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RECENT & NOTEWORTHY WWW.TUPELOPRESS.ORG 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. $16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-11-0 $27.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-12-7 The Posthumous Affair A novel by James Friel Two children play with a red balloon. So 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 Grace’s great secret in her House of Death. “This book, a perfect gem where everything fits, is enthralling, poignant, and brimming with meaning.” — Olive Mullet, in NewPages “This novel is so lucid, and reveals such deep 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 $29.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-09-7 Cream of Kohlrabi 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. $16.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-936797-05-9 $24.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-936797-10-3 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 12
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 13
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