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Tupelo Press
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2013 Winter / Spring Catalogue
Luminous Writing, Beautiful Books, Since 1999
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CONTENTS
2. Mission, Team & Opportunities
3. Subscription Series
4. New & Forthcoming
12. Recent & Noteworthy
14. Lineage Series
15. Translation Series
16. Master Poets Series
18. Broadsides & Anthologies
19. Audio Books & Collaborative CDs
20. Tupelo Press First Book Award Winners
21. Snowbound Chapbook Award Winners
22. Dorset Prize Winners
23. Recent Customer Favorites
24. Our Extensive Backlist
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INVITATION TO OUR READERS
Dear Friends of Tupelo Press,
For you in 2013, a list of astonishments of a richness and variety
we’ve never had the good fortune (and honor) to offer in a single
year.
We give you glorious poetry from Lee Sharkey, as well as awardwinning
books from Ruth Ellen Kocher and Mary Molinary. We’re
proud to publish the second Tupelo volumes by esteemed poets
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Jennifer Militello, and Stacey Waite, as
well as offering an ennobling anthology of contemporary Chinese
poetry from editor Ming Di.
What else? We have profound essays on literature and the
writing life from Peter Stitt, as well as thrilling essays on the
contemporary art scene by Patricia Rosoff. We have a hip,
exotic, sexy novel from Jan Richman (Thrill-Bent) and a new
masterpiece from David Huddle (The Faulkes Chronicle),
his 19th book!
And we have a parcel of other ground-breaking poetry and
exhilarating prose coming out this fall — stay tuned for details.
Most of all, we have the generous assistance of the Poetry
Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Berkshire
Taconic Foundation, The Antonia and Vladimir Kulaev Cultural
Heritage Fund, our board of directors, and generous supporters
like you. That’s how a list like this one is possible.
This is a special year, and I invite you to enjoy every bit of what
we have in store for you, and to page through our backlist for the
many wonders you’ll continue to find there. For you.
With best wishes,
Jeffrey Levine
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
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2. Butch Geography, poems by Stacey Waite
3. New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry 1991-2012,
edited by Ming Di
4. Calendars of Fire, poems by Lee Sharkey
5. domina Un/blued, poems by Ruth Ellen Kocher
6. Darktown Follies, poems by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
7. Mary & the Giant Mechanism, poems by Mary Molinary
8. The Faulkes Chronicle, a novel by David Huddle
9. The Perfect Life, essays by Peter Stitt
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Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems
Edited by Marie Gauthier and Jeffrey Levine
$11.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-27-1
December 2012
Contributors
Cynthia Rausch Allar Li Yun Alvarado
Michelle Bitting Paula Brancato
Lisa Coffman Gillian Cummings
Amy Dryansky Darla Himeles
Anna Claire Hodge Joel F. Johnson
Janet R. Kirchheimer Christopher Kokinos
Conley Lowrance Amy MacLennan
Lea Marshall Stephen Massimilla
Mary Ann Mayer Barbara Mossberg
Steven Paschall Susanna Rich
Liz Robbins Aubrey Ryan
Jo Anne Valentine Simson Molly Spencer
Jeneva Stone Judith Terzi
Gail Thomas Kim Triedman
Bruce Willard P. Ivan Young
Marie Gauthier,
Director of Sales & Marketing of Tupelo Press,
is the author of a chapbook, Hunger All Inside
(Finishing Line Press, 2009). Recent poems can be
read or are forthcoming in The Common, Cave Wall,
Salamander, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She won
a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in
addition to Honorable Mention in 2010. Gauthier
co-curates the Collected Poets Series in Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts.
Jeffrey Levine
is the author of three books of poetry: Rumor of
Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times
Literary Award in Poetry, and Mortal, Everlasting,
which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize;
a third book, Jubilo, will be published in 2013.
A graduate of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program
for Writers, Levine is founder, Editor-in-Chief and
Publisher of Tupelo Press.
Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems
Edited by Marie Gauthier & Jeffrey Levine
Selections from the Tupelo Press Erotic Poetry Project
In 2007, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project was established to provide poets and creative writing teachers with engaging,
challenging prompts or provocations for writing new poems.
The Winter 2012 edition of the Poetry Project celebrated Valentine’s Day with a simple challenge: write a stunningly
good erotic poem. Be bad. Be good and bad. To our delight, that challenge was met and then some. Sensual, witty,
cerebral — the results are this anthology, modest in size only, which includes the winners plus our favorites of the
submissions.
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Butch Geography
Poems by Stacey Waite
In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay, “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes
Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point
of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: ‘i will not be the kind
of boy who can not bear the memory of her body’.... This is [Waite’s] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and
change the players mid-sentence — to get around English’s pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and….”
“Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of
gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft ... open
us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise.” — Kwame Dawes
Butch Geography
Stacey Waite
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-25-7
January 2013
from Boys in Trees
In summer, she pushes hard on the lemons
until they bleed clear. Sometimes,
from up in the red oak beside the house,
we hear her crying. We are boys in trees.
My brother shifts and sighs, we don't
even need that lemon water. We wait
up in the tree for her to call us. We wait
until the lemon rind has been tossed out
in the side yard. We drink it then, when
there is nothing left of what our mother
has never, not even once, wanted.
Hannah Gerrard
Stacey Waite
is the author of three collections of poems: Choke
(winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize), Love Poem
to Androgyny (Main Street Rag, 2007), and the lake
has no saint (winner of Tupelo’s 2008 Snowbound
Prize). With both an M.F.A. in poetry and a Ph.D.
in English from the University of Pittsburgh, Waite
now teaches courses in writing, gender studies, and
pedagogy as an Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Nebraska — Lincoln.
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Innocent Eye:
A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art
Patricia Rosoff
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-16-5
January 2013
from Innocent Eye:
“... the shock of seeing Jan van Eyck’s Adam and
Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece in an Encyclopedia
Americana, full-page and in color. Adam was bucknaked,
with black hairs against his pasty-skinned
and bony arms, bluish veins in his hands, the gaunt
awkwardness of his body perched uncomfortably in
a carved wooden niche; Eve stood shyly in her swelling
pregnancy, with a plucked hairline, tiny plumlike
breasts, remarkable in the delicate way she
holds the fruit of her temptation. These images still
shock me every time. It’s not the nudity, either; it’s
the naked truth of them. They just carry — even in
reproduction; they are so honest, so ugly, so utterly,
powerfully naked…. Above all else, this is what I
expect art to deliver.”
Patricia Rosoff
received her B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode
Island School of Design and her Master’s degree from
Hartford Art School. Former Chair of the Creative
Arts Department, she serves as Academic Dean of
Humanities at Kingswood Oxford School, where
since 1975 she has taught studio art and art history.
Rosoff has been a long-time contributor to Art New
England and was art critic for the Hartford Advocate
newspaper from 1994–2007. She has published
reviews in Arts Magazine and her essays frequently
appear in Sculpture Magazine.
Innocent Eye:
A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art
Essays by Patricia Rosoff
We are grateful to the Antonia and Vladimir Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund for a generous grant in support of this book’s
creation and publication.
Award-winning journalist, artist, and educator Patricia Rosoff offers a first-hand tour of the sometimes shocking, often
challenging ideas and approaches that continue to fuel the art of today. Rosoff describes the sources of contemporary
painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media in the works of such radicals as Monet, Kandinsky, and Joseph
Cornell, who are now part of the tradition but who keep on catalyzing experimental innovators such as Ellen Carey,
Spencer Finch, Janine Antoni, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.
