Poetry. Disability Studies. Politics. In Sylvia Byrne Pollack's debut collection, RISKING IT, the titular poem asks "how to prepare for death." Pollack's science background and life experiences inform work that is ultimately joyful, with every pun i...

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Poetry. California Interest. Native American Studies. Imagined and real worlds intersect as lyric poet Denise Low dances between mortals and the dead, humans and animals, her European and Indigenous heritages. Real pandemics and wildfires set the st...

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Poetry. PERIGEE MOON is a collection of tanka, the elegant poetic form used by Japanese court poets over 1300 years ago to express desire, longing, and unrequited love. These short five-line poems create space in the reader's mind and heart to enter...

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Poetry. Winner of the Red Mountain Discovery Award for a first book. Roosting crows trace "a memory of abundance." Stars speak and then fall silent. A coyote will not be reduced to a prop. Saints are tested, composers come unstrung, and trees transf...

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Fiction. Can a person heal, or recover from personal and historical trauma? This is the question asked by Thea, heroine of the novella SHADOW ON THE MINOTAUR. Leaving Sarajevo after the war, she ends up on a block in Brooklyn attempting to start a n...

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Fiction. "Bill O'Neill's engaging second novel, SHORT SESSION, poses the question: For an introspective and caring person like Chapman Murphy, often too personally involved with the previously incarcerated people he works with, and mostly embarrasse...

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Poetry. This is a book full of celebrations and hauntings, humor and grief, and great strength coiled inside the ephemeral. Traveling through Bhutan, Italy, the Everglades, Yellowstone, and often his Colorado backyard, Calderazzo delineates the subt...

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Poetry. "Hers is a looking glass world. Vera Kroms tells her truth at a quizzical slant with a bias toward the beautiful... Accomplished and astonishing as they are, these poems are not entirely at home in her adopted language. Like war orphans exil...

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Poetry. "I have been a fan of George Looney's poems since before his first book. I know of no other poet who understands so well that regional writing is also a brand of mysticism. This is George Looney's great gift, to show us what was in front of ...

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Poetry. ONE ILLUMINATED LETTER OF BEING is a sequence of poems—by turns lyric, narrative, and dramatic—that limn what it means for a son to watch and be fully present as his mother prepares to die. These poems are about living in the midst of death ...

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Poetry. Every story is at heart a theft from what was previously told and written. Each time the story is shared something changes, something is new, something is lost, something in our view of who we are is unsettled and unsettles the present day a...

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Poetry. California Interest. Winner of the 2020 Red Mountain Discovery Award. In his debut poetry collection, BORROWED LIGHT, Ken Haas vividly yet unassumingly traces the evolution of a first-generation American's heart. His remarkable gift for stor...

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Poetry. Jewish Studies. Winner of the 2019 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. "I admire its sober warmth, its sense of history and human slippage. The poem that won me over is the poem addressed to Mark Strand (the poet unwriting), clever, sly, but loving, ...

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Fiction. In this picaresque first novel, the protagonist moves from a rebellious existence to be more focused in the surrounding adult world. As he heads once more to the freights, after working intensely for seven years with parolees in a halfway h...

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Poetry. "Whether writing about land and earth 'forgotten / like a rusted key' or love that arrives as 'a kind of completion / of arrival,' Sagan's poems speak to the essence of every corner they touch. They ask the rare daring question and what's le...

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