Category Archives: 2010
You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
In a world where we find “everything helping itself / to everything else,” Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific research, autobiographical detail, and historical anecdote to present an engaging lyric analysis of the way we live now.
Extraordinary Renditions
Debut fiction by Andrew Ervin Music, war, and imperial ambition touch three lives in this intricately woven story. “Darkly evocative . . . the book has a prismlike quality; each story makes us see the city from a different but …
Horse, Flower, Bird
“Once upon a time, there was a lovely petal-winged book that had legs so small they poked into the tiniest capillaries of your heart, a mane that smelled like sea air and nostalgia, and a young girl’s eyes that promised penance prior to murder. . . . [A] kind gift from the vast imagination of Kate Bernheimer. Horse, Flower, Bird is a collection of eight stories–jewels that politely but firmly ask to be held up into the light, examined, perhaps coddled, maybe caged, and then, of course, set free.” —New Delta Review
Dear Sandy, Hello
“This volume vividly preserves young love through Ted’s letters to Sandy while she was institutionalized—packed with rage, frustration, and thoughts about writing . . . ‘It’s time for less warm tears and more cold fury,’ writes Ted, transporting the reader to a time when a passionate and impulsive young woman could be committed for behavior contrary to social norms. Even those unfamiliar with Ted’s poetry will be fascinated by the drama inherent in this collection. —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Working Words
“Working Words is the kind of spark we need these days—a rich, intense and inspiring collection for and about those who get their hands dirty every single day.” —Michael Moore
Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines
“As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into its world . . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.” —Eileen Myles, National Poetry Series judge
10 Mississippi
“This is a powerful book, a great book of urgent knowledge. What art does when it tells us awful things in ways so beautifully made creates a rip in our spirit where deeper and real truth can get in. Healey brings together children’s games, survival tactics, reports of war, reports of violence on the Mississippi River, various instances of hide-and-seek, tensions between hunter and prey, in language tuned up to exquisitely arresting and inevitable wavelengths. I love 10 Mississippi.” —Dara Wier
I Hotel
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown from 1968-1977.
Drowning Tucson
Set in Tucson’s toughest neighborhoods during the late 1980s, this riveting debut follows the disintegration of the Nuñez family and the people whose paths they cross.
Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
Armed only with the address on the back of an old photograph and his grandfather’s memories, a young man launches a mission with his girlfriend to reunite his grandfather, an American WWII pilot, with Luddie, the Polish woman who saved him during the war. Through the grandson’s letters to Luddie, the saga of a family with a long and storied history emerges.
Shoulder Season
With a title that plays upon “shouldering” one’s burden, this equally fanciful and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil of 21stcentury life, where the mind might still be “a little spa,” but the future “is hedged against the / boys who died.”
darkacre
“Contemplative and highly accomplished . . . [Hewett] takes the long view of life and history, calling in ancient civilizations to make sense of our own, or imagining hidden worlds, the flip side of our own. . . . A wash of carefully controlled emotion.” —MinnPost
Find the Girl
“A terrific collection. . . . Full of horror, bleak humor, and suspense, these poems read like mini-thrillers, daring you to put the book down.” —Entertainment Weekly
