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Poupeh Missaghi | Coffee House Press | 9781566895651 | February 2020
“Powerful writing. . . . Throughout her searing novel, Missaghi not only
seeks to map the spaces that are left over when those who occupied those spaces
are gone, but also questions whether her cartography can be a memorial to the
lost.”—Star Tribune
Constantly
GG | Koyama Press | 9781927668726 | January 2020
“GG brings craft and insight to an
intimate vignette of depression and anxiety.”—Broken Frontier
Sports is Hell
Ben Passmore | Koyama Press | 9781927668757 | February 2020
“[E]very moment in Sports Is Hell
is a loaded metaphor for race relations in America, and they’re all laid out
easily and deeply.”—Multiversity
“Amid the story’s chaos and the exhausting noise of politics today, Sports
Is Hell provides an unexpected clarity on the complex schisms of modern
American culture while serving up a ton of laughs.”—Broken Frontier
“This tale is a myth without a moral — which makes it a dead-on parody
of the good-and-evil, triumph-and-tragedy narratives fostered by organized
sports.”—Wisconsin Public Radio
Hull
Xandria Phillips | Nightboat Books | 9781643620084 | October 2019
“Vast in both ambition and scope, striving to capture the depths and
complexity of queer diasporic African identity in verse that is as fierce as it
is tender and searing as it is celebratory. And, like the oceanic waters of the
Middle Passage that serve as its fulcrum, Hull has immeasurable depths
and dangers swirling beneath its surface.”—Adroit Journal
This
Is Play
Julia Luckenbill, Aarti Subramaniam, and Janet Thompson | The National
Association for the Education of Young Children | 9781938113536 | October 2019
“A much-needed addition to the literature written
for early childhood educators. The book is easy to read, provides many concrete
examples, and is inclusive of the varied needs of children.”—Teachers
College Record
Gather & Nourish: Artisan Foods – The Search for Sustainability and
Well-being in a Modern World
3DTotal Publishing/Canopy Press | 9781909414853 | March 2020
“A theme that runs through the book: the joy of
making things with our hands, of learning and inventing, and thus of making a
bridge between the products of nature and human society… Gather & Nourish
is a beautiful gift book, but it is also a political document.”—Food
Society
Safe
Houses I Have Known
Steve Healey | Coffee House Press | 9781566895613 | September 2019
“The
poems are immediate. They bring human reality to code words, clandestine terminology,
ruse and deception. . . . Throughout we discover Healey’s superlative skill in
conveying emotion through poetry.”—Decatur Daily
SPEECH
Jill Magi | Nightboat Books | 9781643620077 | September 2019
“It
is unsurprising to learn that Magi is also a weaver, knitter, and sewer. You
feel this quality in the way her impossible citizen walks—or, better yet,
weaves—through the city, pulling its various histories and injuries into this
text. A true cosmopolitan may, perhaps, be a loom. Maybe Magi’s impossible
citizen isn’t not possible, but rather, her ways are unrecognized. Her manner
is to create.”—Ploughshares Blog