-length collection. Known for his visionaryepics influenced by poets like Césaire, Artaud, andLamantia, Alexander here returns to shorter forms toaddress his ecological, cosmological and historicalconcerns. Highlights include monologues from theperspective of “The Blood Penguin” and “The Pope atAvignon,” a song by the “Water on New Mars,” and anhomage to César Vallejo, “Combustion & Leakage.”In true surrealist fashion, the book also includes bothan autobiographical lyric essay, “My Interior Vita,”describing the evolution of Alexander’s artisticconsciousness through jazz and surrealism, and hisdisavowal of the autobiographical process, “On Anti-Biography.” An imaginative tour de force, COMPRESSION& PURITY confirms Alexander’s reputation amongsurrealism’s foremost contemporary practitioners.

Paula Gunn AllenAmerica the Beautiful: Last Poems978-0-9816693-5-9, $14.95, paper, 100 pp.WEST END PRESS 2010

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Native American Studies. Thesepoems, written in the last decade of Paula Gunn Allen’slife and the first years of the new century, capture thevariety, ingenuity, and complexity of this beloved andinfluential Native American critic and poet. In the lexiconof Paula Gunn Allen, what makes America beautiful maycome as a surprise: its horrors confront its hopefulness;its absurdities challenge its promise. A powerful,sustained lyrical and narrative sequence written in themidst of political and personal catastrophe (the secondU.S. invasion of Iraq, a disastrous home fire, her ownbattle with lung cancer), Allen’s last book of poems isat once a bonfire made up of the ruins of civilization, acall for one more effort to set things right, and a gift tous all from this fertile and generous writer.

Nin AndrewsThe Book of Orgasms978-1-880834-48-0, $14, paper, 80 pp.CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2000

Poetry. A series of wry meditations on the relationshipbetween the ordinary and the extraordinary, the humanand the divine, everyday experience and the limits ofbliss, THE BOOK OF ORGASMS maps the imaginaryterrain of the upper realm, the place where euphoriaendures. In Nin Andrews’s highly original conception,orgasms represent peak moments that take the form ofinvisible creatures waiting to lift us up into the air, out ofthe ordinary and into a place just above our heads,just beyond our fingertips. And yet—curse or blessing—the gravity of our own desire, the weight of outhumanness continually pulls us back from the splendidlightness of euphoria.

Seth AbramsonNortherners978-1-930974-96-8, $15, paper, 72 pp.NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize. “From thefirst line of the first poem, this book takes us intomythical territory: mankind is walking backward, and it’sback into the garden, yet this is not regressive, nor is itredemptive. A little later, an apple appears.... SethAbramson’s genius lies in the ability to condense thepower of our culture’s founding concepts into theirparticulars, and then to show how those particulars areevery bit as alive today, and as relevant. And he shows itmore through language’s muscle than through itsmeaning, for while he says a lot in this collection, it’s thetorque and snap of the medium, used as a material forart rather than as a vehicle for ideas, that keeps thereader on the page, becoming a part of it”—Cole Swensen.

Akbar AhmedSuspended Somewhere Between: A Book ofVerse978-1-60486-485-4, $15.95, paper, 152 pp.PM PRESS 2011

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Akbar Ahmed’sSUSPENDED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN is a collection ofpoetry from the man the BBC calls “the world’s leadingauthority on contemporary Islam.” A mosaic of Ahmed’slife, which has traversed cultural and religious barriers,this book of verse is personal, with a vocal range fromintrospective and reflective to romantic and emotive tohistorical and political. The poems take the reader fromthe forbidding valleys and mountains of Waziristan inthe tribal areas of Pakistan to the think tanks and halls ofpower in Washington, DC; from the rustic tranquility ofCambridge to the urban chaos of Karachi. Through thepoems, the reader gets fresh insights into the Muslimworld and its struggles. Above all, they carry the eternalmessage of hope and compassion.

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POETRY, PROSE POETRY, CROSS-GENRE

Aliki BarnstoneBright Body978-1-935210-24-5, $16, paper, 96 pp.WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. In BRIGHT BODY, Aliki Barnstone seeks to unitemind and body, spirit and matter, the individual and thebody politic. Many of the poems are set in Las Vegas, amonument to materialism. This city of extremes informsBarnstone’s vision and serves as a backdrop for hermeditations on American history, war, the environment,erotic love, and the love of mother and child. “For AlikiBarnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The visionand cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility forwhich poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating”—Robert Pinsky.

Dennis BaroneParallel Lines978-1-84861-162-7, $15, paper, 84 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Dennis Barone pays attention. His keen eye andear let the luminousness of the ordinary detail light upeven his most abstract ruminations, just as his sly humorlies in wait behind the most earnest of them. In thesepoems, you will for the first time smell ‘the oil / leakingfrom the car that has stopped at / that stop light justlong enough to note / that ‘so much depends’“—Barry Schwabsky.

Ed BarrettDown New Utrecht Avenue978-0-9831975-2-2, $14, paper, 88 pp.PRESSEDWAFER 2011

Poetry. “Opening Ed Barrett’s DOWN NEW UTRECHTAVENUE is like happening on a mint-condition, hithertounknown set of chromolithograph baseball cards of anunimaginable rarity. Yes, but what do I do with them?You don’t have to do anything, the ‘unimaginable’takes care of that. Just sit and let them wash over youpleasantly but firmly, like ‘a three-game series ravelingand unraveling the hajj of things drifting throughyou’”—John Ashbery.

Dan Beachy-QuickCircle’s Apprentice978-1-932195-97-2, $16.95, paper, 90 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Dan Beachy-Quick has produced six collections ofsolo or collaborative poetry and a unique prosecompanion to Moby Dick. In the process, this amazinglyproductive writer has become recognized as one of thenation’s most exciting dramatists of the mind in ferment,and of our urgent and ongoing connections with atradition that extends back to the origins of literature.After a series of book-length poems, Beachy-Quick’s newvolume is as carefully structured as a suite of chambermusic pieces, yet made of distinctly individual poems.“Dan Beachy-Quick’s splendid new collection reveals theechoes between the measure of verse and the measureof time.... CIRCLE’S APPRENTICE vividly reminds us thatall our human life may be marked by ritual but it isreturned to us through song”—Susan Howe.

Robin BehnThe Yellow House978-1-933132-76-1, $14, paper, 74 pp.SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2011

Poetry. “In the allegorical world of Robin Behn’smarvelous THE YELLOW HOUSE, the landscape and thecharacters and the sequence of events enact the veryfact and drama of human language and human voice.Part abstraction, part narration, all lyrically alive, wildlyso, in a musical composition that we don’t want to stoplistening to”—Ralph Angel.

Gennady AygiInto the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi978-1-933517-53-7, $16, paper, 128 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Sarah Valentine.“It’s possible to be an experimental humanist.” Animatedby an elemental sense of life, mortality, and humanity,the Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi wrote poems that fusedhis experience of ethnic difference with an avant-gardeaesthetic. Artfully translated from the Russian by poetand scholar Sarah Valentine, these strong, precise poemschallenge language to plumb the depths of humanfeeling and simultaneously attune to linguisticexperimentalism.

Troy Burle BaileyThe Pierre Bonga Loops978-0-9813906-0-4, $22, paper, 192 pp.COMMODORE BOOKS 2010

Poetry. African American Studies. A documentary poemthat lays bare the black presence in the northwest, THEPIERRE BONGA LOOPS is also about fathers and sons,now and then. Born in the 1780’s, Bonga was the son offreed slaves who worked for J. Sayer & Co. in 1795 atFond du Lac. He was employed by the North West Co.,the South West Co. and the American Fur Co. in theirFond du Lac departments. Using images and text fromdocumentary sources including the Hudson’s BayCompany Archive, Bailey has constructed an important,innovative and exciting book.

Micah BallardWaifs and Strays978-0-87286-544-0, $13.95, paper, 100 pp.CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Poetry. The second full-length collection by Cajun poetMicah Ballard, WAIFS AND STRAYS recombines the allure,fixations, and diction of the metaphysical poets with thealert and streetwise urban fracturing and amazementsinstantaneous in contemporary San Francisco. With thehaunted elegance of Charles Baudelaire and thehandmade warmth of Semina,WAIFS AND STRAYS is a rejection of a slick anddisposable culture.

Jessica BaranRemains to Be Used978-0-9793627-4-3, $14, paper, 72 pp.APOSTROPHE BOOKS 2010

Poetry. Jessica Baran’s ekphrastic poems challenge theway we encounter the aural, visual, and textual artifactsof artists and thinkers as varied as Sergio Leone, LewisCarroll, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, and HankWilliams. Strange and intriguing, Baran is a voyeur whoprovides heuristic glimpses into new aestheticexperiences. These poems peek into the tangling anduntangling complexities of a performance by Jan BasAder, a poem by Wallace Stevens, or a video installationby Eija-Liisa Ahtila. Baran is as wildly adept in herinvestigations of the filmic gaze in The Good, the Bad andthe Ugly as she is in her poetic misprision of Derrida’sSpecters of Marx or in her inhabiting of a song byMetallica. REMAINS TO BE USED invites and disorients,changes lenses, and ultimately trespasses the interiorworlds of objets d’art.



Anselm BerriganNotes from Irrelevance978-1-933517-54-4, $16, paper, 80 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. I don’t really see / the difference between /modernism and Al Qaeda. This generous book-lengthpoem is an investigation of the author’s unique personalhistory as it entwines with his present role as poet,citizen, and “one of the six billion-plus.”

Stephen BettTrack This: A Book of Relationship978-1-60964-033-0, $16, paper, 148 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. In Bett’s new book, TRACK THIS, we see asurprising, but highly engaging shift in sensibility. TRACKTHIS is a risk-taking, stunningly beautiful book of poemsthat “tracks” an evolving love relationship. The poetemploys his considerable technical skill to steer well freeof clichéd, lyric sentiment by making use of LouisZukofsky’s still relevant, but rarely achieved dictum“upper register: music.” The language of theseminimalist, short-line poems truly “sings” as the poemsmove and turn on the page. This is a poet who inheritsthe mantle from Creeley, Dorn, et al., but whose voiceand ear for language are entirely his own. An utterlyunique and gifted voice, intelligently hip, makingpostmodern language reach toward music.

Guy BirchardFurther than the Blood978-0-9824100-8-0, $12.50, paper, 102 pp.PRESSEDWAFER 2010

Poetry. FURTHER THAN THE BLOOD is Guy Birchard’scomplete poems to date. In his “Forword” Birchardwrites, “I have loved the world and admired the gracesand laws by which it runs.” Birchard has also loved theword and served its many and various forms with graceand an uncommon music.

Francesca Lia BlockFairy Tales in Electri-City978-0-9794208-7-0, $13.95, paper, 80 pp.A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S PRESS 2011

Poetry. Elves and centaurs, nymphs and fauns inhabitthis new collection of magical, erotic poems abouta girl yearning for and searching for love in present-dayLos Angeles.

Dan BoehlKings of the F**king Sea978-0-9826177-4-8, $18, paper, 116 pp.BIRDS, LLC 2011

Poetry. Art. Images by Jonathan Marshall. “I oftenhave a difficult time distinguishing between thememories of my childhood nightmares, the movie TimeBandits, and now KINGS OF THE F**KING SEA. At theheart of each is an unrecoverable distance from home.In Dan Boehl’s poems, the sea is not home. If we stay onit, we will eventually drown in it, but there is nothing wecan do. His poems are unforgivably wise. Like the sea,they are an unafraid mirror. And though they remind usit’s always too late—that our adventure is a constantfailure—their beauty keeps us afloat for just longenough”—Zachary Schomburg.

Marvin BellVertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems978-1-55659-376-5, $16, paper, 120 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Marvin Bell is one of America’s great poets, andhis legacy includes the invention of a startling poeticform called the “Dead Man” poems. The Dead Man isalive and dead at once: not a persona, but anoverarching consciousness, embedded in poetics andphilosophy. VERTIGO is the latest from the Dead Man—a brilliant, enigmatic, wise, and wild book.

Martine BellenGhosts!978-1-933132-41-9, $14, paper, 82 pp.SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2011

Poetry. “Contemporary poems on the ancient past haveto be ghosts. They are dragged through the inscriptionsof strangers until they become something ethereal andgray. And in that spectral light, as we know, colorsbecome brighter as if shining from rain. This is how Iread these poems and find them fresh”—Fanny Howe.

Jen BenkaPinko978-1-934909-04-1, $18, paper, 64 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Jen Benka’s elegant and superbly crafted poemsreinvigorate our notion of the lyric. Welding languagefrom diverse spheres—military, political, legal, literary,pop—she enlists the reader to help in this renewalprocess, urging: “trespassers take up your tools.” “I’m ahuge fan of Benka’s PINKO. It’s an anti-war book, a sweetbook, a powerful witnessing one. I’m all for its exactexperience”—Eileen Myles.

Guy BennettSelf-Evident Poems978-0-9845289-0-5, $12.95, paper, 96 pp.OTIS BOOKS/SEISMICITY EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. This new collection of brief conceptual poemsstrives to demonstrate Jacques Roubaud’s axiomwhereby “poetry says what it says by saying it.” Openlyself-referential and stylistically sincere, they eschewaesthetic subterfuge in favor of direct, manifestexpression. In their utter plainness, these self-evidentpoems aspire to a “writing degree sub-zero.”

Seth BergMuted Lines from Someone Else’s Memory978-0-615-35717-1, $12, paper, 79 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2010

Poetry. “MUTED LINES FROM SOMEONE ELSE’S MEMORYis a heartfelt and gutsy investigation into the humanbrain’s infinite possibilities, possibilities that remainpotential in most of us, but geyser forward from Berg’sconsciousness in every poem. Nowhere in this book arewe safe from clownfish in straitjackets, from wizardsplaying piccolos, from children with ‘fleshy little prods.’Berg’s world is rife with the nightmares and euphoriasof his own relentless imagination, one that not merelyburns, but is fire itself, sweeping the cortex, thehippocampus, the frontal lobe, re-forging the cerebraluniverse in the most pleasurable manner imaginable.The only thing wrong with this book is the title—thereis nothing muted about any of these lines. They screamat maximum volume. They break glass. How couldthey not when every syllable is so utterly alive?”—Larissa Szporluk.



Megan Boyleselected unpublished blog posts of a mexicanpanda express employee978-0-9822067-2-0, $12, paper, 88 pp.MUUMUU HOUSE 2011

Poetry. Megan Boyle’s debut poetry collection is at onceconfessional, sociological, emotional, detached, funny,sad, delightful, reckless, and meditative. Written in thenaturally meticulous, defaultedly complex, alwaysaffecting voice of a person too imaginative and self-aware and intelligent to be fully consumed bydepression and loneliness but too aware of themeaninglessness and ephemeral nature of existence(and too depressed and lonely) to write on any level butan existential, emotionally-driven, unsimplified one,Megan Boyle’s debut poetry collection is the rare workof art that conveys troubling and scary information,undiluted, about humans and the universe but in a way,ultimately, that makes you excited to be alive, eagerto be troubled and scared, grateful to simply be here.

Joseph BradshawIn the Common Dream of George Oppen978-1-84861-149-8, $15, paper, 90 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Comprised of both poetryand essays, Joseph Bradshaw’s IN THE COMMON DREAMOF GEORGE OPPEN makes its premise to imagine whatbodies of work might exist in Oppen’s fabled 25-yearsilence. By turns, the book forcefully projects a singularlyfabricated biography onto the figure of Oppen, then self-reflexively retracts, divagating through a poet’s desire formentorship and community. Bringing in everything fromruminations on blurry memories of Idaho’s landscape, todialogues held across centuries and continents with thelikes of figures such as the Elephant Man, IN THECOMMON DREAM OF GEORGE OPPEN brushes upagainst the fragile boundary between the finished andthe unfinished poem, or a finished or unfinished life.

John BrandiSeeding the Cosmos: New & Selected Haiku978-1-888809-60-2, $14, paper, 248 pp.LA ALAMEDA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “A student looking at modern haiku for the firsttime often asks, ‘Why does haiku look like it does today?What happened to the rules?’ A simple answer, to quoteZen teacher Joko Beck, is: ‘A good practice is alwaysundermining itself.’ Continent to continent, culture toculture, language to language, haiku has made itselfnew. During this transformation, practitioners partedways with rules that worked best for Japanese speakers.New languages, geographies, climates, and culturalenvironments triggered new approaches. The essentialcore ideas of Basho’s time are with us, though. Keep itbrief, let it jump, follow the natural world through itsseasons, but do not forget the seasons of the heart”—from the Afterword.

Robert BohmClosing the Hotel Kitchen978-0-9826968-1-1, $13.95, paper, 108 pp.WEST END PRESS 2010

Poetry. CLOSING THE HOTEL KITCHEN is about war. It isalso about falling apart when that is the only route leftto sanity. It takes place during the 1960s and early 1970s,from New York’s streets to Vietnam and India. Untouchedby nostalgia or baby-boomer sentimentality, thesepoems offer a searing, visceral look at the narrator’sattempts to find hints of coherence within a violentworld unexplained by his inherited Christianity or hisfamily’s patriotism. “This is a guide to a whole new wayto write”—Sharon Doubiago.

Roger Bonair-AgardGully978-0-9819131-5-5, $12.95, paper, 112 pp.CYPHER BOOKS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. Roger Bonair-Agard’snew book, GULLY, journeys from the subverted sport ofEnglish gentlemen to the place where a black manmight be swallowed up in the throat of trouble. Thesepoems show us GULLY’s trickster position, the source ofsong, the lurking place on the pitch that requires quickhands. GULLY is metaphor for the subject position ofthese first-person lyrics filed with a street’s athlete’sdynamism and energy. GULLY is the site of risk andswagger that swings from cricket bats to the diamondcrusted smile of Lil’Wayne.

Daniel BorzutzkyThe Book of Interfering Bodies978-0-9844598-2-7, $15.95, paper, 106 pp.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Beginning with anepigraph from the 9/11 Commission Report, THE BOOKOF INTERFERING BODIES re-imagines the poet asbureaucrat, barbaric writer, and terrorist. In this book,poems that invoke the role of the writer in societyalternate with apocalyptic prose pieces that recallBorges’s “The Library of Babel.” In the process, Borzutzkycreates a 21st century response to our most enduingtwentieth century writers, from Beckett to Lispector.

Michael BoughnCosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic978-1-897388-69-3, $20, paper, 194 pp.BOOKTHUG 2010

Poetry. Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off,Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comesCOSMOGRAPHIA: A POST-LUCRECIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC,the latest ground-breaking incursion into the everpopular spectacle of the Epic Poem. Tracking the classicepic journey through the unfolding cosmos towardhome, though occasionally disoriented by milling cowswith similar intent, COSMOGRAPHIA teems with nastypolitical invective, scurrilous spiritual slander, andendless exploitive sexual innuendo. Taking as its musesCab Calloway and Charles Mingus, by the time it getshome, COSMOGRAPHIA has subjected the epic tounspeakable acts in the name of linguistic rectumtude,dada terrorism, and sporadic ejaculations of self-expression. Oh yeah!—poetry will never be the same.



Louis Daniel BrodskySeizing the Sun and Moon: Volume Three ofThe Seasons of Youth978-1-56809-136-5, $15.95, paper, 76 pp.TIME BEING BOOKS 2010

Poetry. The third volume of THE SEASONS OF YOUTHcelebrates the author’s growing family, with the birth ofa son. Father and mother revisit the daily joys andchallenges of seeing a child flourish from infancy intothe preschool years, while they marvel at theirdaughter’s rapid physical and social development, as sheprogresses from age three to six and a half, exhibitingthe first hints of who she’ll be as an adult. In thirty-ninepoems that poignantly dramatize the interweaving offour lives, Louis Daniel Brodsky shares myriad rituals ofchildrearing (bathing, meal time, school days, pets,playing, first words, getting ready for bed), all of whichoffer chances to experience the coming-of-age wondersof early maturation and the rites of initiation into love’ssimple complexities—opportunities to seize the sunand moon.

Julian T. Brolaskigowanus atropolis978-1-933254-81-4, $15, paper, 104 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. GOWANUS ATROPOLIS attemptsto reconcile the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal inBrooklyn and the east river in “Manahatta” with thepoet’s search for the pastoral in New York City. A queerelegy for when language might have been prior tothought, where the phrase becomes the thought, ratherthan the other way around—so that the dystopic mightbecome, if not utopic, at least measurable / pleasurable,“melodious offal.” “Once in a while there are poemswhich create entire fresh terrain. And I’m saying too thatit’s hard to come home from it, locator dials set anew. I’mjangling from the return, like the world had descendedupon me so quickly through the poems it was some timebefore I realized I was still in one piece, and minted witha beautiful little scar. Julian’s deviance is a hazard ofpoems which bend the muscle of light. I can hardly waitto share our extra strength when we’ve all read them!”—CAConrad.

Stephanie BrooksLove Is a Certain Kind of Flower978-0-9820292-2-0, $10, paper, 52 pp.THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2009

Poetry. LOVE IS A CERTAIN KIND OF FLOWER is anextensive index of love metaphors culled from poemsranging from the classics to sentimental greeting cardverse. Continuing in Brooks’s deconstruction of romance,LOVE IS A CERTAIN KIND OF FLOWER provides anamusing and sometimes poignant reference for emotivedescription.

Derrick Weston BrownWisdom Teeth978-1-60486-417-5, $14.95, paper, 136 pp.PM PRESS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. To consider WISDOMTEETH is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift,and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just belowthe surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everythinghas to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetrycollection from poet and educator Derrick WestonBrown. WISDOM TEETH reveals the ongoing internal andexternal reconstruction of a poet’s life and world, as toldthrough a litany of forms and myriad of voices, some thepoet’s own. “Full of wit and whimsy, WISDOM TEETHpostulates a poetics of heart-whole appreciation andhonesty—for love and life, for family and friends, forliterature and history, for pop culture and the poet’sever-cognizant powers of observation”—Tony Medina.

Per Aage BrandtThese Hands978-0-924047-83-1, $30, cloth, 183 pp.978-0-924047-74-9, $15, paper, 183 pp.HOST PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Danishby Thom Satterlee. THESE HANDS is an extraordinarybilingual poetry collection from renowned Danish poetPer Aage Brandt. The uniqueness of this work comesfrom the uniqueness of the person himself: unlike manyother professor-poets, Brandt’s academic discipline is notliterature but semiotics, a field in which he has authoreda dozen books and roughly two hundred and fiftyarticles. Many of the poems in this collection read likethought-experiments—as if the cognitive scientistmade poetry his laboratory and theories his poems.But Brandt’s work is also rich with humor and humanity.His poetry has a sense of playfulness and a senseof a personhood—someone behind the poem whodoesn’t take himself too seriously, even as he addressesprofoundly serious subjects such as language,consciousness, and existence, mixing comedy withcritique. In this exuberant and sharp-minded collection,Brandt re-sets the limits of language and creates a newkind of verse, prompting one Danish critic to remarkthat his work “bears more resemblance to a brainwavethan a book of poems.”

Jason BredleSmiles of the Unstoppable978-0-9841406-1-9, $11.95, paper, 76 pp.MAGIC HELICOPTER PRESS 2011

Poetry. A limber and vivid sad clown routine of acollection, reading SMILES OF THE UNSTOPPABLE is likeknowing the secret password to an illegal speakeasy ofimagination. From knife fights between Sharks and Jetsto Chewbacca Last Suppers, these are poems thatbelong in the cold kitchens of the heart: hilarious andswooning, caramel in sensibility, and endless in feeling.“Jason Bredle roams like a cartoon jaguar and swimsamid squid and jellyfish that can’t be touched and mightas well be hamsters and it’s as if drifting and roamingneed never end”—Mark Halliday.

Daniel BrennerJune978-1-934200-43-8, $15.95, paper, 88 pp.FENCE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. JUNE takes up the whirlpooling, epic projectof Daniel Brenner’s prizewinning THE STUPEFYINGFLASHBULBS. Narrative emerges despite the“pleasurable obstacles” (as one reviewer called them)of these poems, which, in hallucinatory, luminous, yetspare verbiage trace the obscure appearances of“perfumed people,” pioneers all—including one Xi An,a “guardian of paradise”—as they weather a flood,

butchery, and “blistering synthesis.”

Louis Daniel BrodskyAt Dock’s End: Poems of Lake Nebagamon,Volume Two978-1-56809-140-2, $15.95, paper, 152 pp.TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Perhaps the only thing as dear to Louis DanielBrodsky as the beauty of the written word are hismemories and experiences on the shores of Wisconsin’sLake Nebagamon, which the poet describes as “glory’shinterlands.” The combination of his two passions is awonderful example of the poetry of place—the kind ofsoul-forming and life-affirming locale that we all havesomewhere in our lives. What the open road was toWhitman, the North Woods are to Brodsky.



Michael Burkardlucky coat anywhere978-0-9844598-1-0, $15.95, paper, 158 pp.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In his first collection of new poems sinceUnsleeping, Michael Burkard presents an array of verseand prose forms dense with allusion, emotion andsensuality. Drawing on his own strand of theconfessional lyric—a peculiar combination of dreams,personal disclosure, and matter-of-fact accounts ofdaily life—these poems rinse perception and allow oneto actually see the world, free of simulation andstimulation, for what it really is. “He gives us the wisdomof indescribability and the mystery of beauty andwonder”—Malena Mörling.

Jorge Carrera AndradeMicrograms978-1-933517-55-1, $16, paper, 96 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from theSpanish by Alejandro de Acosta and Joshua Beckman.Deliberately anachronistic and delightfully extractable,the microgram is a metaphor itself for that which is wellworth the digging. Equal parts essay, anthology, andpoetry, and weirdly postmodern in structure,MICROGRAMS embodies the work of Jorge CarreraAndrade, illustrating his claim that the impulse towardthe microgram has always existed. Illuminating the formin its many incarnations (most famously the Japanesehaiku), Carrera Andrade points to the richness ofpossibility contained therein.

Mary-Marcia Casoly, Katherine Hastings,Melanie L. Moro-Huber, and Jack FoleyAhadada Reader 3978-0-9812744-9-2, $15, paper, 162 pp.AHADADA BOOKS 2011

Poetry. AHADADA READER 3 is a compendium of fourchapbooks: Australia Dreaming by Mary-Marcia Casoly,Fog and Light by Katherine Hastings, The Memory ofPaper by Melanie L. Moro-Huber, and A Disordered City byJack Foley. “The poems in this collection, despite theinterestingly various voices of the four poets, have onething in common: they do what poems are meant to do,take you to places you’ve never been, show you thingsyou’ve never seen, test the limits of what we’ve comecomplacently to accept as poetic language, and take therisk of being honest to themselves. How exciting to seefour poets doing their own thing, the real thing”—R. H. W. Dillard.

Travis CebulaUnder the Sky They Lit Cities978-1-60964-025-5, $16, paper, 100 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “In careful, crafty knots of language, Travis Cebulawalks us through the veined structure of a city where, asin a poem, life splinters into its constituent parts: a carlot lit like Casablanca, a river of black leather and wool,nodding Santa Claus displays, snow falling in clumps.Cebula ties together the ‘tensile thunder’ of this citywithout a sinecure, and though this may be ‘how thethinker litters,’ there’s no need to ‘clamor for grist.’ UNDERTHE SKY THEY LIT CITIES has plenty”—Erik Anderson.

Laynie BrowneRoseate, Points of Gold978-0-9819808-3-6, $15, paper, 108 pp.DUSIE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “These poems might be dreamt from the moon,where water and wombs are under their ownobservation, and the body is ‘as morning frostscored/into dark pavement by a passing silver shoe.’What really is inside a body? Oftentimes, another body.This pearlescent meditation explores the forms of themind as it shapes itself around the body and a body thatissues from it, till the delicate movements of the mindcrown, like a baby’s head leaving the mother’s body, ‘inthe manner of exhaling a bird’”—Eleni Sikelianos.

Mahogany L. Browne#Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out Online in140 Characters or Less978-0-9841513-9-4, $15, paper, 66 pp.PENMANSHIP BOOKS 2010

Poetry. African American Studies. This new novelty itemis a hit for anyone with a friendly addiction to twitter,love, and laughter. “Mahogany L. Browne has her ownstyle of Tweeting, her own unique Twitter voice. She cantalk about being her and still make it universal”—Touré.“Writers are too verbose for plays; poets make betterplaywrights. Poets might tweet better too. Mahogany’s#DEAR TWITTER is proof”—Miles Marshall Lewis.

Sarah BrowningWhiskey in the Garden of Eden978-0-915380-66-4, $15, paper, 80 pp.THEWORDWORKS 2007

Poetry. Published in the Hilary Tham Capital Collection,Browning explores the meaning of political activism andpersonal responsiblity in a time of war, while mappingthe capital city—its changes, its history, its beautifulvariety. Martín Espada said: “This poet has the courage tosay what needs to be said, from the personal to thepolitical (and often the two are intertwined). SarahBrowning takes on the hard questions—war, race, urbanpoverty—and never loses her cool. Her voice is toughand funny and smart.”

Sommer BrowningEither Way I’m Celebrating978-0-9826177-5-5, $16, paper, 96 pp.BIRDS, LLC 2011

Poetry. Comics. “‘All objections to progress,’ writes HansBlumenberg, ‘could come down to the fact that it hasn’tyet taken us far enough.’That’s philosophy—and it’sfunny—but no one would ever level the same complaintat pain or laughter, this fine book’s subjects and twophenomena that can take human beings great distancesalmost immediately. Absolutely modern—but neverresolutely maudlin—Sommer Browning doesn’t settlefor making it new; rather, she lets it bleed and gets usthere on time”—Graham Foust.

Marie BuckLife & Style978-0-9818970-0-4, $15, paper, 56 pp.PATRICK LOVELACE EDITIONS 2009

Poetry. In this book of poetry, Marie Buck collages textfrom MySpace, translating poems by Emily Dickinson,Charles Baudelaire, William Butler Yeats, and others intosocially-networked lyrics of teen sexuality and boredom.Buck torques the mundane addresses of the commentstream and the celebrity mag, and teenaged femininitycomes to appear thrillingly creepy.



Victor ColemanThe Occasional Troubadour978-1-897388-68-6, $18, paper, 96 pp.BOOKTHUG 2010

Poetry. Art. THE OCCASIONAL TROUBADOUR is a seriesof 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and culturalfavourites generated by applying the mesostic form toa late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes)by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Theirlives and personalities, their songs and their world (G.P.Putnam’s Sons, New York & London, The KnickerbockerPress, 1898-99). Readers of the late, great Americancomposer/writer John Cage will be familiar with themesostic form. Readers of Victor Coleman’s 1972 book,AMERICA, will probably have registered that it containsa series of poems which are both acrostic and telestich.The poems in THE OCCASIONAL TROUBADOUR are“occasional” poems, because the initial composition waswritten for the 60th birthday of one of Coleman’s oldestfriends and Coach House colleague, photographer/writerDavid Hlynsky. This book is a departure from Coleman’sLETTER DROP trilogy in that these poems are in no waylipogrammatic, although he does consider it to be anextension of his OuLiPo practice.

Peter ConnersThe Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees978-1-935210-20-7, $16, paper, 96 pp.WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Conners’s prose poem is not just a beautifulquirky moment that gives us a glimpse of themiraculous, but also an attempt to become a myth initself. That Conners seems to get it all into one book issimply amazing. What can I say? A literary master”—IlyaKaminsky. “Conners writes with the playfulness andkinetic energy of an action painter. His spatters ofimages and fragmented narratives assume the conditionof an exuberant non-sense that, in changing perspective,asserts a logic of its own”—Stuart Dybek.

Matthew CoopermanStill: Of the Earth as the Ark Which DoesNot Move978-1-933996-24-0, $15.95, paper, 120 pp.COUNTERPATH PRESS 2011

Poetry. STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK THAT DOES NOTMOVE attempts that rare “theory of everything,” theimplications of which are, it goes on...wave upon wave ofstuff, categories, speakers, news. Employing quotation,catalogue, a roving, sometimes aerial point of view, andan ingenious use of the colon, STILL is at once a formalargument of containment, and the trajectory of twilight-modernity jacked on too much “product.”

William CorbettThe Whalen Poem978-1-934909-13-3, $16, paper, 64 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “I spent the summer of 2007 reading the galleysof Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems. I was in Vermont andhad the leisure to read slowly, ten or so pages a day.About halfway through the master’s poems I began towrite THE WHALEN POEM. I kept at it until just afterHalloween. No book I have written, poetry or prose, hasgiven me the deep pleasure I felt in writing THE WHALENPOEM”—William Corbett.

Sasha ChernyiPoems from Children’s Island978-0-9822471-4-3, $18, paper, 64 pp.LIGHTFUL PRESS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Russian byKevin Kinsella. Illustrated by Jessica Seamans. BeforeDaniil Kharms and Nikolai Zabolotsky, there was SashaChernyi (1880-1932) with his brilliantly satirical poems,caustic wit, and verbal caricature. One of the bestsatirists of his generation, Chernyi wrote humorouspoems that took aim at politicians, intellectuals, abourgeois merchant class pandering to Europeansensibilities, and the backward lives of ordinary Russiansat the start of the twentieth century. Chernyi wasalso a beloved children’s poet, and the author of sometwenty books for young Russian readers. Even Chernyi’swriting for children contains his characteristic bite, andthe little animals and gnomes that inhabit POEMS FROMCHILDREN’S ISLAND have much to say about how silly aplace the world can be. This is the first English-languageedition of Chernyi. “Not recommended for adults! asthese rimes are far too clever, and besides adults don’tlike poetry”—Charles Bernstein.

Michael CirelliEveryone Loves the Situation978-0-9831219-3-0, $15, paper, 104 pp.PENMANSHIP BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In this ecstatic third collection, Michael Cirellionce again flips the cultural zeitgeist on its (gelled andsprayed) head, as he deftly surveys MTV’s hit realityshow Jersey Shore. In signature Cirelli fashion, he pulls offthe unlikely: from defending the Guido and elevatingSnooki, to reinterpreting the train wreck of realitystardom “to produce something vital and eye-catchingand new” (David Lehman). His lines measure the bitterpolitics of subculture and assimilation, while finding ahumanizing compassion even when everything goeswrong. These are authentically American poems for fans,critics, and even those who have never seen the popphenomenon known as the Jersey Shore.

Kate ColbyThe Return of the Native978-1-933254-77-7, $14, paper, 72 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE is both a pastoraland its counterpoint. A series of 23 poems, it enacts astruggle between the romance of recorded historyand the social conditions of the global present. Topicalthreads include New England colonial, American folk,and Native American history; the construction of theQuabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts; and thespecious gloss of American “road” culture, all filteredthrough a fine mesh of Thomas Hardy.

rd colemanbeach tracks978-1-935520-27-6, $16.95, paper, 208 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. BEACH TRACKS suggests a passing, a journey,and this book is very much that. The very first poem,“American,” was written and published in the earlysixties. This book chronicles that next forty plus years ofwriting and publishing that is rd’s writing career to date.With varied styles but consistent voice, these poems takeplace in the subways and buses of the City, some in theCity’s homeless shelters, some in rd’s apartment,and some in his mind; some are literal, some pureimagination, but all are the music a poet hears.



Cyril Dabydeen, EditorBeyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today978-1-894770-66-8, $28.95, paper, 200 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. Fiction. African American Studies. Latino/LatinaStudies. Caribbean literature has always been excitingand diverse, including over the past decades someof the world’s most regarded writers. BEYOND SANGREGRANDE: CARIBBEAN WRITING TODAY brings togethera contemporary selection from key poets and fictionwriters living in Canada, the US, the UK, and theCaribbean itself. Fusing creole and other cultural streamsfrom a changing world, these writers capture thecadences and rhythms of the Caribbean while admittingother influences to demonstrate the vigour and vitalityof Caribbean writing today. Whether in the poetry ofKamau Brathwaite, Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott,David Dabydeen, Dionne Brand, or in the fiction ofShani Mootoo, Austin Clarke, or Elizabeth Nunez, thisremarkable collection represents a range of writing thatconstitutes the rich tapestry of Caribbean literature innew and exciting ways!

Rachel DaleyPlasmos978-1-880855-19-5, $15, paper, 70 pp.FIFTH PLANET PRESS 2011

Poetry. “PLASMOS is not avant-garde; it is advanced....Rachel Daley curates a major retrospective of forms shehas invented. The galleries are beautifully built butfunctional, the art.... More is gained from just looking atthese poems than from reading many another. Onedoesn’t ‘just look’ at them.... Not all fragments arecreated equal, nor all ellipses full or fully empty. What inmost hands (could they get their hands on them) wouldbe mere fragments are composted here. The ellipsesallow for aeration.... Sonic, ideational, narrative humus,mature compost.... The mixture of the absolutelyimpeccable rhythms (lyric, metallic, flat, pert, steady,scholarly, exasperated, reproductive) and the absencesand silences deployed over the field of the page isvirtuosic. The punctuation itself... The book is humaneand knowing; it does not know everything. Anadvantage is thus gained—it is the most surprising booksince The Tennis Court Oath (was), or any other, i.e. inages. You do not know what is happening—though youcan [feel see hear] it doing so. It is not a competition(is it?) but you cannot beat this book.... Daley is brillianthere...throughout.... The best book to read right now isPLASMOS...of the highest order—a benchmark. A bookto return to. The bubble in the level”—Andrew DuBoisi.

Glover DavisSpring Drive978-1-893670-55-6, $15, paper, 68 pp.TEBOT BACH 2010

Poetry. “Conversational eloquence is always a given inGlover Davis’s poetry. Ordinary men and women arelifted by the clarity and intimacy of their observations tosomething resembling a state of grace. From the carnalmeat both animal and human that he considers in hissequence of poems based on paintings by ChaimSoutine to his vision of deliverance in the collection’sconcluding poem, ‘Burial Dream,’ Glover Davis has placedthe question mark of mortality, inverted like a hook,hanging before our eyes. Maturity and experience aresaid to breed wisdom. You are holding a book ofprofound wisdoms in your hands”—David St. John.

Steven CordovaLong Distance978-1-931010-62-7, $10, paper, 72 pp.BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2009

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. In LONGDISTANCE, the fourth title in the Canto Cosas poetryseries, Steven Cordova vividly portrays the life of ayoung, gay, HIV-positive man living in New York. Cordovauses ironic humor to advance AIDS poetry, dissolving thefigurative ghetto associated with it and describing ageneral human condition in which people of manybackgrounds come to terms with a wide range ofproblems, some of them life-threatening.

Joshua CoreySeverance Songs978-1-932195-92-7, $16.95, paper, 84 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by IlyaKaminsky. In his third full-length book of poems, JoshuaCorey puts the sonnet to the test with this sequence offractured, ventilated, and unrhymed poems writtenin the aftermath of 9/11 while Corey was living at apastoral remove from war and terror in upstateNew York. The tension between idyllic personalcircumstances and horrific world-historical events ledCorey to produce this series of layered poems, variouslysardonic and sincere in tone. “These songs shuttlebetween a past and a future, cast adrift or severed froma violent, ashen present into a necessary untimeliness....What then of the sonnet, repository of desire and enemyof time? It is, as ever, that form by which we re-imaginesubjectivity to confront altered circumstances, and toassess ‘the shipwreck of the singular’ in the maelstrom ofthe many...”—Michael Palmer.

Brad CrenshawMy Gargantuan Desire978-0-9655239-6-7, $16, paper, 64 pp.GREENHOUSE REVIEW PRESS 2010

Poetry. Brad Crenshaw’s formally paradoxical prosesonnets combine wild control and wacky gravity, clinicaldescription and lyric incantation, story and song,memory and vision. His book lives up to its Rabelaisiantitle with abundant energy, sensory richness, andextravagant wit. Resonating with humor, pathos andsearing intelligence, MY GARGANTUAN DESIRE ispreoccupied in the deepest sense with mortality and theepic nature of our seemingly mundane lives. Whetherparsing the intricate syntax of a marriage or teasing outthe mysteries of the human brain, each poem in thismasterful collection is mythic in scope but obstinatelydown-to-earth. In language rich and haunting, thesepoems reveal the heroic grandeur of our ordinary,blessed lives.

Garin CychollHostile Witness978-1-935402-42-8, $15, paper, 80 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2009

Poetry. “Cycholl’s descent in HOSTILE WITNESS intoAmerica leads us through baseball parks and boxingarenas, along the banks of rivers and back alleys tosmoke-filled room political deals as only a poet ofCycholl’s power could manage. The collection ismasterful and epic—and ultimately essential”—Bill Allegrezza. “With an anger that cauterizes thewound, Cycholl has plumbed the depths of darknessand corruption in recent times. He lives with our goodsongs and knows our most radiant light as well as ourcompromising and disabling impoverishments. It is witha profound compassion that he reveals our vapid will tobe cold and do harm. And crucially, HOSTILE WITNESSlays bare our possible terrifying future, so as to help usnavigate a way to a better place”—Roberto Harrison.



Michael DickmanFlies978-1-55659-377-2, $16, paper, 96 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the James Laughlin Award for the bestsecond book by an American poet, FLIES presents anuncompromising vision of joy and devastating lossthrough a strict economy of language and an exuberantsurrealism. Michael Dickman’s poems bring us back tothe wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire toconnect with a power greater than ourselves. “Hilaritytransfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerfulfeeling, zero at the bone—FLIES renders its desolationwith singular invention and focus and figuration: themaking of these poems makes them exhilarating”—James Laughlin Award citation.

R. H. W. DillardWhat Is Owed the Dead978-0-9840698-8-0, $14, paper, 53 pp.FACTORY HOLLOW PRESS 2011

Poetry. R.H.W. Dillard’s long-awaited seventh collectionconsists of a sequence of fifty-two poems, each sixteenlines long, each addressed to a dead poet or severaltimes to more than one dead poet. Each is a meditationof sorts upon that poet’s work, secondarily that poet’slife, and ultimately, all together, upon the life of poemsthemselves in a continually violent and inherentlyunjust world. The syntax of these poems is shattered,interrupted by bits and pieces of other poems,memories, reflections, echoes, dates, journal entries,explosions, &c., &c, constituting in part a“demonstration” of how the mind actually deals withpoems (and, for that matter, with the business of living).They are poems that, while obviously and purposefullybelonging to the great tradition and continuum ofpoetry (what is owed the dead), are entirely unfamiliarand new. The full collection, for all the violence,depression, hurt, betrayal, anger, and suffering in it, isnevertheless a celebration of the resilience of poetry.

Tim DlugosA Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos978-0-9844598-3-4, $22.95, paper, 512 pp.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Edited by David Trinidad. A FASTLIFE establishes Tim Dlugos—the witty and innovativepoet at the heart of the New York literary scene in thelate 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDSepidemic—as one of the most distinctive and energeticpoets of our time. This definitive volume contains all ofthe poems Dlugos published in his lifetime, a wealth ofpreviously unpublished poems, and an informativeintroduction, chronology, and notes assembled by thevolume’s editor, poet David Trinidad. “The Frank O’Haraof his generation”—Ted Berrigan.

Sandra DollerMan Years978-0-9831150-2-1, $14, paper, 87 pp.SUBITO PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Sandra Doller is a pinball wizard, her attention toricocheting through America’s flashy dystopias where, asshe points out, ‘The award goes/to the inventor of thesituation/we’re now in.’We pose briefly in the ‘traumatutu we’ve toted’ and then we’re off again ‘like aBumstead falling down a stair.’ If you’re looking for‘rested totality,’ you won’t find it. MAN YEARS keeps youup and ready for anything”—Rae Armantrout.

Donna de la PerrièreSaint Erasure978-1-58498-076-6, $13.95, paper, 71 pp.TALISMAN HOUSE 2010

Poetry. “Anyone who still wants to view experimentationas a purely intellectual exercise will be convincedotherwise by Donna de la Perrière’s exquisite secondcollection. Under the threat or promise of erasure and atthe edge of silence, the poet deftly leads us through ashifting, minimalist landscape. Wrestling with changeand stasis, with the resistance and sudden give of thereal, she delicately monitors each stage of what feels likea pilgrimage, while defamiliarization pressures visionand makes each breath at once artful and endlesslybrave. SAINT ERASURE saves us by exposing the beautyof our vulnerability: ‘Welcome to the new body / tonightwe lose everything’”—Laura Mullen.

Shira Dentzblack seeds on a white dish978-1-84861-128-3, $15, paper, 90 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2010

Poetry. The poems in BLACK SEEDS ON A WHITE DISHspring from the search for what is generated anddiscovered when loss and desire occupy the same space.But lamentation is not the primary focus—bydestabilizing everything in its reach, loss disablesrigidity. These poems shift widely in form and tone, andseeds invoke the creative germ that spurs themetamorphoses occupying them: “Nothing to do but letthe form of things take over.” Shapes themselves,including punctuation, become a language throughout.

Regina DerievaCorinthian Copper978-1-934851-28-9, $14.95, paper, 88 pp.MARICK PRESS 2010

Poetry. Translated from the Russian by J. Kates. “Intimatevariety. Regina Derieva is remarkable for the range ofvoices she deploys”—Les Murray. “Regina Derieva’s bestpoems are simultaneously elusive and immediate,striking and understated, personal and distanced. Fewpoets attempt such transformation in so few words”—Tim Liardet.

Joanne DiazThe Lessons978-1-878851-59-8, $14.95, paper, 72 pp.SILVERFISH REVIEW PRESS 2011

Poetry. “THE LESSONS is driven by the poet’s passion fornatural history, for the marvels and horrors of science,for the people closest to her, and, in every way, by music.The risks Diaz takes in this beautiful first book are theprofound risks of art and of love”—Gail Mazur. “Excitedlydescriptive, sinuously rhythmical, and vividly perceptive,Joanne Diaz’s poems ‘wring the roots of thought’ and fillthe mind’s eye with scenes of the paradoxically sensuousrichness of longing—homesickness, sorrow, love. In thisbook, ‘desire’ is not just an erotic longing but anexistential one; that is,it is our capacity and hunger for meaning”—Reginald Gibbons.

Paul DickeyThey Say This Is How Death Came into the World978-0-932412-99-7, $14.95, paper, 78 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Many, many lives converge in THEY SAY THIS ISHOW DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD like the illusion ofparallel lines converging on the horizon. What seemsquiet layers ice on a roiling maelstrom. We skid frompoem to poem and when we break through we have anew home and a new idea for uttering familiar words”—Gian Lombardo.



Elaine EquiClick and Clone978-1-56689-257-5, $16, paper, 136 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. CLICK AND CLONE explores American life as it hasbeen altered by our technological revolution. ElaineEqui’s style is sophisticated, yet always accessible andtruly democratic in approach. Whether she is writingabout art, pop culture, consumerism, or reality TV, Equidoes so with clarity and wit. “”Equi seems to know all ourfoibles and, instead of edging toward the door, reportsthe latest developments with precise, loving equanimity.Her voice is unique, poised, witty, intimate, andsomehow interstellar. It’s as if she’s visiting from a futurewhere we all appear transparent. CLICK AND CLONE is anelectrified pleasure field”—Aram Saroyan.

Seyhan ErözçelikRosestrikes and Coffee Grinds978-1-58498-073-5, $14.95, paper, 116 pp.TALISMAN HOUSE 2010

Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Murat Nemet-Nejat. Seyhan Erözçelik’s Gül ve Telve (ROSESTRIKES ANDCOFFEE GRINDS) is one of the major works of Turkishpoetry in the last twenty years. In it, two strands of theTurkish culture and history come together. The “Telve”section, which consists of twenty-four coffee groundsreadings, spins a Shamanistic yarn of hope and desiregoing back to Central Asian animistic traditions andbringing their language to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The “Gül” section, which also consists oftwenty-four poems, creates stunning variations aroundthe image of the rose—a central image in Islam and inSufism—mirroring the “Telve” section, the two partstogether making a poetent, poetic statement.

John EstesKingdom Come978-1-936196-02-9, $14.95, paper, 132 pp.C&R PRESS 2011

Poetry. “These are the poems of the perplexed. Morespecifically, they are the poems of the perplexed butgood-humored, the perplexed but well-disposed—an all but forgotten species of intellectual whose lineageincludes Chesterton, Orwell, and Lippmann. They are,moreover, poems that treat domestic life—life incommon—with due respect, and with intermittent awe.John Estes has employed a remarkable range of learning,and remarkable skill in shaping these lines, and pressingthem into service”—Scott Cairns.

Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mike O’Connor,and Thomas MertonSongs from a Yahi Bow: A Series of Poems on Ishi978-1-929355-67-9, $13.95, paper, 68 pp.PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2011

Poetry. Native American Studies. Edited by Scott Ezell.With poems by Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, andMike O’Connor. With an essay by Thomas Merton andpaintings by Jeff Hengst. In 1911, Ishi emerged from anisolated hunting and gathering lifestyle in the foothills ofnorthern California. Called the “last wild AmericanIndian,” he was taken to San Francisco, where he liveduntil his death in 1916. SONGS FROM A YAHI BOW, thefirst published book of poems on Ishi, consists of workby three poets, written across four decades, andcoincides with the 100th anniversary of Ishi’s emergencefrom the wilderness. This collection includes anintroduction to recent discoveries about Ishi, as well asThomas Merton’s 1968 essay “Ishi: A Meditation.”

Denise Duhamel and Amy LemmonEnjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation anda Conversation978-0-9820626-4-7, $15, paper, 28 pp.SLAPERING HOL PRESS 2011

Poetry. Marking the 25th published collection fromSlapering Hol Press, this chapbook takes the reader outon the limbs of relationships gone bad. From Duhamel’shilarious “Madonna and Me,” to Lemmon’s wistful “EnjoyHot or Iced,” this wide-ranging collection reminds us ofthe fragility of love and the bitterness of love lost.

Patrick James DunaganThere Are People Who Say That PaintersShouldn’t Talk: A GUSTONBOOK978-0-942996-73-9, $15, paper, 96 pp.THE POST-APOLLO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Written in and around the Spring of 2009,composed of short, fragmentary blocks of verse andprose, including several quoted sources, GUSTONBOOK isa workman’s notebook of sorts sketched out in responseto several years spent contemplating the work and life ofpainter Philip Guston in relation to the ongoing world,i.e., exhibitions, books on/about Guston, other books/artworks amid daily walks, drinks, and talks. Moreexplorations than explanations, the entries containedherein situate the eye of memory as witness to theimmediate surrounds of now: day to day, hour by hour,the concern never (always) changing. As Guston oncesaid, gesturing out the window, “Who wants that? andyou can’t have it anyway.”

Quinton DuvalLike Hay978-0-9793745-7-9, $16, paper, 87 pp.BEAR STAR PRESS 2011

Poetry. LIKE HAY brings together the last poems ofQuinton Duval, beloved poet and teacher, also the editorof Red Wing Press. “His poems show Quinton as hewas—a person of such charm that he could afford to bewry in his ironies.... His poems preserve the smallminutes of things, the poetic perishables, and love itselfis the chief item with its shine of frequent useilluminating so many of his poems”—Dennis Schmitz,from the Foreword.

Joshua Edwards and Van EdwardsCampeche978-1-934819-18-0, $22, cloth, 112 pp.978-1-934819-19-7, $15, paper, 112 pp.NOEMI PRESS 2011

Poetry. Photography. Titled after pirate Jean Lafitte’sname for Galveston Island, CAMPECHE is a cautionarylyric composed of poems and photographs in which areal place is overlaid with the parable of a mythicalworld on the verge of an apocalyptic flood. Like thebody fishermen of the Yellow River, this book combswater for remains and meditates on evidence, whileattempting to reckon with the self as a troubled songwithin a greater song. “If the soul is a souvenir in humanshape, / the sun is half its shadow and discloses / who iswhat when in public.” This is the first book of JoshuaEdwards’s eschatological trilogy.



Robert FernandezWe Are Pharaoh978-0-9822376-5-6, $14, paper, 136 pp.CANARIUM BOOKS 2011

Poetry. WE ARE PHARAOH is the debut collection fromRobert Fernandez, native of Miami, recipient of a PIPGertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry, and residentof Iowa City. Like a fever or a fire, this book sweepsacross our contemporary cultural landscape, settingaglow and surveying its elements, then cataloging theembers. “WE ARE PHARAOH is a luscious saturnalia oflanguage, adapting New York School painterliness to anerotic tropical sensibility: ‘A mandrill clutching the throatin the billiard hall of Pele.’ Its magic raises the pulse”—Ange Mlinko.

Thomas FinkPeace Conference978-0-9841177-7-2, $15, paper, 94 pp.MARSH HAWK PRESS 2011

Poetry. Beginning with “Generic Whistle Stop,” a longpoem that rings myriad changes on political rhetoric,PEACE CONFERENCE goes on to extend such poeticseries from prior books as the linguistically hybrid“Yinglish Strophes,” the rocking/rolling “Dented Reprise,”and “Nonce Sonnet.” Thomas Fink’s seventh collectionalso initiates two new series, “Goad” and “Dusk BowlIntimacies,” which, in different ways, force bits ofindividual psyche to butt heads with the social. Thecurvilinear twists and torques of many of these poemsenable visual and verbal gestures to swing together andapart.

Norman FinkelsteinInside the Ghost Factory978-0-9841177-5-8, $15, paper, 69 pp.MARSH HAWK PRESS 2010

Poetry. “INSIDE THE GHOST FACTORY finds NormanFinkelstein returning to his pre-TRACK fascination withthe Coleridgean fancy, first delineated in RestlessMessengers. Here, however, Samuel Coleridge meetsWilliam Gibson and the result is a retro-Blakean myth forthe age of Text and Tweet. These transmissions from‘elsewhere,’ manufactured on the assembly lines of‘Ghosts, Incorporated. Poetry, Incorporated’ (Limited, Imight add), are gleefully dissected by Finkelstein as somuch ‘clap-trap.’ Still, there’s no correcting the blur ofoccultation and occlusion for the poet who believes‘Books were made for secrets they cannot/keep: this iswhat it means to be/read’”—Tyrone Williams.

Roy FisherSelected Poems978-0-9819520-6-2, $15.95, paper, 192 pp.FLOOD EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. Edited by August Kleinzahler, SELECTED POEMSpresents the remarkable range of Roy Fisher’s restlessand exploratory poetry. Stripped of ornament, skepticalin temperament, these poems find music in suddendisruptions, hesitations, and silences. They often movethrough post-industrial landscapes of Birmingham andthe English Midlands, registering crepuscular half-tones,“the dog odour / of water,” and “malted-milk brickwork.”Beyond such literal subjects, Fisher captures theintermingling of fancy and perception, the play of lightand shadow in the mind itself. As Kleinzahler suggests inhis foreword to this volume, “The eye darts about inFisher’s poetry. It abhors the object at rest, framing ofany kind. It’s like a camera, jerking and swiveling on anunstable tripod. Early and late, the poetry is about theeye in motion. The shifts may be subtle or vertiginouslyabrupt. It’s best not to get too comfortable as youprogress through a poem because you’re not going to bewhere you think you are for long.”

Gil FagianiChianti in Connecticut978-1-59954-015-3, $10, paper, 86 pp.BORDIGHERA PRESS 2010

Poetry. “Gil Fagiani’s muse is Italian American memory.These are poems of origins and belonging, of family,culture, politics. These are recollections, both elegiac andironic, of a world Gil Fagiani observes from the privilegedperspective of an insider who does not feel bound to theneed to eulogize his community. They function asarchival records, a museum of language in which agallery of characters and objects and moments arecaptured in lines that vibrate with a sound, a touch,a presence”—Edvige Giunta.

