This is the twenty-seventh installment of Entropy’s small press new releases feature. If you are a small press and would like to see your upcoming titles listed here in the future, please email jenny@entropymag.org with the information you see included for the titles below. Please be sure to send title information within the first three weeks of the new month to guarantee inclusion.
Ahsahta Press
Hua Shi Hua: Drawings and Poems from China by Jen Hyde
80 pages – Ahsahta Press/SPD
Bottlecap Press
Alternatives by Dalton Day
Chapbook – Bottlecap Press
Alternatives a fantastical collection of prose poems (thirty to be exact) that allow the reader a look into Dalton Day’s head. These descriptive prose poems explore an out of the ordinary aspect of Day’s writing. Alternatives provides another option to reality, a world in which the “you” is able to feel the beating of a dog’s heart or not be stung by a hornet’s nest. A reality where you are safe. –from the Bottlecap Press website
Brooklyn Arts Press
Brooklyn Poets Anthology edited by Jason Koo & Joe Pan
432 pages – Brooklyn Arts Press/SPD
Calamari Press
The Red Barn by Nat Baldwin
82 pages – Calamari Press/SPD
City Lights Publishers
In Memory of an Angel by David Shapiro
88 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
On to the Next Dream by Paul Madonna
96 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
Cleveland University Poetry Center
daughterrarium by Sheila McMullin
112 pages – Cleveland University Poetry Center/Amazon
In One Form to Find Another by Jane Lewty
120 pages – Cleveland University Poetry Center/Amazon
I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well by James Allen Hall
158 pages – Cleveland University Poetry Center/Amazon
Coach House Books
Dead White Men by Shane Rhodes
96 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Common Place by Sarah Pinder
88 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Feel Happier in 9 Seconds by Linda Besner
88 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
This collection is a universe where minimalism and maximalism work in harmony. Ethics, economics, glamour and alternative physics are just a few of the vehicles Besner uses in her jaundiced pursuit of knowledge and joy. At the collection’s core is a series of brilliantly illuminated poems patterned on a scientific study of synaesthesia and Fisher Price refrigerator magnets. Besner’s courageous comparisons and musicality provide the critical happiness we all need. –from the Coach House Books website
Coffee House Press
The Long Dry by Cynan Jones
136 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
At the Lightning Field by Laura Raicovich
104 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Curbside Splendor
The Hypothetical Man by Paul Maliszewski and James Wagner
200 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
Deep Vellum Publishing
Not One Day by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan
150 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing/Amazon
Dikembe Press
Sudden Lake by Rebecca Farivar
Chapbook – Dikembe Press
What Dorothea Did by Paul Legault
Chapbook – Dikembe Press
Dorothy, a publishing project
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
232 pages – Dorothy/SPD
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. Published to coincide with the centennial of her birth, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington collects for the first time all of her stories, including several never before seen in print. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), The Complete Stories captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist’s life. –from the Dorothy website
Dzanc Books
A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales by Josh Emmons
184 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
Dreamlives of Debris by Lance Olsen
296 pages – Dzanc Books
Dreamlives of Debris is a hybrid retelling of the Theseus and Minotaur myth. Here the Minotaur is a little deformed girl—she calls herself Debris—hidden away from public view in the labyrinth beneath Knossos. She possesses the ability to hear the flood of thoughts and see the flood of memories, desires, and futures of others throughout history from Herodotus and Pliny to Borges and Edward Snowden. Her labyrinth takes the form of an impossible liquid architecture bearing no center and hence no discernible perimeter. Dreamlives of Debris explores such impossible architecture as a way of knowing — an extended metaphor for our current sense of lived experience: the feeling, for instance, of being awash in massive, networked data fields that may lead everywhere and nowhere at once. –from the Dzanc Books website
Greying Ghost Press
Grit Lords: Vol. II
Chapbook – Greying Ghost Press
Antworten by Ken L. Walker
Chapbook – Greying Ghost Press
3 Poets: Jon Cone / Adam Tavel / Jeff Whitney
Chapbook – Greying Ghost Press
Graywolf Press
A Little More Than Human by Fiona Maazel
360 pages –Graywolf Press/Amazon
99 Poems by Dana Gioia
208 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Afterland by Mai Der Vang
104 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
H_NGM_N
In the House on the Cusp of Light by Ryan Bollenbach
Chapbook – H_NG_N Books
Melville House
The Destruction of Hilary Clinton by Susan Bordo
272 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Underground Fugue by Margot Singer
336 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Eurovision!: A History of Modern Europe Through the World’s Greatest Song Contest by Chris West
356 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Man Who Designed the Future: Normal Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America by B. Alexandra Szerlip
368 pages – Melville House/Amazon
New Directions
City Gate, Open Up by Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang
