Black Lawrence Press

THE BONES BENEATH captures what it means to be American, Southern, diasporan, what it means to belong and not to belong, and finding many ways home. It transports readers across place and time,...

In The Book of Redacted Paintings, the narrative arc follows a boy in search of his father's painting, but it is unclear whether the painting exists or not. The book, a poetry collection, is also...

A new collection from poet Lisa Hiton. Arriving to the pastoral happens repeatedly and full of worry in THE CLEARING. For the pastoral stands for the fields of the Holocaust, of the imagination, of...

This novella-in-verse explores the high-stakes minutia of living with other people related by blood and marriage, through fables, ledgers, etymologies. The Fault takes on generational anxiety and...

Winner of the 2023 Big Moose Prize A dark comedy about a clash of cultures and generations, a biracial coming-of-age story, and a psychological thriller about inherited trauma from an award-winning...

The Postcards I Never Sent is a beautifully sensual poetic memoir, rich with raw emotion and vulnerability. Patterson's words dance between love, loss, leaving, and returning. It is an honor to...

Fiction. Raised in a town that prizes poets above doctors and astronauts, the narrator of THE THIRTEENTH MONTH is a constant reader, and it is through books--real and imagined--that he experiences...

The Tide King sweeps from 19th-century Poland to 20th-century America with intimate details and big ideas. It will be hard to forget this beautifully written epic tale. -Jessica Anya BlauAuthor: Jen...

Collaboration means creation. These poems expand from that natural cycle of visionary poetry, that invites more than one poet to get involved with the poems, until language itself becomes a complete...

In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. THE UNROOTED BLOOM was originally selected by Nomadic.Author:...

Author: Joe DornichPublisher: Black Lawrence PressPublication Date: Jan 29, 2021Number of Pages: 190 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 162557830XISBN-13: 9781625578303

By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep-hearted, Twister brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a young soldier. Rose, the soldier's...

Fifteen billion years ago, there was nothing, not even light. Now, we live in a universe that plays host to trillions of galaxies with uncountable stars, worlds, and maybe even other life. How did we...

We Were More than Kindling follows the speaker's reckoning of an intimate history of persistent sexualization and consent violation with the disillusion of coming of age in an era when abuse of power...

Fiction. "What does Beth Mayer's intimate collection of short stories want to tell us? That the dead have much to teach the living, that madness can point the way to clarity, that the burn of...

"Read these poems aloud and you will hear an authentic and quintessentially American voice not only writing but speaking to you." - Thomas LuxAuthor: Kevin PilkingtonPublisher: Black Lawrence...

Author: AppelPublisher: Black Lawrence PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 171 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1625578288ISBN-13: 9781625578280

As a young man living in New Orleans just after the turn of the century, Dixon Still is trying to find himself. Thirty years later, as an older man living in San Francisco, Dixon has arrived at a...