Patricia FargnoliThen, Something978-1-932195-79-8, $16.95, paper, 76 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2009

Poetry. THEN, SOMETHING has won the Sheila MottonBook Award from the New England Poetry Club, theSilver Award for 2010 Poetry Book of the Year fromForeWord Magazine, the 2010 da Vinci Eye Award, andHonorable Mention for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award.“Patricia Fargnoli...does not miss a stitch of beauty,neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our ownhuman awareness of our continual aging, to which shegives sharp and poignant attention. I have been herchampion since her first book Necessary Light waspublished, and I continue to be so”—Mary Oliver.

Alboqasem FerdowsiThe Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’sShahnameh978-1-881523-22-2, $14, paper, 82 pp.JUNCTION PRESS 2011

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from thePersian by Richard Jeffrey Newman. “In this compellingtranslation of the Iranian epic, Richard Jeffrey Newmanhas given a new generation of readers access to thisclassic tale of politics, devotion, war and peace-making.Corrupt kings, rebel princes, dragon-sorcerers, andresourceful cooks travel through this poetic history of anancient and storied civilization. Newman’s own narrativeand lyric gifts as a poet make this a must-havevolume”—Kazim Ali.

Josh FernandezSpare Parts and Dismemberment978-0-9722958-5-7, $12.95, paper, 71 pp.R. L. CROW PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Josh Fernandez’s poemscome at you with teeth flared—don’t be frightened.From a life of spare parts and dismembered piecesFernandez puts together a mismatched puzzle thatshows a young Latino’s struggle to climb into his ownskin. How far does he go, how loud does he get? Very.At other times he comes at you with hand on heart,almost repentant for the sins his struggle has offered.Be frightened—because when he talks in those lowtones, he talks of a world gone mad, a world we are allpart of, a world fashioned from SPARE PARTS ANDDISMEMBERMENT. “This is a poet to watch, to takeserious, to support and love!”—Jimmy Santiago Baca.



Gabe ForemanA Complete Encyclopedia of Different Typesof People978-1-55245-244-8, $15.95, paper, 96 pp.COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Gabe Foreman’s A COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OFDIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE is not your averagereference book. It turns a series of sociological casestudies into a functional encyclopedia that doubles as aunique, achingly funny, always engaging collection ofpoems. “Bridesmaids,” “Day Traders,” “Entomologists,” and“Number Crunchers” are all dutifully catalogued in aseries of luminously strange, compellingly original lyricand prose poems.

Sanford FraserAmong Strangers I’ve Known All My Life/ParmiLes Etrangers Que J’ai Connus Toute Ma Vie978-1-935520-33-7, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. Bilingual Edition in English and French. In thisbilingual collection of lyrical poems, the narrator,who is usually a character in them,travels from poems inwhich he lives in a state of alienation to poems in whichhe has empathy with others.... This book is particularlyappropriate for students of both English and Frenchas each poem is presented in both languages onfacing pages.

Andy FrazeeThe Body, The Rooms978-0-9831150-1-4, $14, paper, 76 pp.SUBITO PRESS 2011

Poetry. In the precise peregrinations of Andy Frazee’sfirst book, what is at stake is nothing less than what itmeans to write lyric poetry now—thrown into conflictwith itself as it has been by the hallmarks of our culturalmoment: irony (“irony beyond irony”), hyper-self-awareness, the constant interruptions of calamity far andnear. In THE BODY, THE ROOMS, Frazee manages to turnself-consciousness into a virtue—into the lyric materialitself. “Do we believe in anything” a poem asks—withouta question mark. Even grief comes to us mediated, andso Frazee invents an elegy for the twenty-first century.Formally daring and beautifully written, this book bravesits own questioning—and triumphs.

Emily Kendal FreyThe Grief Performance978-1-880834-94-7, $15.95, paper, 72 pp.CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2011

Poetry. “Emily Kendal Frey performs grief and dread as agraceful dance, the kind the tree you cut down in yourbackyard might do on your heart. This work is light, deft,dangerous. There are perfect poems here, such as ‘TheEnd,’ which enacts a simple, startling twist on the hoaryinjunction to ‘Walk towards the light.’ See, everythingyou know is wrong. You really have to read this book”—Rae Amrantrout.

Kyle FlakThe Secret Admirer978-0-9822495-8-1, $16, paper, 24 pp.ADASTRA PRESS 2011

Poetry. In these seventeen poems of sprung rhythmsand playful language, the author creates poetic fictionsthat are witty and hip in the new funk style: “History isa/tiny wrinkle we might as well just/forget aboutunless/it’s going to/save us.” The accumulative effect ismysterious, entertaining, and delightful. Limited to200 copies of hand-set Goudy Old Style types letterpressprinted on recycled and acid free Environment Felttext, hand-sewn, and covered in wraparound Classic Laidin Denim. “As long as fine literary presses continue tohandcraft handsome books like these from Adastra,serious readers of the twenty-first century can restassured, the book is alive and well”—American BookReview.

Gerald FlemingNight of Pure Breathing978-1-934909-15-7, $18, paper, 70 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “These dark fables, written in a language ‘born ofrage,’ furiously peel back the veneer of the world wethink we know. Part fairy tale, part dream, these poemsexplore a region where the ordinary and the fantasticoverlap, where a smile can get a job, and whereidentities are fluid and interchangeable. Many poems areset in exotic locations—Corfu, Bali, Mexico, Ukraine—but they all merge to create a discrete, elementallandscape, a poetic geography where this remarkablecollection plays out. In one poem, ‘a boy and girl courteach other by telling ghost stories.’ Gerald Fleming’sNIGHT OF PURE BREATHING is a collection that seducesthe reader in just that way. Hold onto your socks; you’rein for a ride”—Gary Young.

Brad FlisPeasants978-0-9818970-1-1, $15, paper, 72 pp.PATRICK LOVELACE EDITIONS 2009

Poetry. In Brad Flis’s first collection, PEASANTS, thereader is shuttled through a timeless allegory of theNation taking new form in a new era. Compilinglanguage rich with rhetorical cadence and alliterativefluency, the book exalts in the organization of ourcollective experience while lamenting the human assacred organism of violence, the pursuit of happiness asthe pursuit of enemy combatants. Poetic form,dramatized throughout, becomes the pleasure-stimulusfor language at once familiarly embracing and clinical.PEASANTS is both a recovering of meaning in the post-WTC ruins of ideals, and, as it’s playable lotto-scratch-ticket bookcover suggests, a willful uncovering.

Josey Foo and Leah SteinA Lily Lilies978-0-9844598-5-8, $15.95, paper, 80 pp.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Photography. Literary Nonfiction. Dance.A cross-genre book of poetry, photography and notes forchoreography, A LILY LILIES maps space throughlanguage, language through movement, and both spaceand movement through pictures in sections that movefrom immense spaces of the American Southwest to adance stage in Philadelphia to the space of the self.“Mapping across space/time, cultures and sensibilitiesA LILY LILIES expresses the interweaving of the poetry ofdance and the dance of poetry. Beautiful work!”—Pauline Oliveros.



Fergal GaynorVIII Stepping Poems & other pieces978-1-4507-3710-4, $15, paper, 80 pp.MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011

Poetry. VIII STEPPING POEMS & OTHER PIECES bringstogether ten years of work from Irish poet, critic and artpractitioner Fergal Gaynor. This is poetry in themodernist tradition, often in experimental forms. TheStepping Poems make apparent a surrounding silence orinarticulacy; the terse, gnomic triads of the Runes arebased on Old Irish riddling forms. Through these formsrecurring themes are refracted: location, especiallyGaynor’s native Cork City and Munster region; thepresence of history, often as fossilized remains, in XIPieces for Austria-Hungary; and the contemporary, assomething alien and urgent, the subject of sciencefiction. VIII STEPPING POEMS & OTHER PIECES is at oncelearned and passionate, impersonal and highlyindividual.

Jean GenetThe Genet Translations: Poetry andPosthumous Plays978-1-926616-19-3, $20, paper, 165 pp.POLEMIC PRESS 2010

Poetry. Drama. Translated from the French by MarkSpitzer. “Mark Spitzer has worked on these translationswith a monastic patience and a martyr’s zeal, and theyrequire both ardor and dedication, since they are dense,heavily coded, daringly pornographic at times, and atother times far more lushly over-the-top than Englishcomfortably tolerates.... No reader can truly understandGenet’s plays or novels without grasping his poetry—which Mark Spitzer has made available in a convincing,accurate translation for the first time”—Edmund White.“A book with guts and integrity...a true work ofscholarship and poetry...the quintessential Englishtranslation of the poems...plus impeccable translationsof two groundbreaking posthumous plays [Splendid’sHotel and The Pope]”—The New Yorker.

Morgan GibsonNonzen Poems978-1-933606-22-4, $15, paper, 100 pp.PRINTED MATTER PRESS 2010

Poetry. “I love Morgan Gibson’s poem for KennethRexroth!”—Robert Bly. “After years of keeping thesepoems’ treasures to himself, Morgan Gibson hasunleashed the floodgates of his poetic stream ofconsciousness in a much-awaited book. Paying homageto Beats, beggars, and bodhisattvas everywhere, thispoetry sings of the destitution, the beauty and the holyin the world and in one word. Is is Zen? Is it Nonsense?It’s Nonzen—’strong. wise, compassionate, free’”—Leza Lowitz.

Elisabeth FrostAll of Us978-1-935210-23-8, $16, paper, 76 pp.WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Frost’s debut collection, ALL OF US, uses theseemingly narrative prose poem to turn the unconsciousconscious. What is unseen but seen and what isunspoken but spoken becomes apparent, as quotidianmoments create layers to a voice that probes its ownresonance only to find itself to be in all of us. Throughthe deep intelligence of these poems, Frost hascomposed transparent channels into our own lives—a stunning achievement”—Claudia Rankine.

William FullerHallucination978-0-9819520-7-9, $14.95, paper, 96 pp.FLOOD EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. William Fuller’s HALLUCINATION negotiatesbetween worlds of the living and the dead, shiftingmercurially from verse to prose and from parody toparable. Along the way, Fuller draws our attention to theineffable qualities of experience, proposing that “Matteris a fog one looks through toward pale headlights...”Through these glancing observations and surrealmemoranda, the mysteries appear more vivid, our folliesmore desperate and absurd.

Drew GardnerChomp Away978-0-9728880-5-9, $13.95, paper, 98 pp.COMBO BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “To read CHOMP AWAY is to take a crash courseon the notion of dread as primal poetic value, with aconsciousness filter bent towards humor. Every poemcontains transparent seams managing a trophy wall oftortured, ordinary, far-out-to-far-in syntaxes thatGardner deftly parodies, ultimately generating wild,empathetic voice-structures—the longer poem “TwilightSystem Joy Mechanics” being an especially masterfulexample of this—aimed at unbridled power and itssupporting cast of popular deflections”—Anselm Berrigan.

Susan GardnerStone Music: The Art and Poetry of SusanGardner978-0-9799865-0-5, $26.95, paper, 96 pp.RED MOUNTAIN PRESS 2007

Poetry. Art. Susan Gardner is an exceptionallyaccomplished painter, photographer, and poet. STONEMUSIC, a large format collection with 44 color plates,features Gardner’s work in each of these art forms. Itpresents a rich blend of classic aesthetics and personalinsight. The book is an object of visual delight fully inkeeping with the elegant, compelling nature of itscontent. Her visual and literary art still reflects the styleof forceful spontaneity and directness she developedearly in her career. “Her art speaks of what is not seen yetis present, of what is common yet irredeemablyprecious”—J. W. Mahoney.

Molly GaudryWe Take Me Apart978-0-9830263-2-7, $12, paper, 100 pp.MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS 2009

Poetry. Nominated for the 2011 PEN/Joyce OsterweilAward for Poetry. “Entwining the trance that is childhoodaround the hallucination that constitutes adulthood,Molly Gaudry’s WE TAKE ME APART is a bewitching andcarefully barbed tale. A cross between silence and a fairytale, Gaudry’s Beckettian narrative sews bright bits tonear-faint whispers, slowly swaddling us in quiet anddarkness”—Brian Evenson.



Nada GordonScented Rushes978-1-931824-40-8, $13.95, paper, 103 pp.ROOF BOOKS 2010

Poetry. “Is poetry alive? It is part of the human body andseems to look like the human mind. But it is almostnever as lively, voluptuous, dancing as these poems ofNada Gordon. She seems to be using her own dictionaryand idiolect and innocence. Her work is a cadenza adlib and seems unflawed as a Bollywood movie unfoldswith increasing intensity. This is some of the freshestwork of her generation: she helps create the newcomedy, where jokes are not needed to be happy.She has what a painter once told me was absolutelynecessary: shamelessness. This is like rock and roll fromanother planet for another time”—David Shapiro.

Renée Gregorio, Joan Logghe, andMiriam SaganLove & Death: Greatest Hits978-1-893003-03-3, $15, paper, 190 pp.TRES CHICAS BOOKS 2011

Poetry. LOVE & DEATH selects poems from thepublications of co-conspirators, friends for over twenty-five years, and founders of Tres Chicas Books RenéeGregorio, Joan Logghe, and Miriam Sagan. As poets withintertwined geographies, friendships, and loves, thepoems show the threading as they’ve fallen in love,mourned deaths of beloveds, and let that passion informtheir poetry. They deliver a triptych of poetry in onecover, hoping to create not just a book but a sense ofcommunity.

Gerry GrubbsThe Girls in Bright Dresses Dancing978-1-933675-51-0, $14, paper, 65 pp.DOS MADRES PRESS 2010

Poetry. “Gerry Grubbs’ poems are of making andunmaking, of loss and recovery, of absence andpresence, of all that abides and all that does not. Theyare open, honest, and direct, with a metaphoric powerthat takes us into the mysterious heart of things. Grubbswrites about family, about nature, about love. But hisdeepest subject is the ineffable, which casts its shadowupon his words, ‘Leaving us wondering / What has beenlost / And how its absence / Effects everything thatfollows’”--Norman Finkelstein.

Helen GuriMatch978-1-55245-243-1, $14.95, paper, 80 pp.COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Robert Brand has given up on real women. Hehas, however, found a (somewhat problematic) solution,a new feminine ideal: the 110-pound sex doll he orderedover the internet. Showing an uncanny access to thevoice of the rejected, unimpressive, emotionallychallenged modern male, Helen Guri’s debut collectionexplores Robert’s transition from lost and lonely toloved, if only by the increasingly acrobatic voices in hismind. MATCH’s touching, whip-smart poems chart thelimits of the mind/body relationship in decidedly virtualtimes. Does our hero’s lovesick, wry, self-searching andoften self-annihilating gaze signal some catastrophicaversion to depth or a feverish (if unsettling) reassertionof the romantic impulse? Can anything good reallyhappen when the object of one’s affection is, literally, anobject? And if she looks like a human being, can youever know for sure she isn’t one?

Lawrence GiffinSorites978-0-9833931-1-5, $12, paper, 44 pp.TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “While the fables which are enfleshed in ussurpass in hysteria even the least remittent syndromes ofinfotainment, we are inured to overexcitement just as webeg the favor and discipline of the decider, though hezeroes us, abetting the containment of our contaminantsa long way from the house. It is within this perverseepoch that SORITES protrudes itself, ensconcing theprismatic caress between those ‘noble lies’ and the‘splendid men’ who engender them as a golden showerof grammatical derivatives. We groom ourselves in alandscape barren of any ‘reified’ language in need ofresuscitation, but rather lamped in the utter ambiguityof violence inherent in reception and address, ‘The wordas such strikes/ ... As a bridge for the new man.’ Butemergence belies the heap. When the efficacy of speechappears to reside in its substancelessness, what is it toawake to find ‘your bodily eikon dematerialized?’ AsGertrude Stein, in ‘Poetry and Grammar,’ evokes herwilled desecration of substantives and nouns when shesuggests that the ‘intense existence’ of objects iscontingent upon its being felt without its being named,SORITES bends Stein’s inquiry toward our owndemocratic substantiations where the suckling of ‘freespeech’ and the matasuegras of disinterested judgmentdevelop out of pace, ‘What is that/ is not yet/ dependson whose/ thought can think/ thought as/ such.’We are asked, ‘“Is the public not the greatest/ Sophist,”especially when its word fails?’This pubescentindebtedness to future-users here cannot resolve itself inlunch-hour testimony, louching through great halls thatthe boards endeavored to erect without a body andwithout license. We may intuit that what is ‘true/ for allis/ what makes what/ ought to be for all/ a fact’ but thissapience leaves us no nearer the advertised mood. Asman, among men, who has no use but uses, there is noadultery that cannot be disposed of before poetry. Ourconjectural prosody will be upskirt”—Brad Flis.

Johannes GöranssonEntrance to a colonial pageant in which we allbegin to intricate978-0-9825416-5-4, $16, paper, 100 pp.TARPAULIN SKY PRESS 2011

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Fiction. Drama. “It would take amiracle to perform this pageant. For a start, you wouldhave to reanimate Charlotte Brontë, Adolf Loos, andRonald Reagan, and you would need an ungodlyamount of wax. Most of the action is obscene, andtherefore takes place offstage. The actors enter andreport on scenes of spectacular violence that go on allthe time every day. The audience is part of the spectacletoo. We are all transformed into images somewhere inthis script. At one point, all of Hollywood appearsonstage on the form of dead horses, perhaps becauseHollywood film continues to rely on narrativeconventions that it exhausted long ago. The entire worldalso appears, played by a boy who, in a series of rapidcostume changes, puts on increasingly pretty dresses”—Aaron Kunin.



Amira HanafiForgery978-1-4507-4212-2, $20, paper, 80 pp.THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

Poetry. Limited Edition. Literary Nonfiction. Collagedfrom language collected using the obscure keyword“Finkl”—obituaries, case histories, old Chicago legends,gossip columns, political speeches and online posts—FORGERY is a lyrical essay on industrial and personaldislocation—a strange choreography of urban conquestand collapse—centered on a 130-year-old Chicago steelforge. Founded in 1879 by German immigrant AntonFinkl, A. Finkl & Sons Co. still operates today on Chicago’sNear North Side. Last vestige of an industrial era, thecompany produces die forgings noisily and with a gooddeal of dirty emissions alongside one of the city’s moreaffluent neighborhoods, where spas and plasticsurgeons, shops for handmade cosmetics and luxurychocolates extend off one of the busiest commercialcorridors in Chicago. Starting from this intersection offorces, the narrator embarks on a walk to the sevenforgotten homes of the forge’s founder, on the waymeeting settlers, Indians, Bob Fosse and Richard Daley,gangsters, workers, a K-pop girl group, and a cast ofother peculiar characters whose fused stories recountthe multifarious history of an evolving city. Whether tiedup at gunpoint in the garage of a basketball player orfloating at the bottom of Lake Michigan, FORGERY revelsin disorientation. Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Crosshair and an introduction byStephen Lapthisophon.

Edward HarknessBeautiful Passing Lives978-1-929355-73-0, $15, paper, 100 pp.PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2010

Poetry. Ed Harkness is very good at shining the poet’slight on natural details and puts this to good use inpoems that go outside his more familiar environs, suchas looking at the English Channel: “The Channel looksbenign,/a road of hammered silver. Unglamorous,/windswept, this beach is no Riviera./Here you feel theslap of the beyond.” And, looking even farther:“the Dog Star, lifting its drowsy head,//guarding the doghouse of heaven/with its one yellow eye.” Harknessextends his range when addressing social issues:“but the horde of you—the majority—/have goneremote control,/ignorant of our sacrifices...” Ed Harknessdoes not squint when he looks at the world and we arerewarded with a full and multi-leveled world in thesepoems.

Megan HarlanMapmaking978-1-886157-77-4, $13.95, paper, 66 pp.BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2010

Poetry. Winner of the 2009 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry.“The poems in this book exhibit the poet’s greatattention to and skill with form, sound, and language.The poems are constantly surprising, taking us to the farcorners of the poet’s metaphorical maps, and, in herwords, ‘gesturing us to go further.’This is imaginativewriting at its very best—visual, aural, metaphorical,ethical, and adventurous. The poet constructs genuinelynew topographies for us that offer significant andoriginal inroads into our understanding of what it meansto be human”—Sidney Wade, Judge, John Ciardi Prizefor Poetry.

Arielle GuyThree Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire978-0-9819808-2-9, $15, paper, 70 pp.DUSIE PRESS 2011

Poetry. THREE GEOGAOPHIES follows the travels of thepoet through seven years and three cities: San Francisco,New York, and Gothenburg, Sweden. Weaving inmysticism, Tarot, and foreign and imaginary language,the story is one of phenomenal romanticism searchingfor home and, ultimately, love. “THREE GEOGAOPHIES isa travelogue, translating speechridden distance withfragile romance and accident music from San Franciscoto New York to Sweden. ‘There is always something wehunt: skin.’ Be it others’ or our own (‘I wasn’t intact andimpermeable then’) with the intractability of spaceskewering geography and time-space changing story inall of its senses. What there is breathes: ‘geometry is allabout living’; what there isn’t facilitates: ‘patterns of lightcause accidents to happen’ and the longer the distance,the more adventurous the storytelling”—Edmund Berrigan.

Rachel HadasThe Ache of Appetite978-0-914278-84-9, $12, paper, 64 pp.COPPER BEECH PRESS 2010

Poetry. The always elegant, often heart-wrenchingpoems in Rachel Hadas’s eleventh collection areno-holds-barred dispatches from the front lines of aloved one’s surrender to dementia. “Stunning”—Molly Peacock. “Harrowing”—A.E. Stallings.

DrumHadleyThe Light Before Dawn978-0-925904-97-3, $16, paper, 94 pp.CHAX PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In The Voice of the Borderlands, we have storiesremembered as poems, picaresque vignettes andcampfire tales rendered in the original voices—asfaithfully and fully as by fellow cowman Will James. InLIGHT BEFORE DAWN, we have the koans of mortalityfaced as quietly and introspectively as Emily Dickinson.Hers: ‘I heard a fly buzz when I died.’The fly outlived theprotagonist. But the poem, as information, is forever:Drum’s—’He knew who he was, And then he was gone.’The poem is a declaration that he knew who he was—which is a rare feat for any sentient being—and thepoem—as information, is at the deepest level, immortal.Nice trick for an old cowman, Drum”—James Northrup.

Hai ZiOver Autumn Rooftops978-0-924047-75-6, $35, cloth, 271 pp.978-0-924047-76-3, $15, paper, 271 pp.HOST PUBLICATIONS 2010

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese byDan Murphy. In the six years prior to his death, Hai Ziwrote over 250 short poems, a number of poetic plays,long poems totaling over 400 pages, and severalshort stories. His verse illuminates the poverty anddesperation of his peasant upbringing, reflects onChina’s literary and cultural history, and touches downon the grasslands and wheat fields of western China,but he is not simply a cultural poet or a nature poet—his poetry transcends all of this. In OVER AUTUMNROOFTOPS, Host Publications is proud to make availableto English-speaking audiences the work of this profoundand beloved poet.



Matthew HenriksenOrdinary Sun978-0-9844752-2-3, $14.95, paper, 120 pp.BLACK OCEAN 2011

Poetry. Henriksen opens ORDINARY SUN by insisting that“an eye is not enough.” Resisting solipsism, these poemsnegotiate that conflict between the mind and whatexists outside the mind. Though pain intrinsically residesin that conflict Henriksen strives for an honesthappiness, a kind of gorgeous suffering that blesses ourdays. To this end, these poems emerge from images ofall those innumerable things that embody both visceraland ethereal beauty—rocks, trees, broken glass,baseball, angels.... Here we find immediacy immersed inthe image, and in the reading of these poems becomesourselves immersed in the immediate.

Gerrit HenryThe Time of the Night978-1-877593-10-9, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.THE GROUNDWATER PRESS 2011

Poetry. Edited by Marc Cohen. Foreword by JohnAshbery. “Gerrit Henry didn’t publish enough in hislifetime to be considered a ‘neglected or overlookedpoet.’THE TIME OF THE NIGHT is the best and onlyintroduction we have to one of the great poets of mygeneration. Be prepared to take a roller coaster throughhell (or is it Manhattan?), if only to see what illusions ofbliss and tatters of happiness still remain to be had.Always a witness to the highs and lows of life, Henry is apoet of disturbing rhyme (unsettling connections) andwrenching lyricism (think singer/composer). In fact, hiswork stands right next to that of Thom Gunn, but, makeno mistake, it is all his own. Gunn would have deeplyloved a poet who could write: ‘My affair with AlfredHitchcock / Consisted of a fat, black silhouette, / And askinless Cornish hen.’ If these poems don’t knock yoursocks or knickers off, then you are a lot deader than youthink”—John Yau.

Colin Herdtoo ok978-1-60964-049-1, $16, paper, 62 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “Colin Herd’s TOO OK is a treasure trove ofrazzle-dazzle stylings, superfine wit, charismaticdiscretion, and a vacuuming tenderness. Herd’s gift forwords is exquisite and adventurous and armed to theteeth, and these poems are its perfect measurements”—Dennis Cooper.

Jeff HoffmanJournal of American Foreign Policy978-1-930974-97-5, $15, paper, 77 pp.NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 New Issues Poetry Prize,Selected by Linda Gregerson. “The way memory andgrief and love compose the stories that enable us to goon living. The toxic mix of innocence and inadvertence,wishfulness and making-do that comes to look likepurpose. Which on the scale of nations we call ‘policy.’These brilliant poems have leverage on it all: micro- andmacro- and the sorry, human mess we too often makeof both. They also have so masterful a way with idiomand timing that even the sternest insight is leavenedwith a measure of joy. Tonic intelligence, exhilaratingcraftsmanship: Jeff Hoffman’s fine first book is a gift tous all”—Linda Gregerson, from the Judge’s Citation.

Carla Harryman and Lyn HejinianThe Wide Road978-0-9823387-4-2, $16, paper, 148 pp.BELLADONNA* 2011

Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. What would have happenedhad Thelma and Louise not driven off the cliff but stayedon the road? In Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian’spicaresque novella, friendship lives on to follow erosthrough a polymorphic landscape where their fearless,inquisitive “we” encounters “hunger in two places atonce.” THE WIDE ROAD was collaboratively composed byCarla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian between 1991 and2010. The cover art was drawn for this manuscript by theartist Nancy Blum, and this first edition is printed withtwo different cover designs.

j/j hastainasymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents978-1-934289-93-8, $16, paper, 81 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2009

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “This book, which is unlikeanything that has ever been seen before, bringssomething with it from the under-parts of sensation.This is the definition of vibration, of a book as the onlypossible membrane, the only future for a body so newit’s still forming: j/j hastain gives us this”—Bhanu Kapil.“This work is consistently imaginative and beautifullycontrolled. Very musical and theatrical and intimate.The work is inspiring yet it’s not easy or facile”—Junior Burke.

j/j hastainPrurient Anarchic Omnibus978-0-923389-83-3, $16, paper, 128 pp.SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “A work of rich clear sensuallanguage, of ‘thermal tremble and juice,’ these poemsand photos pull the weaver’s threads together, bringfocus to ‘wherein we can be a root to the sea.’ Sinewylines are constantly ‘quoting my biology back to me asvow’ and display a ‘multi-creative musculature’ wedesperately need and desire. j/j is the real deal,reclaiming a space for engendered anarchy, openingPandora’s secret treasure trove, playing with fire, soundand love”—Anne Waldman.

Elizabeth HatmakerGirl in Two Pieces978-1-935402-59-6, $16, paper, 94 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Elizabeth Hatmaker has a quiet way of crunchingup our world. She excels in shaking out the dirty littlecorners of the mind, particularly the mind of misogynisthistory. In the person of Elizabeth Short, the so-called‘Black Dahlia,’ she has found her heroine, the wayLeonard Cohen found Joan of Arc—or perhapshow Raymond Queneau found Zazie in the métro—forin GIRL we see Elizabeth Short refracted and perfectedthrough multiple stylistic prisms and processes.The matter of the Black Dahlia is, of course, gigantic,but Hatmaker has it all in the palm of her hand, andlocates the world’s pain and hope and justice in thefigure of her girl in two pieces. Hatmaker is anexquisite writer, and better than that, she cares aboutsomething—the life and death of a lost girl—somethingtiny yet immense”—Dodie Bellamy.



Zora HowardClutch978-0-9831219-0-9, $15, paper, 94 pp.PENMANSHIP BOOKS 2010

Poetry. African American Studies. “[Zora Howard’s] youthinspires hope and her writing inspires those of us agingwarriors who have tried to mend so many things in lifethat have cracked. Reward yourself and let Zora into yourlife”—Harry Belafonte. “Zora Howard is a poet beyondher years. Her work exudes the detail that comes withdecades of practice, the honesty and bravery that manypoets never achieve. Her impact on youth poetry in NewYork City and nationally started when she was a risingfreshman at age 13, and is still profound as she entersher first year at Yale. For me, the joy of watching hergrow was not in the numerous accolades she has won,but in the evolution of Zora the artist, activist, andscholar. CLUTCH is a monument that details it all”—Michael Cirelli.

Uyen Huaa/s/l978-1-934639-09-2, $12, paper, 64 pp.IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. The personal is thecultural! A thrilling introspective descent into the infernoof popular culture, where one’s psychic life is a complexand troubling web of personal relations with spectacularicons. None of the postmodern snark, all of the nuancedhorror of a world where there is nothing but fame,but fame itself has become an entirely naturalized andeven banal colonization of the human condition. Adaring and implacable diagnosis of capital’s imageworld,and the fate of the unhappy consciousness within it.Also: hilarious.

Will HubbardCursivism978-1-933254-79-1, $14, paper, 88 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. The prose poems in CURSIVISM, like the form ofwriting after which the book is named, approach theirsubjects boldly, parsing instants of memory withcomplex, unbroken strokes. “I love Will Hubbard’sCURSIVISM. In discrete little blocks of prose that movelike poems Hubbard achieves a humble universality anda beautiful amalgam of public and private mysteries.There is something about the deftness with which hespeaks of books, family—especially his father—and thechanging light and passing qualities of the natural worldthat is a great comfort to read. In this miniature spacehe’s created that is both private and public, both aphysical space and a mental space, I feel welcomed”—Matthew Rohrer.

AdamHughesPetrichor978-1-935520-35-1, $14.95, paper, 128 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. In his debut collection, Adam Hughes announceshimself as a bold new voice in contemporary poetry.Whether discussing family, God, or simply the search forsomething just over the horizon, the poems in thiscollection are sure to stir the mind as well as the heart.From the scent of departed rain to the first moments offatherhood, Hughes gives new words to the mundaneand miraculous.

Harmony HolidayNegro League Baseball978-1-934200-42-1, $15.95, paper, 88 pp.FENCE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. Winner of theMotherwell Prize, this debut collection represents thefullness of “Thoughts on Fire” in living color, solid sound,barely arrested motion.

Bob HolmanPicasso in Barcelona978-0-9831606-1-8, $17, paper, 96 pp.PAPER KITE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated into Spanish by SolGaitan. PICASSO IN BARCELONA is Bob Holman’sfifteenth book, if you count CDs, videos, anthologies andtranslations, which he does. In it, he takes on PabloPicasso, and it’s pretty much a draw. But then, it isPicasso at age 15, so somewhat unfair, and of coursePablo doesn’t give us his version of what went on. Still, itsmells of poetry, and it rings like truth. The dance mix isguaranteed to get you moving, and the Spanishtranslation (thanks to Sol Gaitan) will come in handywhen you are asking for directions in Barcelona.

Bruce HolsappleVanishing Act978-1-888809-59-6, $10, paper, 144 pp.LA ALAMEDA PRESS 2011

Poetry. By turns mischievous and passionate, by fitslyrical and foolish, the poems of VANISHING ACT map asustained interrogation of the interior, taking as territorythe lyric subject itself. The content derives from daily life,financial worries, washing the dishes, advancing age, butas poems proceed to impasse and insight, shifts in tone,focus, and rhythm transport those concerns. Consideredas a whole, VANISHING ACT involves the “depth we feel”and “shadow we cast,” the possibility of falling throughone’s self to “the view looking.”

Joan HoulihanThe Us978-1-932195-77-4, $16.95, paper, 65 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2009

Poetry. THE US, Joan Houlihan’s tantalizing third book ofpoetry, is a poetic sequence spoken in the collectivevoice of nomadic hunter-gatherers. Incompatible with astronger, more advanced culture (“Thems”), the Us mustlive outside civilization in order to be free and fully alive.Practical and canny, the Us are also possessed by a senseof awe expressed in superstition and ritual. With echoesof classical mythology, age-old legends, and resilientallegory, this is an absorbing and altogether uniquebook of poetry. Houlihan’s language is ancient in soundand texture yet entirely modern in impact.



Sheniz JanmohamedBleeding Light978-1-894770-63-7, $17.95, paper, 64 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2010

Poetry. BLEEDING LIGHT is a collection of ghazals tracingthe steps of a woman’s journey through night. In orderto witness dawn, she has first to travel through dusk.Throughout her journey, she is caught between Westand East, religion and heresy, love and anti-love,darkness and the knowledge of light. Each couplet of aghazal is an independent thought and reflection, a pearlstrung into a necklace. BLEEDING LIGHT is fraught withopposing, stark, and often violent imagery heavilyinfluenced by Sufi philosophy.

Dale JensenAuto Bio978-0-9825066-9-1, $5, paper, 32 pp.BEATITUDE PRESS 2010

Poetry. “Jensen’s work constantly allows itself to moveback and forth between the fanciful and the real in aneffort to reach that abyss of consciousness which resistsany more straightforward method: ‘cut it open deeper /try to find a heart in there.’This work is not ‘difficult’ inthe sense of having to look up words or mythologicalcharacters in various dictionaries; it does not requirefootnotes. But it will remind you that the heart is a farmore hidden organ than physicians or even loversbelieve it to be. Irony, deep laughter, and a kind of darkastonishment pervade everything. AUTO BIO won’t leaveyou laughing; it won’t leave you at all: ‘my dead godyour ghosts / go scurrying along my bloodsteam’”—Jack Foley.

Luke JohnsonAfter the Ark978-1-935520-39-9, $14.95, paper, 84 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. AFTER THE ARK, Luke Johnson’s remarkable firstcollection of poetry, chronicles the author’s upbringingas the son of two ministers. A seasonal triptych, thepoems root themselves in the landscapes they inhabit:from the boulder fields of the Blue Ridge Mountains tothe endless dusk of Clam Gulch, Alaska, to a half-frozenlake in Upstate New York. These poems ask the reader tomove inward, to look hard at loss and see it stark andsure. The narrative, often deceptively formal poems,show us the affects domestic tragedies can have on afamily’s faith in each other, how absence can color theircollective memory. Ultimately, they are poems of hope,artifacts or rescues of some kind. Each one is a smallproof that no matter the magnitude of the flood,through remembering there can always be salvage.These poems ask the reader to believe there issomething left worth saving.

Carrie HunterThe Incompossible978-0-9825731-3-6, $15, paper, 120 pp.BLACK RADISH BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “Every once in a while there’s a collection ofpoems that cancels my way of thinking for a better way.Carrie Hunter’s THE INCOMPOSSIBLE divines ‘Thedecapitated head of Lack.’ Over and over she does this,‘To say we are reversed now.’ She admits, ‘I can see youand see through you’ and those superpowers areinvoked by the reader only through the reading, agouged track in the soil of our minds for the trickling,soon rushing images renewing our senses. Thank you forthe superpowers, thank you for the poems of the newmind”—CAConrad.

Christina HutchinsThe Stranger Dissolves978-0-9819816-2-8, $16, paper, 88 pp.SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Christina Hutchins’s THE STRANGER DISSOLVES isan exquisite debut volume. This superb collection iselegant, impassioned, and consistently wise in itsreckonings. Few poets so carefully embody the mind’soscillations during reflection, and the beauty of ChristinaHutchins’s poems is simply beyond measure. More thanany first collection I know, THE STRANGER DISSOLVESmelds both mind (intelligence and thought) and heartwith a startling complexity, intricacy, and intimacy. Thisis a volume to keep at one’s bedside”—David St. John.

Jason IrwinWatering the Dead978-1-886350-42-7, $14, paper, 80 pp.PAVEMENT SAW PRESS 2008

Poetry. “‘And now that I’ve left I dream only of returning’says Jason Irwin in WATERING THE DEAD. In this debut—part love song, part elegy to the dying factory towns ofAmerica—nothing is lost, nothing forgotten. Thesepoems swivel on bar stools and race trains on backroads. Boys leave small towns for war or prison andfathers talk about ‘someday’ like it’s a day on thecalendar. These are poems of honor and witness; theypray and rage. Irwin gives us no easy vision of escape,instead in this powerful first collection he gives uspoems of rough beauty”—Victoria Redel.

Inge IsraelBeckett Soundings978-1-55380-112-2, $15.95, paper, 100 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Poetry. In this collection of poems, Inge Israel worksthrough Samuel Beckett’s letters, his biographies, andhis actual plays and novels to probe the imagination thatcreated his artistic works. Arguably the preeminentavant-garde and most influential writer of the 20thcentury and a legend in his own time, Beckett presentsmany glaring paradoxes. Beckett was born in a countryruled by the Catholic Church yet raised by a strict anddevoutly Protestant mother. He loved the King JamesBible and knew long passages of it by heart but did notbelieve in it. He loved his mother but fought to freehimself of her influence. He loved Ireland but left to livein France. He loved the classics yet despaired oflanguage being able to express anything meaningful.He dearly loved to be in the company of close friends yeteven in their midst remained a solitary man, almostmisanthropic. His outlook was gloomy, but he alsohad a streak of humor. Israel’s poems open a new andremarkable window on this writer of manycontradictions.



Roberto JuarrozVertical Poetry: Recent Poems978-1-935210-22-1, $16, paper, 117 pp.WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition.Translated from the Spanish by Mary Crow. VERTICALPOETRY: RECENT POEMS is a bilingual selection of poemsby the distinguished Argentine poet Roberto Juarrozwhich were published between 1984 and 1988. “MaryCrow has given us a poet of miraculous lucidity andmystery at once. Her translations are marvelous inthemselves and share the beauty and importance ofthe work. This is contemplative poetry that does notrelease...but compels the reader to follow the trailof the poems until the last. These poems are magnetic:engaging paradoxes and sudden bursts of light. This is apoet to compare with Octavio Paz”—David Ignatow.

Bhanu KapilSchizophrene978-0-9844598-6-5, $15.95, paper, 84 pp.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Asian American Studies.SCHIZOPHRENE traces the intersections of migration andmental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporiccommunities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the questionof a healing narrative and explores trauma and placethrough a somatic, poetic and cross-cultural psychiatricenquiry. Who was here? Who will never be here? Whohas not yet arrived and never will? Towards an arrivalwithout being, this notebook-book returns a body to asite, the shards re-forming in mid-air: for an instant.“Poignant, rich, delicious, a book to return to again andagain”—Gail Scott.

Laura KasischkeSpace, In Chains978-1-55659-333-8, $16, paper, 110 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Laura Kasischke’s poems have the same hauntingqualities and truth as our most potent memories anddreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives,overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in languagereminiscent of medieval lyrics converted intocontemporary idiom, the poems in SPACE, IN CHAINScreate a visceral strangeness true to its own music.“Kasischke’s intelligence is most apparent in hersyntactic control and pace, the way she gauges justwhen to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slowdown”—The New York Times Book Review.

Cralan KelderGive Some Word978-1-84861-144-3, $15, paper, 96 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2010

Poetry. A is for Accessible. GIVE SOME WORD is asomewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelderbelieves that people who read poetry should bedelighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. Thepoetry in GIVE SOME WORD is no exception; equal partsdistilled language, contrary, and pushing everydaylanguage out of conformity. Humor lurks just below thesurface in many of these shorter, condensed poems.Some apparent influences; Carver, Brautigan, Corman,Sakaki, Bukowski, Lax, the Jargon Society and a hundredothers. The narrative wanders across three continents,and derives partially from publications over the past tenyears by Coracle, Longhouse, Blue Press, and manygenerous magazine editors.

Paul Foster JohnsonStudy in Pavilions and Safe Rooms978-0-615-43357-8, $16, paper, 76 pp.PORTABLE PRESS AT YO-YO LABS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. STUDY IN PAVILIONS AND SAFEROOMS is an exploration of public and private space attheir extremes. Borrowing titles from state-plannedexhibition halls and panic rooms built for riding out theapproaching apocalypse, these poems stage collisions ofaesthetics, politics, and history in artificial environments.These poems are phenomenological investigations goneawry under the sway of unruly and contradictory forces.“Smart, elusive, like Debussy’s Nuages, crossed withAshbery’s Three Poems—a stately Happening, whereStockhausen drops by to dish. Paul Foster Johnson usessyntax as a friend, a chaperone, a punching bag: it keepshim—and his happy reader—in a sequestered, cozyspace of detente and narcosis. Reading these taut,architectural poems, I feel like I’m figure-skating onBauhaus ice; thus Johnson gives us a sexuallyambiguous, cerebral map of how to write a poemtoday”—Wayne Koestenbaum.

Daniel JonesThe Brave Never Write Poetry978-1-55245-245-5, $15.95, paper, 96 pp.COACH HOUSE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. First published in 1985, when Daniel Jones wasjust twenty-six, THE BRAVE NEVER WRITE POETRY, thepoet/critic/novelist’s lone collection of poems, was a culthit, turning “poetry” on its head before its author(then known simply as “Jones”) swore off verse entirely.Written in a direct, plainspoken, autobiographical and attimes confessional style in the tradition of CharlesBukowski and Al Purdy, these confrontational poemsabout sex and boredom, drugs and suicide, documentJones’s depressive, alcoholic years as an enfant terrible.This long overdue revised edition brings Jones’sunforgettable voice to a new generation of readers andincludes the complete text of the original collection(including Jones’s own sardonic assessments of his ownpoetry), a new preface by poet/critic Kevin Connolly, andpostscript commentary from many of Jones’s closestfriends and literary colleagues.

Roberto JuarrozVertical Poetry: Last Poems978-1-935210-21-4, $16, paper, 96 pp.WHITE PINE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition.Translated from the Spanish by Mary Crow. Octavio Pazcalled Roberto Juarroz, one of Latin America’s mostdistinguished contemporary poets, “a poet of absoluteinstants.” This bilingual collection includes work from hisfinal three books. “These are crystalline—oftentimesincandescent—translations of Juarroz’s powerfulmetaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut upagainst a world where ‘writing infects the landscape’ andthere are ‘more letters than leaves’—the kind of matchone hopes for where both the translator and the poetare in luck; new poems which don’t leak and yet oldpoems in which the original passion shines”—Jorie Graham.



Sally Rosen KindredNo Eden978-0-932412-98-0, $14.95, paper, 70 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. The poems in NO EDEN merge the landscapes ofa rainy girlhood in the American South and the mythicworld of Noah and the Flood. In these poems, a backyardstretches between a mother and daughter—the lessonsof “distance tender and biblical.” The Carolina yardopens to hold the fruits of Eve and Lilith, the flight ofNoah’s raven and dove, the small terrors of curbs andclassrooms. These are poems of “a family awake througha storm,” an intimate theology of floods, loss, andbetrayal. But NO EDEN suggests a source of possiblecomfort, of slow quiet mercy and forgiveness. Perhapsthere once was an Eden, even if it is no longer there. Itshaving possibly existed offers us hope that there maystill be an Eden within, one we can somehow attainthrough beauty, luck and hope.

Ish KleinMoving Day978-0-9822376-6-3, $14, paper, 112 pp.CANARIUM BOOKS 2011

Poetry. MOVING DAY is the second collection byacclaimed poet Ish Klein. In this book, the poet deepensher commitment to socially-engaged lyricism, as shedirectly confronts the darkest sources of conflict andshared suffering while also investigating and celebratingthe relationships that help us deal with personal,societal, and environmental ills. Like Whitman andO’Hara before her, Klein is a poet of camaraderie andboundless love. “Kids need each other. / Better theynever get / separated entirely.”

Caroline KnoxNine Worthies978-1-933517-48-3, $20, paper, 48 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2010

Poetry. This hand-sewn limited edition has a letterpresscover and design influenced by 18th century typesettingand binding techniques. A stunning work of prose andpoetry by eminent poet Caroline Knox, NINE WORTHIESoperates as a sort of historical novella, telling the story ofthe life and times of American portraitist NathanielSmibert in nine individual portraits interwoven with theperspective of the artist.

Noelle KocotThe Bigger World978-1-933517-52-0, $16, paper, 88 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Kocot makes a bold departure from her previousworks with this collection. Written in the third-person,they are by turn funny, flippant, insane, sad, and deeplymoving. Her most accessible work to date, THE BIGGERWORLD shows the range of Kocot’s talent and will likelyappeal to a broad audience, while maintaining hersignature linguistic style.

Jose KozerAnima978-1-84861-146-7, $20, paper, 268 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition.Translated from the Spanish by Peter Boyle. “A sixty-year-old man writes a poem and entitles it ‘Anima.’ Days laterhe writes another poem with a tone similar to the first,entitles it ‘Anima’, then realizes he has just begun a serieswhich must all bear the same title. Furthermore, the mandecides that in the future and till the day of his death heis going to continue writing poems that, since they havethis tone, will bear the title ‘Anima.’ At the end of a year,having written some 150 poems, he extracts from theaccumulated mass 60 poems called ‘Anima’”—José Kozer.

Kristin KellyCargo978-1-932418-38-5, $16, paper, 80 pp.ELIXIR PRESS 2010

Poetry. CARGO by Kristin Kelly is the winner of the 10thAnnual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. This is Kelly’s first bookof poetry and was chosen by contest judge DiannBlakely. Mark Levine had this to say about CARGO: “‘It’sjust not natural,’ observes the speaker of one of KristinKelly’s poems, in a tone of supercharged deadpan that isone of the dozens of frequencies this work inhabits. Ihave rarely read a book that expresses the feeling ofbeing unnatural with such disquieting precision. Someunnamed crisis has befallen Kelly’s speaker, leaving herbroken off from herself, yet compelled to bear hersalvaged remnants through these poems. In Kelly’svision, the sun is a stripped-bare rock, the human body ‘aweight in the room,’ the soul an inchoate cargo. Herenforced detachment yields a clarity of encounter, anexactness of phrase, an extraordinary formal anxiety,and a capacity for empathetic transport that feels, to thisreader, like an equivalence of grace. This is a beautifulbook, brilliant and heartbreaking, that has somehowdiscovered within postmodern style a way to speak withutter genuineness of matters of life and death.”

Daniel KhalastchiManoleria978-1-932195-93-4, $16.95, paper, 72 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First BookPrize. Under the influence of broadcasts such as NationalPublic Radio’s “Marketplace” (a daily roundup of stockreports and business news), Daniel Khalastchi composeda series of character-driven poems whose recurrentnarrator is physically and mentally manipulated whilethe world around him takes little notice. Through theirchaos and horror, these poems ask a reader to questionthe ways in which our careening healthcare system,crumbling financial/housing/job markets, and war onmultiple fronts are actually affecting us—both insideand out. “In MANOLERIA, the body, broken apart ‘inelegant stress,’ re-congregates. Formally, the poet istaking us through the emotional work of picking uppieces. Despite the splintering, despite the hemorrhage,somehow ‘all is accounted for.’ A cardinal debut...”—D. A. Powell.

Nidaa KhouryBook of Sins978-0-913441-99-2, $25, paper, 284 pp.HOUSE OF NEHESI PUBLISHERS 2010

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Trilingual Edition. Fulltext in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. “These poems areburning off the pages with a rhythm embedded in furyand a beauty embedded in the ancient”—Antjie Krog.“Khoury’s poetry is fired by belief in the human and thespiritual at a time when many of us feel unreal and oftenspiritually hollow”—Yair Huri. “Written in water and ink,in between the shed blood. Nidaa Khoury’s poems takeus to the bosom of an ancient woman, an archetyperevived. The secret she whispers is ‘smaller thanwords’”—Karin Karakasli.



Stacie LeathermanStranger Air978-1-936419-03-6, $14.95, paper, 80 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Stacie Leatherman’s dynamic poems inhabit thecusp between the domestic and the utterly strange. Toread them is to travel where we haven’t been before,where things seem lost or on the verge of disappearing.To make something from nothing, out of the pure air ofimagination, but to make it so sensually, emphasizingtouch, creating a world of things to fill the air, a world oftumbling metaphors and images, is the essence of thissuperb book where every word is a metaphor forsomething unsayable. Leatherman is always probing,uncovering and discovering, and she understands thatsurrealism is a mode of restless thought, not a mereprogram. When you open STRANGER AIR, you openyourself, and what you find will amaze and redefine you.

Ronna LeboProlapse978-0-9791495-2-8, $15, paper, 64 pp.OFF THE PARK PRESS 2011

Poetry. PROLAPSE takes us into the icy heart of America,where banality and madness go hand in hand behindclosed doors. Ronna Lebo writes on the edge of a knife.Her taut sentences carve out and sing a masterfulpostmodern American ballad of addiction, indifference,and deceit not to be missed.

Esther LeeSpit978-1-932418-39-2, $16, paper, 88 pp.ELIXIR PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Winner of the Elixir Press10th Annual Poetry Awards. “SPIT shines. Filled withbravado and brilliance, Lee’s debut fills in the blanks itmakes profound use of, hollering across the ‘rustedhollows.’ Utilizing a host of forms—from montage toprose poems, ‘Interviews with My [C]orean Father,’ tofractured sonnets—Lee echoes and evokes a multitudeof identities: writer, sister, ‘good girl,’ lover. If this is thefuture of American poetry, as it appears to be, we are ingood hands”—Kevin Young.

Paul LegaultThe Madeleine Poems978-1-890650-48-3, $15.95, paper, 72 pp.OMNIDAWN 2010

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Commenting on the fears andaspirations of contemporary citizens, this poetrycollection speaks with an elegantly lyrical voice that issimultaneously knowing and naïve. Written in sparephrasal passages, these poems have an ephemeralmusicality. The verses create images for the reader thatare quick, fleeting flickers—like viewing a painting withflashbulbs. Reflecting on human relationships, thesepoems show them to be like an empty harbor into whichships carrying unexpected cargo sail.

Joel Steven KuszaiAccidency978-1-931824-37-8, $14.95, paper, 118 pp.ROOF BOOKS 2011

Poetry. ACCIDENCY is Joel Kuszai’s first book and collects“A Miscellany,” a serial poem that emerged in limitededition chapbooks in the 1990s, and “Brooklyn Yards,”his first extended experimentation with proceduralmethods of composition. “Joel Kuszai’s anarchist-inflected social lyrics wreak havoc on the simulatedsense of our surround-sound society. Kuszai’s exuberantpoems surge with voicings that pierce thought.ACCIDENCY is a pleasure of the senses, mindful of earand eye. This long-awaited debut is scintillating”—Charles Bernstein.

Gerry LafeminaVanishing Horizon978-1-934695-22-7, $17, paper, 104 pp.ANHINGA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “VANISHING HORIZON is full of gritty and gracefulintelligence. Consistently and sumptuously detailed,these poems amount to a kind of landscape of the soul,that aspect of self that runs the gauntlet—weathers,wearies, kneels—then grins and keeps on. It’s hard tomake a way in this world, to see clearly without comingto deep despair. This book is good light”—Tim Seibles.

Larissa Lai and Rita WongSybil Unrest978-0-9784981-3-9, $16, paper, 112 pp.LINEBOOKS 2008

Poetry. SYBIL UNREST is a collaborative long poembegun in Hong Kong at the moment of the SARSoutbreak in 2003, and the American invasions of Iraq.It was written as a punning conversation via email overthe course of several years. With an ear to the noise ofCNN, the BBC World Service, the US State Department,advertising and JackFM, Lai and Wong re-figure thesights, sounds and texts of contemporary cultureseeking hope and connection while tripping over thebarbed wire of banality. Sometimes bravely andsometimes stupidly, though always with a sense ofhumor, they hurl themselves through the crosshairs ofwar and capital, trying to recover the recoverable andreinvent the rest.

Deborah LandauThe Last Usable Hour978-1-55659-334-5, $15, paper, 96 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. It is “always nighttime” in Deborah Landau’ssecond collection—a series of linked lyric sequences,including insomniac epistolary love poems to an elusive“someone.” Here is a haunted singing voice, clear andspare, alive with memory and desire, yet hounded bypremonitions of a calamitous future. The speaker in this“ghost book” is lucid and passionate, even as everythingis disappearing. “Landau registers the intensities of theflesh: pleasure, desire, limitation, and, ultimately,disappearance”—Mark Doty

Joseph LeaseTestify978-1-56689-258-2, $16, paper, 63 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “I regard Lease as the best poet of his generation.This is a poetry filled with stories that are built to last.This is a poet who will become a majorvoice in American poetry”—David Shapiro. Joseph Leasegracefully delves into American culture—narratingAmerican lives, struggling with unjustified war, anxiety,and the broken promise of democracy. Lease braidshumor, political bite, and lyric beauty, taking us to aplace of warning, critique, and elegy.



Francesco LevatoElegy for Dead Languages978-1-934851-25-8, $14.95, paper, 78 pp.MARICK PRESS 2010

Poetry. ELEGY FOR DEAD LANGUAGES collects in printthe long documentary poems “War Rug,” “Elegy for DeadLanguages,” and “Hood, Handgun, Power Drill.”“Francesco Levato’s powerful documentary, War Rug—like Eliot Weinberger’s What I Heard About Iraq beforeit—detains the language of the perpetrators of globalmilitary aggression and redeploys it to indict them. FromJ.C. Penny catalog copy to counterintelligence manualsand autopsy reports, War Rug is a fierce yet unfortunatereminder of the absolute horrors of our age”—Mark Nowak.

Dana LevinSky Burial978-1-55659-332-1, $15, paper, 96 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Death is the new and unshakeable lensthrough which I see,” writes Dana Levin about her thirdbook, in which she confronts mortality and loss insubjects ranging from Tibetan Buddhist burial practicesto Aztec human sacrifice. Shaped by dreams and “theworms and the gods,” these poems are a profoundinvestigation of our inescapable fate. As Louise Glück hassaid: “Levin’s animating fury goes back deeper into ourlinguistic and philosophic history: to Blake’s tiger, to theiron judgments of the Old Testament.” “Levin’s work isphenomenological; it details how it feels to be anembodied consciousness making its way through theworld”—Boston Review. “Levin has the skilled ear,magnificent tongue, and fierce mind of the trulyprophetic”—Rain Taxi.

Shirley Geok-Lin LimWalking Backwards: New Poems978-0-9826968-0-4, $14.95, paper, 84 pp.WEST END PRESS 2010

Poetry. Asian American Studies. WALKING BACKWARDS isabout making a home when you are a nomad, andadding an American self to the many selves that theworld’s myriad, bewildering places throw at one body.It is about how travel and restlessness wrench us andteach us about ourselves, how our losses compound ourloves, and how endlessly absorbing the idea of homeremains, particularly when we keep losing sight of it.Orbiting the globe, this collection narrates encounters ina transnational American’s circuit. As much about HongKong as the west coast of the United States, it bundlestransients and family, nature and city, the still pointwithin and characters everywhere, to produce a fresh,ethnically inflected poetics.

