הוצאת Coffee House Press
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In her first book of poetry since 1993's groundbreaking The Book of Medicines, Linda Hogan locates the intimate connections between all living things and uncovers the layers that both protect and disguise our affinities. like the tree I can lose myselflayer after layerall the way ... |
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Rosa Guy’s tropical retelling of "The Little Mermaid" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Desiree, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class family feels that Desiree’s skin is too dark and her family ... |
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A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by David Shapiro “The whole / world is synonyms,” says Sarah O’Brien in a debut collection that contemplates the art of photography and dwells in the many essences of light. Each poem is a miniature snapshot that locates the r... |
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Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is—quite literally— authoring his own downfall. From his ... |
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In search of the key to unlock a great family mystery, Lemon Leopold, a Hollywood starlet, and her cousin Eliza, a romance writer, go to Berlin. Soon they are on a trail that leads back to their great-grandfather, Jozef Apfel, a Jewish pioneer of psychoanalysis in early twentieth-century Germany.... |
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A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by John Yau These poems spin tales of traveling in a world both romantic and politicized, a world miniaturized by globalization and haunted by the figure of the cosmopolitan, who is aware of its saturated history, yet inspired by the knowledge ... |
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Titled after a Jackson Pollock painting at once figural and abstract, this collection spans nearly fifty years of Bill Berkson's poetry in all its deftness and variety. His poems, full of nuance, intensity, and exuberant wit, spread meaning across the page like quicksilver. Engaging in a mix of t... |
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“If you want to know what the ’60s really were about, you’ll find out between [these] covers.”—The Kansas City Star “[Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century] restores Edward Sanders to his rightful place at... |
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"Open Line is an eerie urban fable, a cautionary tale told in [Ellen] Hawley's swift and commanding voice."-Heather McElhatton, author of Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel Annette Majoris is a late-night radio host spinning her wheels in flyover land. Her big personality... |
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Lauded by Michael Ondaatje as an "unforgettable" writer and praised by The Washington Post for her ability to capture "the subtlest shades of the emotional palette," Eleni Sikelianos now charts the curvature of growth and time, encompassing the bewilderment and delight of a new parent, whi... |
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In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling... |
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The major work from a hero of Beat poetry, political activism, and rock 'n' roll. “Sanders [is] the poet-maestro of American history.”—Michael McClure “Sanders has been an astonishing and fertile presence n our cutlural and political lands... |
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown, twelve-year-old Donald Duk attempts to deal with his comical name and his feelings for his cultural heritage....
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"Mary Caponegro is one of the most imaginative, daring, serious adn playful writers alive. All Fall Down is her best book yet.—Jonathan Safran Foer "Mary Caponegro's headlong tales chronicle our generation's internal trajectories; she's robust, crude, drop-dead funny, t... |
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In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to ... |
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"Don't expect sense from these poems, in which grief, politics, literary theory, and sexuality interweave. But do expect language surprise and beautiful metaphors. . . . When [Akilah] Oliver presents her experi... |
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“Reading Mathys, one remembers that poetry isn't a dalliance, but a way of sorting through life-or-death situations.”—Los Angeles Times Beginning with the delivery of a diplomatic soccer ball to Henry Kissinger and culminating in a transformative road trip through the Deep ... |
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"Marshall's canvases, expansive as Jackson Pollock paintings, comprehend every thing from string beans to string theory."-Poetry Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall's poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows "behind veils heavy / as the steel /... |
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In his application to become the spiritual leader of the King Solomon Motorcycle Club, Norman Plummer recalls the momentous events that shaped his life during one sultry Los Angeles summer. Set in 1963—after the Cuban Missile Crisis, but before JFK’s assassination—Norman begins to p... |
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In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction....
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