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Publication Date: November 2011
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Babel's Moon
by Brandon Som
Winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award, Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Babel’s Moon eulogizes an immigrant grandfather, and in doing so explores boundaries that are at once geographic, historical, and cosmological. Brandon Som’s first book moves between vigorously detailed descriptive poems and austere, atmospheric lyrics as he finds new ways of reaching for (and even crossing) the horizons.
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Brandon Som holds degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Creative Writing and Literature program at the University of Southern California. Recent work has been published in Best New Poets 2007, McSweeney’s Poets Picking Poets, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. |
Publication Date: October 2011
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Have
by Marc Gaba
In Marc Gaba’s poems, austere typography reveals by suggestion, never declaration. In phrasing and imagery as precise as pencil drawings, the page’s white spaces are as active with import as what is visible. Have swerves formally among varied styles, constructing and awakening through the sign-language of a physical book an irrefutable question: Could any of us say that our life is our own?
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Marc Gaba is from Quezon City, Philippines, where he continues to live. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Also a visual artist who has had solo and group exhibitions, he is curator of the art gallery Krem Contemporary Art. Previous publications include two chapbooks and Atomic Neutral, a single-edition collection of poems published as part of an exhibit, Birdsounds. |
Publication Date: October 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-936797-11-0
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Nothing Can Make Me Do This
Novel by David Huddle
Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman’s family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. Nothing Can Make Me Do This, David Huddle’s tenth work of fiction, enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others over fifty years, leaping in chronology an intersecting the vantage points, in a kaleidoscopic vision of a contemporary clan (and their secrets).
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Currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University in Virginia, David Huddle taught for thirty- eight years at the University of Vermont and continues to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English. He has published seventeen books of fiction, poetry, and essays. His novel The Story of a Million Years (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) was named a Distinguished Book of the Year by Esquire and a best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In 2012, LSU will publish his seventh poetry collection, Black Snake at the Family Reunion. |
Publication Date: September 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-936797-05-9
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Cream of Kohlrabi
by Floyd Skloot
Floyd Skloot’s new book gathers sixteen stories that combine unsentimental comedy and forceful emotion. As in his award- winning poetry and memoirs, Skloot’s fiction shows how individual people, families, and communities face the starkest of challenges, including bodily maladies, the most harrowing of which often come with aging. Yet alienating experience can lead to moments of powerful intimacy, as dark times are lit by sudden incursions of love and hope, and a yearning for community summons poignant expression.
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Floyd Skloot is the author of seventeen books, including two volumes of poems from Tupelo Press and the acclaimed memoirs In the Shadow of Memory (2003) and The Wink of the Zenith (2008). The stories in Cream of Kohlrabi originally appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ontario Review, North American Review, Glimmer Train, Witness, and other magazines. He and his wife, the artist Beverly Hallberg, live in Portland, Oregon. With his daughter Rebecca Skloot, he edited Best American Science Writing 2011. |
Publication Date: September 2011
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Traffic with Macbeth
by Larissa Szporluk
A buffeting sequence of dramatic monologues that provoke and disturb, Larissa Szporluk’s Traffic with Macbeth evokes a dark world linked to the black magic of Shakespeare’s tortured Scottish assassin, usurper of kings. Baroque in their sweep of high style and low slang, melody and dissonance, these poems use shifting animate and inanimate speakers and surrealist leaps to convey human brutality, the vulnerability of women and children, madness, and the struggle to escape the limitations of this world.
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Larissa Szporluk is the author of four previous books, including Embryos & Idiots (Tupelo, 2007). Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she studied literature and writing at the University of Michigan, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of California–Berkeley, and the University of Virginia. She is an associate professor at Bowling Green State University. |
Publication Date: August 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-936797-00-4
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Atlas Hour
by Carol Ann Davis
Atlas Hour is a collection of poem-maps whose cosmology embraces the works and lives of the painters Vermeer and Mark Rothko, Fra Angelico and Gerhard Richter, the anonymous child-artists of the Nazis’ Terezin transit camp and the poet’s own children. Sifting and selecting moments in history and in the annals of art, these poems bring the stuff of everyday into relationship with the great mysteries of existence: what we believe, who we love, whom and what we choose to hurt or leave unharmed.
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Carol Ann Davis’s first collection Psalm appeared from Tupelo Press in 2007, the same year she was awarded a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent work has appeared in Volt, Agni, and The Threepenny Review. She directs the undergraduate creative writing program at The College of Charleston in South Carolina and serves as co-editor of the journal Crazyhorse. |
Publication Date: July 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-932195-95-8
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Sanderlings
by Geri Doran
Like the wading birds of the title, the poems in this collection find their sustenance in the ground, tilling the earthly measure, even as they lift questions toward the heavens. Summoning the pastoral and the oracular by turns, the poems of Sanderlings achieve a preternatural rapture, both sensual and learned.
