SPD Nonfiction Bestsellers

October—December 2008

1. PLANTS AND LANDSCAPES FOR SUMMER-DRY CLIMATES (of the San Francisco Bay Region) by EAST BAY M.U.D. WATER CONSERVATION STAFF (East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD))
2. LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT: GUERRILLA POETRY AND PUBLIC SPACE by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand (Palm Press)
3. GOOD FRIDAY: THE DEATH OF IRISH REPUBLICANISM by Anthony Mcintyre (Ausubo Press)
4. BAGHDAD, YESTERDAY: THE MAKING OF AN ARAB JEW by Sasson Somekh (Ibis Editions)
5. DEVOTIONAL CINEMA 2ND EDITION by Nathaniel Dorsky (Tuumba Press)
6. THE ART OF MICHAEL PARKES by Michael Parkes (Swan King Editions)
7. ADORNO'S NOISE by Carla Harryman (Essay Press)
8. LETTERS FROM ABU GHRAIB by Joshua Casteel (Essay Press)
9. LETTERS TO POETS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POETICS, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax (Saturnalia Books)
10. SLEEP'S POWERS by Jacqueline Risset (Ugly Duckling Presse)
11. LINES OF VELOCITY: WORDS THAT MOVE FROM WRITEGIRL edited by Keren Taylor (WriteGirl)
12. A LEVANT JOURNAL by George Seferis (Ibis Editions)
13. AURA: LAST ESSAYS by Gustaf Sobin (Counterpath Press)
14. THE GRAND PIANO PART 7 by Perelman, Watten, Benson, Harryman, Mandel, Silliman, Robinson, Hejinian, Armantrout, Pearson (Mode A/This Press)
15. TOWARD TOTAL POETRY by Adriano Spatola (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions)
16. THE NEW SENTENCE by Ron Silliman (Roof Books)
17. YOUR BODY FIGURED by Douglas A. Martin (Nightboat Books)
18. MOVING TARGETS: ON POETS, POETRY & TRANSLATION by Stephen Kessler (El Leon Literary Arts)
19. MAKE THEM GO AWAY: CLINT EASTWOOD, CHRISTOPHER REEVE AND THE CASE AGAINST DISABILITY RIGHTS by Mary Johnson (The Advocado Press)
20. THE CONSEQUENCE OF INNOVATION: 21ST CENTURY POETICS edited by Craig Dworkin (Roof Books)
21. ON PAIN by Ernst Junger (Telos Press)
22. THE BODY: AN ESSAY by Jenny Boully (Essay Press)
23. RAVEN TELLS STORIES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ALASKAN NATIVE WRITING edited by Joseph Bruchac (Greenfield)
24. BUT IS IT ART? THE SPIRIT OF ART AS ACTIVISM edited by Nina Felshin (Bay Press)
25. INSIGHTS INTO SYRIAN CINEMA: ESSAYS & CONVERSATIONS WITH CONTEMPORARY FILMMAKERS edited by Rashi Salti (Rattapallax Press)
26. LISTEN TO ME: SHARED SECRETS FROM WRITEGIRL edited by Keren Taylor (WriteGirl Publications)
27. FORCES OF IMAGINATION: WRITING ON WRITING by Barbara Guest (Kelsey St. Press)
28. VIVA LA RAZA: A HISTORY OF CHICANO IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE by Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish (Red Letter Press)
29. HSIN-HSIN MING: VERSES ON THE FAITH-MIND by Seng-Ts'An (White Pine Press)
30. SCREENING ETHNICITY: CINEMATOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS OF ITALIAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES edited by A. C. Hostert and A. J. Tamburri (Bordighera)

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