The poems in Karaoke Funeral searingly explore the most familiar issues of human relationships–love, desire, loss, moving on. They cover no new ground, yet this is their strength; they uncover the ground that buries what we don’t want to see in ourselves, in those we love, and in those we once loved. Tania Rochelle, in her deft and powerful voice, writes with forensic specificity about affairs of the heart and of the family, and she also writes with great honesty, humility, and a sense of humanity rare in American poetry today, and we are richer for them. –Marty L. Williams

Karaoke Funeral

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Rochelle, Tania

Literary

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Wilby Coleman

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Zimmerman, Lisa

"Wry, sly, and endlessly inventive, Dwight Yates's story collection explores familial love, fragile love, finished love. His stories tease a subtle slide of recognition down a reader's vertebrae, and a half-smile of remembrance at the trombones of our former lives." -Susan Straight The author's first collection of stories, Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones, received the Kennedy award, and his second, Bring Everybody, The Juniper Prize. He has been awarded two fiction fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Yates lives in Redlands, California.

Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones: Stories by Dwight Yates

Dwight Yates

"An inside/outside dance by a brilliant mathematician/poet whose wisdom makes the everyday world shine and whose heartfelt joy fills you with happy cheer. A book of stunning poems like "Arrhythmia," "Entropy Is Increasing," "The Good Patient," "Dispatch to My First Love" with its shimmeringly ironic announcement about love being over: It's a good thing since loving a memory / is a terrible waste of paper. Or the poem about wanting what we can't have from which the title comes and shows the whole book to be spectacularly double-sided: If I could have, I would have learned how / to dance from inside my bones. Warm and witty, revelatory and mysterious, it's a book of charm and talent--readable and rereadable page after page." --F. D. Reeve

Dance From Inside My Bones

Lana Hechtman Ayers

Poetry

Cowboy Boots and Pony Tales

Dean Poling

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Kathy Flann

Waiting for Willie is the tale of Jesse Parker, a young boy haunted by the dead father he barely remembers. Jesse's mother rarely mentions her late husband. Jesse s maternal grandmother has only bad things to say about the man. An old stack of Willie Nelson tapes are among the few things adding color to Jesse's faded memories of Daddy.

Waiting For Willie

Review\nOne could not hope for a more engrossing, intelligent and bracingly honest memoir on this problematic subject. I ate it up. --Phillip Lopate\nAs I was whisking my way through Jean Braithwaite's extraordinary memoir, I started writing down all of the reasons I admired it and found it such a joy to read. Here's but a short section of a long list: brilliant, profound, honest, funny, deeply moving, artistic triumph . . . and so on. This is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. --Robert Whitaker\nReading this wrenching (yet beautifully restrained) memoir, I experienced that rare shock of literary recognition Jean Braithwaite says things, publically, I was sure only I had thought in the privacy of my own mind. Anyone who has cringed when complimented for losing weight, anyone who can t help but hear the implicit critique (Was I really that bad before? Do you actually think I m a better person, now?) will be profoundly moved by this book. Though her experiences with her body many seem more extreme than many people s, Braithwaite s story can help readers understand their own experiences we all want to be considered desirable, and we all live in a culture that corrodes and corrupts that want. Braithwaite s intimately personal story contains a compelling argument: collectively, we seriously misunderstand weight loss and gain, and the error in the way we perceive what a healthful body should look like has devastating consequences. For all of us. --Erin Stalcup

FAT: The story of My Life With My Body

Jean Braithwaite

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