Colleen Lookingbilla forgetting of978-1-889098-11-1, $12, paper, 62 pp.LYRIC& PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In A FORGETTING OF, Colleen Lookingbillsuggests that every soul migrates through versions ofitself via myth, legend, saga, tale, fable. Within suchstorytelling, one can ‘imagine all our habits ofexperience/listening, making their own arrangements.’Understood this way, the soul, like the poem, opens toan environment—a process—of pure possibility.Lookingbill plumbs the formal resource of poetry (lyric,narrative, fragment) to reveal the fertile void at the heartof the poem where ‘happenstance is all light.’ How rareto find a work such as this is, whose authority andgenerosity one can so trust. Here is a poetry that createsits own light source, opens its own portals onto a sitewhere one follows ‘love after love’s iridescent path/backthe way we came—open, unfastened”—ElizabethRobinson. Cover art and inside artwork by the author.

Carol LemGathering the Pieces978-0-9655239-2-9, $15, paper, 66 pp.GREENHOUSE REVIEW PRESS 2010

Poetry. Asian American Studies. The poems inGATHERING THE PIECES are remarkable for their quietinsight and humility, for their keen attention to andtransformation of the small details of a life. Carol Lem’s isa true voice in sure command of her craft, and her clearand accessible vision gives us poems that revealprofound and essential understanding. Her themes arethe transience of our lives and at the same time thebeauty of nature that sustains us. Carol Lem’s poemsseem to rise from love—of friends, teachers, the art ofteaching, the art of learning, and music, the bambooflute, the notes, the silence between them, the hush atthe end. Philip Levine, in a lovely tribute poem, tells thepoet she “knows what work is” and “how to do it.”The “work” of writing poetry is as ordinary as a day shiftand, at the same time, fundamentally mysterious.Carol Lem knows how to do it.

James P. Lenfestey, EditorLow Down and Coming On: A Feast of Deliciousand Dangerous Poems About Pigs978-1-890193-22-5, $20, cloth, 230 pp.RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2010

Poetry. This anthology features the work of 105 poets,including work by Margaret Atwood, William Blake,Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich,Martín Espada, Bill Holm, Galway Kinnell, Ted Kooser,David Lee, Denise Levertov, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath,Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder, and Kevin Young. “Thisbook proves that pigs DO fly”—Eric Utne, founder ofUtne Reader.

Takako Lento andWayneMiller, EditorsTamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20thCentury Master978-0-9641454-2-9, $12.99, paper, 191 pp.PLEIADES PRESS 2011

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Literary History & Criticism.After the end of World War II, Japanese poet TamuraRyuichi began publishing Arechi (TheWasteland), aliterary magazine charting a new course for Japanesepoetry. Over the next fifty years, Tamura producedinnovative and haunting poems inspired by anextraordinary range of poets from all over the world,including T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden. Though Tamura islittle known in the U. S., he is considered to be amongthe very most important Japanese poets of the 20thcentury. In this second volume of the Unsung MastersSeries, editors Takako Lento and Wayne Miller presentmore than forty pages of Tamura’s poetry, as well asessays on Tamura’s work by both Japanese andAmerican writers.

David LespiauFour Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the RestoredVolume978-1-936194-04-9, $14, paper, 72 pp.BURNING DECK 2011

Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop.Real and fictional characters (Mrs. Lindbergh, GertrudeStein, William Burroughs, Billy Budd or the Kid) circulatethrough the four parts of FOUR CUT-UPS, OR, THE CASEOF THE RESTORED VOLUME which, in the way of amobile, uses constant movement to construct a preciseform out of fragmented perceptions, ideas, stories,quotations. A form that gives a strangely uncanny sheento the most realistic details.



Dominic MallaryDestroyer of Man: Selected Poems by DominicOwen Mallary978-0-9844752-1-6, $12.95, paper, 64 pp.BLACK OCEAN 2011

Poetry. A combination of poems published duringDominic Mallary’s lifetime alongside poemsposthumously selected by friends, DESTROYER OF MANreveals a fiercely aware young poet writing from a placeof anger and beauty with a lyrical virtuosity that is freefrom censorship. Drawing on a long and varied tradition,Mallary is equal parts Hart Crane and Rimbaud.Arresting, raw, clever, and unexpectedly moving, thesepoems tear away at the world in a relentless pursuit forliberation from the ugly and mundane. Ultimately,Mallary finds that freedom not at the core of humanity,but in the ashes we leave behind.

Filip MarinovichAnd If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You HereTomorrow978-1-933254-80-7, $17, paper, 136 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. Filip Marinovich’s second book spans the Otts,the outs, and many outposts. Travel with Filip and meetthe phantoms of airplane chewing gum and beat on adrum with a Molotov cocktail. “What’s happening?What is happening to me? The poems of FilipMarinovich, that’s what! This book makes me cry, thenlaugh, it’s awful, it’s fantastic! Joy is in the movement hesays and there is an inexplicable physicality betweeneach word! Have you been here? Ever visit such a place?In one sitting you will read it and want every book topossess such tangential magic! I’m stupid with love forthe genius of Filip Marinovich!”—CAConrad.

Chris MartinBecoming Weather978-1-56689-259-9, $16, paper, 138 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Chris Martin details daily delights, sidewalksand subways, and bulldogs at the park, giving equalattention to all. In his poems, the reader witnesses thefragmentation of the speaker’s mind into particlesswirling and waltzing until eventually rising into theatmosphere.

Dawn Lundy MartinDiscipline978-0-9844598-4-1, $15.95, paper, 74 pp.NIGHTBOAT BOOKS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. This stunning secondcollection engages the “disciplines” associated withregimes of powers and sadomasochism. The workinterrogates the social and linguistic space betweenregimes of power enacted on the body, and thereby thesoul. “These poems are dense and deep. They arenecessary, and hot on the eye. I was reminded of LeslieScalapino, the sensitivity to the surroundingarrangements and to human suffering. There is nodistance from Martin’s subject, but immersion andemotional conflict. Discipline is what it took to writesuch a potent set of poems”—Fanny Howe.

Chris MasonHum Who Hiccup978-0-9793901-5-9, $15.95, paper, 136 pp.NARROW HOUSE 2011

Poetry. “Chris Mason has fabricated a set of visualcharms, small and intense constellations of words thatmake & do, bounce & hope, zap & slap. These are dreamsof poems more than poems of dreams, sweet & filledwith delight”—Charles Bernstein.

Astrid LorangeEating and Speaking978-0-9833931-0-8, $12, paper, 44 pp.TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Words can nourish and give pleasure, can befeasts replete with edgy and delightful textures andflavors. The dual sensualities named in Lorange’s title areeverywhere present in her poetics. The ‘you’ and ‘I’incarnate only by means of speech enact their conjoinedphilogies—lusty, omnivorous, humorously irreverent,but grave with longing as well. All this from aknowledgeable and daring mind for your reading (newlycognate with eating) pleasure”—Joan Retallack.

Raymond LuczakRoad Work Ahead978-0-578-07158-9, $14.95, paper, 92 pp.SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. In the follow-up to his criticallyacclaimed collection MUTE, Raymond Luczak sets out ona turbulent journey after ending a 15-year relationship.The poems of ROAD WORK AHEAD follow Luczak ashe meets kindred souls on his travels and wonders whatit means to love again. He opens the suitcase of hisheart in far-flung cities and points beyond. His poems,pungent with musk and ache, will open yours too.

Magus MagnusHeraclitean Pride978-0-9826299-2-5, $14, paper, 100 pp.FURNITURE PRESS BOOKS 2010

Poetry. “Reading Magnus’s HERACLITEAN PRIDE, one isreminded of Fragment 115: ‘To the soul belongs a Logosthat increases itself.’ Magnus’s approach increases thelogos, and through that increase fashions perspectivesfrom which to engage Heraclitus’ philosophy. Hisis not a traditional interpretation but a journey that issimultaneously a piercing through. In that respect,Magnus’s account truly combines two meanings of‘traversing’ to fashion a standpoint of plenitude. I believehis success in thus traversing stems from a powerful anddaring insight about Heraclitus: ‘Previous analyses andimpact don’t constitute its history, it’s not over.’ ForMagnus, the philosophy of Heraclitus is not over. Instead,he relates to Heraclitus in the moment when Heraclitustouches Magnus’s own Logos and thus Magnusovercomes the danger against which Heraclitus warns inFragment 72, for Magnus’s account is never separatedfrom that with which he is most in contact. This work isessential reading for serious inquiry into the great Sagefrom Ephesus”—Anne Ashbaugh, Chair, Philosophy andReligious Studies, Towson University.

Marie-Elizabeth MaliSteady, My Gaze978-1-893670-66-2, $15, paper, 80 pp.TEBOT BACH 2011

Poetry. “‘Wholehearted’ is an undervalued word; to mymind it means not blind enthusiasm or unthinkingembrace but something more like the full consent of theself to experience, to be present in the glorious andwounding matrix of the here and now. I can’t think of abetter word for Marie-Elizabeth Mali’s poems. She wants‘the honeyed sizzle beyond all language,’ wants tobe a vulnerable and conscious participant in the life ofthings as they are, awake to love and the struggle to livefreely and compassionately. ‘How to hold the ocean,’she asks, ‘when the vessel leaks? Rise your wild, / dearanimal...’”—Mark Doty.



Shane McCraeIn Canaan978-0-9844889-1-9, $10, paper, 35 pp.RESCUE PRESS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. In Shane McCrae’s INCANAAN, he inhabits the personae of the escaped slaveMargaret Garner, who, in the mid-1800s, murdered oneof her daughters in order to keep her from returning toslavery. “I couldn’t stop/Hurting her because it hurt,”writes McCrae in the voice of Garner, “Before that night Inever had the chance to love / Anyone/ she was thefirst person I loved.” McCrae composes in broken formsand shattered fragments, retelling a harrowing historicalstory through the imagined first-person point of view ofits tortured and terrified heroine.

Frances McCueThe Bled978-0-9840698-7-3, $14, paper, 62 pp.FACTORY HOLLOW PRESS 2010

Poetry. “Frances McCue’s book is the most movingaccount of a spouse’s death I have ever read. While livingabroad in Morocco he died suddenly, and the aftermathof that event is detailed here with astonishment andheart-rung love”—James Tate. “THE BLED is a cleared-eyed, ruthless, beautiful, terrible look at what it isto find love and to lose it, to be knocked around bydeath and grief, to wonder how you can go on living”—Rebecca Brown.

Brian McGettrickEverything Else We Must Endure978-1-934513-29-3, $13, paper, 52 pp.SUNNYOUTSIDE 2011

Poetry. EVERTHING ELSE WE MUST ENDURE allows thereader to peep through domestic doors not fully closedand see the varied interiors of the lives being led,introducing us to memorable characters who remind usthat not all action takes place in the spotlight. In thesepoems, even the mundane sparkles and sometimes it’sthe young who have wisdom to spare.

DeborahMeadowsSaccade Patterns978-1-60964-006-4, $16, paper, 100 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. SACCADE PATTERNS explores vision, the eroticgaze, and social discernment. The book opens with ashuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribingprimate capacity for abstract thought. There’s even a listof possible names for a pet cricket that follows amathematic iteration. The poems seem to ask how anekphrastic poem based on the story of Tristan und Isoldeillumines the oldest gaze of love and eros. “Highways outto desert proving grounds” lead to technologically-enhanced vision, failures in our “dynastic speed-up.”

Pablo MedinaThe Man Who Wrote on Water978-1-934909-19-5, $18, paper, 102 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. “Pablo Medina’s poemsbelong to the real world even while they move acrossthe borders of dreams and wild imagination. Theysustain a tone that’s both sophisticated and innocent,delivering fresh news of what it feels like to be alive andhuman. I love these poems for their music and vividimagery. I love their clarity, whether evoking city or bullpasture or bedroom, or an interior landscape. I lovefollowing the poet’s surprising thought, as he delvesinto the heart and the mind and the world”—Joan Larkin.

James MaughnThe Arakaki Permutations978-0-9825731-6-7, $15, paper, 120 pp.BLACK RADISH BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “In THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS, James Maughncontinues his uncompromising engagement with thecatechisms of martial kata and their intersection withthe forms of writing. Delving deeper into the heart of hisown poems, he engages the particularities of technicalapplication—of timing and distance—that comprise hisown poetic waza, or practice. By disclosing the texturesand subtleties of language, even to the level of thesyllable, Maughn illuminates the architecture ofmeaning. The result is a collection of remarkable poemsthat discover a boundless freedom within the structureof form. Through self imitation he has subjugated self-consciousness and achieved that most difficult of artisticfeats: the revelation of a true self”—Joshua McKinney.

Bernadette MayerStudying Hunger Journals978-1-58177-120-6, $24.95, paper, 460 pp.STATION HILL PRESS OF BARRYTOWN 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In 1972 Bernadette Mayerbegan this project as an aid to psychological counseling,writing in parallel journals so that, as she wrote in one(in bed, on subways, at parties, etc.), her psychiatrist readthe other. Using colored pens to “color-code emotions,”she recorded dreams, events, memories, and reflectionsin a language at once free-ranging and precise—a workthat creates its own poetics. She sought “a workablecode, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event,every motion, every transition” of her own mind and to“perform this process of translation” on herself in theinterest of evolving an innovative, inquiring language.STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS registers this intentionwithin a body of poetry John Ashbery has called“magnificent.”

BenMazerJanuary 2008978-0-615-34305-1, $17, paper, 149 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2010

Poetry. JANUARY 2008 collects one hundred thirty-fivepoems written shortly after the death of Landis Everson.“Like fragments of old photographs happened on in adrawer, Ben Mazer’s poems tap enigmatic bits of thepast that suddenly come to life again. To read him is tofollow him along a dreamlike corridor where everythingis beautiful and nothing is as it seems”—John Ashbery.

Anthony McCannI Heart Your Fate978-1-933517-51-3, $16, paper, 96 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In his third collection of poetry, Anthony McCannfuses the worlds of dream, art, love, and brute humanity,taking the redemptive power of the romantic tonew and surprising extremes. “I don’t have a body tofeel afraid,” writes McCann, and these poems, bald andimaginative, almost convince the reader it must be so,save for the fact that they are so vitally, essentiallyhuman.



BenMilderFrom Adolescence to Senescence:A Life in Light Verse978-1-56809-137-2, $15.95, paper, 122 pp.TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Poetry. FROM ADOLESCENCE TO SENESCENCE is not somuch Ben Milder’s autobiography in poetry as it is a sortof poetic “photo album” of the author’s life. Each of thebook’s twelve sections is a page of snapshots that lets ussee what’s made this master of light verse keep onticking well into his nineties. Milder’s delightful andpoignant poems on everything from work andsocializing and faith to love and travel and family reflecta life both examined and lived to its fullest. So, comealong, with Ben Milder, on a journey from the teenageyears to the ripe old age of young-at-heart.

Jennifer MilitelloFlinch of Song978-1-932195-76-7, $16.95, paper, 72 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2009

Poetry. Winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award,Jennifer Militello’s poems are lyrical, deeply thoughtful,and laced with associative leaps so surprising that areader will be exhilarated by the imagination at work(and play) in each poem. The poems grapple with theeveryday dramas of family and of love and do so with anavidity of intelligence as bracing as lines from Lorca orRimbaud.

StanMirThe Lacustrine Suite978-1-886350-23-6, $14, paper, 80 pp.PAVEMENT SAW PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Dear Mirror, in THE LACUSTRINE SUITE, all theships side with their shadows. This is the silhouette thestars hunt. Trace the happy apocalypse of Stan Mir’smouth, a loophole at the end of the cul-de-sac ofspeech. This is the lake you have waded into. Problemsongs preserved from allegory’s fortress. Asterisks thenash. Gauze fallen from your gills”—Eric Baus.

Robert MittenthalWax World978-0-925904-90-4, $16, paper, 116 pp.CHAX PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In Mittenthal’s work, it’s the idea of comedy inan explosion of craft that catches you. He’s quiet aboutit. He understands it will adhere—and it’s designed to—to linger. There’s almost a battle going on—an intellectthat exists only to be destroyed by itself so that all thatwas is as it was—only clearer. And his sound sounds themost sounded out a boxer squaring off to take on thepsychology of currency and its effects on labor. Notpolitical OR only political. A clarity and honest posturemixed with poignant sarcasm about how the world seesitself. It’s about seeing inequality. ‘Paid to forget, I recallmore’”—Nico Vassilakis.

Albert MobilioTouch Wood978-1-934029-16-9, $14, paper, 87 pp.THE BROOKLYN RAIL/BLACK SQUARE EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. “The heir to Modernism at its most terse andmost oblique, Mobilio works line and sound forcefullytogether, managing amazingly acrobatic moves. With aneye for the monumental incidental, he winds throughekphrastic gesture and an eccentric abecedarium to giveus a tour of the contemporary that’s quick, vivid, and wryalmost to the point of irony—but not quite. Instead, hesticks with the tenacious questions, probing the slimabysses between a life’s well-oiled parts. It’s delightful,witty, and deeply moving all at once”—Cole Swensen.

Tony MedinaMy Old Man Was Always on the Lam978-1-935520-36-8, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. MY OLD MAN WASALWAYS ON THE LAM is a blues memoir in verse. Withbrutal honesty and lyrical prowess, Tony Medina playsthe changes in an intimate collection that sticks like astinging Ali punch and moves like a New York Citysubway train through the raw, unmitigated terrain of hispsyche. Sparked by the sudden death of his father inHarlem, MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAMexamines his relationship with a long-lost mother whoabandoned him at birth, exploring his Bronx projectschildhood and his relationship with the paternalgrandmother who wrestled him from the clutches of theState and raised him, culminating with a reunion withhis terminally ill mother, attempting to fill in the gaps ofa precarious past destined to collide with its bare-bonespresent. In this, his fifth full-length collection, TonyMedina is at his most personal and revelatory.

Erika MeitnerMakeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls978-1-934695-23-4, $17, paper, 98 pp.ANHINGA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “These cool, hot poems about women and girls indanger and on the prowl, coming of age and being ofage, are full of startling detail and vivid setting. Meitner’srange, wit, compassion and her alertness to themoments where domestic and collective experienceintersect, make these poems memorable. This book is aseriously good read”—Daisy Fried.

David MeltzerWhen I Was a Poet978-0-87286-516-7, $10.95, paper, 135 pp.CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Poetry. A milestone in City Lights history, David Meltzer’sWHEN I WAS A POET is number sixty of the famousPocket Poets Series. The title piece is an ambitious workby a master at the height of his powers, a spiritualassessment of the meaning of a lifetime spent writingpoetry. Also included are portraits of key figures in thepoet’s life, including Semina artist Wallace Berman, aswell as “California Dreamin’,” a reminiscence of Beat-erabohemian life. Among its other highlights are thevintage, previously uncollected series, “French Broom,”a nutty homage to “Mr. Peanut,” a section of mystical“amulets,” and complete versions of “Night Reals”and “Dogma,” which appear here for the first time.With its profound meditations on love, loss, aging, anddeath, WHEN I WAS A POET is a substantial contributionto American poetry by one of its foremost livingpractitioners. “With this primal book, David Meltzer takeshis place among the great poets of his generation”—Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Christina MengertAs We Are Sung978-1-936194-05-6, $14, paper, 64 pp.BURNING DECK 2011

Poetry. This first book by a trained vocalist explores thetransformation from “I am speaking” to “I am singing,”and where exactly poetry fits between these two limits.Restlessly, in abrupt (sometimes humorous) shifts itexamines the subtle, the inaccessible, what is too fine forour senses, “the song that is sung between notes.”The poems seem almost to disperse, to float off into aspace as vast and as tolerant of indeterminacy asBarbara Guest’s, where seeming emptiness can turn intoa fullness of motion, potential, song, being.



Vivek NarayananUniversal Beach978-1-934639-10-8, $15, paper, 80 pp.IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI 2011

Poetry. South Asia Studies. “Vivek Narayanan’s poemsremind me of a thriving port city, where diverse tonguesare spoken, their registers varying from a priestlyclassical to a piratical demotic. Narayanan founds hispoetic universe on a sophisticated understanding ofbricolage: with a keen eye on the uses of friction, hecounterpoints the certainties of definitions with thedeceptions of synaesthesia; he sends up the vaguenessof academic discourse with devastatingly preciseonomatopoeia, and segues adroitly from memoir tosurveillance report, from the elegiac to thecarnivalesque. And then there are moments ofluminosity, when the word becomes the bearer of hopeand redemption. Not by offering us a spurious clarity,but challenging us into insight with a jaggedness ofphrase, a treacherously ambiguous grammar, and ademanding musicality”—Ranjit Hoskote.

Gale NelsonThis Is What Happens When Talk Ends978-1-936194-06-3, $14, paper, 104 pp.BURNING DECK 2011

Poetry. There are eight sets of eight poems. All poemswithin a set follow the vowel pattern of a particularpassage from Shakespeare. They could be calledhomovocalic translations of Shakespeare though theyignore his content while trying to build toward their owncoherence. The sets are not presented in linearsuccession. Instead, the poems are arranged in a chesspattern, the earliest surviving knight’s circuit, attributedto al-Adli ar-Rumi of Baghdad and presumed to datefrom A.D. 840.

Aimee NezhukumatathilLucky Fish978-1-932195-58-3, $16.95, paper, 78 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. LUCKY FISH travels alonga lush current—a confluence of leaping vocabulary andstartling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at itssource: for love, motherhood, “new hope,” and the fluidand rich possibilities of words themselves. With anexuberant appetite for “my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew,” anchored in complicated humansituations, this astounding young poet’s third collectionof poems is her strongest yet.

bp NicholThe Captain Poetry Poems Complete978-1-897388-60-0, $15, paper, 88 pp.BOOKTHUG 2011

Poetry. Art. Originally published in 1970 as a mimeoproduction by bill bissett’s seminal blewointment press(the same year that Michael Ondaatje issued hisdocumentary on Nichol titled The Sons of Captain Poetry),smatterings of THE CAPTAIN POETRY POEMS COMPLETEhave appeared over the years but never in their entirety.Now, in “official book form” for the first time, along withcorrections to the texts and the material that wasn’tincluded in the original edition, and “some words on allthese words” by Nichol himself THE CAPTAIN POETRYPOEMS COMPLETE is available at last to scholars, poets,and other human beings alike. With an afterword bybill bissett.

Derek MongOther Romes978-0-9818591-8-7, $14, paper, 80 pp.SATURNALIA BOOKS 2011

Poetry. OTHER ROMES gathers together an eclectic rangeof influences—from Fellini films, to eating contests,Jesuit poetry, and jetliners—to confront the awkwardbut inevitable relationship between personal narrativesand the larger public sphere. And like the title city thathaunts much of this work, Mong refuses to settle on anyone voice or form. Restrained at times as a Latin ode, orexpansive as Whitman, these poems take erotic love andin-flight disaster through subtle, fissuring syllabics, strictsestinas, free verse, and more. The end result is anexpansive collection, which as poet and critic DavidBaker remarks, demonstrates that “the privacy of thelyric world is part and parcel with the communalimagination.”

Daniel MorrisIf Not for the Courage978-0-9841177-6-5, $15, paper, 70 pp.MARSH HAWK PRESS 2010

Poetry. “Everyday life in the household and memory ofDaniel Morris’s suburban Jewish professor-poet andfather of toddlers has rarely been rendered with theenergy, good humor, and luminous detail we meet inDaniel Morris’s IF NOT FOR THE COURAGE. These poemsare at once hilarious and heartbreaking; they take usstraight to the scene of the crime, allowing us to witnessthe most absurd and agonizingly funny moments ofdaily routine against the backdrop of unrelieved mediablitz. The courage of Morris’s title is evidentthroughout”—Marjorie Perloff.

Fred MuratoriThe Spectra978-0-615-41573-4, $18, paper, 79 pp.STOCKPORT FLATS 2011

Poetry. If what you relish about thought is its heft,velocity, its unpredictability, then Fred Muratori’sTHE SPECTRA will transport you. Visceral particulars—Batman, buzzsaws, wax-lustered cars, beef, and, yes,even Roy Orbison—propel readers beyond finitude inblunt cascades of 15 lines. Enjambments facilitatespeed, precariousness, volatility while asking: “What ifeverything we think, from first synaptic spark to the last,is one thought, continuously digressive?” Parsed out in13 syllables per line, life besieges readers as Muratoricharts the source of the unsayable. Locomotion andelocution bring us to life’s brim, to the subliminal spectratherein. One could cite Kant, Leibnitz and Wittgensteinto explain how Muratori twists conventional notionsof meaning formation. The poet himself tips his hatto Wallace Stevens and others who fall intoconsciousness—Dupin, Bronk, Dahlberg, and Zukofsky.THE SPECTRA’s thoughts-about-thought clang and balk,surprising us all.

Jack MyersThe Memory of Water978-1-930974-98-2, $15, paper, 103 pp.NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Poetry. “What a wonderful gift to have these last poemsby Jack Myers. It is a book I wouldn’t be without.Jack was a quintessentially American poet. He wrote ina distilled American idiom with a wiseguy humor that istruly wise. He honored the past, and the future, too, butknew a poet’s work was to strive for the elusive eternalpresent. Poetry, for Jack, is the art of the elusive, which iswhere mystery resides. Poetry, for Jack, was making uphis prayer. He knew he might never arrive at some all-explaining religion, but, damn, he had a beautifulprayer”—Stuart Dybek.



Mary OishiSpirit Birds They Told Me978-0-9826968-3-5, $11.95, paper, 60 pp.WEST END PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Drawn from hermother’s Japanese name, One Thousand Cranes, thesepoems bring a message of trauma and recovery, war andreconciliation, and the passage from personal shame toself-regard. They are historical, political, and personal inthe same breath. “This beautiful collection of poetry is apowerful work of conscience, a telling of ‘the trueststories ever told’ about how injustice wounds—and howthose who survive can learn the secrets of dreaming theworld anew. Mary Oishi has given us the perfect book forthis moment in history”—Demetria Martinez.

Christina OlsonBefore I Came Home Naked978-1-934828-09-0, $14, paper, 67 pp.SPIRE PRESS, INC. 2010

Poetry. “BEFORE I CAME HOME NAKED is a marvelousx-ray of Midwestern oddities and delights with thewonder and vulnerability that comes from examiningthe family tree—limb from crackly limb. In her debut,Olson expertly sweeps the reader into the depths ofheartbreak and humor from the very first poem.These pages burst with rewards: ample evidence of anaturalist’s love of the outdoors, a sagacious blend ofcompassion and mirth, and the best drinking companionyou’d ever imagine. This is a poetry that bears bravewitness to that place in a ‘ruby heart’ where the internaland external landscape crash and clatter into theloveliest of songs”—Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Rochelle OwensSolitary Workwoman978-1-881523-18-5, $21, paper, 152 pp.JUNCTION PRESS 2011

Poetry. A central figure in the international avant-gardefor fifty years, Rochelle Owens has published sixteenprevious volumes of poetry, including NEW ANDSELECTED POEMS 1961-1996 and LUCA: DISCOURSE ONLIFE AND DEATH (both Junction Press, 1997 and 2001).She has been the recipient of five Village Voice Obieawards and Honors from the New York Drama Critics’Circle for her plays. Her work has been translated intoFrench, German, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, andJapanese.

Judith PachtSummer Hunger978-1-893670-54-9, $15, paper, 76 pp.TEBOT BACH 2010

Poetry. “Judith Pacht’s SUMMER HUNGER is nothingless than a superb collection of poems. SUMMERHUNGER encompasses wry daily reflections as well assobering and profound historical meditations. Withenormous composure and poise, Judith Pacht is able tomove her reader deftly between her elegant wit andcalm wisdoms. This collection is an exceptional andmemorable achievement”—David St. John.

Ron PadgettHow Long978-1-56689-256-8, $16, paper, 91 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Ron Padgett’s title poem asks: “How long do youwant to go on being the person you think you are?/ How Long, a city in China.” With the arrival of his firstgrandchild, Padgett becomes even more inspired toconfront the eternal mysteries in poems with a wry,rueful honesty that comes only with experience, in hiscase sixty-eight years of it.

Urayoán NoelHi-Density Politics978-1-60964-031-6, $16, paper, 106 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. “Urayoán Noel’splurilingual, polyphonic, & polymorphous text works areimages are performance scores are records of poetryactions are homophonic translations are poems arehomages to some of Latin America and the Caribbean’sgreatest innovators. Their language is a haunted one.Throughout Noel’s body of work the ghost of Spanishunsettles the English language, disrupting itsexpansionist ambitions. Ditto for the specter of Englishin the Spanish lines. The only expansionism herepertains to the field of poetry, and we’re all the luckierfor it”—Mónica de la Torre.

Linda NortonThe Public Gardens: Poems and History978-0-9831975-1-5, $14, paper, 134 pp.PRESSEDWAFER 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Introduction byFanny Howe. THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS ANDHISTORY is a memoir of place (Boston, New York,Oakland and San Francisco) and of the commons(gardens, streets, subways, marriage and family,libraries), a documentary (with lyrics) of a life lived in,around, and for books. “THE PUBLIC GARDENS is abrilliant, wonderful book, a sort of a wild institution,intense and readable. Linda Norton looks at the worldlike a dog who likes to tear apart couches—repressedbut not for long. Though full of shame, this book isshameless. A life is freely divulged as are the multitudeof homeopathic bits from the author’s reading list.The overall experience of moving through THE PUBLICGARDENS’s shuttling prose and poetry is quietlybreathtaking. I have felt and learned much from thisbook! Her ‘Gardens’ are both organized and entirelydisorderly—anything and anyone from any point inhistory might saunter through, and that’s the meaningof public isn’t it? I find myself loving this writer’s mind,light touch, and generous heart and I, reader, didn’twant to go when it was done. My bowl is out. More!”—Eileen Myles.

Kathryn NuernbergerRag & Bone978-1-932418-40-8, $16, paper, 80 pp.ELIXIR PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Antivenom Poetry Award.Contest judge, Jane Satterfield, had this to say aboutRAG & BONE: “This is a poetry of pain and power...whether describing the precise coloration of fruit skin,the contours of memory, or secrets of Fatima which turnout to be ‘cryptic mumbo jumbo,’ RAG & BONE revealscomplicated truths with rare eloquence and wit.Whatever the future holds, Nuernberger remembers,even as she beholds the present with blinding intensity.Lyrical and deeply felt, the poems in RAG & BONE trackthe movement of a sometimes skeptical but alwaysengaged and impassioned mind.”


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Shailja PatelMigritude978-1-885030-05-4, $15.95, paper, 154 pp.KAYA PRESS 2010

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. SouthAsian Studies. African Studies. The U.S. debut ofinternationally acclaimed poet and performance artistShailja Patel, MIGRITUDE is a tour-de-force hybrid textthat confounds categories and conventions. Part poeticmemoir, part political history, MIGRITUDE weavestogether family history, reportage and monologues tocreate an achingly beautiful portrait of women’s livesand migrant journeys undertaken under the boot printof Empire. “Illuminates with artistry and eloquence theshameful secrets of empire’s history”—Howard Zinn.

Alexandria PearyLid to the Shadow978-0-9777698-6-5, $14.95, paper, 96 pp.SLOPE EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. In LID TO THE SHADOW, Alexandria Peary writesabout spring, referencing classical Eastern imagery ofblossoming cherry trees to talk about childbirth, femaledesire, motherhood, and absence of memory. This bookthrives through its artful use of imagery and voice aswell as its beautiful meta-moments and allusions. Pearydraws attention to the presence of the poem itself, asthough the poem were a moment of space and time.She drags words and symbols out of the flow of the textand makes them three-dimensional. In LID TO THESHADOW, shadows represent the presence of the past,and meta language becomes the presence of the now.

Craig Santos PerezFrom Unincorporated Territory [Saina]978-1-890650-46-9, $15.95, paper, 136 pp.OMNIDAWN 2010

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Using a replica of thenative Chamorros’ outrigger boats as his figurativevessel, these poems explore the personal, historical,cultural, and natural elements of the poet’s native Guam.Combining and contrasting the fragmentary myths ofthe author’s island ancestors, intimate childhood storiesof growing up on Guam, and the history of his family’simmigration to the United States—with primaryhistories and texts of the colonial domination and abusebrought on by Spain, Japan, and the United States—these poems give voice to the anguish of the oppressedas well as their hopes for the future. Referring to boththe island nation of Guam and the uncharted expansesof one’s own soul, the “unincorporated territory” titlereflects the author’s attempts to express concepts thatgo beyond the current reaches of any language.

Lucia PerilloInseminating the Elephant978-1-55659-295-9, $16, paper, 106 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. A 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, INSEMINATING THEELEPHANT delivers hard-edged yet vulnerable poemsthat reconcile the comic impulse with the complicationsand tragedies of living in the eating and breathingbody—what Lucia Perillo calls the “meat cage.” Perillodissects human failings and sexuality, as well ascollisions between nature and the manufactured world,to create an unforgettable poetic vision. “Whoever toldyou poetry isn’t for everyone hasn’t read Lucia Perillo”—Time Out New York.

Justin PetropoulosEminent Domain978-0-9841177-9-6, $15, paper, 96 pp.MARSH HAWK PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prizeselected by Anne Waldman. “The brilliant serial prosepoems of EMINENT DOMAIN frame a troubledscintillating world between animate/inanimate realities,bleak and transcendent at the same time. The titlereferences the power of the state to seize a citizen’sproperty, yet this book reclaims and prioritizes humanimagination and vision. These are works in the lineage ofRimbaud, keen, sharp, witty, unsentimental yet curiouslyvisceral and emotionally powerful. Justin Petropoulosmirrors back at us a reflection of the diamond-facetedjuxtaposed particulars in the face of our AnthropoceneAge. Animals abound, caught in civilization’s web:moths, cranes, spiders, sparrows, the isosceles comingsand goings of ducks, a butterfly or is it a butterflychair morphing into blue? Snakes disappear ‘lassoedoff by wind,’ a ‘chorus of crickets’ is ‘chirping at Polaris’and lozenges nest in the ‘mud-throats of loons.’Petropoulos’s steady eye on the larger cosmos alsoholds: ‘She sees an infinite rack of stray planets in a garlicclove....’ It’s quite a ride. The crystalline surreal phraseskeep humming and surprising in this postmodernapocalyptic world. A ‘bulldozer’s exhaustoria,’ a‘mannequin’s fennel suit,’ refugee camps, strontium 90,‘martial-like curfews,’ turret guns, border zones,fluorescent dyes, Styrofoam skies resound ‘as if historywere a tea-stained sink.’This is a new Waste Land.Welcome an original consciousness from the belly of thebeast”—Anne Waldman.

Katie PhillipsDriving Montana, Alone978-0-9820626-3-0, $12, paper, 41 pp.SLAPERING HOL PRESS 2010

Poetry. “The haunting poems in DRIVING MONTANA,ALONE are in physical and spiritual motion”—Connie Wanek. “Phillips offers her readers a series ofgritty, pastoral, elegiac poems. Her radiantly distilledmeditations are uncompromising, direct, andbeautiful”—Denise Duhamel.

Anne PitkinWinter Arguments978-0-9812744-8-5, $16.50, paper, 58 pp.AHADADA BOOKS 2011

Poetry. “In this strong follow-up to her earlier collectionYellow, Seattle poet Anne Pitkin effortlessly ranges frometudes based on art, music and fairy tales to deceptivelydomestic narrative poems of mother and daughter, wifeand husband.... In their imagistic tableaux, these maturepoems’ lucent language and imagery reveal in theirturning facets the poet and our world”—Sean Bentley.

Harry PolkinhornDemos Oneiron978-1-881523-20-8, $14, paper, 84 pp.JUNCTION PRESS 2011

Poetry. Child of our amorphous border and a lifetimeboundary-walker, transcriber of unknown or scarcelyremembered languages, in DEMOS ONEIRON HarryPolkinhorn hews fast to the bafflement of dreams andthe dream of language, set forth in a pensive music.“The dead poets,” he writes, “emerge / from their gravesthirsty for words / that have been denied them they / rolltheir eyes back in their heads / in search of formervisions,” here the visions of the everyday filtered bymillennia. Harry Polkinhorn, despite his nine previouscollections, is one of American poetry’s unknowntreasures.


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Pamela PorterCathedral978-1-55380-106-1, $15.95, paper, 100 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Poetry. This collection of poems takes us on a journey—a very personal journey of Pamela Porter’s own—toAfrica and South America, those corners of the world thenews reports never seem to cover: to Angola’s thirty-year-long civil war, a landscape overrun with poverty,AIDS, and infant mortality; and to the struggles ofordinary people still haunted by the past horrors ofArgentina’s “dirty war.” With language deceptivelysimple, filled with music, color and rich detail, Porterwrites with grace and compassion, making a fiercebeauty from all she sees, celebrating the resilienceof the poor and oppressed, who nonetheless remaindetermined to live their lives with dignity and with joy.

Gretchen Steele PrattOne Island978-1-934695-16-6, $17, paper, 80 pp.ANHINGA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “ONE ISLAND is an earthy, delightfully vibrantcollection by a fine new poet, full of sacred and profaneregisters. Gretchen Pratt’s poems are full of tribes andcommunities, stories and landscapes from ourrecognizably shared world. An openness of feeling isjazzily counterpointed by the thousand apprehendedthings of the world. What we get in the end is a cosmosin which selfhood and world are at play with eachother, recombining and changing in encounter afterencounter”—Tony Hoagland.

Nate PrittsBig Bright Sun978-1-60964-020-0, $16, paper, 90 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Nate Pritts’s BIG BRIGHT SUN probably feels sothoroughly lived because reading it feels so like living init. Robert Creeley wrote that for him in poems ‘the worldcame true.’ In these poems the world comes true. Andhow! All this sky glued to the trees and the world surfaceby the resin of sun-soaked American speech! You canfeel this book poised listening to itself and all the light,sound, thought and feeling passing through it. Passingthrough on its way towards all its directly addressedothers, us readers included. `Let’s be everlasting today,’this book, at one point early on, proposes. Let’s”—Anthony McCann.

George QuashaVerbal Paradise (preverbs)978-84-87467-48-6, $16, paper, 68 pp.ZASTERLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. VERBAL PARADISE is the first book of a projectedsix books of preverbs. “‘Words say too much to let youknow the truth.’ George Quasha’s torqued, enigmaticproverbs create unlikely balances among discrepantengagements. The vectors of these marvelous poemswork at cross purposes, keeping each other aloft.These are sparkling aphoristic aporias for a new age inan old time. ‘Poetry,’ says Quasha, ‘resists immortalitywith difficulty.’ And also with wit and charm. Be herenow, in which case immortality will take care of itself”—Charles Bernstein.

Marc RaheThe Smaller Half978-0-9844889-0-2, $14, paper, 75 pp.RESCUE PRESS 2010

Poetry. Marc Rahe’s concern with the body—in motion,trauma, sickness, health, intoxication, joy, wonder, andwaiting—fascinates and compels one to heartbreak,desire, and resignation. These poems are silly andstrange, adapting, fiery, and fiercely observant—as wellas bent on the notion that one might attend to even thesmallest of extraordinary detail.

Jennifer RahimRedemption Rain978-1-894770-70-5, $17.95, paper, 112 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Poetry. African American Studies. Caribbean Studies.Engaging with a broad range of human experience andconcerns, REDEMPTION RAIN invites the reader into itsprofound epiphanies through patient revisitation andintrospection. Rahim’s voice weaves the explosive powerof her lively Trinidadian Creole with the searchingintensity of one given to appreciating memory’sredemptive light. This is a book about the necessary andthe unexpected; about costly arrival in the sacred spacesof realization and recognition. Always the impulse is topraise. Hers is a voice that does not shrill but invests inthe finer sensibilities of justice, beauty, love, andcommunity to bring out her poetic truth.

Wendy RananThe Quiet Room978-0-9828100-0-2, $16.95, paper, 98 pp.DEERBROOK EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. “Wendy Ranan’s poems are strikingly original andmoving in the way they deal with the difficult emotionallandscapes of contemporary life. Although her subjectsare sometimes dark, the luminosity of her writing makesthem uplifting. Because her struggles are also ours, as wenavigate the dangerous waters of our lives, through herlovely poems, we are enriched as human beings”—Ai.

F. D. ReeveThe Puzzle Master and Other Poems978-1-935520-20-7, $14.95, paper, 84 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. “As if they were a crowd of pilgrims/singing in therain.../their music rises from an earth/that will not stay intune.” So F.D. Reeve writes in a poem entitled “Violets in aPewter Vase.” For nearly fifty years, he has found innature both a refuge from human imperfection and anexquisite rejoinder to it. Whether that imperfection bethe war in Afghanistan, worsening economic inequality,or even the ridiculous pretense of a thoroughlyprofessionalized poetry, Reeve makes of aestheticperception a kind of subjunctive faith.For a moment one man’s skill offers the possibility ofredemption, and the alternatives behind experiencebloom like those fragile violets in a pewter vase.

Steven ReignsInheritance978-0-9832931-2-5, $14.95, paper, 84 pp.SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. The autobiographical poems ofSteven Reigns’s INHERITANCE introduce us to the gainsand losses of a true American family and detail thebequests of the shadows that linger. Reigns glosses overnothing to reveal the secrets that turn suburbia into acoming-of-age battlefield. As Mark Doty says: “StevenReigns’s graceful, plainspoken lyrics describe the shapeof one gay life at the beginning of this new century, atime of uncertainty, transformation, and hope. To readhis book is to meet a man alert to his times and thetextures of the lives around him, a community observedwith tenderness, wit and pleasure.”



Andrea RexiliusTo Be Human Is to Be a Conversation978-0-9844889-3-3, $14, paper, 102 pp.RESCUE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Andrea Rexilius’s first book,TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION, combinesmemoir, essay, performance, research, poetry, and lyricmeditation to entwine, twist, and twin the physical andspiritual consequences of sisterhood. Through a series ofinvestigations and experiments, the text transformsinitial factual fragments into the bodily material of the(heard and unheard) language of intimates. “Our crime isshe began to grow in my skin,” writes Rexilius, “A conartist. A mammal. A flower at the back of my skull.”

John Calvin RezmerskiBreaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals978-1-890193-32-4, $15, paper, 126 pp.RED DRAGONFLY PRESS 2010

Poetry. BREAKING THE RULES is a collection of 107ghazals and quasi-ghazals, with an introductory essayby the author on the rules of writing ghazals and hisintent in breaking them. “It’s wonderful to see JohnRezmerski’s many gifts come together in a magnificentmulti-streamed confluence.... This book is the work of amaster word-chef, highlighted with some of the mostquotable lines I’ve read in some time”—Jim Heynen.“John Calvin Rezmerski explores the possibilities (andthe limits) of the ghazal in every conceivable way. Hispoems cast their nets out over an ocean teeming withhonest emotion and just as honest play”—Lola Haskins.

Peter RichardsHelsinki978-0-9799755-5-4, $16, paper, 90 pp.ACTION BOOKS 2011

Poetry. HELSINKI: part erotic, part nuclear, entirelymutagenic, dangerously Sublime. HELSINKI: a fort, ahospital bed, an escape pod, the mind, and memoryitself. “[A] word chain peppered with strange,colorful ciphers”—Boston Review.

Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, EditorsREAD 4978-0-9779351-2-3, $12, paper, 142 pp.1913 PRESS 2011

Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. READfeatures contemporary poetry in French and in English.Four French poets and four American poets walk into abar.... OK so one of the French poets is Algerian and oneof the American poets is half-French and another isLuxembourgeois. And it was really a cultural institutethat they walked into. And spent a week translating eachother’s work. Trading notes. Lounging in the garden.Improvising solutions—and walking into the bar acrossthe street. Read the results. READ, an annual anthologyof inter-translation published by 1913 Press, is the fruit ofthe Tamaas seminars in Paris.

Andrew RihnAmerica Plops and Fizzes978-1-934513-30-9, $13, paper, 48 pp.SUNNYOUTSIDE 2011

Poetry. With 21 illustrations by David Munson. WhenJack Kerouac deviated from the traditional haiku form,he began calling his poems “pops.” Andrew Rihndeviates even further, to the edge of formlessness,adding a new entry into the rubric of “American pops.”With short, sudden flashes, the reader is given glimpsesof pop culture—the celebrity, the sloganeering, thefetishism. These poems remind us that we are alltethered to something dark, violent, and absurd that lieshidden below the surface of late capitalism.

Elena RiveraThe Perforated Map978-1-84861-160-3, $15, paper, 100 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Who guides us through theunknown? Who offers the keys? In THE PERFORATEDMAP, Eléna Rivera’s guide is language as she attemptsto navigate the distances, the disturbances, thesuggestions, the mistakes, the perforations. In thesepoems, language is the map, the matter that fills/affectsthe body, the organizing principle between the selfand the world, and the forms that it gives rise to.The sentence is filled with holes. What is graspablebetween self and other? Is not all language in transit,moving in gradations of light, between knowingand the fuzzy conveyance shaped by words whosemeaning is a matter of further adumbrations? How arewe able to communicate our experience? How willunderstanding be sparked? What message is there forthe poet/the reader? That is what is at stake in thesepoems, finding the word, the specific word, to illuminatethe way, the experience of life, this moment, this time,this period of history.

Tim RobertsDrizzle Pocket978-1-60964-039-2, $16, paper, 164 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. Always inadequate, impotently contemplative, amaximalism cognizant of its own confinement, DRIZZLEPOCKET points anywhere but the page, life mingledwith sentence, an embodied question of “who is tearingaway from whom?” As Cole Swensen writes, it is a“tour-de-force of sustained imagination...full of afreshness, an airiness, and at the same time arelentlessness that speaks to Roberts’s careful blendingof compassion and determination.” An “ambient epic”and “post-human tale of the tribe” (Noah Eli Gordon),DRIZZLE POCKET is an illustrated and performed lappingagainst the impossibility of answer. As Tan Lin writes,“Tim Roberts has entered the nondecorativeunornamental structures of social life and the rain.”

Matthew RohrerDestroyer and Preserver978-1-933517-50-6, $16, paper, 88 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Matthew Rohrerilluminates the modern plight: trying to figure out howto be a thoughtful citizen, parent, and person as thelandscape of terror and history worms its way into oureveryday existence. Unnervingly humorous, casual, andtender, Rohrer’s poems help us investigate our lives as heinvestigates his—openly and with a generous presence.

Todd RomanowskiEvery Strange Meridian978-1-60964-029-3, $16, paper, 78 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Intensely lyric, often surreal, the poems in EVERYSTRANGE MERIDIAN cast a spell that is at oncedangerous and beautiful. There is abundant intelligenceat work here, in Romanowski’s inventive syntacticalstrategies (‘Touch eyelids: our room’; ‘News of aria,done/to me’), startling imagery (‘Centaurs find the night,a strewn hair’), and line breaks that swerve meaning(‘I resemble the head that wears/a statue’s crown...’).Like a fine night mist, these poems reveal and concealsimultaneously, build mystery both suspenseful andengaging, and return us to a primal state of love andlonging. EVERY STRANGE MERIDIAN is that rare thing: abook of poems in a new language, one that will, I’mconvinced, prove indelible”—Joan Houlihan.



Rena RosenwasserElevators978-0-932716-75-0, $17, paper, 72 pp.KELSEY STREET PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Art. These experimental poemsseduce us with their verbal architectures as the booktransports the reader visually and graphically across theglobe, through time to the present, from Perugia toEgypt to Manhattan, where historical details mesh withreal time haptic experiences of cathedral architecture,Egyptian monuments, and urban corridors that ignitethe “wow” effect of the poet’s New York City childhood.“This passionate psalm poem is a labyrinth inside atravelogue inside a dream”—Jane Miller.

Jerome RothenbergRetrievals: Uncollected & New Poems, 1955-2010978-1-881523-19-2, $21, paper, 180 pp.JUNCTION PRESS 2011

Poetry. A central figure of both the “deep image” andethnopoetics movements, and a pioneeringexperimentalist, Jerome Rothenberg is the author ofover eighty collections of poems and ten volumes oftranslations and editor of nine groundbreakinganthologies. He here assembles, out of poems and playsunpublished or obscurely published, the firstrepresentation of the full trajectory of one of the mostimportant careers in American poetry of the past pastfifty years.

Claude Royet-JournoudThe Whole of Poetry Is Preposition978-1-934200-45-2, $14, paper, 46 pp.FENCE BOOKS/LA PRESSE 2011

Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop.An aphoristic complement to Royet-Journoud’s recentbook THEORY OF PREPOSITIONS, this collection ofpropositions manages to be simultaneously provocativeand contemplative. The evocation of the preposition isnot without its homage to Louis Zukofsky, a poet centralto Royet-Journoud’s work; they share a deep affinity forthe particular, and beyond that, for the actual particularsthat compose our days, and for the delicate tissue thatblinds them: “...in the very articulation, sense becomesmagnetic.” Here the poetics of one of the mostimportant poets of the late 20th/early 21st centuries isarticulated—lucidly and luminously. In short, he shedslight on the subject.

Mary RuefleSelected Poems978-1-933517-56-8, $16, paper, 176 pp.WAVE BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Awardfrom the Poetry Society of America. Now in paperback:a career-defining retrospective by a much-belovedcontemporary master. Mary Ruefle’s SELECTED POEMSgathers together the finest work from her distinguishedand inimitable poetic career, showcasing the arc of herdevelopment as one of the most brilliant, expert andhilarious practitioners of the art. Anyone who wishes forpoetry to be both richly challenging and thoroughlyentertaining, need look no further than this capaciousretrospective.

Nelly SachsCollected Poems I: 1944-1949978-1-933382-57-9, $13.95, paper, 340 pp.GREEN INTEGER 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Germanby Michael Hamburger, Ruth and Matthew Mead,and Michael Roloff. Introduction by Hans MagnusEnzensberger. It was while living in Sweden in fear andagitation that German-born Nelly Sachs began again towrite: “Writing was my mute outcry; I wrote onlybecause I had to free myself,” she observed. In denWohnungen des Todes, written from 1944-45 andpublished in 1947, and Sternverdunkelung, of 1949—books whose entire contents, with a few exceptions,appear in this volume—represent Sachs’s major writingof this painful period, works which brought her theNobel Prize for Literature, with S. Y. Agnon, in 1966.

Zach SavichThe Firestorm978-1-880834-95-4, $15.95, paper, 96 pp.CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTER 2011

Poetry. “Take Zach Savich’s THE FIRESTORM as oneproof of Emerson’s assertion that the mind’s nature isvolcanic. A firestorm is such a conflagration that itproduces above it its own atmosphere. And so a readerfinds in Savich’s pages a super-heated cloud in whichthe poet’s voice grows multiple, grows active, andthe poem records the intimate collisions of lines thatveer from prophecy to aphorism to ribald wit to stoicspeculation. If this sounds nebulous, it is not. It isfulgurative, lightning-like, shot through sudden flashesof experience that in the sudden afterglow revealthat experience also experiences itself. Such is thecomplicated place where wit turns witness, and in doingso, opens up the deeper ironies—ironies that at firstglance seem quite plain: ‘I have forgotten if I am pullingthe curtain open or closed.’ Savich pulls the curtain openand closed, showing us again poetry’s paradoxicalnecessity: that the poem must show and hide at once,reveal and obscure simultaneously, and that a song thatthinks makes of its melody a matter that matters”—Dan Beachy-Quick.

Susan ScarlataIt Might Turn Out We Are Real978-0-9829896-1-6, $15, paper, 82 pp.HORSE LESS PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Susan Scarlata is on message, and she is notletting go. She is trying to tell us ‘no other planet meetsour needs.’ She turns her screen to let us see what shesees. Not, as they say, a pretty sight. She lays it outwith great precision in her beautiful vitrine of words.IT MIGHT TURN OUT WE ARE REAL is a complete set of21st century eclogues delivered to your door withbrainy clarity, with vinegary humor, with ergonomiceconomy and red-behind-the-ribs feeling. A positivelyextraordinary collection”—C. D. Wright.

Maxine ScatesUndone978-1-930974-99-9, $15, paper, 71 pp.NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Poetry. “By brave and honest recognition, coupled witha deft ability to glide between realms of perceptiontripped open by memory and emotion, Maxine Scatesreconstructs a life undone by the brokenness of family,friends, and self. Nuanced, mysterious, intimate.Beautiful poems”—Dorianne Laux.



Kathrin SchaeppiSonja Sekula : Grace in a cow’s EYE : a memoir978-0-9825731-5-0, $15, paper, 160 pp.BLACK RADISH BOOKS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Art. “‘I love words—to me writing isdrawing.’ So says artist Sonja Sekula. And so it is in herhands in Kathrin Schaeppi’s hands in this book in yourhands. Schaeppi makes words into shapes into paintinginto ambiguated memoir—who is speaking?—of artiston artist. There is true pain here; attempts at survival.And there is art. This book can be read through the lensof gender: Sekula was a persecuted lesbian, an under-acknowledged female artist among the big boys. Can beread through the lens of madness. Through ekphrasis.Perhaps even through the glass of the empathic.Ultimately, though, what we have here is, well, yes, it isthe presence of grace”—Cara Benson.

Andrew SchellingFrom the Arapaho Songbook978-1-888809-61-9, $14, paper, 144 pp.LA ALAMEDA PRESS 2011

Poetry. “And the disjunction is simply the way / wesearch for new images,” writes Andrew Schelling in oneof these 108 stanzas. The elements joined and disjoinedon the surface are taken from natural history, linguistics,and explorations in North American poetry. Havingstudied for thirty years the languages and poetry of oldAsia, Schelling sets out to read the landscapes, the floraand fauna, of the Southern Rocky Mountains withcomparable attention to grammar and glottal stops.At the core of these poems is an encounter withArapaho, an Algonkian language—and a whiff of thepostmodern archaic.

Howard SchwartzBreathing in the Dark978-1-936419-01-2, $24.95, cloth, 92 pp.978-1-936419-00-5, $15.95, paper, 92 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. Howard Schwartz is a contemporary master ofthe parable, the short lyric and the tale. In BREATHING INTHE DARK, he has multiplied his dreams, his myths, andhis stories into poems that grow quietly and firmlyfrom the secret root stock of his imagination. That side ofJudaism and that side of poetry which is dreamlike,mythical, and memory-ridden is Schwartz’s domain.BREATHING IN THE DARK is a book of human tenderness,gentle humor, and more than a dash of mysticism.To read these poems is to enter a state of meditation inwhich the two worlds of ordinary life and that of spiritare combined.

Susan ScuttiThe Commute978-0-9831606-0-1, $15, paper, 64 pp.PAPER KITE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “Susan Scutti’s unique voice is unmistakable inthis collection. Her poems feel organic, as if they’dbeen born whole. Poignant, intimate, and evocative,they are grounded in the everyday world while alsobeing transcendant. Her topics are diverse: including, forexample, work (‘Job’), Hiroshima (‘Death is the mother ofbeauty’), and love (‘Hymn’). She leads us into ourselves:showing how chaotic, contradictory and vulnerable weare while navigating through life experiences. Theymake us think and feel. They make us feel as if we’dexperienced them ourselves”—Elizabeth Harrington.

