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MOTHERMORPHOSIS is an exploration of the sublime terrain of mother. Poems situate the reader in the conflict between the idea and reality of what mother is in love, loss, sanity, and motherland. "The extraordinary poems in MOTHERMORPHOSIS place readers in the particular life of a daughter and her schizophrenic mother, however, a larger world, full of war and tenderness, misunderstanding and clarity, vulnerability and empowerment, our world, ...

In Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics, Raimond Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. What do politicians mean when they talk about "trust"? Why is truthfulness important? Are we as politically and morally divided as the Americans? Does the war on terror authorise leaders to do things that once were considered beyond the pale? Gaita argues for a conception of politics in which morality is not an...

The winner of the Hudson Prize, THE PRINCIPLE AGENT is a book of poetry that combines a fragmented love story with the concept of uncontrollable circumstance. At the forefront of this collection is the obvious narrative, however, by exploring "definitions" and "meaning" through altered repetitions, this book becomes a maze of language. ¿"Suzor seems to channel Sappho in her lean modern-day poems, a narrative made up of fragments that expose...

In THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING, Charlotte Pence goes beyond situating the personal within the contexts of science and history, she instead finely mortises the evolution of the human form with that of her own poetic form."-Claudia Emerson "THE BRANCHES, THE AXE, THE MISSING is remarkable not only for its original way of handling love and loss, but for its compassionate vision as it delves into our human origins. Charlotte Pence has wri...

The first major anthology by parents with disabilities 'We've Got This shows what's possible - that disabled people make brilliant parents. This book should be mandatory reading for healthcare professionals, educators and everyone wanting to be a better disability ally.'-Carly Findlay OAM How does a father who is blind take his child to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf pa...

Adam McOmber could be describing Fantasy Kit as a whole with these lines: "This is my house. The one I've been telling you about...You think: I know that house...But I can assure you you're wrong about that. You've never seen my house." In reading Fantasy Kit, I felt like a visitor to a strange theme park constructed of smoke and clay, lust and the uncanny, wickedness and tenderness. Here readers are ushered into mazes and caverns, paradises a...

WINNER OF THE BIG MOOSE PRIZE Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern ...

Lenny's out of options. He's lost his arm to his abusive older brothers and he's lost his bearings within his family. But he's determined not to lose hope. He attempts an escape on a stolen skiff, hoping to ride the rivers from his family's farm deep in the western North Carolina mountains all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. A torrential storm sinks his boat and delivers him into the hands of a profanity-slinging priest whose illegal drug opera...

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction Books of 2014. Each of the characters in SCOUTING FOR THE REAPER faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truckload of penguins across the country, arranging a proper Jewish burial for the remains of Gregor Samsa, and selling tombstones dressed as a Girl Scout. These stories explore the domestic and professional adventures of people in over their heads, while leavening their struggles with humor.

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In her debut poetry chapbook, THE BODY HAS MEMORIES, Adrienne Danyelle Oliver gives voice to being and becoming the whole self. While memory may in its traditional sense be the discoveries of a single individual, Oliver is very aware that the act of remembering is a much greater collective process. It is the historical dialogues among the ancestors and the living. Memories dwell not just within the mind, but are made up from the struggles and ...

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A tale of stunningly wealthy young men searching for a moral compass in a world that seems to have gone mad, WHILE IN DARKNESS THERE IS LIGHT rivals Jon Krackauer at his best. Bryant chronicles the events leading up to the 1974 disappearance and execution of Charlie Dean, brother of the Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. Although several articles have been published about the recovery of Charlie's remains in 2004, none has inv...

DOMINANT GENES, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction of nonbinary and queer identities. "We learn our anger through osmosis, " Sindu writes of the inherited rage of South Asian women, "or maybe it's in th...

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This autobiography chronicles the author's exploits as a frontiersman and railroadman. Born enslaved, Nat Love left his family when he was 15 to make a living as a cowboy on the western frontier.

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