The second volume in the Best Texas Writing series contains top-notch poems, essays, and stories by Edward Hirsch, Paul Christensen, Judith Kroll, Pattiann Rogers, Robert Phillips, Walt McDonald, Jack Myers, Matthew Sharpe, Kathleen Peirce, Dagoberto Gilb, Bruce Bond, Gillian Conoley, Lee Martin, Wendy Barker, Sheryl St. Germain, Joe Ahearn, Cooper Esteban, H. Palmer Hall, Frank Pool, Jan Epton Seale, Christopher Soden, Miles Wilson, Maureen P. Stanton, Carol Cullar, Larry Fontenot, Emily Fox Gordon, S. D. Lishan, Chinwe Odeluga, Laurel Speer, Denise Stallcup, Belinda Subraman, Christopher Woods, and Steve Wilson.

Best Texas Writing 2

Brian Clements, ed.

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Trompe L'Oeil

Ryling, Kristin

Willie is Kesler's undisguised alter ego, a Vietnam combat vet whose deck is stacked with rabid trick-or-treaters, nuclear terrorists, and grumpy VA hospital volunteers. Funny, touching, and uncannily relevant in light of current events, these poems remind us that the soldiers we send to fight our wars may go on fighting them for the rest of their lives.

The Book of Willie

Kesler, Charles

In 1001 numbered sentences, Denise Duhamel's innovative book extends notions of poetry, prose, and the poetry book. This long poem, which has been excerpted in some of the most exciting contemporary literary journals, combines an intense attention to the languages of desire and the mundane with sharp wit and a sharp eye for the ways American culture seeps into personal life.

Mille et un sentiments

Duhamel, Denise

Poetry. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE POEM clears a new path for students, instructors, and general readers interested in exploring the "ramshackle and unexpected... thoroughfare" [Campbell McGrath] of a hard-to-definte genre. Combining classic prose poets, young upstarts, and under-appreciated practitioners with an innovative structure (organized by compositional strategy), a useful introduction, and instructive headnotes, this anthology is a useful tool for the classroom but also provides what every poetry reader wants--a ton of great poems.

An Introduction to the Prose Poem

Literature & Fiction

Brian Clements

Jamey Dunham

Poetry

Poetry. HAD SLAVES by Catherine Sasanov is winner of the inaugural Sentence Book Award, which goes annually to a manuscript consisting entirely or substantially of prose poems or other hard-to-define work situated in the grey areas between poetry and other genres—work that promotes the mission of SENTENCE: A JOURNAL OF PROSE POETICS to extend the conception of what the prose poem is or can be. Written out of Sasanov's discovery of slaveholding among her Missouri ancestors, and the fragmented evidence left behind of the eleven men, women, and children held in their bondage, HAD SLAVES pieces together lives endured from slavery to Jim Crow across a landscape lost beneath big box stores, subdivisions, and tourist sites. Avoiding Gone with the Wind stereotype, Sasanov takes her readers to slavery's less expected locale: where big house means log cabin and plantation is a small grain farm with tarantulas mating in the corn. An unflinching look at a stumbled-upon past set in motion after finding the words, HAD SLAVES.

Had Slaves

Sasanov, Catherine

The Important Thing Is... Card Game

Humor & Entertainment

Tesser, Marjorie

Puzzles & Games

Seriously. Funny. Ever see a void in the world and think the only way to fill it is to produce a bi-annual humor journal that will expose the masses to the finest and freshest of literary humor? Well, so have we. And it is our pleasure to introduce Kugelmass, a bi-annual print journal created to publish ambitiously humorous stories and essays that are bigger, stronger, and faster than mere funniness.

Kugelmass: A Journal of Literary Humor No. 1

History & Criticism

Poetry. LGBT Studies. This book is not about Sinéad O'Connor or the gathering impulse of blue birds or the rotten plans of serge-robed men or Aunt Foxy's potted peppers. Even we, its progenitors, will see this book on a shelf somewhere someday and think: Now we will learn all there is to learn about Sinéad O'Connor and her coat of a thousand bluebirds, having forgotten the way human beings forget the importance of remembering. But Sinéad will always remain the ethereal Sin‚ad, and the path to the shorn woman with the songbird's throat will remain (un)regrettably undetectable. This is a book about songs. Detectable as blue birds against a white wall against a memory board that contains the only record of Bette Davis moshing. It's about Steve and Hector or impressions of them stumbling through storm weather. But it's really not about them, or their teddy bears. It's about our personal interior landscapes that fracture and wind around each other like a tornado winds around the wind. This book is about weathermen and pink-eyed women. And thermospheres. We have no idea what this book is about. Ask Sallie. Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds Sin‚ad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds

Sin‚ad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds

Seaton, Maureen

De La Flor, Neil

Aimee Bender, Yoni Brenner, Ellen Ferguson, William Giraldi, Ben Greenman, Dan Kennedy, Daniel Nester (and more!) make this one better than strong.

Kugelmass: A Journal of Literary Humor No. 2

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