Jesse SeldessLeft Having978-0-9767364-8-6, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.KENNING EDITIONS 2011

Poetry. LEFT HAVING is the second full-length collectionfrom poet Jesse Seldess. “One sees lines coming intobeing going out of existence. Taken that way, the wordsturning toward lines, seeing them become one anotheras they differ among themselves and dissipate intowords and as spaces, this reader virtually floats andwithin this active resting state practices an incredibleintimacy with the unknown in communication and insharing an imminent sensate awareness with itslanguage. Jesse Seldess’s work performs this book,honoring and taking full advantage of its occasion toreplace any knowing with the certainty of a relentlesslygenerous nature. I will never get to the bottom of it, andthis work demonstrates what a pleasure and what anhonest reckoning that can be”—Steve Benson.

Theresa Senato EdwardsVoices Through Skin978-0-9832931-0-1, $14.95, paper, 90 pp.SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Poetry. In her debut collection of poems, Theresa SenatoEdwards gives voice to womanhood, from daughterand mother to warrior and lover. Through whispers andscreams, her words shatter the glass of the page; andwhen the conversation is over, a song of strengthreverberates.

Matt ShearsWhere a road had been978-1-60964-048-4, $16, paper, 68 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “In WHERE A ROAD HAD BEEN Matt Shears entersAmerican poetry already far to the fore, just perceptibleat the limit of a strenuous, refined thinking about thedirt and destructions of new beginnings. At oncesuper-sophisticated and an American original, Shearscomes out of Gertrude Stein via the great late-20thcentury French thought about the constant coverings-upof language (‘they were always covering up. / what theywere saying, and so baroque’), and about the torsionsand wipings-away, the fear and the featherings, in anyattempt to arrive at (to be) the new, there ‘where dis-covery [is] becoming. / in a fledgling sky, with adestructible wing.’ Once or twice he tantalizes the readerwith the possibility that the new might actually be,despite history, a pure ‘yes / hosanna / hello’; but in themain, he’s a tough-minded realist. His caesuras (‘theycould not see, what was coming’) tug backward whatgoes forward; his obsessive, musical repetitions andpermutations of phrase do the same, at once hollowingout what he says and struggling to say more. The finalline of this brilliantly intelligent collection sums it all up:‘a heart opening /closing / breaking’”—Cal Bedient.



Brandon ShimodaThe Girl Without Arms978-0-9844752-3-0, $14.95, paper, 96 pp.BLACK OCEAN 2011

Poetry. THE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS is a figure in Japanesefolklore—a young girl whose arms are lopped off byher father, and is left to die in the mountains. The father,at the behest of his evil wife—the girl’s stepmother—lures the girl into the mountains at the promise ofattending a neighboring festival. This is only thebeginning of the tale. The poems of Brandon Shimoda’sTHE GIRL WITHOUT ARMS are birthed of the rainy shut-inpause between steps forward and back in a season ofgreat floods. In successive and interlocked sequences,these poems grapple with a seemingly unbridgeableconfusion—related to love, the impossibility of lifeoutside of love, and the unbearableness of life withinit—as a way to give shape to the dark weather thatpermeates our lives, so as not to drown at its coming.

Gleb ShulpyakovA Fireproof Box978-0-9822376-7-0, $14, paper, 168 pp.CANARIUM BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Russian byChristopher Mattison. A FIREPROOF BOX is the firstEnglish-language translation collection of poemsimportant young Russian poet, novelist, and translatorGleb Shulpyakov, who was awarded the prestigiousTriumph Prize for his poetry in 2001. As Evgeny Reinstates in his introduction to the collection, Shulpyakov’spoetry is that of one “who understands the value ofexistence, of the spiritual richness of existence which candescend upon any person.”

Martha SilanoThe Little Office of the Immaculate Conception978-0-9818591-9-4, $14, paper, 80 pp.SATURNALIA BOOKS 2011

Poetry. With humor and musicality, Martha Silano’sTHE LITTLE OFFICE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONrollicks through fourteen billion years of cosmology:galaxies, aliens, an astronaut’s dropped glove. Whenshe’s not picking a bone with a shortsighted and side-talking populace, she’s conceiving her own personal BigBang. When her nouns are diaper and bibs, Silano sticksto a larger vision, seeing past gelatinous mashed peastoward the moon and stars. This cosmic-consciousness iswoven right in with the mittens and the meercats, herlens taking in not only the crumbs she must wipe up, butalso polio-stricken nations, the hungry Eritreans, “the oldman who shuffles along / as if he might be carrying / inthat steamy bowl / all our children’s futures.” We’re all“sibling citizens of this swirly world,” writes Silano, butshe knows that danger lurks not only in the heavens andthe atmosphere, but also on our glistening streets. AsCampbell McGrath notes, THE LITTLE OFFICE OF THEIMMACULATE CONCEPTION is “comic and wise, quotidianand celestial.”

Sophie SillsElemental Perceptions: A Panorama978-1-60964-026-2, $16, paper, 62 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. “One thing I really like about Sophie Sills andAristotle is their shared sense that music emergesmost directly from a sense of awe in apprehending theobject. Or, more precisely in the case of ELEMENTALPERCEPTIONS, a portrait of interiority silenced by theovertakeless burden of elements in concert which inturn overthrow silence as song. Do you think atomsfuck? That’s the crass way of reading Sills’s insistence onthe body’s endlessly reducible parts playing out a dramain which their connection is constantly extinguished andconstantly renewed. I read this astonishing work as thatvery drama disclosed in the realm of human exchange,battered by ideology into diffuseness yet arranging‘coherence’ itself as a revolutionary plateau. A plateau ofnecessity, and from the beginning, absorbed into therhetoric of philosophical doubt: ‘I consent to a solvencyof sorts’”—Brandon Brown.

Leonardo SinisgalliNight of Shooting Stars978-1-935635-06-2, $17, paper, 144 pp.TAVERN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian byW. S. Di Piero. NIGHT OF SHOOTING STARS is thedefinitive edition of Leonardo Sinisgalli’s poetry inEnglish. Selected, translated, and introduced byW. S. Di Piero, this bilingual collection represents workfrom each phase of Sinisgalli’s career, giving readers acomprehensive look into one of Italy’s essential 20thcentury poets. “Sinisgalli’s work follows a trajectory thatpasses from the modern city at one end of its major axisto the ancient countryside of Lucania at the other.W. S. Di Piero...offers the reader an exceptionally goodtranslation that is both sensitive and faithful”—World Literature Today.

Laura SolomonThe Hermit978-1-933254-78-4, $14, paper, 88 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. What is the hermit? A crab? A card drawn froma tarot deck? Sage, lunatic, scholar, mad scientist,philosopher or monk? A rebel or recluse, a wanderingsamurai, a stranger in an even stranger land, animmigrant, an exile, a tourist, a hero or anti-hero? Dohermits live apart from others or alone among otherslike them? Do they abide in the remote landscapes oflegends or in our modern-day cities? Can a womanbe a hermit? Who is not a hermit? In this third collectionof poems by Laura Solomon, the Hermit embodies thecomplicated search for simplicity and shared solitudeboth at home and abroad. These poems explore thestruggle to articulate a precision in language, people,places, and emotions by placing the poet at the heart ofa monomyth. This is a gut-wrenching collectionthat meditates on truth, the unconscious, and thesacrifices of love.



Jonathan StallingYingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetryand Poetics978-1-933996-23-3, $14.95, paper, 100 pp.COUNTERPATH PRESS 2011

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Music. Thenearly supernatural nature of this groundbreaking workcan be glimpsed in the book’s title: YÍNGĒLÌSHI(Chanted Songs, Beautiful Poetry): SINOPHONIC ENGLISHPOETRY AND POETICS. When read aloud, YÍNGĒLÌSHI(pronounced yeen guh lee shr) sounds like an accentedpronunciation of the word “English,” while the Chinesereader sees the Chinese characters for “chanted songs,beautiful poetry.” Stalling coined this term (and“Sinophonic English”) to give a positive name to anincreasingly widespread variation of English created bycombining the two dominant languages of globalization(Mandarin Chinese and English). With over 350 millionEnglish speakers in China (more than there areAmericans alive) many of whom speak English byrecombining existing Chinese sounds into English wordsand sentences, this new hybrid language is alreadyoverwhelmingly present, yet its aesthetic potential hasnot yet been explored. Stalling’s book complicates anyeasy dismissal of so-called Chinglish by creating agenuinely uncanny poetry written entirely in SinophonicEnglish. Stalling rewrites a common English phrasebookinto hauntingly beautiful Chinese poetry (which is alltranslated into English) that when sung, becomes anuncannily accented libretto, a story of a Chinese tourist’sone-way journey into this interstitial language and itssonorous, if disastrous, consequences.

Shelley StenhouseImpunity978-1-935520-22-1, $14.95, paper, 84 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2011

Poetry. In the title poem, the dying mother asks:“Will my daughter be able to come and go withimpunity?” Stenhouse’s ironically titled collection playsagainst the backdrop of this mythic riddle. Privilege istied to punishment: two sides of the same seeminglyinescapable coin. In these poems, even nature is seenthrough a lens of power, money, sex and addiction.These themes and others unfold in images both startlingand effortless. We see a poet tackling the big questions,unsatisfied with easy answers, longing for clear borders,for definition, for love and redemption—for impunity.Stenhouse writes with clarity, humor, bravery—her freshwisdom underscores the visceral details that allow us tosee the world as if we have just landed on it.

Florine StettheimerCrystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto978-1-897388-72-3, $18, paper, 183 pp.BOOKTHUG 2010

Poetry. Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo.Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an Americanmodernist of German-Jewish heritage living in New York.She was a painter, designer, and poet. Together with hersisters Ettie and Carrie, Stettheimer hosted a legendarysalon on the Upper West Side, where they entertainedthe likes of Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, HenriMcBride, and Georgia O’Keeffe. In 1934 Stettheimerdesigned the set and costumes for Gertrude Stein’sopera Four Saints in Three Acts to much acclaim. In 1949,Ettie collected Florine’s poems in CRYSTAL FLOWERS, aprivately printed, elegant edition of 250. In addition tothese rare poems, this new volume offers formerlyunpublished material culled from archives, includingthree new poems and Stettheimer’s libretto for her ballet“Orphée of the Quat-z-arts.”

Norman StockPickled Dreams Naked978-1-935520-30-6, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. Norman Stock’s direct expression of gut-levelfeelings, surreal fantasies, and riotous humor, invite thereader to experience poetry in a new, more immediateway. The boring posturing of academic poetry is stoodon its head by these plain-spoken poems, from themuch-anthologized “What I Said,” on 9/11, which onetextbook study has described as offering “a searinginsight into the nature of humanity,” to his comicsend-ups of the literary world. As in his first book, theprize-winning Buying Breakfast for My Kamikaze Pilot,Stock once again lays bare the hypocrisies that surroundus with his sardonic wit and commitment to the truth ofwhat we actually feel as opposed to what we are oftentaught we are supposed to feel.

Stephen SturgeonTrees of the Twentieth Century978-0-9830674-3-6, $10, paper, 62 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Stephen Sturgeon’s highly anticipated debutcollection features over thirty poems which range instyle from classically formalized stanzas on memory andvitality to allusive and lyrical free verses, chronicling—among other subjects—the stories of lost friends, aprophetic head that speaks from a tree branch, and anold black moon. “Driven by synesthesia, StephenSturgeon’s magnificent poems affect the senses andembed themselves in the intellect, permanently”—Philip Nikolayev.

Tim SuermondtJust Beautiful978-1-935520-28-3, $14.95, paper, 112 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. In his new collection, JUST BEAUTIFUL, TimSuermondt writes poems about the present, the pastand the future, poems dealing with the glories andfollies, the tragedies and triumphs of the human heartand of the world. His poems never ask to be more thanpoems, but they will change your perceptions in waysyou couldn’t imagine.

Richard TagettDemodulating Angel978-0-9793390-8-0, $15, paper, 146 pp.ITHURIEL’S SPEAR 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Fifty years at work in the field,he has been changing with the times, alert to the tiniestof human feelings as well as to the larger currents ofshared social struggle. Like Jack Spicer, with whom heworked closely and on whom he coedited a volume oflasting value, Tagett knows when and how to lure theright words to his page, and how to insure they stickclose to his branches.... I know of no other Americanpoet whose very pages are as well filled out. What anaccomplishment!”—Kevin Killian.

Marc TalbertAltogether Ernest978-0-9799865-4-3, $15.95, paper, 96 pp.RED MOUNTAIN PRESS 2011

Poetry. ALTOGETHER EARNEST is most remarkable bookof poetry. This the first in a series that will follow aboy as he negotiates the passages of life. In his season ofself-discovery, Ernest Hopkins craves an honorable andmeaningful context for his life while the physical andemotional roller coaster both inspires and torments him.He is deeply concerned with the moral and existentialquestions that we all must face.



Sunnylyn ThibodeauxPalm to Pine978-0-9821600-5-3, $12, paper, 88 pp.BOOTSTRAP PRESS 2011

Poetry. These poems explore the collected senses ofthe day-to-day while telling the tale of another place, asif in time travel, inviting the reader to come and go withand partake in the toast. “Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is astubborn, resilient poet who has brilliantly turned thesequalities on their heads in a quicksilver serenade of theday (cold wine and treasure hunts) and its discontents(poisonous elephant ears). She seems to have made ahandshake deal with things as she sees them: You beyourself and I won’t pretend you’re otherwise. And soshe is herself in the eyes of the book in your hands. Rarethat a poet is so always herself, to the point that wecould (almost) take her place, certainly her side, as shevanishes into her lines”—Julien Poirier.

Tod ThillemanEgghead to Underhoof (Our Concludingthe Poem)978-0-923389-82-6, $12, paper, 78 pp.MEETING EYES BINDERY 2010

Poetry. EGGHEAD TO UNDERHOOF (OUR CONCLUDINGTHE POEM) is a companion poem to ROOT-CELLARTO RIVERINE.

Tod ThillemanThree Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose Image978-1-933132-84-6, $24, paper, 322 pp.SPUYTEN DUYVIL 2011

Poetry. Thilleman shows, through the sectional and serialand a-periodic poetry of THREE SEA MONSTERS—as wellas his conjuration of history in the succeeding notes—that modernist themes provide the source-ground forour present disengaged appearance. It is into this fissureall acts, real or imagined, have fallen.

Daniel ThompsonThe Big Book of Daniel: Collected Poemsof Daniel Thompson978-1-933964-41-6, $18, paper, 340 pp.BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2011

Poetry. Here at last is the collected works of DanielThompson, poet laureate of Cuyahoga County, a poet ofgreat heart who served the people of his community.“Daniel Thompson was a man who, as Whitman saidof himself, was ‘not contained between his hat and hisboots.’ Daniel’s last gift to us, his life’s work, what hegathered in his sixty-nine years, over three hundredpages of poems, is this book, this big jug of honey,which you have in your hands. Taste and see”—Maj Ragain, from her Foreword.

Maureen ThorsonApplies to Oranges978-1-933254-85-2, $13, paper, 72 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. In APPLIES TO ORANGES, Maureen Thorson’sdebut full-length collection of poems, oranges, spiders,tourists, and a Zenith television conspire to turn theconventions of narrative on its side. These poemsfracture and refract narrative by crafting a story fromseemingly absurd symbols whose recursive use defiescoherence, but expand the imagination by graduallyrevealing an anachronistic, nostalgic, and cinematicworld. The precision of these poems transforms a simpleescapist fantasy into an internalized landscape thatreveals both humor and sadness with successiverepetition.

Daniel TiffanyPrivado978-0-9831480-0-5, $16, paper, 60 pp.ACTION BOOKS 2011

Poetry. PRIVADO is wundercritic Daniel Tiffany’s thirdbook of poems. A sphinx made of soldier and siren, ofsecrecy and prophecy: a killer serial poem. “The poemsin PRIVADO show how the drab style and the goldenstyle go together”—Aaron Kunin. “A storm is nowupon us”—Kevin Killian.

Steve TimmUn storia978-1-60964-035-4, $16, paper, 140 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “A finery set of punctures you will not find. SteveTimm pinched these poems of poise and waggish flameright after leaving the first dawn bird factory where he’dbeen tinkering kerosene into arrows keening owl logicunseen and...scene. Timm’s Italian peeps are all thumbssmeared with memes—terse though language-lavishcue cards for the slalom tyre crawling salmon urgentdown along you and your quote unquote erstwhile lowroad bones. Right now or by noon, you’ll be in the winecreek with the sound of an Italian gargling, which youwill herald as all waterfall shortly or by noon. Or: Theregoes Steve Timm on a Vespa with orders from the thirstyto catch every raindrop on a contact lens that fell fromthe head of the last seer with the swerve gear, and thetruth is Timm catches everyone, slakes everyone, sleight-of-hands a ringer where a rung groaned. Or: Go ask thestraight road begging for an oxbow from Timm. Gatherthese here where you’ve found them on this olive, lavaearth. If ever you should will a shelter worthy of thisworld’s crooked sky, let these poems remind you thatvelvet hammers feel too. Rarest medicine man, Timmheals you with the same stuff by which he wounds yourrutted purl, which brings me around to the driving sail:all aquavit wit aside, the highest totem herein stands foraphoristic-grace-potlatch-heart. Finally, I have not read amore gifting collection in years”—Abraham Smith.

Mathew TimmonsThe New Poetics978-1-934254-15-8, $15, paper, 112 pp.LES FIGUES PRESS 2010

Poetry. A cross-referenced encyclopedia of all thingsNew, Mathew Timmons’s THE NEW POETICS challengesthe prevailing obsession with the emergent and thereinvented by remaking The New itself in the image ofthe banal. Employing techniques of collage andappropriation, Timmons explores the endless repetitionand recapitulation inherent in a language constructedfrom signs, signifiers, memes, short-hands, ready-madephrases and the vast wash of pop-culture paraphernalia.Written with poetics as both subject and approach, butin rambling prose paragraphs and breathless, run-onsentences, THE NEW POETICS simultaneously critiquesand reenacts the search for the ever-desirable and ever-elusive New in the rubble of convention.

Mike ToppSasquatch Stories978-0-9831706-1-7, $10, paper, 68 pp.PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESS 2010

Poetry. Fiction. SASQUATCH STORIES is a collection ofpoetry joke stories, each one better than the one beforeand after it. Cover art by Tao Lin. Illustrated by DavidBerman. “Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer—aminiaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridgerof metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazesand graces us”—Gary Lutz.



Edwin TorresYes Thing No Thing978-1-931824-41-5, $14.95, paper, 128 pp.ROOF BOOKS 2010

Poetry. Edwin Torres’s poetry—full of complex graphicexperiments and daring sonic explorations—opens newcreative possibilities, simultaneously challenging anddelighting our intelligence. Coming on strong withhumor and mystery, Edwin Torres spins magicalmultilingual webs of words intended to change theworld. “Edwin Torres is our 21st Century Mayakovsky”—Juliana Spahr.

Georg TraklSong of the Departed: Selected Poemsof Georg Trakl978-1-55659-373-4, $17, paper, 184 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Germanby Robert Firmage. SONG OF THE DEPARTED brings backinto print poems written at the height of Georg Trakl’scareer. Trakl boldly confronted the conflicts createdby the pursuit of truth amidst the fallenness of thehuman condition, writing of the unspeakable that liesbeyond language, creating poetry that is intenselypersonal and eerily beautiful. Included in this revisededition are several new translations and an introductionby the translator. “I do not understand them; but theirtone pleases me. It is the tone of true genius”—Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Douglas TreemEverything So Seriously978-1-935520-14-6, $14.95, paper, 84 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. The Ancient Mariner buttonholed the WeddingGuest for the telling of his story. In Douglas Treem’sEVERYTHING SO SERIOUSLY the poems and theirdenizens seek to tear the world a new buttonhole. Theyare souls in torment. Bodies filled with pain. Heartsbeing spoken from. A violent psychopath in search of hisown death. An actor attempting the opposite of suicide.A sex worker numb to all human connection. An icon.A myth. Those with needs mutated past the possibility ofever being met. United beyond the common threadsof flesh and blood by the uniquely human demand totell their stories and the shared position of having noone on earth to talk to. Except you.

Tony TrigilioHistoric Diary978-1-60964-012-5, $16, paper, 118 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Tony Trigilio’s HISTORIC DIARY (named after LeeHarvey Oswald’s account of his time in the Soviet Union)excavates the nightmarish record of the first Kennedyassassination, its auguries and aftermath, with a bluefury and an obsessive zeal that border on the Talmudic.What he finds there goes beyond chilling to a pure-product-of-America craziness that makes me tremble formy country. ‘I am waiting // for someone to / ride me,the / locomotive of history,’Trigilio writes, and his ticketbeyond the grave takes us, willy-nilly, on this scarifying,brilliant, and disturbing ride”—Rachel Loden.

Mark TruscottNature978-1-897388-67-9, $15, paper, 84 pp.BOOKTHUG 2010

Poetry. Few ideas today are as charged or subject to asmany contradictory inflections as is nature. To anchor itscompositional investigations into its own material, MarkTruscott’s NATURE considers the difficulties of thisoverdetermined concept and asks—without recourse tonostalgia, sanctimony, or moralism—what kind of spaceit might meaningfully create or occupy.

Elizabeth TwiddyLove-Noise978-0-9791944-5-0, $15, paper, 75 pp.STANDING STONE BOOKS 2010

Poetry. “The electricity here has such an incandescence,it could be resurgent voltage from Emily Dickinson indistress. What haunts the whole book, in the surge andaftermath of eros, in the empathy for family and forstrangers, and in jolts of recognition, and of beingrecognized, is an imagination deeply and disturbinglyalive, and tender to the touch”—Brooks Haxton.

Chris TyshNight Scales: A Fable for Klara K978-0-935992-40-3, $14, paper, 74 pp.UNITED ARTISTS BOOKS 2010

Poetry. Drama. “In Tysh’s tough, visceral, lacerating text,we bear witness to a surreal poetry for the stage,reminiscent of Büchner, Artaud, Genet, and HeinerMüller. Klara K leads us on an unspeakable journeythrough the ravages of WWII, while bearing a child whowill never know these immensely moving shards ofstories except through her mother’s anguishedmemories. NIGHT SCALES is a compassionate,devastating tale of death and survival by those who‘...ate [the] bruises and drank the hurt in a long swallow,’and those who still ‘...hoard the pain, like a gift thatflowers on a dry stalk’”—Charles Borkhuis. Cover byChristian Boltanski.

Cesar VallejoAgainst Professional Secrets978-1-931824-42-2, $14.95, paper, 100 pp.ROOF BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition.Translated from the Spanish by Joseph Mulligan.“César Vallejo is indispensable to the Latin Americanexperimental tradition and one of the first Peruvianpoets to become a reference point for American writers.In AGAINST PROFESSIONAL SECRETS Vallejo cannibalizesthe European tradition and transforms it into anAmerican experience. Joseph Mulligan’s exceptionaltranslation opens up that dialogue to English, to a newreadership, and to the present”—Ernesto Livon-Grosman.

Terry Van VlietBlack Lines on Terracotta978-1-60964-059-0, $16, paper, 100 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Terry Van Vliet merges thepersonal and the mythic with seamless grace. ConjuringOrphic lyricism, he weaves the visionary into present-dayemotional truth. Van Vliet creates an intensely wide-ranging world. Here are Matisse, Cocteau, J. S. Bach,Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and, yes,Captain Beefheart. We come to know the memorablefigures of the poet’s intimate experience as well, mostvividly his loving partner of many years, Jan Keller, towhom the book is dedicated. Read BLACK LINES ONTERRACOTTA to enter writing of unblinking honesty,enthralling language and extraordinary insight. Thiscollection is a deeply valuable contribution tocontemporary poetry”—Holly Prado.



Paul VangelistiTwo978-1-58498-077-3, $14.95, paper, 91 pp.TALISMAN HOUSE 2010

Poetry. “In TWO, Paul Vangelisti connects the antipodesof the extraordinary literary geography he has beencreating through the course of his numerous previousworks. Taken separately or together, the diptych ofTWO finds Paul Vangelisti at the height of his poetic,intellectual and philosophical powers. Simply put, thereare precious few poets writing now who can matchVangelisti’s brilliance”—Dennis Phillips. TWO includesthe complete works “Alabaster” and “A Capable Hand, orMaps for a Lost Dog.”

Justin VicariThe Professional Weepers978-1-886350-24-3, $14, paper, 80 pp.PAVEMENT SAW PRESS 2011

Poetry. LGBT Studies. “Justin Vicari is instantlyrecognizable as one of those scarce and certifiably giftedlunatics of The Real Thing—from the first line you knowyou are in the presence of someone who is capable ofthinking in poetry. Anyone these days can hammertogether a fashionably incomprehensible and workshop-ready piece of writing. Evidently Vicari has been selectedfor the lonely duty of thinking with his heart, feelingwith his mind, and dreaming aloud a true poetry thatcommunicates its deliciously subversive intent instantlyto anyone with a sixth grade reading ability”—Franz Wright.

Ocean VuongBurnings978-0-578-07059-9, $12, paper, 42 pp.SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2010

Poetry. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. The poemsof BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the speaker aliteral refugee from a torn homeland, or a refugee fromhis own skin, burning with the heat of awakeningeroticism. In this world, we’re all refugees fromsomething. As two-time National Slam Champion RogerBonair-Agard says: “Ocean manages to imbue thedesperation of his being alive—with a savage beauty.It is not just that Ocean can render pain as a kind ofloveliness, but that his poetic line will not let you forgetthe hurt or the garish brilliance of your triumph; will notlet you look away. These poems shatter us detail bydetail because Ocean leaves nothing unturned, becauseevery lived thing in his poems demands to be fed byyou; to nourish you in turn. You will not leave thesepoems dissatisfied. They will fill you utterly.”

JeanneWagnerIn the Body of Our Lives978-0-9819816-3-5, $16, paper, 96 pp.SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS 2011

Poetry. IN THE BODY OF OUR LIVES, Jeanne Wagner’ssecond full-length collection of poems, looks backon a Cold War-era childhood and its effect on theconstruction of a self. Refusing both sentimentality andcensure, the poet shines an unflinching light on a homecharacterized by alienation, stringent Catholicism,shadowy alcoholism, and the inescapable attitudes andhistoric events of the 1950s. We proceed by images—thestitching up of Frankenstein’s monster, cups wobbling ona dinner table, a child’s desire to wear her clothing insideout—until we realize that it is a life that is being crafted.With intelligence and vivid language, Wagner writes ofthe body as a perpetual stranger, yet, illuminated bysubtly shifting qualities of light, the body remains ahome, the housing of life itself.

DianeWaldWonderbender978-0-9779351-8-5, $11, paper, 84 pp.1913 PRESS 2011

Poetry. “In spirited kinship with the poems of FrankO’Hara and Gertrude Stein’s notion of the continuouspresent, WONDERBENDER presents a vibrant, texturedworld of ‘mysterious kindness,’‘a magnificent place tovisit.’ Here, one is ‘chosen by llamas...do not doubt usthey say and the choosing is definite though the plotsometimes unclear.’ Like those llamas, these poemsprivilege associative energy and revelatory, exuberantchoosing over plot as they unfold with greatenchantment and authority to reveal a skewed, at timestragic, often funny, acutely observed world. One feelslucky to be in their presence”—Laurie Sheck.

AnneWaldmanThe Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanismof Concealment978-1-56689-255-1, $40, cloth, 720 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. THE IOVIS TRILOGY, Anne Waldman’smonumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures,and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. IOVISdetails the misdeeds of the Patriarch, and with a fierceimagination queries and subverts his warmongering.All of Waldman’s themes come into focus—friendship,motherhood, politics, and Buddhist wisdom. This isepic poetry that goes beyond the old injunction,“to include history”—its effort is to change history.This transformative twenty-five-year labor is publishedhere for the first time in its historic entirety, includingthe first two out-of-print volumes.

LauraWalkerbird book978-1-84861-153-5, $15, paper, 80 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. BIRD BOOK is written in collaboration with a fieldguide to North American birds. Each page both borrowsand departs from language found in an individual birdentry. The resulting text is an investigation into dissolvedand dissolving narrative, into the permeable boundariesbetween “human” and “natural,” and into the partial andshifting nature of narrative and memory themselves,“wet and traveling maps.” Here, as in bird song, gap andrepetition create their own story. To welcome “accidentalfield,” “to take the songbird out of your mouth,” toexamine the ever-shifting relationship between what wereceive and what we project, is to move through aporous and shared space, affecting and affected, where“yellow spectacle” hovers over “a suggested house”:“exuberant ground.”



Lillien Waller, EditorAmerican Ghost: Poets on Life After Industry978-0-615-44807-7, $18, paper, 74 pp.STOCKPORT FLATS 2011

Poetry. Photography. African American Studies. NativeAmerican Studies. Poets and photographers reflect onthe real costs of deindustrialization—community life,personal identity, cultural traditions, and the naturalworld—in manufacturing cities and their ruralcounterparts in Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas,Washington, and Wisconsin. Battered by unprecedentedjoblessness, poverty, and depopulation, thesecommunities are often seen as ghost towns, phantomsof a former glory, but in doing so we fail to acknowledgethe people who fare the downturns and form the coreof America’s urban and rural cultures. This intimatecollection culls inspiration from individual and collectiveexperience, found text, and oral history as it speaks tothe humanity surviving amid so-called ruin. AMERICANGHOST asks: How will we sustain each other?The collection includes poems and photographs byb: william bearhart, Suzette Bishop, Anne Gorrick,Randall Horton, Denise Miller, Ruby Murray,Kate Schapira, Lillien Waller, Valaurian Waller, andDeborah Woodard.

QingpingWang, EditorPush Open the Window: ContemporaryPoetry from China978-1-55659-330-7, $23, paper, 450 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translatedfrom the Chinese by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and HowardGoldblatt. Forty-nine of China’s finest contemporarypoets are represented in this luminous bilingualanthology, produced as part of the National Endowmentfor the Arts’ International Literary Exchanges. Profoundlyinfluenced by the Cultural Revolution, the poets’ workreflects the turmoil of that time—from the blunt andsharply focused political work of Bai Hua and Yu Jian tothe hermetic images and landscapes of the Misty poets.

Craig WatsonSleepwalking with Orpheus978-1-84861-138-2, $15, paper, 96 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Poetry. Haunted by Cocteau’s version of the Orpheusmyth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest ofrenderings, fragments, and images from the Orphictradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he returned tothese materials in the wake of a near fatal stroke. Theresult is SLEEPWALKING WITH ORPHEUS, a constellationof voices that recount the legendary singer’s continuousjourney through the realms that compose a life. In“Last Man Standing,” Watson’s post-apocalyptic poem inSECRET HISTORIES, the protagonist asserts: “I’m notdead yet.” SLEEPWALKING WITH ORPHEUS takes up thatproposition, cannily altering its terms of address toreflect what Watson calls “the interrogative imperative.”

Jane O. WayneThe Other Place You Live978-0-932412-97-3, $14.95, paper, 80 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2010

Poetry. Jane O. Wayne’s THE OTHER PLACE YOU LIVEexplores “the world’s slow unwinding” with insight andlyric grace. With characteristic intensity of language anda bounty of imagery, she reveals those other placeswherever she is in the world. The poems moveeffortlessly from metaphor to metaphor, graduallybuilding an atmosphere of dark disquiet, then suddenlyrevealing, as by moonlight, the burnished joy at theheart of things. This is a book of serious riches andprofound human pleasures.

FlorenceWeinbergerSacred Graffiti978-1-893670-60-0, $15, paper, 78 pp.TEBOT BACH 2010

Poetry. “Like Philip Levine, Florence Weinberger’spoems evolve masterfully from the ordinary into theextraordinary. Consider marrowbones, lovingly boileddown to their essence so her husband can spreadsustenance onto bread and eat, his stomach foreverflattened by concentration camp hunger no matterhow much he tries to fill himself up. Her persistentintrospection scrutinizes everyday events such as goingto the supermarket and takes them into another realmof meaning. In Weinberger’s world, what we wake up tois the first step towards insight and illumination”—Jeanette Clough.

EllenWelckerThe Botanical Garden978-0-9822252-3-3, $12.95, paper, 68 pp.ASTROPHIL PRESS 2010

Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Astrophil Poetry Prize.Foreword by Eleni Sikelianos. “I feel so grateful to live in aworld that has books such as THE BOTANICAL GARDEN.Lyric elegy, futuristic science fiction, aliens and whales,Oulipian listing. It is all here in this beautifully movingbook”—Juliana Spahr.

DonaldWellmanA North Atlantic Wall978-1-933675-53-4, $15, paper, 97 pp.DOS MADRES PRESS 2010

Poetry. In A NORTH ATLANTIC WALL the poetry is drawnfrom fieldnotes, ragged prose, some passages displayinga resonant, if fragmentary, intensity. The elements ofA NORTH ATLANTIC WALL may appear to be disjointed,but the order is that of a periplum and the resonance isoften transhistorical, reaching toward a conception of animmanent domain beyond the serried mountaintops.Two landscapes give particular shape to the itinerary ofA NORTH ATLANTIC WALL: the Camino from Negreiranear Santiago de Compostela to Fisterra (that is goingaway from Santiago de Compostela and toward Fisterra,the westernmost point of continental Europe) and thefootpaths in the vicinity of Gósol in the Pre-Pyrenees.Other sites form segments of an imaginary chainbetween Fisterra and Gósol, notably the valley of theCurueño in Northern León. Trace a line from Fisterra,extending through the mountains of Northern León(the Picos de Europa), and continuing easterly along thePyrenees to Gósol. That line, wavering as it does,separates Spain from the rest of Europe.

DavidWevillCasual Ties978-1-935635-00-0, $15, paper, 112 pp.TAVERN BOOKS 2010

Poetry. By turns surreal, absurd, allegorical, and meta-fictional, this genre-defying cult classic of 33 linkedsketches shows us a voice searching for meaning in thelandscapes of intellect and ardor. This is a book ofexquisite structures, of encounters with the tricksters ofself, and it ultimately reveals a portrait of an artist willingto confront the mysteries and outermost limits of hisown obsessions. Out of print for nearly 30 years, this newedition offers Wevill fans and new readers alike anessential work of contemporary experimental literature.



Anthony Russell WhiteThe Faith of Leaping978-1-934828-10-6, $16, paper, 76 pp.SPIRE PRESS, INC. 2011

Poetry. “In THE FAITH OF LEAPING, White’s poetry oftencomes to you on a slant and keeps you off balance.Twists and turns carry you forward to, often, a surprisingcurl along the way. Loss, accidents, connections andconjectures break each poem open to demand yourattention. Take nothing for granted here, as Whiteexplores the poem, the subject, the interior, and theexternal. He brings delightful discoveries and he makesyou think. Enjoy the ride!”—CB Follett.

Hazel WhitePeril as Architectural Enrichment978-0-932716-76-7, $16.95, paper, 96 pp.KELSEY STREET PRESS 2011

Poetry. PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT testslandscape as the subject of experience. Propellingawareness vertically and horizontally, it questions howlimbs want to move in space, when convivial withtreetops, views, and pollen. The poems greet danger—lost narratives/crops, a fall, inundation—and the refugeof a familiar curvature: the turning of long linesbecoming the same as building shelter in the wild wherea peril can be seen and felt, and to write is to knowwhat’s near. Like a designed landscape, Hazel White’spoetry delivers a new sense of orientation/a long-soughtspatial fluency: “I want to ride in the fur of animals.”“I set this book down and wept.... This book is the mostbeautiful piece of writing I have read in many years”—Bhanu Kapil.

SarahWhiteAlice Ages and Ages978-1-60964-028-6, $16, paper, 76 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “Never in American letters, before ALICE AGESAND AGES, have we seen a thigh at once so elegant andportentous. Upon its surface a filigree of web-likeveins—empurpled, cerulean, blood-red, according tocertain gradations of self-regard and fear. Where will wefind its meaning? Deep-rooted in Alice’s flesh? In itsmirror image? Behind the looking glass in the specularworld? If anyone knows, Sarah White does. Follow herwords toward the heart of this spidery labyrinth. Stayalways alert”—Eugene Garber.

JonathanWilckeDupe978-0-9784981-9-1, $16, paper, 96 pp.LINEBOOKS 2010

Poetry. DUPE goes under the hood of industrialcapitalism where there is no deal, no compromise withcapital, only complicity. The bearings, rods and shafts arerunning hot, the lubricant is breaking down, and shade-tree mechanic Jonathon Wilcke is fiddling with thetiming chain. “More gas!” he shouts as flames leap fromthe carburetor. The dwell is finally set, Ford’s timemanagement duplicator is idling rough yet the poemsflow from the manifold. DUPE takes up the formalconcerns of Wilcke’s first book Pornograph and appliesthem to the body politic. The notion of musical notationguides the word on the page.

Peter LambornWilsonEc(o)logues978-1-58177-115-2, $15.95, paper, 156 pp.STATION HILL PRESS OF BARRYTOWN 2011

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. EC(O)LOGUES is a MenippeanSatyre (mixed poetry and prose, both serious andhumorous) inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues. “What this bookdoes has never been done even by Peter LambornWilson himself before now; with all his exuberantlearning and poetics, it offers the first coherent, lucidscrutiny of the intricate interweaving of traditionarysciences with the contemporary need to rescue ourplanet and our sanity. The Emerald Tablet speaks Greenpolitics and ecological salvation”—Robert Kelly.

TerenceWinchFalling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor978-1-934909-22-5, $18, paper, 80 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Poetry. “The title of Terence Winch’s newest collectionsays it all: the wonderfully droll, self-deprecating, hard-hitting and deliciously comic narrator of these poemsknows only too well what life exacts from us. A trivialevent like losing one’s watch and replacing it brings onthe rueful recognition that ‘it ran so fast, / I had to liveevery day / as if it were tomorrow.’ It’s a dilemma we allface. No rest for the weary! As the narrator of ‘Low Life’puts it, ‘You must still explain to the babysitter what hasto be done.’ In a sequence of dazzling and poignantmemory poems about love and death, friendship andfamily trauma, Winch once again displays his uncannyability to take the most ordinary of incidents and endowthem with radiance. One reads FALLING OUT OF BEDIN A ROOM WITH NO FLOOR with a steady shock ofrecognition. Here WE are!”—Marjorie Perloff.

MaryWinegardenThe Translator’s Sister978-1-936419-02-9, $14.95, paper, 86 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2011

Poetry. In response to the unexpected death of hersister Katharine Washburn, Mary Winegarden has takenon the challenge of translating their lives into livinglanguage. Using phrases from Washburn’s work as herfoil, Winegarden creates a beautiful portrait of the vitalbonds of sisterhood. Crossing boundaries betweenprose and poetry, fiction and memoir, convention andexperimentation, THE TRANSLATOR’S SISTER is resonantwith the intimacy and humor of remembered details,alive with the urge to document, with love and itspowerful complications, with loss translated into art. Thisshimmering conversation will sweep you in.

DavidWirthlinYour Disappearance978-1-935402-40-4, $16, paper, 100 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2009

Poetry. “The marvelous inventiveness of David Wirthlin’sYOUR DISAPPEARANCE will sweep over its lucky readersin waves. Look for it lightly disguised as canaries,pencil shavings, mysterious spirals, perpetually rotatingrocks, recurring dogs and fields wherein one might justvanish. Strange, lovely, generous, disturbing, YOURDISAPPEARANCE is the work of a writer of exceptionaltalent”—Laird Hunt. “Shadows play across this story ofbeing in time where silence and subtlety are the mainattractions. The shapes resulting tell us about relation,about the shifts, disappearances, and returns that definecohabitation. How we share imagined, actual, andpropositional space is informed by the transformationsbetween us. YOUR DISAPPEARANCE goes after this withprecision and an eye for those understated events thatfall between the cracks”—Renee Gladman.



Pui YingWongYellow Plum Season978-1-935520-29-0, $14.95, paper, 96 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Poetry. Asian American Studies. YELLOW PLUM SEASON,Pui Ying Wong’s first full-length collection of poetry, isvisually lush and reflective; and characterized byintimate descriptions of place, memory and dream. InYELLOW PLUM SEASON, Wong speaks as a traveler fromlands known and unknown yet creates a terrain all herown. She writes with delicacy and precision, small butcomplex narratives that cover a range of emotionallandscapes. These are poems both personal anduniversal; poems that engage the reader in the humanexperiences of both loss and love, heartache but alsomoments of joy; and ultimately connects the reader tothe desire for every aspect of life.

TimWoodOtherwise Known as Home978-1-60964-030-9, $16, paper, 100 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Poetry. “The poems shimmering in this volume representan intense and vertiginous new beginning of the sonnet,erupting from the site of ‘end words.’Tim Wood’s re-embarkations are thrilling. I hesitate to imposemetaphors on a work of art that stands on its own terms,but something related to time travel might turnattention in the right direction. Yet again, knowing thatthe poems originate with Shakespeare’s sonnets simplydoesn’t prepare one for reading them, or at least only tothe degree that wearing fustian might prepare one formardi gras on Mars. These poems are wild and beautiful.They are something new in sonnetry!”—Lyn Hejinian.

C. D. WrightOne with Others: [a little book of her days]978-1-55659-388-8, $18, paper, 170 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics CircleAward for Poetry. Investigative journalism is the poet’srealm when C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansasand examines an explosive incident from the Civil Rightsmovement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns,lists, newspaper accounts, and personal memories—especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs.Vititow—with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police,activists, and black students who were rounded upand detained in an empty public swimming pool. Thishistory leaps howling off the page.

John Yau, EditorViva la Difference: Poetry Inspired by thePainting of Peter Saul978-0-9791495-1-1, $15, paper, 80 pp.OFF THE PARK PRESS 2010

Poetry. Art. VIVA LA DIFFERENCE is the second in a seriesof anthologies devoted to the work of a single artist, thefirst being NEW SMOKE (2009), which took the paintingsof Neo Rauch as its starting point. Contributors to thisnew anthology of poems inspired by the painting ofPeter Saul include John Yau, Ronna Lebo, CatherineShainberg, Judson Evans, Susan Berger-Jones, ClaudiaLaRocco, Eileen Hennessey, and Boni Joi. As editorJohn Yau writes in his introduction: “Our intention wasdifferent; we wanted something that resisted beingcolonized by language, something that could not beencapsulated. Our intention was not to be animpressionist or to tell a story. Those are well-knownsolutions, and, frankly, we wanted something else.”

Yvan YauriFire Wind978-1-933254-76-0, $14, paper, 80 pp.UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE 2011

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition.Translated from the Spanish by Nicholas Rattner andMarta del Pozo. FIRE WIND is a translation of Peruvianpoet Yván Yauri’s Viento de fuego, his second book ofpoems and the first of his work to appear in English.Yauri’s poetics stem from the tradition of the LatinAmerican avant-garde, and he maintains his activism inthe ranks of the contemporary Marxist-Trotskyites. “Withtheir full pedal wawa, their panting physicality, and areference field that incorporates just about everything,Yauri’s poems track cosmic interactions with earthlyparticularities. FIRE WIND takes on Empire and routinewith a streetfighting swagger. The poems are roilingwith lifeforce”—Forrest Gander.

Dean YoungFall Higher978-1-55659-311-6, $22, cloth, 104 pp.COPPER CANYON PRESS 2011

Poetry. Dean Young surmounts the failures of love andthe body with his signature humor, verbal banter, andwild imaginative leaps. Embracing the elegiac, angry,and amorous with surrealistic wordplay and off-kiltermusic, Young coaxes us to “fall higher” into an intimate,vulnerable, expansive exchange. This is a major newbook by one of America’s most inventive poets. “Anyonewith a heartbeat knows that Dean Young has become acrucial nucleotide in the DNA of American poetry”—Tony Hoagland.

Steven ZultanskiCop Kisser978-1-897388-70-9, $22.50, paper, 197 pp.BOOKTHUG 2010

Poetry. COP KISSER is a book of 18 poems in a variety ofmodes. Some are quasiconceptual, some repetitivelyrelational, and some are hyperactive lyric collage. Thesemodes have been ordered intuitively into what appearsas a totalizing structure. Thus, it’s a big book, anddeceptively so. Really there are only about two ideas inhere. See if you can find them all! But be careful: don’t letCOP KISSER fool you. It doesn’t want to know what it’sabout, and wasn’t written for the betterment of thereader. In fact, it was barely written. It’s just one of thosethings that showed up one day and refused to leave—like love, enemies, or authorship.



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LINEa passionate life

SUSAN GARDNER

THEDRAWING

STONE MUSIC

THE ART AND POETRY OF SUSAN GARDNER

RED MOUNTAIN PRESSSANTA FE

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Visual artist, poet,and world travelerSusan Gardneroffers a vital andcompelling memoirof her extraordinarylife.”Awonderful,powerful work... hastremendous weightthat speaks directlyfrom the heart.”With 23 color photo-graphs and 14 blackink paintings.

A remarkablebook of poetryfeaturing ErnestHopkins as henegotiates thepassages ofperplexity andjoy on his wayto manhood.

An overview of Susan Gardner’sphotography, painting, and poetry.“Her art speaks of what is not seenyet is present, of what is commonyet irredeemably precious”— J.W. Mahoney 44 color plates

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Santa Fe photographer Ford Robbins presentsimages that speak of his love of the land.“This is the artist's eye at work ...”— The Santa Fe New Mexican42 black and white photographs

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Jay AtkinsonTauvernier Street978-1-60489-061-7, $17.95, paper, 215 pp.LIVINGSTON PRESS 2010

Fiction. In Jay Atkinson’s riveting new story collection,TAUVERNIER STREET, the writer that Men’s Healthmagazine called “the bard of New England toughness”uses a variety of narrative voices, characters and styles toexpress a single, central truth: you are where you camefrom. In these stories, some written in “Technicolor”and others in “black and white,” a young boy learns tocherish the solid, unremarkable presence of his ownfather when he gets to know the charismatic dad nextdoor; an ex-Marine finds the strength to deal with hiswayward young bride in the pages of an ancient book;and a young gangbanger with a keen sense of historyseeks protection from a tough hombre named Jesus.

Helen BaroliniCrossing the Alps978-1-59954-017-7, $14, paper, 158 pp.BORDIGHERA PRESS 2010

Fiction. “In this seminal work, Helen Barolini tells thestory of Frances Molletone grappling with her ethnicheritage as she falls in love with a married man. Theauthor takes us to post-WW2 Italy, a little-documentedera of turmoil, and we discover the culture of the Italiandiaspora, as well as Italy before it was ‘discovered.’Whenit first appeared, this novel was highly acclaimed in Italy.Now, it once again speaks to us of romantic love andconflicted longing in the aftermath of war”—Christine Lehner.

Jean Rae BaxterBroken Trail978-1-55380-109-2, $11.95, paper, 246 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. Native American Studies.BROKEN TRAIL is the story a thirteen-year-old white boy,the son of United Empire Loyalists, who has beencaptured and adopted by the Oneida people. Striving tofind his vision oki that will guide him in his quest tobecome a warrior, Broken Trail disavows his whiteheritage—he considers himself Oneida. But everythingchanges when Broken Trail, alone in the woods on hisvision quest, is mistakenly shot by a redcoat soldier.

Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, EditorThe Fiction at Work Biannual Report978-0-9820292-9-9, $10, paper, 46 pp.THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

Fiction. It’s a slim volume, this book, with a matte coveryou can run your fingers over, pocket-width and actuallypocketable, in jeans, khakis, slacks, and trousers, unlikethe faux pocket editions, so popular in the 80s, which fitonly into the pockets of enormous carnival pants, and onthe matte cover are the names of the 24 writers lockedwithin, their bios swollen with awards and laudations,their births in, and travels to, the countries of the world,their stories, word-counted in but the dozens orhundreds, make mince of the joys and sorrows of ourlives. Published in an edition of 250, it includes writingby Bim Angst, Anne Brooke, Devin Bustin, Spencer Dew,E.K. Entrada, Kevin Fink, Jennifer Gravely, Mary Hamilton,Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc, Steve McPhereson, LoisMcShane, Gary Moshimer, Ira S. Murfin, Jenny Ortiz,Hannis Pannis, Ryan Pendell, Michael Ramsburg, RobertScotellaro, Tom Sheehan, Lehua Taitano, Janet Thorning,Maureen O’Leary Wanket, and Bill West.

Chester AaronAbout Them978-0-9795285-7-6, $20, paper, 176 pp.EL LEÓN LITERARY ARTS 2011

Fiction. “Chester Aaron’s novel-in-stories, ABOUT THEM,published nearly 35 years ago, holds a unique andlasting place in the artistic annals of American boyhood.Through the account of young Benny Kahn we come toinhabit the Pennsylvania mining town of Sundown inthe years leading up to World War II. Colorful and clear-eyed, unsentimental but full of feeling, the book gives usa rich and textured sense of life as it was lived there andthen. Now, in ABOUT THEM, an octogenarian Bennyrevisits what remains of that largely vanished world—to show what time and memory have done to thecharacters and the place, to fill in suppressed pieces ofthe past, and to irradiate the whole with a sense notonly of what was and is, but what should be. Thenarrative, by turns dramatic, comic, and chilling like itspredecessor, is nonetheless permeated with kindness,generosity, and love right up to the astonishingending. How Aaron manages this without a trace ofmawkishness is not the least of the truly rare delightsthis book offers”—Donald Fanger.

Tom AbramsGoya’s Head978-1-60489-065-5, $18.95, paper, 340 pp.LIVINGSTON PRESS 2010

Fiction. “I divined early on that I had one great characteravailable and that was Madrid itself. There is a constant,day and night, sideshow on the streets of that city, andon my walks I’d take in the oddities of it, the beauty andmadness. I’d go down to the rose garden and then onbelow that to the river and Goya’s tomb in the Chapel ofSan Antonio de la Florida and observe the frescoes hepainted on the ceiling. I learned that his body was there,but his head wasn’t. This seemed a metaphor for howI was and, by extension, for the expatriate experience.Your body is present at this particular location on themap, but your thoughts are elsewhere. Mine wereoften back home; they visited my childhood andrelatives and the small town where I grew up. All thiswas fictionalized by magic, as it will do.”

Lizzy AckerMonster Party978-0-9789858-3-7, $12, paper, 84 pp.SMALL DESK PRESS 2010

Fiction. “Lizzy Acker’s MONSTER PARTY is a rager ofvulnerable tomboy bravado. This is the girl who youwant holding back your hair at the end of the night,totally in touch with the ridiculous sickness of life—all its sad absurdity, useless longings, flares of courageand derring-do. There’s a goofy punch of love fist-kissingat the heart of this book, bruising its tough poetrywith melancholy humor. Totally awesome”—Michelle Tea.


Fiction and Drama Listed alphabetically by author.See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-GenreWriting (p.9), Literary Nonfiction(p.63), andMagazine sections (p.73)


Michael BibleCowboy Maloney’s Electric City978-0-9830674-4-3, $10, paper, 86 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2011

Fiction. This is your new favorite book. You will read iton highways and down in the sand of a deserted island.You will learn Michael Bible’s striking and gentlelanguage, which booms and slithers like silverpercussion, and ride elevators in the forest, this horsenamed Forever. You will use secret cameras for spyingand come to know COWBOY MALONEY’S ELECTRIC CITYand see single bolts of lightning raising up from theground. You will know this book is not like anything. It’sa book of brightness and purpose. It’s a book that’s pureand liquid and fuel. This is your new favorite book.Get ready. “Michael Bible may have hit what a lot of uswere trying, a singular new voice for CEOs to slackers.He’s so open, so easy, so fluid, you’ll smile with joyturning every page”—Barry Hannah.

George BoweringCaprice978-1-55420-053-5, $19, paper, 280 pp.NEW STAR BOOKS 2010

Fiction. It’s the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia.Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and FrankSpencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, killsPete Foster. Enter Caprice. Almost six feet tall, withblack stallion, flaming red hair, long legs, and a lethalbullwhip, she sets out to avenge her brother’s murder.Caprice leaves an indelible impression on the peopleshe encounters: Gert, the whore with a heart of gold;Gert’s son, for whom she provides affirmation, and notthe least Frank Smith, her lover, a teacher and amateurbaseball player who wants her to leave the lawenforcement to the professionals and marry him.

Patrick BowmanTorn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave978-1-55380-110-8, $11.95, paper, 200 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. Two-and-a half millenniaafter it was created, Homer’s Odyssey remains one ofhumanity’s most memorable adventure stories. In thisre-creation of Homer’s classic as a young adult novel, wesee the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyesof Alexi, a fifteen-year-old Trojan boy. Orphaned by thewar and enslaved by Odysseus himself, Alexi has a verydifferent view of the conquering heroes of legend.Despite a simmering anger towards his captors, Alexigradually develops a grudging respect for them. As theGreeks fight off the angry Cicones, weather a storm thatpushes them far beyond charted waters, and nearlysuccumb to the blandishments of the bewitching Lotus-eaters, he realizes that they are not the demons theywere said to be, but people like himself.

Louis Daniel BrodskyGetting to Unknow the Neighbors978-1-56809-138-9, $14.95, paper, 92 pp.TIME BEING BOOKS 2011

Fiction. GETTING TO UNKNOW THE NEIGHBORS is acollection of short fictions, by L. D. Brodsky, that presentsthe reader with one of the strangest casts of misfits incontemporary literature. Many of these characters dwellin an apartment building that seems to be located in aKafkaesque twilight zone. GETTING TO UNKNOW THENEIGHBORS is a true masterpiece of the bizarre.

Ben BrooksAn Island of Fifty978-0-9830263-4-1, $12, paper, 156 pp.MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS 2010

Fiction. “AN ISLAND OF FIFTY is a new literary bomb,resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean,chandeliers, dreams, blood, and flame. Old and staleliterature won’t know what just hit. This is somethingnew masking itself in the old and I’m so so so excited”—Shane Jones. “Ben Brooks is popping quarks withAN ISLAND OF FIFTY, spilling new flavors of literatureon the swampy bookstacks of old. Call it new political,new ecological, new sociological, new poetic activism,or even new imaginary creationism. This book buildsup to tear down and tears down to build up. Desire asmelancholia, progress as slippage, and wanting forwanting’s sake. The floodgates crumble. I relish theshape of this new wordspace, the play of noise andwhisper, the unfamiliar voices, and the ache of nihilismparadoxically juxtaposed with the gleam of hopefulinvention”—Christopher Higgs.

Michael BurkeMusic of the Spheres978-1-929355-70-9, $16, paper, 185 pp.CARAVEL MYSTERY BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Johnny Heron is down once again, but thatdoesn’t stop him from attacking a seemingly impossiblecase, not believing the rumors and not backing downfrom the threats. One more time, he fumbles and fightshis way to the truth behind blackmail, infidelities, andmurder...and a really good martini. MUSIC OF THESPHERES is Burke’s follow-up to his debut novel SWANDIVE, which the Mystery Gazette referred to as “anintriguing, intelligent, contemporary American mystery.”

Mary Bucci BushSweet Hope978-1-55071-342-8, $27, paper, 500 pp.GUERNICA EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. Italians as indentured laborers in Southerncotton plantations at the turn of the 20th century? Entirefamilies scrabbling to survive, dying of malaria, buildingrelationships with their neighbors, many the firstgeneration of freed slaves? SWEET HOPE unleashes thelittle known story of Italians who came looking for abetter life in La Terra Nuova and found hardship, misery,and their own form of slavery instead.

