Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In poetry and prose, Ann Slayton takes on wide-ranging subjects, sometimes imagining herself into an array of voices—rarely does she write in first-person—among them, the historical Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), "We Have ...
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Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Meena Kaul is riding high in her position as director of Behera House, a safe haven in India for women who have survived domestic violence. But when the stock market crashes, Behera House loses its funding to...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Margaret Birstein, Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster. Each of the twenty-one stories in AND SO IS THE BUS is an evocative "reporting" of Yossel Birstein's encounters with the daily riders of Jerusa...
Poetry. The poems in DISAPPEARING ACT, Saundra Maley's first collection of poetry, often have a meditative aura about them. Delicate in tone and spare in form, they evoke a sense of wonderment, whether her subjects are historical personages—from Mos...
Poetry. The poems of MARK THE MUSIC are by turns serious and comic—often simultaneously—spiritual and skeptical, reflective and boisterous. Their subjects range from "the little / violence lifting their / scarred hands / in one poor truce after anot...
Fiction. The characters in Jack Greer's ABRAHAM'S BAY & OTHER STORIES have set sail for islands in the Atlantic and Caribbean—some are restless, some curious, others are unhappy, while others are in love with roaming. Inevitably, these small boat sa...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. Memoir. Translated from the German by Elborg Foster. Though Hilda Stern wrote about her experiences for a few years after the war, first in a DP camp and then in New York, she hid her notebooks after her ...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poetry History & Criticism. Foreword by Garrison Keillor. In this literary memoir, Reed Whittemore—a self-considered bourgeois anarchist—gives us marvelous glimpses into his wide-ranging life as poet, little magazine edi...
Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. Memoir. Translated from the German by Hilda Reach and Merrill Leffler. ONE WHO CAME BACK is Josef Katz's account of his four years of daily terror in Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and numbers of smaller Nazi labor c...
Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. Memoir. Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Dor. On July 4, 1941, 13-year old Ephraim Sten began a diary in Polish in Nazi-occupied Złoczów, Poland. Hidden with other Jews by a Catholic Ukrainian family for more ...
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Macedonian by Charles Simic. THE BANDIT WIND draws from several of Slavko Janevski's books—the poems are wide-ranging, moving fluidly and powerfully through traditional folk-poem motifs into tightly wro...