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Cyrus Cassells' vibrant translations grow on the page as though the essence of Francesc Parcerisas' work has also moved forward in a Janus-like fashion. These translations are not simply the same poems in a different language; Cassells has crafted new poetry.

This novella is quick as anger, but Gabe isn't angry. There's tenderness in his troubled heart. It is meant to be read more than once - each reading will reveal more about his mother, playground life, forgiveness, and the healing nature of dog that comes into his life.

In her captivating style, Nancy Demme weaves a tale of what it means to be human and growing up in deep Texas.

Tries to understand what it means for a poem to be humble or humorous, decorous or confident, and what that tells us not only about poems, but also about the larger world of social virtues, personal vulnerabilities, and political problems that define so much of our time together and apart.

From its beginnings in the spring of 1933 to its close with US entry into World War II, the New Deal significantly impacted the state of Texas. This collection of essays highlights examples of the lasting positive impact of New Deal projects and programs.

Wonderfully new and vividly descriptive, Happy Birthday, Dear Darrell and other Stories provides an unflinching portrait of everyday life that is a true and rare find. Lacy writes with both courage and compassion in every story he creates.

Knocking the Stars Senseless is pitched in that restive space between sorrow and delight - a space both verdant and desolated, vertiginous and still. It is a space of attention and consequence, of recognition and reverence.

In this rare collected gift of poetry and memoir, Learning to Swim does not disappoint. It is a collection that brings us back to what we love most, connection to a world that at best is indifferent, and Saiser's deftly rendered story of place and its characters does not disappoint.

The editors of this volume share Peter Everwine's opinion that the art speaks for itself and should be paramount. Even the artist does not know the full meaning of the creation. There has to be a reader, a spectator, a viewer for the act to have full resonance. We leave that resonance to each of you who read the poems.

A contemplation on small remnants scattered across the grounds of memories, Tailings retrieves the intimate thoughts and stories from the son of a gold miner. This beautifully rendered collection travels across the rustic crevices of a contemporary America, as Jerry Williams presents and analyses fragments of life and loss.

For 50 years, Eleanor Ritter's mother Rose has refused to talk about how she survived the Holocaust in Poland and ended up in New Jersey. But now Eleanor learns that the parents of her nine-year-old son's new friend are Polish Catholics, born and raised in that country. Eleanor starts digging into both families' stories, jeopardizing her already shaky relationships with her mother, her husband, and her children.

Filled with adventurous writing, sharp scrutiny, meticulous and audacious use of language, North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara winds around its subjects the way the rivers and creeks of the Great Plains twist around humps of prairie grass, ranches and rock outcroppings. The ambitious goal of Bryan Jones is to create a fresh understanding of the Nebraska Sand Hills from the inside.

Set in southwestern Pennsylvania, Burning Under is a cerebral literary thriller that centers around a deadly coalmine explosion. A polyphonic narrative, the point of view shifts between three people whose lives are shaken by the disaster.

In Derek Updegraffs's newest collection, Paintings that Look Like Things, the world is bared on a canvas of past and present where serpents burrow in dens of sorrow, and love boils in a pot on the stove.

These poems are riveting and bring up questions regarding humanity. The collection is divided into four distinct sections that each deal with their own humanitarian concern: returning home and the nostalgia that finds you; the downfall and heartbreak of humanity; hard, unspoken questions about society; and the wake of heartbreak left behind by the suicide of a close friend.

Infused with intimacy, Hewn pieces together a life in Northern California: a girl with scoliosis raised in a small ranger's house, becoming a wife and mother in Oakland, and her family, five generations deep, settling in the Central Valley. Crossing time and experience, Hewn spotlights ordinary women, their undervalued caregiving and unpaid work shouldered across generations.

The body is a poem we are writing with every breath, says Townley, who in her dual life has taught yoga for decades. Albert Goldbarth calls Rewriting the Body ""affectingly emotional even as it's formally risky in a very smart way."

When Col. Benjamin Wettermark emptied the bank and skipped town in 1903, he left his wife, his children and his mansion behind. Saving the Oldest Town in Texas looks at the banker, the house designed by the best architect in Nacogdoches and the impact Col. Wettermark's betrayal had on the woman who loved him and the town that trusted him.

In a love letter to the Midwest, Heidi Elaine Hermanson writes of discovery, heartbreak, and redemption in the natural accumulation of her life as a poet. Inspired by a sense of longing for whatever comes next and for wherever life may take us, Waking to the Dream takes readers on a road-trip (figuratively and literally).

Brings to light the unfair standards to which Americans hold successful women, and shows Hillary Clinton's political career from its beginning in the 1970s to her run in the presidential campaign. The collection tells this story through the lens of sexism, allowing readers to see the role that gender discrimination played in Hillary Clinton's ultimate loss to President Trump.

Chris Anderson's You Never Know is an accessible down-to-earth collection of poetry. Catholic, Christian, and ""Spiritual But Not Religious"" readers will find humour and breathtaking prose in these poems set primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Juxtaposing experience and intuition, Anderson challenges readers to find connections in the elusive and inexplicable.

Ryan Conley is a marine second lieutenant stationed in Abu Al Khasib, Iraq. Just as he is about to rotate out of the war zone, Ryan is severely wounded and granted a medical discharge, so he can return home to the family ranch in Sweetwater, Texas, to focus his energy on recovery. But life never goes as planned for the young marine, and he is unexpectedly found dead.

Cool Cat returns in Cool Cat Says Hear the Story Here! Myrna Johnson creates an enchanting story that follows the animal residents of Woodsville on the day of their fun-filled community picnic. The illustrations are water-colored - by Johnson herself - to perfection and help bring out the personalities and make the story come to life on the page.

Offers a collection of snapshots centred around the lives of those living in the Midwest spanning a total of fifty years. This collection of short stories explores family ties, family expectations, work promotions and demotions, jail break and all that follows, and a variety of other life's obstacles.

In a series of short, often funny lyrical pieces, author Glenda Watters explores small-town East Texas folklore and mythos, bringing them together with her own eventful upbringing to create many memorable vignettes with a flare of what it is like to live within the Piney Woods.

In his fifth collection of poetry, Deer at Twilight, Paul J. Willis offers a vividly imagistic insight into the depths of nature within and around the state of Washington.

Mapping stories set in Europe and America, The Dead Still Here skilfully paces through eleven short stories about friends-with-benefits typed relationships, vicious divorces and thievery, the loss of a child, the loss of a mother, and the Coast Guard and the Navy rescuing refugees from a bad storm at sea.

Offers a retrospective anthology of some of the best work published by Sandhills Press, a Nebraska-based small press concern for literature, between 1979 and 2009. The anthology collects poems, criticism, and creative prose. In addition to the selected works, many of the writers included provide commentary and literary memoirs about Sandhills Press.

Investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Buckley's poetry provides readers with the constant blending of beautiful language and stirring content. Full of emotion, Varieties of Religious Experience promises to deliver meaningful messages.