Coffee House Press

Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of southern femininity.Author: Selah SaterstromPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01,...

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...

An exciting new American poet harvests fields of sound from the seeds of her bucolic vocabulary.Author: Anne BoyerPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2008Number of Pages: 90...

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...

"A.B. Spellman's poems will make you do the Monk dance. Read and rise."--E. Ethelbert MillerAuthor: A. B. SpellmanPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2008Number of Pages: 162...

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:...

Passages in life that have felt forbidden, overwritten, underwritten, silenced are given voice in Darst's precise, rich, confessional poems.Author: Lightsey DarstPublisher: Coffee House...

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...

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...

Seventeen stories nimbly traversing borderlines, mythic and real, in the lives of Filipino and Filipino American women and their ancestors. Like red gumamela--hibiscus flowers--that bloom...

A genre-bending feminist account of four Chilean women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender. Women Who Kill analyzes...

A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king's servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own-the characters in these stories live as interlopers in a...

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. In 2019, Justin Phillip Reed's romantic maiden voyage through the waters of...

A memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and "the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails."Author: Eleni SikelianosPublisher: Coffee House PressPublication Date:...

Eleni Sikelianos, "a master of mixing genres" (Time Out New York), further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, an ode to our more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our...