Russell ConnorToys from My Attic978-1-929355-72-3, $12, paper, 65 pp.PLEASURE BOAT STUDIO 2011

Fiction. Art. Memoir. Poetry. Drama. This small bookcontains various pieces—memoir, short stories, poems,a one-act play, some artwork—all done as humorouscommentary on life. A former TV host for studies ofmuseum art, Connor is best known for his paintings. Hisearlier book, Masters in Pieces (Journey Editions, 1997),illustrated not only his skill but also his humor in puttinggreat works of art together. Of it, Eric P. Nash wrote inThe New York Times: “...Magically, Connor whisks away theartifice of art history to forge some deeper connections,and makes us smile all the while.”

FICTION AND DRAMA


Giuseppe ConteAngelina’s Lips978-1-55071-337-4, $18, paper, 80 pp.GUERNICA EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. Translated from the Italian by Robert Buranello.“To be Hitchcockian about it, the story deals with therelationship between [Umberto] Umber, a professor ofcomparative literature, and a Dr. Jamshid Kloster, anexperimental physicist whom Umber meets on a LagunaBeach bench as Diane Keaton, a longtime Laguna Beachresident, strolls by. Umber’s other obsession or, perhaps,his deepest regret is that...he will never be able to knowany of ‘the characters of future novels.’ In Hitchcockianterms, that’s the McGuffin and, as Kloster tells Umber,‘If you’re interested in future novels, we must travel tothe libraries of the future.’ And that’s where the storybecomes both Borgesian and Contesque as Umber asksKloster what he will need for that to happen and Klosterreplies: ‘We need a library, four mirrors, and a beautifulsunset’”—Mark Axelrod.

Weston CutterYou’d Be a Stranger, Too978-1-60964-047-7, $20, paper, 266 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Fiction. “In serial dioramas of ‘strange unpacking,’WestonCutter’s Stranger invents a singing human science. WithNabokovian care, here are homes and lots and bodies,objects, inverted for their layers, laidopen both in witness and design. Here is a calculus ofhidden hours and the light of those and what was madebetween us. Here is a huge eye”—Blake Butler.“Stories built from carved, chiseled, and finely-wroughtsentences—Weston Cutter’s hand with prose is deft andintricate, and at times dazzling”—Aimee Bender.

A. W. DeAnnuntisMaster Siger’s Dream978-0-9823542-7-8, $14.50, paper, 229 pp.WHAT BOOKS PRESS 2010

Fiction. Medieval philosopher Master Siger finds himselfcondemned as a heretic by the Catholic Church, butin a world of late 20th century technology; he makesalliances with sexy philosopher nuns and monk doubleagents to escape the clutches of the Papal Mafia and theFranciscan Highway Patrol in a labyrinth of drugs, sex,car chases, and back alley plots.

Rikki DucornetNetsuke978-1-56689-253-7, $14.95, paper, 128 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters,a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces bothpatients and strangers with equal heat. Driven tocompartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to orderand contain his lovers as he does his collection of rarenetsuke, the precious miniature sculptures giftedto him by his wife. This riveting exploration of onepsychoanalyst’s abuse of power unearths the startlingintrospection present within even the darkest heart.

Scott ElyDream Fishing978-1-60489-057-0, $16.95, paper, 200 pp.LIVINGSTON PRESS 2010

Fiction. An ambush in Vietnam, a hurricane, anunexpected suicide capping a birthday. All these mightseemingly provide profound insights to any participant.“Seemingly” serves as the key word, however, inthese and all eleven stories in Ely’s latest collection.His latest and his most hard-nosed collection to date,we want to add.

Kevin FentonMerit Badges978-1-936970-03-2, $15, paper, 233 pp.NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSE 2011

Fiction. Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, judgedby Jim Shepard. Follow four friends as they move fromThe Brady Bunch to Seinfeld, from junior high to middlemanagement. There is Quint, whose rebellion frays intoself-destruction; Slow, who struggles to become theworld’s first teenage father figure; Chimes, who fearslosing his friends while picking up a 7-10 split; and Barbwho escapes the conformity of Minnisapa only to findherself returning by dark of night. You will feel as ifyou’ve always lived in Minnisapa, Minnesota. And youwill never underestimate nice kids from the Midwestagain. “MERIT BADGES is hilarious, painful, lovely,nostalgic, generous and true. Kevin Fenton creates anunforgettable group of characters, in whose lives andthoughts and actions readers will often recognizethemselves. This is a very funny, very moving, andwonderful book”—Julie Schumacher.

Sasha FletcherWhen All Our Days Are Numbered MarchingBands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not HearThem Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds978-0-9830263-3-4, $12, paper, 89 pp.MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS 2010

Fiction. “My advice: those who are to read SashaFletcher’s delightful enjoinder WHEN ALL OUR DAYSARE NUMBERED should go into an empty house of anafternoon, shut themselves in a backroom closeton a low shelf, and read straight through withoutstopping”—Jesse Ball. “Sasha Fletcher, with his dreamcatastrophes and immense loves, can wand usinto a new world. Here is a story that glistens”—Deb Olin Unferth.

Allen FrostThe Mermaid Translation978-1-933964-40-9, $15, paper, 140 pp.BIRD DOG PUBLISHING 2010

Fiction. Allen Frost’s latest book is a fantasy novelof our times. This is one of those wonder books of oldlike William Blake and Kenneth Patchen wrote—a magic fable, a novel in poetry.

Eugene K. GarberO Amazonas Escuro978-0-9744288-8-8, $15, paper, 266 pp.SWANK BOOKS 2010

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. The acclaimedethnographer K lives with the Roirua-peo in theircompound on the Amazon. After a successful period ofstudy, both his work and tribe’s survival are threatenedby the persistent journeys upriver of evangelists,adventurers, artists, and the ideas of well-knownphilosophers. Eventually, the arrival of a Herzog-esqueGerman filmmaker and his deranged and volatile stardestroy the balance of tribal life and lead to asurprising—and irrevocable—climax.

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Kathleen George, EditorPittsburgh Noir978-1-936070-93-0, $15.95, paper, 280 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Pittsburgh has recently (and more than once)been called the most livable city in America, yet theold image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forthgrit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirtyindustrial center is a part of its residents, a partof their toughness. The people of the steel city fight.PITTSBURGH NOIR includes brand-new stories byStewart O’Nan, Hilary Masters, Lila Shaara, RebeccaDrake, Kathleen George, Paul Lee, K. C. Constantine,Nancy Martin, Kathryn Miller Haines, Terrance Hayes,Carlos Delgado, Aubrey Hirsch, Tom Lipinski, andReginald McKnight.

Garth GreenwellMitko978-1-4507-6214-4, $15, paper, 96 pp.MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011

Fiction. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, anAmerican newly arrived in a foreign city pays a youngman for sex. Over the next months, as what at firstseems an uncomplicated transaction deepens intosomething more intricate and unnerving, his discoveryof the geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country isaccompanied by the unfolding of Mitko’s own narrative,his private history of illness, exploitation, and want.The story of a desire that grows increasingly ambivalent,poised between submission, need, and resentment,MITKO is a powerful meditation on the chances ofhistory and privilege, on mutual predation, and on ourinability to know with any certainty the natures ofothers or our own fugitive selves.

Lucrecia GuerreroTree of Sighs978-1-931010-73-3, $27, cloth, 314 pp.978-1-931010-74-0, $17, paper, 314 pp.BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2011

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. After the sudden andtragic death of her parents, Altagracia faces an uncertainfuture with a bitter and secretive grandmother. Whenthe two sink into poverty, the young girl ends up with acruel woman who takes her to the United States,changes her name to Grace, and puts her to work as afull-time domestic servant. TREE OF SIGHS is the story ofGrace’s journey to uncover her past as she straddlestwo cultures in the search for her own identity. Afterescaping servitude and imprisonment, Grace endureslife on the streets and a succession of jobs, and sheeventually lands in a comfortable marriage. But a phonecall from a person in her past sets her on a journey tothe border, where she meets a man who holds the key toher past, learns the truth about her grandmother, andultimately finds herself.

Syed Afzal HaiderTo Be with Her978-0-9843776-1-9, $14.95, paper, 250 pp.WEAVERS PRESS 2010

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Jewish Studies. Toldwith humor and melancholy, TO BE WITH HER is agripping tale of quest for self-evaluation by a young manfrom Pakistan. Of Muslim background, the narratordeals with his attachment to his culture and people, andcommitment to his first love, while he gives the readera charming love story between him and his Jewishgirlfriend in Chicago in the 60s as the Vietnam War andCivil Rights Movement change everyone.

Elva Treviño HartSimpáticas: San Miguel Stories978-1-931010-61-0, $15, paper, 160 pp.BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2010

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. In this collection of shortstories, Elva Treviño Hart introduces us to the people ofSan Miguel de Allende. Nestled in the eastern part ofGuanajuato in Mexico’s mountainous bajío region, thetown has a mild climate and an accommodating culturethat attract wealthy Americans and Canadians seekingrelaxation and escape. In this picturesque setting, wemeet a variety of well-to-do Anglo retirees: some arehaunted by ghosts, others by their own pasts, some findrenewed meaning and purpose, and still others exploretheir sexuality. Witnessing it all are the maids of SanMiguel, the women charged with making visitors’ stayscarefree and luxurious. The maids work magic to heal orredeem their employers, but sometimes the sorcery ofothers trumps their own. SIMPÁTICAS: SAN MIGUELSTORIES movingly describes two extreme socioeconomicconditions and reveals the universal journey we allultimately share.

Russell HillThe Dog Sox978-1-929355-74-7, $15.95, paper, 200 pp.CARAVEL MYSTERY BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Ray Adams buys his girlfriend, beautiful AvaBelle, a baseball team for her birthday. She loves dogsand baseball. Ray’s gift is a broken-down semi-pro teamin California’s Central Valley, with a 70-year-old Jewishmanager who’s been in baseball for 50 years and breaksinto Yiddish homilies when the going gets tough.He assembles a rag-tag lineup of sheetrockers, farmlaborers, wanna-be big leaguers, and a freak submarinepitcher—19-year-old Billy Collins. The only problem isthat Billy has a drunken, abusive father who, when heshows up at the ballpark, causes Billy to fall apart. Howto get rid of Bucky Collins becomes a primary goal notjust for the team’s sake, but for Billy’s. Rough him up? Payhim off? See that he has an “accident”? With him around,the team and Billy are simply not functional.

Jack HodginsSpit Delaney’s Island978-1-55380-111-5, $18.95, paper, 200 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Fiction. Jack Hodgins’s first book, published originally in1976, is once again in print—in a new edition. Winner ofthe Eaton’s Book Prize and nominated for the GovernorGeneral’s Award, SPIT DELANEY’S ISLAND, a collection ofshort stories, put Vancouver Island on the map as aCanadian literary locale and set Hodgins off on hisliterary career. Often compared to Faulkner’s fiction ofthe deep South, Hodgins’ stories develop throughpeople who seem to live at the edge of the world, alwaysin danger of falling off that edge. There is Spit himself,the keeper of a steam locomotive that has been exiled toOttawa for display; there are loggers, country wives,bookstore owners, and people who “live up themountain” in isolated communes.

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Kevin HolohanThe Brothers’ Lot978-1-936070-91-6, $15.95, paper, 320 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. “Kevin Holohan’s strange yet disconcertinglyrecognizable world has echoes of Flann O’Brien’s andMonty Python’s, but there is rage as well as absurdistcomedy. THE BROTHERS’ LOT is a memorable, skillfullywrought, and evocative satire of an Ireland that hascollapsed under the weight of its contradictions”—Joseph O’Connor. “The mix of dire experiences thatgoes into the education dished out at the Brothers ofGodly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Meansadds up to a mordantly funny debut from Dublin nativeHolohan”—Publishers Weekly.

Ava HomaEchoes from the Other Land978-1-894770-64-4, $19.95, paper, 112 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2010

Fiction. Middle East Studies. These haunting storiesbeautifully evoke the oppressive lives of modern womenin the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anis, a computerprogrammer, is at the end of her rope, putting up withthe bullying criticism of a no-good, unemployed lout ofa husband; Azar is a young divorcee, and the only personshe can talk to is Reza; but she can see him only late atnight when “they” are not around; Sharmin has Down’ssyndrome and hopelessly loves Azad; he loves Kazhal,beautiful and blessed; but Kazhal is marriedoff and is divorced at twenty and now awaits a hopelessfuture.... For these and other characters the weight oftraditional attitudes, the harassment of the religiousestablishment, and the attitudes of men make for afrustrating, confining, and sometimes unlivableexistence.

Ofelia HuntToday & Tomorrow978-0-9841406-2-6, $15.95, paper, 268 pp.MAGIC HELICOPTER PRESS 2011

Fiction. Set among the haunted parking lots andAM-PMs and home invasions of today’s America, TODAY& TOMORROW is a hypnotic and hilariously darkadventure of identity melting, ice skating, memory, andconsciousness. “Ofelia Hunt is the balladeer of thedoe-eyed detrivores of overstimulation. Within TODAY& TOMORROW readers find the fried and the frayednerves in the youth of the Hyperworld (which, let’s behonest, could go up in flames or go up in hysterics anyminute now and thank goodness for that), Bad(Ass)grandfathers, and the phenomenon of Bill-Murray-as-Pooka. All will be well, America, as long as the rims keepspinning and Hunt keeps writing”—Matthew Simmons.

Alta IflandDeath-in-a-Box978-0-9831150-0-7, $14, paper, 95 pp.SUBITO PRESS 2011

Fiction. Blending the fabulous with the macabre, thelyrical with the grotesque, the atemporal with thepresent, and melancholy with dark humor, these storieswill take you from the ambiguous world of modernfolktales where a man tries to catch Death in a box, tocommunist Eastern Europe where a man eats his ownbrains, to contemporary women who like garbage, orwho prefer to keep their babies inside their bodies ratherthan give birth. “Fun, glam, and deliciously smart, Ifland’slanguage whispers half-forgotten folktales fromimagined folk, remembering stories that neverhappened about two people who never existed. Goahead, open this box. I dare you”—Jefferey DeShell.

Richard KalichPenthouse F978-1-55713-413-4, $15.95, paper, 227 pp.GREEN INTEGER 2011

Fiction. PENTHOUSE F takes the form of an inquiry intothe suicide, which may or may not be a murder, of ayoung boy and girl who took up residence in theprotagonist/Author’s (of the same name, Richard Kalich)apartment in Manhattan. Using the interrogations ofvarious figures in the fictional Kalich’s life, as well as theprotagonist’s own philosophical musings, personaldocuments, and notes on a novel-in-progress, the storyof the pair’s end unfolds, becoming more real and moresuspect. At the center of this interrogation looms thequestion: is Kalich responsible? As Brian McHale haswritten of this fiction, “Right next door to PENTHOUSE Fis the closet where the whipper whips his perpetualvictim in Kafka’s The Trial. But why travel so far afield foranalogues, when there are Americans closer to hand?This is the sort of novel that John Hawkes might havewritten if he had spent a few years obsessing about theobsolescence of literature and the tyranny of theimage....Or this is the kind of novel that Ron Sukenickmight have written, and in fact did write in BlownAway—a dossier-novel, an archive of documents, somereal, some faked, adding up (or not adding up, finally)to a reflection on the way we live now in the societyof the spectacle.” In this definitive fiction of our time,the internationally acclaimed award-winning novelist,Richard Kalich, is able to undertake a pointed criticalexamination of an increasingly voyeuristic generationwhile cautioning against the delusion that theinstantaneousness of electronic media can replace thesubstantiality of genuine human relationship.

Nadia KalmanThe Cosmopolitans978-1-60489-067-9, $17.95, paper, 240 pp.LIVINGSTON PRESS 2010

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Equal parts Jane Austen andGogol, THE COSMOPOLITANS casts a sharp andsympathetic eye on the foibles and rewards of familyand life in America. This warm and exuberantly comicdebut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewishimmigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughterswed, houses flood, cultures clash, and the past has away of emerging at the most inconvenient moments(and in the strangest ways).

Michael KimballUs978-0-615-43046-1, $14.95, paper, 203 pp.TYRANT BOOKS 2011

Fiction. A husband wakes up to find that his wifehas had a seizure during the night. The husband calls anambulance and his wife is rushed to a hospital whereshe lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits besidehis wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. Atnight, the husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife’sbedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wantsto be able to take her back home.

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Nathan LarsonThe Dewey Decimal System978-1-61775-010-6, $15.95, paper, 251 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. After a flu pandemic, a large-scale terroristattack, and the total collapse of Wall Street, New YorkCity is reduced to a shadow of its former self. As the citystruggles to dig itself out of the wreckage, a nameless,obsessive-compulsive veteran with a spotty memory, alove for literature, and a strong if complex moral code(that doesn’t preclude acts of extreme violence) hastaken up residence at the main branch of the New YorkPublic Library on 42nd Street. With its high body countand snarky dialogue, Larson’s debut pays respects toChandler, Hammett, and Jim Thompson. Healthyamounts of black humor and speculative tendencies willappeal to fans of Charlie Huston, Nick Tosches, DuaneSwierczynski, Victor Gischler, Robert Ferrigno, and earlyJonathan Lethem.

Evan Lavender-SmithAvatar978-1-926616-16-2, $15, paper, 118 pp.SIX GALLERY PRESS 2011

Fiction. The literature of the dispossessed has found itsmost stirring contemporary avatar in Evan Lavender-Smith’s brief tour de force of grief and solitude. Someoneis floating in the depths of space with little more than hisor her thoughts, tears, and strands of hair for company;nothing more than two stars—one in front, onebehind—for guidance. How long has he or she been inthis condition? How did it come about? For how longwill it remain? Distances of a second and a centurycollide to reveal a present moment beholdenonly to the broken clock of thought. In a mesmerizingand unforgettable monologue, the speaker of AVATARdescribes a mode of living and thinking sustainedat the very precipice of being.

John LevyA Mind’s Cargo Shifting978-1-889960-22-7, $16, paper, 138 pp.FIRST INTENSITY PRESS 2011

Fiction. This author’s flair for unpredictability andquirkiness is abundantly clear in this first collection offictions. Lots of humor here, much of it dark, ironic, evendisturbing, but with plenty of good clean funniness tokeep things in balance. Serious readers and writers ofpoetry will find many of these stories of singular interest;just be prepared to laugh at yourselves if the shoes fit.

Tan LinInsomnia and the Aunt978-0-9767364-7-9, $10, paper, 44 pp.KENNING EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Cross-Genre. Art. AsianAmerican Studies. Tan Lin’s INSOMNIA AND THE AUNT isan ambient novel composed of black and whitephotographs, postcards, Google reverse searches, letters,appendices, an index to an imaginary novel, reruns, andfootnotes. The aunt in question can’t sleep. She runs amotel in the Pacific Northwest. She likes watching ConanO’Brien late at night. She may be the narrator’s aunt orshe may be an emanation of a TV set. Structured likeeverybody’s scrapbook, and blending fiction withnonfictional events, INSOMNIA AND THE AUNT is aboutidentities taken and given up, and about the passions ofan immigrant life, rebroadcast as furniture. Ostensiblyabout a young man’s disintegrating memory of his mostfascinating relative, or potentially a conceptualist takeon immigrant literature, it is probably just a treatmentfor a prime-time event that, because no one sleeps inmotels, lasts into the late night and daytime slots.

R. Zamora LinmarkLeche978-1-56689-254-4, $15.95, paper, 280 pp.COFFEE HOUSE PRESS 2011

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. Afterthirteen years of living in the U.S., Vince returns to hisbirthplace, the Philippines. As he ventures into the heatand chaos of the city, he encounters a motley cast ofcharacters, including a renegade nun, a political filmdirector, arrogant hustlers, and the country’s spotlight-driven First Daughter. Haunted by his childhoodmemories and a troubled family history, Vince unravelsthe turmoil, beauty, and despair of a life caught betweena fractured past and a precarious future. Witty andmesmerizing, this novel explores the complex colonialand cultural history of the Philippines and the paradoxesinherent in the search for both personal and nationalidentities.

Paul LisickyThe Burning House978-0-9819687-8-0, $14.95, paper, 160 pp.ETRUSCAN PRESS 2011

Fiction. In this captivating family saga, narrator IsidoreMirsky finds his close-knit family and communitysuddenly coming apart. Facing the illness of familymembers and the loss of homes in a recession-plaguedurban town, he also contends with an overwhelmingnew desire—his feelings for his wife’s sister. THEBURNING HOUSE finds its narrator at his mostvulnerable, and explores what it means to be a goodman amidst chaos. “THE BURNING HOUSE is an achinglylovely novel about the things that bind us together inthis life and the things that pull us apart. Paul Lisicky hasan extraordinary gift for exploring emotional nuanceand the rhythms of desire. With this book he yet againasserts himself as one of the select writers whocontinues to teach me about the complexities of thehuman heart”—Robert Olen Butler.

Norman LockGrim Tales978-0-9830263-0-3, $12, paper, 88 pp.MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS 2011

Fiction. Norman Lock’s GRIM TALES is a mythologicalcatalog of the peculiar, a string of strange, oftenmurderous urban myths. It comes on fast and dirty,wasting no time in lunging at your throat.... GRIM TALESis populated end to end with the magical and thebizarre: shape-shifting, witchery, underwater cities,indoor rain, beds that contain oceans, murderousobjects, all manner of disappearance. Men lose theirfaces to mirrors, women are smothered by their hair,clouds settle over cities and suck them up...and in themidst of all this looming, Lock has an incredible ability torender compelling imagery and demeanor in minute,super-compressed bursts. Single lines resound in themind. In the same way that it’s hard to stop staring at theinternet’s seemingly endless array of weird memes andvideo databases, Lock’s words are both engrossing andslightly haunted. One could spend forever wormingthrough these magicked words, their worlds.

Lonely ChristopherThe Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse978-1-936070-80-0, $15.95, paper, 200 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Introduction by Dennis Cooper.THE MECHANICS OF HOMOSEXUAL INTERCOURSE, aradical map of shortcomings in our daily experiences inthe form of a debut story collection, presentsthematically related windows into serious emotionaltrouble and monstrous love. Lonely Christophercombines a striking emotional grammar, reminiscent ofGertrude Stein’s THREE LIVES, with an unyieldingimagination in the lovely-ugly architecture of his stories.

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Adriana V. López and Carmen Ospina, EditorsBarcelona Noir978-1-936070-95-4, $15.95, paper, 245 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from theSpanish by Achy Obejas. Edited by Adriana V. López andCarmen Ospina, BARCELONA NOIR includes brand-newstories by Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Imma Monsó, SantiagoRoncagliolo, Francisco “Paco” González Ledesma, ValerieMiles, David Barba, Isabel Franc, Lolita Bosch, Eric Taylor-Aragón, Antonia Cortijos, Cristina Fallarás, Raúl Argemí,Teresa Solana, and Andreu Martín. For some, Barcelona isa European enchantress of nouveau architecture, fusiontapas, and fine cava. To others, it’s a Gothic labyrinth oftiny streets to lose oneself in; hashish-clouded after-hours bars to forget the time; dimly lit plazas with globalbohemians squatting, prostitutes tempting. But comemorning, its cold cobblestones and misty beachfrontshave even darker stories to tell.

Lorenzo MadalenaConfetti for Gino978-1-55071-224-7, $22, paper, 414 pp.GUERNICA EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. A realistic portrayal of the Sicilian fishingcommunity in San Diego in the 1950s, CONFETTI FORGINO centers around the DeMarino family, in particularfishing boat captain Gino DeMarino’s stubborn attemptsto break away from tradition by vowing to marry awoman from outside the Italian community, and hismother’s fight to ensure he marries someone within thecommunity. The novel shows how kinship and familyproved more visceral than the notions of individualityand independence that were emerging at the time. Inthe end, Gino learns that he can’t break away because hehas nothing to “catch him” on the other side. The family,the community, the life as a tuna boat captain are whohe is and are what define him.

Josie MalinowskiWest of Pure Evil978-0-578-06919-7, $11.95, paper, 204 pp.OYSTER MOON PRESS 2010

Fiction. Poetry. The labyrinthine, mercurial worlds ofJosie Malinowski’s WEST OF PURE EVIL represent adivorce between rhyme and reason, spinning off-keytales of love and pain. Sailors and whores unite to solveancient, despicable mysteries; an act of aid brings aFairy Kingdom to its knees; and the tragic Captain Cockis left cold and stiff by a scheming eight-year-old.These myriad poems and stories illuminate the crossoverbetween waking and dreaming, and thereby cast anintimate, surrealist glance at the human condition.

Paul MaliszewskiPrayer and Parable: Stories978-1-934200-44-5, $15.95, paper, 176 pp.FENCE BOOKS 2011

Fiction. At a campground, a divorced father confronts aman he believes hurt his daughter. A devoted studenttraces a winding path through the snow, searching forthe next most beautiful thing. Two brothers watch theirfather tinker lovingly with his homemade robots. In thisdebut story collection, men and women struggle to doright. They argue. They think. They think again. Theyhave odd dreams. Often they fail at being good, and yet,on occasion, they realize moments of true kindness.In language that is at once simple and supple, plain-spoken and arresting, these twenty-eight storiesdescribe complete lives in sharp detail, lives we mayrecognize as not unlike our own. “You want me to tellyou what sets Maliszewski apart? The answer is probity.The answer also is decency. Here’s another answer:modesty, tact, exactitude, pertinence, reverence, wit.Maliszewski has all the graces, which is why I, in my oldage, am renewed and schooled by him. Oh, and anotherthing: Paul Maliszewski takes no crap”—Gordon Lish.

Jack MatthewsThe Gambler’s Nephew978-0-9819687-7-3, $15.95, paper, 240 pp.ETRUSCAN PRESS 2011

Fiction. With a literary style reminiscent of Mark Twain,this historical novel captures the colorful riverboatculture of 1850s Ohio. THE GAMBLER’S NEPHEW presentsa world of abolitionist passion, murder, and old-fashioned cussedness, a world of steamboats plying theOhio River, and a world with people troubled by suchgrand irrelevancies as love. Here is a world as richlyconfused as our own—and as alive as living can get.

Madeline McDonnellThere Is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out978-0-9844889-2-6, $10, paper, 79 pp.RESCUE PRESS 2010

Fiction. THERE IS SOMETHING INSIDE, IT WANTS TO GETOUT is the brief and stunning debut by fiction writerMadeline McDonnell. In these technically surprising andlyrically astounding stories, the reader meets threehaunted, singular, and unsettled protagonists—Wednesday, Mary, and Lucy—who are up to and upagainst all sorts of horrendous and hilarious trouble. Thereader will discover in this trinity a deeply intelligent,comic, and chaotic view of consciousness, pleasure, andshame along with a panic-inducing proposal, cancer-basketball, and a series of passionate car crashes.Perhaps more importantly, the reader will fall forMcDonnell’s poetic touch and her absolute attention tothe magic of the sentence.

Mary MillerBig World978-0-9749541-8-9, $9.95, paper, 230 pp.SHORT FLIGHT/LONG DRIVE BOOKS 2009

Fiction. Mary Miller’s BIG WORLD is the second book andfirst work of fiction to come out of Short Flight/LongDrive Books, a publishing arm of the independentliterary journal Hobart. The characters in Mary Miller’sdebut short story collection BIG WORLD are at onceautonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longingto connect with those around them and a cynicismregarding their ability to do so, whether they’re holed upin a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air gunshooting boyfriend as in “Fast Trains” or navigating therooms of their house with their dad after their mother’sdeath as in “Leak.” Mary Miller’s writing isunapologetically honest and efficient and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent ofMary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill’s andEldridge’s stories were set in the south and reeked ofspilt beer and cigarette smoke.

M. V. MontgomeryDream Koans978-0-9817852-3-3, $13, paper, 157 pp.FAST FORWARD PRESS 2011

Fiction. DREAM KOANS is a collection that almost defiesdefinition. At first glance, it is a book of short stories. Atcloser examination, the stories become poems, dreams,jokes, philosophy, and fables. The flash fiction pieces inthis book run the gamut from tragic to hilarious. Thecollection illuminates Montgomery’s themes and visioninto something that is, indeed, more than the sum of itsparts. Montgomery’s unique approach and form breaksboundaries, inspires, and pushes the boundaries ofliterature. Daniel McDermott from Bananafish says aboutDREAM KOANS: “Creativity explodes from this...and alesson can be learned for all writers drudging throughthe same stagnant form again and again.”

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MaceoMontoyaThe Scoundrel and the Optimist978-1-931010-65-8, $28, cloth, 272 pp.978-1-931010-67-2, $18, paper, 272 pp.BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2010

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Nothing is easy when youare thirteen, and it’s especially challenging wheneveryone thinks you’re eight because you are tiny; yourfather is an abusive, tyrannical lout; your siblings aredetermined to strike out on their own to escapeconstant drunken rages; and your mother is deeplydepressed. In THE SCOUNDREL AND THE OPTIMIST wemeet Edmund, a hapless but irrepressible redheadedteen whose magnificent strength of spirit makes him agiant among men. Despite roadblocks and bad advice,Edmund is determined to win the heart of Ingrid Generaand to become a great guitar player. But his mostnotable accomplishment is teaching his father, Filastro,the value of integrity and optimism. After a prolongedepisode of debauchery, Filastro discovers just howhorrifying abuse is. Edmund nurses him back to healthand in the process teaches him that love is mightier thanfists and is worth great sacrifice. At once humorous andtouching, THE SCOUNDREL AND THE OPTIMIST is adelightful read.

Mariko NagaiGeorgic978-1-886157-76-7, $15.95, paper, 163 pp.BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2010

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Winner of the G.S.Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction selected by JonisAgee. “Based on dire events in Japanese history and thekey of folktale Mariko Nagai has written stories ofa stark and unforgettable human landscape. War,imprisonment, hunger, and betrayals are in thesetimeless narratives. In the last story, drowning land,a young man who has spent his life sleeping anddreaming hears a voice whispering, It is time to wakeup. The past has finally counted and enough change hascome from his dreaming life to get him to act. Now,there is the possibility of release and change—of body,soul and mercy uniting with what is essential in order tograce communal life. This is a deeply thoughtful andbeautifully written work”—Gioia Timpanelli.

Hal NiedzvieckiLook Down, This Is Where It Must HaveHappened978-0-87286-539-6, $15.95, paper, 152 pp.CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Fiction. The acclaimed author of THE PEEP DIARIES andHELLO, I’M SPECIAL returns to fiction and delivers amind-altering collection of short stories that confrontthe hypocrisies, humiliations, and hilarities of modernlife. Hal Niedzviecki has established himself as one ofCanada’s most influential young writers, and in thiswildly imaginative collection he romps through socialconventions, confronts some of society’s mostintractable arguments, and deftly captures the zeitgeistof our fractured times.

AdamNovyThe Avian Gospels, Book I978-0-9825301-2-2, $12.95, paper, 278 pp.SHORT FLIGHT/LONG DRIVE BOOKS 2010

Fiction. A city without a name is cursed by a plague ofbirds they probably deserve. But when an angry beggarchild and his father learn they have the power to lift thecurse—they “control” birds—they cannot agree on howto use their gift, and end up using it on each other,taking out everyone around them, especially those theylove. This is BOOK I of a two-volume novel.

AdamNovyThe Avian Gospels, Book II978-0-9825301-3-9, $10.95, paper, 184 pp.SHORT FLIGHT/LONG DRIVE BOOKS 2010

Fiction. A city without a name is cursed by a plague ofbirds they probably deserve. But when an angry beggarchild and his father learn they have the power to liftthe curse—they “control” birds—they cannot agree onhow to use their gift, and end up using it on each other,taking out everyone around them, especially thosethey love. This is BOOK II of a two-volume novel.

Uma ParameswaranA Cycle of the Moon978-1-894770-62-0, $20.95, paper, 224 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2010

Fiction. South Asian Studies. It is a tense autumn theyear Mayura comes away from her husband, saying shewill never return to the uncouth, lustful monster.Everyone in the family is affected by her arrival. A senseof collective guilt emasculates the men even as theylecture her on the moral duty of returning to herwedded husband. A sense of outrage mingled withsecret sorrow overcomes the women. No one knowswhat to make of Mayura. Meanwhile she behaves asthough nothing and nobody can touch her. Using adeceptively simple and intimate style, Parameswaranexplores the subtleties of love, marriage, sex, and familylife in a changing South Indian environment.

AlanMichael ParkerWhale Man978-1-60226-007-8, $18, paper, 288 pp.WORDFARM 2011

Fiction. Avi Heyer’s rollicking adventure begins when hereturns to Elsbeth, North Carolina, to settle his mother’saffairs. A student chef with the wrong girlfriend and amud-loving dog, Avi soon finds himself dragged into acriminal conspiracy. His world is churned up, downand sideways by the diabolical Camel and her hiredhenchwomen; an unknown phone caller who somehowtracks his every move; an enticing hippie who may betrying to steal something from Avi; a plainspokenbuilding contractor with a suspicious hearing aid; and anews reporter desperate for love. And then there’s Avi’swhale, with its graceful bulk and keening song, a whalethat becomes more than an obsession.

Andrew PlattnerA Marriage of Convenience978-1-886157-78-1, $15.95, paper, 180 pp.BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2011

Fiction. In Andrew Plattner’s new story collection, AMARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE, characters try to improvetheir odds, on the racetrack and in life. In “Runaway,”teenager Hawley Bolton longs to run away from hiswealthy home to join racetrackers like Helen, who tellshim, “remember something good always happens at theracetrack.... You just gotta hang around long enough forluck to find you.” In “More Than a Hunch,” the narratorhas a tip he is sure will help his former girlfriend and hergrown son if they would only listen. But in every story,whether on the track or anywhere else, characters domore than hanging around waiting for luck—they doeverything they can to find it. “Plattner’s stories alwaysamaze me with delicacy, introspection, precision,observation, and profound empathy. A MARRIAGE OFCONVENIENCE is a masterful performance first to last”—Frederick Barthelme.

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Dawn PromislowJewels and Other Stories978-1-894770-65-1, $20.95, paper, 112 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2010

Fiction. African Studies. The landscape of 1970s SouthAfrica lives and breathes in these highly evocativestories, populated by unforgettable characters defined intheir own ways by a repressive political system: amiddle-class white girl observes a servant from herhideout in the garden; a woman sees the sea for the firsttime and takes it home in a bottle; a sheltered, small-town white woman drives out for the first time on herown; a young man goes away in the dark of night tobecome a freedom fighter; post-Apartheid, an artistfinds inspiration in the earth....

Charles ReidGhost of Heroes Past978-1-55380-102-3, $10.95, paper, 170 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. Thirteen-year-old JohnnyAnders is something of a misfit, with no friends and apoor school record, but all this begins to change whenhe is awakened one night to find a soldier-ghost in hisbedroom. Johnny is taken back in time to meet a seriesof unusual heroes in Canada’s war history. These includeJoan Bamford Fletcher, who commandeered Japanesesoldiers to take hundreds of wounded civilians tosafety through the jungles of Indonesia, and the much-decorated Raymond Collishaw, through whom Johnnylearns that Canada played a role in the RussianRevolution.

Nina RevoyrWingshooters978-1-936070-71-8, $15.95, paper, 250 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Michelle LeBeau, thechild of a white American father and a Japanese mother,lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin—a small town that had been entirely white before herarrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her timereading, avoiding fights, and roaming the countrysidewith her dog Brett. She idolizes her grandfather, CharlieLeBeau, an expert hunter and former minor leaguebaseball player who is one of the town’s most respectedmen. Charlie strongly disapproves of his son’s marriageto Michelle’s mother but dotes on his only grandchild.This fragile peace is threatened when the expansion ofthe local clinic leads to the arrival of the Garretts, ayoung black couple from Chicago. The Garretts’ presencedeeply upsets most of the residents of Deerhorn—whenMr. Garrett makes a controversial accusation against oneof the town leaders, who is also Charlie LeBeau’s bestfriend.

Chuck RichardsonSmoke978-1-935402-24-4, $16, paper, 236 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2009

Fiction. “Chuck Richardson’s SMOKE probes humanexistence by pursuing truth and meaning in anunknowable, inexpressible universe, much like theauthorities. What makes SMOKE fascinating is theimaginary catastrophe lurking behind it, which leavesus to invent and imagine the world anew”—Raymond Federman.

Chuck RichardsonSo It Seams978-1-60964-003-3, $18, paper, 280 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Fiction. “Chuck Richardson is a master craftsman whosemagnificent, long, looping sentences, in their whippingand flitting about, present a world populated byobsessive characters whose absurd deeds never seemto end. You will meet a dog named Certitude and anenvironmental activist named Irena-DeloresFarfrankenheirmerzen-Dauphinheifer; Jesus Segundo,a member of a street gang, and Aunt Elizabeth Bullfinchwho owns too much stuff for your own good; andmany, many more. What’s more, it all happens within anarrative of extraordinary energy. Dear reader, you’rein for a treat”—Jefferson Hansen.

Joseph RiippiThe Orange Suitcase978-0-9841025-5-6, $14.95, paper, 92 pp.AMPERSAND BOOKS 2011

Fiction. In the thirty-four stories filling THE ORANGESUITCASE, Joseph Riippi packs an intimate and powerfulportrait of a young man’s life. From a childhood spentsnipering neighbours with BB guns, to adulthoodgrasping at love and art in New York City, THE ORANGESUITCASE shows us not only the way life is lived but—perhaps more importantly—how it is remembered.

Ethel RohanCut Through the Bone978-0-615-40093-8, $12, paper, 115 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2010

Fiction. In this stripped-raw debut collection, EthelRohan’s thirty stories swell with broken, incompletepeople yearning to be whole. Through tight languageand searing scenarios, Rohan brings to life a plethora ofcharacters—exposed, vulnerable souls who areachingly human.

Philip RoyRiver Odyssey978-1-55380-105-4, $10.95, paper, 240 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. In the third volume of theSUBMARINE OUTLAW Series, Alfred sets off in hissubmarine up the dark and wilful St. Lawrence River.With Hollie and Seaweed, his dog and seagull crew,Alfred follows the route of Jacques Cartier, nearly fivehundred years before them, as they sail down the Straitof Belle Isle into the largest river mouth in the world. Butthe St. Lawrence is a treacherous river, concealing manydangers beneath its surface, not least of all the cursedand ghostly Empress of Ireland, a sunken ocean linerthat has claimed the lives of over a thousand people andthat reaches up to entangle the sub as they pass.

Carol Anne ShawHannah and the Spindle Whorl978-1-55380-103-0, $10.95, paper, 244 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. Native American Studies.When twelve-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancientSalish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home inCowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village calledTl’ulpalus, in a time before Europeans had settled in thearea. Through the agency of a trickster raven, Hannahbefriends Yisella, a young Salish girl, and is welcomedinto village life. Here she discovers that the spindle whorlis the prize possession of Yisella’s mother, Skeepla, afamous spinner and weaver. When Skeepla falls victim tosmallpox, Hannah finally begins to open up aboutthe death of her own mother.

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Michael StewartThe Hieroglyphics978-0-9830263-1-0, $12, paper, 82 pp.MUD LUSCIOUS PRESS 2011

Fiction. “In THE HIEROGLYPHICS, a novel(la) in prosepoems, Michael Stewart tackles nothing less than aradical revision of creation myths that comments darklyon the ancient stories we have received & the future wemay be facing. Stewart’s language is spare & haunting,the allusions resonating, in this work that ‘reminds ushow pale are the achievements of men’”—WendyBarker.

Melanie SteynOnce Around the Sun978-89-91913-71-4, $7.95, paper, 141 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2010

Fiction. Southeast Asia Studies. Melanie Steyn’s newnovella, ONCE AROUND THE SUN, marks a rare andinsightful attempt by a foreign writer to recreatecharacters and lives in Korea’s most intimate social unit:the family. Published at the end of September this yearby English-language publisher Seoul Selection, ONCEAROUND THE SUN takes place in a seaside village insouthwestern Korea’s Jeollanam-do Province. Itintroduces the family of Yi Chang-joon, a fisherman; hiswife, Yun-hwa; their daughter and son, Ji-young andDong-ju; and Chang-joon’s mother, Kyu-ah. In the courseof the book’s four chapters, each one relating to one ofthe four seasons, Steyn introduces episodes in the livesof each family member with the exception of Chang-joon himself. One year thus passes, and the earthrevolves once around the sun.

Matthew StokoeCows978-1-936070-70-1, $15.95, paper, 190 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. This is the long-awaited reissue of Stokoe’s brutaldebut novel, COWS, with an introduction by DennisCooper, who selected it for his Little House on theBowery series. Mother’s corpse in bits, dead dog on theroof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and ahundred tons of homicidal beef stampeding through thesubway system. And Steven thought the slaughterhousewas bad.... “Stokoe’s vision of Hell is a carnivore’snightmare. A powerful and all too possibly propheticwork”—Kathy Acker.

Eileen R. TabiosSilk Egg: Collected Novels978-1-84861-143-6, $17, paper, 132 pp.SHEARSMAN BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Asian American Studies. “The genius of Eileen R.Tabios is as generous as it is manifold. Reading SILK EGG,I suddenly feel myself becoming more perceptive,fantastical, mordant, impassioned, and artful. Just likethe book itself. Read it, and the same can happen toyou”—Barry Schwabsky.

Jim ShepardMaster of Miniatures978-0-9844142-3-9, $12, paper, 56 pp.SOLID OBJECTS 2011

Fiction. “As in Nosferatu, with its smartly imagined life ofthe German film director F. W. Murnau, here Shepardconsiders the Japanese special effects director EijiTsuburaya and his cinematic inventions for the science-fiction movie we know as Godzilla. And like many ofShepard’s stories, MASTER OF MINIATURES limns theintense and alienated world of a focused expertobsessed with his field of endeavor, at a cost to hismarriage and children. For Japanese survivors ofHiroshima and Nagasaki in the fifties, America itselfseemed king of the monsters, to be looked at with fearand awe. This is a poignant and important story thatseems to me a summation and condensation of manythemes that have preoccupied Shepard before. Like adiamond held aloft, each turn of this tale in his deft handflashes still more light”—Ron Hansen.

Gregory SherlI Have Touched You978-0-9830674-2-9, $8, paper, 47 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Winner of DARK SKY MAGAZINE’s 2010 chapbookcontest, Gregory Sherl’s I HAVE TOUCHED YOU is a debutcollection of linked stories exploring the hurt, drive,remorse and pleasure of fleeting relationships andcasual sex. Through rapt, often kinky language andquick-fire observations, Sherl’s stories linger andprovoke, presenting the reader with a series of swollenhearts, unmade beds, and potent narratives. “If Tao Linput the heart back into his writing, exchanged the boredneutrality for a sense of hope or lust or longing, wewould have Gregory Sherl’s I HAVE TOUCHED YOU. Aswith Lin, there are the musical references, the mappingof movements, and a diary of food and drink and drugingestion, but instead of trapping them inside a forevermonotonous plain, Sherl elongates them into beautyand rifle-fires them from a language-musket, somethingat once wonderfully matured and yet able to opengaping holes in our chests”—J. A. Tyler.

John Elvis SmelcerAlaskan: Stories from the Great Land978-0-9791944-7-4, $16, paper, 144 pp.STANDING STONE BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Written over the course of a quarter century byone of Alaska’s best living writers, these two dozenstories embody the spirit of Alaska—its collidingcultures, magnificent beauty and dangerouslyunforgiving environment. “John Smelcer is Alaska’smodern-day Jack London”—W. P. Kinsella. “JohnSmelcer’s stories are an indispensable addition toAlaskan literature”—J. D. Salinger.

Adriano SpatolaThe Porthole978-0-9796177-9-9, $12.95, paper, 112 pp.OTIS BOOKS/SEISMICITY EDITIONS 2011

Fiction. Translated from the Italian by Beppe Cavatortaand Polly Geller. Recipient of the 1966 “Ferro di Cavallo”prize for a first novel, THE PORTHOLE was a highlypraised and controversial debut. Pulling together diverseelements from the musical experiments of Cage,Schnebel and Kagel, the pictorial innovations ofassemblage and pop art, x-rated comics, and dialoguefrom horror and World War II films, Spatola liberated hisnarrative from the stultifying edifice of Italian prose.THE PORTHOLE remains even more important today forits remarkable achievement in that fertile period ofexperimental literature. A co-publication of OtisBooks/Seismicity Editions and Agincourt Press.


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Katie WainwrightCuba on My Mind978-1-60489-063-1, $17.95, paper, 240 pp.LIVINGSTON PRESS 2010

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Catalina is rememberingher teenage years in Batista’s Cuba, on the verge ofCastro’s revolution. Her grandson Wayne Olaf listens toher stories while undergoing his own minor revolutionagainst his parents, especially his mother, Catalina’sdaughter. Together, Wayne and Catalina traverse fields oftime to come to new insights.

Persia WalkerBlack Orchid Blues978-1-936070-90-9, $15.95, paper, 270 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. African American Studies. Lanie Price, a 1920sHarlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclubkidnapping of the “Black Orchid,” a sultry, seductivesinger with a mysterious past. When hours pass withouta word from the kidnapper, puzzlement grows as to hismotive. After a gruesome package arrives at Price’sdoorstep, the questions change. Just what does thekidnapper want—and how many people is he willing tokill to get it? “The best kind of historical mystery: greathistory, great mystery, all wrapped up in a voice soauthentic you feel it has come out of the past to whisperin your ear”—Lee Child.

WilliamWalsh, EditorRe: Telling978-0-9841025-6-3, $17.95, paper, 296 pp.AMPERSAND BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Poetry. How many times can Super Mario die?Did Borges visit Indiana, or did Indiana visit Borges?Does the devil drink milk and, if not, why does he likemilkmaids so much? And where do our hero turtles gowhen there are no more foot soldiers to fight?Welcome to RE: TELLING, the anthology that answersthese burning questions, and many, many more. Thiscollection of fiction, poetry, and art features some of theindependent publishing world’s favourite, most talentedwriters using recycled material: purloined plots,stolen settings, borrowed premises, and appropriatedcharacters. It is subversion; it is homage. It is aransacking of the treasure troves in our culturalbasement, and nothing is off limits. The stories rangefrom retellings of Shakespeare to Law & Order, fromclassical theater to video games. Each piece is somethingpicked up and dusted off, reworked, and made new.Contributors are Matt Bell, Alicia Gifford, MichaelMartone, Daniel Grandbois, Darcie Dennigan, PeterConnors, Jim Ruland, Samantha Hunt, Blake Butler, TomLa Farge, Shya Scanlon, Pedro Ponce, Crispin Best, ErinFitzgerald, J. Bradley, Molly Gaudry, Steve Himmer, JoshMaday, Henry Jenkins, Michael Kimball, Corey Mesler,Roxane Gay, Timothy Gager, Heather Fowler, JosephRiippi, Wendy Walker, Zachary Mason, Curtis Smith, JeffBrewer, Kathleen Rooney and Lily Hoang, with originalartwork by Teresa Buzzard.

H. Nigel ThomasLives: Whole and Otherwise978-1-894770-61-3, $20.95, paper, 160 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2010

Fiction. African American Studies. These stories oftriumph and despair present a gallery of characters,Caribbean immigrants struggling against the odds, asthey make their way through the maze of urban life.Set in Montreal, LIVES breaks the stereotypes to give usa side of Canada rarely acknowledged. Mary Fellows is asex-worker organizing a demonstration on St CatherineStreet; Margaret is on a perpetual quest for a suitableman, her latest folly a suave, much younger man shebrought over from Jamaica; Greta, a domestic help,proudly holds up her son’s high school diploma; but canhe read it? LIVES adds to Thomas’s already considerablereputation as a chronicler of black life in Montreal.

Joseph TorraWhat’s So Funny978-0-9831975-0-8, $12, paper, 136 pp.PRESSEDWAFER 2011

Fiction. We’ve forgotten who first said, “Dying is easy;comedy is hard.” Aristophanes may have or some ancientRoman. It’s repeated every night in the performances ofstand-up comics in clubs across America. The hero ofJoseph Torra’s new novel WHAT’S SO FUNNY is one ofthose toilers who is trying to figure out what’s so funnyand then get us to laugh at it. Torra, a master of themonologue, has never been better.

Mary TroyBeauties978-1-886157-74-3, $16.95, paper, 365 pp.BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY 2010

Fiction. “Mary Troy’s BEAUTIES is a lovely novel, acharacter-driven anatomy of the odds and ends ofrelations and friends we cobble together in the modernage as our most beloved possession, our true family.Set in the mean streets of south St. Louis in theendearing, if always failing, Alibi Café, BEAUTIES followsthe cynical, one-legged Bev, and the strikingly gorgeousShelly, as they serve up generous heapings of biscuitsand gravy to a ragtag motley of troubled and endearingsouls who gravitate to the haven the café offers. Lovepercolates like drip coffee as Shelly seeks fulfillment witha duplicitous P.I., as the beleaguered Bev strugglesthrough red tape to adopt the neglected Toby from aworld that wants to destroy him. More than anything,the ultimate lesson of BEAUTIES is one that deserves thevivid and emotional investigations Troy lavishes on it:that though the world on its surface seems a bruisedand broken place, true beauty lies beneath if we onlystop to look”—Tony D’Souza.

David UngerThe Price of Escape978-1-936070-92-3, $15.95, paper, 218 pp.AKASHIC BOOKS 2011

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. In 1938, as SamuelBerkow’s tramp steamer from Germany approachesPuerto Barrios, Guatemala, he is full of hope that he willbe able to remake his life in the new world. Partcharacter study and part riveting narrative of a GermanJew escaping the Nazis, this novel provides its own mixof Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, and Louis-FerdinandCéline, as Samuel stumbles to get his footing in ahostile setting.


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Paul J. WillisThe Alpine Tales978-1-60226-006-1, $28, paper, 592 pp.WORDFARM 2010

Fiction. The best part of any good fantasy world is thepromise that you could get there yourself. In THEALPINE TALES, that promise is kept. The Three QueensWilderness is only the swing of an ice ax away fromthe mountains you may think you know. It is a worldinhabited by three strange sisters at mortal odds—andby marmots and ouzels and pocket gophers ready tohelp you find your way. The dangers you’ll face are everpresent. For this alpine world was a place of perfectionuntil, by the bane of the Lava Beast, it crumbled intosomething sadder. Join the quest to repair the ruins ofglistening peaks and endless forests, and discover a landyou will dearly love. Here, for the first time, all four booksof THE ALPINE TALES, newly revised, are collected in asingle volume.

SteveWeinerSweet England978-1-55420-055-9, $19, paper, 176 pp.NEW STAR BOOKS 2010

Fiction. A man of no known origin and unstablepersonality tries to re-enter society after a long andunexplained absence. The reader sees events throughJack’s mostly uncomprehending eyes as he negotiatesthe margins of a London that resembles the city ofmemory and story only in incidental details. Repletewith episodes of manic religion and delusions, the worldin SWEET ENGLAND is hard, dark, dangerous.Exploitation and violence provide a steady backgroundglow that illuminates Jack’s relationship with Brenda,with whom he is living, drinking, brawling, and loving.Weiner’s London is equally a protagonist of his story.Dirty, somber, the city is a palimpsest, the contemporarycurry houses and mosques reinscribing the landscapedotted with old churches, monuments and graveyardsthat invoke old England’s Christian saints and gloriouspast.

MacWellmanLeft Glove978-0-9844142-0-8, $12, paper, 56 pp.SOLID OBJECTS 2011

Drama. Poetry. From three-time Obie Award-winner MacWellman comes this complex and provocative playabout two simple events. Yamaha Nazimova hasdropped a glove. Jewel Beckett picks it up. Betweenthese two occurrences, a band of moths, fingers,demons, and all-too-human pronouns sing 27 chorusesrich with puns, reversals, exclamations, whisperings,cries of loss, cries of victory, arguments, and resolutions.Turning dramatic convention on its head, LEFT GLOVEoffers a profound view of a mishap and its ramificationsin the public and private sphere. “Chorus of OneResolved, that: LEFT GLOVE will fit thee like a glove ifthou relishest the sort of play in which the most awe-inspiring acrobatic feats are performed by no othercharacter than language. A left glove may have beenlost, but here thou shall encounter dexterous playbountifully. And that is that. YEA”—Mónica de la Torre.

Charles DoddWhite and Page Seay, EditorsDegrees of Elevation: Short Stories ofContemporary Appalachia978-1-933964-39-3, $18, paper, 186 pp.BOTTOM DOG PRESS 2010

Fiction. “Hard, brilliant, and dark as coal, this brand newand necessary volume captures Appalachia today, aplace where the old bedrock verities of family,community, belief, work, and the earth itself are all inpainful “Upheaval”—to use the title of Chris Holbrook’sstory herein. From manic to elegiac to rough, raw,beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike thereader as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, likethe high pure ring of an ax on a cold winter morning,vibrating across distance, hanging in the air longafterward”—Lee Smith.


Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman,Lyn Hejinian, TomMandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman,Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett WattenThe Grand Piano: Part 10978-0-9790198-9-0, $12.95, paper, 269 pp.MODE A/THIS PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir.PART 10 is the final installment of the Grand Piano“experiment.” This volume draws some of its themesfrom experimental music, current Amercian politics,newspaper headlines, and an array of influnces(Kathy Acker, Lorenzo Thomas, Laura (Riding) Jackson,Robert Grenier, Larry Eigner, Clark Coolidge). At thesame time, almost all the pieces of the ending volumemake some kind of return to the complicated impulsesthat initally launched the project: autobiography,resistance to autobiography, writing, language-as-such,memory, time, and especially the rich historical meetingpoint of these ten authors in the Bay Area literaryscene(s) of the 1970s.

Lawrence AronsenCity of Love and Revolution:Vancouver in the Sixties978-1-55420-048-1, $24, paper, 208 pp.NEW STAR BOOKS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Canadian History. Aronsen tells thestory of the spread of the “hippie” lifestyle north fromSan Francisco into Vancouver, and how this rocked thebuttoned-down, Protestant, white-bread frontier townthat Vancouver had been up til then. A chapter on theimpact of the sexual revolution tells of love-ins, freeclinics, public nudism, and the Penthouse and otherVancouver fleshpots. Other chapters recount the storiesof the drugs and music that were embraced by the newgeneration of Vancouverites; of peaceful anti-warprotesters and the birth of Greenpeace, and the harderedge of the Yippies and their occupations and streettheatre; and of Vancouver Free University and the newideas that forever changed the way Canadian schoolswork. Aronsen’s readable account is illustrated with over100 photos, drawings, and advertisements drawn fromthe newspapers—both straight and Georgia Straight—that chronicled the era.

Leslie Baer-Brown and Bob RheinEarth Keepers: A Sourcebook for Environmentallssues and Action978-1-56279-070-7, $14.95, paper, 304 pp.MERCURY HOUSE 1995

Literary Nonfiction. Environmental Studies. EARTHKEEPERS is a uniquely user-friendly guide toenvironmental theory and action by the hosts of thenationally syndicated radio program EarthWatch.This sourcebook explains root causes of many of theearth’s pressing problems, along with specificsuggestions for addressing them.

