Ahsahta Press
PROP by Grace Shuyi Liew
Chapbook – Ahsahta Press
Bellevue Literary Press
The Attempt by Magdaléna Platzová, translated by Alex Zuker
224 pages – Bellevue Literary Press/Amazon
Are You Here For What I’m Here For? by Brian Booker
256 pages – Bellevue Literary Press/Amazon
Black Lawrence Press
Salvage by Kristy Bowen
50 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
175 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD
“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. “The Return to Monsterland” opens Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, a collection of twelve fabulist and genre-bending stories inspired by Japanese folklore, historical events, and pop culture. In “Rokurokubi”, a man who has the demonic ability to stretch his neck to incredible lengths tries to save a marriage built on secrets. The recently dead find their footing in “The Inn of the Dead’s Orientation for Being a Japanese Ghost”. In “Girl Zero”, a couple navigates the complexities of reviving their deceased daughter via the help of a shapeshifter. And, in the title story, a woman instigates a months-long dancing frenzy in a Tokyo where people don’t die but are simply reborn without their memories. –from the Black Lawrence Press website
Black Ocean
Popular Music by Kelly Schirmann
160 pages – Black Ocean/SPD
Though We Bled Meticulously by Josh Fomon
120 pages – Black Ocean/SPD
Canarium Books
Palace of Subatomic Bliss by Darcie Dennigan
128 pages – SPD
A Pillow Book by Suzanne Buffman
104 pages – SPD
Lucinda by John Beer
224 pages – SPD
Coach House Books
Whelmed by Nicole Markotić
104 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Throaty Wipes by Susan Holbrook
80 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Magyarázni by Helen Hajnoczky
104 pages – Coach House Books/Amazon
Curbside Splendor
The Secret Birds by Tony Fitzpatrick
100 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
The Telling by Zoe Zolbrod
300 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn’t sure what to expect, or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences as an adult, mother, and feminist, Zolbrod traces the development of her sexuality and her relationships with men in the shadow of her sexual abuse. –from the Curbside Splendor website
Dalkey Archive
The Tidewater Tales by John Barth
655 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth
573 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
John Barth: A Body of Words, edited by Gabrielle Dean and Charles B. Harris
415 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Man + Table by Nicholas Wadley
52 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Confessions of a Madman by Leila Sebbar, translated by Rachel Crovello
104 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Deep Vellum Publishing
The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui, translated by Emma Ramadan
120 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing/Amazon
Dzanc Books
Late One Night by Lee Martin
352 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
Worthy by Lisa Birnbaum
176 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
eohippus
K-12 (Tract Series #12) by Carribean Fragoza
Pamphlet – eohippus
Fitzcarraldo
Futurepoem
Of Being Dispersed by Simone White
88 pages – Futurepoem
The Sissies by Evan Kennedy
104 pages – Futurepoem
“Composed on bicycular excursions through San Francisco, Evan Kennedy’s The Sissies aims to ‘be subjugated’ and speak as animal—wolf, ox, sheep, donkey. A ballpark seagull settling on the Giants’ outfield. The casual, mannered pun on St. Francis of Assisi (patron saint of the city and of animals) and ‘a sissy’ undergirds Kennedy’s argument against the ‘crummy superiority’ of humans, and for the ‘dissolution of animal taxonomy.’ The speaker strives toward, but does not reach, a creaturely transfiguration: ‘when I say wolf I mean something else I want to reach,’ a horizon continually vanishing. Amid echoes of the medieval argument against homosexuality as ‘contrary to kynde’ or against nature, Kennedy suggests that our species-exclusivity (homo, human) is our apparent peril—‘we have only kept identical to ourselves.’ Like the troubadour’s desire for another’s spouse, by definition unobtainable, or the longing for one’s creator and that-other-shore, these poems bray and graze toward a fuller empathy with creatures, a beatific meekness in the face of queer-bashing, where the body can be ‘stilled as meat.’” –Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Gauss PDF
On Arcadia by Jessica Sequeira
GPDF
Renaissance Realism by Joseph Mosconi
GPDF
Gold Line Press/Ricochet Editions
Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich
