Hello — we have the twenty-first installment of Entropy’s small press new releases ready for you! If you are a small press and would like your upcoming releases to be featured, please send an email to jenny@entropymag.org. Meanwhile, September looks promising on the title front, so take a look below.
Action Books
My country, tonight by Josué Guébo
121 pages – Action Books/SPD
Big Lucks Books
The Good Life by Brandon Brown
84 pages – Big Luck Books/SPD
Radio Cacophony by Michelle Dove
132 pages – Big Luck Books/SPD
House Shows, Couch Swaps, and Roommate Swaps. Genres, Subgenres, and Post-genres. With its confessional language and intimate tête-à-tête style, Radio Cacophony pulls us into one woman’s familiar-yet-singular world of social anxiety, sexuality, and musical discovery. In these short vignettes centered around a college radio station in the early aughts, Michelle Dove builds a cool and fearless interplay between individuality and community, one where eccentricity coexists with the yearning to belong. Comical, animated, and provoked, Radio Cacophony is full of the imperfect encounters that make us human and buoyant revelations that we can love who we become. –from the Big Lucks Books website
Birds, LLC
IRL by Tommy Pico
98 pages – Birds, LLC/SPD
Black Lawrence Press
Coulrophobia and Fata Mogana by Jacob M. Appel
182 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD
Notes on the End of the World by Meghan Privitello
34 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD
Black Ocean
L’Heure Bleue or The Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert
96 pages – Black Ocean/SPD
Andes by Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Jeffrey Young
160 pages – Black Ocean/SPD
Boss Fight Books
Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane
168 pages – Boss Fight Books/Amazon
Brooklyn Arts Press
The Ugly by Alexander Boldizar
372 pages – Brooklyn Arts Press/SPD
Muzhduk the Ugli the Fourth is a 300-pound boulder-throwing mountain man from Siberia whose tribal homeland is stolen by an American lawyer out to build a butterfly conservatory for wealthy tourists. In order to restore his people’s land and honor, Muzhduk must travel to Harvard Law School to learn how to throw words instead of boulders. His anarchic adventures span continents, from Siberia to Cambridge to Africa, as he fights fellow students, Tuareg rebels, professors of law, dark magic, bureaucrats, heatstroke, postmodernists, and eventually time and space. A wild existential comedic romp, The Ugly tells the tale of a flawed and unlikely hero struggling against the machine that shapes the people who govern our world. –from the Brooklyn Arts Press website
City Lights Publishers
Breaking Through Power, It’s Easier Than We Think by Ralph Nader
144 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
America at War with Itself by Henry A. Giroux
336 pages – City Lights Publishers/Amazon
Coffee House Press
The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas
296 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide by Ron Padgett
112 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon
Curbside Splendor
Late Stories by Stephen Dixon
250 pages – Curbside Splendor/Amazon
Dalkey Archive
Bottom’s Dream by Arno Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods
1496 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Games With Greta and Other Stories by Suzana Tratnik, translated by Michael Biggins
140 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Naked by Jean-Phillipe Toussaint, translated by Edward Gauvin
170 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
The Black Mountain Letters by Jonathan C. Creasy
235 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Trilogy by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt
200 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Tynset by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, translated by Jeffrey Castle
170 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Lines from a Canvas by Jacob Miller
120 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon
Deep Vellum Publishing
What are the Blind Men Dreaming? by Noemi Jaffe
240 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing/Amazon
Dzanc Books
Ark by Julian Tepper
224 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon
Fitzcarraldo
A Primer for Cadavers by Ed Atkins
480 pages – Fitzcarraldo/Amazon
Flood Editions
Paramnesia by John Tipton
96 pages – Flood Editions/SPD
In Paramnesia, John Tipton’s gnomic phrases and stringent imagery sound the mysteries of syntax to uncover traces of what’s been lost. Here the saturated myths of the ancient world traffic in the banality and derangement of international travel. This is a poetry of centaurs and blast furnaces, glossolalia and linguistics, rich with pattern and forms of its own making: “sound of the filtered song / teased notes that wind out wordless threads / lost even as we listen” –from the Flood Editions website
Gauss PDF
Enthusiasm Concept by Housten Donham
GPDF
[’ ’, ‘Skin’, ’,’, ‘White’, ‘Masks’] by Wilmer Wilson IV
GPDF
Aging by Emily Toder
GPDF
Greying Ghost Press
Office Work by Jackie Clark
Chapbook
The Soft War by Carl Annarummo
Chapbook
Greystone Books
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
288 pages – Greystone Books/Amazon
Graywolf Press
Blackacre by Monica Youn
88 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
272 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
The Pinch by Steve Stern
360 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs
256 pages – Graywolf Books/Amazon
When Belle Boggs’s “The Art of Waiting” was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper’s, an interview on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of “highbrow” and “brilliant” in New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix.” In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her—the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo—for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or childfree lives. Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family. –from the Graywolf Books website
H_NGM_N
Radiant Action by Matt Hart
164 pages – H_NGM_AN
Inpatient Press
Before by Abraham Adams
Inpatient Press
Kenning Editions
Partisan of Things by Francis Ponge, translated by Joshua Corey and Jean-Luc Garneau
104 pages – Kenning Editions/SPD
Kernpunkt Press
