Poetry. Devreaux Baker is a poet with the voice and vision of a prophet, a necromancer, a 21st century Cassandra. HUNGRY GHOSTS is one of the most important and beautiful books of our time, the culmination of a lifetime of meditation and examination...
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Poetry. NAKED TO THE EARTH is a wide-ranging, lyrical, jarring, playful, elegiac, dissonant, amazing quest to understand who we are and how we became who we are. This book will make you think—deeply and profoundly—about relationships, culture, oblig...
Poetry. You won't find CONTINENT OF GHOSTS being taught in an MFA program—it's too wild, it keeps you off balance and it breaks all the rules. Within a single poem you are swept away by the lyrical beauty of Bill Bradd's language, awed by the power ...
Poetry. With collages by the author. Doren Robbins' unique voice of existential disgust and cynicism comes through in a relentless damning of our culture, politics and state of being. And yet, it is hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny, the absurdity of ...
Poetry. THE VISIT is not only a major artistic achievement, but an important story / history about injustice, the corruption and abuse of power, and the devastation it wreaks on individuals, cultures and classes, and the corrosive influences it has ...
Poetry. Doren Robins calls Devreaux Baker's new book, "lyrical-emotional meditations on the meaning of existence, family, self-reflection and marriage in time of war and environmental destruction."OUT OF THE BONES OF EARTH is a tapestry of interconn...
Fiction. In PLATO'S SCREW, an eccentric physicist and an ambivalent writer hired to follow him to collect impressions of his life find their reality sandwiched between the absurd and the surreal as they search for the pathology of windows, listen to...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Frank Adams tells a lover's tale in verse. This tribute to a lover long dead from AIDS touches what is most human in all of us. It is a story of love, desire, disease, mortality and loss exposing the human spirit as it maintai...
Fiction. Memoir. ENTRE NOUS: THE GOOSEFOOT CHRONICLES, Lydia Riantee Rand's fictionalized memoir, weaves a magic spell that shimmers between fact and fiction, past and present, the living and the dead. Told with amazing clarity and insight through t...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "My soul looks back," James Baldwin said, "and wonders how I got over." Volume two of Sharon Doubiago's memoir, MY FATHER'S LOVE, reveals the legacy of her father's sexual and psychological abuse that continued throughou...
Poetry. "MOTHER SPEAKS HER NAME is classic in theme, operatic in structure, beautiful, fundamental...the very heart of a man's life and vision--all the gender myths and hells of the eons. Frank Adams writes from the shadows, from the darkness, a sur...
Poetry. Native American Studies. RED WILLOW PEOPLE is like sacred text from the great spirit, great mother earth, wisdom beyond knowing, Holy Writ. As Cynthia Hogue, author of The Incognito Body and Or Consequence, writes: "One enters Devreaux Baker...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In this first volume of her two-volume memoir, prize-winning poet Sharon Doubiago writes an extraordinary memoir of growing up in the 1940s and 50s in South Central Los Angeles and the desert mountain town of Ramona. MY ...
Fiction. Lynn Jeffress's collection of short stories in THE DALI CODE & OTHER PARIS STORIES is not the usual view of Paris. Salvador Dali, alive and mysterious in Paris, controls the weather from his Montmartre museum; a dwarf lover and his American...