With close (and sympathetic) consideration of conceptualism, including works by Sol LeWitt and Mierle Ukeles, and with
special excitement about the inexhaustible potential in abstraction, Pat Rosoff is the gallery or museum guide you’ve
always wished to have along.
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Thrill-Bent
A novel by Jan Richman
With support from the Irvine Foundation, Tupelo Press is proud to partner with Small Press Distribution and BookMobile
to create our first e-book. Watch the Tupelo website for details!
Journalist and armchair thrill-seeker Jan Richman gets a freelance assignment to write about the nation’s antique wooden
roller coasters. Jan takes off across the U.S. to report on a fanatical sub-culture. This picaresque research junket dovetails
with the wedding of her Tourette’s-riddled father, whom she hasn’t seen in years. Brazen and stingingly funny, Thrill-Bent
zooms from Coney Island to New Orleans to the San Fernando Valley as our heroine learns how to be truly impulsive in
a buttoned-down world.
“Super smart, precise, and irreverent, Jan Richman's Thrill-Bent is a linguistic joy ride for any openhearted risk taker.”
— Suzzy Roche, singer and songwriter, co-founder of The Roches
“This novel is everything I want in a roadtrip and hardly ever get: cheap thrills, oddball epiphanies, big laughs, chance
encounters and lots and lots of great, great talk.” — Daniel Handler, author of the Lemony Snicket books
Thrill-Bent
Jan Richman
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-20-2
$36.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-21-9
$9.99 e-book, ISBN 978-1-936797-22-6
December 2012
from Thrill-Bent:
“When the chain dogs bark and we are ratcheted up
the first magnificent lift-hill, even though it’s early
March and there are only a handful of customers in
the park, I get that feeling I always get. I was born to
ride…. This is my favorite part of any roller coaster
experience…. The thrill of elevation, of being mechanically
lifted to an outpost with an aerial view of the
landscape — in this case a spectacular sweep all the way
from Gravesend in the north, to the aquarium and
Brighton Beach in the east, straight down the boardwalk
in slatted increments, not to mention the ocean
and the sky and the mammoth dinosaur Parachute
Jump still standing on Coney’s shore from the 1939
World’s Fair. My head is bobbing back and forth like
I’m watching a fervent tennis match….”
Amy Sullivan
Jan Richman’s
Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything (Louisiana
State University Press) was chosen by Robert Pinsky for
the 1994 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of
American Poets. She has received an NEA grant in
Literature, a Nation/Discovery Award, the Celia B.
Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the
Felix Pollack Poetry Prize from the University of
Wisconsin, and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry
Prize. She has a B.A. in English from San Francisco
State University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from
New York University. Richman lives in Oakland,
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California.
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New Cathay:
Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 1990-2012
Edited by Ming Di
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-24-0
February 2013
Featured poets include: Duo Duo,
Bai Hua, Zhang Shuguang, Sun Wenbo,
Wang Jiaxin, Liao Yiwu, Song Lin,
Xiao Kaiyu, Lü De'an, Feng Yan, Zang Di,
Ya Shi, Mai Mang, Lan Lan, Jiang Tao,
Jiang Hao, Lü Yue, Hu Xudong, Jiang Li,
and Zheng Xiaoqiong.
With translations by Neil Aitken,
Katie Farris, Ming Di, Christopher Lupke,
Tony Barnstone, Afaa Weaver,
Jonathan Stalling, Nick Admussen,
Eleanor Goodman, Ao Wang, Dian Li,
Kerry Shawn Keys, and others.
Xu Xiahoe
Ming Di
(penname of Mindy Zhang) was born and grew
up in China. Author of six collections of
original poetry in Chinese and one in English
translation, River Merchant’s Wife (Marick Press,
2012), she also translates poetry and literary
essays from English into Chinese with two
volumes published in Taiwan and two
forthcoming in China. She has co-translated
(with Neil Aitken) The Book of Cranes to be
published by Tupelo Press. Ming Di lives in
Los Angeles.
New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 1990-2012
Edited by Ming Di
Co-published with the Harriet Monroe Institute of the Poetry Foundation
The most up-to-date anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry, translated by American poets and edited by the executive
editor of the bilingual literary journal Poetry East West, this collection showcases the achievement of Chinese poetry in the
last twenty years, a time of tremendous literary ferment. It focuses on a diversity of exciting poets from the mainland,
highlighting Duo Duo (laureate of the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature) and Liao Yiwu (recipient of 2012
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade organization) along with not yet well-known but brilliant poets such as Zang Di
and Xiao Kaiyu and younger poets Jiang Tao and Lü Yue. Includes interviews with the poets and a fascinating survey of
their opinions on “Ten Favorite Chinese poets” and “Ten Best-Known Western poets in China.”
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Calendars of Fire
Poems by Lee Sharkey
Calendars of Fire is an extended elegy whose grief is political as well as personal. Across barriers of tribe, history, and
mortality, these poems carry us home with their music to a dwelling place in our own resonant bodies.
“An exemplary poetry of conscience that exposes and refutes that ‘the warden is also the historian.’ … Reading Calendars
of Fire, you will know what it means to ‘shiver from the we in tenderness.’” — Fady Joudah
“Sharkey takes on the work, simultaneously elegiac and urgent, of reading ‘what has happened back to happening.’
… From line to starting line, she evokes the sufferings of persons affected by war and other oppressions.” — Martha Collins
“When you finish reading Calendars of Fire the first time, you will want to go right back to the beginning and start reading
it again, and again, and each time it will renew itself in its own flames.” — Fred Marchant
Calendars of Fire
Lee Sharkey
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-26-4
March 2013
With birds on his shoulders
He becomes the mind that will enact it
the wound traveling in a widening orbit
the will to keep silent that needs to speak
The future arrives—not in the motifs
of songbirds but in the falling off
from notes to intervals
Violation rises like a planet
its own sound something quiet
like sliding bodies into water
Al Bersbach
Lee Sharkey
is the author of six chapbooks and three previous
full-length collections of poems, most recently
A Darker, Sweeter String (Off the Grid Press, 2008).
She was the Maine Arts Commission’s 2010
Fellow in Literary Arts and recipient of the 1997
Rainmaker Award in Poetry, chosen by Carolyn
Forché. Since 2003, she has co-edited the Beloit
Poetry Journal, one of the country’s oldest literary
magazines.
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domina Un/blued
Ruth Ellen Kocher
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-19-6
April 2013
Stealing a Woman in Broad Daylight
Near un teatro di marcello noon on a very hot June day
A man on a vespa attempted to steal me. Ciao Bella
So obvious. Hello hello. You speak Italian? Yes
You do. Oh a little. Near un teatro di marcello near
An old church also Roman columns exposed at its sides.
E molto caldo I say clearly. He nods. Very hot it is.
E molto caldo.
Ruth Ellen Kocher’s
previous books include Desdemona’s Fire (Naomi
Long Madget Award for African American
Poets; Lotus Press, 1999), When the Moon Knows
You’re Wandering (Green Rose Prize; New Issues,
2001), and One Girl Babylon (New Issues, 2003).
Her poems have appeared in many anthologies,
including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of
Contemporary African American Poets, and New
Bones: Contemporary Black Writing in America.
