Coffee House Press

Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.Author: Dan FoxPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 05,...

What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian's Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces,...

After he dies, Samuel Johnson inhabits one body after the next, waiting for a chance to return to his son.Author: Martin RikerPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Oct 09, 2018Number of...

The 1862 mass execution of 38 Dakota nightly haunts Mary Todd Lincoln, institutionalized and alone with her ghosts.Author: LeAnne HowePublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Feb 05, 2019Number...

In Search History, an outlandish zany cyberdog chase orbits lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim explores grief and mortality with his characteristic blend of philosophical yearning and satirical...

Moving west--from Singapore to America, from New York to California--a woman examines the myth of "finding home" even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.Author: Trisha LowPublisher:...

Praise for Allison Adelle Hedge Coke:These are the songs of righteous anger and utter beauty."-Joy HarjoFrom "Carcass":Split skin stretched over marrowless cage, encased dry tomb, like those strewn...

Teahouse of the Almighty (National Poetry)Author: Patricia SmithPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: September 01, 2006Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In 40 QuestionsAuthor: Valeria LuiselliPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 04, 2017Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world. In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender vision of the future,...

Here is how monstrous humans are. A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men--of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning...

One Hmong family's harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.Author: Kao Kalia YangPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: April 11,...

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic...

Powerfully, musically rich poems that explore hemispheric grief caused by mass capitalism, militarized policing, and nightmarish urban and immigration policies. "All I ever wanted is to keep the...

Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet...

A captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the remarkable power of human endurance. Upon setting out for a morning walk with his knobby stick in hand, a young man is arrested by a...

A coffin, a camera, a bottle of pisco: three friends embark on a road trip through Chile to confront a history they can neither remember nor forget.Author: Alia Trabucco Zer?nPublisher: Coffee House...

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of...

Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.Author: Valeria LuiselliPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

Sun Yung Shinleads her readers into the underworld, a witchy Garden of Eden where death blooms in many forms. From an extended image of baby-as-exit-wound to her now-extinct Korean zodiac animal, the...

Chris Martin is your tour guide for a poetic walking tour of Hell, which bears an uncanny resemblance to everyday life in America.Author: Chris MartinPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

Haunting essays balanced between intimate remembrance and examination of the writing life from acclaimed author Laird Hunt. International intrigue, a broken-down car, the history of denim, the...

Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying. --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle "Impressive . . . a...

From roller rinks and record players to coin-operated condom dispensers and small-town mobsters, Till the Wheels Fall Off is a novel about an unconventional childhood among the pleasures and...

W. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.Author: T FleischmannPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: June 04, 2019Number...

Disappearing statues, missing protestors, inexplicable deaths--how does a writer account for Tehran's shifting vanishing points?Author: Poupeh MissaghiPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of grief and estrangement. In propulsive and formally inventive language, Latasha N. Nevada...

Son is real. Son was saved from a life he cannot remember. Son is a human in a mythical world of ghosts. This is what Father tells him. Son has lived his entire life inside the mansion. He is a good...