240 pages – New Directions/Amazon
The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories by Osama Alomar, translated by Osama Alomar and C.J. Collins
96 pages – New Directions/Amazon
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig, translated by Anne Posten
200 pages – New Directions/Amazon
Noemi Press
Mouths by Claire Marie Stancek
112 pages – Noemi Press/SPD
“Activist aesthetic practices, as they unfold in the context of contemporary social and environmental precariousness, demand more than a radical rethinking of assumptions. As Claire Marie Stancek insists, in her brilliant inaugural poetic project Mouths, activist art demands that we challenge the reliability of common sense. She begins by demanding that we expand our understanding of who and what produces that sense, who and what coexist in ongoing commonality. And she does this to devastating, as well as invigorating, effect. Sense and life are coexistent, and perhaps synonymous. But then senselessness and lack of life must abound at the same time. Amatory sucking and murderous sucking can’t be independent of each other. Perhaps this is fine: perhaps we cannot love without knowing of its dangers. Stancek goes further, proposing that we cannot love humanity without loving far beyond the human sphere, loving the nanosystems and macrocontexts on which love depends. Or perhaps we cannot love at all. Meanwhile, beauty prevails. Mouths does not eschew anguish, but it abounds in beauty—uncommon beauty, but beauty that invites us to an ever broader commonality, and an ever better sense.” –Lyn Hejinian, author of My Life
OR Books
The Gospel of Self: How Jesus Joined the GOP by Terry Heaton
222 – OR Books
Other Press
Easternization: War and Peace in the Asian Century by Gideon Rachman
320 pages –Other Press/Amazon
The Cost of Courage by Charles Kaiser
304 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Press 53
Lion Brothers by Leona Sevick
78 pages – Press 53/Amazon
In a Homeland Not Far: New and Selected Poems by Yahya Frederickson
132 pages – Press 53/Amazon
Swimming Through Fire by Seth Michelson
66 pages – Press 53/Amazon
Restless Books
History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town by Filip Springer, translated by Sean Gasper Bye
352 pages – Restless Books/Amazon
Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War I. After Stalin’s post-World War II redrawing of Poland’s borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced persons from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc’s uranium-mining industry…today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. In this collection of unsparing and insightful reportage, the renowned journalist, photographer, and architecture critic Filip Springer rediscovers this tiny town’s history. Digging beyond the village’s mythic foundations and the great wars and world leaders that shaped it, Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter; and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present day. –from the Restless Books website
Sarabande Books
Kingdom of the Young by Edie Meidav
256 pages – Sarabande Books/Amazon
Sidebrow
Inherit by Ginger Ko
74 pages – Sidebrow/SPD
Field Glass by Joanna Ruocco and Joanna Howard
97 pages – Sidebrow/SPD
Joanna Ruocco and Joanna Howard’s collaborative novella Field Glass sets forth a near-future war in which the terrain of the occupied shifts every day. This war—where relationships between humans and machines are rendered real through event logs and dispatches—hinges on an imagined evolution where the natural sciences merge with an amplified technology. Brought to life with antique flourish, high mannerisms, and pastoral motifs in familiar yet unrecognizable locales, Field Glass asks how we might build an imaginary world on the ruins of an occupied one. With each transmission, Ruocco and Howard artfully underscore the suspicion that “surely our mysteries define us.” –from the Sidebrow website
Siglio Press
About to Happen by Cecilia Vicuña, Andrea Andersson, Lucy Lippard, Macarena Gómez-Barris, and Julia Bryan-Wilson
160 pages – Siglio Press/Amazon
Solar Luxuriance
Outplace by Lital Khaikin
Chapbook – Solar Luxuriance
My Dead Body Knows No Death by Panagiotis Meletis
Chapbook – Solar Luxuriance
Symphony in White by Maure Coise
Chapbook – Solar Luxuriance
Sundress Publications
Bottomland by Erin Elkins Radcliffe
Sundress Publications
Two Dollar Radio
The Vine That Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes
220 pages – Two Dollar Radio/Amazon
Tyrant Books
literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder
Tryant Books
Ugly Duckling Presse
The Happy End/All Welcome by Mónica de la Torre
128 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse/SPD
The Most Foreign Country by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert
56 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse/SPD
Wakefield Press
The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934-1944 by Gisèle Prassinos, translated by Henry Vale and Bonnie Ruberg
240 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon
The Table by Francis Ponge, translated by Colombina Zamponi
96 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon
Wave Books
What is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews From the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983-2009) edited by Anselm Berrigan
440 pages – Wave Books/SPD
Of Mongrelitude by Julian Talamantez Brolaski
112 pages – Wave Books/SPD
Of Mongrelitude is a colloquy on the mongrel body, texual and actual, sexual, specieal, and racial. Composed in a hybrid style, it makes the argument that everything can and does come into ‘englyssh’: ancient and invented languages, european and indigenous, tongues not yet named. All of this ‘made up as medicine’, as ceremony for all creatures, as literal song. –from the Wave Books website
