Fiction. BURNT UMBER is a novel about two unforgettable artists--the German painter Franz Marc and the American sculptor Harry Baer--who struggle to express their personal vision of the defining moments of the 20th Century: the trenches of World War I, the liberation of the concentration camps, the turbulence of post-WWII Paris, the Civil Rights Movement, and Viet Nam-era Berkeley. "Green is a born storyteller"--the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Burnt Umber

Greene, Sheldon

Arts & Photography

Leaping Dog Press

All Weekend with the Lights On collects 14 of Mark Wisniewski's provocative and edgy stories. Each story explores its own sense of longing or loss, often related to the age-old battle between the sexes. Mark's deft narrative hand paints the vernacular voices of bookies and college students, of unpublishable authors and supernaturally proficient high school girl basketball players. The stories, while often focused on the vicissitudes of relationships, are crisp and incredibly funny.

All Weekend with the Lights On (Leaping Dog Press Book, # 2)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wisniewski, Mark

Mystery

Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen contains poems of funny, fleeting enlightenment ignited more by close, current, continuous observation of the ordinary than by assuming a permanent pinnacle of wisdom. Written in the voice of Shih-te, cook and janitor at Kuo-ch'sing monastery during the T'sang Dynasty and chum to the famed Han-shan (Cold Mountain), these lines spit fire and savor salt.

Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen

Literature & Fiction

Shaffer, Eric Paul

Poetry

In Greg Boyd's novel The Double, neither the protagonist nor his double can tell which one is the imposter and the fictions the protagonist reads seem more real than his own life. The novel proceeds through its mystery, while the protagonist, and the book itself, is taken over by interlocking fictions and fairy tales and photo collages and block prints that enter in footnotes and take about half of the book in the form of 14 appendices.

The Double (Doppelgangelganger): An Annotated Novel (Leaping Dog Press Book Series, Volume 4)

BOYD, GREG

Literary

"I gather the word / with my hands, carry them in my skirts," writes Kim Cope Tait in this beautifully structured and composed book, at once revealing a sensuousness about language and a need to possess language. Why? For one, this is a book where words like want, need, hunger, desire, and longing dominate a landscape that is incredibly present in its physicality. What a marvelous, smart, heart rending first book. Sometimes she seems like a reincarnation of Sappho gathering all love around her, sometimes an Odysseus searching for the love that eludes her. And maybe this is the secret of this terrific work, for it reveals our contradictory passions with a deft hand. In one poem she writes: "I don't / know how not to want what I / can't have. How not to be / the thing I am: a dandelion / gone to seed." Perhaps, but it is also true that here we have a poet whose seeds will grow anywhere, and especially in our hearts, from season to season, and beyond. -- Richard Jackson, author of Alive All Day and Heartwall Kim Cope Tait, like the troubadours who initiated the sestina verse form that provides her Element its architecture, knows how love is wholly sexual and present and, at the same time, wholly ideal and pure, and therefore unattainable but the stuff of who we are and who we know and how we love. -- Ralph Angel, author of Anxious Latitudes and Twice Removed

Element: Poems (LDP Chapbooks)

Tait, Kim Cope

'Twelve little machines to make death and failure,' Redonnet calls the twelve characters -- or the twelve stories -- we find in this book, and it's true: every tale we find here tells the same story, albeit in twelve different forms, the story of a kind of erasure, of disappearance and undoing, owing to the characters' fatal need to make of themselves a copy of another. -- From the translator's introduction

Understudies: Short Stories

Redonnet, Marie

Lahaina Noon is the moment when tropical sun shines straight down. No shadows darken that astonishing moment of illumination, and Hawai'i is where it happens. Lahaina Noon, Eric Paul Shaffer's fifth book, contains poems of Maui that reveal a clarity and sense of place as clear as lines of Billy Collins, profound as Gary Snyder, and direct as Jim Harrison.

Lahaina Noon: Na Mele O Maui: Poems

Eros in Sanskrit is a collection of lyrics and meditations on love written over the last thirty years. 'A word slinger with unstoppable chops, a spewer of jewels with the baddest ear in the hemisphere,' Kirpal Gordon playfully unites the prose

Eros in Sanskrit: Lyrics and Meditations, 2007-1977

Gordon, Kirpal

Fiction. BURN & LEARN is a wild tale of five friends attending college, drinking coffee at the Frontier Restaurant, and learning the wisdom of the ages, the era, and the street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This episodic novel begins where Laurence Sterne and Richard Brautigan left off, introducing a truly amusing and alluring wilderness of words through which readers can blaze their own glorious trails. The novel reveals all in thirteen modes ranging from mythology, science-fiction fables, American koans, Coyote tales, coyote chapters, BookMovie chapters, Missing Lists (and other relevant context), realistic narrative, encyclopedic entries enumerating the details of the Century of Technological Disaster, commentary concerning the Ideal Edition of the novel, a love story, a lost-love story, and parables of four monkish brothers residing in a cabin on the Continental Divide.

Burn & Learn: Memoirs of the Cenozoic Era

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Eric Basso (Randallstown, MD) is a native of Baltimore whose fiction, poetry, drama and essays have appeared in the Chicago Review, Fiction International, Central Park, Collages & Bricolages, Exquisite Corpse, and elsewhere.

Revagations: A Book of Dreams Vol. 1

Basso, Eric

Religion & Spirituality

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