Memoir. Paper, Perfect Bound. 104pp. $15.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-10-4 The Russian Writer’s Daughter by Lydia S. Rosner is a collection of lively autobiographical stories about growing up in a Russian-American Jewish household in the stifling political atmosphere of the Red Scare. At the center of these memories is Lyduce’s father, whose complex personality…
Fiction. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-09-8 Small Economies’s short stories and flash fictions are economical in narration but comprehensive in their suggestion of the past, present, and future lives of their characters. The moments they contain are set against the background of diverse public spaces: the institutions, stores, factories, restaurants,…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-08-1 The pieces that make up Kibbe document a life spent journeying “Between Two Worlds”: the author’s America and the Lebanon of her family heritage. In Porterfield’s vision, people and places long departed can be conjured back through memory and language; “the land of the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-07-4 Susan Kolodny draws on her work as a clinical psychoanalyst in her first collection of poetry, After the Firestorm. Kolodny’s evocative style arises from an imagination both sensory and analytical. The poems suggest the unity of love and suffering, and walk a difficult line…
Fiction. Paper, Perfect Bound. 208pp. $17.95 plus S&H 2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-067 “Janet Planet” by Eleanor Lerman is available in a Kindle edition. Click here to download from Amazon Janet Planet is a unique work that attempts to showcase the young and rebellious spirit of a Woodstock generation that eventually grew up-and away-from those glorious…
Trade Paperback. 100pp. $15.95 plus S&H 2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-05-0 “Nothing More to Tell” by George Dila is available in a Kindle edition. Click here to download from Amazon. Nothing More to Tell brings together short stories that reflect the combined effects of history, family, and society on the men and women of Michigan’s small…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 84 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-1936419-036 Stacie Leatherman’s dynamic poems inhabit the cusp between the domestic and the utterly strange. To read them is to travel where we haven’t been before, where things seem lost or on the verge of disappearing. To make something from nothing, out of the…
Illustrations by Erica Kriss Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp. $15.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-1936419-005 Also available in laminated hardcover. $24.95 plus s&h. Howard Schwartz is a contemporary master of the parable, the short lyric and the tale. In Breathing in the Dark, he has multiplied his dreams, his myths, and his stories into…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-0932412-997 Paul Dickey’s poems demonstrate perfectly how irony and wit can serve as little bits of salvation in a world that may not be entirely against us, but isn’t much for us, either. The poems in They Say This Is How Death Came into…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 70 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-0932412-980 The poems in No Eden merge the landscapes of a rainy girlhood in the American South and the mythic world of Noah and the Flood. In these poems, a backyard stretches between a mother and daughter–the lessons of “distance tender and biblical.” The…
