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A plea for secular gods was written under the strain of spiritual crisis. The author lost his father and maternal grandparents over a short period of time between 2016 and 2017, which put him to...

Poems explore the author's boyhood in Spain, his coming of age, and his arrival to California.Author: Mariano ZaroPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: October 15, 2019Number of Pages: 126...

To be undocumented, to be America's shadow, can be the worst thing any youth or adolescent can experience. In some cases, undocumented immigrant youth will only know that they are undocumented once...

Echo Under Story unfolds within a pristine land- and seascape of Northern California, where a woman struggles to restore her family home. The story weaves together three strands: her mother's...

Stella Fridman Hayes's second poetry collection, Father Elegies draws from an impressive range of literary forms, from familiar couplets and tercets to erasure, blackout poems, and hybrid prose...

Figures of Wood, the debut novel by Venezuelan writer Mar?a P?rez-Talavera, now translis a thought-provoking and gripping novel that delves into the mind of L, a young man questioning his own guilt...

Game - 9781733378970Author: M. L. WilliamsPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733378979ISBN-13: 9781733378970

A contemporary American novel that alludes to the 1986 movie "Syd and Nancy."Author: Forrest RothPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2017Number of Pages: 172 pagesLanguage:...

God in Her Ruffled Dress enacts conversations between illness and wellness, body and spirit, the temporal and the eternal. These poems chart a personal investigation of the divine, in which erotic...

In a dozen luminous stories, award-winning author Cameron Walker brings readers to the water's edge, where the known world collides with magic and with the mysterious depths of the human heart. Here,...

A book of contemporary American poetry that references Virgil.Author: Gail WronskyPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2017Number of Pages: 82 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Contemporary free verse poems about about living in Southern California near the Pacific OceanAuthor: Paul LieberPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2018Number of Pages: 132...

Keeping Tahoe Blue and Other ProvocationsAuthor: Andrew TonkovichPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A tornado drops a young woman, Mim, near a carnival. There, without her own memories but able to see other people's memories, she becomes entangled with the carnival boss and his intricate vendetta,...

A powerful collection of poems set in contemporary Los Angeles.Author: Carlie ParkerPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2016Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A book of nocturnes and ekphrastics, the poem of the dream and the poem as dream, Nightfall Marginalia abandons diurnal constraint as it flickers through lyric and narrative, abecedarian, OuLiPo,...

In a small town where the dead rise, a religious leader battles with his Christian faith and his love for those who love him--Author: Henry Elizabeth ChristopherPublisher: What Books PressPublication...

No, Don'tAuthor: Elena Karina ByrnePublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733378987ISBN-13: 9781733378987

One Strange CountryAuthor: Stella HayesPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0988924897ISBN-13: 9780988924895

Memories of a woman seeking change and forgiveness. The narrator and characters who speak for her unravel adventures and consequences over the course of decades--Author: Jan WesleyPublisher: What...

PyreAuthor: Maureen AlsopPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0984578269ISBN-13: 9780984578269

Remembering Dismembrance : A Critical CompendiumAuthor: Daniel Takeshi KrausePublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 172 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

What is the essence of a soul? These stories bring together characters who are searching for answers in relationships, at work, through nature, and in themselves. They may be damaged, grieving, and...

Collecting previously published flash fiction and prose poems, Skeletal Lights from Afar presents six galleries of enigmatic humans drifting towards destinations accidental and unknown--Author:...

Paul Lieber's "slow return" refers to his slow return to his 20's and perhaps a slow return to sanity from political turmoil of the 1960's, drugs, and a romanticized notion of suicide, all prompted...

In That Blue Trickster Time, Amy Uyematsu addresses her life as an older Japanese American woman--rooted in the ancestral wisdom of goddess and stones, her poems confront contemporary issues of...

A poetic correspondence between two contemporary women living in Venice, California.Author: Sarah Maclay, Mason HoladayPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2016Number of Pages: 148...

The Eight Mile Suspended CarnivalAuthor: Rebecca KuderPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0984578242ISBN-13:...

Reassembled contemporary free verse poems with Spanish translationsAuthor: Bill Mohr, Jose Luis RicoPublisher: What Books PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2018Number of Pages: 146 pagesLanguage:...

After insinuating himself into the company of a famous philosopher, an art student finds himself with an unexpected job. Aided by a driver with obscure motives, the student must chaperone the...