88 pages – Gold Line/Ricochet
Graywolf Press
May Day by Gretchen Marquette
96 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
I Refuse by Per Petterson
288 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Swallowed by the Cold by Jensen Beach
208 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
H_NGM_N
A New American Field Guide and Song Book by Ryan Collins
104 pages – H_NGM_N
Hub City Press
Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks
280 pages – Hub City Press/Amazon
It’s 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent’s self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie’s fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband’s bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain cavern. To Brodis, these are all the signs that Irenie—tiptoeing through the dark in her billowing white nightshirt—is practicing black magic. When Irenie slips back into bed with a kind of supernatural stealth, Brodis senses that a certain evil has entered his life, linked to the lady agent, or perhaps to other, more sinister forces. –from the Hub City Press website
Inpatient Press
Private by Ian Hatcher
Chapbook – Inpatient Press
Kernpunkt Press
The Face of Our Town by Elizeya Quate
284 pages – Kernpunkt Press
Lazy Fascist
Witch Hunt by Juliet Escoria
152 pages – Lazy Fascist
Les Figues
100 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu
135 pages – Les Figues/SPD
There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an orientalist tradition that has defined modern American poetry, these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American literature, revealing the spectral Asian presence that haunts our most eloquent lyrics and self-satisfied wisdom. Rewriting poets from Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore to Gary Snyder and Billy Collins, this book is a sharply critical and wickedly humorous travesty of the modern canon, excavating the Asian (American) bones buried in our poetic language. –from the Les Figues website
Melville House
The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
592 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
224 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream by Christopher Lehmann
368 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Milkweed Editions
Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese
418 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
256 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay, translated by Sheila Fischman
176 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
New Directions
Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz, edited by Craig Morgan Teicher
280 pages – New Directions/Amazon
Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert
320 pages – New Directions
Counternarratives by John Keene
320 pages – New Directions/Amazon
Little Labors by Riva Galchen
96 pages – New Directions/Amazon
Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen’s puzzle pieces assemble into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and tender world of wonder. The 47 Ronin; the black magic of maternal love; babies morphing from pumas to chickens; the quasi-repellent concept of “women writers”; origami-ophilia in Oklahoma as a gateway drug to a lifelong obsession with Japan; discussions of favorite passages from the Heian masterpieces Genji and The Pillow Book; the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s new chic color for baby gifts; Frankenstein as a sort of baby; babies gold mines; babies as tiny Godzilla…Little Labors–atomized and exploratory, conceptually byzantine and freshly forthright–delights. –from the New Directions website
Open Letter Books
The Clouds by Juan José Saer
160 pages – Open Letter/Amazon
Other Press
The Honeymoon by Dinitia Smith
384 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Constellation by Adrien Bosc, translated by Willard Wood
208 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Platypus Press
Rats’ Alley Poems by L.G. Corey
134 pages – Platypus Press/Amazon
Loneliness is the Machine that Drives the World by Grant Tarbard
64 pages – Platypus Press/Amazon
Press 53
They Could Live with Themselves by Jodi Paloni
204 pages – Press 53/Amazon
Hard Toward Home by C.D. Albin
156 pages – Press 53/Amazon
Rescue Press
Estranger by Erik Anderson
142 pages – Rescue Press/SPD
Dragons by Melissa Dickey
88 pages – Rescue Press/SPD
