Poetry. "In these remarkable and haunting poems, the figure of the child hovers between animal and human, between the socialized world of first persons and an other world"--Julie Carr.

Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus

Literature & Fiction

Abraham, Kristin

Poetry

Subito Press

Fiction. MY UNTIMELY DEATH is a collection of short prose pieces about a series of touching but absurd deaths. Death here doesn't simply mean the expiration of life, but a meandering through metaphors, similes, explanations, often hilarious, always poetic and spot-on in their language choice. "Wildly funny, poignant, exhilarating meditations that fracture and reassemble everything we know and believe about living and dying. Adam Peterson reinvents the notion of story here, dismantling the lines between genres and creating a gorgeous new kind of prose with voice that is simply irresistible. You can't stop reading this book again and again"--Jonis Agee.

My Untimely Death

Peterson, Adam

Poetry. "Nin Andrews' DEAR PROFESSOR, DO YOU LIVE IN A VACUUM? is a pioneer in epistolary poetry. With hilariously sublime results, her poems take the form of befuddled e-mails from struggling students to their physics professor. While Nin Andrews uses the line break the way comics use the punch line, the poems are also profound in their insights regarding power, male/female relationships, and spirituality. Nin Andrews has an insatiable, tender, and wry imagination"--Denise Duhamel.

Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum?

Andrews, Nin

With One's Own Eyes: Sherwood Anderson's Realities

Sherwood Anderson

Poetry. "L.J. Moore has written an ingenious, magical, and profound book that crosses a riveting personal and family history with science, history, linguistics, Gnosticism, the movie Edward Scissorhands, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which lends the book its title. Anagrams of that famous name appear as subtitles and offer clues to events so powerful they refuse to be spoken directly. Numerous clues leading to this secret have been dropped along the forest path of reading: homophones, double meanings, and a delightful, allusive style: 'from my pink springs/the red and white...I've been dressing in pink/but my bones are read/and my meat is white...'"--Paul Hoover.

F-Stein

Moore, L J

Fiction. "Tracy DeBrincat's audacious stories are all skewed angles and acrobatic language. Her characters, hungry for the authentic, don't necessarily find it where we'd think to look. The character who says she's 'naked as a lark' pretty much illustrates Debrincat's unpredictable style: candid, original—a lark!—and rich with anti-sentimental feeling."—Rosellen Brown

Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night

Tracy DeBrincat

Fiction. "Pelton's modern cover of this great 1853 American novella makes the mind toggle from Pelton to Melville and back. In the middle of this read a moving personal digression honors the universality of the iconic Melville story. Ah humanity! You speculate about Bartleby the Waitress, Bartleby the Bus Driver, Bartleby the ticket seller, and you burrow into the lonely faceless steeps of American night. This is a wonderful homage, humane and readable, an engrossing take on an oracular Melville work"--Steve Katz.

Bartleby, the Sportscaster

Pelton, Ted

Contemporary

Poetry. "Sandra Doller is a pinball wizard, her attention to ricocheting through America's flashy dystopias where, as she points out, 'The award goes/to the inventor of the situation/we're now in.' We pose briefly in the 'trauma tutu we've toted' and then we're off again 'like a Bumstead falling down a stair.' If you're looking for 'rested totality,' you won't find it. MAN YEARS keeps you up and ready for anything"—Rae Armantrout.

Man Years

Doller, Sandra

Fiction. "Marcus Pactor's debut collection of stories is nothing short of dazzling. The stories are fierce, funny, insightful and often lyrical without ever sacrificing the raw power of a character's voice. VS. DEATH NOISES takes us on a dark, bizarre journey where the ponderings of William Blake and John Locke become bedfellows with group sex and bondage, tears of grief are cried into a discarded thong, an infected toe is the catalyst for a discussion on intimacy and love. The characters in these stories are burdened with loss, uneasy love, mourning and an unceasing hunger to find some kind of meaning in their lives. This search for hints of meaning in the shape of a strand of hair on a bathroom counter, in an ice cooler full of caught fish, in the unsolved disappearance of a loved one forms the heart wrenching soul of this collection. In reading these stories, I blushed, I laughed, I found myself wonderfully uncomfortable and consistently awed by the originality of Marcus Pactor's style and voice. A brilliant collection!"—Owen Egerton

Vs. Death Noises

Pactor, Marcus

Poetry. WE HAVE WITH US YOUR SKY is a ransom note from the oppressor, a love note from the collective, and a cryptic indicator of the ability of language to express and destroy the self. The poems speakers are often trapped, abandoned, sardonic, clueless, murderous, obedient, and responsive; the kid speaks, and the grunt, the receptionist, the mother, the man. Exploring the textures of visual, verbal, aural, and chance meaning-making, the poems forge a consciousness intent on connection as much as destruction.

We Have with Us Your Sky

Hubbard, Melanie

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