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New in June: I Am Not Sidney Poitier and The Looking House
*Order any book online through the end of July, and Graywolf Press will donate a book to an organization that needs it, including places like Books for Africa, Girls Write Now, prisons, and libraries*
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
"Driven by the most sidesplitting dialogue this side of Catch-22, Everett's latest tells the story of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier who bears an uncanny resemblance to the famed actor. . . . Not only is the novel smart and without a trace of pretentiousness, it shows Everett as a novelist at the height of his narrative and satirical powers."
The Looking House by Fred Marchant
“In a time of a historical nightmare, Fred Marchant manages to give us
a lyrical impulse that consoles. Few American poets, these days, tell
us the truth. But Marchant’s new book gives us dwellings, tears,
tenderness, flood, escape. In a time of lies and mediocre ironies in
literature, here is the voice that is never afraid to say what matters.
This is the poetry of home, yes—but the many doors and windows in this
book first and foremost ‘teach the heart how to be a heart.’ I read
these poems with joy.”
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By Joe Coomer
Now available in paperback: The June 2005 Booksense Pick that The New Yorker calls "impossible to resist."
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By Sophie Cabot Black "The Misunderstanding of Nature is a distinguished collection, one of the liveliest first books in years." —David Wojahn, Poetry
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By Debra Spark "What begins as something of a ghost story, a shaggy-menorah story,
winds up being a profound meditation on human hauntedness, the
inevitability of ghostliness and grief. This is a beautiful, wise, and
enormously moving novel." —David Shields
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By Joseph Campana
In Joseph Campana's debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of
public consumption speak in the language of private devotion.
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By Jason Shinder
"I love these poems for their unbearable honesty. I love what these
poems say and I love the form in which they say it. Jason Shinder is
one of the finest of our new poets." —Gerald Stern
NEWS FROM GRAYWOLF PRESS:
Jason Shinder has received a 2007 Literature Fellowship from the NEA. This award encourages the production of new work by affording promising
writers the time and means to write. Each literature fellow receives a
$20,000 award.
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