Kocher teaches in the M.F.A. program at the
University of Colorado-Boulder.
domina Un/blued
Poems by Ruth Ellen Kocher
Winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Lynn Emanuel
domina Un/blued dislocates the traditional slave narrative, placing the slave’s utterance within the map and chronicle of
conquest. Charting a diaspora of the human spirit as well as a diaspora of an individual body, Ruth Ellen Kocher’s awardwinning
new book reaches beyond the story of historical involuntary servitude to explore enslavements of devotion and desire,
which in extremity slide into addiction and carnal bondage.
“... a book-length meditation on ownership, dominion, and domination…. Perforated by white space, the poems seem to
hover above the page, systematically undermining a linear reading. domina Un/blued is at once deeply moving and wildly
intelligent.” — Lynn Emanuel
“... The poems stutter and shudder through their observations toward their discoveries, merciless, feminist, and unforgiving….
(A) book about power and powerlessness, and about suffering, about which Kocher is, unfortunately,
never wrong.” — Kathy Fagan
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Body Thesaurus
Poems by Jennifer Militello
In her second book, which was a finalist for the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, selected by Marilyn Hacker, Jennifer
Militello investigates the tensions of identity as a source of illness and health. Body Thesaurus presents the human physique
as a flawed conduit and, through poems highlighting symptoms, antidotes, and diagnostic tests, seeks alternate renderings
for the complexities of self. Even as the endangered psyche supplies a filter, gods are confronted, maladies are faced, and
actualities are marked, remembered, or lost. The beauty of struggle and the chance for redemption act as counterstream,
increasingly evident and — again and again in the poet’s verse — indisputably real.
“Militello is one of our richest younger poets, and the poems of Body Thesaurus are opulent in their ‘goldrush want.’
‘Dear body I do not resent, / experiment with me,’ she implores. Body Thesaurus is a haunted and haunting
voyage through the body's analogies, which expand to embrace whole worlds: the sensual, the material, and the
spiritual.” — G. C. Waldrep
Body Thesaurus
Jennifer Militello
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-28-8
May 2013
Memory:
long in my veins like a country
of water, long like whispers darker
than the bronze of plums, than
the silence prized from the layman's
mouth. No counting down
to the catastrophe here.
No autumn mixes of laughter.
If I were awake, the gallows
inside me would trouble
and take, lay of the land,
anger or sun. I have never
remembered the tightening
of ropes. I have never
remembered the reason.
Joanne Smith
Jennifer Militello
is the author of Flinch of Song (Tupelo, 2009,
page 20), winner of the Tupelo Press First
Book Award, as well as the chapbook Anchor
Chain, Open Sail. Her work has appeared in
American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review,
The New Republic, The North American Review,
The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Best New
Poets 2008. She lives in Goffstown, New
Hampshire.
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Nothing Can Make
Me Do This
A novel by David Huddle
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award
“The sexual escapades of nearly every character
pepper the pages with lucid passion…. Huddle's
novel is ravishing, charged with both desire and
emotional turmoil; his insights, though sometimes
unsettling, skillfully mirror reality.”
— Publishers Weekly
David Huddle is currently holder of the 2012-13
Acuff Chair of Excellence at the APSU Center of
Excellence for the Creative Arts in Tennessee.
He taught for thirty-eight years at the University
of Vermont and continues to teach at the Bread
Loaf School of English. Huddle has published
seventeen books of fiction, poetry, and essays.
His novel The Story of a Million Years (Houghton
Mifflin, 1999) was named a Distinguished Book
of the Year by Esquire and a best Book of the
Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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begins the strange romance between Daniel,
beautiful and tiny, and Grace, The Fat
Princess, an orphaned girl whose enormous
girth matches her wealth. Through their lives
the couple rarely meet, until Daniel uncovers
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is enthralling, poignant, and brimming with
meaning.” — Olive Mullet, in NewPages
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understanding of the emotions, that it presents
to us an astonishing new form of erotic love.”
— Grace Dane Mazur
James Friel has written four previous novels
and adapted works of fiction for radio. He is
Programme Leader for the M.A. and Ph.D. in
Writing at Liverpool’s John Moores University,
and Visiting Writer at L’Universite de Rouen,
France.
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-01-1
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Stories by Floyd Skloot
Winner, ForeWord Magazine’s
Book of the Year Bronze Medal
“This is a brave, luminous, searingly
unswerving vision of the life that exists so
powerfully in those persistent dreams we have
for ourselves, good and bad — those secret
passions that seem strong enough to survive
us, and that endure all the way out to the end
of our lives…. These stories are not only
brilliant, they are necessary.”
— Richard Bausch
Floyd Skloot is the author of seventeen
books, including the acclaimed memoirs In the
Shadow of Memory (2003) and The Wink of
the Zenith (2008). He and his wife, the artist
Beverly Hallberg, live in Portland, Oregon.
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Swallowing the Sea:
On Writing & Ambition,
Boredom, Purity & Secrecy
Essays by Lee Upton
In this inspiring book, Lee Upton honors
ambition, that idiosyncratic drive that compels
writers and other artists to action. She explores
threats to our most daring aspirations and
offers a provocative antidote: obsession.
“… a refreshingly honest, compact, ambitious,
nuanced, anecdotal, and capacious book about
writing. It will make you flinch with recognition.
It may also steel your resolve and steady your
hand. I find it exhilarating and even wise.”
— Edward Hirsch
Lee Upton is the author of five collections of
poetry, a novella, and four books of literary
criticism. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize,
the National Poetry Series Award, two awards
from the Poetry Society of America, and the
Miami University Novella Award. She is
Writer-in-Residence and a professor of English
at Lafayette College.
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-13-4
$24.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-14-1
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The Vital System
Poems by CM Burroughs
The Vital System is the first published book by a poet
already setting off sparks among readers across the
globe. In these poems, the body is always at stake —
vulnerable — and the poet dares to illuminate what
she has called “the protective capability of violence.”
“CM Burroughs delves into the ultra-sensitive roots of
being; where sufferings and desires take shape, she
gathers each breath as yet unheard and leads it to
speech.” — Hélène Cixous
CM Burroughs was born in Atlanta and earned
degrees from Sweet Briar College and the University
of Pittsburgh. The Studio Museum of Harlem and the
Warhol Museum have commissioned her to create
poetry in response to art installations. Awarded
fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Idyllwild Arts,
Cave Canem Foundation, and Callaloo Writers
Workshop, Burroughs is the Elma Stuckey Emerging
Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College in Chicago.
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-15-8
Long Division
Poems by Alan Michael Parker
Winner, North Carolina Literary & Historical
Association Roanoke-Chowan Award
Recombining lists, fables, and mathematical
equations, Long Division is formally playful,
wielding irony as a lever of political resistance.
Parker exposes a world where imagination
is more trustworthy than experience.
“In one masterful poem after another,
composed with luminous attention to the poetic
line, Parker assures us of our redemption, but
proves that redemption requires the cunning
and exuberance only a poet of his talent can
muster. . . . (T)he work of a poetic troubleshooter
intent on spreading grace.”
— Khaled Mattawa
Alan Michael Parker has published six other
books of poems and two novels, and he served
as editor of a whimsical anthology, The
Imaginary Poets (Tupelo, 2005, page 18).
He teaches writing and literature at Davidson
College and in the Queens University
low-residency M.F.A. program. He lives in
Davidson, North Carolina.
