The
Urban Forager
Elisa Callow | Prospect Park Books | 9781945551420 | March 2019
“The Urban Forager [has] a
sentimental quality more reminiscent of spiral-bound church cookbooks and
tea-stained notecards stuffed in recipe boxes than the glossy, full-bleed,
uber-designed volumes in bookstores today. That’s exactly the point. It
showcases the heterogeneity of these neighborhoods while reflecting the ways
that most home cooks actually cook.”—Los
Angeles Review of Books
River
Esther Kinsky | Transit Books | 9781945492174 | September 2018
“Pondering the intricate meaning of words, especially those learned through a
second language—and with it the acquisition of new understanding—is a recurrent
feature in River. A feature every translator and conscious language learner
will be familiar with.”—Reading in
Translation
Doomstead
Days
Brian Teare | Nightboat Books | 9781643620022 | April 2019
“Teare writes that ‘it was the first disaster / I could walk to’ and this
recognition is crucial. It collapses the vast scale of climate change to
intimate distance, acknowledging that human consciousness, despite its abstract
capabilities, is most alive to what it can touch. It also refers to his writing
method: to walk, notebook in hand, recording what he sees, following footpaths
into thought paths.”—Colorado Review
Space
Struck
Paige Lewis | Sarabande Books | 9781946448446 | October 2019
“Online, month by month, I watched it happen: a new genre of poem was emerging,
but I had no clue who was responsible. . . . What looked like a genre, I soon
realized, was all the handiwork of one poet. Their name is Paige Lewis. . . .
Don’t doubt them.”—Poetry Magazine
Mentors
Francis M. Naumann | DoppelHouse Press | 9780999754467 | June
2019
“Naumann’s writing is entertaining and authentic. He sings the praises of those
who formed his own character as well as embraces their flaws. From the
bordellos to the classrooms and from high rises to high on the hills of France
and Italy, this story offers a unique and riveting view into the world of art
history and the people therein.”—Seattle Book Review
Wounds
into Wisdom
Tirzah Firestone | Monkfish Book Publishing | 9781948626026 | June 2019
“Wounds into Wisdom fairly glows with
the light that sometimes emerges from a charismatic teacher, but Rabbi Tirzah
Firestone is also hard-headed, plainspoken and, above all, deeply courageous.
This is not a touchy-feeling self-help book; rather, it is a stirring call to action.”—Jewish
Journal
“Muslim”:
A Novel
Zahia Rahmani | Deep Vellum Publishing | 9781941920756 | June 2019
“Rahmani’s ‘Muslim’ extends
beyond her and her time. Her book is about how outcasts are made by society
with accusatory fingers, pointing at what could be a religion, an ethnicity, a
community.”—Asian Review of Books
Blood
Sisters
Kim Yideum, trans. Jiyoon Lee | Deep Vellum Publishing | 9781941920770 | July
2019
“Blood Sisters poses a hugely
important question about how we narrativize our experience of the world as we
experience it, in private and public spheres—how we negotiate our sense of self
and our sense of others; how we make sense of a historical event that an
individual cannot possibly experience in full.”—Asymptote Journal
Re-Bisoning
the West
Kurt Repanshek | Torrey House Press | 9781937226985 |
September 2019
“Impressively informative and exceptionally well written . . . an
extraordinary and detailed history of species restoration of paramount
importance for community and academic library collections, as well as the
personal reading lists of the non-specialist general readers with an interest
in the subject.”—Midwest Book Review
Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays from Washington, DC, and Beyond, 1997—2017
Antonia Tricarico | 9781617757198 | Akashic Books | June 2019
“Unique and highly recommended.”—Midwest Book Review
Chicken Rising
D. Boyd | Conundrum Press | 9781772620344 | April 2019
“As visually accomplished as it is emotionally blunt.”—NB Media Co-op