Mount Fugue by JI Daniels
Kernpunkt Press
Maudlin House
I Don’t Mean to Redshift by beyza ozer
Maudlin House
“‘Here is a fact: humans are celestial & celestial objects are always moving,’” beyza ozer tells us in I Don’t Mean to Redshift. ozer writes with the anxiety and frenetic unruliness of the Space Race: who will die on the moon first? ozer takes us deep into our galaxy just to remind us that even black holes and ancient objects in space look just like us: tiny, lost, and yet so animated, so aware. There are so many reminders here to never choose between any one thing and the other, but to be both, be all, be above and below, be surrounded, be related. These are poems that hope we all live and die spectacularly, and if ‘i could only hear one sound out of thousands,’ it would be beyza ozer’s I Don’t Mean to Redshift shaking like a universe on fire inside all of our bones. –Erin J. Mullikin, author of When You Approach Me at the Lake of Tomorrow
Melville House
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear…and Why by Sady Doyle
288 pages – Melville House/Amazon
The Apostle Killer by Richard Beard
352 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Among the Bankers: A Journey into the Heart of Finance by Joris Luyendijk
288 pages – Melville House/Amazon
Miami University Press
That Night Alive by Tara Deal
113 pages – Miami University Press/Amazon
Milkweed Editions
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
88 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last Day by Justin Boening
80 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
232 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
Into the Sun by Deni Ellis Béchard
456 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon
Monster House Press
Morning Ritual by Jeremy Michael Clark
Pamphlet – Monster House Press
Radiant Companion by Matt Hart
140 pages – Monster House Press/SPD
Radiant Companion is the one in the many, the spirit right beside you, the roar you can count on to lead you out of darkness. And as the companion volume to Matt Hart’s book-length serial poem, Radiant Action, it’s also an address book (the ones who matter most)—a constellation of singers, of hands to hold, the community of collaboration(s) that makes the action—any action—possible. These poems flash and bang with human defiance against death in all its disguises. Togetherness changes everything, impossibly so. –from the Monster House Press website
New Directions
The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner
80 pages – New Directions/Amazon
Noemi Press
You Ask Me To Talk About the Interior by Carolina Ebeid
76 pages – Noemi Press/SPD
The Art of Work by Jen Fitzgerald
86 pages – Noemi Press/SPD
“Louis Zukofsky once wrote that poetry’s lower limit was speech and its upper limit was music. Jen Fitzgerald’s The Art of Work recalibrates these limits for a contemporary working class poetry whose lower limit here is the killing floor or the garden-level apartment and whose upper limit might be workers’ comp or, quite simply, a shift coming to an end. The Art of Work turns this ‘history of necessity’ into brilliant, tightly honed verse. It should be read across the classes, across the classrooms, in union halls, at literary festivals, and on the picket lines.” –Mark Nowak, author of Cold Mountain Elementary
Open Letter Books
The Brother by Rein Raud
118 pages – Open Letter Books/Amazon
OR Books
Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S. – Saudi Connection by Medea Benjamin
246 pages – OR Books/Amazon
Other Press
The Second Winter by Craig Larsen
416 pages – Other Press/Amazon
Press 53
What My Hand Say by Glenis Redmond
102 pages – Press 53/Amazon
Queen’s Ferry Press
The Best Small Fictions 2016 edited by Stuart Dybek
148 pages – Queen’s Ferry Press/Amazon
Restless Books
Between Life and Death by Yoram Kanuik, translated by Barbara Harshav
208 pages – Restless Books/Amazon
Soho Press
A Tree or a Person or a Wall by Matt Bell
400 pages – Soho Press/Amazon
A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world. A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell’s previously published shorter fiction—the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Baby—along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power. –from the Soho Press website
Sundress Publications
Angeltits by Katie Longofono
Chapbook – Sundress Publications
Two Dollar Radio
The Gloaming by Melanie Finn
318 pages – Two Dollar Radio/Amazon
In rich, compelling prose, Melanie Finn perfectly captures a world of consequences, and the characters who must survive them. Pilgrim Jones’ husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic car accident that leaves 3 school-children dead. Cleared of responsibility though overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, where she befriends a series of locals each with their own tragic past, each isolated in their own private way in the remote Tanzanian outpost. Mysteriously, the remains of an albino African appear packaged in a box, spooking everyone—sign of a curse placed by a witch doctor—though its intended recipient is uncertain. Pilgrim volunteers to rid the town of the box and its contents, though wherever she goes, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. –from the Two Dollar Radio website
Unnamed Press
The Shooting by James Boice
300 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon
Wakefield Press
The Thief of Talent by Pierre Reverdy, translated by Ian Seed
120 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon
YesYes Books
Juned by Jenn Marie Nunes
36 pages – YesYes Books
A History of Flamboyance by Justin Phillip Reed
36 pages – YesYes Books
A History of Flamboyance is a creation myth. It’s a history insofar as its speakers, submerged in traumas and appetites and ecstasies, cast around in search of precedents and raisons d’etre, and find mostly shreds of legends and a ramshackle faith. A Black queer self contends with the unmapped wilderness of its existence and plots a course through various intimacies equally dangerous and illuminating. Here, flamboyance is not a performance as much as it is an affect of precarity—of feeling combustible, volatile, always on the verge of blazing out or collapsing in wisps. These speakers—the quiet son, the choirboy, the lover, the cutter—are all faces of the same exile. –from the YesYes Books website