Ammiel Alcalay, EditorLost & Found: The CUNY Poetics DocumentInitiative, Series 2978-0-615-43350-9, $25, paper, 322 pp.THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES, THE GRADUATE CENTER,CUNY 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics.LOST & FOUND features extra-poetic work—correspondence, journals, critical prose, and lecturetranscripts—by New American Poets, with theirprecursors and followers. SERIES 2 features Diane diPrima’s Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. and R.D.’SH.D. (on Robert Duncan); a lecture on Charles Olson byRobert Duncan; selections from El Corno Emplumado byMargaret Randall; selections from Muriel Rukeyser’sSpanish Civil War archive; and Jack Spicer’s Beowulf.Edited, annotated, and with accompanying essays, BobHolman has said “These books are gems. The idea isgenius.” Diane di Prima has called the series “a goldmine” and Joanne Kyger writes: “What a brilliant cast ofcharacters. Just exactly what one (myself ) would like toread.” Presented as an integrated set of chapbooks, LOST& FOUND is essential reading that proposes new andalternative versions of literary and cultural history.

Kazim AliFasting for Ramadan: Notes from aSpiritual Practice978-1-932195-94-1, $19.95, paper, 212 pp.TUPELO PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Memoir.FASTING FOR RAMADAN is structured as a chronicle ofdaily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-dayrite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan forpurgation and prayer. Estranged in certain ways from hisfamily’s cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali hasin recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, andbrings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy ofreflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguisticprecision and ardor of a superb poet. Kazim Ali’ssearching descriptions of the Ramadan sensibility and itsarduous but liberating annual rite of communal fastingis sure to be a revelation to many readers—intellectuallyilluminating and aesthetically exhilarating. “[A]nimportant book.... Written ‘in that third voice, a voicebetween two people, neither one nor the other, neitherembodied nor disembodied.’ I have wanted to knowwhat fasting in Islam involved...to admire its intentionsand effects in solitude.... I hope that multitudes willfind their way to [this book]”—Fanny Howe.

Stan AppsThe World as Phone Bill978-0-9728880-4-2, $19.95, paper, 248 pp.COMBO BOOKS 2011

Nonfiction. Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. THE WORLDAS PHONE BILL comprises essays in the tradition ofMichel de Montaigne, Charles Olsen, and Buck Rogers.Authors covered include John Cage, Hannah Weiner,Nada Gordon, Frank O’Hara, K. Silem Mohammad,Gary Sullivan, Rodney Koeneke, Mathew Timmons, andAra Shirinyan. Topics covered include poetic inspiration,the uses of “Flarf,” literary representation in an age ofglobalism, and the rough stance of urban poets.


Literary Nonfiction Listed alphabetically by author.See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-GenreWriting (p.9), Fiction and Drama(p.51), andMagazine sections (p.73)


Michael Basinski, EditorGerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction978-1-935402-00-8, $25, paper, 509 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. “I ammost happy to say that this book celebrates the poetGerald Locklin. It is an homage to Gerald Locklin, a poetwhose neck of the woods is the literary underground,which is the publishing stratum that has delivered HOWLand The Maximus Poems and Ulysses and The Making ofAmericans and Flower Fist and Bestial Wail. Not a bad list.Certainly, yes, this book is a tribute to Gerry Locklin andit is long and fat. It is also a tribute to iceberg lettuce andFrench’s Mustard. It is a tribute to Locklin’s independentvoice. His is a forceful, absolutely clear and democraticvoice that constantly reminds all of us in the realm of thepoem that our poetry is all of us who make all of ourpoetry”—Michael Basinski.

Bill BerksonFor the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews,Occasional Pieces and More978-1-60964-005-7, $16, paper, 294 pp.BLAZEVOX [BOOKS] 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Art. “‘Opinions are not literature’Gertrude Stein famously admonished ErnestHemingway. It’s a maxim that puts most art criticsbehind the Eight-Ball. Not Bill Berkson. His criticismdoesn’t just deliver an opinion, it embodies anexperience, matching the texture and plasticity of visualforms with a vividness and suppleness of language thatgives the reader something shapely and immediate torespond to thereby opening path ways in the mindto the image or object being evoked and judged. Hissubject is art; his essays and critical prose poems areuncommonly graceful literary artifacts”—Robert Storr.

Sandy BothmerCreating the Peaceable Classroom:21st-Century Wellness Guide for Teachers,Students and Parents978-0-9845921-1-1, $29.95, paper, 224 pp.HOBBLEBUSH BOOKS 2011

Nonfiction. Education. CREATING THE PEACEABLECLASSROOM is intended to assist the community ofteachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, psychologists,school nurses, administrators, students, and parents, tocreate calm and useful energy within themselves andtheir environment. “Sandy offers concrete ideas forcreating a peaceful learning environment. What a gift itwould be for a child to be taught within an environmentof such peaceful attention. What a gift for the world aswell—creating space one child at a time”—StephanieRutt, Director of the Tree of Life Yoga Studio, School forYoga and Sacred Living and the Gifts of GraceFoundation.

George BoweringHorizontal Surfaces978-1-897388-71-6, $18, paper, 93 pp.BOOKTHUG 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Every once in a while Bowering hasto turn to a book such as this. HORIZONTAL SURFACEScame from the same atelier as Craft Slices and Errata.You could keep the book somewhere that you visit forshort periods, reading one item at a time. You shouldalso feel free to add a sentence or two. George Boweringwrites these books about literary composition as well asshort stories and the odd novel. He is also a poet of sorts,and won some prizes for his poetry a long time ago.He is currently working on another book about baseball,having found another niche that will never be seen byhis country’s literary types.

WilliamM. Brinton and Alan Rinzler, EditorsWithout Force or Lies: Voices from the Revolutionof Central Europe in 1989-90978-0-916515-92-8, $10.95, paper, 495 pp.MERCURY HOUSE 1990

Literary Nonfiction. Political Science. Eastern EuropeanStudies. A collection of essays, speeches, and eyewitnessaccounts from those directly involved in the events of1989 in Central Europe, WITHOUT FORCE OR LIESincludes essays, speeches, and eyewitness accountsfrom Andrei Sakharov, Václav Havel, Alfred Herrhausen,Reiner Kunze, Edith Anderson, Eric Gabriel, GüntherGrass, Ewa Kuryluk, Leszek Balcerowicz, Adam Michnik,Josef Škvorecký, Tamas Aczel, George Paul Csicsery,Norman Manea, Thomas A. Oleszczuk, John Jekabson,William M. Brinton, “Z” (anonymous), and MikhailGorbachev.

Brother Anthony, Hong Keong-Hee, andSteven D. OwyoungKorean Tea Classics978-89-91913-66-0, $25, paper, 196 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Southeast Asia Studies. Poetry.Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé,Hong Keong-Hee, and Steven D. Owyoung. Three ancienttexts expressing the essence of the Korean Way of Teaare here translated into English for the first time. Theoldest, “ChaBu, Rhapsody to Tea,” by Hanjae Yi Mok(1471-1498), is a sophisticated and delicate celebrationof tea. The author was a scholar of considerableattainments who died far too early. The 19th century sawa tea revival among Korean literati. Its main guide wasthe Venerable Cho-ui (1786-1866). The first of his teatexts, “ChaSinJeon, Chronicle of the Spirit of Tea,” hecopied from a Ming Chinese work to serve as a practicalguide to tea. The great poem “DongChaSong, Hymn inPraise of Korean Tea,” for which Cho-ui is chieflycelebrated, is a set of formal poetic stanzas celebratingtea with notes by the author to elucidate the references.

Nash CandelariaSecond Communion978-1-931010-56-6, $18, paper, 240 pp.BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Latino/Latina Studies.“In a way you could say that my family was one of thecauses of the Los Angeles riots of 1992.” So beginsNash Candelaria’s insightful memoir that focuses on howand why he chose to become a writer. As he exploreshis family’s more than 300-year history in New Mexico aswell as his own journeys in the Southwest, the authorreveals intimate details about his life and the truths helearned about family, self, and the world around him.With sparse, clear language, Candelaria tells a tale ofconquistadors, family, a Depression-era childhood, andhis personal transformation into a writer. Part familyhistory and part self-examination, SECONDCOMMUNION is a must-read for aspiring writers, thoseinterested in Southwest history, and students andteachers of Chicano literature.

Paul CaponigroThe Voice of the Print978-1-882265-02-2, $30, paper, 43 pp.MUSE PRESS 1994

Limited Edition. Photography. Literary Nonfiction.Art. Text and photographs by Paul Caponigro. “The originof this...lies in an unpublished manuscript dealing withthe craft of photography.” Contains tritone images ofmuseum quality. The exhibit grew from work at thePhotographic Center at Monterey California in 1989,which was first shown at the Center in June 1989.

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R. Cheran, Dalbir Singh, Chelva Kanaganayakam,and Sudharshan Durayappah, EditorsWorld Without Walls: Being Human, Being Tamil978-1-894770-71-2, $36, paper, 240 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies.Tamil Studies. In the past decade, Tamil studies hasbecome an important and integral part of South Asianstudies and diaspora studies. Tamil as one of the fewclassical and living languages is a testimony ofsecularism while celebrating various religious andpolitical traditions. The essays included in this volumeoffer a nuanced view of BEING HUMAN, BEING TAMIL inthe context of South Asia and the diaspora. As the titlesuggests, the papers in this volume explore the multipleways of being Tamil and the cultural, religious andpoetic linkages that contributed to the emergence andarticulation of Tamilness in a global context.

Cho In-souk and Robert KoehlerSeoul’s Historic Walks978-89-91913-31-8, $16, paper, 134 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2008

Nonfiction. Travel. Southeast Asia Studies. In this handyguidebook based on the tours offered by the SeoulFoundation of Arts and Culture, architect and Koreantraditional architecture expert Cho In-souk andmagazine editor Robert Koehler share their appreciationof architecture and love for Seoul’s history as they willtake you through some of Seoul’s lesser-known historicsites and give visitors a better understanding of Seoul’sdevelopment from medieval walled city to modernmetropolis. Seoul is a fascinating city where old and newoften coexist in jarring contrast. The best way to exploreit, however, is to stretch your legs and walk, andSEOUL’S HISTORIC WALKS will show you where to go.

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, andSonia Villegas-López, EditorsTransnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’sFiction of the 1990s978-1-894770-68-2, $25.95, paper, 200 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. LiteraryCriticism. TRANSNATIONAL POETICS: ASIAN CANADIANWOMEN’S FICTION OF THE 1990s examines the writing ofa generation of Asian Canadian women authorsthat started publishing in the 1990s: Shauna SinghBaldwin, Rachna Mara, Anita Rau Badami, Shani Mootoo,Shree Ghatage, Yasmin Ladha, Larissa Lai, Evelyn Lau,Lydia Kwa, Tamai Kobayashi, Hiromi Goto, Sally Ito, KerriSakamoto. The aim of the book is to determine howthey re-conceptualize racial and gender identity andhow they relate to the Canadian cultural climate in thenew century, while providing an analysis of theinnovative approach they have brought to genre andaesthetics.

Thomas DePietro, EditorFrank Lentricchia: Essays on His Works978-1-55071-312-1, $18, paper, 175 pp.GUERNICA EDITIONS 2011

Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Italian American Studies.This collection of essays and reviews concerns FrankLentricchia’s fiction work that explored the complexitiesof ethnic and artistic identity, which he did with greatanguish and style. Contributing essays are Philip Tinari,Kit Wallingford, Vince Passaro, Jody McAuliffe,Fred L. Gardaphe, Thomas Hove, Jennifer Wellman,Nicholas Birns, Andrew DuBois, Daniel O’Hara, and GinaMasucci-MacKenzie. With an introduction, interview,bibliography, and biography by editor Thomas DePietro.

Sharon DoubiagoMy Father’s Love, Volume II: The Legacy978-0-9841304-3-6, $20, paper, 510 pp.WILD OCEAN PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. “My soul looks back,”James Baldwin said, “and wonders how I got over.”Volume two of Sharon Doubiago’s memoir, MY FATHER’SLOVE, reveals the legacy of her father’s sexual andpsychological abuse that continued throughout his lifeand the toxic effects it has had on the lives of everyonein the family. How family secrets ripple throughsucceeding generations with devastating results, howfamily myths become more powerful than truth, howthey are maintained at any cost, and how denial blindsus to what we do not want to, or cannot bear to see.Most of us never realize we are in denial but Doubiago isnot most of us, for she is a poet of exceptional powerand insight. This is a book about all of us, how wedeceive ourselves and others, believe what we want tobelieve, what we are conditioned to believe, how we are,as R. D. Laing put it, “destroying ourselves with violencemasquerading as love.” America collectively is sufferingfrom Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. MY FATHER’S LOVEhelps us “to get over.”

Hans Magnus EnzensbergerFatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance978-1-935830-01-6, $13.95, paper, 52 pp.UPPERWEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. Economics & Statistics.Translated from the German by Karen Leeder.Acclaimed poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hans MagnusEnzensberger takes a fresh, sobering look at our faithin statistics, our desire to predict the future, and ourdependence on fortuitousness. Tracing the interfacebetween chance and probability in medical diagnostics,risk models, economics, and the fluctuations of financialmarkets, FATAL NUMBERS goes straight to the heart ofwhat it means to live, plan, and make decisions in aglobalized, digitized, hyperlinked, science-driven, anduncertain world. Foreword by Gerd Gigerenzer.Illustrations by David Fried.

Thomas FarberThe Face of the Deep978-1-56279-112-4, $14.95, paper, 192 pp.MERCURY HOUSE 1998

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Nature Writing. THE FACE OFTHE DEEP is a lyrical and revealing exploration of thePacific in all its aspects. “THE FACE OF THE DEEP is amarvelous, poetic achievement, the best book on divingthat I have ever read, a remarkable meditation on thepolysemous richness of the sea, and a fascinating log ofa risky voyage of self-discovery”—Steven Greenblatt.

Richard FroudeFABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book978-0-9829896-0-9, $15, paper, 112 pp.HORSE LESS PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. “I love RichardFroude’s declarative, incandescently plain sentences,which at first seem like high-stakes non sequiturs,then a study in perfect, surprising aphorism, then adeftly woven web of profundity. The formal distillationand intellectual range of this book are impressiveenough; even more so is Froude’s gentle but insistenttouching on questions of God, mortality, war, memory,family, intimacy, and history. Froude sets up poetic shopin the fraught space between ‘terror and fertility,’ andwrests from it this exceptionally beautiful, intelligentbook”—Maggie Nelson.

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Warren Fulton and David JaffinPoemed on a Beach: A Skeptic’s Guide toModern Poetry978-0-9812744-7-8, $16.95, paper, 213 pp.AHADADA BOOKS 2010

Nonfiction. Poetry Reference. A linguist (Warren Fulton)describes what happens when a poet from New York byway of Germany (David Jaffin) comes to a beach inFlorida for a poetry reading. Confronting a curious butcautious international audience, Jaffin finds thatalthough there are many ways to misunderstand whathe’s saying, there are many more ways of uncoveringmeaning, even down to levels of truth he himself hadnot traveled. The book is not only a treatment of howmodern-day people respond to a modernist voice, butalso how in the process they learn the language ofpoetry, an unfamiliar idiom struggling for survival in theInformation Age. What were first seen as obscuritiesgradually open onto vistas of mystery, and puzzlement istransformed to appreciation. Thus, POEMED ON A BEACHis a guide to contemporary poetics addressing new andwary readers. As such, it is eminently suited for use inpoetry circles and introductory literature classes.

Richard GambinoBlood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the ItalianAmericans978-1-55071-101-1, $10, paper, 390 pp.GUERNICA EDITIONS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Social Science. Italian AmericanStudies. Second Edition. Since its first publication in1974, BLOOD OF MY BLOOD has become the most highlyesteemed book on Italian Americans. It is also rare that itis both a best-seller and a college text. “Its data ispresented with scholarly precision; yet the author’sstyle, which he peppers with autobiographical tidbits,makes it immensely readable”—The New York Times.

Susan GardnerDrawing the Line978-0-9799865-5-0, $24.95, cloth, 288 pp.RED MOUNTAIN PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Women’s Studies.DRAWING THE LINE is the story of personal adventureand redemption, tracing a life lived continually on theedge between chaos and harmony, tragedy and joy.Beyond her recounting of extraordinary places andevents, Susan Gardner gives us a perceptive,generational voice. She recalls pivotal decades ofsocietal change and touches on basic themes of humanexperience that are universal and timeless. Spanningsix decades and various countries of East Asia, Europeand Mexico, it tells of a precocious child driven to exceland to escape a turbulent, combative home life.We experience the struggles and accomplishments ofa uniquely gifted woman as she overcomes officialstrictures and domestic discord to become anaccomplished artist. Ultimately, we see her break freeof old patterns and constraints to live the joyouscomplexity of personal fulfillment and the promise ofa new beginning.

Robert Goodnough, EditorArtists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (1950)978-0-9824090-0-8, $10, paper, 64 pp.SOBERSCOVE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. In April of 1950, about twodozen of the artists who came to be known as theAbstract Expressionists met for a series of discussionsabout their own work as well as the contemporaryscene. Nearly 60 years after the actual meetings tookplace, the transcript of ARTISTS’ SESSIONS AT STUDIO 35(1950) still pulses with the heated discussions aroundbasic artistic issues like titling, process, relationshipto history, community, and professionalism. Oftenreferenced, but rarely fleshed out, this series of closedmeetings allows readers fly-on-the-wall access tothe artists’ discussions. The goal of the current reprintis to refresh this document by giving it a new life in anew form.

Durs GrünbeinThe Vocation of Poetry978-0-9795829-9-8, $13.95, paper, 62 pp.UPPERWEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Translatedfrom the German by Michael Eskin. This extraordinarybook offers a dazzling personal poetics as well as asustained engagement with the origins of poetry itself.In tracing an arc from the landfills and forests of anEast German childhood to the “global air-space ofpoetry,” it takes in a breathtaking poetic itinerary fromthe Classics to the present day. Emerging from the heartof the European tradition, every page is packed withinsight, wit and linguistic surprises, superbly rendered inMichael Eskin’s supple English. But more than that:this is a volume with a mission. In reckoning with thepossibilities of poetry, it sets out to show us a better wayof being in the world: “a guide to thinking and feelingwith precision.” Written by one of the most excitingand thought-provoking writers of the moment, THEVOCATION OF POETRY is essential reading for anyoneinterested in modern poetry or in modern life.

Andrei GuruianuMetal and Plum: A Memoir978-0-932412-96-6, $16.95, paper, 124 pp.MAYAPPLE PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Soccer balls putter downdusty streets, classmates forage through dumps for toys,while friends carry on inexplicably hopeful conversationsin bread lines. This extraordinary memoir captures theessence of cultural dislocation and hope. Guruianueloquently conveys the impact of immigration on hisfamily, contrasting the hardships of Ceauşescu’s Romaniawith the challenges of adaptation to the United States.But in the end it is Guruianu’s lyric and earnest voice thathits home in METAL AND PLUM, titled so aptly for itsjuxtaposing of unlike worlds and how much it hurts theheart when you go home and find that the place youknew is no longer there.

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Ken HarveyA Passionate Engagement: A Memoir978-1-929355-68-6, $18, paper, 208 pp.AEQUITAS BOOKS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. Memoir. A PASSIONATEENGAGEMENT is both a love story and a story of politicalactivism. In this remarkable memoir, Ken Harvey revealshis own experience of coming out as a gay man, ofmeeting and falling in love with the man who wouldbecome his husband, and of growinginto a social and political activist. Much of the story isfilled with the kind of sensitive writing that Harveydemonstrated in his earlier work, but this book alsoshows a different side as he moves from the fictional tononfictional, as he puts himself bluntly in the middle ofthe conflict. As the book progresses, the reader moveswith Harvey from outside observer to inside participantof the political struggle for same-sex marriage. Hisshift is significant, and a reader can’t help but be movedalong with him. This is a timely and important book,one that puts a truly human face onto this importantsocial movement.

Michael HemeryNo Permanent Scars978-0-9792410-6-2, $16, paper, 292 pp.SILENCED PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. An instant classic, NOPERMANENT SCARS reads how creative nonfictionshould read: like fiction. Like nonfiction. Like memoir.Like humor. Like literature. Like life. It’s about childhood,adulthood, the neighborhood, and what it means to be akid, a parent, a teacher, a human. Michael Hemeryilluminates an honest working-class existence, offeringboth the sober realities of class discrimination and thehumor and love of family. Intertwined with seriousissues such as suicide, alcoholism, abuse, religion, andimmigration, Hemery also endures a painfully slow andoften naive coming of age (he once mistook an obviousprostitute for an office supply store employee). This isgoing to be the best book you’ll read this year.

Barbara HenningLooking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews onSleeping with the Dictionary and Other Works978-0-9823387-5-9, $14, paper, 120 pp.BELLADONNA* 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. AfricanAmerican Studies. Introduction by Juliana Spahr. Sixyears after Harryette Mullen and Barbara Henning firstmet at the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café, Henningproposed she do a postcard-format interview of Mullenthat would allow for a “very small postcard space inwhich to respond...[t]he idea of cards flying throughthe mail & overlapping.” Thus began what is nowLOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN, unique collaborativeconversations that offer a candid look at the influences,politics, and poetics that inform Mullen’s poetry. Theconversation expands even further in the second set ofspoken interviews that include concerns as far-rangingas the Heaven’s Gate cult, Oulipian constraints such asS + 7 and lipograms, syllabic rhymes, and Aimé Césaire.In stunning detail, Mullen and Henning discuss theorigins of each poem in Mullen’s highly acclaimedcollection Sleeping with the Dictionary. For poets andreaders of poetry interested in witnessing how abrilliant, singular writer embarks on the journey ofgenerating work to scholars researching the inceptionof Mullen’s poems, this book informs by way oftechnique and vitality.

Gary Francisco Keller, EditorGood Bandits, Warrior Women, andRevolutionaries in Hispanic Culture978-1-931010-71-9, $17, paper, 150 pp.BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. GOODBANDITS, WARRIOR WOMEN, AND REVOLUTIONARIES INHISPANIC CULTURE is the fruit of a groundbreakingconference that was held in Phoenix in 2009. Followingan introduction by Gary Francisco Keller, the first sectionof this book contains articles dedicated to good, good-bad, and bad characters, both fictional and historical,across Hispanic culture, among them gay caballeros, theheroes and villains of “Zapata” Westerns, and DonQuixote. The second section explores personages frompopular culture and from novels set in the decades justbefore and during the Mexican Revolution of 1910, suchas Demetrio Macías in Azuela’s Los de abajo; AngustiasFarrera, the title character of the novel and film La negraAngustias; Santa Teresa de Cabora and her villainoussister Jovita; Pancho Villa’s transformation frombandit/revolutionary to popular saint and hero of thepeople; and Jesusa Palancares, the fictionalizedsoldadera of Poniatowska’s Hasta no verte Jesús mío.

Crawford KilianGo Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneersof British Columbia978-0-9784981-5-3, $24, paper, 160 pp.COMMODORE BOOKS 2008

Nonficton. African American Studies. Canadian History.The voyage north of some 600 blacks from San Franciscoto Victoria during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rushwas one of the most unusual mass migrations in NorthAmerican history. While the British colonies of the PacificNorthwest were overrun with migrants from all landson the quest for gold, this black community soughtfreedom and political enfranchisement as much asfortune. GO DO SOME GREAT THING describes a historythat stands at the crossroads of multiple nationalnarratives—the imperial contest between Britain andthe United States, the emergence of Canada as a state,the fate of dozens of First Nations, and the furthest andmost unlikely reaches of the global African diaspora.Originally published in 1978, this new edition adds vitalinformation gathered by Crawford Kilian over the lastthirty years.

Robert KoehlerHangeul: Korea’s Unique Alphabet978-89-91913-69-1, $15, paper, 104 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2010

Nonfiction. Korean Language Reference. WritingSystems. Southeast Asia Studies. Hangeul, theindigenous writing system of Korea, was promulgatedin 1446. It is an ingenious system that utilizes modernand scientific linguistic theories and principles of Koreantraditional culture to perfectly express the sounds ofthe Korean language. Crafted by some of the leadingscholars of the age, including the brilliant King Sejongthe Great, the alphabet has been widely lauded byscholars the world over for its advanced phonetic systemand ease of use. This work examines the uniquecharacteristics of the Hangeul writing system, its history,and its impact on Korean society and culture. “Whetheror not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scriptsfor Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one ofthe great intellectual achievements of humankind”—Geoffrey Sampson.

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Nancy KuhlThe Book Remembers Everything: The Work ofErica Van Horn978-1-887123-79-2, $20, cloth, 122 pp.GRANARY BOOKS/CORACLE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Poetry. Artists’ Books. Erica VanHorn’s books offer miniaturist celebrations of smallrituals and everyday civic and household matter, fromshop signs, cook books and French lessons to napkinsand envelope interiors. Many of her books have beencollaborations with poets, artists and bookmakers suchas Laurie Clark, Simon Cutts and Harry Gilonis. Thisvolume surveys her books from the early 1980s to thepresent.

Stephen LapthisophonWriting Art Cinema 1988-2010978-1-4507-4210-8, $12, paper, 103 pp.THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Art. StephenLapthisophon brings his skills as an installation artist tothe page with six essays written over the last 20 years.For fans of both continental philosophy and modernpoetry and prose, Lapthisophon shows how writingabout writing, art, and cinema can dissolve into itssubject, becoming all of those things or none of them.With an introduction by Devin King. Printed in anedition of 250.

Kristin LucasRefresh978-0-9824090-2-2, $7, paper, 16 pp.SOBERSCOVE PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Art. On October 5, 2007, Kristin Lucasbecame the most current version of herself when shesucceeded in legally changing her name from Kristin SueLucas to Kristin Sue Lucas in a Superior Court ofCalifornia courtroom. REFRESH presents transcripts ofcourtroom discussions between Lucas and the presidingjudge that enter into philosophical territory as theydebate change, its perceived meaning, and its relationto law.

PengMaPeng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting978-1-894770-57-6, $48, paper, 100 pp.TSAR PUBLICATIONS 2011

Nonfiction. Art. Asian American Studies. BilingualEdition. Edited with a preface by Lien Chao. This bookprovides a critical study of the abstract ink painting ofthe Chinese Canadian artist Peng Ma, who early inhis career saw abstraction as an artistic advancementon tradition. Chao’s critical approach to Ma’s workjuxtaposes stimulation and resistance as the ongoingimpact of Western abstract painting on contemporaryChinese brush painting. She goes on to investigate howMa’s cross-cultural experience has gradually developedhis hybrid aesthetics to embrace Eastern and Western arttraditions to create his own distinctive art. Includes210 reproductions.

Ian Macdonald and Betty O’KeefeQuiet Reformers: The Legacy of Early Victoria’sBishop Edward and Mary Cridge978-1-55380-107-8, $21.95, paper, 200 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Canadian Studies.This lively biography of Bishop Edward Cridge and hiswife Mary paints a vivid picture of early Victoria as itdeveloped from an isolated Hudson’s Bay Company postinto the bustling capital of British Columbia. Recruitedfrom England by Governor James Douglas in 1854 to bethe Church of England chaplain of Fort Victoria, EdwardCridge became an important figure in the spiritual life ofthe city as the rector of Christ Church. The Cridges alsobecame two of Victoria’s foremost social reformers,leaving an indelible mark on British Columbia’s socialinstitutions. Living through the terrible smallpox andblack measles epidemics, the latter taking four of theirown children, the inseparable pair worked to create thefirst hospital, beginning with a few beds in a rentedcottage and living to see it transformed into the RoyalJubilee. As the first superintendent of education, Cridgeplayed an essential role in B.C.’s early school system.When abandoned children were left at the parsonagedoor, Mary created Victoria’s first orphanage.

Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper,and Xiaoye You, EditorsThe Politics of Second Language Writing:In Search of the Promised Land978-1-932559-11-8, $30, paper, 336 pp.PARLOR PRESS 2006

Literary Nonfiction. Education. ESL. Language Arts &Disciplines. THE POLITICS OF SECOND LANGUAGEWRITING: IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND is the firstedited collection to present a sustained discussion ofclassroom practices in larger contexts of institutionalpolitics and policies. Contributors focus on the policieson assessment, placement, credit, class size, coursecontent, instructional practices, teacher preparation, andteacher support. They examine politics in terms of therelationships and interaction between second languagewriting professionals and colleagues at the program,department, school, college, and university levels andbeyond. Contributors also explore—through criticalreflections and situated descriptions of their teachingpractices in larger institutional contexts—how thesepolicies and politics affect pedagogical practices.Readers will learn why classroom practices are notneutral, pragmatic space but ideologically saturated sitesof negotiation. Contributors are anling Fu, MarylouMatoush, Kerry Enright Villalva, Ilona Leki, Ryuko Kubota,Kimberly Abels, Angela M. Dadak, Jessica Williams, WeiZhu, Guillaume Gentil, Kevin Eric DePew, Xiaoye You,Deborah Crusan, Sara Cushing Weigle, Jessie MooreKapper, Christine Norris, Christine Tardy, StephanieVandrick, and Barbara Kroll.

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SusanMcNicollThe Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History1945-1953978-1-55380-113-9, $24.95, paper, 280 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Canadian Theater History. Theconventional opinion is that professional Canadiantheater began in 1953 with the founding of the StratfordFestival. But Susan McNicoll asks how this could be,when the majority of those taking the stage at Stratfordwere professional Canadian actors. To answer thisquestion, McNicoll delves into the period to show how infact the unbroken chain of Canadian professional theaterbegan just after World War Two, when a host of theaterpeople decided that Canada needed its own professionaltheater groups. Drawing on personal interviews withmany of the actors and directors active in the periodafter the war, McNicoll explores the role of suchcompanies as Everyman in Vancouver, New Play Societyin Toronto, Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa,Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal, and manymore. In 1953 the Stratford Shakespeare Festivalultimately showed the world that Canada was ready forcenter stage, but the real birth of professional theaterhappened in the years leading up to that moment. Thevolume includes over 50 photos of scenes from plays ofthe time and selections from McNicoll’s interviews withsuch luminaries as Christopher Plummer, Joy Coghill,Amelia Hall, and Herbert Wittaker.

Judy MolyneuxCalifornia Gold978-1-60052-044-0, $60, paper, 282 pp.PRE PRESS 2011

Art. California Studies. “I am amazed by what I see: thestorms, the surf, the surging power of the freeways, themultitudinous patterns of light and color that make upour reality. All of this creates a dance that is separatefrom my inner shadows and petty concerns, and yet topaint it, transform it, allows me entry if only for aninstant. Doing homage to the outside world, I dohomage to myself. To paint something is to touchsomething, is to give it structure and meaning andrespect. But beyond all that, I feel there is a fundamentalneed in all of us to be in the presence of, completelyopen to, and able to love unconditionally, who we areand where we are. Painting our reality is a way oftranslating that well of ongoing life force. At best, it’s anact of worship”—Judy Molyneux.

Kate TarlowMorganCircles and Boundaries978-1-60001-004-0, $48, cloth, 221 pp.978-1-60001-003-3, $18, paper, 221 pp.FACTORY SCHOOL 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. “Although theprevailing winds of thought continually warn andadmonish us about the unreliability of narratives andnarrators and the need to distrust them, all of the textscollected here are stories, in one form or another.But, very importantly, they are also stories about storiesthat never give up this very basic and ancient rite ofpassage, in which any story is, at the very least, also acommentary about itself. What had been a very deepconflict (‘if the poetry comes out in a variety of forms,there is always certain punishment for the betrayal ofone form by another,’ as Morgan once wrote) findsresolution in the range and variety of the writinggathered here: stories, fable-like pieces, fieldwork,anthropological investigation, literary criticism, scholarlyresearch, reportage, and poetry”—from the afterwordby Ammiel Alcalay.

Victor PereraRites: A Guatemalan Boyhood978-1-56279-065-3, $12.95, paper, 208 pp.MERCURY HOUSE 1994

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Latino/Latina Studies.Jewish Studies. RITES is Perera’s powerful portrait ofgrowing up as a Jewish boy in the exotic and violentworld of Guatamala in the forties. “Victor Pererais one of those rare writers who need never suffer theuncertainties of translation, for besides his fluency inboth English and Spanish, he has both a Latin Americanand a North American sensibility. RITES is another fineexample of how affectingly he can cross from one to theother, bringing all his insights with him”—Alastair Reid.

Tom PickardMore Pricks Than Prizes978-0-9824100-9-7, $12, paper, 148 pp.PRESSEDWAFER 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. MORE PRICKS THAN PRIZESis a memoir that takes Pickard from Newcastle in1968 to London’s Old Bailey in 1976, with side trips toPoland. The poet Basil Bunting makes an appearance.As does Paul McCartney. This is a true crime story with ahappy ending. “I am an old admirer of Tom Pickard’spoetry and believe as does Basil Bunting that he is oneof the most live and true poetic voices in Great Britain”—Allen Ginsberg.

Harry Polkinhorn and Alfredo Velasco, EditorsCaló: A Dictionary of Spanish Barrio andBorder Slang978-1-881523-21-5, $21, paper, 146 pp.JUNCTION PRESS 2011

Nonfiction. Reference. Latino/Latina Studies.“Polkinhorn and Velasco have busted the borders oflinguistic analysis and Chicano talk assumptions. I hearthe voices of my uncle Beto from El Paso in the 30s,the new multi-vocalities of the ‘¡Orale!’ generations ofLatin America and the ever swashbuckling cross-culturalspeakers and singers of the world. This is the unchainedrap of the people! Tune into its poetic-love, community-renaissance and heart-rhythm dance. A twenty-firstcentury ring-tone. ¡De aquellas! Right on!”—Juan Felipe Herrera.

Will PotterGreen Is the New Red: In Insider’s Account of aSocial Movement Under Siege978-0-87286-538-9, $16.95, paper, 256 pp.CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERS 2011

Nonfiction. Political Science. Environmentalism.At a time when everyone is going green, most peopleare unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resourcesto target environmentalists. Here is a guided tour into anunderground world of radical activismand an introduction to the shadowy figures behind theheadlines. But here also is the story of how everydaypeople are prevented from speaking up for what theybelieve in. Like the Red Scare, this “Green Scare” is aboutfear and intimidation, and Will Potter outlines thepolitical, legal, and public relations strategies thatthreaten even acts of nonviolent civil disobedience withthe label of “eco-terrorism.”

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John RichKorean War in Color: A Correspondent’sRetrospective on a Forgotten War978-89-91913-64-6, $85, paper, 248 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Southeast Asia Studies.As if it weren’t bad enough that the Korean War is, formany in the West, a “forgotten war” wedged betweenthe larger conflicts of World War II and Vietnam, itslegacy has been conveyed largely in the medium ofblack and white photography, putting up yet anotherpsychological barrier between the conflict and modernday audiences. In KOREAN WAR IN COLOR, published tomark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, therenowned war correspondent breaks down this barrierwith a jaw-dropping collection of color photographs ofthe Korean War, perhaps the finest collection of colorimages of the conflict anywhere. In vivid hues of blue,green and red, Rich’s photographs take the war out ofthe history books, allowing readers to better connectwith a conflict that, while forgotten, continues to impactthe lives of Koreans to this day.

Michele RiderWomen in the Financial District: A Photo Essay978-0-9828284-2-7, $14, paper, 46 pp.INK. 2010

Nonfiction. Photography. WOMEN IN THE FINANCIALDISTRICT is a study of the female form within themasculine structures of a downtown atmosphere.Michele captures her subjects in the perfect light andcreates stunning photos of images we see every day,dragging the mundane into art.

Ford RobbinsConnections: A Visual Journal978-0-9799865-3-6, $34.95, paper, 96 pp.RED MOUNTAIN PRESS 2009

Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Art. Santa Fephotographer Ford Robbins presents images that speakof his journey through the land over many decades.His love of the land in its various manifestations isacutely present in each image he creates. Land, sky,water, and architecture mark the paths he has taken, theconnections he has found and recorded. Such are thememories documented in this deeply engaging bookof black-and-white photographs. “Texture and theabstracted nature of [Robbins’s] selective focus createsurfaces many painters would envy. This is the artist’seye at work...to use the reality of material existence as away to break through the limits of time and place”—The Santa Fe NewMexican. “[A] love affair with lightacross America”—The Bloomsbury Review.

Marianne RoccaforteBridges in the Mind: An Artist’s Handbook forEveryday Living978-0-9815163-5-6, $16.95, paper, 216 pp.BENU PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Psychology. Finally—someoneis saying what successful artists have always known.This practical book helps the creative mind to thrive, notjust survive, in the everyday world. A systematicapproach to the fascinating and complex topic of theartist’s imagination as revealed in ordinary situations isexplored in this useful, honest, and encouraging book.Drawing on well-grounded psychological research andtheory—and informed by years of direct experiencecounseling and teaching college-student artists—sheexamines the realities, delights, and challenges of havinga strong sense of wonder and an imagination that’sconstantly “on.” In a tone that both honors and guidesthe reader, the author weaves in voices of successfulwriters, visual artists, musicians, actors, and dancers, andoffers easy-to-practice techniques for such situations astransitioning from an absorbing session of art-making,communicating effectively in social and businesssettings, managing intense sensory and emotionalexperience, and sustaining a healthy and active creativelife. Insightful and applicable for any person possessingan artistic sensibility—this book enlightens, validates,and empowers, ultimately helping to build new bridgesof understanding.

Jean-Pierre RogelEvolution: The View from the Cottage978-1-55380-104-7, $21.95, paper, 176 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Natural History. Translated from theFrench by Nigel Spencer. With all the attention given to“creationism” in the news these days, Jean-Pierre Rogelfelt it was important to show how Darwin’s concept ofnatural selection can be seen in action in everydaysituations. Beginning with a familiar cottage scene thatincludes squirrels, loons, salmon and bears, Rogelexpands his scope to explore the emerging field ofevolutionary developmental biology, showing howgenes play a role in the extraordinary diversity of theplant and animal kingdom. Readers may be surprised todiscover which animal is most closely related to whales,how nature makes a fin into a paw, how salmon haveadapted to gaps in fishing nets, and what really setshumans apart from chimpanzees.

Bertha Rogers, EditorBook Arts 2010: Bright Hill Center978-1-892471-63-5, $16, paper, 140 pp.BRIGHT HILL PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Catalog of theEighth Americas Curated Book Arts Exhibit at Bright HIllLiterary Center, curated by Elsi Vassdal Ellis and BerthaRogers. The catalog includes detailed photographs ofthe finest in contemporary book arts and book binding.Individual artists’ books contain both words and imagesin a book format with a clearly-stated concept, thought-provoking text, engaging visual and exceptionaltechnical presentation, an imaginative approach, andan integrated overall delivery. Includes artists’ books byAlex Appella Alicia Bailey, Tara Bryan, Sarah Bryant,Deborah Phillips Chodoff, Sally Canzoneri, ElaineDowning, Elsi Vassdal Ellis, Wendy Fernstrum, PatriciaGrass, Karen Hanmer, Margery S. Hellman, Sun YoungKang, Monique Lallier, Elaine Langerman, SaraLongworthy, Roberta Lavadour, Aimee Lee, JuliaLeonard, Jim Machacek, Rachel Melis, Kelly Nelson,Bonnie Thompson Norman, Tara O’Brien, Jan Owen,Susan Porteous, Johanne Renbeck, Bertha Rogers,Abigail Rorer, Sibyl Rubottom, Laura Russell, CarolynShattuck, Ellen Sheffield, Jessica Spring, Peter & DonnaThomas, Jill Timm, Jennifer Vignone, Susan Viguers,Shu-Ju Wang, Beata Wehr, Laurie Weiss, Asa Yoshie.

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Zach SavichEvents Film Cannot Withstand978-0-9844889-4-0, $14, paper, 102 pp.RESCUE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Art. “I want to write you abeautiful book of prose, against not least the before-too-long loss of tongue and sense and all sun-defiant hueson the river bend, and none of us able to say or touch orsee, soon enough, soon enough, aground, to give youthis my voice today nevertheless, withstanding,nevertheless, given everything, for you, a clear note froma complicated bell,” begins Zach Savich in his first bookof prose. He goes on to compose a powerful, precise,and playfully chaotic book-length lyric memoir on art,process, friendship, place, and imagination.

Leslie ScalapinoHow Phenomena Appear to Unfold978-1-933959-12-2, $24, paper, 400 pp.LITMUS PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. New and Expanded Edition.“In ‘Eco-logic in Writing,’ one of many brilliant essay-talksin this volume, Leslie Scalapino asks, ‘Seeing the themoment of, or at the time of, writing, what differencedoes one’s living make?’What more crucial question forthose concered not only with writing but with poethics:composing words into a socially conscious wager. ForScalapino the essay is a poetic act; the poetic act, essay.It’s in that combination that her textual eros—thelush beauty of it!—could reject aesthetic purity and riskthe rawness of genuinely new thought, touching whatshe called ‘the rim of occurring.’‘Writing on rim’ is acelebration of the wondrous present, but requiresagonistic struggle with the ugly—poverty, war,institutional brutality, racism, sexism, homophobia.Scalapino’s Steinian strategy of recomposing the visionof one’s times, ‘altering oneself and altering negativesocial formation,’ is her artfully problematized project ofwriting ourselves into a better future. With compassionand humor, Scalapino was indeed living on the rimof occurrence. That is the living in the writing thatproduced this work—its fundamental optimism andebullient credo: ‘The future creates the past’”—Joan Retallack.

Gershom ScholemTwo Draft Essays from 1918978-0-917453-43-4, $11, paper, 31 pp.BAMBERGER BOOKS 2011

Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Jewish Studies. Translatedfrom the German by W. C. Bamberger. These two draftsessays capture the 21-year-old Scholem’s thoughts ontwo novels: Eduard Mörike’s Nolten the Painter, andRainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte LauridsBrigge. This is the first translation into English of thesetwo excerpts from Scholem’s diaries of 1918. Included arenotes by the translator W. C. Bamberger.

Seoul Selection Editorial TeamThe Korea Success Story978-89-91913-72-1, $12, paper, 52 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2010

Nonfiction. Southeast Asia Studies. It is often said thatKorea did in 50 years what the developed nations of theWest took 200 years to do. This is not that great anexaggeration. When Korea was liberated from 35 yearsof colonial rule in 1945, it found itself a desperatelypoor and in many respects backwards nation with littleexperience with capitalism, democracy, and theglobal economy. Fast forward some 50 years, and whatyou behold is a nation that would be virtuallyunrecognizable to observers from the 1950s. Seoul, oncea bombed-out city that more resembled a refugee campthan a national capital, glistens with glass and steel, itsnight skies flickering with the lights and energy of a cityon the move. Thanks to wise policymaking, internationalhelp and a 5,000-year-old culture of hard work andeducation, Korea transformed into a developed nationalmost overnight, with the world’s 15th largest economy.In 2009, a country that once survived on foreign aidjoined the OECD Development Assistance Committee, aclub of some of the world’s biggest donor nations. InNovember 2010, Korea became the first Asian nation andfirst non-G8 nation to host the G20 summit.

Nancy ShaverHenry at Home978-0-9824090-1-5, $20, paper, 72 pp.SOBERSCOVE PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Design. HENRYAT HOME presents photographs of objects from Henry—a shop in Hudson, NY, run by Nancy Shaver—as theyappear in the homes of the people who purchasedthem. In addition to these photographs, taken by theobjects’ owners, HENRY AT HOME includes artwork byNancy Shaver, an introduction by Lucy Raven, and aninterview between Shaver and Steel Stillman. “Housesand interiors have played a huge role in my life. Thoughthey’ve taken a lot of my time, working on them hasbeen a vital part of my art work. They’ve taught me agreat deal about space and light and color. And becauseI’ve never had any money, but have always wanted tohave art, my houses have taught me about looking. Myhouses have been laboratories where I’ve had visualencounters that I wouldn’t have had any other way.Henry comes out of that experience”—Nancy Shaver.

Roger Shepherd, Andrew Douch, and David A. MasonBaekdu-daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s MountainSpine978-89-91913-67-7, $39, paper, 446 pp.SEOUL SELECTION 2010

Nonfiction. Travel. Southeast Asia Studies. This guidewill get you packed up and ready to hit the road. TheBaekdu-daegan chain of mountains forms the backboneof the Korean Peninsula. It has always occupied a veryspecial place in the hearts of Koreans. More than just aseries of rocky ranges, it is the source of the life anddynamic energy of the Korean people and shelters manyof their cultural and historical treasures. The long-distance Baekdu-daegan hiking trail provides a greatopportunity for outdoor enthusiasts living in Korea andabroad to hike their way through a 735-kilometergeographical repository of culture and history thatcontinuously yields new discoveries and experiences inwhat is a still largely unexplored part of a busypeninsula.

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Alazar TesfamichaelTrials and Tribulations978-0-9818859-2-6, $19.95, paper, 310 pp.BEATITUDE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. African & African AmericanStudies. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by BridgetFlanagan. Few countries in the world suffered more fromthe trials and tribulations of the 20th century thanEthiopia and its sister, Eritrea. From Italian and Britishcolonialism through fascism to the bloody communistdictatorship of Mengistu Haile Meriam, to massstarvation and civil war, the people of those countrieshave endured and, despite everything, have triumphed.Alazar Tesfamichael lived through all of it. He walked onfoot through Africa and the Middle East in search of abetter life; and, with every fiber of his being, kept alivehis passionate love of freedom. This is his story in hisown words.

Erin E. TocknellConfederate Streets978-0-9844629-0-2, $16.95, paper, 141 pp.BENU PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. “We’re born into a worldalready in progress, like arriving late at a movie. ErinTocknell, born to Nashville, loved the city in a wide-eyed,child’s way, before she had a glimmer of the historythat had shaped what she took to be her world.CONFEDERATE STREETS recalls how it feels to wake upto history, to understand you are living right in the midstof it. Not all the lessons are easy, but in Tocknell’s tellingwe come to appreciate the rewards of facing up to thehard facts, of refusing the false glamour of livinginnocent of history. CONFEDERATE STREETS reminds uswhat as a nation we seem always to be forgetting, justhow far love and understanding and goodwill can takeus toward the promised America”—Kevin Oderman.

Alan TwiggThe Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors978-1-55380-108-5, $24.95, paper, 320 pp.RONSDALE PRESS 2010

Nonfiction. Literary History & Criticism. CanadianStudies. Lively, illustrated and guaranteed to becontroversial, THE ESSENTIALS: 150 GREAT B.C. BOOKS& AUTHORS serves as an unprecedented guide to booksfrom and about British Columbia—culled from AlanTwigg’s unrivaled knowledge of more than 200 years ofBC literary history. It also identifies 100 essential authors,such as Alice Munro, Earle Birney and Eric Nicol, who didnot have one particular book that is outstanding buthave enjoyed outstanding careers. This volume is amust-have for anyone who cares about British Columbiaas an original society.

Barry Wallenstein, EditorFor Enid with Love: a festchrift978-1-935520-12-2, $16.95, paper, 180 pp.NYQ BOOKS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. JewishStudies. This is a gathering of essays, poems, andrecollections dedicated to the memory of poet, scholar,teacher, and political activist, Enid Dame [1943-2003].The rich array of contributions were written by friends,colleagues, and some who didn’t know Enid personallybut were moved and influenced by her life’s work andebullient spirit. For nearly a quarter of a century, sheedited, with her husband Donald Lev, Home Planet News,and was a beloved member of the New York poetrycommunity for as long. The cumulative effect of thisgathering of encomiums recalls Enid as only languageand art can do.

Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, EditorsA Megaphone: Some Enactments, SomeNumbers, and Some Essays about theContinued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism978-1-930068-48-3, $27.95, paper, 402 pp.CHAINLINKS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Feminist Studies. Poetics.A MEGAPHONE collects a number of enactments thatJuliana Spahr and Stephanie Young did between theyears of 2005-2007. In these enactments, they attemptedto think with the playful dogmatism of a feministtradition that they call “crotchless pants and a machinegun” (obviously referencing Valie Export) in order tolocate what might still be useful today about thesomewhat beleaguered “second wave” feministtraditions. To that end, Spahr and Young lectured inOulipian slenderized baby talk about figures such asCarolee Schneemann and Marina Abramovic; theycounted the numbers of women and men andtransgendered people in various poetry anthologies; andthey invited writers from outside the US to talk aboutbeing a writer where they live (over seventy-five writersfrom Puerto Rico to Morocco to Croatia to South Africa toSyria to Micronesia to Korea responded). Also included inA MEGAPHONE are discussions of that always contestedrelationship between feminism and “experimental”poetry by Julian T. Brolaski, E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul FosterJohnson, Christian Peet, Barbara Jane Reyes, Dale Smith,and A. E. Stallings. The book ends with a (soma)ticwriting exercise from CAConrad, one designed toencourage readers and writers to create open, yet stillmeaningful, feminist alliances.

Mark SpitzerAfter the Orange Glow978-0-9826646-1-2, $15.50, paper, 266 pp.MONKEY PUZZLE PRESS 2010

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. “Mark Spitzer has written ahumping, yowling, spewing, browbeating memoir abouthis cumming crackling youth spent in Paris at GeorgeWhitman’s Shakespeare and Co., a historic and histrionicwacky crash-pad bookstore where misguided and hornyyouth flop and fuck and color poetry while smokinghashish and drinking wine. AFTER THE ORANGE GLOWrecounts how fuck buddies, perverted patrons, jadedpoets and trustafarians distracted Spitzer fromtranslating Genet’s poetry and writing the Manifesto ofhis generation, and is a must must must read for anyonewho gives a shit about poetry, the Beats, Paris, sex,drugs, and apparitions”—Elva Maxine Beach.

Elizabeth SwadosWaiting: Selected Nonfiction978-1-934909-21-8, $19, paper, 200 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2011

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In WAITING, ElizabethSwados brings her lively autobiographical pieces—many of which first ran in The New York Times and O,The Oprah Magazine—together for the first time.Among those appearing in the book are Sean Penn,Meryl Streep, Yehuda Amichai, Ellen Stewart, andMarlon Brando, as well as moving accounts of Swados’sschizophrenic brother, her work with young actorsfrom New York to Abu Dhabi, and her explorations ofthe creative process—all told with grace and humor.


Bin Ramke, EditorDenver Quarterly 45:2No ISBN, $10, paper, 120 pp.DENVER QUARTERLY 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. DENVER QUARTERLY isa journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, and thought.The new issue, Volume 45, Number 2, features work fromCynthia Arrieu-King, Michelle Auerbach, Bruce Beasley,Janet Bowdan, James Capozzi, Chelsea Dappen, JulieDoxsee, Laura Eve Angel, Elaine Equi, Rebecca Farivar,Thomas Fink, Norman Finkelstein, Craig Foltz,Bill Freind, Elisa Gabbert, Carmen Gimenez Smith, RobertGlick, Joseph Hansen, Brian Henry, Terri Kapsalis, LilyLadewig, Patrick Leonard, Eugene Lim, Bridget Lowe,Sara Michas-Martin, David Milofsky, Bernard Noël(translated by Elena Rivera), Eric Pankey, Ray Ragosta,Jo Sarrzotti, Kate Schapira, Aaron Shunin, Arthur Sze,Tony Trigilio. Cover art by Shelton Walsmith.

Elzbieta Szoka and JoeW. Bratcher, III, EditorsThe Dirty Goat 23No ISBN, $10, paper, 184 pp.HOST PUBLICATIONS 2010

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. THE DIRTY GOAT 23 makesits first stop in the republic of Georgia with twenty-twopages of bilingual poetry from Zviad Ratiani, BesikKharanuali and Givi Alkhazishvili—three of Georgia’smost celebrated poets. Europe continues to shine withstunning photography by Polish artist Staszek Koba,bilingual Dutch poetry by Menno Wigman, and a shortstory by Brigitte Kronauer, one of Germany’s mostdynamic writers. Contemporary Hebrew poetry makesits first appearance with ten pages of bilingual Hebrewand English poems by Ronny Someck. THE DIRTY GOATcontinues to celebrate the rich literary tradition ofLatin and South America with a variety of work from anumber of nations. Mexico figures heavily in issue 23with bilingual poetry by Alberto Blanco and MiguelGonzalez-Gerth and a very unique trilingual selection—Mayan, Spanish and English—by Briceida Cuevas Cob.“Death and the Maiden,” a hauntingly brilliant story byUruguay’s Juan Carlos Onetti, and the evocative poetryof Ecuador’s Santiago Vizcaíno conclude our LatinAmerican journey. A large selection of new Americanpoetry is peppered throughout the issue, as well asCassandra Lewis’s “Two Women on the Shore,” a newdrama inspired by the Edvard Munch woodcut prints.With a variety of literature from fifteen countries acrossthe globe, THE DIRTY GOAT 23 is not to be missed.

RebeccaWolff, EditorFence Vol. 13 No. 2 Winter 2011978-1-934200-46-9, $10, paper, 170 pp.FENCE BOOKS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Art. The latestissue of FENCE features work by K. Silem Mohammad,Lydia Davis, Rae Armantrout, Gina Frangello, HarmonyHoliday, Matthew Henriksen, Arielle Greenberg, BrendanLorber, Simon DeDeo, Helen Dimos, Lance Phillips,Jacqueline Waters, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, LeeEtheredge, Ona Kalima Mirkinson, Martha Schwendener,Lindsey Baggette, Marjorie Welish, Desmond KonZhicheng-Mingdé, Brian Young, John Kinsella, CarenBeilin, Stuart Krimko, and others.

Bryan Borland, EditorAssaracus Issue 01: A Journal of Gay Poetry978-0-9832931-3-2, $12, paper, 128 pp.SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is aquarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantialcollection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 01 featurespoetry by Shane Allison, Jay Burodny, Gavin Dillard,Christopher Hennessy, Matthew Hittinger, James Kangas,Raymond Luczak, Frank J Miles, Stephen Mills, andEric Norris. Edited by poet Bryan Borland, authorof the American Library Association-honored MyLife as Adam.

Bryan Borland, EditorAssaracus Issue 02: A Journal of Gay Poetry978-0-9832931-1-8, $12, paper, 134 pp.SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS 2011

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is aquarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantialcollection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 02 featurespoetry by Philip F. Clark, Collin Kelley, Michael Klein,Ron Mohring, Evan J. Peterson, Steven Riel, Sam Sax,Robert Siek, Christopher Soden, and Wonder Dave.Edited by poet Bryan Borland, author of the AmericanLibrary Association-honored My Life as Adam.

Kevin Murphy, EditorDark Sky Magazine978-0-9830674-1-2, $10, paper, 95 pp.DARK SKY BOOKS 2010

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Literary Nonfiction.DARK SKY MAGAZINE features exciting new work fromtalented short story writers, poets, essayists,photographers and artists. Contributors include ElisaGabbert, Stephen Sturgeon, Molly Gaudry, Harold Jaffe,Rusty Barnes, Jensen Beach, Sarah Sorensen, LisaIglesias, Jorg Meyer, Kate Lebo, Shannon Carson, andothers.

