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A COWARDLY WOMAN NO MORE follows Trisha Donovan, who's had a very successful corporate career but a lackluster home and family life. She's getting weary. Her husband and children are ungrateful, her...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from "one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing" (Alma Guillermoprieto).Author: Valeria LuiselliPublisher: Coffee House...

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...

From gold rushes to black gold, in these elegiac poems gold stands as a figure for exploitation and utopian dreaming, resource extraction and emotional longing.Author: Ted MathysPublisher: Coffee...

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coasts of the Great Lakes region with poems, exploring the nature of belonging in relation to land and the formation of...

A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy. In vitro: an exercise in patience, in hallucination, in uncertainty; an exercise--still,...

A mesmerizing, poignant saga of love and loss firmly grounded in the Midwestern landscape by National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt. On a dark and lovely winter night, Noah Summers sits before a...

JawboneAuthor: Mónica OjedaPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1566896215ISBN-13: 9781566896214

From the author of Reinhardt's Garden and Saint Sebastian's Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession. Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his...

Interweaving elegy, indictment, and love letter to California, Look at This Blue calls into America's genocidal past and present as it warns of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate...

Poems that trace paths through time, genealogy, and geography, locating the generational legacy of history.Author: Ed Bok LeePublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: March 05, 2019Number of...

A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share...

Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book...

One eventful night shift, a young hospital chaplain offers light to those experiencing dark nights of the soul--both her patients, and it turns out, herself.Author: Ellen CooneyPublisher: Coffee...

One displaced Rarámuri family charts a path forward for themselves and their community in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take. The effects of climate...

The members of two seemingly conflicting reading groups--Love and Anti-Love--connect in surprising ways after climate catastrophe upends their routines in this new novel from Anna Moschovakis.Author:...