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-42-2
Lucky Fish
Poems by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Winner, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize
Winner, da Vinci Eye Award for outstanding design
Co-Winner, IPPY Gold Medal
“Everything from eating eels in the Ozark
mountains to the history of the red dye finds a
rich life in her poems. At times her lush settings
and small stories are reminiscent of fairy tales,
while at others Nezhukumatathil speaks with
resonance and fierceness.” — Publishers Weekly
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an associate
professor of English at SUNY in Fredonia.
She has been awarded an NEA fellowship
and a Global Filipino Award. Her two previous
Tupelo volumes, At the Drive-In Volcano
(2007) and Miracle Fruit (2003), won the
Balcones Prize and ForeWord Magazine’s
Poetry Book of the Year, respectively.
(page 25)
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-58-3
Broadside: page 18
Phyla of Joy
Poems by Karen An-hwei Lee
“... a beautiful and sustained meditation on
the impermanence of humanity’s essential
components: memory, spirituality, emotion,
thought.... Contemplative and linguistically
sophisticated, Phyla of Joy is simply
exquisite — ‘ink and stanza / flow like
wind on grass.’” — Rigoberto González
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor
(Tupelo Press, 2008, page 25) and In Medias
Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), selected for
the Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Heather
McHugh and chosen for the Norma Farber
First Book Award by Cole Swensen. A former
writing resident at the MacDowell Colony of
the Arts and the Millay Arts Colony, she
currently chairs the English Department at a
faith-based college in southern California.
$16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-14-9
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LINEAGE & TRANSLATION SERIES WWW.TUPELOPRESS.ORG
Lineage Series
Tupelo Press is proud to offer a new series
of books by diverse authors examining
complex aspects of personal and family
inheritance, including racial and cultural
identity. Far more adventurous in form and
structure than typical memoirs, these books
attempt to combine prose and poetry as today’s
innovative documentary films seek to merge
the techniques of reportage and art.
“The poem mirrors the life of the believer,
and mirrors the process of prayer — of having
a conversation with the supernatural.”
— Jericho Brown
A God in the House:
Poets Talk About Faith
Interviews edited by Katherine Towler and Ilya Kaminsky
First serial: Major feature in Poetry magazine, February 2012
Conversations from nineteen of America’s leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse
experiences of spirituality and the craft of writing. Participants express Christian, Buddhist,
Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, Wiccan, agnostic, and other world views.
“An incandescent collection of essays, superbly edited, radiant with wisdom, demonstrating
the great truth that all poetry, all art, all human endeavor finds its fulfillment in service to
something higher than itself…. This is a noble and life-giving book.” — Philip Zaleski,
editor of the annual Best Spiritual Writing volumes and co-author of Prayer: A History
Katherine Towler is the author of a trilogy of novels: Snow Island, Evening Ferry, and Island
Light. She consults with schools and non-profits on publications and promotional materials,
and teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at Southern New Hampshire University.
She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Ilya Kaminsky is author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo, 2004) and co-editor of The Ecco Book
of International Poetry (2010) and editor of This Lamentable City: Poems of Polina Barskova
(Tupelo, 2010). He teaches at San Diego State University and in the New England College
M.F.A. Program. Kaminsky lives in San Diego, California.
Contributors: Kazim Ali, Jericho Brown, Annie Finch, Carolyn Forché, Joy Harjo,
Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Li-Young Lee, Julius Lester, Dunya Mikhail, Marilyn Nelson,
Gregory Orr, Alicia Ostriker, Grace Paley, Gerald Stern, Jean Valentine, G. C. Waldrep,
Eleanor Wilner, and Christian Wiman
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-19-4
$36.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-932195-30-9
Fasting for Ramadan:
Notes from a Spiritual Practice
Essays by Kazim Ali
“Ali brings a razor-sharp minimalism to his prose….
Those seeking traditional Islamic piety or a logic-driven
religious apologetic will not find it here. Instead, Ali
boldly sketches the modern artist engaged in an ancient
religious practice in an age of iftar Tweetups and iQuran
mobile phone apps. — Publishers Weekly
“… Kazim Ali gives us so beautiful and quiet a book, we
turn its pages with a willing hush, at once meditative and
philosophic….” — The Magazine of Yoga
“Kazim Ali — a writer whose powers astonish in everything
he puts pen to — has made in Fasting for Ramadan a
book that is hybrid, peregrine, and deeply, quietly revelatory….
Is it possible for a work to be at once modest and
an undeniable tour de force? This book proves: it is.”
— Jane Hirshfield
Kazim Ali is author of two volumes of poetry, three
books of prose, and a mixed-genre book. Founding
editor of Nightboat Books, he teaches Creative Writing
and Literature at Oberlin College and in the University
of Southern Maine’s low-residency M.F.A. program.
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-94-1
$29.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-03-5
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Intimate:
An American Family Photo Album
Memoir / Biography by Paisley Rekdal
In three parallel streams, Rekdal narrates the stories of her
parents’ mixed-race marriage alongside episodes from the
lives of photographer Edward S. Curtis, chronicler and
myth-maker of the Old West, and his murdered Native
American guide and interpreter, Alexander Upshaw.
“In this daring lyric fusion of memoir and fictive biography,
history and cultural commentary, Rekdal ... exposes the man
behind the camera, the beauty of his subjects ... and the
eerie resonance these figures share with her own remarkable
life as the daughter of a Chinese mother and Norwegian
father.” — Melanie Rae Thon
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays and three
books of poetry. She has received a Village Voice Writers on
the Verge Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Amy
Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. Her work has been
featured in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, on
National Public Radio, and in many literary journals.
She teaches at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-96-5
$36.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-08-0
Night, Fish and Charlie
Parker, Phan Nhien Hao
Translated from the
Vietnamese by Linh Dinh
“… a distinctly American
immigrant text, melancholy
and celebratory at the same
time. Read this book.”
— Vince Gotera,
North American Review
$16.95, 9781932195316
Invitation to a Secret Feast:
Selected Poems, Joumana Haddad
Translated from the Arabic
by Khaled Mattawa & others
from I Don’t Remember
I knew that men’s hearts are
pairs of hands,
and knew my heart was
a promise of asphyxiation….
I had never known a man
whose heart professed rupture
like a foretold catastrophe.
$16.95, 9781932195620
Translation Series
In our time of multi-directional internationalism,
Tupelo Press celebrates the ways the literary arts
crisscross all borders. In our expanding series of
new poetry translations from around the globe,
the English versions are presented by translators
who are themselves excellent poets.
This Lamentable City:
Poems of Polina Barskova
Edited and translated from the Russian by Ilya Kaminsky
with Kathryn Farris, Rachel Galvin, Matthew Zapruder
“Barskova’s is a voice of stunning originality and eroticism.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Lavishly mordant, magically bitter, erotically sardonic….
Ilya Kaminsky’s free translations are a live-wire joy to read.”
— Alicia Ostriker
Polina Barskova holds a Ph.D. from University of California–
Berkeley and a graduate degree in classical literature from the state
university in St. Petersburg. She teaches at Hampshire College.
$11.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-932195-83-5
Abiding Places: Korea
North and South, Ko Un
Translated from the Korean
by Sunny Jung & Hillel Schwartz
from Kaema High Desert
I did not ask to be human.
I do not by any means ask to be
more than human….
