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"These are lovely poems. I have come to think of 'widowness' as transpersonal almost-it will strike those who are reckless enough to become wives and can recall so intensely the feeling of being in the hospital-vigil with an ending not yet known."-Joyce Carol Oates, author of A Widow's Story "I love this book! It's very moving and complex both. A fearless journey into the mystery of grief and love and loss. Her powers of observation are so accurate and careful . . . and tough."-Jonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise "So many poems today say so much but I experience so little-I understand all right, but I don't get pushed into second gear, don't get moved into the feeling that is meant to be offered up, no rough leap into the world off the page. This leap happens in a poem like 'On Green.'"-Alberto Ríos, author of A Small Story about the Sky "She knows how to take risks, how to deliver sharp pathos. . . . This eloquent book is her obligation to her beloved. She remembers. 'Listen, ' she writes, 'I am never lonely when I can imagine you.' Perhaps this brave book saves her life."-Michael Dennis Browne, author of The Voices "This honest and unflinching collection does not leave the reader without hope: 'Right at the worst time of your life someone/helps you in some way, ' she writes. 'You must take the least shred of it in, ' and she does."-Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota Poet Laureate, author of Modern Love and Other Myths

In the startling and thoughtful poems of Searching for Mozart, Rick Christman takes us to the war in Vietnam and back again to a world forever changed by what the poet has experienced. Searching for Mozart is the clear-eyed testament of a survivor. Christman writes with quiet profundity about what matters.

Harper, the hero of Elizabeth Oness's new novel, LEAVING MILAN, hopes for a life far from the small Ohio town where she has grown up, a place where distances are measured not by blocks or even miles, but by chain restaurants-"past Chi Chi's, Outback Steak House, Taco Bell," a place where the air smells of fast food and car exhaust. Her hopes haven't died; they were never born. "She was preparing for something without knowing what it was. Each day, she hoped for an adventure, and each day, it didn't happen. Like the horizon, it was always there, before her." And yet somehow Harper does forge a new life for herself. Elizabeth Oness writes with subtle power and compassion about courage, strength, and the unshakeable bonds of love.

A collection of new and selected poems from William Reichard's previous collections, including work from An Alchemy in the Bones, The Brightness, How to, Sin Eater, As Breath in Winter, and Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity.

In this moving coming-of-age novel set in the 1980's, award-winning author Stefan Kiesbye tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy and his older sister, who grow up in Michigan's storied Upper Peninsula, in a town that has been left off the map. Once no more than a small outcropping of stone in the middle of Lake Superior, it now lives its second incarnation away from curious eyes, a lost island, a haunted place where fairy tales and creatures of legends can still exist. In an atmosphere of neighborly distrust, jealousy, and neglect, the boy and his older sister, Katia, chart their own course without guidance, oversight, or protection. The progressive dissolution of their family makes them discover the ugly secrets at the foundation of their own lives in this forgotten place, where you don't have to sleep to have nightmares. No Sound to Break, No Moment Clear is a novel about what is lost, what is found, and the challenges that, for better or worse, make us who we are.

In this contemporary novel set in the southern Appalachians, the lives of two young women-Leda and Shannon-are knit together when one is left alone on a farm after the loss of her partner and the other is displaced by mountaintop removal coal mining."Book One: Way Out Farm" finds Leda trying to tease an existence out of her land. Her goats and a rescue dog are among her only contacts until she becomes close to Shannon, a single mother who has fallen on hard times due to environmental destruction of the hollow in which she lives. When Shannon takes to an RV with her children and moves away, Leda begins spending time with Shannon's troubled Gulf War veteran cousin, but the relationship reawakens the demons of her husband's struggle with mental illness.In "Book Two: Sullivan's Holler," Shannon has taken up anti-coal activism, joining forces with a woman who she and her children now live with as a family. Shannon's son misses the hollow, and so she distracts him with stories-woven with magic realism-of their ancestors' exodus from Ireland during the Great Hunger and the settling of the homeplace. Through these tales of oppression and migration that mirror their own circumstances, they wend their way back to the mountains and those they've left behind.In Circling Flight is as much a story of love and loss of the human kind as it is a treatise to the elemental relationship between people and their land.

