Bookshelf
Reprinted from the September 2016 issue of The Writer's Chronicle
Only More So, poems by Millicent Borges Accardi. Salmon Poetry (Ireland): $18.00 paper.
Joy Writing: Discover and Develop Your Creative Voice, by Kenn Amdahl. Clearwater Publishing Company: $12.95 paper.
Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana, stories by Jacob M. Appel. Black Lawrence: $16.95 paper.
Trouble the Water, poems by Derrick Austin. BOA Editions, Ltd: $16.00 paper.
Thin Places, a novel by Elie Axelroth. Scatterbrain Press: $10.99 paper.
Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles, edited by Neelanjana Banerjee, Daniel A. Olivas, and Ruben Rodriguez. Northwestern University Press: $24.95 paper.
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness, by Walter Benjamin. Verso Books: $19.95 paper.
All Visions of Blind Love, prose by Cynthia Benson. Dragonfly Press: $15.00 paper.
A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015, by Wendell Berry. Counterpoint Press: $25.00 paper.
Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence: Advice from the Frontlines of Hollywood, by Lane Shefter Bishop. The Countryman Press: $14.95 paper.
Among the Gorgons, poems by Michelle Boisseau. The University of Tampa Press: $14.00 paper.
A Poet’s Dublin, poems by Eavan Boland. W.W. Norton & Company: $26.95 cloth.
A Woman Without a Country: Poems, by Eavan Boland. W.W. Norton & Company: $16.95 paper.
Black Anthem, poems by Bruce Bond. The University of Tampa Press: $14 paper.
Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, by Denis Boyles. Alfred A. Knopf: $30.00 cloth.
The Market Wonders, poems by Susan Briante. Ahsahta Press: $18.00 paper.
Animal Purpose, poems by Michelle Y. Burke. Ohio University Press: $16.95 paper.
Becoming Southern Writers: Essays in Honor of Charles Joyner, edited by Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr. The University of Southern Carolina Press: $39.99 cloth.
Confessions of a Captured Angel, poems by Neil Carpathios. Terrapin Books: $16.00 paper.
The Field Guide to Sports Metaphors: A Compendium of Competitive Words and Idioms, by Josh Chetwynd. Penguin Random House: $14.99 cloth.
Flight, poems by Katharine Coles. Red Hen Press: $17.95 paper.
Remarkable, short stories by Dinah Cox. BOA Editions, Ltd: $16.00 paper.
Here Among Strangers, stories by Serena Crawford. Willow Spring Books and Lost Horse Press: $19.95 paper.
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel, by Lisa Cron. Ten Speed Press: $15.99 paper.
The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir, by Patty Dann. Shambhala Publications, Inc: $16.95 paper.
Kaveena, novel by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Bhakti Shringarpure and Sara C. Hanaburgh. Indiana University Press: $25.00 paper.
Collected Poems, 1975-2004, by Rita Dove. W.W. Norton & Company: $35.95 cloth.
Pastoral Habits: New & Selected Poems, by George Drew. Texas Review Press: $10.95 paper.
Abahn Sabana David, a novel by Marguerite Duras, trans. from the French by Kazim Ali. Open Letter: $12.95 paper.
Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams, memoir by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher. Autumn House Press: $17.95 paper.
My Fault, poems by Leora Fridman. Cleveland State University Press: $16.00 paper.
Barely Composed, poems by Alice Fulton. W.W. Norton & Company: $16.95 paper.
The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, by Bryan A. Garner. The University of Chicago Press: $45.00 cloth.
The Dark of the Island, a novel by Philip Gerard. John F. Blair Publisher: $17.95 paper.
Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, by William Germano. The University of Chicago Press: $20.00 paper.
The Black Maria, poems by Aracelis Girmay. BOA Editions, Ltd: $16.00 paper.
Surprise Me, a novel by Deena Goldstone. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $26.96 cloth.
Booker’s Point, poems by Megan Grumbling. University of North Texas Press: $12.95 paper.
A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations, by Christine Hale. Apprentice House Press: $16.99 paper.
Entering History, poems by Mary Stewart Hammond. W.W. Norton & Company: $25.95 cloth.
