Coffee House Press

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...

A treasure trove of lost family photos illuminates a singular perspective on family, memory, and history.Author: Judith KitchenPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 03, 2012Number of...

Adrian Castro's poetry encompasses the diversity, spirituality, and migratory history of the Caribbean through an intoxicating blend of contemporary lyricism, Spanish rhythm, and the African...

Filipina American debut author displays the contradictions of Asian American experience with irony & enthusiasm, anger & wit.Author: M. Evelina GalangPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

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...

The acclaimed poet's first collection of short stories illuminates worlds of the unfortunate and lives of the marginalized. "These fluid stories resonate with both internal and external dialogues in...

Padgett's witty poems ache to save the world--surpassing moral superiority and infusing light, energy, and humor into everyday life.Author: Ron PadgettPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

"Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder."--Robert CreeleyRon Padgett has reenergized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems, with...

"[Victor Hern?aacute;ndez Cruz's work] is a testament to [his] singular genius."--Griffin Poetry Prize citationAuthor: Victor Hern?ndez CruzPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Oct 18,...

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 meditation on memory and futility among the ruins of artistic ambition, family myth, and the fall of the South.Author: Sam SavagePublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Nov 11, 2014Number of...

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

Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.Author: Ron PadgettPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2004Number of Pages: 280...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when...

A young Filipino American's riotous adventures through the sprawling tragicomic landscape of modern-day Manila.Author: R. Zamora LinmarkPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 12,...

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...

Tom Clark's poetic testament is essential for all readers of progressive American poetry.Author: Tom ClarkPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2006Number of Pages: 378 pagesBinding:...

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...

Sonny Goodman may have hopped the "modern underground railroad called education" and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him...

A colorful percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.Author: Victor Hern?ndez CruzPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2001Number of Pages: 300 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

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...

The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed. "Moment's Notice is the best...

Rosa Guy is a fine writer and she continually gives us new issues to contemplate.--Maya AngelouAuthor: Rosa GuyPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2002Number of Pages: 168...

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...

"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud." From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful,...

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...

American history reimagined by Herman Melville's great grandson, a Black Mountain poet. A stunning achievement!Author: Paul MetcalfPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 1997Number of...