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by Kelly Cherry
"...a lissome and winning retrospective collection of essays
on writing, reading, and life."
— Booklist
"Cherry's story will prove inspirational to aspiring writers as will
her critical essays."
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Library Journal
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Selected by Conger Beasley Jr.
& Robert Stewart
Twenty essays, originally published in
New Letters, the international
magazine of writing and art —selected
from the past two decades of that journal—now in book form.
"An excellent exploration of family and culture."
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Library Journal
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by Valerie Fioravanti
These stories
charm, illuminate and intrigue. They provoke the
heart and
comfort the mind, and display the generosity and
wisdom
characteristic
of the best of short fiction. Long after turning
the last page,
the reader is part of the texture of these
worlds,
rocked in the fabric of the
writer's vision.
— Jacquelyn
Mitchard
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by Robert Day
Day’s smart
and lovely writing effortlessly animates his
characters, hinting at their secrets and coyly
dangling a glimpse of rich and story-filled lives in front
of his readers — Booklist
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by Laura Maylene
Walter
Walter’s debut collection …
focuses on the significance of memory and place,
the challenges of being an independent woman in
the modern world, and struggles with death and
grief … The collection offers well-crafted and
keen entertainment.
— Publishers
Weekly
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by Stephanie Powell Watts
This debut collection is stunningly pitch-perfect; these
voices will remain alive in your head long after you've shut the cover of
We Are Taking Only What We Need.
Each story seems, at the same time, to be a breath of fresh air and an
instant classic. There is nothing skimpy or faint-hearted in this
collection; the stories are full-bodied and whole-hearted. Stephanie Powell
Watts writes with spunk, eloquence, and grace.
— Marly
Swick
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by Hilary Masters
In
a whirl of historic fact, erotic mayhem, and comic suspense, Masters
ingeniously connects the bloodlust that drove the once
sky-filling passenger pigeon into extinction
with endangered forms of culture and love in an uproarious and wise inquiry into why
we destroy what awes and sustains us.
—Donna Seaman,
Booklist
(starred review)
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by Andrew Plattner
Plattner's stories always amaze me with delicacy, introspection, precision,
observation, and profound empathy. A Marriage of Convenience is a
masterful performance first to last.
—Frederick Barthelme
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by Mariko Nagai
Starkly recounted with a clear, cold tone, these stories carry the weight of
a survivor bearing witness.
—Publishers
Weekly
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by Mary Troy
An audience seeking a stately, involved read about human relationships and
the meaning of beauty—in all its forms will enjoy this beauty of a novel.
—ForeWord
Reviews
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by Perry Glasser
Glasser's funny and authoritative voice is
that of a sage storyteller, one in whose world good and evil often walk the
same tightrope. These are finely crafted and original stories. —Booklist
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by Lorraine M. López
"In a voice that is all at once hilarious and mischievous, seering and
seething and sardonic,
López presents, in her most necessary
book to date, a celebration of the liberating power of bad behavior."
— Heather Sellers, Georgia Under Water
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Tea and Other
Ayama Na Tales
by Eleanor
Bluestein
Bluestein brings a versatile, captivating voice to her debut
story collection set in the fictional Asian country of Ayama Na....Bluestein
explores with affection and a wicked sense of humor the excesses and arrogance
of American culture amid "a nation so much older, wiser, and sadder than
theirs."
—Publishers Weekly
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Our People
by Ian MacMillan
I am a great admirer of Ian MacMillan's writing, and all his
strengths are evident in the superb stories of Our People, all set in an
obscure if not forgotten corner of rural America—upstate New York, on small
farms and in conflicted families. They are distinguished by their powerful sense
of place and most of all for the grim humor of their humanity.
—Paul Theroux
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Love Letters from a Fat Man
by Naomi
Benaron
Each voice rings true. Each new world created in the
compressed length of the short story form is vivid and real. This is a book that
is rich in character, detail and unified by a vibrant prose style and an empathy
for it subjects. What's more, it is fun to read.
—Stuart Dybek
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Dream Lives of
Butterflies: Stories
by Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Jaimee Wriston Colbert’s new episodic novel-in-stories is a
jewel in both its form and its feeling, with layers of image and meaning as
intricately patterned as the dust on a butterfly’s wing. —Madison Smartt Bell
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A Garden Amid
Fires
by Gladys Swan
Nine stories...skillfully track time's toll on the ability to live and
love fully.
—Publishers
Weekly
Such precision of observation, such fineness of intonation! Uncannily
good.
—Fred Chappell
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Necessary Lies
by Kerry Neville Bakken
Bakken's quiet
exploration of life's bookends makes for an auspicious first outing.
— Publishers
Weekly
...Her stories are simple, straightforward American fiction that
works--making Necessary Lies a delight and something of a
rare bird.
