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From The Devils Snake Curve: When the United States was testing its first atomic bomb in the summer of 1945, a code system was created so its success or failure could be communicated back to Washington without worry of the news leaking.Cincinnati Reds would mean the test had failed. Brooklyn Dodgers would mean the test had gone as planned. After scientists tested the first nuclear weapon, and knew the war in the Pacific would end, and that all life on earth could end, the signal of unimagined triumph went back to Washington. The message read: New York Yankees. JOSH OSTERGAARD holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and an MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been an urban anthropologist at the Field Museum and now works at Graywolf Press. April 5.5 x 8.25 236 pp $15.95 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-345-9 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-346-6 RIGHTS: Classroom, Book Club, Database, First and Second Serial, General Publication, Radio, Reprint, and Visual Disability Access
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VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeneys. She lives in New York City. May 5.5 x 8.25 154 pp $15.95 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-354-1 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-355-8 ALSO AVAILABLE:
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Sidewalks
Essays by Valeria Luiselli
aleria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodskys tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embedded in our human landscapes: What is the I if identity is fluid? Where is the fixed point for a word that defies translation? Who are we in relation to the spaces we inhabit? The elusive has never been more seductive than it is in Luisellis hands.
Luisellis writing is full of verve. IRISH TIMES Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important voice in Latin American letters. Her vision and language are precise, and the power of her intellect is in evidence on every page. DANIEL ALARCN VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeneys. Recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City. May 5.5 x 8.25 120 pp $15.95 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-356-5 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-357-2 RIGHTS: Classroom, Book Club, Database, First and Second Serial, General Publication, Radio, Reprint, and Visual Disability Access
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KATE BERNHEIMER is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collection Horse, Flower, Bird and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Awardwinning and best-selling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. She founded and edits the literary journal Fairy Tale Review. August 6 x 7.5 158 pp $15.95 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-347-3 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-348-0 RIGHTS : Audio/Audio-Visual, Classroom, Book Club, Database, First and Second Serial, General Publication, Radio, Reprint, Translation and UK, and Visual Disability Access
ELENI SIKELIANOS is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead and The California Poem, as well as a hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon, which was a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year. Sikelianos teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. June 5.5 x 8.25 126 pp $16.95 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-360-2 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-364-0 RIGHTS: Audio/Audio-Visual, Classroom, Book Club, Database, Dramatic, First and Second Serial, General Publication, Radio, Reprint, Translation and UK, and Visual Disability Access
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ERINN BATYKEFER has worked in libraries almost constantly since she was fifteen. She earned an MFA in writing and a master of library and information studies from the University of WisconsinMadison. LAURA DAMON-MOORE received her masters degree in library and information studies from the University of WisconsinMadison in 2012 and graduated from Beloit College with a double major in literary studies and theatre arts (acting) in 2008. May 5 x 7 212 pp $23.95 Paper over Board 978-1-56689-353-4 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-363-3 RIGHTS: Audio/Audio-Visual, Classroom, Book Club, Database, Dramatic, First and Second Serial, General Publication, Radio, Reprint, Translation and UK, and Visual Disability Access
Selected Poems
by Mark Ford
An exuberant, versatile, and complex collection from one of the UKs most respected poets. PRAISE FOR MARK FORD: Ford is at once a veteran of pop culture and a connoisseur of the desperation of high culture, an indoor reader of the past but also an outdoor breather of physically felt atmospheres. His generation of English poets is still in formation but I believe Ford to be one of its eventual definers, as Ashbery was crucial to postwar writing in the United States. HELEN VENDLER Fords poetry is light and agile and sometimes sweet, but it also has a disconcerting way of turning sharp and naughty and even sinister. JOHN ASHBERY
From Jack Rabbit So I reckoned to get quicker, leaner, braver, more Self-effacing; Id pick my way between The mounds of junk cast off by warring factions, cleverly Disguised and idly humming. I swam midstream With the freshwater boys, and lounged on rocks At evening. Meanwhile the air slowly thickened With intrigue. Blueprints and memoranda Began to circulate like the seasons, melting The obdurate, blossoming where least expected
MARK FORD has published three collections of poetry and a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel. He has also translated Roussels New Impressions of Africa, and is the editor of London: A History in Verse. April 5.5 x 8.25 156 pp $35 Trade Cloth 978-1-56689-362-6 $20 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-349-7 $15.99 eBook 978-1-56689-350-3 RIGHTS: Audio/Audio-Visual, Classroom, Book Club, Database, First and Second Serial, General Publication, Radio, Reprint, Visual Disability Access
Dark. Sweet.
New and selected poems by Linda Hogan
PRAISE FOR LINDA HOGAN: These poems in particular cross over to speak for us in the shining world. They bring back words for healing, the distilled truth of all these stories that are killing us with tears and laughter. JOY HARJO Linda Hogans vision is breathtaking: the embryonic fingers of a fetal whale, the imperial walk of a raven, the torn-cloth dresses of her Chickasaw ancestors, are distilled in these pages into a critique of human survival. BARBARA KINGSOLVER
From Saving Night unravels the calcium from bones. Moths in the closet are growing into dark holes theyve eaten away from fine shirts, shirts empty of heartbeats, all we should have lived for, empty of arms that reach back like a sleepless night, for what is saved, all the way back behind plaster to the old world in canyons with blood women dancing on walls to the earths drum and the mother of deer and corn so light the insects appear.
inda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet and novelist. Her fiction has garnered honors, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and her poetry collections have received the American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination.
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ross Words refers to cultural hybrids, transcultural alliances and associations. Contributors are from a range of places and disciplines and their work reflects the Jack Kerouac Schools unique zone of interaction, which runs parallel to more mainstream academic institutions. This fascinating compendium of documents, in essays, conversations, and Socratic raps, the vital work poets perform when they write across borders. Contributors include: Allen Ginsberg, Eileen Myles, Joanne Kyger, Nicole Brossard, Monica de la Torre, Sherwin Bitsui, Bei Dao, and Anselm Hollo.
ANNE WALDMAN, poet, professor, cultural activist, and cofounder, with Allen Ginsberg, of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, is the author of more than forty collections of her own poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies. She is the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the 2012 USA PEN Center Award for Poetry for her monumental feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship 20132014 and is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. LAURA E. WRIGHT is a poet, translator, and librarian. With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009). July 6 x 9 366 pp $18.95 Trade Paper 978-1-56689-358-9 $12.99 eBook 978-1-56689-359-6 RIGHTS: Book Club, Database, General Publication, Reprint, and Visual Disability Access
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ACCOLADES FOR LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION Winner of the Believer Book Award Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (First Fiction) Finalist for the New York Public Librarys Young Lions Fiction Prize Runner up for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the funniest (and truest) novels I know of by a writer of his generation. LORIN STEIN, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Hilarious and cracklingly intelligent. JONATHAN FRANZEN
ACCOLADES FOR SUBMERGENCE 2013 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year [T]he best novel Ive read so far this year. . . . Submergence is a dark book, but in such an unusual sense: Ledgard turns out the lights, and everything, inside and out, begins to glow. KATHRYN SCHULZ, NEW YORK MAGAZINE An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism . . . [A] darkly gleaming novel about love, deserts, oceans, lust and terror. ALAN CHEUSE, NPR Submergence is a wondrous bookarrestingly original, inventive, expansive, vivid, and thoughtprovoking. PHILIP GOUREVITCH
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