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Enigma is a stunning collection that works like good medicine. Endrezze is fiercely honest, bravely facing the terrors of history and our present world, but suffusing her vision with profound love...

"Travel invigorates and enlightens, and so does reading. You don't have to go to the Congo to gain an understanding of the challenges women face there. You don't have to go to Costa Rica to learn...

"Don't be fooled by the lovely, lady-like voices that lure you into the twenty-two short stories in Susan Jackson Rodgers' Ex-Boyfriend on Aisle 6. It's hard not to be pulled into the deceptively...

In his sixth collection of poems, Joseph Mills offer us a collection of witty and thought-provoking poems inspired by Shakespeare's stage directions. "You don't have to be a Shakespeare nut to fall...

Seth Michelson's debut full-length collection of poetry, Eyes Like Broken Windows, comprises poems of struggle. But this is also a collection of great power and language. There is shattered beauty...

Shelby Stephenson can walk out his back door-even in his sleep, it seems, so tithed to the land is his subconscious-and see what lies hidden before our very eyes: in the roods and plowsoles, the tree...

Rick Campbell is one of his generation that took to America's roads and byways, old cars, hitchhiking, The Greyhound, and just plain walking. Fish Streets before Dawn expands and contracts along...

Grant Faulkner's sharply observed, darkly funny, heart-breaking bursts of highly compressed prose offers a startling view of what reality might look like through a funhouse microscope. Fissures...

Marc Harshman, Poet Laureate of West Virginia, offers up his newest full-length collection of poems and demonstrates his dependably keen observational skills that elevate landscapes and people into...

In Frozen Latitudes, Ther?se Halscheid welcomes the lucky reader into a world of deep love, familial illness, and the dual human urges to speak and be heard. The narrator takes a look at "how it...

Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories celebrate more than 30 years of writing, awards, and honors by David Jauss, whose short stories have been reprinted in such anthologies as Best American Short...

"Richard Vargas is one of the best Chicano poets writing today, a voice for all as he explores the predicaments of the modern world with tenderness and fury. His is a voice we can rely on as we make...

Hard Toward Home is alive with cross-grained people caught between their pasts and futures and striving to outlast the harm they've done each other and themselves. Albin possesses all the...

Following in the footsteps of what was once mass immigration from Ulster to the Carolinas, Northern Irish poet Adrian Rice has become a modern land breaker of poetic territories. In his new volume,...

As editor Jeffrey Hess states in his introduction, "Home of the Brave implies the American military. Somewhere in the Sand implies the desert conditions of both Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the...

Author: Anna ElkinsPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413217ISBN-13: 9781950413218

Check into Hotel Worthy, Valerie Nieman's new book of poems, and you'll never want to leave. There abides in its pages an uncanny past wrought into poems that spring from a memory - from a vast,...

House in Need of Mooring pulls back the curtain on our natural surroundings and reminds the reader just what is at stake if we destroy our home. To surrender to this book is to face that naked...

How We DisappearAuthor: Tara Lynn MasihPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Sep 13, 2022Number of Pages: 164 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413454ISBN-13: 9781950413454

Hunger to Share might be called narrative poetry, but Bresnahan thinks and observes lyrically. She is full of a hungry love--for music, art, nature, and for disparate places and cultures (Woodworth)...

Debut story collection by John Matthew Fox.Author: John Matthew FoxPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Dec 01, 2017Number of Pages: 170 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

What a true gift we have in Peg Bresnahan's dazzling new collection, In a Country None of Us Called Home. The narrative voice in these poems has a focus that is honest, steady, and absolutely clear...

"Morrison's range of voice is stunning-from the deep drumbeat of true grit to the high-pitched timbre of irretrievable loss. Here is a landscape of the human condition, fully realized. Often harsh,...

"Carmen Calatayud's courageous poems not only sing, but talk straight from the heart about love and death, the everyday as well as the inexplicable. These poems accomplish that rare feat of weaving a...

"Nahal Suzanne Jamir is a startling writer. Her work defies simple categorization, and I find myself a little breathless sometimes, story to story, page to page, line to line. This is a wonderful,...

"There is no store-bought redemption pasted to the ends of these poems, but neither will you find hopelessness, self-pity, a turning away from the world. What you will find at the core of all these...

Winner of the Montana Prize in Fiction, Taylor Brown offers up a stunning debut collection of stories. Charles Dodd White, author of A Shelter of Others, says, "With ferocious economy and a great big...

Author: Dannye Romine PowellPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413225ISBN-13: 9781950413225

Author: Kathleen McGookeyPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: October 03, 2019Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195041311XISBN-13: 9781950413119

Journey for JoedelAuthor: Guy OwenPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Mar 31, 2010Number of Pages: 198 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1935708007ISBN-13: 9781935708001