I ask simply to gaze in silence
across the Kaema plateau….
Anyone who says anything at all
here shall be shot.
$16.95, 9781932195408
Stone Lyre:
Poems of René Char
Selected and translated from the
French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
“René Char is the conscience of
modern French poetry and also its
calm of mind. Carlson, in these
splendid translations, casts new
light upon the sublime
consequence of Char’s poetic
character….” — Donald Revell
$16.95, 9781932195781
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MASTER POETS SERIES WWW.TUPELOPRESS.ORG
Master Poets Series
For more than a decade Tupelo Press has offered a home not only
to vital authors early in their careers, but also to some of America’s
most accomplished writers, who continue to create magnificent
new work. In celebration of their staying power, and to highlight
these titles for discerning librarians and readers, we have gathered
this group of very special books in our Masters Poets Series.
See also Long Division, by Alan Michael Parker, page 13.
Human Nature
Gary Soto
“... a consummate storyteller... intelligent, funny, and
bitingly honest…. Soto should be required reading in
M.F.A. programs and migrant labor camps. He’s that
good.” — Martín Espada
Gary Soto has published thirty-six books including
eleven poetry collections. He won the Literature
Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and
has been a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book
Award and the National Book Award.
$16.95, 9781932195842
Calendars
Annie Finch
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book
of the Year
“Calendars is a marvelous book, filled with poems
whose ... depths and delights appear to go on
forever.” — Ron Silliman
“Calendars is the work of a major poet.”
— Charles Altieri
Annie Finch is author of more than fifteen books of
poetry and poetics, including Eve and The Body of
Poetry. The comprehensive downloadable Readers
Guide to Calendars includes detailed discussion of
the poems for students and general readers.
Educated at Yale and Stanford, Finch directs the
Stonecoast M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the
University of Southern Maine.
$16.95 paper, 9781932195002
$22.95 cloth, 9781932195040
Audio book: page 19.
Modern History: Prose Poems 1987–2007
Christopher Buckley
These poems counterpoint scientific precepts with
wacky details — forgotten movies, simonized
Chryslers, and doo-wop refrains — for a spirited glide
through twenty years of an eminent poet’s pursuit of
the absolute.
“Buckley’s ongoing wonder at the miracle of what
happens in the world and how experience lodges
under the skin, serves as a way home and a way
forward.” — Killarney Clary
Christopher Buckley has edited four contemporary
anthologies and published sixteen collections of
poems. He teaches at the University of California–
Riverside.
$16.95, 9781932195682
Keep This Forever
Mark Halliday
In the aftermath of his father’s death, Halliday
skewers pretension with a jester’s speed, while
revealing a heart still ardent despite grief.
“Halliday seeks a style sad enough to describe those
missed connections, and surprising enough to let us
have fun with them.” — Publishers Weekly
Mark Halliday is author of five poetry collections
including Little Star (William Morrow, 1987), a
National Poetry Series selection, as well as many
essays on contemporary poets. He teaches at Ohio
University.
$16.95 paper, 9781932195729
$21.95 cloth, 9781932195804
Sincerest Flatteries
Kurt Brown
“Kurt Brown’s imitations are to parody what Robert
Lowell’s imitations are to translation.... [A] kind of
double-gift, a collection of virtual duos, though the two
voices seem to be speaking — no, singing — as one.”
— Phillip Dacey
Kurt Brown is the founding Director of the Aspen
Writer's Conference and serves on the board of
Poet’s House. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence
College. He has edited numerous anthologies
and annuals, and has authored six chapbooks and
four poetry collections.
$9.95, 9781932195507

Michael Chitwood’s
books include The Weave Room (Chicago, 1998) and Hitting
Below the Bible Belt: Baptist Voodoo, Blood Kin, Grandma’s
Teeth and Other Stories from the South (Down Home, 1998).
A commentator on North Carolina’s WUNC public radio
station, he teaches at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
Spill
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year
“If you love the idea that poets are whacked-out crazies driven
to drink, drugs and suicide by souls too sensitive for this brutal
world, Spill … will break your heart....” — Andrew Hudgins
$16.95 paper, 9781932195477
$22.95 cloth, 9781932195668
Poor-Mouth Jubilee
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year
“At a time when ‘religion’ is too often misrepresented by
literalists and scorekeepers … we’re reminded that genuine
belief (and doubt) resists the sound bite…. This brilliant poet
resists such facile ... recourses, paradoxically noting the
poverty of his own expression ... a richness rare in current
poetry.” — Sydney Lea
$16.95, 9781932195897
Audio book: page 19.
Patricia Fargnoli,
former New Hampshire Poet Laureate and a retired
psychotherapist, is the author of six poetry collections.
She has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award,
the May Swenson Poetry Award, and was twice a semifinalist
for the Discovery / The Nation Awards. She lives in Walpole,
New Hampshire.
Duties of the Spirit
Winner, Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award
Semifinalist, Glasgow Prize
“Echoing Thornton Wilder who says ‘one of the duties of the
spirit is joy, and another is serenity,’ Fargnoli adds ‘the third
must be grief.’ These poems are … radiant revelations of a life
well-lived.” – North American Review
$16.95, 9781932195217
Then, Something
Winner, ForeWord Magazine’s BOTYA Silver Medal
Winner, Sheila Motton Book Award
Winner, da Vinci Eye Award for outstanding design
Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award
Ellen Doré Watson
was hailed by Library Journal as one of “24 Poets for
the 21st Century.” Poetry and Translation Editor for The
Massachusetts Review and director of The Poetry Center at
Smith College, she is author of four poetry collections and a
chapbook, and translator of a dozen books by Brazilian and
Arabic writers.
This Sharpening
“Watson's fiery third effort offers a rare combination: the
propulsive rawness of performance poetry and the pathos
of impending middle age.” — Publishers Weekly
$16.95, 9781932195439
Dogged Hearts
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year
“The poems are wild, delirious — they go every which way
— yet the (smart) organizing principle is this mind, ever alert,
choosing and sorting, saving and abandoning, given up to
passion and knowledge. Dogged Hearts is a powerful and
wise book.” — Gerald Stern
“Fargnoli does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she
avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of
continual aging, to which she gives sharp and poignant
attention.” — Mary Oliver
$16.95, 9781932195859
Audio book: page 19.
$16.95, 9781932195798 13
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BROADSIDES & ANTHOLOGIES WWW.TUPELOPRESS.ORG
Elegant Hand-printed Letterset Broadsides
Tupelo Press is proud to offer these limited-edition
numbered broadsides designed by Josef Beery with texts
from our award-winning poetry bestsellers:
Ilya Kaminsky's “Author's Prayer,”
from Dancing in Odessa,
with Russian translation by Polina Barskova
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s “The Ghost-Fish Postcards,”
from Lucky Fish
Each month we donate 10% of the
broadside proceeds to a nonprofit
humanitarian organization.
$60 signed by author / $55 unsigned.
Innovative & Diverse Poetry Anthologies
The Imaginary Poets
Edited by Alan Michael Parker
Finalist, Independent Publishers Award
Exceptional work from major poets who delight in assuming a new persona, this
unusual book explores the nature of creativity: What is it to make a poem? Or a poet?
