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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 14
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 15
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