What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common?All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last thre
Praise for Victor Hernández Cruz:"Bilingual since childhood, Mr. Cruz writes poems about his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere which often speak to us with a forked tongue, sometimes in a highly l
Praise for Lightsey Darst:"This is a vital poetry of the Deep South ripe with bones, blood and bogs, Snow Whites, Gretels and debutantes all stirred into a harrowing stew of lust, dusk and summer." &#
"Verónica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt." Francisco Goldman"Fro
Praise for Raymond McDaniel:"Raymond McDaniel's language trains every particle of your attention on the surface and what stirs beneath." C.D. WrightFrom "Projection Box":Light is not light.Light
Leaping from ballet to quiltmaking, from the The Nutcracker to an Annie-B Parson interview, Idiophone is a strikingly original meditation on risk-taking and provocation in art and a unabashedly honest
Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." New York Times Book ReviewWith delightfu
This new volume presents short stories from the past twenty-five years by a master of contemporary fiction, collected in book form for the first time.The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise the
The Body Ghost is a collection of broken nursery rhymes, a kind of elegy or extended plea to remember kinder, gentler times, and a critique of the broken and harmful policies of the political present.
“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.” —John D’Agata“Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified
Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a wrestler in North Dakota during his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further fr
Subversive and witty, Equi adeptly slips around corners and peers through keyholes, ultimately proving that the best poems take us by surprise. "Exceedingly delicate work, infused with a sly and bawdy
The Ivory Crocodile is the mesmerizing story of an American whose longing to 'know' Africa produces the unexpected.Assigned to teach at a remote bush school, Nicole Spark immerses herself in village l
How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America, steering clear of self-pity and doctrinaire "happy-talk"? This linke
1996 Book for the Teen Age, The New York Public Library. Seaweed's story, from Maoist China to her New York emigration. "In this first collection of 11 linked stories, the intimate drama of one tradit
Immersed in botanical insight, these poems embark upon an archetypal journey of introspection and awakening, transforming language in a show of poetic alchemy. Separating spirituality from dogma, and
"Linguistically explosive. . . one of the most interesting American writers around."The Nation"Ducornetsurrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at timesis one of our most accomplished writ
Contemporary Ohio, New York, and Eastern Europe form the backdrop for the beauty and pathos unleashed in these poems. Using the vernacular of his Rust Belt heritage, Mathys builds upon memory and myth
Praise for Eleni Sikelianos:Library Journal Best Books 2013: PoetryElectric as a lightning storm, wild as a first-growth forest, protean as fantasy's shape-shifters?that's Sikelianos's poetry, a real