Bin Ramke, EditorDenver Quarterly 45:1No ISBN, $10, paper, 120 pp.DENVER QUARTERLY 2010

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. In itsforty-fifth year of continuous publication, the DENVERQUARTERLY is a journal of contemporary poetry, fiction,and thought. The Fall issue, Volume 45, Number 2,features work from Seth Abramson, Karen LeonaAnderson, J. Mae Barizo, Bridgette Bates, Travis Brown,Sten Carlson, Robin Clarke, Mary Crow, Dj Dolack,Sarah Goldstein, Noah Eli Gordon, Stephanie Harrison,Nathan Hill, Andrew Jordan, Byron A. Kanoti, KrystalLanguell, Timothy Liu, Sarah Madsen, Shane McCrae,Sally Molini, Harryette Mullen, Elisabeth Murawksi,Martin Nakell, Keith Newton, Adam Peterson, TimRoberts, Susan Scarlata, A.K. Scipioni, Sejal Shah,Jennifer Shepard, Allison Titus, Yona Wallach (trans. byLinda Zisquit), Adam Weinstein, Joshua Marie Wilkinson,Cori A. Winrock, with cover art by Jiha Moon.


Magazines Listed alphabetically by title.See also Poetry, Prose, and Cross-GenreWriting (p.9), Fiction and Drama(p.51), and Literary Nonfiction (p.63)

MAGAZINES

J. D. Lloyd, EditorSpillway No. 14978-1-893670-57-0, $9, paper, 134 pp.TEBOT BACH 2010

Magazine. Poetry. The latest in the ongoing poetryanthology series, SPILLWAY NO. 14 features work by TonyBarnstone, Janée J. Baugher, Gerald Locklin,Lyn Lifshin, Molly Fisk, Hari Bhajan Khalsa, Susan Terris,Judith Pacht, Florence Weinberger, Charles Harper Webb,Wendy Ortiz, Arfah Daud, Trish Dugger, Daniel Saalfeld,Bill Kemmett, and many others.

Susan Terris, EditorSpillway No. 15978-1-893670-61-7, $9, paper, 110 pp.TEBOT BACH 2010

Magazine. Poetry. Art. SPILLWAY NO. 15 is the first witheditor Susan Terris. From now on each issue will havea theme, and this first volume begins with “All in theFamily”—poems on the subject of family and its manycreative combinations. Contributors include Gary Soto,CB Follett, Paul Hoover, Ilya Kaminsky, Jennifer K.Sweeney, Kristin Camitta Zimet, Keith Ekiss, David St.John, Maxine Chernoff, Zack Rogow, Nicole Cooley,Ann Howells, Chad Sweeney, and many others.

Ben Fama, EditorSupermachine Issue ThreeNo ISBN, $12, paper, 120 pp.SUPERMACHINE 2011

Magazine. Poetry. ISSUE THREE features work by JosephCalavenna, Heather Christle, Lyndsey Cohen, CAConrad,Kate Durbin, Sasha Fletcher, Rachel B. Glaser, AndrewGorin, Kristen Kosmas, Lily Ladewig, Mark Leidner, BenMirov, Amanda Nadelberg, Ben Pease, Levi Rubeck,Tomaž Šalamun, Mathias Svalina, Michael Thomas Taren,and Mike Young.

Edward Foster, EditorTalisman 38/39/40No ISBN, $20, paper, 417 pp.TALISMAN HOUSE 2010

Magazine. Poetry. This is the final print issue ofTALISMAN: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY POETRYAND POETICS. Talisman was founded in 1987. The firstissue appeared in the fall of 1988. The present issue,including numbers 38/39/40, concludes the series. Anew series, on the web, is planned for 2012. Contributorsinclude Donny Smith, Joseph Donahue, John Olson,Peter Valente, John High, George Kalamaras, ThomasFink, Basil King, Nathaniel Tarn, Joel Lewis, Evie Shockley,Burt Kimmelman, Timothy Liu, Ed Roberson, MichaelBasinski, Christine Deavel, Efe Murad, Peter O’Leary,David Need, Vyt Bakaitis, Laynie Browne, Heller Levinson,Barbara Henning, Rachel Blau DuPlessis , KimberlyLamm, Edward Foster, Andrew Klobucar, Jon Curley, TonyIantosca, M. G. Stephens, Dean Kostos, Andrey Gritsman,Samuel Menashe, Herschel Silverman, Jeffrey Kahrs,Kimberly Lyons, Daniel Morris with Patrick Durgin, ScottRudd, Deniz Perin, Peter Swanborn, Kristina Hocevar,Colleen McCarthy, Riva Roller, J.W. Marshall, DianneTimblin, Asalet Erten, Ilhan Berk, Lisa Fishman, JordanDavis, Patrick Herron, and Eric Hoffman, plus a selectionof modern Tamil poetry edited and translated byLakshmi Holmström.

Hollie Hardy, EditorFourteen Hills Vol. 17 No. 1978-1-889292-50-2, $9, paper, 175 pp.FOURTEEN HILLS PRESS 2010

Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Issue17.1 of FOURTEEN HILLS features an interview with AdamJohnson, by Fernando J. Pujals, and contains poetry byLisa Badner, Jason Bayani, Karina Borowicz, MaxineChernoff, Renee Emerson, Noah Gershman, JennyHanning, Peter Harris, Jane Hilberry, Myron Michael,Charlotte Pence, Alice Pero, Jennifer Reimer, AnnRobinson, Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Schiavo, andDawn Tefft; fiction by Jacob M. Appel, Matthew S. Baker,Michael Reid Busk, Jackie Corley, Steve Ellerhoff, AdamJohnson, James O’Brien, and Molly Prentiss; nonfictionby KC Eib, Stephen Elliott, Kasper Hauser, and DanMoreau; and art by Dena Schuckit, Damon Soule, andJon Stich.

Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, andMark Pawlak, EditorsHanging Loose 97No ISBN, $9, paper, 120 pp.HANGING LOOSE PRESS 2010

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Magazine. Poetry. Artists’ Books and the MimeographRevolution. MIMEO MIMEO 4 focuses on the poets,artists, printers, and publications of the British PoetryRevival, a particularly rich period of activity that ranroughly parallel to the New American Poetry of the post-WWII era. On both sides of the Atlantic, the dominantmodes of poetics, publishing, and media were beingthought anew. Featuring: wide-ranging interviews withTom Raworth, David Meltzer, and Trevor Winkfield;insightful essays by Richard Price, Ken Edwards, and AlanHalsey; a selection of letters from Eric Mottram to JeffNuttall providing a British perspective on the Lower EastSide Scene; and a long out-of-print statement by AsaBenveniste, poet and publisher of London’s infamousTrigram Press.

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Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Interviews.The FALL 2010 issue features new poems by PatriciaLockwood, Nance van Winckel, Michael Chitwood, OklaElliott, Shannon K. Winston, and others; fiction by JoeHall, Philip Asaph, and Joe Woodward; and nonfiction byIrene O’Garden. VOL. 25 NO. 2 also features interviewswith Coleman Barks, Joe Hall, Shane McCrae, and EileenG’Sell. Cover photograph by Susan Bryant.


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Chester Aaron, About Them / p. 51

Tom Abrams, Goya’s Head / p. 51

Seth Abramson, Northerners / p. 9

Lizzy Acker, Monster Party / p. 51

Akbar Ahmed, Suspended Somewhere Between:A Book of Verse / p. 9

Ammiel Alcalay, Editor, Lost & Found: The CUNY PoeticsDocument Initiative, Series 2 / p. 63

Ammiel Alcalay, neither wit nor gold / p. 9

Will Alexander, Compression & Purity / p. 9

Kazim Ali, Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a SpiritualPractice / p. 63

Paula Gunn Allen, America the Beautiful: Last Poems /p. 9

Nin Andrews, The Book of Orgasms / p. 9

Stan Apps, The World as Phone Bill / p. 63

Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman,Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, BobPerelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and BarrettWatten, The Grand Piano: Part 10 / p. 63

Lawrence Aronsen, City of Love and Revolution:Vancouver in the Sixties / p. 63

Jay Atkinson, Tauvernier Street / p. 51

Gennady Aygi, Into the Snow: Selected Poems ofGennady Aygi / p. 10

Leslie Baer-Brown and Bob Rhein, Earth Keepers: ASourcebook for Environmental lssues and Action / p. 63

Troy Burle Bailey, The Pierre Bonga Loops / p. 10

Alan Bajandas and Benjamin Solomon, Editors,The Open Face Sandwich, Volume 2 / p. 74

Micah Ballard, Waifs and Strays / p. 10

Jessica Baran, Remains to Be Used / p. 10

Aliki Barnstone, Bright Body / p. 10

Helen Barolini, Crossing the Alps / p. 51

Dennis Barone, Parallel Lines / p. 10

Ed Barrett, Down New Utrecht Avenue / p. 10

Michael Basinski, Editor, Gerald Locklin: A CriticalIntroduction / p. 64

Jean Rae Baxter, Broken Trail / p. 51

Dan Beachy-Quick, Circle’s Apprentice / p. 10

Robin Behn, The Yellow House / p. 10

Marvin Bell, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems / p. 11

Martine Bellen, Ghosts! / p. 11

Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Editor, The Fiction atWork Biannual Report / p. 51

Jen Benka, Pinko / p. 11

Guy Bennett, Self-Evident Poems / p. 11

Seth Berg, Muted Lines from Someone Else’s Memory /p. 11

Bill Berkson, For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews,Occasional Pieces and More / p. 64

Anselm Berrigan, Notes from Irrelevance / p. 11

Stephen Bett, Track This: A Book of Relationship / p. 11

Michael Bible, Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City / p. 52

Guy Birchard, Further than the Blood / p. 11

Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, Editors, MimeoMimeo 4 / p. 74

Francesca Lia Block, Fairy Tales in Electri-City / p. 11

Dan Boehl, Kings of the F**king Sea / p. 11

Robert Bohm, Closing the Hotel Kitchen / p. 12

Roger Bonair-Agard, Gully / p. 12

|Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 01: A Journal ofGay Poetry / p. 73

Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal ofGay Poetry / p. 73

Daniel Borzutzky, The Book of Interfering Bodies / p. 12

Sandy Bothmer, Creating the Peaceable Classroom:A 21st-Century Wellness Guide for Teachers, Studentsand Parents / p. 64

Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian FauxMicro-Epic / p. 12

George Bowering, Caprice / p. 52

George Bowering, Horizontal Surfaces / p. 64

Patrick Bowman, Torn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave /p. 52

Megan Boyle, selected unpublished blog posts of amexican panda express employee / p. 12

Joseph Bradshaw, In the Common Dream of GeorgeOppen / p. 12

John Brandi, Seeding the Cosmos: New & SelectedHaiku / p. 12

Per Aage Brandt, These Hands / p. 13

Jason Bredle, Smiles of the Unstoppable / p. 13

Daniel Brenner, June / p. 13

William M. Brinton and Alan Rinzler, Editors, WithoutForce or Lies: Voices from the Revolution of CentralEurope in 1989-90 / p. 64

Louis Daniel Brodsky, At Dock’s End: Poems of LakeNebagamon, Volume Two / p. 13

Louis Daniel Brodsky, Getting to Unknow theNeighbors / p. 52

Louis Daniel Brodsky, Seizing the Sun and Moon:Volume Three of The Seasons of Youth / p. 13

Julian T. Brolaski, gowanus atropolis / p. 13

Ben Brooks, An Island of Fifty / p. 52

Stephanie Brooks, Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower /p. 13

Brother Anthony, Hong Keong-Hee, and Steven D.Owyoung, Korean Tea Classics / p. 64

Derrick Weston Brown, Wisdom Teeth / p. 13

Laynie Browne, Roseate, Points of Gold / p. 14

Mahogany L. Browne, #Dear Twitter: Love LettersHashed Out Online in 140 Characters or Less / p. 14

Sarah Browning, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden / p. 14

Sommer Browning, Either Way I’m Celebrating / p. 14

Marie Buck, Life & Style / p. 14

Michael Burkard, lucky coat anywhere / p. 14

Michael Burke, Music of the Spheres / p. 52

Mary Bucci Bush, Sweet Hope / p. 52

Nash Candelaria, Second Communion / p. 64

Paul Caponigro, The Voice of the Print / p. 64

Jorge Carrera Andrade, Micrograms / p. 14

Mary-Marcia Casoly, Katherine Hastings, MelanieL. Moro-Huber, and Jack Foley, Ahadada Reader 3 /p. 14

Travis Cebula, Under the Sky They Lit Cities / p. 14

R. Cheran, Dalbir Singh, Chelva Kanaganayakam, andSudharshan Durayappah, Editors, World WithoutWalls: Being Human, Being Tamil / p. 65

Sasha Chernyi, Poems from Children’s Island / p. 15

Cho In-souk and Robert Koehler, Seoul’s HistoricWalks / p. 65

Michael Cirelli, Everyone Loves the Situation / p. 15

Kate Colby, The Return of the Native / p. 15

rd coleman, beach tracks / p. 15

Victor Coleman, The Occasional Troubadour / p. 15

Peter Conners, The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees /p. 15

Russell Connor, Toys from My Attic / p. 52

Gillian Conoley, Editor, Volt No. 16 / p. 75

Giuseppe Conte, Angelina’s Lips / p. 53

Matthew Cooperman, Still: Of the Earth as the ArkWhich Does Not Move / p. 15

William Corbett, The Whalen Poem / p. 15

Steven Cordova, Long Distance / p. 16

Joshua Corey, Severance Songs / p. 16

Brad Crenshaw, My Gargantuan Desire / p. 16

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, andSonia Villegas-López, Editors, Transnational Poetics:Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s / p. 65

Weston Cutter, You’d Be a Stranger, Too / p. 53

Garin Cycholl, Hostile Witness / p. 16

Cyril Dabydeen, Editor, Beyond Sangre Grande:Caribbean Writing Today / p. 16

Rachel Daley, Plasmos / p. 16

Glover Davis, Spring Drive / p. 16

Donna de la Perrière, Saint Erasure / p. 17

A. W. DeAnnuntis, Master Siger’s Dream / p. 53

Shira Dentz, black seeds on a white dish / p. 17

Thomas DePietro, Editor, Frank Lentricchia: Essays onHis Works / p. 65

Regina Derieva, Corinthian Copper / p. 17

Joanne Diaz, The Lessons / p. 17

Paul Dickey, They Say This Is How Death Came into theWorld / p. 17

Michael Dickman, Flies / p. 17

R. H. W. Dillard, What Is Owed the Dead / p. 17

Tim Dlugos, A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of TimDlugos / p. 17

Sandra Doller, Man Years / p. 17

Sharon Doubiago, My Father’s Love, Volume II:The Legacy / p. 65

Rikki Ducornet, Netsuke / p. 53

Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon, Enjoy Hot or Iced:Poems in Conversation and a Conversation / p. 18

Patrick James Dunagan, There Are People Who Say ThatPainters Shouldn’t Talk: A GUSTONBOOK / p. 18

Quinton Duval, Like Hay / p. 18

Author Index

AUTHOR INDEX


Joshua Edwards and Van Edwards, Campeche / p. 18

Scott Ely, Dream Fishing / p. 53

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Fatal Numbers: Why Counton Chance / p. 65

Elaine Equi, Click and Clone / p. 18

Seyhan Erözçelik, Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds / p. 18

John Estes, Kingdom Come / p. 18

Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mike O’Connor, andThomas Merton, Songs from a Yahi Bow: A Series ofPoems on Ishi / p. 18

Gil Fagiani, Chianti in Connecticut / p. 19

Blas Falconer and Amy Wright, Editors, Zone 3 Vol. 25No. 2 Fall 2010 / p. 75

Ben Fama, Editor, Supermachine Issue Three / p. 74

Thomas Farber, The Face of the Deep / p. 65

Patricia Fargnoli, Then, Something / p. 19

Kevin Fenton, Merit Badges / p. 53

Alboqasem Ferdowsi, The Teller of Tales: Stories fromFerdowsi’s Shahnameh / p. 19

Josh Fernandez, Spare Parts and Dismemberment /p. 19

Robert Fernandez, We Are Pharaoh / p. 19

Thomas Fink, Peace Conference / p. 19

Norman Finkelstein, Inside the Ghost Factory / p. 19

Roy Fisher, Selected Poems / p. 19

Kyle Flak, The Secret Admirer / p. 20

Gerald Fleming, Night of Pure Breathing / p. 20

Sasha Fletcher, When All Our Days Are NumberedMarching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not HearThem Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds / p. 53

Brad Flis, Peasants / p. 20

Josey Foo and Leah Stein, A Lily Lilies / p. 20

Gabe Foreman, A Complete Encyclopedia of DifferentTypes of People / p. 20

Edward Foster, Editor, Talisman 38/39/40 / p. 74

Sanford Fraser, Among Strangers I’ve Known All MyLife/Parmi Les Etrangers Que J’ai Connus Toute Ma Vie /p. 20

Andy Frazee, The Body, The Rooms / p. 20

Emily Kendal Frey, The Grief Performance / p. 20

Allen Frost, The Mermaid Translation / p. 53

Elisabeth Frost, All of Us / p. 21

Richard Froude, FABRIC: Preludes to the Last AmericanBook / p. 65

William Fuller, Hallucination / p. 21

Warren Fulton and David Jaffin, Poemed on a Beach:A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Poetry / p. 66

Richard Gambino, Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma ofthe Italian Americans / p. 66

Eugene K. Garber, O Amazonas Escuro / p. 53

Drew Gardner, Chomp Away / p. 21

Susan Gardner, Drawing the Line / p. 66

Susan Gardner, Stone Music: The Art and Poetry ofSusan Gardner / p. 21

Molly Gaudry, We Take Me Apart / p. 21

Fergal Gaynor, VIII Stepping Poems & other pieces /p. 21

Jean Genet, The Genet Translations: Poetry andPosthumous Plays / p. 21

Kathleen George, Editor, Pittsburgh Noir / p. 54

Morgan Gibson, Nonzen Poems / p. 21

Lawrence Giffin, Sorites / p. 22

Robert Goodnough, Editor, Artists’ Sessions at Studio35 (1950) / p. 66

Johannes Göransson, Entrance to a colonial pageant inwhich we all begin to intricate / p. 22

Nada Gordon, Scented Rushes / p. 22

Garth Greenwell, Mitko / p. 54

Renée Gregorio, Joan Logghe, and Miriam Sagan,Love & Death: Greatest Hits / p. 22

Gerry Grubbs, The Girls in Bright Dresses Dancing / p. 22

Durs Grünbein, The Vocation of Poetry / p. 66

Lucrecia Guerrero, Tree of Sighs / p. 54

Helen Guri, Match / p. 22

Andrei Guruianu, Metal and Plum: A Memoir / p. 66

Arielle Guy, Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire /p. 23

Rachel Hadas, The Ache of Appetite / p. 23

Drum Hadley, The Light Before Dawn / p. 23

Hai Zi, Over Autumn Rooftops / p. 23

Syed Afzal Haider, To Be with Her / p. 54

Amira Hanafi, Forgery / p. 23

Hollie Hardy, Editor, Fourteen Hills Vol. 17 No. 1 / p. 74

Edward Harkness, Beautiful Passing Lives / p. 23

Megan Harlan, Mapmaking / p. 23

Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian, The Wide Road / p.24

Elva Treviño Hart, Simpáticas: San Miguel Stories / p. 54

Ken Harvey, A Passionate Engagement: A Memoir / p. 67

j/j hastain, asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents /p. 24

j/j hastain, Prurient Anarchic Omnibus / p. 24

Elizabeth Hatmaker, Girl in Two Pieces / p. 24

Michael Hemery, No Permanent Scars / p. 67

Barbara Henning, Looking Up Harryette Mullen:Interviews on Sleeping with the Dictionary and OtherWorks / p. 67

Matthew Henriksen, Ordinary Sun / p. 24

Gerrit Henry, The Time of the Night / p. 24

Colin Herd, too ok / p. 24

Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Mark Pawlak,Editors, Hanging Loose 97 / p. 74

Russell Hill, The Dog Sox / p. 54

Jack Hodgins, Spit Delaney’s Island / p. 54

Jeff Hoffman, Journal of American Foreign Policy / p. 24

Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball / p. 25

Bob Holman, Picasso in Barcelona / p. 25

Kevin Holohan, The Brothers’ Lot / p. 55

Bruce Holsapple, Vanishing Act / p. 25

Ava Homa, Echoes from the Other Land / p. 55

Joan Houlihan, The Us / p. 25

Zora Howard, Clutch / p. 25

Uyen Hua, a/s/l / p. 25

Will Hubbard, Cursivism / p. 25

Adam Hughes, Petrichor / p. 25

Ofelia Hunt, Today & Tomorrow / p. 55

Carrie Hunter, The Incompossible / p. 26

Christina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves / p. 26

Alta Ifland, Death-in-a-Box / p. 55

Jason Irwin, Watering the Dead / p. 26

Inge Israel, Beckett Soundings / p. 26

Sheniz Janmohamed, Bleeding Light / p. 26

Dale Jensen, Auto Bio / p. 26

Luke Johnson, After the Ark / p. 26

Paul Foster Johnson, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms/ p. 27

Daniel Jones, The Brave Never Write Poetry / p. 27

Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Last Poems / p. 27

Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems / p. 27

Richard Kalich, Penthouse F / p. 55

Nadia Kalman, The Cosmopolitans / p. 55

Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene / p. 27

Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains / p. 27

Cralan Kelder, Give Some Word / p. 27

Gary Francisco Keller, Editor, Good Bandits, WarriorWomen, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture / p. 67

Kristin Kelly, Cargo / p. 28

Daniel Khalastchi, Manoleria / p. 28

Nidaa Khoury, Book of Sins / p. 28

Crawford Kilian, Go Do Some Great Thing: The BlackPioneers of British Columbia / p. 67

Michael Kimball, Us / p. 55

Sally Rosen Kindred, No Eden / p. 28

Ish Klein, Moving Day / p. 28

Caroline Knox, Nine Worthies / p. 28

Noelle Kocot, The Bigger World / p. 28

Robert Koehler, Hangeul: Korea’s Unique Alphabet /p. 67

Jose Kozer, Anima / p. 28

Nancy Kuhl, The Book Remembers Everything: The Workof Erica Van Horn / p. 68

Joel Steven Kuszai, Accidency / p. 29

Gerry Lafemina, Vanishing Horizon / p. 29

Larissa Lai and Rita Wong, Sybil Unrest / p. 29

Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour / p. 29

Stephen Lapthisophon, Writing Art Cinema 1988-2010 /p. 68

Nathan Larson, The Dewey Decimal System / p. 56

Evan Lavender-Smith, Avatar / p. 56

Joseph Lease, Testify / p. 29

Stacie Leatherman, Stranger Air / p. 29

Ronna Lebo, Prolapse / p. 29

Esther Lee, Spit / p. 29

Paul Legault, The Madeleine Poems / p. 29

Carol Lem, Gathering the Pieces / p. 30

James P. Lenfestey, Editor, Low Down and ComingOn: A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems AboutPigs / p. 30

Takako Lento and Wayne Miller, Editors, TamuraRyuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master /p. 30

David Lespiau, Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of theRestored Volume / p. 30

AUTHOR INDEX


Francesco Levato, Elegy for Dead Languages / p. 30

Dana Levin, Sky Burial / p. 30

John Levy, A Mind’s Cargo Shifting / p. 56

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Walking Backwards: New Poems /p. 30

Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt / p. 56

R. Zamora Linmark, Leche / p. 56

Paul Lisicky, The Burning House / p. 56

J. D. Lloyd, Editor, Spillway No. 14 / p. 74

Norman Lock, Grim Tales / p. 56

Lonely Christopher, The Mechanics of HomosexualIntercourse / p. 56

Colleen Lookingbill, a forgetting of / p. 30

Adriana V. López and Carmen Ospina, Editors,Barcelona Noir / p. 57

Astrid Lorange, Eating and Speaking / p. 31

Kristin Lucas, Refresh / p. 68

Raymond Luczak, Road Work Ahead / p. 31

Peng Ma, Peng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting / p. 68

Ian Macdonald and Betty O’Keefe, Quiet Reformers:The Legacy of Early Victoria’s Bishop Edward andMary Cridge / p. 68

Lorenzo Madalena, Confetti for Gino / p. 57

Magus Magnus, Heraclitean Pride / p. 31

Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Steady, My Gaze / p. 31

Josie Malinowski, West of Pure Evil / p. 57

Paul Maliszewski, Prayer and Parable: Stories / p. 57

Dominic Mallary, Destroyer of Man: Selected Poems byDominic Owen Mallary / p. 31

Filip Marinovich, And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet YouHere Tomorrow / p. 31

Chris Martin, Becoming Weather / p. 31

Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline / p. 31

Chris Mason, Hum Who Hiccup / p. 31

Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, andXiaoye You, Editors, The Politics of Second LanguageWriting: In Search of the Promised Land / p. 68

Jack Matthews, The Gambler’s Nephew / p. 57

James Maughn, The Arakaki Permutations / p. 32

Bernadette Mayer, Studying Hunger Journals / p. 32

Ben Mazer, January 2008 / p. 32

Anthony McCann, I Heart Your Fate / p. 32

Shane McCrae, In Canaan / p. 32

Frances McCue, The Bled / p. 32

Madeline McDonnell, There Is Something Inside, ItWants to Get Out / p. 57

Brian McGettrick, Everything Else We Must Endure /p. 32

Susan McNicoll, The Opening Act: Canadian TheatreHistory 1945-1953 / p. 69

Deborah Meadows, Saccade Patterns / p. 32

Pablo Medina, The Man Who Wrote on Water / p. 32

Tony Medina, My Old Man Was Always on the Lam /p. 33

Erika Meitner, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls /p. 33

David Meltzer, When I Was a Poet / p. 33

Christina Mengert, As We Are Sung / p. 33

Ben Milder, From Adolescence to Senescence: A Life inLight Verse / p. 33

Jennifer Militello, Flinch of Song / p. 33

Mary Miller, Big World / p. 57

Stan Mir, The Lacustrine Suite / p. 33

Robert Mittenthal, Wax World / p. 33

Albert Mobilio, Touch Wood / p. 33

Judy Molyneux, California Gold / p. 69

Derek Mong, Other Romes / p. 34

M. V. Montgomery, Dream Koans / p. 57

Maceo Montoya, The Scoundrel and the Optimist / p. 58

Kate Tarlow Morgan, Circles and Boundaries / p. 69

Daniel Morris, If Not for the Courage / p. 34

Fred Muratori, The Spectra / p. 34

Kevin Murphy, Editor, Dark Sky Magazine / p. 73

Jack Myers, The Memory of Water / p. 34

Mariko Nagai, Georgic / p. 58

Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach / p. 34

Gale Nelson, This Is What Happens When Talk Ends /p. 34

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lucky Fish / p. 34

bp Nichol, The Captain Poetry Poems Complete / p. 34

Hal Niedzviecki, Look Down, This Is Where It Must HaveHappened / p. 58

Urayoán Noel, Hi-Density Politics / p. 35

Linda Norton, The Public Gardens: Poems and History /p. 35

Adam Novy, The Avian Gospels, Book I / p. 58

Adam Novy, The Avian Gospels, Book II / p. 58

Kathryn Nuernberger, Rag & Bone / p. 35

Mary Oishi, Spirit Birds They Told Me / p. 35

Christina Olson, Before I Came Home Naked / p. 35

Rochelle Owens, Solitary Workwoman / p. 35

Judith Pacht, Summer Hunger / p. 35

Ron Padgett, How Long / p. 35

Uma Parameswaran, A Cycle of the Moon / p. 58

Alan Michael Parker, Whale Man / p. 58

Shailja Patel, Migritude / p. 36

Alexandria Peary, Lid to the Shadow / p. 36

Victor Perera, Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood / p. 69

Craig Santos Perez, From Unincorporated Territory[Saina] / p. 36

Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant / p. 36

Justin Petropoulos, Eminent Domain / p. 36

Katie Phillips, Driving Montana, Alone / p. 36

Tom Pickard, More Pricks Than Prizes / p. 69

Anne Pitkin, Winter Arguments / p. 36

Andrew Plattner, A Marriage of Convenience / p. 58

Harry Polkinhorn, Demos Oneiron / p. 36

Harry Polkinhorn and Alfredo Velasco, Editors, Caló:A Dictionary of Spanish Barrio and Border Slang / p. 69

Pamela Porter, Cathedral / p. 37

Will Potter, Green Is the New Red: In Insider’s Account ofa Social Movement Under Siege / p. 69

Gretchen Steele Pratt, One Island / p. 37

Nate Pritts, Big Bright Sun / p. 37

Dawn Promislow, Jewels and Other Stories / p. 59

George Quasha, Verbal Paradise (preverbs) / p. 37

Marc Rahe, The Smaller Half / p. 37

Jennifer Rahim, Redemption Rain / p. 37

Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:1 / p. 73

Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:2 / p. 73

Wendy Ranan, The Quiet Room / p. 37

F. D. Reeve, The Puzzle Master and Other Poems / p. 37

Charles Reid, Ghost of Heroes Past / p. 59

Steven Reigns, Inheritance / p. 37

Nina Revoyr, Wingshooters / p. 59

Andrea Rexilius, To Be Human Is to Be a Conversation /p. 38

John Calvin Rezmerski, Breaking the Rules: Startingwith Ghazals / p. 38

John Rich, Korean War in Color: A Correspondent’sRetrospective on a Forgotten War / p. 70

Peter Richards, Helsinki / p. 38

Chuck Richardson, Smoke / p. 59

Chuck Richardson, So It Seams / p. 59

Michele Rider, Women in the Financial District: A PhotoEssay / p. 70

Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Editors, READ 4 / p. 38

Andrew Rihn, America Plops and Fizzes / p. 38

Joseph Riippi, The Orange Suitcase / p. 59

Elena Rivera, The Perforated Map / p. 38

Ford Robbins, Connections: A Visual Journal / p. 70

Tim Roberts, Drizzle Pocket / p. 38

Marianne Roccaforte, Bridges in the Mind: An Artist’sHandbook for Everyday Living / p. 70

Jean-Pierre Rogel, Evolution: The View from theCottage / p. 70

Bertha Rogers, Editor, Book Arts 2010: Bright HillCenter / p. 70

Ethel Rohan, Cut Through the Bone / p. 59

Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver / p. 38

Todd Romanowski, Every Strange Meridian / p. 38

Rena Rosenwasser, Elevators / p. 39

Jerome Rothenberg, Retrievals: Uncollected &New Poems, 1955-2010 / p. 39

Philip Roy, River Odyssey / p. 59

Claude Royet-Journoud, The Whole of Poetry IsPreposition / p. 39

Mary Ruefle, Selected Poems / p. 39

Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I: 1944-1949 / p. 39

Zach Savich, Events Film Cannot Withstand / p. 71

Zach Savich, The Firestorm / p. 39

Leslie Scalapino, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold /p. 71

Susan Scarlata, It Might Turn Out We Are Real / p. 39

Maxine Scates, Undone / p. 39

Kathrin Schaeppi, Sonja Sekula : Grace in a cow’s EYE :a memoir / p. 40

Andrew Schelling, From the Arapaho Songbook / p. 40

Gershom Scholem, Two Draft Essays from 1918 / p. 71

Howard Schwartz, Breathing in the Dark / p. 40

Susan Scutti, The Commute / p. 40

AUTHOR INDEX


Jesse Seldess, Left Having / p. 40

Theresa Senato Edwards, Voices Through Skin / p. 40

Seoul Selection Editorial Team, The Korea Success Story/ p. 71

Nancy Shaver, Henry at Home / p. 71

Carol Anne Shaw, Hannah and the Spindle Whorl / p. 59

Matt Shears, Where a road had been / p. 40

Jim Shepard, Master of Miniatures / p. 60

Roger Shepherd, Andrew Douch, and David A. Mason,Baekdu-daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine /p. 71

Gregory Sherl, I Have Touched You / p. 60

Brandon Shimoda, The Girl Without Arms / p. 41

Gleb Shulpyakov, A Fireproof Box / p. 41

Martha Silano, The Little Office of the ImmaculateConception / p. 41

Sophie Sills, Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama / p. 41

Leonardo Sinisgalli, Night of Shooting Stars / p. 41

John Elvis Smelcer, Alaskan: Stories from the GreatLand / p. 60

Laura Solomon, The Hermit / p. 41

Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, Editors, AMegaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, andSome Essays about the Continued Usefulness ofCrotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism / p. 72

Adriano Spatola, The Porthole / p. 60

Mark Spitzer, After the Orange Glow / p. 72

Mark Spitzer, Editor, Toad Suck Review: The TransitionalIssue / p. 75

Jonathan Stalling, Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetryand Poetics / p. 42

Shelley Stenhouse, Impunity / p. 42

Florine Stettheimer, Crystal Flowers: Poems and aLibretto / p. 42

Michael Stewart, The Hieroglyphics / p. 60

Melanie Steyn, Once Around the Sun / p. 60

Norman Stock, Pickled Dreams Naked / p. 42

Matthew Stokoe, Cows / p. 60

Stephen Sturgeon, Trees of the Twentieth Century /p. 42

Tim Suermondt, Just Beautiful / p. 42

Elizabeth Swados, Waiting: Selected Nonfiction / p. 72

Elzbieta Szoka and Joe W. Bratcher, III, Editors, TheDirty Goat 23 / p. 73

Eileen R. Tabios, Silk Egg: Collected Novels / p. 60

Richard Tagett, Demodulating Angel / p. 42

Marc Talbert, Altogether Ernest / p. 42

Susan Terris, Editor, Spillway No. 15 / p. 74

Alazar Tesfamichael, Trials and Tribulations / p. 72

Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Palm to Pine / p. 43

Tod Thilleman, Egghead to Underhoof (Our Concludingthe Poem) / p. 43

Tod Thilleman, Three Sea Monsters: Our History ofWhose Image / p. 43

H. Nigel Thomas, Lives: Whole and Otherwise / p. 61

Daniel Thompson, The Big Book of Daniel: CollectedPoems of Daniel Thompson / p. 43

Maureen Thorson, Applies to Oranges / p. 43

Daniel Tiffany, Privado / p. 43

Steve Timm, Un storia / p. 43

Mathew Timmons, The New Poetics / p. 43

Erin E. Tocknell, Confederate Streets / p. 72

Mike Topp, Sasquatch Stories / p. 43

Joseph Torra, What’s So Funny / p. 61

Edwin Torres, Yes Thing No Thing / p. 44

Georg Trakl, Song of the Departed: Selected Poems ofGeorg Trakl / p. 44

Douglas Treem, Everything So Seriously / p. 44

Tony Trigilio, Historic Diary / p. 44

Mary Troy, Beauties / p. 61

Mark Truscott, Nature / p. 44

Elizabeth Twiddy, Love-Noise / p. 44

Alan Twigg, The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books &Authors / p. 72

Chris Tysh, Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K / p. 44

David Unger, The Price of Escape / p. 61

Cesar Vallejo, Against Professional Secrets / p. 44

Terry Van Vliet, Black Lines on Terracotta / p. 44

Paul Vangelisti, Two / p. 45

Justin Vicari, The Professional Weepers / p. 45

Ocean Vuong, Burnings / p. 45

Jeanne Wagner, In the Body of Our Lives / p. 45

Katie Wainwright, Cuba on My Mind / p. 61

Diane Wald, Wonderbender / p. 45

Anne Waldman, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in theMechanism of Concealment / p. 45

Laura Walker, bird book / p. 45

Persia Walker, Black Orchid Blues / p. 61

Barry Wallenstein, Editor, For Enid with Love: afestchrift / p. 72

Lillien Waller, Editor, American Ghost: Poets on LifeAfter Industry / p. 46

William Walsh, Editor, Re: Telling / p. 61

Qingping Wang, Editor, Push Open the Window:Contemporary Poetry from China / p. 46

Craig Watson, Sleepwalking with Orpheus / p. 46

Jane O. Wayne, The Other Place You Live / p. 46

Florence Weinberger, Sacred Graffiti / p. 46

Steve Weiner, Sweet England / p. 62

Ellen Welcker, The Botanical Garden / p. 46

Donald Wellman, A North Atlantic Wall / p. 46

Mac Wellman, Left Glove / p. 62

David Wevill, Casual Ties / p. 46

Anthony Russell White, The Faith of Leaping / p. 47

Charles Dodd White and Page Seay, Editors, Degreesof Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia/ p. 62

Hazel White, Peril as Architectural Enrichment / p. 47

Sarah White, Alice Ages and Ages / p. 47

Jonathan Wilcke, Dupe / p. 47

Paul J. Willis, The Alpine Tales / p. 62

Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ec(o)logues / p. 47

Terence Winch, Falling Out of Bed in a Room with NoFloor / p. 47

Mary Winegarden, The Translator’s Sister / p. 47

David Wirthlin, Your Disappearance / p. 47

Rebecca Wolff, Editor, Fence Vol. 13 No. 2 Winter 2011 /p. 73

Pui Ying Wong, Yellow Plum Season / p. 48

Tim Wood, Otherwise Known as Home / p. 48

C. D. Wright, One with Others: [a little book of her days] /p. 48

John Yau, Editor, Viva la Difference: Poetry Inspired bythe Painting of Peter Saul / p. 48

Yvan Yauri, Fire Wind / p. 48

Dean Young, Fall Higher / p. 48

Steven Zultanski, Cop Kisser / p. 48


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About Them, Chester Aaron / p. 51

Accidency, Joel Steven Kuszai / p. 29

The Ache of Appetite, Rachel Hadas / p. 23

After the Ark, Luke Johnson / p. 26

After the Orange Glow, Mark Spitzer / p. 72

Against Professional Secrets, Cesar Vallejo / p. 44

Ahadada Reader 3, Mary-Marcia Casoly, KatherineHastings, Melanie L. Moro-Huber, and Jack Foley / p. 14

Alaskan: Stories from the Great Land, John ElvisSmelcer / p. 60

Alice Ages and Ages, Sarah White / p. 47

All of Us, Elisabeth Frost / p. 21

The Alpine Tales, Paul J. Willis / p. 62

Altogether Ernest, Marc Talbert / p. 42

American Ghost: Poets on Life After Industry, LillienWaller, Editor / p. 46

America Plops and Fizzes, Andrew Rihn / p. 38

America the Beautiful: Last Poems, Paula Gunn Allen /p. 9

Among Strangers I’ve Known All My Life/Parmi LesEtrangers Que J’ai Connus Toute Ma Vie, SanfordFraser / p. 20

And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You HereTomorrow, Filip Marinovich / p. 31

Angelina’s Lips, Giuseppe Conte / p. 53

Anima, Jose Kozer / p. 28

Applies to Oranges, Maureen Thorson / p. 43

The Arakaki Permutations, James Maughn / p. 32

Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (��5�), RobertGoodnough, Editor / p. 66

a/s/l, Uyen Hua / p. 25

Assaracus Issue ��: A Journal of Gay Poetry, BryanBorland, Editor / p. 73

Assaracus Issue ��: A Journal of Gay Poetry, BryanBorland, Editor / p. 73

As We Are Sung, Christina Mengert / p. 33

asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents, j/j hastain /p. 24

At Dock’s End: Poems of Lake Nebagamon, VolumeTwo, Louis Daniel Brodsky / p. 13

Auto Bio, Dale Jensen / p. 26

Avatar, Evan Lavender-Smith / p. 56

The Avian Gospels, Book I, Adam Novy / p. 58

The Avian Gospels, Book II, Adam Novy / p. 58

Baekdu-daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine,Roger Shepherd, Andrew Douch, and David A. Mason /p. 71

Barcelona Noir, Adriana V. López and Carmen Ospina,Editors / p. 57

beach tracks, rd coleman / p. 15

Beauties, Mary Troy / p. 61

Beautiful Passing Lives, Edward Harkness / p. 23

Beckett Soundings, Inge Israel / p. 26

Becoming Weather, Chris Martin / p. 31

Before I Came Home Naked, Christina Olson / p. 35

Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today,Cyril Dabydeen, Editor / p. 16

The Big Book of Daniel: Collected Poems of DanielThompson, Daniel Thompson / p. 43

Big Bright Sun, Nate Pritts / p. 37

The Bigger World, Noelle Kocot / p. 28

Big World, Mary Miller / p. 57

bird book, Laura Walker / p. 45

Black Lines on Terracotta, Terry Van Vliet / p. 44

Black Orchid Blues, Persia Walker / p. 61

black seeds on a white dish, Shira Dentz / p. 17

The Bled, Frances McCue / p. 32

Bleeding Light, Sheniz Janmohamed / p. 26

Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the ItalianAmericans, Richard Gambino / p. 66

The Body, The Rooms, Andy Frazee / p. 20

Book Arts ��: Bright Hill Center, Bertha Rogers,Editor / p. 70

The Book of Interfering Bodies, Daniel Borzutzky / p. 12

The Book of Orgasms, Nin Andrews / p. 9

Book of Sins, Nidaa Khoury / p. 28

The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of EricaVan Horn, Nancy Kuhl / p. 68

The Botanical Garden, Ellen Welcker / p. 46

The Brave Never Write Poetry, Daniel Jones / p. 27

Breaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals, John CalvinRezmerski / p. 38

Breathing in the Dark, Howard Schwartz / p. 40

Bridges in the Mind: An Artist’s Handbook forEveryday Living, Marianne Roccaforte / p. 70

Bright Body, Aliki Barnstone / p. 10

Broken Trail, Jean Rae Baxter / p. 51

The Brothers’ Lot, Kevin Holohan / p. 55

The Burning House, Paul Lisicky / p. 56

Burnings, Ocean Vuong / p. 45

California Gold, Judy Molyneux / p. 69

Caló: A Dictionary of Spanish Barrio and BorderSlang, Harry Polkinhorn and Alfredo Velasco, Editors /p. 69

Campeche, Joshua Edwards and Van Edwards / p. 18

Caprice, George Bowering / p. 52

The Captain Poetry Poems Complete, bp Nichol / p. 34

Cargo, Kristin Kelly / p. 28

Casual Ties, David Wevill / p. 46

Cathedral, Pamela Porter / p. 37

Chianti in Connecticut, Gil Fagiani / p. 19

Chomp Away, Drew Gardner / p. 21

Circles and Boundaries, Kate Tarlow Morgan / p. 69

Circle’s Apprentice, Dan Beachy-Quick / p. 10

City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties,Lawrence Aronsen / p. 63

Click and Clone, Elaine Equi / p. 18

Closing the Hotel Kitchen, Robert Bohm / p. 12

Clutch, Zora Howard / p. 25

Collected Poems I: ��44-��4�, Nelly Sachs / p. 39

The Commute, Susan Scutti / p. 40

A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types ofPeople, Gabe Foreman / p. 20

Compression & Purity, Will Alexander / p. 9

Confederate Streets, Erin E. Tocknell / p. 72

Confetti for Gino, Lorenzo Madalena / p. 57

Connections: A Visual Journal, Ford Robbins / p. 70

Cop Kisser, Steven Zultanski / p. 48

Corinthian Copper, Regina Derieva / p. 17

Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic,Michael Boughn / p. 12

The Cosmopolitans, Nadia Kalman / p. 55

Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City, Michael Bible / p. 52

Cows, Matthew Stokoe / p. 60

Creating the Peaceable Classroom: A ��st-CenturyWellness Guide for Teachers, Students and Parents,Sandy Bothmer / p. 64

Crossing the Alps, Helen Barolini / p. 51

The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees, Peter Conners/ p. 15

Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto, FlorineStettheimer / p. 42

Cuba on My Mind, Katie Wainwright / p. 61

Cursivism, Will Hubbard / p. 25

Cut Through the Bone, Ethel Rohan / p. 59

A Cycle of the Moon, Uma Parameswaran / p. 58

Dark Sky Magazine, Kevin Murphy, Editor / p. 73

#Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out Online in �4�Characters or Less, Mahogany L. Browne / p. 14

Death-in-a-Box, Alta Ifland / p. 55

Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of ContemporaryAppalachia, Charles Dodd White and Page Seay,Editors / p. 62

Demodulating Angel, Richard Tagett / p. 42

Demos Oneiron, Harry Polkinhorn / p. 36

Denver Quarterly 45:�, Bin Ramke, Editor / p. 73

Denver Quarterly 45:�, Bin Ramke, Editor / p. 73

Destroyer and Preserver, Matthew Rohrer / p. 38

Destroyer of Man: Selected Poems by Dominic OwenMallary, Dominic Mallary / p. 31

The Dewey Decimal System, Nathan Larson / p. 56

The Dirty Goat �3, Elzbieta Szoka and Joe W. Bratcher, III,Editors / p. 73

Discipline, Dawn Lundy Martin / p. 31

The Dog Sox, Russell Hill / p. 54

Down New Utrecht Avenue, Ed Barrett / p. 10

Drawing the Line, Susan Gardner / p. 66

Dream Fishing, Scott Ely / p. 53

Dream Koans, M. V. Montgomery / p. 57

Driving Montana, Alone, Katie Phillips / p. 36

Drizzle Pocket, Tim Roberts / p. 38

Dupe, Jonathan Wilcke / p. 47

Earth Keepers: A Sourcebook for Environmentallssues and Action, Leslie Baer-Brown and Bob Rhein /p. 63

Eating and Speaking, Astrid Lorange / p. 31

Echoes from the Other Land, Ava Homa / p. 55

Ec(o)logues, Peter Lamborn Wilson / p. 47

Egghead to Underhoof (Our Concluding the Poem),Tod Thilleman / p. 43

VIII Stepping Poems & other pieces, Fergal Gaynor/ p. 21

Either Way I’m Celebrating, Sommer Browning / p. 14

Elegy for Dead Languages, Francesco Levato / p. 30

Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama, Sophie Sills / p. 41

Elevators, Rena Rosenwasser / p. 39

Eminent Domain, Justin Petropoulos / p. 36

Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and aConversation, Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon/ p. 18

Title Index

TITLE INDEX

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Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all beginto intricate, Johannes Göransson / p. 22

The Essentials: �5� Great B.C. Books & Authors, AlanTwigg / p. 72

Events Film Cannot Withstand, Zach Savich / p. 71

Everyone Loves the Situation, Michael Cirelli / p. 15

Every Strange Meridian, Todd Romanowski / p. 38

Everything Else We Must Endure, Brian McGettrick /p. 32

Everything So Seriously, Douglas Treem / p. 44

Evolution: The View from the Cottage, Jean-PierreRogel / p. 70

FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book, RichardFroude / p. 65

The Face of the Deep, Thomas Farber / p. 65

Fairy Tales in Electri-City, Francesca Lia Block / p. 11

The Faith of Leaping, Anthony Russell White / p. 47

Fall Higher, Dean Young / p. 48

Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor, TerenceWinch / p. 47

Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice,Kazim Ali / p. 63

A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, TimDlugos / p. 17

Fatal Numbers: Why Count on Chance, Hans MagnusEnzensberger / p. 65

Fence Vol. �3 No. � Winter ��, Rebecca Wolff, Editor /p. 73

The Fiction at Work Biannual Report, Tobias AmadonBengelsdorf, Editor / p. 51

A Fireproof Box, Gleb Shulpyakov / p. 41

The Firestorm, Zach Savich / p. 39

Fire Wind, Yvan Yauri / p. 48

Flies, Michael Dickman / p. 17

Flinch of Song, Jennifer Militello / p. 33

For Enid with Love: a festchrift, Barry Wallenstein,Editor / p. 72

Forgery, Amira Hanafi / p. 23

a forgetting of, Colleen Lookingbill / p. 30

For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, OccasionalPieces and More, Bill Berkson / p. 64

Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the Restored Volume,David Lespiau / p. 30

Fourteen Hills Vol. �� No. �, Hollie Hardy, Editor / p. 74

Frank Lentricchia: Essays on His Works, ThomasDePietro, Editor / p. 65

From Adolescence to Senescence: A Life in LightVerse, Ben Milder / p. 33

From the Arapaho Songbook, Andrew Schelling / p. 40

From Unincorporated Territory [Saina], Craig SantosPerez / p. 36

Further than the Blood, Guy Birchard / p. 11

The Gambler’s Nephew, Jack Matthews / p. 57

Gathering the Pieces, Carol Lem / p. 30

The Genet Translations: Poetry and PosthumousPlays, Jean Genet / p. 21

Georgic, Mariko Nagai / p. 58

Gerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction, MichaelBasinski, Editor / p. 64

Getting to Unknow the Neighbors, Louis DanielBrodsky / p. 52

Ghost of Heroes Past, Charles Reid / p. 59

Ghosts!, Martine Bellen / p. 11

Girl in Two Pieces, Elizabeth Hatmaker / p. 24

The Girls in Bright Dresses Dancing, Gerry Grubbs /p. 22

The Girl Without Arms, Brandon Shimoda / p. 41

Give Some Word, Cralan Kelder / p. 27

Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers ofBritish Columbia, Crawford Kilian / p. 67

Good Bandits, Warrior Women, and Revolutionariesin Hispanic Culture, Gary Francisco Keller, Editor /p. 67

gowanus atropolis, Julian T. Brolaski / p. 13

Goya’s Head, Tom Abrams / p. 51

The Grand Piano: Part ��, Rae Armantrout, SteveBenson, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel,Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman,and Barrett Watten / p. 63

Green Is the New Red: In Insider’s Account of a SocialMovement Under Siege, Will Potter / p. 69

The Grief Performance, Emily Kendal Frey / p. 20

Grim Tales, Norman Lock / p. 56

Gully, Roger Bonair-Agard / p. 12

Hallucination, William Fuller / p. 21

Hangeul: Korea’s Unique Alphabet, Robert Koehler /p. 67

Hanging Loose ��, Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, andMark Pawlak, Editors / p. 74

Hannah and the Spindle Whorl, Carol Anne Shaw /p. 59

Helsinki, Peter Richards / p. 38

Henry at Home, Nancy Shaver / p. 71

Heraclitean Pride, Magus Magnus / p. 31

The Hermit, Laura Solomon / p. 41

Hi-Density Politics, Urayoán Noel / p. 35

The Hieroglyphics, Michael Stewart / p. 60

Historic Diary, Tony Trigilio / p. 44

Horizontal Surfaces, George Bowering / p. 64

Hostile Witness, Garin Cycholl / p. 16

How Long, Ron Padgett / p. 35

How Phenomena Appear to Unfold, Leslie Scalapino /p. 71

Hum Who Hiccup, Chris Mason / p. 31

If Not for the Courage, Daniel Morris / p. 34

I Have Touched You, Gregory Sherl / p. 60

I Heart Your Fate, Anthony McCann / p. 32

Impunity, Shelley Stenhouse / p. 42

In Canaan, Shane McCrae / p. 32

The Incompossible, Carrie Hunter / p. 26

Inheritance, Steven Reigns / p. 37

Inseminating the Elephant, Lucia Perillo / p. 36

Inside the Ghost Factory, Norman Finkelstein / p. 19

Insomnia and the Aunt, Tan Lin / p. 56

In the Body of Our Lives, Jeanne Wagner / p. 45

In the Common Dream of George Oppen, JosephBradshaw / p. 12

Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi,Gennady Aygi / p. 10

The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism ofConcealment, Anne Waldman / p. 45

An Island of Fifty, Ben Brooks / p. 52

It Might Turn Out We Are Real, Susan Scarlata / p. 39

January ��, Ben Mazer / p. 32

Jewels and Other Stories, Dawn Promislow / p. 59

Journal of American Foreign Policy, Jeff Hoffman /p. 24

June, Daniel Brenner / p. 13

Just Beautiful, Tim Suermondt / p. 42

Kingdom Come, John Estes / p. 18

Kings of the F**king Sea, Dan Boehl / p. 11

Korean Tea Classics, Brother Anthony, Hong Keong-Hee,and Steven D. Owyoung / p. 64

Korean War in Color: A Correspondent’s Retrospectiveon a Forgotten War, John Rich / p. 70

The Korea Success Story, Seoul Selection Editorial Team/ p. 71

The Lacustrine Suite, Stan Mir / p. 33

The Last Usable Hour, Deborah Landau / p. 29

Leche, R. Zamora Linmark / p. 56

Left Glove, Mac Wellman / p. 62

Left Having, Jesse Seldess / p. 40

The Lessons, Joanne Diaz / p. 17

Lid to the Shadow, Alexandria Peary / p. 36

Life & Style, Marie Buck / p. 14

The Light Before Dawn, Drum Hadley / p. 23

Like Hay, Quinton Duval / p. 18

A Lily Lilies, Josey Foo and Leah Stein / p. 20

The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception,Martha Silano / p. 41

Lives: Whole and Otherwise, H. Nigel Thomas / p. 61

Long Distance, Steven Cordova / p. 16

Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened,Hal Niedzviecki / p. 58

Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleepingwith the Dictionary and Other Works, BarbaraHenning / p. 67

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative,Series �, Ammiel Alcalay, Editor / p. 63

Love & Death: Greatest Hits, Renée Gregorio, JoanLogghe, and Miriam Sagan / p. 22

Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower, Stephanie Brooks /p. 13

Love-Noise, Elizabeth Twiddy / p. 44

Low Down and Coming On: A Feast of Delicious andDangerous Poems About Pigs, James P. Lenfestey,Editor / p. 30

lucky coat anywhere, Michael Burkard / p. 14

Lucky Fish, Aimee Nezhukumatathil / p. 34

The Madeleine Poems, Paul Legault / p. 29

Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Erika Meitner/ p. 33

The Man Who Wrote on Water, Pablo Medina / p. 32

Man Years, Sandra Doller / p. 17

Manoleria, Daniel Khalastchi / p. 28

Mapmaking, Megan Harlan / p. 23

A Marriage of Convenience, Andrew Plattner / p. 58

Master of Miniatures, Jim Shepard / p. 60

Master Siger’s Dream, A. W. DeAnnuntis / p. 53

Match, Helen Guri / p. 22

The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, LonelyChristopher / p. 56

A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers,and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulnessof Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism,Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, Editors / p. 72

The Memory of Water, Jack Myers / p. 34

Merit Badges, Kevin Fenton / p. 53

The Mermaid Translation, Allen Frost / p. 53

Metal and Plum: A Memoir, Andrei Guruianu / p. 66

TITLE INDEX


Micrograms, Jorge Carrera Andrade / p. 14

Migritude, Shailja Patel / p. 36

Mimeo Mimeo 4, Jed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger,Editors / p. 74

A Mind’s Cargo Shifting, John Levy / p. 56

Mitko, Garth Greenwell / p. 54

Monster Party, Lizzy Acker / p. 51

More Pricks Than Prizes, Tom Pickard / p. 69

Moving Day, Ish Klein / p. 28

Music of the Spheres, Michael Burke / p. 52

Muted Lines from Someone Else’s Memory, Seth Berg /p. 11

My Father’s Love, Volume II: The Legacy, SharonDoubiago / p. 65

My Gargantuan Desire, Brad Crenshaw / p. 16

My Old Man Was Always on the Lam, Tony Medina /p. 33

Nature, Mark Truscott / p. 44

Negro League Baseball, Harmony Holiday / p. 25

neither wit nor gold, Ammiel Alcalay / p. 9

Netsuke, Rikki Ducornet / p. 53

The New Poetics, Mathew Timmons / p. 43

Night of Pure Breathing, Gerald Fleming / p. 20

Night of Shooting Stars, Leonardo Sinisgalli / p. 41

Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K, Chris Tysh / p. 44

Nine Worthies, Caroline Knox / p. 28

No Eden, Sally Rosen Kindred / p. 28

Nonzen Poems, Morgan Gibson / p. 21

No Permanent Scars, Michael Hemery / p. 67

A North Atlantic Wall, Donald Wellman / p. 46

Northerners, Seth Abramson / p. 9

Notes from Irrelevance, Anselm Berrigan / p. 11

O Amazonas Escuro, Eugene K. Garber / p. 53

The Occasional Troubadour, Victor Coleman / p. 15

Once Around the Sun, Melanie Steyn / p. 60

One Island, Gretchen Steele Pratt / p. 37

One with Others: [a little book of her days], C. D.Wright / p. 48

The Open Face Sandwich, Volume �, Alan Bajandasand Benjamin Solomon, Editors / p. 74

