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Poetry. African & African American Studies. Music. Borrowing from such sources as archival recordings and news stories, A HUNGER CALLED MUSIC documents the early history of African-American music...

Brenna Womer's debut collection Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance is a book of creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work that begins on an exam-room table and ends at the register of a...

Still haunted by the past and his most recent failures, Kent lives in a capsule hotel, penniless, jobless, forgotten by a fickle public, abandoned by his wife, and at the mercy of a nasty...

Things at the edge are at the center of Kate Northrop's cuntstruck: a man squatting on a roof with his arms around his knees, kids running over the roofs of row houses at night, ghost decorations...

Dinner at Las Heras is a bittersweet lovesong to a broken world, a geographical and psychological cartography spanning cityscapes and tangled internal terrain. The book is a reference to the first...

Curtis L. Crisler's Doing Drive-bys on How to Find Love in the Midwest is a lyrical poetic topography embodying his "urban Midwestern sensibility" (uMs). Through his uMs lens, his poems transfigure...

Dummy VentriloquistAuthor: Michelle BittingPublisher: C&R PressPublication Date: Jul 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949540464ISBN-13: 9781949540468

Sharona Muir's Heredity and Other Inventions radiate like elements discovered late at night after years of searching ... a rocket in a museum in another country is both public knowledge and family...

Inside The Orb Of An OracleAuthor: Dannie RuthPublisher: C&R PressPublication Date: May 18, 2020Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949540162ISBN-13: 9781949540161

Les Fauves is, as the title suggests, a collection of ekphrastic poetry, meditations on paintings from the Fauve and Post-Impressionist movements. But it also contains poetry's equivalent to Fauvism,...

"Dazzling and dizzying are the two words that come to mind after reading Mike Dockins' latest collection of poetry, Letters to So-and-So from Wherever. In this remarkable compilation of letter-poems,...

The reader of Love Undefined goes on an adventure both intense and familiar - the constant, passionate, desperate search for "a universe aflow with pleasure." The body is a source of power,...

Is there no value to inaccuracy? Joe Manning's On Inaccuracy investigates the nuanced, sometimes tenuous relationship between seeing and looking as it highlights humanity's tendency to fail at both...

Paleotempestology, as no one would know, is the study of storms and the central theme rippled throughout Bertha Isabel Crombet's debut collection. Beginning, very literally, with a poem titled...

In an extended sequence of prose poems, Relief Mapuses etymology to navigate eros-turned-longtime partnership. Entries range from "Vulnerability" to "Fire" to "Salt," interspersed with meditations on...

"Richard Jackson has extended both the noble body of contemporary poetry as well as its planetary horizons. His lyric sensitivity resembles the smooth flow of a deep river. The sur- face reflects...

"These are poems of accrual, of sum and mathematically sung song. No detail is too small for Simoneau's gaze, which takes each nail and board and beam surrounding it into account with a carpenter's...

Bruce McEver's words move us to the silence behind them, as the world itself is merely the image of its larger purpose. His poems impress with the sincerity that comes from immeasurable loss and...

ShiksaAuthor: David R. SlavittPublisher: C&r PressPublication Date: Sep 21, 2014Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1936196409ISBN-13: 9781936196401

In the elegiac poems of Sober Ghost Jeffrey Skinner laments, and laments with, the ghosts of the past, including the ghost of his own alcoholic self, the most stubborn and instructive ghost of all...

Fiction. Elise understands her father a Vietnam vet who abandoned her when she was an infant about as much as she does her church organist mother and the rest of their suburban Virginia town. When...

The story in poems reads like a movie and exposes the bitter compromises a couple will make with abuse and love. Lyrical, accomplished poems examine and ultimately reveal "why we stay" as the poet...

Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Whither the Islamic world? Whither Pakistan? Revolution is on the streets of the Arab/Islamic world, Pakistan is experiencing a remote drone war and violence fomented...

In Chattanooga, Tennessee, a small city of the new American South, we find an unexpected world of haves and have nots, families and outsiders, old hatreds and first loves that unfold in eight...

"By bringing us pear blossoms and knife blades, smells of salt and poison, Dominguez weaves an artful web out of the opposites that hold us together. History, both personal and communal, comes alive...

Brian Ascalon Roley's poetry collection, The Ice Beneath the Earth, is an exploration of the intergenerational effects of the violence of war, illness and occupation on individual lives and families...

Gabriel Green's first chapbook The Magical Negro Reveals His Secret is, among other things, a long quest towards complete selfhood.Author: Gabriel GreenPublisher: C&R PressPublication Date: Sep 15,...

Poetry. In his stunning new book THE NAME MUSEUM, Nick McRae reminds us that every name is, finally, a museum, an elegy, a narrative, and that all narrative becomes translation of place--and the...

An Italian soul-seeker in India encounters an antique racist toy-bank from 19th-Century America and believes it to be an incarnation of Krishna. A fertility-seeking single woman in New York's...

Poetry. Curtis Bauer is precise about birds, be they crows, chimney swifts, sparrows, swallows, starlings, cardinals, doves, or grackles. Like Robert Frost, he knows the phoebe doesn't weep,...