Poetry. In the tradition of poets such as Anne Waldman and Sandra Alcosser, Anderson Moseman charts a landscape of identity for the 21st century. She bends language and literary practice to look at contemporary life through numerous cultural and historical prisms. "Fierce with wit, drunk with language, alive with passion and intellect"--Judith Johnson.

Persona

Literature & Fiction

Moseman, Lori Anderson

Poetry

Swank Books

Fiction. Go west with this cowboy movie novel. MacLean recreates the road book and reimagines archetypes of the American West, mixing cyber espionage, marital failure, teen anarchy, and film violence. At once a page-turning mystery, an anatomy of friendship, and a postmodern homage to screen classics. "A witch's brew of marital failure, cyber espionage, teenage anarchy, and the violence of the American Western"--Eugene Garber.

Blue Winnetka Skies

MacLean, Ron

Contemporary

Poetry. Ride their intwined rhythms of doo-wop salsa through decades of celebration and confrontation in Esperanza Malave Cintron's lyric portrait of Midwest mestizos, a scared, sacred, soaring interface between her Puerto Rican self and her African-American self. "CHOCOLATE CITY LATINA is an important collection ... that speaks to biculturality and biraciality in poignant, powerful and haunting ways"--Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes.

Chocolate City Latina

Cintron, Esperanza Malave

Fiction. SPINNING WILL is the story of a woman's journey to awareness as she comes to understand her long-term -- and mostly long-distance -- affair with a married man. We follow Nora on a cross-country exploration away from California, away from Will, to small town, upstate New York where her fresh start is challenged by Will's reemergence. SPINNING WILL follows the logic of memory; each recollection from Nora is a key that opens a door in a self-reflective journey toward a new life. "SPINNING WILL is a wonderfully seductive book, a tale whose hypnotic language migrates between the rocky California coast and the slow, steady flow of the Hudson River, between the sorrow and exuberance of leaving one life for another"--Joyce Hinnefeld.

Spinning Will

Woods, P.M.

Fiction. A smart, witty, wise novel of the hood that even comes with its own hip-hop soundtrack. Original soundtrack CD includes the likes of Mobb Deep, Big Twin Gambino, Big Noyd, Godfather, Chinky, Kice, Mental Case, Stamma Ramma, Dinny Bananaz, Prophecy, Davinci, Un Pacino, and others. "Todd Craig's writing can hold more weight than the mighty 59th Street bridge during rush hour. He is a combo of Zora Neale Hurston and Bonz Malone. A classic slice of New York pizza. Hold the swine"--Bobbito Garcia. "This book should be required reading"--Geoffrey Canada, President/CEO, Harlem's Children's Zone.

Tor'Cha

Craig, Todd

United States

Fiction. Fifteen stories, at once playful and serious, simple and layered, familiar and not. Gertrude Stein and Buffy the Vampire Slayer track down the bridal party to save a Las Vegas wedding. An ambivalent geneticist disappears himself in Texas scrub country. A five-year-old in search of her lost mother walks a high-wire between her home and her lesbian neighbor's. These are stories about people yearning for connection with each other, with themselves, with whatever lies beyond.

Why the Long Face?

Poetry. "Processes seemingly mundane--working, paddling, running--become testaments to difficulties in human experience and to the stamina it takes to write our way through them... Anderson Moseman examine[s] domestic spaces, ancestral and generational connections, gender roles, international discord..."--Deborah Poe.

Temporary Bunk

O Amazonas Escuro, second in Eugene K. Garber's Eroica Trilogy, has earned the praise of noted anthropologist Gary Gossen: "Fasten your seatbelts for a wild ride! In this extraordinary book, Eugene Garber juxtaposes a parody version of an Indiana Jones-type adventure among Amazonian Indians (the Other) with a profound reflection on several great themes in Western philosophy (Ourselves)." Exactly. Who would have expected to hear the voices of such as Jung, Luce Irigaray and Nietzsche resounding with those of howler monkeys in the forests of Amazonia? Myth, botany, theology, sexual shapeshifting, all jostle against each other in this wildly imaginative novel. K, the hero of the novel, a scientific anthropologist, is hell bent on bringing rational order to his descriptions of the culture of a tribe of Amazonian indigenes. But the tribe will not have it so, persisting in its mythological treatments of sky, river, animals and self. Nor will outside visitors to the tribal compound, bringing with them botanical passions, wounds of war, erotic obsession, and cinematographic exploitation. Meanwhile, looming over the entire enterprise are spirits of clashing ideals, resonant voices of western thinkers from Plato to Derrida. And if these disruptions were not enough to shatter K's project, there is Korakama, the tribal magus, master of enchantments, curses, spellbinding rhetoric and potent violence. And so the novel plays out its intense conflicts, K doggedly rational, the world around him rife with irrationality. Inevitably there comes in the final chapter an eruption as memorable as any in recent fiction.

O Amazonas Escuro

Eugene K. Garber

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