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This is a book of tragicomic gurlesque word-witchery inspired by the Kate Bush cosmos. Campily glamorous, darkly funny, obsessively ekphrastic, boozily baroque, psychedelically girly & musically...

A New Race Of Men From Heaven (Mary Mccarthy Prize In Short Fiction) - 9781956046021Author: Chaitali SenPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Jan 17, 2023Number of Pages: 190 pagesLanguage:...

Beyond Measure is a fascinating exploration of the rituals, routines, metrics and expectations through which we attempt to quantify and ascribe value to our lives. With mordant humor and penetrating...

"Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of...

Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds. "Bright," a...

Dear Damage (Series In Kentucky Literature)Author: Sarabande BooksPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Mar 15, 2022Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Inspired, in part, by McCavana's own family history in Bilbao, Electrodomésticos is set in the Spanish Basque Country during the fifty years following the Spanish Civil War. The stories blend magical...

Eternal Night At The Nature MuseumAuthor: Sarabande BooksPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Nov 02, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Edith Pearlman manages to combine subtlety with extravagance, understatement with spectacle, drawing our focus to the eccentricities of those who would prefer to remain unnoticed. . . . Confronted...

Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a...

Index of Haunted Houses (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry)Author: Adam O. DavisPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: September 01, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker's experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern...

"Vogelsang's poetry is both abrasive and generous."--John Ashbery"Vogelsang has found an interrogating voice at once dissembling and direct."--Stanley PlumlyThe poems in Vogelsang's fourth collection...

Winner of the 2022 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Terrance Hayes. The debut collection from Simon Shieh, Master is a stark, surreal, and imagistic reckoning with a traumatic past...

"Wormser brilliantly captures the way in which the mind (or heart or body) can tax its own resolves. Only poets as honest as this one can persistently acknowledge the mercuriality of 'truth' and can...

In these stories, a cast of headstrong characters traverses continents, from the Hawaiian coastal waters, to a Guyanese jungle, to the Kalahari Desert. In "Leviathan," Cal and Harold catch sight of a...

Uncompromising, hypnotic and darkly humorous, Other Electricities charts a new and strange direction in American fiction. "Like Franklin's discovery of the electricity we do know, Monson's luminous,...

Graphic art and poems that are rueful, but never grim, offer a graceful meditation on the approach of death.Author: Charles WrightPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Nov 23, 2010Number of...

Post Traumatic Hood DisorderAuthor: David Tomas MartinezPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: March 13, 2018Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A brand new collection from multi-award winning poet Corey Van Landingham. Reader, I draws its title from the conclusion to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: "Reader, I married him." Spanning the first...

In his debut Reenactments, poet Hai-Dang Phan explores the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as a second-generation Vietnamese American.Author: Hai-Dang...

Winner of the 2022 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, judged by Susan Minot. Set amid wholly unique and fabulist worlds, the stories of The Book of Disbelieving present a cast of characters...

"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The...

"When Susan Richards writes about horses and the interactions of the people involved with them, she brilliantly captures the characters, equine and human."--Maxine KuminStrong, startling,...

Rosellen Brown, author of ten celebrated books, is back with a gritty and absorbing novel situated in 19th century Chicago.Author: Rosellen BrownPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Oct 16,...

The Man With Eight Pairs Of Legs (Mary Mccarthy Prize In Short Fiction)Author: Sarabande BooksPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage:...

Amelia Martens's prose poems reveal expansive ideas in compressed language. From the domestic to the geopolitical, from the mundane to the miraculous, these brief vignettes take the form of prayers,...

ThotAuthor: Chant?ReidPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: Oct 18, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/Literary CollectionsISBN-10: 1956046119ISBN-13: 9781956046113

"Nystrom's gift as a poet is that she doesn't stop looking, and her poems make sure it is all still there for us to see."--Eamon GrennanThe landscape of Torn Sky is South Dakota, a place of extremes,...

White Blood: A Lyric of VirginiaAuthor: Kiki PetrosinoPublisher: Sarabande BooksPublication Date: May 05, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1946448540ISBN-13:...