Poetry. AN AMIABLE RECEPTION FOR THE ACROBAT, Jon Davis's sixth full-length collection of poems, is jarring and beautiful, and in both cases necessarily so. In her praise of its wisdom and irreverence, Pam Houston has described ACROBAT as "a map to hold in our hands as we fly off the end of the world." We advise keeping a copy handy.

An Amiable Reception for the Acrobat

Literature & Fiction

Davis, Jon

Poetry

Grid Books

Four Last Songs

Strong, Jonathan

Literary

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Yound Adult. Born amidst tragedy and implacable hatreds, the young Peter McCutcheon is denied his freedom, his birthright, and the fruits of his labors by cruel masters, and by a society and history which denies the truth. THE WAGES is a monument to individual courage and to the ongoing injustices caused by the suppression of memories and the oppression of people. It is also a powerful document of America's entanglement in slavery and vicious myths of race. The wages of sin, according to the Bible, is death. Fanny Howe's novel demonstrates that the wages of hate are pain, and a cost not always borne by the perpetrator, or even the current generation.

The Wages

HOWE, FANNY

United States

Poems exploring our most fragile points of connectionóto lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work--with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads.\n'Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the body to // give it what it wants,' Sexton writes in 'Between the Car and the Sea,' at once a description of a carís body propelling her onward, and of the poet herself, the one behind the wheel of this masterful fourth collection. In an extraordinary act of volition, the author does not stop at the trope of ambition, but powers instead toward the urgent concerns of the will, and intention. 
Poetry.

Drive

Sexton, Elaine

Pullman

McFarland, Joanne

New & Selected Poems

Althaus, Keith

Across a career that has spanned more than fifty years and produced more than a dozen novels, Jonathan Strong has long ruminated on the passing of time in relation to our experiences of youth and of aging. In Endpapers, he brings these themes together, face to face, in the characters of two short novels, Discourses, with Donkey and Playful and Thoughtful. Here, youth and age come into close contact and understanding, even while made to cope with the concerns of a larger world: from global pandemic to local gentrification; from impending political and natural disasters, to ruinous events already well underway. To wit, one character prompts us to wonder "if we're coming to think of our pasts as still happening, even when we're awake. Maybe decline is a process of mixing up time, past and present, of seeing our lives simultaneously as a whole thing."

Endpapers

Genre Fiction

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