This is the twenty-ninth 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. Kindly send title information within the first three weeks of the new month to guarantee inclusion.
Ahsahta Press
Days and Words by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
96 pages – Ahsahta Press/SPD
Bellevue Literary Press
A Fugitive in Walden Woods by Norman Lock
240 pages – Bellevue Literary Press/Amazon
Birds, LLC
Joy of Missing Out by Ana Božičević
94 pages – Birds, LLC/SPD
Joy Of Missing Out is starlite verse on death and independence for the dreamers, dropouts, rebels and the neuroatypical. A confession and sublimation of breakdowns personal and systemic, JOMO paints a playful and unflinching portrait of the ups and downs of city survival and queer romance. Simultaneously it deploys online slang and high lyrical registers, morphs the sad girl into Baba Yaga, drops truth bombs on art and politics, and puts the sin into sincerity. Even as it engineers the death of its speaker, JOMO is a paradoxically joyous litany of her endurance and a boost-plea to stay in a messed-up world and say it out loud. This anthem is best read at night or dawn when no one’s around for a Like or a kiss. –from the Birds, LLC website
Boss Fight Books
Kingdom Hearts II by Alex Ray Corriea
144 pages – Boss Fight Books/Amazon
Brooklyn Arts Press
Fire in the Hero Building by Tuff Sunshine
LP – Brooklyn Arts Press
City Lights Publishers
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
144 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
Coffee House Press
Fugitive, in Full View by Jack Marshall
112 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Stephen Florida by Gabs Habash
304 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Curbside Splendor
Perfect Conditions by Vanessa Blakeslee
300 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
From the unforgiving surf of Costa Rica to hidden vineyards in the South of France, the stories in Perfect Conditions span the globe: a deep sea fisherman discovers he may not be allowed to return home when his contract expires; a young woman mourns the death of a dear friend she cannot save; a newlywed couple embark on a disastrous honeymoon. –from the Curbside Splendor website
Dzanc Books
Not Constantinople by Nicholas Bredie
320 pages – Dance Books/Amazon
Fitzcarraldo
Essayism by Brian Dillon
152 pages – Fitzcarraldo/Amazon
Flood Editions
To the River by Michael O’Brien
80 pages – Flood Editions/SPD
Gauss PDF
3… by Travis Macdonald
GPDF
Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers by Sophie Seita
GPDF
Greying Ghost Press
Photo Zine by Ciara Burke
Zine – Greying Ghost Press
Photo Zine by Zachary Zalman Green
Zine – Greying Ghost Press
Graywolf Press
So Much Blue by Percival Everett
256 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
H_NGM_N
Field Guide to Autobiography by Melissa Eleftherion
Chapbook – H_NGM_N
“This book earns its title. It’s a field guide to the ecosystem that is being human. And that means it is also an autobiography. It is unclear in most of the poems where the human begins and ends, and this is how it should be. The world that comes out of these poems is luminous and difficult. This isn’t conventional nature poetry; it’s a poetry that helps us understand the future and the world that embeds us.” –Juliana Spahr, author of Well Then There Now
Insert Press
Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos translated by Boris Dralyuk
62 pages – Insert Press/Amazon
Aeroplane by Kyn. Taniya, translated by Anthony Seidman and David Shook
190 pages – Insert Press/Amazon
Abecedary by Pablo Jofré, translated by David Shook
84 pages – Insert Press/Amazon
Les Figues
Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares, translated by Jennifer Donovan
144 pages – Les Figues/SPD
What does it mean to be? And to be different? Gabriela Torres Olivares poses these questions as she writes in the space between her characters’ bodies, desires, and experiences. With a constantly shifting gaze, these fifteen stories explore the profundity of otherness across beings and quasi beings, seeking out both discomfort and common ground. In her Enfermario, part infirmary and part bestiary, Gabriela Torres Olivares invites us into her characters’ worlds only to defamiliarize the quotidian and thus challenge our most basic preconceptions. –from the Les Figues website
Melville House
Federal Reports on Police Killings: Ferguson, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Chicago by United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
456 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Milkweed Editions
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Black Man’s Love Affair With Nature by J. Drew Lanham
240 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils—of love, land, identity, family, and race—emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way to somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity”—to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field. –from the Milkweed Editions website
Open Letter Books
Salki by Wojciech Nowicki, translated by Jan Pytalski
210 pages – Open Letter Books/Amazon
OR Books
Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel by Eli Valley
144 pages – OR Books
Other Press
The Songs by Charles Elton
336 pages – Other Press/Amazon
A Fortune Foretold by Agneta Pleijel, translated by Marlaine Delargy
256 pages – Other Press/Amazon
The Parthenon Bomber by Christos Chrissopoulos, translated by John Cullen
128 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Sarabande Books
Hothouse by Karyna McGlynn
80 pages – Sarabande Books/Amazon
Karyna McGlynn takes readers on tour through the half-haunted house of the contemporary American psyche with wit, whimsy, and candid confession. Disappointing lovers surface in the bedroom; in the bathroom, “the drained tub ticks with mollusks & lobsters;” revenge fantasies and death lurk in the basement where they rightly belong. With lush imagery and au courant asides, Hothouse surprises and delights. –from the Sarabande Books website
Sundress Publications
Before Isadore by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
Sundress Publications
Tyrant Books
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
150 pages – Tyrant Books/Amazon
Unnamed Press
Fingerprints of Previous Owners by Rebecca Entel
212 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
Blue Money by Janet Capron
212 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
Wakefield Press
The King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob, translated by Kit Schluter
176 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers together twenty-one of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories swarm around moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob’s collaging of primary source documents into fiction. Brimming with murder, suicide, royal leprosy, and medieval witchcraft, this collection describes for us historically attested clergymen furtively attending medieval sabbaths, Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of Louis XIV, a ten-year-old French viscountess seeking vengeance for her unwilled espousal to a money-grubbing French lord, and dice-tumbling sons of Florentine noblemen wandering Europe at the height of the 1374 plague. These writings are of such hallucinatory detail and linguistic specificity that the reader is left wondering whether they aren’t newly unearthed historical documents. To read Schwob is to encounter human history in its most scintillating and ebullient form as it comes into contact with his unparalleled imagination. –from the Wakefield Press website
Wave Books
Prose Architectures by Renee Gladman
144 pages – Wave Books/SPD