—Los Angeles Times
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by Karen Holmberg
"Nature instructs,
consoles, and and endangers in these exquisite poems that ask what can be
salvaged from beauty and suffering...Intricate and breathtaking, the book is
a harrowing altar to the world's terrific shapes."
—Alice
Fulton
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by Christian Barter
"Christian Barter
writes about love and mortality and justice and, over and over, the
difficult and amazing fact of our separateness from everyone else...His lean
and expert poems are the real thing."
—James
Richardson
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by Richard M. Berlin
...these smart and
surprising poems aspire to nothing less than "the
chance to change the world."
—Peter
E. Murphy
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by Megan Harlan
A profound meditation on the permeability of
past and present, nature and artifice, self and other, space and time,
Mapmaking is a miracle of invention.
—Alice Fulton
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by Tony Barnstone
" Tony
Barnstone has revealed humankind’s capacity both for evil and for redemption
with a power that few writers have ever achieved."
—Robert Olen Butler
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A Concise Biography of Original Sin
by John Samuel Tieman
Honor and gratitude to John Tieman, our guide through Inferno, from Ypres to
Vietnam and beyond. Love mitigates hell's fury. The last page of A
Concise Biography offers the modest refreshment of love, "in this dream."
And we are grateful. Even so chancy and endangered, life prevails.
Paradiso!
—Daniel Berrigan
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Days Like This Are Necessary
by Walter Bargen
His voice is not the rarified voice of
the muse, nor is it the elusive voice of the academic. It is the voice of
the neighbor or the friend from the office, and in his poems one senses
always a highly intelligent mind finding in the everyday—in the fields or
streets, in the news of the world—a source of meaning and truth.
—Kevin Prufer
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Black Tupelo Country
by Doug Ramspeck
Ultimately, this shimmering collection of poems gives wings to the
spirit, teaching it not only to rise, but to stay centered and stand still
in order to hear the individual cry in the midst of the din.
—Vivian Shipley
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Airs & Voices
by Paula Bonnell
This is an enchanting book.—Richard
Wilbur
Paula Bonnell has a magic touch. — X.
J. Kennedy
Low-key but full of quirky insights that
keep Bonnell's poems fresh and interesting.
—Maxine
Kumin
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Cleaning a Rainbow
by Gary Gildner
[Gildner] reminds me of Randall
Jarrell’s praise for a language that even cats and dogs can read, the
hardest thing in the world to write well. Gildner is as good as a clear night for seeing things.—Dave Smith
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Wayne's College of Beauty
by David Swanger
"Wayne's College of Beauty evokes neighborhoods and
well-traveled paths....These poems are hard-edged and beautiful, an
exciting collection."
—Colleen J. McElroy
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The Book of the Rotten Daughter
by Alice Friman
"These are astonishing poems which fearlessly jump into hell and out
again, that resent or forgive, poems which wryly, exactly, and so
richly honor the world of the living."
—Marianne Boruch
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The Portable Famine
by Rane Arroyo
Proudly Puerto Rican and gay, well-traveled in the U.S. and Europe, and devoted to the modernist projects begun by Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, Arroyo (Home Movies of Narcissus, etc.) makes all those identities and commitments evident in his compact, intelligent and sometimes sexy seventh book.
—Publishers Weekly
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Streetfighting
by Daniel Donaghy
Streetfighting is a racy, sobering book about the vicissitudes of an urban childhood. Every poem has the ring of
authenticity—the observed, the suffered, the mourned—but only
because the language of every poem is wound tight as a fist.—James
Longenbach
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Circe, After Hours
by Marilyn Kallet
Marilyn Kallet's Circe, After Hours shines with a high-intensity light into the underworld of ordinary lives, creating bridges between the North and South, America and Europe, as well as a marriage between the brain's left and right hemispheres—reason and passion. In this marvelous collection, the process of art illuminates life's path.—Yusef Komunyakaa
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Fence Line
by Curtis Bauer
Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Christopher Buckley
These poems vivify the landscapes that remain with the one who leaves--and returns, changed.
—Robin Becker
Fence Line is a terrific book by a young poet with a unique voice and burgeoning powers.
—Thomas Lux
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Lake Erie Blue
by Susan Grimm
In Lake Erie Blue, Susan Grimm has created a vibrant and haunted city of desire lying along a great lake that ripples with mystery. She sings of the one place we know more and less about than any other: home.
—David Citino
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Prayer Against Famine and Other Irish Poems
by John Knoepfle
In this moving book of poems, John Knoepfle transforms a search for his Irish roots into a meditation on human suffering and survival. The whole book is a prayer against famine and the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on the innocent, both the Irish of the last century and the Central Americans of today.—Kathleen Norris
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