“Translating” — is that rewriting or writing? What about translating a work that never
existed? What if you create the creator? In the tradition of Pessoa and Borges,
The Imaginary Poets delves delightedly into the very act of invention with a wink, a
smile and tremendous respect for the art. Contributors include Martha Collins, Maxine
Kumin, Khaled Mattawa, D.A. Powell, and Eleanor Wilner. “A thoroughly
entertaining read, with many depths and layers to plumb and peel. Hip and cool.”
— North American Review
$19.95, 9781932195200
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets
Edited by Ray Gonzalez
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine’s BOTYA
Both a history and a projection of the contemporary American prose poem, gathered
by one of our most knowledgeable editors. No anthology of contemporary prose
poetry has ever presented such an abundance of selections from such a generous
range of iconic and younger poets. From long-established poets, such as Robert Bly,
Charles Simic, and Russell Edson, to poets of the new guard, such as Campbell
McGrath, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Johnson, Amy Gerstler, and John Bradley, this
volume is indispensable for anyone interested in poetry, prose, and what lies
between them: an open place filled with excitement and transformation, a place
wholly without boundaries.
$22.95, 9781932195019
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Audio Books
& Collaborative CDs
A series of unabridged audio
books from Tupelo’s poetry and
literary prose, read by dynamic
authors and featuring original
music by award-winning artists,
as well as distribution to the
book trade for an expanding
collection of recordings featuring
collaborative performances
by poets and musicians.
Poor-Mouth Jubilee
Michael Chitwood
With Tony Pisano, accordion
CD: $12.00, 9781932195910
Book: page 17
Ogunquit & Other Works
Poet J.D. Scrimgeour and
pianist-composer Philip Swanson
Includes Scrimgeour’s “Ogunquit,”
Komunyakaa’s“Blue Light Lounge
Sutra” and translations of Rilke.
CD: $16.00
the lake has no saint
Stacey Waite
With Marty Jaffe, double bass
CD: $12.00, 9781932195996
Book: page 21
Blue Square
Poet Peter Money with
Mike Salvatoriello and others.
Pulsing beats and words.
CD: $16.00
New! Sanderlings
Geri Doran
With Jeffrey Levine, alto recorder
CD: $12.00, 9781932195651
Available soon. Book: page 23
Dogged Hearts
Ellen Doré Watson
With Dave Eggar, cello
CD: $14.00 (2-disc set), 9781932195903
Book: page 17
Come Over
Patty Carpenter and the
Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band
With poems by Verandah Porche,
a feisty band, and Grammywinning
producer Rob Fabroni.
CD: $16.00
Pure Water: Poems of Rumi
Poet-translator Coleman Barks’s dynamic live
performances with cellist Eugene Freisen show
why the Persian Sufi poet known as Rumi
(1207–1273) is one of America’s best-loved
“contemporary” poets. CD: $16.00
The Forest of Sure Things
Megan Snyder-Camp
With music by The Press Gang
CD: $12.00, 9781932195989
Book: page 20
Alice B. Fogel
From Elemental, I Love This
Dark World, and Be That Empty
“... a fierce and admirable
passion...” — Publishers Weekly
CD: $12.00
In the Shade of Angels
Eugene Friesen
Former member of the Paul Winter Consort,
Friesen has developed bold new techniques
for solo and accompanying cello in
adventurous musical settings. CD: $16.00
Calendars
Annie Finch
With Mac Ritchey, Celtic harp
CD: $12.00, 9781932195866
Book: page 16
Last Days
The Po-Jazz Ensemble Poets
including David Budbill, Geof
Hewitt, and Neil Shepard with
Tony Whedon’s torrid jazz octet.
CD: $20.00 (2-disc set)
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TUPELO PRESS FIRST BOOK AWARD WINNERS WWW.TUPELOPRESS.ORG
Manoleria
Daniel Khalastchi
Selected by D. A. Powell
“In Manoleria, the body, broken
apart ‘in elegant stress,’
recongregates. Formally, the poet
is taking us through the emotional
work of picking up pieces. Despite
the splintering, despite the
hemorrhage, somehow ‘all is
accounted for.’ A cardinal debut….”
— D. A. Powell
Daniel Khalastchi
is a first-generation Iraqi Jewish
American. A graduate of the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop and a recent
fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown, he is currently the
Assistant Director of the
Undergraduate Certificate in Writing
Program at the University of Iowa.
He is co-founder and editor of
Rescue Press.
$16.95, 9781932195934
The Forest of Sure Things
Megan Snyder-Camp
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
Selected by Jeffrey Levine
& Carol Ann Davis
“... mosaics, built of curious and
gem-like pieces.” — Lia Purpura
$16.95, 9781932195880
Audio book: page 19.
Cloisters
Kristin Bock
Winner, da Vinci Eye Award
Selected by David St. John:
“... edgy, nervous, compelling,
and wise. Bock’s poems are like
the shards of a mirror that
magically reflect a whole person,
a whole woman, a whole mind and
sensibility at work in the world.”
$16.95, 9781932195552
Everyone Coming Toward You
David Petruzelli
Selected by Campbell McGrath
“… accessible and challenging ...
narrratives with the piercing insight …
effortless, seamless, authentic.”
— J. Russell, Mipoesias
$16.95, 9781932195156
The Next Ancient World
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Winner, ForeWord’s BOTYA
Winner, PSA’s Norma Farber Award
Selected by Janet Holmes
“… delightfully tricky poems …
a one-hundred-ring verbal circus,
a gang of brazen, ingenious
poems.” — Billy Collins
$13.95, 9780971031005
Flinch of Song
Jennifer Militello
Selected by Jeffrey Levine,
Carol Ann Davis & Garrett Doherty
“… tightly written without a word let
waste its clout… dense with spellbinding
beauty.” -- John Mingay
$16.95, 9781932195767
Bellini in Istanbul
Lillias Bever
Selected by Michael Collier
“… we trust her…. in the gray of
waning winter — its glow of carefully
unearthed and polished gems
only glowed more beautifully.”
— The Baltimore Review
$16.95, 9781932195262
When the Eye Forms
Dwaine Rieves
Selected by Carolyn Forché:
“… brilliant … the everyday here
becomes magical — leading us
into the miracle of creation itself.”
$16.95, 9781932195347
Devoted Creatures
Bill Van Every
Selected by Thomas Lux
“… a directness here which comes
straight from the unmediated gut …
a spiritual ferocity … disturbing,
hilarious clarity.” — Tony Hoagland
$16.95, 9781932195064
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Meridian
Kathleen Jesme
Selected by Patricia Fargnoli
“… a study, by a probing spirit,
in darkness and snow, of private
sorrow.... [T]hese taut, resonant
lines bear not one extra ounce of
language, but only and exactly what
will suffice.” — Eleanor Wilner
“Meridian is not merely a beautifully
written, ambitious poem — it is also
the most moving I have read in a
long time.” — Kevin Prufer
Kathleen Jesme
is the author of three previous
collections of poetry, The
Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta, 2009);
Motherhouse, winner of the Lena-
Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize
(LSU, 2005); and Fire Eater
(Tampa, 2003). She holds an
M.F.A. in creative writing from
Warren Wilson College and a B.A.
in English from the University of
Minnesota. Jesme lives in
Minnesota on a tree farm and
works as a training consultant.
$9.95, 9781936797189
Babel’s Moon
Brandon Som
Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil:
“Som demonstrates a stunning
musical perceptiveness on a global
scale…. What a sparkling debut!”
