Everything was going right in the delivery room until, suddenly, it wasn't. The baby's brain was damaged; the new mother, unprepared for the life she and her family would now be living. In dense, lyrical prose, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter...
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The poems in Kimberly Kralowec’s gorgeous, heart-opening collection are rife with haunting and lyrical lines that illuminate the crisis of climate change. In her visionary debut collection, THE SAPLINGS THINK OF US AS YOUNG, California native Kimbe...
An adventure story in two realms, a conversation between the visible and invisible worlds: in this eloquent memoir, Tina Tau reveals the life-saving intelligence of her dreams. ". . . Ask for something so alive, so surprising, that it will crack you...
New father wrestles with the masculinity question — shadows a private eye as experiment.SOFT-BOILED follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets. What starts out as a last-ditch effort to write West’s fir...
Poems responding to the everyday miracles and paradoxes of life, in language that is honed, spare, full of plainspoken insight. This is award-winning poetry (Robin is winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize) that tacks toward simplicity. Its depths, like th...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Jewish Studies. Memoir. Are we ever done leaving home? Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of his Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life's central ...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Here is the classic book, updated and re-issued for its tenth anniversary with a new Foreword by novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who writes: "This book has been in print forever because what it offers works for people...y...
Literary Nonfiction. Environmental Studies. A WAY HOME is a love letter to Oregon and an ode to living in the present moment. Living for several years in Minnesota, Scott Parker finds himself longing for the Oregon of his youth. He explores this lon...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essays. In 2016 Americans asked: What kind of darkness is this? What is the quality of light? This book gives citizens of a dark time a glittering crown of light—testimony, resonant questions, stories of engagement with ...
Literary Nonfiction. Poet David Biespiel cracks open the creative process and invites readers to take a fresh look at the mysterious pathways of the imagination. "Failure is the engine of creativity," writes Biespiel, as he candidly tracks his own d...
Literary Nonfiction. This book finds wildness and grace breaking out in unexpected places—offering a crucial balance to this searching personal account of what it has been like to be a "citizen of the regime" during eight years of unprecedented prop...