Poetry. "Only some art knows how to teach us how to live, and in a way that we are willing, ardently willing, to be taught. Jean Connor's A CARTOGRAPHY OF PEACE is that kind of book. By turns 'wildly admiring' or 'sitting beneath the tutelage of the dark,' these poems take hold of me and sit me down in an attention to both language and the natural world that is riveting and wrought, silence-filled and sublime. 'Time to read/ something old/ deeper than August,' says the speaker in one poem. Yes. Indeed. Right here. This whole book"--Robin Behn.

A Cartography of Peace

Literature & Fiction

Connor, Jean L

Poetry

Passager Books

Poetry. Art. African American Studies. Visionary artist and poet Larnell Custis Butler writes: "To make my drawings, I sit still and get very quiet. Then, a name will come into my mind, and then a face, and then that person's story will begin to come through me, and I write it down." IMPROVISE IN THE AMEN CORNER is a stunning collection of 48 portraits and poems that testify to African American lives of deep vexation and amazing grace.

Improvise in the Amen Corner

Butler, Larnell Custis

Poetry. A HINGE OF JOY is Jean Connor's second collection of poems, published in her 90th year. "Jean Connor's pure and modest singing reminds me why I came to poetry in the first place"--David Huddle.

A Hinge of Joy

Poetry. "Norma Chapman's PERRIS, CALIFORNIA is pungent truth-telling, peopled by a call-girl cousin, ditzy aunts, grandmothers, lovers, her mother and father ('the fifth husband of his second wife'), in a voice unique to the time and this poet, the voice of a laconic rapier. These poems, often arising from the Great Depression and WWII, entertain, elucidate a life few readers will recognize, but all will revel in."--Gregg McBride "In her uncompromising gaze at the realities of age and life and death, Chapman's poems reveal the immense vitality of a lively mind and give no quarter to the solemn pieties."--Jean Norhaus

Perris, California

Chapman, Norma

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. BURNING BRIGHT: PASSAGER CELEBRATES 21 YEARS presents over one hundred of the most memorable and distinctive poems, stories and memoir published in Passager, the oldest literary journal in the country dedicated to promoting older writers. Sections include: Old age, War, Sex and Love, Generations, the Body, Death, and Time. Writers in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s give powerful expression to their lives.

Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years

History & Criticism

Poetry. Latinx Studies. PRAYERS OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE is a debut collection by a new poet and first generation Mexican American, Gilbert Arzola. Arzola's humble, penetrating voice invites us into his story with poems about growing up poor and Mexican in an all-white neighborhood as well as poems about family, the self, and people in his life he has lost. Love and determination emanate from every page.

Prayers of Little Consequence

Arzola, Gilbert

United States

Poetry. Women's Studies. Poet Moira Egan finally turned fifty, and her poetic journey has gotten ever sweatier and sexier. In her latest collection, HOT FLASH SONNETS, she explores the sultry joys and humorous indignities of becoming a woman of a certain age.

Hot Flash Sonnets

Egan, Moira

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. California Interest. BEYOND LOWU BRIDGE tells the story of a young Chinese-American's "return" to a country he had never seen and the experiences of his family during two turbulent decades of life in Mao's China. It is a gripping story that brings to light the way human beings make choices that affect only their own lives but the lives of those we love.

Beyond Lowu Bridge

Tsung, Roy Cheng

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Jewish Studies. In this heartbreaking, hilarious memoir, Nancy Davidoff Kelton takes us from the gray house of her Buffalo childhood with a depressed mother who was in and out of "the nervous hospital," to the often daunting but never dull world of dating as a divorced mom in Manhattan.

Finding Mr. Rightstein

Davidoff Kelton, Nancy

Parenting & Relationships

Poetry. The poems in A SUNDAY IN PURGATORY combine memoir, reflections on aging, sexuality, and wrestling with the tension that exists between being part of a famous American family and wanting to be an individual, separate from family history. Morgenthau writes, "In these precious days I dress my private demons in scribblings to come out from behind the shadows that have darkened my long and privileged life…in a purgatory where I wait to pass through the open gates." 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian calls these poems "crisp, elegant forays into memory both personal and cultural…His surgical examinations of self and his unflinching stare into mortality define the unique and honest voice of this remarkable first book of poems."

A Sunday in Purgatory

Morgenthau III, Henry

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