Jackleg Press

Barbara Cully's poetics mix humor with a deadpan delivery, an aching love for all things tiny, the desire to face geology, the surreal, the built environment, and the horrors of human culture-with...

Blue BoyAuthor: Jean McGarryPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: Mar 14, 2022Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737513404ISBN-13: 9781737513407

Dear Selection CommitteeAuthor: Melissa StuddardPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: May 17, 2022Number of Pages: 132 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737513412ISBN-13:...

The rain-sodden, southern world of David Wesley Williams' Everybody Knows overflows with satiric fun as it churns up a rich detritus of Biblical allusions, political backstory, musical opinions,...

In this elegiac collection fittingly titled Everyone I've Danced With Is Dead, Mamie Morgan's poems are exquisitely stitched as they offer up lamentation for, and salutation to, the dead. These are...

Karen Rigby writes with "fingers cocked like a gun." Deliciously inventive in its linguistic unfurlings, Fabulosa fibrillates with "noir and glitz" in these strange, seductive poems that are in...

Rita Mookerjee's FALSE OFFERING, while providing a trenchant critique of the oppressiveness of "white space," is also glittery, culinary sumptuous, and scythe sharp. Shot through with equal parts...

This is a poetry collection not to be missed! Cuban-American poet, Suzanne Frischkorn, delivers a compelling, timeless work grappling with the most intimate details that define one's identity.Author:...

Author: Maureen SeatonPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: September 15, 2021Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 173733075XISBN-13: 9781737330752

Missing centers on the author's connection to William Maxwell, legendary fiction editor at The New Yorker and old friend of Cornelia Maude Spelman's parents. Maxwell and Spelman become acquainted in...

In 1928, Thomas Mann won the Pulitzer Prize for Buddenbrooks. While he balked at working with a female translator, his standing in the Western canon can be in part credited to the translating work of...

Author: Caroline GoodwinPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: 15-Nov-21Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737330784ISBN-13: 9781737330783

Robot, Girl reads like a feminist thriller or a terrifying sci-fi glimpse of our American future.Author: Kristine SnodgrassPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: Feb 25, 2022Number of Pages: 78...

How do we become the persons we are? Solace seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author's life, Solace unfurls in a series...

Solastalgia is a dazzling collection of poems about climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age.Author: Brittney CorriganPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: Jul 10, 2023Number of...

Lyric and associative, Speculative Histories explores what it means to be whole.Author: Brigitte LewisPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Story by Erasmus Yang takes a comic look at one ambitious man's efforts to promote a fraudulent war memorial, thereby almost precipitating international conflict through his over-enthusiastic news...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award"Reginald Gibbons's first novel takes place in east Texas in 1910 during the time of white rule?not by law but by lynch mob. Amid the suffocating racism and...

Author: Neil de la FlorPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2021Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737330741ISBN-13: 9781737330745

The Devil's Library is a love letter to the boundless pleasure and peril of reading: it's a catalog of books that never were, complete with side stories and annotations and more than a few nicely...

Memory, grief, and self-reflection mingle in debut author Garza's account of the death of her sibling. The 52-year-old author recounts her experience with survivor's guilt, dissociation, and...

In eleven fearless, wide-ranging stories, The Sexual Lives of Suburbanites offers us a sometimes absurdist, sometimes satirical but always fresh glimpse into the things that trouble us most. From...

The SpringAuthor: Megan WeilerPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: Feb 14, 2022Number of Pages: 326 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737330792ISBN-13: 9781737330790

Author: Caroline GoodwinPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: July 03, 2021Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737330733ISBN-13: 9781737330738

Author: Barbara CullyPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: June 21, 2021Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737330717ISBN-13: 9781737330714

UnderseaAuthor: Maureen SeatonPublisher: Jackleg PressPublication Date: June 07, 2021Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737330709ISBN-13: 9781737330707

In 1992, ten years after whaling was banned (in the South Pacific), a scientific expedition set off from Tahiti to New Zealand, following the 'whale road.' Deborah McCutchen joined the crew as a...

The poems navigate themes of creation, violence, grief, transformation, and lineage. These are heart-wrenching missives that unfurl with exquisite monstrosities.Author: Jessica CuelloPublisher:...