The year is 1996. A principled and spirited woman sets her sights on becoming a member of Parliament. When and how does she get there? The story unfolds through the perspectives of two dramatically contrasting characters whose lives become tragically entangled. Waheeda is a thirty-two-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh who enters politics after her brothers are murdered. Monish, her secret lover, is a scion of a Delhi business dynasty, who is trapped in his bullying father’s empire. Their affair is set against the backdrop of a tumultuous time in politics--tumbling governments and three national elections taking place over three years. Their personal and public lives clash as they struggle to achieve their goals: power for her; fortune for him; unaware of the dangers that swirl around them. Everything is interconnected, not just wealth and politics, even if the characters are not fully cognisant of this.

Look. A woman is writing on parchment, a scroll.*We don't know her name. Her king, Solomon, hasdied, and the whole country's going to hell under thenew king, Rehoboam. The year is 937 BCE. Banishedfrom the ring of political power, she grounds herselfby collecting the kingdom's ancient stories. Of thefour writers in Genesis, J is the one who deliversthe earthly creatures-Noah, Joseph, Jacob, Rachel,et al-and, to paraphrase Pogo, they is us. Her castof characters includes the god Yahweh (or Jahweh)who can appear in various guises. She's named J forher intense interest in Yahweh's character.

It's 1923 and Annie O'Leary has made a rational and even beautiful life for herself on the back ward of a state asylum, where she's confined for a terrible crime she doesn't remember committing. She writes poetry, helps the nurses, and sings old hymns off the back porch. Then a new patient arrives to change all the equations. Lucy Valenta, a young art student, needs to get back in her right mind and bring her enormous gift into the world. The bond between the two women is deep and quick with hope: of making family, of making art, and forming a pact of transformation. The enigmatic psychiatrist, Dr. David Grafton, wants to help Annie retrieve her history, invoking the new techniques of psychoanalysis-but he himself is a wounded healer, traumatized by his recent experience of trench warfare. Each must hold in tension the power of memory to liberate and destroy. Each must dare the millrace of-- call it-- love.

The Collector of Shadows, by James Silas Rogers, is a collection of poetry set primarily in the upper Midwest and celebrating the extraordinary in the ordinary. Rogers, an award-winning essayist and well-published poet, is the author of a chapbook, Sundogs, and of a collection of essays and poems involving cemeteries, Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead.

Suburban Heathens follows the trajectory of parallel and converging catastrophes that begin with the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s and the protagonist's best friend's death, and continue with her father's struggle with heart disease, actually made worse by medical interventions witnessed by the wandering lesbian daughter who is called home to a Jewish enclave in the suburbs of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, where she grew up-halfway between the Shawnee Indian Mission and the Osawatomie State Mental Hospital. The hospital melodrama brings to light the family history of displacement and immigration, heart disease (literal and metaphoric), cancer, death, struggle, and loss as well as recovery and regeneration as Rickie Lynn Jackson finds her relatives in Rochester, New York's famous Mount Hope Cemetery.

In the Amber Chamber is a story collection where fairy tales and speculative fiction intersect with the hard facts of eastern European history. These political fables take place in eastern Europe, Kansas, and even other planets. Its characters include Peace Corps volunteers, childless parents, Hansel and Gretel, former rural farmworkers, Dust Bowl survivors, and immigrants in Chicago. Like the work of Kelly Link and Angela Carter, In the Amber Chamber reframe our understanding of story.

How I Met You is a wide-ranging collection of award-winning short stories by the celebrated fiction writer Bradley Jay Owens that includes heartfelt stories about coming of age, side-splitting stories about relationships, and penetrating stories about the human drama.

A collection of short fiction by the award-winning writer Alina Stefanescu in which the author brings an immigrant's sharp eye to the American way of life. In prose that reminds us of the best of Grace Paley, Every Mask I Tried On is by turns smart, funny, and profound.