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From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces...

Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."--FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should."...

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,...

A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted. Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their...

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:...

A combination of fiction and documentation, Sound Museum fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology--and banality--of evil. In Iran, a curator has gathered foreign...

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...

Award-winning foreign correspondent's cerebral spy novel-cum-love story exposes humanity's tenuous hold on a vast and relentless world.Author: J. M. LedgardPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication...

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

A much-awaited collection of poems by one of the greatest African American Beat poets.Author: Ted JoansPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 1999Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding:...

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:...

National Book Critic's Circle Award finalist, 1994. Colorado Book Award winner."...elemental and direct with a tremendous evocative force of imagery..."--Publisher's WeeklyAuthor: Linda...

Rikki Ducornet's essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy--the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Author: Rikki DucornetPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Jan...

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he...

Surreal, ambitious and exquisitely conceived, these are stories in the tradition of Angela Carter, Franz Kafta, and Margaret Atwood.Author: Camilla GrudovaPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication...

"Eros, Indiscriminate"At the door the wolves stepbackwards into a box. My chainedfather attempts to wing himselfwith flame. His face hostsa second face seared by the mentalhazards the wolves find...

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...

This debut novel is a profoundly absurd campus satire about immortality, obsession, obscurity, and true love.Author: Jordan EllenbergPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2003Number...

Winner, 1994 American Award for Literature: Belles Lettres. "[A] valuable contribution to American poetics."--Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Joseph CeravoloPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

In her most intimate poetry collection yet, Lightsey Darst considers the many facets of maternal power and whether it might guide us toward healing in the wake of history's horrors. In the nebulous...

"Wang Ping is a fearless, phenomenal writer."--Louise ErdrichAuthor: Wang PingPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2007Number of Pages: 218 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The American debut of a Caribbean literary talent often compared to Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy and Alexander McCall Smith.Author: Kei MillerPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Mar 27,...

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...

Investigative poet Brenda Coultas unearths the eccentricities and tragedies that congregate along humanity's borders.Author: Brenda CoultasPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Oct 01,...

A searing coming-of-age novel set to the music of chance.Author: Selah SaterstromPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2007Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

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...