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Geri Doran’s first poetry collection, Resin (LSU, 2005), was selected by Henri Cole for the Academy of American Poets’ 2004 Walt Whitman Award. Sanderlings was chosen twice as runner-up for Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky (2009) and Jane Hirshfield (2010). She has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Oregon Literary Arts. Raised in Montana, she holds degrees from Vassar College and the University of Florida and has also studied at Clare College, Cambridge, and Stanford University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene. |
Publication Date: May 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-932195-97-2
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Circle's Apprentice
by Dan Beachy-Quick
After a series of book-length poems, Beachy-Quick's new volume is as carefully structured as a suite of chamber music pieces, yet made of distinctly individual poems. Building upon the visceral and conceptual fascinations of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Circles," these poems trace patterned tensions to connections in existence on many levels, from molecular to millennial.
Dan Beachy-Quick's splendid new collection reveals the echoes between the measure of verse and the measure of time. If it is true, as Thoreau suggests, that the poem of creation is ongoing, this ambitious and prolific poet shows us that learning to listen for that music of daily life involves a lifetime. Circle's Apprentice vividly reminds us that all our human life may be marked by ritual but is returned to us through song. 'The minute gears mutely whir. / To put your ear / against it is to put your ear inside it.'—Susan Howe
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Born in Chicago, Dan Beachy-Quick grew up in Colorado and upstate New York, and now teaches writing and literature at Colorado State University. He is author of four previous books of poems, North True South Bright (Alice James, 2003), Spell (Ahsahta, 2004), Mulberry (Tupelo, 2006), and This Nest, Swift Passerine (Tupelo, 2008); two chapbooks Mobius Crowns (with Srikanth Reddy: P-Queue, 2008) and Apology for the Book of Creatures (Ahsahta, 2008); and a hybrid-prose companion to Melville’s Moby-Dick, A Whaler’s Dictionary (Milkweed, 2008). |
Publication Date: April 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-932195-94-1
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Fasting for Ramadan
Essays by Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali's searching descriptions of the Ramadan sensibility and its arduous but liberating annual rite of communal fasting is sure to be a revelation to many readers — intellectually illuminating and aesthetically exhilarating.
Fasting for Ramadan is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramadan for purgation and prayer. Estranged in certain ways from his family's cultural traditions when he was younger, Ali has in recent years re-embraced the Ramadan ritual, and brings to this rediscovery an extraordinary delicacy of reflection, a powerfully inquiring mind, and the linguistic precision and ardor of a superb poet.
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Born to Indian parents living in England and raised in Canada and the United States, Kazim Ali has worked as a political organizer, lobbyist, yoga instructor, and professor. He is the author six previous books of poetry and prose including the mixed-genre book, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), which was a finalist for both the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry and the Lantern Award for Memoir. Founding editor of Nightboat Books, he now teaches at Creative Writing and Literature at Oberlin College and in the University of Southern Maine’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts program. |
Publication Date: March 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-932195-92-7
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Severance Songs
by Joshua Corey
Winner of the Dorset Prize
Selected by Ilya Kaminsky
In his third full-length book of poems, Joshua Corey puts the sonnet to the test with this sequence of fractured, ventilated, and unrhymed poems written in the aftermath of 9/11 while Corey was living at a pastoral remove from war and terror in upstate New York. The tension between idyllic personal circumstances and horrific world-historical events led Corey to produce this series of layered poems, variously sardonic and sincere in tone.
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Joshua Corey graduated from Vassar College in 1993 and earned an M.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Montana. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship in creative writing from Stanford University in 1999, and received his Ph.D. in English from Cornell University in 2007. He is the author of Selah (Barrow Street, 2003), Fourier Series (Spineless Books, 2005), and two chapbooks. He teaches at Lake Forest College in Illinois. |
Publication Date: February 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-932195-93-4
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Manoleria
by Daniel Khalastchi
Winner of the Tupelo Press / Crazyhorse First Book Prize
Under the influence of broadcasts such as public radio's "Marketplace" (a daily roundup of stock reports and business news), Daniel Khalastchi composed a series of character-driven poems whose recurrent narrator is physically and mentally manipulated while the world around him takes little notice. Through their chaos and horror, these poems ask a reader to question the ways in which our careening healthcare system, crumbling financial/housing/job markets, and war on multiple fronts are actually affecting us — both inside and out.
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Born and raised in Iowa, Daniel Khalastchi is a first-generation Iraqi Jewish American. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a recent fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he is currently the Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Certificate in Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City and is a co-founder and editor of Rescue Press. |
Publication Date: January 2011
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ISBN: 978-1-932195-58-3
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Lucky Fish
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Lucky Fish travels along a lush current — a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, “new hope,” and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for “my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew,” anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet’s third collection of poems is her strongest yet.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil is also the author of Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003), winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year Award, and At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo, 2007), winner of the Balcones Prize. She was awarded a 2009 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Global Filipino Award and has twice served as a faculty member with the Kundiman Asian-American writers’ retreat. She is an associate professor of English at SUNY in Fredonia, where she lives with her husband and two young sons. |