Coffee House Press

"Grandmother Anna Belle Lee: 'Chile, they got some of us everywhere.' Thus began my wanderlust."Author: Colleen McElroyPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 1997Number of Pages: 200...

An erudite, gripping manifesto of grief.Author: Akilah OliverPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2009Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"'Twas the night before X" in Dave Morice's lighthearted and enchanting poem, A Visit from St. Alphabet: The S's were hung by the T's with care In hopes that St. Alphabet soon would be there.Without...

Praise for Guadalupe Nettel: "Nettel offers her keen attention and sympathy to any living thing struggling to get by." --The New York Times"Nettel has brilliantly found a form to contain the...

Shot through with grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives sings its way through the awe of living...

"Mary Caponegro is one of the most imaginative, daring, serious adn playful writers alive. All Fall Down is her best book yet.--Jonathan Safran Foer"Mary Caponegro's headlong tales chronicle our...

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality...

Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Valeria Luiselli, Kao Kalia Yang, and more, with a foreword...

The expansive, countercultural, and wildly prolific life of celebrated poet Anne Waldman, in her own words. In Bard, Kinetic, Anne Waldman assembles a layered compendium of essays, letters, poems,...

Never-before-collected essays, talks, and interviews with the luminaries of Beat literature.Author: Anne WaldmanPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2009Number of Pages: 234...

On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history--the inspiration for the novel he wants to write--and...

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed,...

Lauded by Michael Ondaatje as an "unforgettable" writer and praised by The Washington Post for her ability to capture "the subtlest shades of the emotional palette," Eleni Sikelianos now charts the...

Borealis (Spatial Species)Author: Aisha Sabatini SloanPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Nov 02, 2021Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Japanese immigrants in Brazil build an isolated communal settlement in the rain forest, prey to the charisma of one man.Author: Karen Tei YamashitaPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Sep...

An expansive address to southwestern terrains, crossing physical and conceptual borders in an exploration of intergenerational queer dynamics and surveilled Brown artists captivated by wide open...

Articulating the rhythm and flavor of an Afro-Caribbean-U.S. search for a cohesive identity.Author: Adrian CastroPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 1997Number of Pages: 160...

Literary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.Author: Roque LarraquyPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication...

In a harrowing but ultimately triumphant affirmation of the human spirit, celebrated Cambodian poet U Sam Oeur narrates his incredible life story, testifies to the horrors of genocide and shares his...

Eight authors' works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei...

A giant of twenty-first-century poetry illuminates the wonders inside even the smallest experiences. In Dot, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that...

Inada hip hops from Buddhism to Soul, the mountains to jazz, concentration camps to Charlie Parker.Author: Lawson Fusao InadaPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 1997Number of...

Gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of African-American life.Author: Henry DumasPublisher: Coffee House...

Exiles Of EdenAuthor: Ladan Ali OsmanPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: May 07, 2019Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1566895448ISBN-13: 9781566895446

Boxing, like love, is about vulnerability. It's about standing in front of someone knowing you will hurt each other and trying to make it out alive. In Fighting is Like a Wife, Eloisa Amezcua uses...

Eugene Lim uses wry humor, ingenious poetics, and supernatural puzzles to follow the strings that connect two lives. Reconciling life after divorce, Jim secludes himself in the Midwest, living in an...

Nineteen chilling tales of the terror that lurks within.Author: Brian EvensonPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2009Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or...