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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
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"A challenging collection of essays that demonstrate the vitality of
those on the margin—women and people of color—and reassert the value of
multi-ethnicity on America's intellectual landscape" —Seattle Times
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"The humor in the stories, as well as their thrill of realism, comes
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experience into enchanging prose." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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"Catie Rosemurgy is coming like a steam-roller. . . . She is bluesy,
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"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated
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“In these crisp, sharp-edged essays David Treuer dares to question the usefulness, let alone the validity, of the term ‘Native American Fiction.’” —Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Grey, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English Yale University
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An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by “an original new voice” ( Publishers Weekly) and the second winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
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The new collection by Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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The only definitive anthology of contemporary British poetry available in the
US
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" New European Poets collects, for the first time, the work of poets from the latter twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, together with new generations of translators of the poetry of Europe. For this impressive undertaking, for the knowledge, discernment and generosity of its editors, my gratitude is immense." —Carolyn Forché
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"Reading in it is like taking a leisurely stroll through the history of
writing in New York City alongside a brilliant local historian who is
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"Readers, listen up, then: Here is a book that makes some beautiful music." —Publishers
Weekly, starred review
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“You may never again see the American West in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge.” —Seattle Times
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Celebrated American poet Forrest Gander offers the brilliance of
Mexican poet Pura Lopez-Colomé in an exquisite English translation
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"Grover writes movingly of the North Country in the fine tradition of
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frankly, she is one of the most gifted new writers to come along in
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" Northern Waters is my favorite kind of fishing book: part
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fishermen the way we are. It is also a splendid celebration of the
north woods and their often imperiled magic." —Paul Schullery
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