The Opening Act: Canadian Theatre History ��45-��53, Susan McNicoll / p. 69

The Orange Suitcase, Joseph Riippi / p. 59

Ordinary Sun, Matthew Henriksen / p. 24

The Other Place You Live, Jane O. Wayne / p. 46

Other Romes, Derek Mong / p. 34

Otherwise Known as Home, Tim Wood / p. 48

Over Autumn Rooftops, Hai Zi / p. 23

Palm to Pine, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux / p. 43

Parallel Lines, Dennis Barone / p. 10

A Passionate Engagement: A Memoir, Ken Harvey /p. 67

Peace Conference, Thomas Fink / p. 19

Peasants, Brad Flis / p. 20

Peng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting, Peng Ma / p. 68

Penthouse F, Richard Kalich / p. 55

The Perforated Map, Elena Rivera / p. 38

Peril as Architectural Enrichment, Hazel White / p. 47

Petrichor, Adam Hughes / p. 25

Picasso in Barcelona, Bob Holman / p. 25

Pickled Dreams Naked, Norman Stock / p. 42

The Pierre Bonga Loops, Troy Burle Bailey / p. 10

Pinko, Jen Benka / p. 11

Pittsburgh Noir, Kathleen George, Editor / p. 54

Plasmos, Rachel Daley / p. 16

Poemed on a Beach: A Skeptic’s Guide to ModernPoetry, Warren Fulton and David Jaffin / p. 66

Poems from Children’s Island, Sasha Chernyi / p. 15

The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search ofthe Promised Land, Paul Kei Matsuda, ChristinaOrtmeier-Hooper, and Xiaoye You, Editors / p. 68

The Porthole, Adriano Spatola / p. 60

Prayer and Parable: Stories, Paul Maliszewski / p. 57

The Price of Escape, David Unger / p. 61

Privado, Daniel Tiffany / p. 43

The Professional Weepers, Justin Vicari / p. 45

Prolapse, Ronna Lebo / p. 29

Prurient Anarchic Omnibus, j/j hastain / p. 24

The Public Gardens: Poems and History, Linda Norton/ p. 35

Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry fromChina, Qingping Wang, Editor / p. 46

The Puzzle Master and Other Poems, F. D. Reeve / p. 37

Quiet Reformers: The Legacy of Early Victoria’s BishopEdward and Mary Cridge, Ian Macdonald and BettyO’Keefe / p. 68

The Quiet Room, Wendy Ranan / p. 37

Rag & Bone, Kathryn Nuernberger / p. 35

READ 4, Sarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Editors / p. 38

Redemption Rain, Jennifer Rahim / p. 37

Refresh, Kristin Lucas / p. 68

Remains to Be Used, Jessica Baran / p. 10

Re: Telling, William Walsh, Editor / p. 61

Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems, ��55-��,Jerome Rothenberg / p. 39

The Return of the Native, Kate Colby / p. 15

Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood, Victor Perera / p. 69

River Odyssey, Philip Roy / p. 59

Road Work Ahead, Raymond Luczak / p. 31

Roseate, Points of Gold, Laynie Browne / p. 14

Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds, Seyhan Erözçelik / p. 18

Saccade Patterns, Deborah Meadows / p. 32

Sacred Graffiti, Florence Weinberger / p. 46

Saint Erasure, Donna de la Perrière / p. 17

Sasquatch Stories, Mike Topp / p. 43

Scented Rushes, Nada Gordon / p. 22

Schizophrene, Bhanu Kapil / p. 27

The Scoundrel and the Optimist, Maceo Montoya /

p. 58

Second Communion, Nash Candelaria / p. 64

The Secret Admirer, Kyle Flak / p. 20

Seeding the Cosmos: New & Selected Haiku, JohnBrandi / p. 12

Seizing the Sun and Moon: Volume Three of TheSeasons of Youth, Louis Daniel Brodsky / p. 13

Selected Poems, Roy Fisher / p. 19

Selected Poems, Mary Ruefle / p. 39

selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican pandaexpress employee, Megan Boyle / p. 12

Self-Evident Poems, Guy Bennett / p. 11

Seoul’s Historic Walks, Cho In-souk and Robert Koehler/ p. 65

Severance Songs, Joshua Corey / p. 16

Silk Egg: Collected Novels, Eileen R. Tabios / p. 60

Simpáticas: San Miguel Stories, Elva Treviño Hart / p. 54

Sky Burial, Dana Levin / p. 30

Sleepwalking with Orpheus, Craig Watson / p. 46

The Smaller Half, Marc Rahe / p. 37

Smiles of the Unstoppable, Jason Bredle / p. 13

Smoke, Chuck Richardson / p. 59

So It Seams, Chuck Richardson / p. 59

Solitary Workwoman, Rochelle Owens / p. 35


TITLE INDEX


Song of the Departed: Selected Poems ofGeorg Trakl, Georg Trakl / p. 44

Songs from a Yahi Bow: A Series of Poems on Ishi,Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mike O’Connor, andThomas Merton / p. 18

Sonja Sekula : Grace in a cow’s EYE : a memoir, KathrinSchaeppi / p. 40

Sorites, Lawrence Giffin / p. 22

Space, In Chains, Laura Kasischke / p. 27

Spare Parts and Dismemberment, Josh Fernandez /p. 19

The Spectra, Fred Muratori / p. 34

Spillway No. �4, J. D. Lloyd, Editor / p. 74

Spillway No. �5, Susan Terris, Editor / p. 74

Spirit Birds They Told Me, Mary Oishi / p. 35

Spit, Esther Lee / p. 29

Spit Delaney’s Island, Jack Hodgins / p. 54

Spring Drive, Glover Davis / p. 16

Steady, My Gaze, Marie-Elizabeth Mali / p. 31

Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move,Matthew Cooperman / p. 15

Stone Music: The Art and Poetry of Susan Gardner,Susan Gardner / p. 21

Stranger Air, Stacie Leatherman / p. 29

The Stranger Dissolves, Christina Hutchins / p. 26

Studying Hunger Journals, Bernadette Mayer / p. 32

Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms, Paul FosterJohnson / p. 27

Summer Hunger, Judith Pacht / p. 35

Supermachine Issue Three, Ben Fama, Editor / p. 74

Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse,Akbar Ahmed / p. 9

Sweet England, Steve Weiner / p. 62

Sweet Hope, Mary Bucci Bush / p. 52

Sybil Unrest, Larissa Lai and Rita Wong / p. 29

Talisman 3�/3�/4�, Edward Foster, Editor / p. 74

Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a ��th CenturyMaster, Takako Lento and Wayne Miller, Editors / p. 30

Tauvernier Street, Jay Atkinson / p. 51

The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’sShahnameh, Alboqasem Ferdowsi / p. 19

Testify, Joseph Lease / p. 29

Then, Something, Patricia Fargnoli / p. 19

There Are People Who Say That Painters Shouldn’tTalk: A GUSTONBOOK, Patrick James Dunagan / p. 18

There Is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out,Madeline McDonnell / p. 57

These Hands, Per Aage Brandt / p. 13

They Say This Is How Death Came into the World, PaulDickey / p. 17

This Is What Happens When Talk Ends, Gale Nelson /p. 34

Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire, ArielleGuy / p. 23

Three Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose Image,Tod Thilleman / p. 43

The Time of the Night, Gerrit Henry / p. 24

Toad Suck Review: The Transitional Issue, Mark Spitzer,Editor / p. 75

To Be Human Is to Be a Conversation, Andrea Rexilius /p. 38

To Be with Her, Syed Afzal Haider / p. 54

Today & Tomorrow, Ofelia Hunt / p. 55

too ok, Colin Herd / p. 24

Torn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave, Patrick Bowman /p. 52

Touch Wood, Albert Mobilio / p. 33

Toys from My Attic, Russell Connor / p. 52

Track This: A Book of Relationship, Stephen Bett / p. 11

The Translator’s Sister, Mary Winegarden / p. 47

Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’sFiction of the ��s, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, BelénMartín-Lucas, and Sonia Villegas-López, Editors / p. 65

Tree of Sighs, Lucrecia Guerrero / p. 54

Trees of the Twentieth Century, Stephen Sturgeon /p. 42

Trials and Tribulations, Alazar Tesfamichael / p. 72

Two, Paul Vangelisti / p. 45

Two Draft Essays from ��, Gershom Scholem / p. 71

Under the Sky They Lit Cities, Travis Cebula / p. 14

Undone, Maxine Scates / p. 39

Universal Beach, Vivek Narayanan / p. 34

The Us, Joan Houlihan / p. 25

Us, Michael Kimball / p. 55

Un storia, Steve Timm / p. 43

Vanishing Act, Bruce Holsapple / p. 25

Vanishing Horizon, Gerry Lafemina / p. 29

Verbal Paradise (preverbs), George Quasha / p. 37

Vertical Poetry: Last Poems, Roberto Juarroz / p. 27

Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems, Roberto Juarroz / p. 27

Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems, Marvin Bell /p. 11

Viva la Difference: Poetry Inspired by thePainting of Peter Saul, John Yau, Editor / p. 48

The Vocation of Poetry, Durs Grünbein / p. 66

The Voice of the Print, Paul Caponigro / p. 64

Voices Through Skin, Theresa Senato Edwards / p. 40

Volt No. ��, Gillian Conoley, Editor / p. 75

Waifs and Strays, Micah Ballard / p. 10

Waiting: Selected Nonfiction, Elizabeth Swados / p. 72

Walking Backwards: New Poems, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim /p. 30

Watering the Dead, Jason Irwin / p. 26

Wax World, Robert Mittenthal / p. 33

We Are Pharaoh, Robert Fernandez / p. 19

We Take Me Apart, Molly Gaudry / p. 21

West of Pure Evil, Josie Malinowski / p. 57

Whale Man, Alan Michael Parker / p. 58

The Whalen Poem, William Corbett / p. 15

What Is Owed the Dead, R. H. W. Dillard / p. 17

What’s So Funny, Joseph Torra / p. 61

When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching BandsWill Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear ThemBecause We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds,Sasha Fletcher / p. 53

When I Was a Poet, David Meltzer / p. 33

Where a road had been, Matt Shears / p. 40

Whiskey in the Garden of Eden, Sarah Browning / p. 14

The Whole of Poetry Is Preposition, Claude Royet-Journoud / p. 39

The Wide Road, Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian / p. 24

Wingshooters, Nina Revoyr / p. 59

Winter Arguments, Anne Pitkin / p. 36

Wisdom Teeth, Derrick Weston Brown / p. 13

Without Force or Lies: Voices from the Revolution ofCentral Europe in ��-��, William M. Brinton andAlan Rinzler, Editors / p. 64

Women in the Financial District: A Photo Essay,Michele Rider / p. 70

Wonderbender, Diane Wald / p. 45

The World as Phone Bill, Stan Apps / p. 63

World Without Walls: Being Human, Being Tamil, R.Cheran, Dalbir Singh, Chelva Kanaganayakam, andSudharshan Durayappah, Editors / p. 65

Writing Art Cinema ��-��, Stephen Lapthisophon/ p. 68

The Yellow House, Robin Behn / p. 10

Yellow Plum Season, Pui Ying Wong / p. 48

Yes Thing No Thing, Edwin Torres / p. 44

Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetry and Poetics,Jonathan Stalling / p. 42

You’d Be a Stranger, Too, Weston Cutter / p. 53

Your Disappearance, David Wirthlin / p. 47

Zone 3 Vol. �5 No. � Fall ��, Blas Falconer and AmyWright, Editors / p. 75

Just In!Girlvert: A Porno MemoirOriana SmallA Barnacle BookDetails on our web site


ACTION BOOKSPeter Richards, Helsinki / p. 38Daniel Tiffany, Privado / p. 43

ADASTRA PRESSKyle Flak, The Secret Admirer / p. 20

AEQUITAS BOOKSKen Harvey, A Passionate Engagement: A Memoir / p. 67

AHADADA BOOKSMary-Marcia Casoly, Katherine Hastings, Melanie L.Moro-Huber, and Jack Foley, Ahadada Reader 3 / p. 14

Warren Fulton and David Jaffin, Poemed on a Beach:A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Poetry / p. 66

Anne Pitkin, Winter Arguments / p. 36

AKASHIC BOOKSKathleen George, Editor, Pittsburgh Noir / p. 54Kevin Holohan, The Brothers’ Lot / p. 55Nathan Larson, The Dewey Decimal System / p. 56Lonely Christopher, The Mechanics of Homosexual

Intercourse / p. 56Adriana V. López and Carmen Ospina, Editors, Barcelona

Noir / p. 57Nina Revoyr, Wingshooters / p. 59Matthew Stokoe, Cows / p. 60David Unger, The Price of Escape / p. 61Persia Walker, Black Orchid Blues / p. 61

AMPERSAND BOOKSJoseph Riippi, The Orange Suitcase / p. 59WilliamWalsh, Editor, Re: Telling / p. 61

ANHINGA PRESSGerry Lafemina, Vanishing Horizon / p. 29Erika Meitner, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls /

p. 33Gretchen Steele Pratt, One Island / p. 37

APOSTROPHE BOOKSJessica Baran, Remains to Be Used / p. 10

ASTROPHIL PRESSEllenWelcker, The Botanical Garden / p. 46

BAMBERGER BOOKSGershom Scholem, Two Draft Essays from 1918 / p. 71

BEAR STAR PRESSQuinton Duval, Like Hay / p. 18

BEATITUDE PRESSDale Jensen, Auto Bio / p. 26Alazar Tesfamichael, Trials and Tribulations / p. 72

BELLADONNA*Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian, The Wide Road / p. 24Barbara Henning, Looking Up Harryette Mullen:

Interviews on Sleeping with the Dictionary and OtherWorks / p. 67

BENU PRESSMarianne Roccaforte, Bridges in the Mind: An Artist’s

Handbook for Everyday Living / p. 70Erin E. Tocknell, Confederate Streets / p. 72

BILINGUAL REVIEW PRESSNash Candelaria, Second Communion / p. 64Steven Cordova, Long Distance / p. 16Lucrecia Guerrero, Tree of Sighs / p. 54Elva Treviño Hart, Simpáticas: San Miguel Stories / p. 54Gary Francisco Keller, Editor, Good Bandits, Warrior

Women, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture / p. 67MaceoMontoya, The Scoundrel and the Optimist / p. 58

BIRD DOG PUBLISHINGAllen Frost, The Mermaid Translation / p. 53

BIRDS, LLCDan Boehl, Kings of the F**king Sea / p. 11Sommer Browning, Either Way I’m Celebrating / p. 14

BKMK PRESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OFMISSOURI-KANSAS CITYMegan Harlan, Mapmaking / p. 23Mariko Nagai, Georgic / p. 58Andrew Plattner, A Marriage of Convenience / p. 58Mary Troy, Beauties / p. 61

BLACK OCEANMatthew Henriksen, Ordinary Sun / p. 24Dominic Mallary, Destroyer of Man: Selected Poems by

Dominic Owen Mallary / p. 31Brandon Shimoda, The Girl Without Arms / p. 41

BLACK RADISH BOOKSCarrie Hunter, The Incompossible / p. 26James Maughn, The Arakaki Permutations / p. 32Kathrin Schaeppi, Sonja Sekula : Grace in a cow’s EYE :

a memoir / p. 40

BLAZEVOX [BOOKS]Michael Basinski, Editor, Gerald Locklin: A Critical

Introduction / p. 64Bill Berkson, For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews,

Occasional Pieces and More / p. 64Stephen Bett, Track This: A Book of Relationship / p. 11Travis Cebula, Under the Sky They Lit Cities / p. 14Weston Cutter, You’d Be a Stranger, Too / p. 53Garin Cycholl, Hostile Witness / p. 16j/j hastain, asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents / p.

24Elizabeth Hatmaker, Girl in Two Pieces / p. 24Colin Herd, too ok / p. 24DeborahMeadows, Saccade Patterns / p. 32Urayoán Noel, Hi-Density Politics / p. 35Nate Pritts, Big Bright Sun / p. 37Chuck Richardson, Smoke / p. 59Chuck Richardson, So It Seams / p. 59Tim Roberts, Drizzle Pocket / p. 38Todd Romanowski, Every Strange Meridian / p. 38Matt Shears, Where a road had been / p. 40Sophie Sills, Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama / p. 41Steve Timm, Un storia / p. 43Tony Trigilio, Historic Diary / p. 44Terry Van Vliet, Black Lines on Terracotta / p. 44SarahWhite, Alice Ages and Ages / p. 47DavidWirthlin, Your Disappearance / p. 47TimWood, Otherwise Known as Home / p. 48

BOOKTHUGMichael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux

Micro-Epic / p. 12George Bowering, Horizontal Surfaces / p. 64Victor Coleman, The Occasional Troubadour / p. 15bp Nichol, The Captain Poetry Poems Complete / p. 34Florine Stettheimer, Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto

/ p. 42Mark Truscott, Nature / p. 44Steven Zultanski, Cop Kisser / p. 48

BOOTSTRAP PRESSSunnylyn Thibodeaux, Palm to Pine / p. 43

BORDIGHERA PRESSHelen Barolini, Crossing the Alps / p. 51Gil Fagiani, Chianti in Connecticut / p. 19

BOTTOM DOG PRESSDaniel Thompson, The Big Book of Daniel: Collected

Poems of Daniel Thompson / p. 43Charles DoddWhite and Page Seay, Editors, Degrees of

Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia /p. 62

BRIGHT HILL PRESSBertha Rogers, Editor, Book Arts 2010: Bright Hill Center /

p. 70

THE BROOKLYN RAIL/BLACK SQUARE EDITIONSAlbert Mobilio, Touch Wood / p. 33

BURNING DECKDavid Lespiau, Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the Restored

Volume / p. 30Christina Mengert, As We Are Sung / p. 33Gale Nelson, This Is What Happens When Talk Ends / p. 34

C&R PRESSJohn Estes, Kingdom Come / p. 18

CANARIUM BOOKSRobert Fernandez, We Are Pharaoh / p. 19Ish Klein, Moving Day / p. 28Gleb Shulpyakov, A Fireproof Box / p. 41

CARAVEL MYSTERY BOOKSMichael Burke, Music of the Spheres / p. 52Russell Hill, The Dog Sox / p. 54

THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES,THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNYAmmiel Alcalay, Editor, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics

Document Initiative, Series 2 / p. 63

CHAINLINKSJuliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, Editors, A

Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, andSome Essays about the Continued Usefulness ofCrotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism / p. 72

CHAX PRESSDrumHadley, The Light Before Dawn / p. 23Robert Mittenthal, Wax World / p. 33

CITY LIGHTS PUBLISHERSWill Alexander, Compression & Purity / p. 9David Meltzer, When I Was a Poet / p. 33Will Potter, Green Is the New Red: In Insider’s Account of a

Social Movement Under Siege / p. 69Micah Ballard, Waifs and Strays / p. 10Hal Niedzviecki, Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have

Happened / p. 58

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY POETRY CENTERNin Andrews, The Book of Orgasms / p. 9Emily Kendal Frey, The Grief Performance / p. 20Zach Savich, The Firestorm / p. 39

COACH HOUSE BOOKSGabe Foreman, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different

Types of People / p. 20Helen Guri, Match / p. 22Daniel Jones, The Brave Never Write Poetry / p. 27

COFFEE HOUSE PRESSRikki Ducornet, Netsuke / p. 53Elaine Equi, Click and Clone / p. 18Joseph Lease, Testify / p. 29R. Zamora Linmark, Leche / p. 56Chris Martin, Becoming Weather / p. 31Ron Padgett, How Long / p. 35AnneWaldman, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the

Mechanism of Concealment / p. 45

COMBO BOOKSStan Apps, The World as Phone Bill / p. 63Drew Gardner, Chomp Away / p. 21

COMMODORE BOOKSTroy Burle Bailey, The Pierre Bonga Loops / p. 10Crawford Kilian, Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black

Pioneers of British Columbia / p. 67

COPPER BEECH PRESSRachel Hadas, The Ache of Appetite / p. 23

COPPER CANYON PRESSMarvin Bell, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems / p. 11Michael Dickman, Flies / p. 17Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains / p. 27

Publisher Index

PUBLISHER INDEX


Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour / p. 29Dana Levin, Sky Burial / p. 30Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant / p. 36Georg Trakl, Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of

Georg Trakl / p. 44QingpingWang, Editor, Push Open the Window:

Contemporary Poetry from China / p. 46C. D. Wright, One with Others: [a little book of her days] /

p. 48Dean Young, Fall Higher / p. 48

COUNTERPATH PRESSMatthew Cooperman, Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which

Does Not Move / p. 15Jonathan Stalling, Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetry

and Poetics / p. 42

CYPHER BOOKSRoger Bonair-Agard, Gully / p. 12

DARK SKY BOOKSSeth Berg, Muted Lines from Someone Else’s Memory / p.

11Michael Bible, Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City / p. 52Kevin Murphy, Editor, Dark Sky Magazine / p. 73BenMazer, January 2008 / p. 32Ethel Rohan, Cut Through the Bone / p. 59Gregory Sherl, I Have Touched You / p. 60Stephen Sturgeon, Trees of the Twentieth Century / p. 42

DEERBROOK EDITIONSWendy Ranan, The Quiet Room / p. 37

DENVER QUARTERLYBin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:1 / p. 73Bin Ramke, Editor, Denver Quarterly 45:2 / p. 73

DEPARTMENT OF WRITING, UCAMark Spitzer, Editor, Toad Suck Review: The Transitional

Issue / p. 75

DOS MADRES PRESSGerry Grubbs, The Girls in Bright Dresses Dancing / p. 22DonaldWellman, A North Atlantic Wall / p. 46

DUSIE PRESSLaynie Browne, Roseate, Points of Gold / p. 14Arielle Guy, Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid’s Grimoire /

p. 23

EL LEóN LITERARY ARTSChester Aaron, About Them / p. 51

ELIXIR PRESSKristin Kelly, Cargo / p. 28Esther Lee, Spit / p. 29Kathryn Nuernberger, Rag & Bone / p. 35

ETRUSCAN PRESSPaul Lisicky, The Burning House / p. 56Jack Matthews, The Gambler’s Nephew / p. 57

FACTORY HOLLOW PRESSR. H. W. Dillard, What Is Owed the Dead / p. 17Frances McCue, The Bled / p. 32

FACTORY SCHOOLKate TarlowMorgan, Circles and Boundaries / p. 69

FAST FORWARD PRESSM. V. Montgomery, Dream Koans / p. 57

FENCE BOOKSDaniel Brenner, June / p. 13RebeccaWolff, Editor, Fence Vol. 13 No. 2 Winter 2011 /

p. 73Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball / p. 25Paul Maliszewski, Prayer and Parable: Stories / p. 57

FIFTH PLANET PRESSRachel Daley, Plasmos / p. 16Alan Bajandas and Benjamin Solomon, Editors, The Open

Face Sandwich, Volume 2 / p. 74

FIRST INTENSITY PRESSJohn Levy, A Mind’s Cargo Shifting / p. 56

FLOOD EDITIONSRoy Fisher, Selected Poems / p. 19William Fuller, Hallucination / p. 21

FOURTEEN HILLS PRESSHollie Hardy, Editor, Fourteen Hills Vol. 17 No. 1 / p. 74

FURNITURE PRESS BOOKSMagus Magnus, Heraclitean Pride / p. 31

GRANARY BOOKS/CORACLE PRESSNancy Kuhl, The Book Remembers Everything: The Work

of Erica Van Horn / p. 68

GREEN INTEGERRichard Kalich, Penthouse F / p. 55Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I: 1944-1949 / p. 39

THE GREEN LANTERN PRESSTobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Editor, The Fiction at Work

Biannual Report / p. 51Stephanie Brooks, Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower / p. 13Amira Hanafi, Forgery / p. 23Stephen Lapthisophon, Writing Art Cinema 1988-2010 /

p. 68

GREENHOUSE REVIEW PRESSBrad Crenshaw, My Gargantuan Desire / p. 16Carol Lem, Gathering the Pieces / p. 30

THE GROUNDWATER PRESSGerrit Henry, The Time of the Night / p. 24

GUERNICA EDITIONSMary Bucci Bush, Sweet Hope / p. 52Giuseppe Conte, Angelina’s Lips / p. 53Thomas DePietro, Editor, Frank Lentricchia: Essays on His

Works / p. 65Richard Gambino, Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the

Italian Americans / p. 66Lorenzo Madalena, Confetti for Gino / p. 57

HANGING LOOSE PRESSJen Benka, Pinko / p. 11William Corbett, The Whalen Poem / p. 15Gerald Fleming, Night of Pure Breathing / p. 20Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, andMark Pawlak, Editors,

Hanging Loose 97 / p. 74Pablo Medina, The Man Who Wrote on Water / p. 32Elizabeth Swados, Waiting: Selected Nonfiction / p. 72TerenceWinch, Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No

Floor / p. 47

HOBBLEBUSH BOOKSSandy Bothmer, Creating the Peaceable Classroom: A

21st-Century Wellness Guide for Teachers, Studentsand Parents / p. 64

HORSE LESS PRESSRichard Froude, FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American

Book / p. 65Susan Scarlata, It Might Turn Out We Are Real / p. 39

HOST PUBLICATIONSPer Aage Brandt, These Hands / p. 13Elzbieta Szoka and JoeW. Bratcher, III, Editors, The Dirty

Goat 23 / p. 73Hai Zi, Over Autumn Rooftops / p. 23

HOUSE OF NEHESI PUBLISHERSNidaa Khoury, Book of Sins / p. 28

IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNIUyen Hua, a/s/l / p. 25Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach / p. 34

INK.Michele Rider, Women in the Financial District: A Photo

Essay / p. 70

ITHURIEL’S SPEARRichard Tagett, Demodulating Angel / p. 42

JUNCTION PRESSAlboqasem Ferdowsi, The Teller of Tales: Stories from

Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh / p. 19Rochelle Owens, Solitary Workwoman / p. 35Harry Polkinhorn, Demos Oneiron / p. 36Harry Polkinhorn and Alfredo Velasco, Editors, Caló: A

Dictionary of Spanish Barrio and Border Slang / p. 69Jerome Rothenberg, Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems,

1955-2010 / p. 39

KAYA PRESSShailja Patel, Migritude / p. 36

KELSEY STREET PRESSRena Rosenwasser, Elevators / p. 39Hazel White, Peril as Architectural Enrichment / p. 47

KENNING EDITIONSTan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt / p. 56Jesse Seldess, Left Having / p. 40

LA ALAMEDA PRESSJohn Brandi, Seeding the Cosmos: New & Selected Haiku

/ p. 12Bruce Holsapple, Vanishing Act / p. 25Andrew Schelling, From the Arapaho Songbook / p. 40

LA PRESSEClaude Royet-Journoud, The Whole of Poetry Is

Preposition / p. 39

LES FIGUES PRESSMathew Timmons, The New Poetics / p. 43

LIGHTFUL PRESSSasha Chernyi, Poems from Children’s Island / p. 15

LINEBOOKSLarissa Lai and Rita Wong, Sybil Unrest / p. 29JonathanWilcke, Dupe / p. 47

LITMUS PRESSLeslie Scalapino, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold / p.

71

LIVINGSTON PRESSTom Abrams, Goya’s Head / p. 51Jay Atkinson, Tauvernier Street / p. 51Scott Ely, Dream Fishing / p. 53Nadia Kalman, The Cosmopolitans / p. 55Katie Wainwright, Cuba on My Mind / p. 61

LYRIC& PRESSColleen Lookingbill, a forgetting of / p. 30

MAGIC HELICOPTER PRESSJason Bredle, Smiles of the Unstoppable / p. 13Ofelia Hunt, Today & Tomorrow / p. 55

MARICK PRESSRegina Derieva, Corinthian Copper / p. 17Francesco Levato, Elegy for Dead Languages / p. 30

MARSH HAWK PRESSThomas Fink, Peace Conference / p. 19Norman Finkelstein, Inside the Ghost Factory / p. 19Daniel Morris, If Not for the Courage / p. 34Justin Petropoulos, Eminent Domain / p. 36

MAYAPPLE PRESSPaul Dickey, They Say This Is How Death Came into the

World / p. 17Andrei Guruianu, Metal and Plum: A Memoir / p. 66Sally Rosen Kindred, No Eden / p. 28Stacie Leatherman, Stranger Air / p. 29Howard Schwartz, Breathing in the Dark / p. 40Jane O. Wayne, The Other Place You Live / p. 46MaryWinegarden, The Translator’s Sister / p. 47

MEETING EYES BINDERYTod Thilleman, Egghead to Underhoof (Our Concluding

the Poem) / p. 43

PUBLISHER INDEX


MERCURY HOUSELeslie Baer-Brown and Bob Rhein, Earth Keepers: A

Sourcebook for Environmental lssues and Action / p. 63WilliamM. Brinton and Alan Rinzler, Editors, Without Force

or Lies: Voices from the Revolution of Central Europe in1989-90 / p. 64

Thomas Farber, The Face of the Deep / p. 65Victor Perera, Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood / p. 69

MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESSFergal Gaynor, VIII Stepping Poems & other pieces / p. 21Garth Greenwell, Mitko / p. 54

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S PRESSFrancesca Lia Block, Fairy Tales in Electri-City / p. 11

MIMEO MIMEO/CUNEIFORMJed Birmingham and Kyle Schlesinger, Editors, Mimeo

Mimeo 4 / p. 74

MODE A/THIS PRESSRae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, LynHejinian, TomMandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, KitRobinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten, The GrandPiano: Part 10 / p. 63

MONKEY PUZZLE PRESSMark Spitzer, After the Orange Glow / p. 72

MUD LUSCIOUS PRESSBen Brooks, An Island of Fifty / p. 52Sasha Fletcher, When All Our Days Are Numbered

Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not HearThem Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds / p. 53

Molly Gaudry, We Take Me Apart / p. 21Norman Lock, Grim Tales / p. 56Michael Stewart, The Hieroglyphics / p. 60

MUSE PRESSPaul Caponigro, The Voice of the Print / p. 64

MUUMUU HOUSEMegan Boyle, selected unpublished blog posts of a

mexican panda express employee / p. 12

NARROW HOUSEChris Mason, Hum Who Hiccup / p. 31

NEW ISSUES POETRY & PROSESeth Abramson, Northerners / p. 9Kevin Fenton, Merit Badges / p. 53Jeff Hoffman, Journal of American Foreign Policy / p. 24Jack Myers, The Memory of Water / p. 34Maxine Scates, Undone / p. 39

NEW STAR BOOKSLawrence Aronsen, City of Love and Revolution:

Vancouver in the Sixties / p. 63George Bowering, Caprice / p. 52SteveWeiner, Sweet England / p. 62

NIGHTBOAT BOOKSDaniel Borzutzky, The Book of Interfering Bodies / p. 12Michael Burkard, lucky coat anywhere / p. 14Tim Dlugos, A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim

Dlugos / p. 17Josey Foo and Leah Stein, A Lily Lilies / p. 20Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene / p. 27Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline / p. 31

��3 PRESSSarah Riggs and Cole Swensen, Editors, READ 4 / p. 38DianeWald, Wonderbender / p. 45

NOEMI PRESSJoshua Edwards and Van Edwards, Campeche / p. 18

NYQ BOOKSrd coleman, beach tracks / p. 15Sanford Fraser, Among Strangers I’ve Known All My

Life/Parmi Les Etrangers Que J’ai Connus Toute Ma Vie /p. 20

AdamHughes, Petrichor / p. 25Luke Johnson, After the Ark / p. 26

Tony Medina, My Old Man Was Always on the Lam / p. 33F. D. Reeve, The Puzzle Master and Other Poems / p. 37Shelley Stenhouse, Impunity / p. 42Norman Stock, Pickled Dreams Naked / p. 42Tim Suermondt, Just Beautiful / p. 42Douglas Treem, Everything So Seriously / p. 44Barry Wallenstein, Editor, For Enid with Love: a festchrift /

p. 72Pui YingWong, Yellow Plum Season / p. 48

OFF THE PARK PRESSRonna Lebo, Prolapse / p. 29John Yau, Editor, Viva la Difference: Poetry Inspired by the

Painting of Peter Saul / p. 48

OMNIDAWNPaul Legault, The Madeleine Poems / p. 29Craig Santos Perez, From Unincorporated Territory [Saina]

/ p. 36

OTIS BOOKS/SEISMICITY EDITIONSGuy Bennett, Self-Evident Poems / p. 11Adriano Spatola, The Porthole / p. 60

OYSTER MOON PRESSJosie Malinowski, West of Pure Evil / p. 57

PAPER KITE PRESSBob Holman, Picasso in Barcelona / p. 25Susan Scutti, The Commute / p. 40

PARLOR PRESSPaul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and XiaoyeYou, Editors, The Politics of Second Language Writing: InSearch of the Promised Land / p. 68

PATRICK LOVELACE EDITIONSMarie Buck, Life & Style / p. 14Brad Flis, Peasants / p. 20

PAVEMENT SAW PRESSJason Irwin, Watering the Dead / p. 26StanMir, The Lacustrine Suite / p. 33Justin Vicari, The Professional Weepers / p. 45

PENMANSHIP BOOKSMahogany L. Browne, #Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed

Out Online in 140 Characters or Less / p. 14Michael Cirelli, Everyone Loves the Situation / p. 15Zora Howard, Clutch / p. 25

PLEASURE BOAT STUDIORussell Connor, Toys from My Attic / p. 52Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mike O’Connor, and ThomasMerton, Songs from a Yahi Bow: A Series of Poems onIshi / p. 18

Edward Harkness, Beautiful Passing Lives / p. 23

PLEIADES PRESSTakako Lento andWayneMiller, Editors, Tamura Ryuichi:

On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master / p. 30

PM PRESSAkbar Ahmed, Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book

of Verse / p. 9Derrick Weston Brown, Wisdom Teeth / p. 13

POLEMIC PRESSJean Genet, The Genet Translations: Poetry and

Posthumous Plays / p. 21

PORTABLE PRESS AT YO-YO LABSPaul Foster Johnson, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms /

p. 27

THE POST-APOLLO PRESSPatrick James Dunagan, There Are People Who Say That

Painters Shouldn’t Talk: A GUSTONBOOK / p. 18

PRE PRESSJudy Molyneux, California Gold / p. 69

PRESSED WAFEREd Barrett, Down New Utrecht Avenue / p. 10Guy Birchard, Further than the Blood / p. 11

Linda Norton, The Public Gardens: Poems and History /p. 35

Tom Pickard, More Pricks Than Prizes / p. 69Joseph Torra, What’s So Funny / p. 61

PRINTED MATTER PRESSMorgan Gibson, Nonzen Poems / p. 21

PUBLISHING GENIUS PRESSMike Topp, Sasquatch Stories / p. 43

R. L. CROW PUBLICATIONSJosh Fernandez, Spare Parts and Dismemberment / p. 19James P. Lenfestey, Editor, Low Down and Coming On:

A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems About Pigs/ p. 30

John Calvin Rezmerski, Breaking the Rules: Starting withGhazals / p. 38

RED MOUNTAIN PRESSSusan Gardner, Drawing the Line / p. 66Susan Gardner, Stone Music: The Art and Poetry of Susan

Gardner / p. 21Ford Robbins, Connections: A Visual Journal / p. 70Marc Talbert, Altogether Ernest / p. 42

RESCUE PRESSShane McCrae, In Canaan / p. 32Madeline McDonnell, There Is Something Inside, It Wants

to Get Out / p. 57Marc Rahe, The Smaller Half / p. 37Andrea Rexilius, To Be Human Is to Be a Conversation /

p. 38Zach Savich, Events Film Cannot Withstand / p. 71

RONSDALE PRESSJean Rae Baxter, Broken Trail / p. 51Patrick Bowman, Torn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave /

p. 52Jack Hodgins, Spit Delaney’s Island / p. 54Inge Israel, Beckett Soundings / p. 26Ian Macdonald and Betty O’Keefe, Quiet Reformers: The

Legacy of Early Victoria’s Bishop Edward and MaryCridge / p. 68

SusanMcNicoll, The Opening Act: Canadian TheatreHistory 1945-1953 / p. 69

Pamela Porter, Cathedral / p. 37Charles Reid, Ghost of Heroes Past / p. 59Jean-Pierre Rogel, Evolution: The View from the Cottage /

p. 70Philip Roy, River Odyssey / p. 59Carol Anne Shaw, Hannah and the Spindle Whorl / p. 59Alan Twigg, The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books &

Authors / p. 72

ROOF BOOKSNada Gordon, Scented Rushes / p. 22Joel Steven Kuszai, Accidency / p. 29Edwin Torres, Yes Thing No Thing / p. 44Cesar Vallejo, Against Professional Secrets / p. 44

SATURNALIA BOOKSDerek Mong, Other Romes / p. 34Martha Silano, The Little Office of the Immaculate

Conception / p. 41

SEOUL SELECTIONBrother Anthony, Hong Keong-Hee, and Steven D.Owyoung, Korean Tea Classics / p. 64

Cho In-souk and Robert Koehler, Seoul’s Historic Walks /p. 65

Robert Koehler, Hangeul: Korea’s Unique Alphabet / p. 67John Rich, Korean War in Color: A Correspondent’s

Retrospective on a Forgotten War / p. 70Seoul Selection Editorial Team, The Korea Success Story /

p. 71Roger Shepherd, Andrew Douch, and David A. Mason,

Baekdu-daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine /p. 71

Melanie Steyn, Once Around the Sun / p. 60


SHEARSMAN BOOKSDennis Barone, Parallel Lines / p. 10Joseph Bradshaw, In the Common Dream of George

Oppen / p. 12Shira Dentz, black seeds on a white dish / p. 17Cralan Kelder, Give Some Word / p. 27Jose Kozer, Anima / p. 28Elena Rivera, The Perforated Map / p. 38Eileen R. Tabios, Silk Egg: Collected Novels / p. 60Craig Watson, Sleepwalking with Orpheus / p. 46LauraWalker, bird book / p. 45

SHORT FLIGHT/LONG DRIVE BOOKSMary Miller, Big World / p. 57AdamNovy, The Avian Gospels, Book I / p. 58AdamNovy, The Avian Gospels, Book II / p. 58

SIBLING RIVALRY PRESSBryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 01: A Journal of

Gay Poetry / p. 73Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal of

Gay Poetry / p. 73Raymond Luczak, Road Work Ahead / p. 31Steven Reigns, Inheritance / p. 37Theresa Senato Edwards, Voices Through Skin / p. 40Ocean Vuong, Burnings / p. 45

SILENCED PRESSMichael Hemery, No Permanent Scars / p. 67

SILVERFISH REVIEW PRESSJoanne Diaz, The Lessons / p. 17

SIX GALLERY PRESSEvan Lavender-Smith, Avatar / p. 56

SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESSChristina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves / p. 26JeanneWagner, In the Body of Our Lives / p. 45

SLAPERING HOL PRESSDenise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon, Enjoy Hot or Iced:

Poems in Conversation and a Conversation / p. 18Katie Phillips, Driving Montana, Alone / p. 36

SLOPE EDITIONSAlexandria Peary, Lid to the Shadow / p. 36

SMALL DESK PRESSLizzy Acker, Monster Party / p. 51

SOBERSCOVE PRESSRobert Goodnough, Editor, Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35

(1950) / p. 66Kristin Lucas, Refresh / p. 68Nancy Shaver, Henry at Home / p. 71

SOLID OBJECTSJim Shepard, Master of Miniatures / p. 60MacWellman, Left Glove / p. 62

SPIRE PRESS, INC.Christina Olson, Before I Came Home Naked / p. 35Anthony Russell White, The Faith of Leaping / p. 47

SPUYTEN DUYVILRobin Behn, The Yellow House / p. 10Martine Bellen, Ghosts! / p. 11j/j hastain, Prurient Anarchic Omnibus / p. 24Tod Thilleman, Three Sea Monsters: Our History of Whose

Image / p. 43

STANDING STONE BOOKSJohn Elvis Smelcer, Alaskan: Stories from the Great Land /

p. 60Elizabeth Twiddy, Love-Noise / p. 44

STATION HILL PRESS OF BARRYTOWNBernadette Mayer, Studying Hunger Journals / p. 32Peter LambornWilson, Ec(o)logues / p. 47

STOCKPORT FLATSFred Muratori, The Spectra / p. 34Lillien Waller, Editor, American Ghost: Poets on Life After

Industry / p. 46

SUBITO PRESSSandra Doller, Man Years / p. 17Andy Frazee, The Body, The Rooms / p. 20Alta Ifland, Death-in-a-Box / p. 55

SUNNYOUTSIDEBrian McGettrick, Everything Else We Must Endure / p. 32Andrew Rihn, America Plops and Fizzes / p. 38

SUPERMACHINEBen Fama, Editor, Supermachine Issue Three / p. 74

SWANK BOOKSEugene K. Garber, O Amazonas Escuro / p. 53

TALISMAN HOUSEDonna de la Perrière, Saint Erasure / p. 17Seyhan Erözçelik, Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds / p. 18Edward Foster, Editor, Talisman 38/39/40 / p. 74Paul Vangelisti, Two / p. 45

TARPAULIN SKY PRESSJohannes Göransson, Entrance to a colonial pageant in

which we all begin to intricate / p. 22

TAVERN BOOKSLeonardo Sinisgalli, Night of Shooting Stars / p. 41DavidWevill, Casual Ties / p. 46

TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS PRESSLawrence Giffin, Sorites / p. 22Astrid Lorange, Eating and Speaking / p. 31

TEBOT BACHGlover Davis, Spring Drive / p. 16Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Steady, My Gaze / p. 31Judith Pacht, Summer Hunger / p. 35J. D. Lloyd, Editor, Spillway No. 14 / p. 74Susan Terris, Editor, Spillway No. 15 / p. 74FlorenceWeinberger, Sacred Graffiti / p. 46

TIME BEING BOOKSLouis Daniel Brodsky, At Dock’s End: Poems of Lake

Nebagamon, Volume Two / p. 13Louis Daniel Brodsky, Getting to Unknow the Neighbors /

p. 52Louis Daniel Brodsky, Seizing the Sun and Moon: Volume

Three of The Seasons of Youth / p. 13BenMilder, From Adolescence to Senescence: A Life in

Light Verse / p. 33

TRES CHICAS BOOKSRenée Gregorio, Joan Logghe, andMiriam Sagan, Love &

Death: Greatest Hits / p. 22

TSAR PUBLICATIONSR. Cheran, Dalbir Singh, Chelva Kanaganayakam, andSudharshan Durayappah, Editors, World Without Walls:Being Human, Being Tamil / p. 65

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, and SoniaVillegas-López, Editors, Transnational Poetics: AsianCanadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s / p. 65

Cyril Dabydeen, Editor, Beyond Sangre Grande: CaribbeanWriting Today / p. 16

Ava Homa, Echoes from the Other Land / p. 55Sheniz Janmohamed, Bleeding Light / p. 26PengMa, Peng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting / p. 68Uma Parameswaran, A Cycle of the Moon / p. 58Dawn Promislow, Jewels and Other Stories / p. 59Jennifer Rahim, Redemption Rain / p. 37H. Nigel Thomas, Lives: Whole and Otherwise / p. 61

TUPELO PRESSKazim Ali, Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual

Practice / p. 63Dan Beachy-Quick, Circle’s Apprentice / p. 10Joshua Corey, Severance Songs / p. 16Patricia Fargnoli, Then, Something / p. 19Joan Houlihan, The Us / p. 25Daniel Khalastchi, Manoleria / p. 28Jennifer Militello, Flinch of Song / p. 33Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lucky Fish / p. 34

TYRANT BOOKSMichael Kimball, Us / p. 55

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSEAmmiel Alcalay, neither wit nor gold / p. 9Julian T. Brolaski, gowanus atropolis / p. 13Kate Colby, The Return of the Native / p. 15Will Hubbard, Cursivism / p. 25Filip Marinovich, And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You

Here Tomorrow / p. 31Laura Solomon, The Hermit / p. 41Maureen Thorson, Applies to Oranges / p. 43Yvan Yauri, Fire Wind / p. 48

UNITED ARTISTS BOOKSChris Tysh, Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K / p. 44

UPPER WEST SIDE PHILOSOPHERSHans Magnus Enzensberger, Fatal Numbers: Why Count on

Chance / p. 65Durs Grünbein, The Vocation of Poetry / p. 66

VOLTGillian Conoley, Editor, Volt No. 16 / p. 75

WAVE BOOKSGennady Aygi, Into the Snow: Selected Poems of

Gennady Aygi / p. 10Anselm Berrigan, Notes from Irrelevance / p. 11Jorge Carrera Andrade, Micrograms / p. 14Caroline Knox, Nine Worthies / p. 28Noelle Kocot, The Bigger World / p. 28Anthony McCann, I Heart Your Fate / p. 32Matthew Rohrer, Destroyer and Preserver / p. 38Mary Ruefle, Selected Poems / p. 39

WEAVERS PRESSSyed Afzal Haider, To Be with Her / p. 54

WEST END PRESSPaula Gunn Allen, America the Beautiful: Last Poems /

p. 9Robert Bohm, Closing the Hotel Kitchen / p. 12Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Walking Backwards: New Poems /

p. 30Mary Oishi, Spirit Birds They Told Me / p. 35

WHAT BOOKS PRESSA. W. DeAnnuntis, Master Siger’s Dream / p. 53

WHITE PINE PRESSAliki Barnstone, Bright Body / p. 10Peter Conners, The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees /

p. 15Elisabeth Frost, All of Us / p. 21Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Last Poems / p. 27Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems / p. 27

WILD OCEAN PRESSSharon Doubiago, My Father’s Love, Volume II: The Legacy

/ p. 65

THE WORD WORKSSarah Browning, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden / p. 14

WORDFARMAlanMichael Parker, Whale Man / p. 58Paul J. Willis, The Alpine Tales / p. 62

ZASTERLE PRESSGeorge Quasha, Verbal Paradise (preverbs) / p. 37

ZONE 3 PRESSBlas Falconer and AmyWright, Editors, Zone 3 Vol. 25 No. 2

Fall 2010 / p. 75

PUBLISHER INDEX


AFRICAN AMERICAN TITLESWill Alexander, Compression & Purity / p. 9Troy Burle Bailey, The Pierre Bonga Loops / p. 10Roger Bonair-Agard, Gully / p. 12DerrickWeston Brown, Wisdom Teeth / p. 13Mahogany L. Browne, #Dear Twitter: Love Letters

Hashed Out Online in 140 Characters or Less / p. 14Cyril Dabydeen, Editor, Beyond Sangre Grande:

Caribbean Writing Today / p. 16Barbara Henning, Looking Up Harryette Mullen:

Interviews on Sleeping with the Dictionary and OtherWorks / p. 67

Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball / p. 25Zora Howard, Clutch / p. 25Crawford Kilian, Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black

Pioneers of British Columbia / p. 67Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline / p. 31Shane McCrae, In Canaan / p. 32Tony Medina, My Old Man Was Always on the Lam /

p. 33Jennifer Rahim, Redemption Rain / p. 37Alazar Tesfamichael, Trials and Tribulations / p. 72H. Nigel Thomas, Lives: Whole and Otherwise / p. 61PersiaWalker, Black Orchid Blues / p. 61LillienWaller, Editor, American Ghost: Poets on Life

After Industry / p. 46

ASIAN AMERICAN TITLESBrother Anthony, Hong Keong-Hee, and Steven D.Owyoung, Korean Tea Classics / p. 64

R. Cheran, Dalbir Singh, Chelva Kanaganayakam, andSudharshan Durayappah, Editors, World WithoutWalls: Being Human, Being Tamil / p. 65

Cho In-souk and Robert Koehler, Seoul’s Historic Walks/ p. 65

Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, andSonia Villegas-López, Editors, Transnational Poetics:Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s / p. 65

Hai Zi, Over Autumn Rooftops / p. 23Syed Afzal Haider, To Be with Her / p. 54Uyen Hua, a/s/l / p. 25Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene / p. 27Robert Koehler, Hangeul: Korea’s Unique Alphabet /

p. 67Esther Lee, Spit / p. 29Carol Lem, Gathering the Pieces / p. 30Takako Lento andWayne Miller, Editors, Tamura

Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master /p. 30

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Walking Backwards: New Poems /p. 30

Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt / p. 56R. Zamora Linmark, Leche / p. 56PengMa, Peng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting / p. 68Mariko Nagai, Georgic / p. 58Vivek Narayanan, Universal Beach / p. 34Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lucky Fish / p. 34Mary Oishi, Spirit Birds They Told Me / p. 35Uma Parameswaran, A Cycle of the Moon / p. 58Shailja Patel, Migritude / p. 36Craig Santos Perez, From Unincorporated Territory

[Saina] / p. 36Nina Revoyr, Wingshooters / p. 59John Rich, Korean War in Color: A Correspondent’s

Retrospective on a Forgotten War / p. 70Seoul Selection Editorial Team, The Korea Success Story

/ p. 71Roger Shepherd, Andrew Douch, and David A. Mason,

Baekdu-daegan Trail: Hiking Korea’s Mountain Spine /p. 71

Jonathan Stalling, Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetryand Poetics / p. 42

Melanie Steyn, Once Around the Sun / p. 60Eileen R. Tabios, Silk Egg: Collected Novels / p. 60OceanVuong, Burnings / p. 45QingpingWang, Editor, Push Open the Window:

Contemporary Poetry from China / p. 46Pui YingWong, Yellow Plum Season / p. 48

JEWISH TITLESSyed Afzal Haider, To Be with Her / p. 54Nadia Kalman, The Cosmopolitans / p. 55Daniel Morris, If Not for the Courage / p. 34Victor Perera, Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood / p. 69Gershom Scholem, Two Draft Essays from 1918 / p. 71Florine Stettheimer, Crystal Flowers: Poems and a

Libretto / p. 42BarryWallenstein, Editor, For Enid with Love: a

festchrift / p. 72

LATINO/LATINA TITLESDaniel Borzutzky, The Book of Interfering Bodies / p. 12Nash Candelaria, Second Communion / p. 64Jorge Carrera Andrade, Micrograms / p. 14Steven Cordova, Long Distance / p. 16Cyril Dabydeen, Editor, Beyond Sangre Grande:

Caribbean Writing Today / p. 16Josh Fernandez, Spare Parts and Dismemberment /

p. 19Eugene K. Garber, O Amazonas Escuro / p. 53Lucrecia Guerrero, Tree of Sighs / p. 54Elva Treviño Hart, Simpáticas: San Miguel Stories / p. 54Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Last Poems / p. 27Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems / p. 27Gary Francisco Keller, Editor, Good Bandits, Warrior

Women, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture / p. 67Jose Kozer, Anima / p. 28AdrianaV. López and Carmen Ospina, Editors,

Barcelona Noir / p. 57Pablo Medina, The Man Who Wrote on Water / p. 32MaceoMontoya, The Scoundrel and the Optimist / p. 58Urayoán Noel, Hi-Density Politics / p. 35Victor Perera, Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood / p. 69Harry Polkinhorn and AlfredoVelasco, Editors, Caló:

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p. 9Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 01: A Journal

of Gay Poetry / p. 73Bryan Borland, Editor, Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal

of Gay Poetry / p. 73Julian T. Brolaski, gowanus atropolis / p. 13Steven Cordova, Long Distance / p. 16Tim Dlugos, A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim

Dlugos / p. 17Ken Harvey, A Passionate Engagement: A Memoir / p. 67j/j hastain, asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents /

p. 24j/j hastain, Prurient Anarchic Omnibus / p. 24Paul Foster Johnson, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms

/ p. 27Paul Legault, The Madeleine Poems / p. 29R. Zamora Linmark, Leche / p. 56Lonely Christopher, The Mechanics of Homosexual

Intercourse / p. 56Raymond Luczak, Road Work Ahead / p. 31

Steven Reigns, Inheritance / p. 37Rena Rosenwasser, Elevators / p. 39Kathrin Schaeppi, Sonja Sekula : Grace in a cow’s EYE :

a memoir / p. 40Richard Tagett, Demodulating Angel / p. 42Terry VanVliet, Black Lines on Terracotta / p. 44Justin Vicari, The Professional Weepers / p. 45OceanVuong, Burnings / p. 45

MIDDLE EASTERN TITLESAkbar Ahmed, Suspended Somewhere Between:

A Book of Verse / p. 9Kazim Ali, Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual

Practice / p. 63Alboqasem Ferdowsi, The Teller of Tales: Stories from

Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh / p. 19Ava Homa, Echoes from the Other Land / p. 55Nidaa Khoury, Book of Sins / p. 28Alazar Tesfamichael, Trials and Tribulations / p. 72

NATIVE AMERICAN TITLESPaula Gunn Allen, America the Beautiful: Last Poems /

p. 9Jean Rae Baxter, Broken Trail / p. 51Scott Ezell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mike O’Connor, andThomas Merton, Songs from a Yahi Bow: A Series ofPoems on Ishi / p. 18

Carol Anne Shaw, Hannah and the Spindle Whorl / p. 59LillienWaller, Editor, American Ghost: Poets on Life

After Industry / p. 46

TRANSLATIONSGennady Aygi, Into the Snow: Selected Poems of

Gennady Aygi / p. 10Per Aage Brandt, These Hands / p. 13Brother Anthony, Hong Keong-Hee, and Steven D.Owyoung, Korean Tea Classics / p. 64

Jorge Carrera Andrade, Micrograms / p. 14Sasha Chernyi, Poems from Children’s Island / p. 15Giuseppe Conte, Angelina’s Lips / p. 53Regina Derieva, Corinthian Copper / p. 17Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Fatal Numbers: Why Count

on Chance / p. 65Seyhan Erözçelik, Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds / p. 18Alboqasem Ferdowsi, The Teller of Tales: Stories from

Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh / p. 19Jean Genet, The Genet Translations: Poetry and

Posthumous Plays / p. 21Durs Grünbein, The Vocation of Poetry / p. 66Hai Zi, Over Autumn Rooftops / p. 23Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Last Poems / p. 27Roberto Juarroz, Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems / p. 27Jose Kozer, Anima / p. 28David Lespiau, Four Cut-Ups, or, the Case of the

Restored Volume / p. 30AdrianaV. López and Carmen Ospina, Editors,

Barcelona Noir / p. 57Jean-Pierre Rogel, Evolution: The View from the Cottage

/ p. 70Claude Royet-Journoud, The Whole of Poetry Is

Preposition / p. 39Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I: 1944-1949 / p. 39Gershom Scholem, Two Draft Essays from 1918 / p. 71Gleb Shulpyakov, A Fireproof Box / p. 41Leonardo Sinisgalli, Night of Shooting Stars / p. 41Adriano Spatola, The Porthole / p. 60Georg Trakl, Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of

Georg Trakl / p. 44Cesar Vallejo, Against Professional Secrets / p. 44QingpingWang, Editor, Push Open the Window:

Contemporary Poetry from China / p. 46YvanYauri, Fire Wind / p. 48

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