"Playful, wry and tinged with melancholy, this promising debut
collection of 16 short stories nimbly sidesteps the tropes of gay
fiction....These are thoughtful, ambitious tales." —Publishers Weekly
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"Gioia deserves our praise for keeping the lyric impulse alive and well." —American Book Review
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A witty and fiercely original book about poetry, the body, and the life
of the artist by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners
and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney).
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"A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and
danger....It offers a unique perspective on the Holocaust, one that
captures its horror without missing the central characters' strength,
courage and passion." —USA Today
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The newest edition of an essential Holocaust love story
“A powerful and illuminating personal account.... Faithful inclusiveness, combined with a depth of feeling never minimized and never paraded, makes this strong, honest, affecting book a valuable addition to Holocaust literature.” —New York Times Book Review
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Selected by the Poetry Foundation from more than 1,600 submissions, The King’s Question is the winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, which recognizes an American poet over the age of fifty who has yet to publish a book of poetry.
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"A compelling and often hilarious dissection of narcissism in our time." —San Francisco Chronicle
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Albert Goldbarth's career-spanning signature style showcased in a new volume, his first retrospective in 14 years.
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The U.S. publication of the latest collection by Don Paterson, winner
of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and two-time winner of the T.S.
Eliot Prize
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“Original and beautifully written....Her journey is winding, but it ends at an important place for both reader and writer.” —Publishers Weekly
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“ Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty.” —Michael Cunningham
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"These are intelligent, perfectly honed poems...deliberately low-key,
exquisitely exact lyricism. Not one image thoughtlessly obtrudes." —Maxine Kumin
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The searing collection, a cult favorite for decades, by the late Thomas James
“Self-dramatizing, brilliantly imaginative, wildly sad, they long, with romantic futility, to be heard, reveling and wallowing in the wide spaces of their privacy.”
—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
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“A fiercely lyrical portrait of a father and son’s deeply scarred history. . . A Lie About My Father achieves an aching grace through his deeply reflective honesty about the huge untruths that bound him to his rage-prone working-class Scottish dad.” —Elle
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“Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself.” —C. K. Williams
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Selected by Sonia Sanchez as the 2005 winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, given to the best first collection by an African American poet.
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Now available in paperback!
Winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award, Vijay Seshadri’s extraordinary second
collection, The Long Meadow,
looks into and through our troubled world by means of a poetic
sensibility that transforms history into metaphysics and disaster into
possibility.
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Look There introduces American readers to a vital new poet, whose depth and verve have earned her an international reputation.
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"Nine loosely tales weave the experiences of three generations of
Japanese Americans in San Francisco into a subtle, appealing tapestry."
—Publishers Weekly
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"Tess Gallagher is an excellent writer of prose who savors the elegance of simplicity
and whose stories resonate and linger." —The New York Times Book Review
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"Cryptic... authoritative and vast—full of suspense, emotional urgency,
and shimmering imagery.... A nightmare tale of mother-love strong
enough to swallow a child whole." —Voice Literary Supplement
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"I was swept along by the beautifully constructed story of Anna and
Nasreddine, whose love survives a half century of war and terror in
post-colonial Algeria. Benmalek is a master of the poetics of
separation." —Alice Kaplan
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The Lyrics demonstrates why Fanny Howe is “one of the boldest lyric poets in the United States.” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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"Goldbarth marries emotions, thoughts, and events we never thought to
see in proximity to one another; through his genius we rediscover the
world's history and our own. No one else now is writing what Albert
Goldbarth gives us because no one else can." —Frederick Busch
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FORTHCOMING JUNE 2008
The new collection from poet Eamon Grennan, whose keen vision is “obsessed and suffused with light, befitting a poetry totally devoted to accurate observation and description.” ( The Irish Times)
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“The wondrous The Maverick Room, Ellis’s opus of sonic
site-specific artistry, reminds us of Ralph Ellison’s sampling of
Emerson’s observation that ‘geography is fate.’” —Michael Eric Dyson
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“Thank you Elizabeth Macklin for bringing to English readers the poetry of Kirmen Uribe written in the oldest European language. Macklin’s English, like Uribe’s Euskara is lyrical with a hard edge, sad and funny, rich in paradoxes. Uribe is a poet of consequence and Macklin has accomplished no small feat.”—Mark Kurlansky, author of The Basque History of the World
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"The Misunderstanding of Nature is a distinguished collection, one of the liveliest first books in years." —David Wojahn, Poetry
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*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award*
“Matthea Harvey's vision of America is spooky, apocalyptic, and beautiful: proof that there is wonder in even a dark time like ours.” —George Saunders
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"These poems are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers—songs
of love and loss, of pain and recovery: a touching, at times haunting,
reminder of what it means to walk through this life wide-eyed and
head-up, no matter the obstacles and impasses." —Robert Coles
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