Bookshelf
Reprinted from the October/November 2016 issue of The Writer's Chronicle
Nine Island,a novel by Jane Alison. Catapult: $16.95 paper.
The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street: Stories,by Jacob M. Appel. Augsburg College / Howling Bird: $20.00 paper.
Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word,by Matthew Battles. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $16.95 paper.
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $14.95 paper.
On That One-Way Trip to Mars, poetry by Marlena Chertock. Bottlecap Press: $12.00 paper.
Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep, by Ted Conover. The University of Chicago Press: $18.00 paper.
Not If But When, poems by J.L. Conrad. Salt Hill: $8.95 paper.
When Watched, short stories by Leopoldine Core. Penguin Books: $16.00 paper.
The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memoirs into Memoir, by Patty Dann. Shambhala Publications: $16.95 paper.
The Day’s Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech, poems by Stephen Dobyns. Boa Editions LTD: $16.00 paper.
Deep Lane,poems by Mark Doty. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $16.95 paper.
South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature,by Margaret Eby. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $15.95 paper.
Veils, Halos & Schackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women, an anthologyedited by Charles Adés Fishman and Smita Sahay. Kasva Press: $24.95 paper.
George Washington, poems by Adam Fitzgerald. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $25.95 cloth.
My Father Before Me: A Memoir, by Chris Forhan. Scribner: $26.00 cloth.
What Blooms in Winter, poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan. NYQ Books: $14.95 paper.
Early Men, stories by Britt Haraway. Lamar University Literary Press: $16.00 paper.
Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin, poems by Janice H. Harrington. Boa Editions, LTD: $16.00 paper.
Skin of Tattoos,a novel by Christina Hoag. Martin Brown Publishers: $12.95 paper; $2.99 digital.
Girl on the Brink, a novel by Christina Hoag. Melange Books/Fire and Ice YA: $12.95 paper; $4.99 digital.
Separate Flights, poems by Patricia Hooper. The University of Tampa Press: $14.00 paper.
The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style,by Robert Hudson. Zondervan Press: $34.99 paper.
Of This New World,stories by Allegra Hyde. University of Iowa Press: $16.00 paper.
Collected Poems (1958–2015) by Clive James. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $39.95 cloth.
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling, by Charles Johnson. Scribner: $26.00 cloth.
UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerilla Girl On Tour, by Donna Kaz. Skyhorse Publishing: $24.99 cloth.
Into the Cyclorama, poems by Annie Kim. Southern Indiana Review Press: $14.95 paper.
The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults,by Cheryl B. Klein. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $18.95 paper.
The Taste of Blood, poems by Linda Lancione. Finishing Line Press: $12.49 paper.
The Fall Guy,a novel by James Lasdun. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $25.95 cloth.
The Borrowed World,poems by Emily Leithauser. Able Muse Press: $18.95 paper.
Getting the Mail,poems by Cathy Cultice Lentes. Finishing Line Press: $14.49 paper.
Mandatory Evacuation,poems by Peter Mackuck. Boa Editions LTD: $16.00 paper.
True, False, None of the Above, poems by Marjorie Maddox. Cascade Books’ Poiema Poetry Series: $14.00 paper.
Inspired Georgia, poems and photographs, ed. by Judson Mitcham, Michael David Murphy, and Karen L. Paty. The University of Georgia Press: $34.95 cloth.
Hemming Flames, poems by Patricia Colleen Murphy. University Press of Colorado: $19.95 cloth.
The End of Pink, poems by Kathryn Nuernberger. Boa Editions LTD: $16.00 paper.
November Storm, short stories by Robert Oldshue. The University of Iowa Press: $16.00 paper.
Resurrection Biology,poems by Laura Orem. Finishing Line Press: $19.99 paper.
Falling Awake, poems by Alice Oswald. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $25.95 cloth.
Lost Wax, essays by Jericho Parms. The University of Georgia Press: $24.95 paper.
The Analyst: Poems by Molly Peacock. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $25.95 paper.
Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity: Poems,by William Reichard. Broadstone Books: $16.50 paper.
bodys,poems by Vanessa Roveto. The University of Iowa Press: $19.95 paper.
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs, by Elaine Sciolino. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: $16.95 paper.
Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Discover Old Florida,by Cathy Salustri. University Press of Florida: $24.95 cloth.
Becoming Earth, essays by Eva Saulitis. Red Hen Press: $18.95 paper.
Take Nothing With You, poems by Sarah V. Schweig. The University of Iowa Press: $19.95 paper.
Seed in Snow, poems by Knuts Skujenieks, trans. by Bitite Vinklers. Boa Editions LTD: $16.00 paper.
Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places, by Bruce L. Smith. University of Nebraska Press: $18.95 paper.
Wander,a novel by Lori Tobias. Red Hen Press: $15.95 paper.
Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journal of Pregnancy, Grief and Infant Death, a memoir by Dianna Vagianos Armentrout. White Flowers Press: $15.00 paper.
At Danceteria and Other Stories, by Philip Dean Walker. Squares & Rebels: $15.00 paper.