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A Wake with Nine Shades is an exploration of grief and culpability, a Dantean descent through contemporary midlife crisis. Populated by ghosts and children, lovers and amputations, bodies of water, insomnia, debt and domestic violence, Steinorth measures what is broken against the white space of the page, paying homage to the Great Lakes and snowscapes her poems inhabit and the vacancies, denials and drains they circle. Formally inventive and musically obsessive, the book's unconventional formal construction and lyric wit contribute what Eleanor Wilner deems the essential "Lightness" described by Italo Calvino, noting Steinorth's "ability to treat weighty subjects with a mastery of style . . . a liveliness of imagination and intelligence that lightens, without denial, what would otherwise be unbearable. . . ."

Quiver is a book of reckoning and ghosts. It deals with both lineal fracture and fatherlessness, and is a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood.

Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not all, volumes in the series indirectly reflect literary changes over time and/or how literary variations have manifested themselves in a given state. In some cases, publisher permissions and other factors have foiled the editors from including the work of deserving writers. Nevertheless, the abundant literary talent across the South has lessened the impact of the occasional unfortunate omission. ';TRP has for years now published an annual collection of poetry from each of our Southern states, and these anthologies have done very well for us, both inside and outside university classrooms. We welcome this new series on Southern nonfiction and look forward to visiting these fine essayists, state by state.'Paul Ruffin, Director, Texas Review Press

Gabrielle Civil makes black feminist performance art in Mexico to explore--and expand--the parameters of her own body, artistic process, heritage, and culture. In and Out of Place archives her vibrant 2008-2009 Fulbright project and activates her trajectory as a black woman artist in the world.

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia's artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focus on newer, diverse poets who continue to broaden and enrich the literary legacy of this beautiful state.

Flare Stacks in Full Bloom is a collection of eco-feminist poetry set in southeast Texas. These poems explore the tension of climate change and industry in the region and bear witness to Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath.

Award-winning writer Kathleen Winter turns a loving but critical eye on her Texas past in this lively poetry chapbook. Moving, original, and sometimes very funny, the poems vividly depict moments in the first twenty-five years of an artist's engagement with the world.

A riveting story of how a suicidal African American teenager's forcing a young white cop to kill him devastates the teenager's mother as well the rookie cop. It also sparks a massive race riot and puts the mother and rookie in the crosshairs of a deranged gunman.

Ray's got a problem: His wife's parents have won the lottery - just as he's in the process of leaving her for another woman. Although he's successfully self-employed, how can he avoid the temptation of returning to a marriage that's suddenly a lot more appealing? Set in rural Maine, The Megabucks explores moral choice in an age of economic desperation.

Consequences of a Moonless Night deepens its native primitivism through humour, surrealism, and soul searching lyricism. These poems take the reader on a journey where a grandmother "walks with the Beast of the Apocalypse on a leash" into visions of grief, eroticism, and an indelibly reflective reticence that continues to unfold with each reading.

Michael Gills' third collection of short fiction, continues the life and times of Joey Harvell, whose stepfather, in "Last Words on Lonoke", gives him a.30-06, tells him not to aim at anything he doesn't want to kill, and "that's pretty much it for [his] gun safety lessons."

The stories in Don't Make Me Do Something We'll Both Regret are linked by their exploration of queer evil. The characters are gnostics and mystics, ogres and queens whose defiance of the normative both liberates and confines.

Two childhood friends whose lives have diverged navigate catastrophe by talking to each other with their minds.

This four-generation saga, written with Mickey Herskowitz, begins with Richard Grimes, who became a sea captain at the astonishing age of 21, and made the first of his fortunes carrying passengers from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, to the West Indies.

In a review of his work, The Rumpus labelled Ryan Vine 'a raconteur', and his story-telling skills are on full display in WARD. The poems are witty, teeming with dark humour, political, playful, and the sardonic tone is pitch-perfect for our times.

A depiction of the cycles of abuse and trauma in a prolonged end-time, Imagine a Death examines the ways in which our pasts envelop us, the ways in which we justify horrible things in the name of survival, all of the horrible and beautiful things we are capable of when we are hurt and broken, and the animal companions that ground us.

A coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse. Through the speaker's recounting of his adolescence, the collection addresses themes of religious disillusionment, sexual awakening, body image, environmental degradation, suburbia versus the wild, familial history, and the idea of home contextualized by distance.

A novel about mother-daughter relationships, betrayal, annoying relatives, the power of laughter, family secrets, and a love that lingers from childhood even after the beloved's death. It is both hilarious and poignant, and its heroine's observations are laugh-out-loud funny at the same time they break your heart.

This book about Texas and its oldest university system is set in communities traversing the State from the Sabine River, to the Piney Woods, to the Hill Country, to the Rio Grande. It is a story of colleges that, in the course of a century, produced a president, world renowned journalists, entertainers, poets, musicians, writers, and alumni representing the ethnic and cultural diversity of Texas.

Part reckoning, part renewal, part redemption, part rebirth, the poems in Tortillera come clean, but more than that, they guide, reveal and examine larger considerations: the role of language on gender, the heartrending consequences of compulsory heterosexuality, and the patriarchal stamp emblazoned on the Cuban diaspora.

Ricky Rudolph experiences a revelation that causes him to believe that he has been called by God to imitate Jesus, literally. He embarks on a personal journey of religious study and learns a few magic tricks that lead to his self-employment performing wedding ceremonies while portraying Jesus.

A chronicle of a mother's loss. These poems explore the unsightly aspects of grief and the survivor's guilt of outliving a child. In the hospital with her son, the speaker directs her bitterness toward institutions and faith that do not do enough.

Tells the tale of Rafferty, who was saved as a teenager from a promising career of juvenile delinquency and slapped into a six-year hitch in the army to avoid jail time. Early on his anger and fierce resolve catch the attention of an officer in charge of a small cadre of soldiers who provide unique, subdued solutions to problems.

Captures in verse the history and legacy of the Merrimack River Valley, from the Pennacook, Wamesit, Algonquin, and other indigenous tribes who settled there first, to the European settlers who came with guns, to being the birthplace of America's industrial revolution, to becoming a center of continued immigration.

The seven stories comprising In the Valley of the Kings describe hard lives in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania, depicting with lyrical precision the moments in which lives shift or unravel, or achieve a fragile kind of grace.