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Silver Award, For the Independent Publisher Book Awards Runner up, For the John Gardner Award for Fiction...
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Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Leslie Adrienne Miller Winner, Eric Hoffer Award ...
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Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Robin Beacker The Portable Famine offers poems from Rane Arroyo's years of being an "interior exi...
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Winner of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Stuart Dybek Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award...
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Fiction. "These are stories that Hemingway himself would envy," writes Cary C. Holladay. These fourteen short stories capture James McKinley at his best, featuring characters who travel from Nebraska to Spain and Kenya as they search for fulfillme...
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Finalist, For the Eric Hoffer Award Nine stories...skillfully track time's toll on the ability to live and love fully. -- Publishers Weekl...
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Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Colleen J. McElroy ...
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Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Hilary Masters Winner, of the Devil's Kitchen Reading Prize ...
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Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Christopher Buckley Poetry. "FENCE LINE is a terrific first book by a young poet with a uniquevoi...
Book of the Rotten Daughter, The
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Finalist, Georgia Author of the year Poetry. Women's studies. Alice Friman's THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER contains "astonishing poems which fearlessly...
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Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize Streetfighting is a racy, sobering book about the vicissitudes of an urban childhood. Every poem has the ring of authenticity—the obs...
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Poetry. "Cummins is a poet with both hands in plain sight. No manipulative literary affectations, no illustrations oftheory, no personal mission other than to address us directly, with clarity, authenticity, and above all, with generosity"--Ted Ko...
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Poetry. "Through vivid characters, she examines Jewish life in the American South, in New York, and in the death camps of Europe. She employs the historian's tools in 'speaking the past,' and then, through these poems, the past speaks to us"--Robi...
Chicago Stories
Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Gladys Swan Finalist, Society of Midland Authors Prize These moving yet ...
Prose Poem Sequences
Winner, John Gardner Award for Fiction Poetry. Writer Debra Di Blasi calls The Feast, "a work of subversive genius, particularly relevant ...
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Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Diane Glancy Review Fiction. This collection of short stories explores the inner lives of characters who ...
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In Lake Erie Blue, Susan Grimm has created a vibrant and haunted city of desire lying along a great lake that ripples with mystery. She sings of the one place we know more and less about than any other: home....
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Poetry. In this moving book of poems,John Knoepfle transforms a search for his Irish roots into a meditationon human suffering and survival. The whole book is a prayer againstfamine and the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on the innocent, both theIri...
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Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Janet Burroway Winner, Towson Prize for Literature, Maryland Fiction. "[...
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By difficult women, the writer doesn't mean hard to seduce but women who are bad tempered, quarrelsome, and treacherous. She: You made me this way. He: That's what a difficult wom...
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[Roger] Mitchell gives us a history of the Adirondacks, with the Indian languages, travelers' accounts, songs and dances, diaries, museum artifacts, and the poet's own deeply rooted personal experience. It is a book t...
Stories
Finalist, William Rockhill Nelson Award Fiction. "What virtually all the characters share is a profound sense of ironic detachment that ke...
Poems
Poetry. "The work of a raconteur of the spirit, a splendid storyteller with just enough jaunty language to make you feel you'd want to hear almost anything he had to say. He is elegiac and disciplined, rapturous and suspicious, but more than anyth...
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Poetry. African American. "Along with his mentor Langston Hughes, Banks is one of the few po...
Poems and other Retina Prints
When artist and poet Elizabeth Goldring found a way to use technology for visual art, the images she captured on her damaged retinas became "frozen traces of seeing, the memory of words that move and flow into meaning...
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