Melissa Dickey’s rending and sparely lyric second collection, Dragons, moves in five exacting suites. Or should we call them acts? These long poems are cobbled between self and selves, in the fleshed halo of space that separates even the closest kin: cousin and cousin, mother and child, husband and wife. The speaker, though often an actor in someone else’s scene, moves keenly aware of the agency in devotion, on which the rest depends: “I did what they said: Hold your baby. Give her a kiss. I did what they said I did what they said I did.” Dickey shows us life in flickers, and the beauty and terror of these poems stream by in potent, portentous moments… –from the Rescue Press website
Restless Books
Albina and the Dog-Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky, translated by Alfred Macadam
224 pages – Restless Books/Amazon
Rose Metal Press
The Voyager Record: A Transmission by Anthony Michael Morena
168 pages – Rose Metal Press/SPD
Late summer 1977: two identical robotic spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral. Their divergent paths through the solar system take them past gas giants, icy moons, asteroid belts, and eventually into the unknown of interstellar space. There, they will continue to travel on forever, the fastest moving objects ever created by humans. The Voyagers carry a message from Earth, a phonograph record plated with gold containing 27 songs, 118 images, and greetings in 55 languages meant to summarize all life on our planet for the extraterrestrials who might one day encounter the crafts. The Voyager Record: A Transmission is the record of that record: a history in fragments exploring how legendary astronomer Carl Sagan and his team attempted to press the entire human race into a single groove. Combining elements of poetry, flash fiction, and essay, Anthony Michael Morena creates a collage of music, observation, humor, and alienation. Giving the 38-year-old original playlist a B-side update, Morena’s The Voyager Record calls out to its namesake across the billions of miles of emptiness: Send more answers. –from the Rose Metal Press website
Sarabande Books
Allegheny Front by Matthew Neill Null
192 pages – Sarabande Books/Amazon
Sidebrow
The Wine-Dark Sea by Mathias Svalina
76 pages – Sidebrow/SPD
Tin House Books
Ghosts of Bergen County by Dana Cann
288 pages – Tin House/Amazon
Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
176 pages – Tin House/Amazon
Torrey House Press
Cold Blood Hot Sea by Charlene D’Avanzo
250 pages – Torrey House/Amazon
Two Lines Press
Quiet Creature in the Corner by João Gilberto Noll, translated by Adam Morris
120 pages – Two Lines Press/Amazon
Quiet Creature on the Corner marks Noll’s English-language debut. An unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after inexplicably raping his neighbor, but his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he’s abruptly taken to a new home—a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that’s required of him is to . . . write poetry. Just who are his captors, Kurt and Otávio? What of the alluring maid, Amália, and her charge, a woman with cancer named Gerda? And, most alarmingly of all, why does Kurt suddenly appear to be aging so much faster than he should? –from the Two Lines Press website
Ugly Duckling Presse
Letter to the Amazon by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by A’Dora Phillips and Gaëlle Cogan
48 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse/SPD
Invisible Oligarchs by Bill Berkson
64 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse/SPD
Dog Ear by Erica Baum
72 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse
Let Me Be Clear by Cara Benson
Chapbook – Ugly Duckling Press
Poems from Bernie Sanders’ filibuster speech on December 10, 2010 as (re)written at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton, New York by D. Anderson, Jerry Andrew, RC Brown, Jareau Carter, Daniel Felder, Dempsey Hawkins, JJ Davies, Ismael Melendez, Danny Nelson, & Eric Perez. –from the Ugly Duckling Presse website
Unnamed Press
Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday by Debbie Graber
176 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
Unsung Stories
The Arrival of Missives by Aliya Whiteley
91 pages – Unsung Stories/Amazon
Wakefield Press
Sweating Blood by Léon Bloy, translated by Erik Butler
232 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon
Wave Books
Come in Alone by Anselm Berrigan
96 pages – Wave Books/SPD
The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966-2014 by John Godfrey
192 pages – Wave Books/SPD
Phantom Pains of Madness by Noelle Kocot
96 pages – Wave Books/SPD
Noelle Kocot recalls a break with reality that occurred a decade and a half ago in vivid, raw language, one word per line. The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense. There’s a cult following for her unique imagination, self-professed in a poem as “filled with pulchritude and peopleness,” and her seventh collection does not disappoint. –from the Wave Books website