$9.95, 9781936797042
the lake has no saint
Stacey Waite
Selected by Dana Levin:
“... an experience of the fluidity of
gender... of a heart and body trying
to find a place in the between.
Always moving and always
grounded, a deeply interesting,
deeply affecting book.”
$9.95, 9781932195811. Audio book: page 19.
Narcissus
Cecilia Woloch
Selected by Marie Howe
“A searching not so much for the
why of love as for the how — how we
can love given what we know, what
we've already lost.” — Carine Topal
$9.95, 9781932195545
staring at the animal
John Cross
Selected by Gillian Conoley:
“… prickly, finely wrought,
shattered gems cast of awe and
ruin.... full of the guilt and pain and
the ferocity of imagination it takes
to get through the day....”
$9.95, 9781932195712
In the Mynah Bird’s Own
Words, Barbara Tran
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
Selected by Robert Wrigley:
“… lyrically delicious collection
that comes very close to have
the sweep of a novel.”
$9.95, 9780971031050
A House Waiting for Music
David Hernandez
Selected by Ray Gonzalez
“These poems whacked me in the
head as no other book has in some
time. This is a book worthy of at
least one book prize, perhaps even
the Pulitzer Prize.” — Francis Alix
$14.95, 9781932195026
The Making of Collateral
Beauty, Mark Yakich
Selected by Mary Ruefle
“… a virtuoso performance, serious
play that demands a suspension of
the usual expectations of narrative….”
— Susan Settlemyre Williams
$9.95, 9781932195224
The Garden Room
Joy Katz
Selected by Lisa Russ Spaar
“Cerebral, ironic, these poems
seem to be all glancing light, all
curiosity, but under their brilliant
surfaces, they are haunted.”
— Jean Valentine
$9.95, 9781932195361
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Dancing in Odessa
Ilya Kaminsky
Selected by Eleanor Wilner
Winner, ForeWord’s BOTYA
Winner, American Academy of Arts & Letters’
Addison M. Metcalf Award
This magical collection written by a Russian
immigrant who came to America without knowing
a single word of English has become one of the
most acclaimed first books of the new century.
Kaminsky creates an imaginary city where every
kind of boundary can be traversed and
transcended.
“Kaminsky is more than a promising young poet;
he is a poet of promise fulfilled. I am in awe of his
gifts.” — Carolyn Forché
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine,
and came to the U.S. in 1993 when his family was
granted asylum. He has received a Whiting
Writer’s Award, the annual Ruth Lilly Poetry
Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.
He teaches at San Diego State University and
New England College, and serves as Director of
the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry
Foundation.
$16.95, 9781932195125
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Severance Songs
Joshua Corey
Selected by Ilya Kaminsky
“... formally playful and emotionally
raw, with an intensity of expression
that is at times harrowing.”
— Paul Hoover
$16.95, 9781932195927
Biogeography
Sandra Meek
Selected by Tupelo Press Editors
“… an extraordinary achievement….
weighted with love of world and word,
full of incipient loss that haunts....”
— Asheville Poetry Review
$16.95, 9781932195705
Archicembalo
G. C. Waldrep
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award
Selected by C.D. Wright
“… might be the best book of prose
poems to appear in a long while.”
— Publishers Weekly
$16.95, 9781932195743
Red Summer
Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Selected by Carl Phillips:
“… startles and impresses with its
sheer range of vision…. The stirring
debut of a restorative new
American voice.”
$16.95, 9781932195323
Dismal Rock
Davis McCombs
Winner, Eric Hoffer Award
Selected by Linda Gregerson:
“How rare it is to encounter a writer ...
who finds the world more compelling
than the self.”
$16.95 paper, 9781932195484
Ice, Mouth, Song
Rachel Contreni Flynn
Selected by Stephen Dunn:
“… a haunting beauty…. Flynn will
not pretty-up her world, nor will she
be defeated by its harshness.”
$16.95, 9781932195187
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After Urgency
Rusty Morrison
Selected by Jane Hirshfield
Having lost both parents, Morrison’s new
work embodies the volatility of death in life,
beyond elegy, which mourning allows us
to experience.
“The question underlying After Urgency’s
pages is how to go on — a question that
presses even when we can do nothing else
— and each poem posits its own hardwrestled,
multiplying answer of gorgeous
continuance.... The intelligence and
aliveness here are omnidirectional.”
— Jane Hirshfield
Rusty Morrison’s book of poems the true
keeps calm biding its story was chosen for
the Poetry Society of America’s
DiCastagnola Award, the Sawtooth Poetry
Prize, and the Academy of American Poet’s
James Laughlin Award. Her previous book
Whethering won the Colorado Prize for
Poetry. She lives in Richmond, California,
and is Omnidawn’s co-publisher.
$16.95, 9781932195415
Traffic with Macbeth
Larissa Szporluk
“Szporluk is no coward soul, and her poems
have always taken dark, unflinching, daring
risks…. part heartland noir, part merciless
domestic surreality, part fabular theater….”
— Lisa Russ Spaar
$16.95, 9781936797028
Sanderlings
Geri Doran
Finalist, Oregon Book Award
“The marriage of this elemental
voice with an elegant formal
intelligence and a quiet,
insistent, and probing
imagination makes these poems
truly remarkable additions to
contemporary American poetry.”
— Michael Collier
$16.95, 9781932195958
Audio book: page 19.
Atlas Hour
Carol Ann Davis
“Again and again, Davis goes
in search of the transcendent
moment, of those times of
‘belief and unbelief changing
places.’ Atlas Hour is a
resonant and haunting
collection by a poet of the first
order.” — David Wojahn
$16.95, 9781936797004
Circle’s Apprentice
Dan Beachy-Quick
Winner, Colorado Book Award
“Circle’s Apprentice vividly reminds us that all
our human life may be marked by ritual but it is
returned to us through song.” — Susan Howe
$16.95, 9781932195972
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Passerine
Dan Beachy-Quick
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homing in to the heart of
song.” — Peter Gizzi
$16.95, 9781932195606
After the Gold Rush
Lewis Buzbee (stories)
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
“I love all the maps, magical
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these stories of ordinary lives.”
— Catherine Brady
$14.00, 9781932195385
Mulberry
Dan Beachy-Quick
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$16.95, 9781932195132
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Anna Rabinowitz
Finalist, Foreword’s BOTYA
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— Publishers Weekly
$14.95. 9780971031043
Time Lapse
Alvin Greenberg (novel)
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$22.95 cloth, 9780971031067
The Wanton Sublime
Anna Rabinowitz
“… investigates the mysteries,
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questions about gender and
power.” — Publishers Weekly
$16.95, 9781932195392
Masque
Elena Karina Byrne
“By turns poignant, intricate,
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$16.95, 9781932195576
Longing Distance
Sarah Hannah
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Shadow and lover beware:
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Sarah Hannah is a true
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— Annie Dillard
$16.95, 9781932195118
The Flammable Bird
Elena Karina Byrne
“Her best poems are mercurial
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through a tumult of images and
ideas that surprise and arrest.”
— Marty Simon
$14.95, 9781932195569
Inflorescence
Sarah Hannah
“… caregiver to a mother
diagnosed with terminal
cancer … Hannah's unflinching
eye absorbs every detail …
finely wrought with humor …
a sequence of gleaming,
transcendent truths.”
