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Human Heartbeat Detected is a collection of essays that explores how we are wonderfully and terrifyingly human. Hitting on themes such as trauma, emotional abuse, marriage, mental illness, and grief, these essays delve into how humans are simultaneously beautiful and terrible to one another. Though regardless of how we might make each other shatter, our hearts continue beatingeven when we might not want them toand we wade through the wreckage of our lives to find ways to survive. With exquisite language and captivating storytelling, the essays in Human Heartbeat Detected face what it means to be human.

Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, Id Carry You Home, Pete Hsus debut story collection, captures the essence of surviving in a life set adrift. Children and young people navigate a world where the presence of violence and death rear themselves in everyday places: Vegas casinos, birthday parties, church services, and sunny days at the beach. Each story is a meditation on living in a world not made for usthe pervasive fear, the adaptations, the unexpected longings. A gripping and energetic debut, Hsus writing beats with the naked rhythms of an unsettled human heart.

tender gravity charts Marybeth Hollemans quest for relationship to the more-than-human world, navigating her childhood in North Carolina to her life in Alaska, with deep time in remote land and seascapes. Always the focus is on what can be found by attention to the world beyond her own human skin, what can be found there as she negotiates lossthe loss of beloved places, wild beings, her younger brother. do not think, she says to her mother, that i love a bear more than my brother. / think instead that i cannot distinguish / the variations in / the beat of a heart. Inevitably, solace is found in the wild world: step back toward that joy-sap rising, step back / into the only world that is. In a narrative arc of seeking, falling, and finding, we hear in Hollemans exquisitely attentive immersion clear reverberations of Mary Oliver, of Linda Hogan, of Walt Whitman. These poems of grief and celebration pulse in and out, reaching to the familiar moon and out to orphan stars of distant galaxies, then pull close to a small brown seabird and an on-the-knees view of a tiny bog plant.

"Black Was Not a Label is a collection of essays that explores the intersection of faith and racial trauma and the attempt to come to terms with instances of otherness, isolation, racism, erasure, anger, and lost love. A look at life within the "veil" W.E.B. DuBois spoke of in his work, The Souls of Black Folk, this collection is both catharsis and lamentation to God for the self and all who have felt trapped within this (sometimes impenetrable) veil"--

One of the first books to explore the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient's perspective; a playful story of falling down, getting back up again, and realizing you should have gone to the hospital sooner.

What lingers? What is loss and regeneration after migration?

With arresting images and scintillating internal music, the poems in Trace are at turns ekphrastic, elegiac, mythic, rebellious, interlingual, and whimsical, forming a constellation of experience and its traces which transgress borders at every turn.

In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so asks what it means to be human and mortal on a fragile planet.

With unwavering tenderness and ferocity, Bell examines the perils and peculiarities of womanhood, motherhood, and our difficult, shared humanity.

"In A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the world and the writing of spirit through those revelations of sublimation of self gives way here to a material focus. The racial references are explicit as are the complexities of life lived as a Black man born in America in the mid-twentieth century. These are poems emanating from an attempt to follow Daoist philosophy for most of his life. Knowledge of other is in relation to knowledge of self, and self is an illusory continuum, a perspective wherein the poet embodies the transcendent arc of Malcolm X's life as credo"--

apocrifa is a nongendered love story told in verse, the journey of a lover and their beloved finding each other, falling apart, and then creating their own way to love together.

Cynthia Hogue’s instead, it is dark comprises a chorale of voices from civilian life during violence then and now.

H Warren’s (they/them) debut collection, Binded, explores the nonbinary body and the courage it takes to heal and exist in the world today.

In richly lyrical prose, this coming-of-age novel tells the story of aspiring artist Sonya Hudson, who yearns to break free from psychological distress and celebrate her place in the world.

Featuring work from Victoria Chang, Francisco Aragón, Susannah Nevison, and more.

In Oh, Don't Ask Why, Dennis Must's dark humor and use of jarringly raw language confront a number of anxieties and complexities with which his characters grapple. From overwhelming sorrow to suicidal reflection, this compilation of stories reaches deep into the internal and touches readers to the core.

Featuring work from Alan Lightman, Pope Brock, Aimee Gerstler, and more.

In The Nightlife, Elise Paschen explores the nocturnal world and what happens in that interval between "dorveille" and daybreak. She reveals, through dream lyrics and fractured narratives, the inevitability of unrecognized desire and the drama between the life lived and the life imagined.

This is What Happened¿He said, I love you more than Londonand she gave her eyes to himshe gave everything to him.

Middle School Literary AnthologyThis is the middle school anothology that makes middle school kids want to get in touch with their inner poet or pirate tale teller.What do you do when you're the goddess of love, but you don't have arms? That's the trouble with the Venus de Milo, this crazy armless statue some guy found on an island called Milos about two hundred years back. You've probably seen the statue somewhere before... maybe on the cover of this book!Nobody's quite sure how the Venus de Milo lost her arms. The French sailors who bought her, though, claimed that they battled brigands on a beach to get to her. Apparently, her arms were ripped off during the fight!That's a pretty cool story.It might not be true, but, now that you've heard that version of the tale, you'll probably never forget it. It's unique and exciting, and only the Venus's own rescuers could have told it like that.There are an infinite number of Venus de Milos in the world-objects, people, places, and ideas that are strange, cool, and quite possibly, unique to your life. And, just like those French sailors, you, too, have awesome versions of those Venuses' stories to tell.

Road Trip is a collection of autobiographical essays that honor the places, people and other living creatures that have given shape and meaning to one man's life.  Framed by essays about the life and death of loved ones, the book explores the importance of family, friendship and what it means to care for another human being.  Above all, Road Trip is about transformations that happen in ways we may not always understand or welcome—it's about travelling down unknown and unexpected roads with good humor, generosity and a spirit of adventure.

Something is rotten in the state of American poetry. With respect to audience and artistry, poetry has shot itself in many portions of its anatomy, and keeps blasting. The fact that vast numbers of poems are published every year, and a large number of Creative Writing students and graduates combine to read a few of them, does not mean that poetry is on the right track. How has the erstwhile Queen of the Arts been consigned to the tiny corner of the cultural basement where she languishes today-and how can she get out? As an acclaimed poet and veteran teacher of poetry, Charles Harper Webb knows what it takes for a poem to grab a reader's attention and hold on. As a former rock singer/guitarist and a licensed psychotherapist, he understands how to connect with an audience. A Million MFAs Are Not Enough shows-with wit and style and concrete tips that working writers can use-how poetry can return to cultural relevance again.

It is the last day of October 1969, Día de los Muertos. Under the harsh Oaxacan sun the dead are staking terrain-moving in and around and through the apparently alive.

Best-selling poet Kathleen Driskell's newest collection Blue Etiquette is inspired by Emily Post's 1922 edition of Etiquette and explores the interactions between the haves and have nots through poems voiced by Mrs. Worldly and the Between Maid, narratives focusing on blue-collar Americans, and lyrics drifting through the blue etiquette of mourning beloveds.

Psychosis in the Produce Department: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2015 gathers the best work from Laurel Ann Bogen's previous ten books as well as new and unpublished poetry. Ranging in themes as diverse as horrific beauty and exquisite madness, dysfunctional families, love and anti-love, life in Los Angeles and Hollywood, and growing up as a Baby Boomer, these poems offer sly, humorous, surreal-and most crucially, accessible-genre-busting work that can only be called Vintage Bogen. Readers are also given the unique opportunity to experience the full power of Bogen's critically acclaimed poetry performance through ten included QR codes that link to audio files of select poems in the collection.