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The mission of Tupelo Press is to publish thrilling, visually, and emotionally and intellectually stimulating books of the highest quality, inside and out. We concentrate on contemporary poetry, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction written by the most diverse list of emerging and established writers in the US, while emphasizing the extraordinary look, feel, and design of our books. |
2008 Snowbound Chapbook Award Finalists and Semifinalists Finalists Lisa Beskin - Belchertown, MA, Shadow
Globe Semifinalists Hadara Bar-Nadav - Kansas City, MO, Fable
of Flesh 2007 Dorset Prize Winner Announced Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that C. D. Wright has selected G.C. Waldrep of Lewisburg, PA winner of the 2007 Dorset Prize for his outstanding manuscript Archicembalo. He will receive $10,000, and his book will be published in 2009 and distributed internationally by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Small Press Distribution, and Tupelo Press. Finalists Beth Bachmann, Nashville, TN, Temper Tupelo Offers Free Reader's Companions
Tupelo Press is pleased to provide free, downloadable PDF Reader's Companions for Annie Finch's Calendars as well as Francine Sterle's Nude in Winter. Each is filled with essays that provide insight into the poet's creative process, their inspirations, as well as commentary from the individual poet. Questions help the reader learn more about the process of creating poetry, and the complex interaction between imagery and word. NEW BOOKS Selected Poems: 1970 - 2005 Tupelo Press is extremely pleased to announce the release of Selected Poems: 1970-2005 by Floyd Skloot. Selected Poems gathers 99 poems, Floyd Skloot’s selection of the finest work from his widely-praised five volumes of poetry. These poems show Skloot’s technical range and mastery of craft, his thematic development, and his growing maturity as a poet celebrating life while facing squarely its harsh challenges and sudden losses. Selected Poems allows a fresh assessment of this “poet of singular skill and subtle intelligence.” (Harvard Review) “Skloot continues to be a highly disciplined poet, confronting chaos to capture and tame this enemy. There is ferocity living in his forms, coexisting with the sweetness of vanquishing sentiment.” –Prairie Schooner “Poet, essayist, and memoirist Skloot writes about family matters, the mysterious realm of long-term illness, the natural world, and the nature of art in refulgent and compelling poems, finely constructed vignettes that celebrate life while harboring bracing visions of death.” —Booklist Tupelo Press is very happy to announce that Elena Karina Byrne's Masque is now available for purchase. In verse simmering with sensuality, Elena Byrne eloquently reveals, then carefully slices away, layer after layer of the masks we wear until our most secret selves are exposed. Pretense is overthrown in her exotic and electric imagery, irresistibly drawing the reader into an unabashedly intimate internal dialogue. “The Greeks highest compliment to Odysseus was to call him ‘myriad-minded.’ Shall we say of Elena Karina Byrne's amazing sequence that it is ‘myriad-masked?’ By turns poignant, intricate, ingenious — Byrne’s poems explore and dramatize the theme of mask into a multiplicity of insights and imaginings almost as rich as consciousness itself.” — Gregory Orr Tupelo Press is both excited and proud to say that Spill
by Michael Chitwood has arrived in the office. We have both a paperback ($16.95) as well as a limited edition, signed & numbered hardcover ($100.00). Spill is a book of spiritual yearning, grounded in the here and now of airport terminals, the backyard, a rainy morning, and a broken down church van. With finely honed, vibrant imagery, this poet’s audacious imagination chisels away at the mundane and unearths the miraculous in his eighth poetry collection. The book is divided into three sections. Chitwood’s distinctive vision begins simply, as he evokes an Appalachian upbringing mired in pious certainty and yet haunted by spiritual craving. We follow the pilgrim’s path in the following segment, as he attempts to wring holiness from the merely terrestrial, finding only fleeting glimpses of the divine. The final section turns contemplative, as the speaker tries to comprehend the course he has taken and find solace and wisdom in his journey. Tupelo Press is thrilled to bring Psalm
by Carol Ann Davis into publication. We have both a paperback ($16.95) as well as a limited edition, signed & numbered hardcover ($100.00). Psalm affirms what’s most essential to ordinary life and to artistic expression: the fact that one is permitted to walk the earth and partake of its wonders. Psalm searches for ways of verifying the world through art and experience. In a narrative arc, Psalm takes the poet from her father’s death to her son’s birth. In between are all the elements of the imagination: faith, art, music, culture. This world expands to include Vermeer’s nuns, Cornell on a bike ride on the Brooklyn promenade and the sound of Django Reinhardt all simultaneous to her son’s cries, his presence. The poet moves forward inside and then away from grief. Her lyric poems begin to furnish the afterlife, even as they do the time before birth. “There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.” — August Kleinzahler “Carol Ann Davis's poems are so precise they are almost hallucinatory. And in some poems she sets hallucination free. The precision is true, creating a marvelously jarring effect. She is always studying reality, with a microscope that creates sure distortions. There is a sad pageant going on in these poems, one that breaks your heart. And then gives you your life back all over again.” — James Tate Be sure to get the scoop on our forthcoming books. Signed First Editions Available Tupelo Press Tel: 802-366-8185, Fax: 802-362-1883 Last modified May 07, 2008 Copyright © Tupelo Press 2008 |