— American Poet
$16.95 paper, 9781932195613
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Monkey Lightning
Martha Zweig
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
“Zweig seems like the ‘bee’s
news,’ her work an
‘electrifying ‘ringling &
‘brotherly-circuits.’”
— Poetry Magazine
$16.95, 9781932195828
Psalm
Carol Ann Davis
“… gilding the ordinary with
a beauty most would overlook….
under the watch of
the right eyes, everything
can be sacred.”
— The Southern Review
$16.95 paper, 9781932195514
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The Gathering Eye
Tina Barr
“… intricately woven,
sometimes gorgeous,
sometimes obscure.”
— Water-Stone Review
$14.95, 9781932195071
ardor
Karen An-hwei Lee
“… so full of such deep and
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heart as pomegranate
or pomegranate as
human heart.”
— Barbara Jane Reyes
$16.95, 9781932195699
Locket
Catherine Daly
“Lashed with lust, lush with
longing.... Daly uses
language like a child uses
blocks: she builds it up to
knock it down.”
— Cati Porter
$16.95, 9781932195095
The Flight Cage
Rebecca Dunham
“... rises Phoenix-like out of
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Wollstonecraft’s fervent call
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[A]n enormously compelling
reading experience.”
— Sherod Santos
$16.95, 9781932195873
The Us
Joan Houlihan
“In a voice that is elemental,
ancient, animistic, pre-lingual
even, the speaker manages,
with nothing short of magic,
to communicate with us….”
— Lucie Brock-Broido
$16.95, 9781932195774
Other Fugitives
and Other Strangers
Rigoberto González
“Inside this dazzling
kaleidoscope of words,
González whirls us through
the delights and terrors of
erotic love….”
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
$16.95, 9781932195491
At the Drive-In Volcano
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Winner, Balcones Prize
“… a deep resonance of spirit
and sight. She's scared of
nothing…. Poems like these
revive our souls.”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
$16.95, 9781932195453
Bend
Natasha Sajé
“The language of Sajé's
poems dares the world to
be delightful.... A second
reading is inevitable.”
— Andrei Codrescu
$14.95, 9781932195033
Miracle Fruit
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Winner, ForeWord’s BOTYA
“I can think of no other poet —
except Neruda — who has
inscribed the sensual world with
such accurate charm.”
— Alice Fulton
$16.95, 9780971031081
Orpheus on the
Red Line
Theodore Deppe
Finalist, Eric Hoffer Award
“Intending to read just a little
… my morning plans went
out the window.”
— Penelope Moffet
$16.95, 9781932195750
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Selected Poems:
1970 - 2005
Floyd Skloot
Winner, ForeWord’s BOTYA
Silver & PNBA Annual Award
“… finely constructed
vignettes that celebrate
life” — Booklist
$17.95, 9781932195590
On Dream Street
Melanie Almeder
“Like an acrobat fearlessly
singing an aria….”
— Molly Peacock
$16.95, 9781932195354
Approximately
Paradise
Floyd Skloot
Honorably Mention, IPPY Award
“There is ferocity living in
his forms, coexisting with
…sweetness” — Ron Slate
$16.95, 9781932195255
Do the Math: Forms
Emily Galvin
“Written in forms that have
the grace of being intensely
crystalline … and yet enact
an organic unfolding.”
— Barry Mazur
$16.95, 9781932195460
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Vacationland
Ander Monson
“… he excels unlike any
other young poet I can
think of ... Monson’s talent
is voluminous.”
— Boston Review
$16.95, 9781932195163
You Can Tell the Horse
Anything
Mary A. Koncel
“A prose poet of the first
order.” — American
Book Review
$14.95, 9781932195088
Bright Turquoise
Umbrella
Hermine Meinhard
“… remarkable work that
startles as much as it
soothes” — Elaine Equi
$16.95, 9781932195101
American Linden
Matthew Zapruder
“… signals from a precarious
life … more beautiful and
precious for its entanglement
and peril.” — Dean Young
$16.95 paper, 9780971031098
$22.95 cloth, 9781932195057
Every Bird is One Bird
Francine Sterle
“Her sensible … lyrics build
upon traditions … from the
Koran to Sylvia Plath … attuned
to ‘how language cries out for
a subject, how self and subject
merge in the black-bibbed
sparrow.’” — Catherine Daly
$13.95, 9780971031012
o woolly city
Priscilla Sneff
“This is the real thing,
reader.” — David Baker,
Kenyon Book Review
$16.95, 9781932195538
Nude In Winter
Francine Sterle
“… as memorable as it is
unique, as superbly
crafted as it is lyrical…. one
of the most distinctive voices
in American poetry today.”
– Midwest Book Review
$16.95, 9781932195330
Distant Early Warning
Rad Smith
“There is only one other
occasion when I read a
collection with so much
enthusiasm.” — Donald Hall
$16.95, 9781932195293
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Why is the Edge
Always Windy?
Mong-Lan
“… lines peppered across
a wide page in eloquent
visual prosody.”
— North American Review
$16.95, 9781932195286
The Beginning
of the Fields
Angela Shaw
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
“I’ve read nothing better
in the field these last ten
years. Angela Shaw is simply
furiously miraculous.”
— Junot Díaz
$16.95, 9781932195736
Victory & Her Opposites:
A Guide, Amy England
A collage of archeology
reports, imagined narrative,
and poetic description centered
around the excavation of
Samothrace's temple complex
to the great gods.
$19.95, 9781932195378
Storm Damage
Melissa Hotchkiss
“… the powerful defamiliarizing
quality of certain Eastern
European films.… focusing on
the very minute, ordinary things
— suddenly releases an
enormous spookiness, sadness,
or longing.”
— Alan Williamson
$13.95, 9780971031074
The Flute Ship Castricum
Amy England
Finalist, ForeWord’s BOTYA
“... a vivid magical-realist sense
of possibility laces these
evocative locations together —
swiftly. England's work is a
new form of traveling.”
— Cole Swensen
$14.95, 9780971031036
The Book of Whispering
in the Projection Booth
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
“Helps us and hips us to the
circus of public secrets. I trust
this book as far as it can throw
me.” — Graham Foust
$16.95, 9781932195675
I Want This World
Margaret Szumowski
“… straightforward and
accurate, imaginative and
bold; they reveal a quest that
crosses numerous borders of
the mind and the body”
—Yusef Komunyakaa
$13.95, 9780971031029
The Animal Gospels
Brian Barker
“… rhythms both broken and
fiercely alive, inescapable,
rescuing fragments of a life
into music.” — Mark Doty
$16.95, 9781932195279
The Night of the
Lunar Eclipse
Margaret Szumowski
“In her world, the ordinary
quivers in its skin…. Even
within the darkness … some
other light begins to burn.”
— Rebecca Seiferle
$16.95, 9781932195231
Mating Season
Kate Gale
“... a world of fetid beauty.
Its odors cling to you long
after you put the book
down.” — Terry Wolverton
$16.95, 9781932195170
Embryos & Idiots
Larissa Szporluk
“The richness of language …
cannot be overstated — Szporluk
loves to rake words, to break
rocks, to turn the earth in each
poem by breaking up the musty
and the comfortable.”
— Cate Whetzel
$16.95, 9781932195521
Have
Marc Gaba
Winner, Global Filipino
Literary Award
“The poetic line, in Gaba’s
hands, is both the door and
the knock, the barrier and
the means of admission.”
— Sarah Gridley
$16.95, 9781936797066
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