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A Boy Named Boy: Growing Up Black in Whitetown During the 1960s, Hampstead, NCAuthor: Earl S BraggsPublisher: Wet Cement PressPublication Date: March 25, 2021Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage:...

Anything You Want stands as Christopher Sawyer-Lau?anno's magnum opus, a final salutation of gratitude to all he experienced and loved. This book, and indeed, his whole life, is a testament to the...

The third book of poetry by Reno, Nevada, based poet, Michelle Murphy. Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss sings the praises of Murphy's new book: "The poems in Michelle Murphy's Disheveled Histories...

Reports from the bent heart of time where philosophy meets the refusal to wince. Jackson's quiet, lyric meditations, both timely and timeless, seem to "explode the difference between joy and sorrow."...

Chengru He's I Would Vanish Into Its Stronger Existence uncovers in verse, prose, images, and found documents the story of her mother's experience as a zhiqing, or "sent down youth" during Mao's...

Long RainAuthor: Lenard D MoorePublisher: Wet Cement PressPublication Date: 15-Nov-21Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1732436991ISBN-13: 9781732436992

Marco Polo Mother & Son is a delicately woven confessional novel that turns memory into a character. It follows a deceased mother and her grieving son as they unsuccessfully pursue each other with...

Susan Schultz has written a masterful set of meditations on life and thought upended and made strange by the events of 2020. Poet, university professor, baseball fan, wife, mother, dog lover and...

Donovan's clever, razor-sharp poems foreground a contemporary absurdity so ubiquitous that it often goes unnoticed. Donovan's observations about our "crazy-ass" self-involved world, emerging from her...

Ousted by his girlfriend, Nick takes himself-and his bicycle-to New Orleans, where he sulks and cycles, prey to vivid dreams and anxieties. Along with an antiquated interest in letter-writing, he...

NotwithstandingAuthor: Brit WashburnPublisher: Wet Cement PressPublication Date: October 21, 2019Number of Pages: 110 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1732436959ISBN-13: 9781732436954

"Tony Wallin Sato is indeed one of the young contemporary poets for whom Whitman has stopped somewhere and happily waited." -Bill MohrA collection of Zen infused poetry reflecting on the author's...

Author: Andrea Clark LibinPublisher: Wet Cement PressPublication Date: Sep 07, 2020Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1732436967ISBN-13: 9781732436961

Full of brilliant rhythmic immediacy and syntactical arcs, as Ann Lauterbach puts it, these poems are as strikingly clear as they are surprising in their movements. Grounded in a close reading of the...

Michelle Murphy knows how to 'unzip the stringed heart and strum it naked, ' harmonizing the noise of the blood with the news of memory. Murphy's deep song awakens a fabulist dreamscape where broken...

Maureen Alsop, like other goddesses of myth, likes to work at the crossroads, the place where words give shape to image, where images speak back, and our sense of language expands beyond the frontier...

Working from a rich personal archive of letters, journals, and poems Bachman carries us into the questing journey of being a poet and a woman; what she calls, "A slender proposition that supports a...

Scrolls of a Temple Sweeper is a novel of war, lost children, dream masters, a traveling circus, a theater troupe, a shaman, and a ghostwoman, told by a temple sweeper who has not spoken in...

Scrolls of a Temple Sweeper is a novel of war, lost children, dream masters, a traveling circus, a theater troupe, a shaman, and a ghostwoman, told by a temple sweeper who has not spoken in...

Wilson Wiley Variations is an extraordinary work of imagination that brings the losses of everyday life and death into a field of perception that opens the underlying tenets of oft hidden languages...