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Praise for Barbara de la Cuesta's previous novel, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Novel Prize... "The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you--pace, a great balance of...

Narrative meets surrealism and feeling fires intellect in Cave Vitae a place where each poem gives off the fresh scent of the new. Adams understands the just-born image, can flush it out of hiding...

What would you do if you woke up in your usual life, and by the end of the day, everything had changed? When her husband of forty years wants a divorce, shaken-to-her-core Laura Feldman embarks on...

What is it like to be the well spouse of a man with multiple sclerosis, to care for someone who will not get better and whose chronic illness will progress into dementia? ... Much of this work feels...

Cilantro, Not Coriander is a love story that also bears witness to El Salvador's violent war and US complicity. From Philadelphia, to Guatemala, to the blood riddled streets of San Salvador, you will...

In Coming Home by Kay Tobler Liss, four generations of a family return to cherished places in nature from their youth and uncover buried secrets about themselves. From the coast of North Carolina to...

Hall takes us from Texas to Vietnam and back again, treating us over and over to exquisite evocations of place. We get lost in the East Texas Big Thicket, with its mosquitoes, sloughs, feral hogs,...

Wendy Babiak's Conspiracy of Leaves feels like a mixtape made by a dear friend who wants to stir up your endorphins but also challenge you to think. Her poems are at once deeply personal and...

Falk's work seamlessly bridges poetic landscapes often thought at odds: free verse and narrative, the confessional and the sociopolitical, the interrogative sensibility of the avant-gardist and the...

Marion Cohen is equally mathematician and poet. Using mathematical metaphor, she touches deeply into issues of life and heart. In each poem she crosses the equal sign on many levels, beginning with...

In Providencia, Carlotta sells her store to a Muslim, Bahir Ahmed. Fr. Jake arranges to meet Ahmed and finds out he is from Albuquerque, married with a wife and two children, and his father is Imam...

Diana M. Raab's Dear Ana?s: My Life in Poems for You is not only a tribute to the late diarist, but also a tribute to diaries themselves. Each of the book's poems, culled from Raab's own journal,...

The author insists on peacemaking instead of war mongering and mocks the rhetorical nonsense our leaders use to justify carnage as he uses space and even spelling as a mirror of intent exploring the...

Spanning three generations of women in a family with distressful father-daughter relationships, this story reflects on how one's father affects later choices in life and on the struggle to resolve...

Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses; conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigrants. They give us new ways of understanding loss,...

From the battles for civil rights and equal rights, to war and its aftermath, to the enduring tragedies of drugs, racism, poverty and disease that play out daily in American cities, to the interior...

Ms. Dyc's vivid and moving poems take the reader on a journey of mind, body, and spirit through geographical and cultural distances: from childhood in Detroit with her Polish immigrant grandparents...

Elaine Heveron writes of her world-its thingness-with relish and affection, each poem offering artifacts of a shareable life-the books that shaped her (Boomer) generation, silver earrings, a handmade...

What does it mean to be a human being in a culture of war and violence? In this collection the secret life of everyday objects and the "Everyday Shames" of ordinary life reveal how a person can take...

Brown's Exit Lines are prayers for the world, meditations offered by a complex mind that finds the present far from perfect but still urges us to find the infectious wonder in our world. Vibrant with...

Nancy Fisher's images in Flame Dancer flicker, like the flame in which her personas dance, in a mirror that reflects a montage of past present and future in three dimensions. The darkness against...

Matthew Abuelo's Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel is a head-spinning depiction of harshest reality in New York City. Reading his sequence of poetry and stories is like "visiting the world of the...

Getting REAL About Alzheimer's proposes a shift away from the negative beliefs that contribute to a downward spiral of dementia. A shift is possible, and you can see when it happens. The difference...

In Glad Wilderness Geraldine Cannon has woven an Appalachian tapestry of voices and images that are somehow at once clear as a swimming hole and as suggestive as an impressionist painting: "His skin...

How does a daughter get to know and understand her mother? The closest bond of any two women is that of mother-daughter. Yet, this relationship often suffers over time from misunderstandings, anger...

In Half-Dreaming, Douglas Nordfors asks the big questions of what constitutes intimacy, growth and being, and answers them with a fleet-footed blend of philosophy, meditation, politics, personal and...

Martha Deborah Hall goes through the major decades of her life and transforms singular moments into images and lines that speak with a voice that is raw, spare, luminous. She holds the mirror of...

As the fight for Texas Independence heats up in the fall of 1835, young volunteers as far away as Macon, Georgia enlist to test their mettle in the brewing struggle. Three women traveling alongside...

How Therapists Dance follows the numinous thread described by Novalis: The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the...

It's 2062, and Boston is mostly under water. In response to climate change chaos, an authoritian theocracy is tearing families apart and demolishing human rights. How will love survive? A futuristic...