The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, by Stephen B. Heard. Princeton Press: $21.95 cloth.
Creative Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers, edited by Jen Hirt and Erin Murphy. Excelsior Editions: $24.95 paper.
A Bestiary, poems by Lily Hoang. Cleveland State University Press: $16.00 paper.
Antiquity, poems by Michael Homolka. Sarabande Books: $14.95 paper.
Stained, a novel by Abda Kahn. Harvard Square Editions: $22.95 paper.
American Sentencing, poems by Jen Karetnick. Winter Goose Publishing: $10.99 paper.
What Persists: Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014, by Judith Kitchen. W.W. Norton & Company: $34.95 cloth.
One of Us Is Sleeping, a novel by Josefine Klougart, trans. from the Danish by Marin Aitken. Open Letter: $15.95 paper.
Burn Lyrics, poems by Benjamin Landry. Spuyten Duyvil Press: $15.00 paper.
Mr. Memory & Other Poems, by Phillis Levin. Penguin Books: $18.00 paper.
Random Exorcisms, poems by Adrian C. Louis. Louisiana State University Press: $17.95 paper.
To the Left of Time, poems by Thomas Lux. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: $16.95 paper.
Manifest West: Serenity and Severity, an anthology by Western Press Books staff. Western Press Books: $16.95 paper.
Oracle, poems by Cate Marvin. W.W. Norton & Company: $16.95 paper.
The Kite and the String: How to Write with Spontaneity and Control—And Live to Tell the Tale, by Alice Mattison. Viking: $25.00 cloth.
lore, poems by Davis McCombs. The University of Utah Press: $14.95 paper.
The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers, by Terry McDonell. Alfred A. Knopf: $26.95 cloth.
The Bees Make Money in the Lion, poems by Lo Kwa Mei-en. Cleveland State University Press: $16.00 paper.
The Doppler Effect, poems by Marla Melito. Finishing Line Press: $13.99 paper.
Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers, poems & prose poems by Bryce Milligan. West End Press: $16.00 paper.
The Open Eye, poems by Lenard D. Moore. Mountains and Rivers Press: $16.00 paper.
Done Growed Up, a novel by Mary Morony. Westropp Press: $16.99 paper.
The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville’s Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Mark Niemeyer. Orison Books: $18.00 paper.
part wild: A Writer’s Guide to Harnessing The Creative Power of Resistance, by Deb Norton. Enliven/Atria Books: $16.00 paper.
Night Sky Frequencies: New and Selected Poems, by Debra Nystrom. Sheep Meadow Press: $17.84 paper.
Anatomy of a Soldier, poems by Harry Parker. Alfred A. Knopf: $25.95 cloth.
Four-Letter Words, stories by Chad Pelley. Breakwater Books: $19.95 paper.
With the River on Our Face, poems by Emmy Pérez. University of Arizona Press: $16.95 paper.
You’re Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse, by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras. Ten Speed Press: $14.95 cloth.
The Jungle Around Us, stories by Anne Raeff. University of Georgia Press: $24.95 cloth.
She Becomes Time, poems by Margaret Randall. Wings Press: $15.99 paper.
Constellarium, poems by Jordan Rice. Orison Books: $16.00 paper.
Residuum, poems by Martin Rock. Cleveland State University Press: $16.00 paper.
Social History: Poems, by Bobby C. Rogers. LSU Press: $17.95 paper.
Gesell Dome, a novel by Guillermo Saccomanno, trans. from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger. Open Letter: $18.95 paper.
The Clouds, a novel by Juan Jose Saer, trans. from the Spanish by Hilary Vaughn Dobel. Open Letter: $14.95 paper.
Compass & Clock, poems by David Sanders. Ohio University Press: 16.95 paper.
Insurrections: Stories, by Rion Amilcar Scott. University Press of Kentucky: $24.95 cloth.
The Age of Lovecraft, essays edited by Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. University of Minnesota Press: $24.95 paper.
Fractals, poems and translations by Sudeep Sen. Wings Press: $18.95 paper.
Sam Maloof: 36 Views of a Master Woodworker, poems by Fred Setterberg. Heyday: $20.00 cloth.
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary, by John Simpson. Basic Books: $27.99 cloth.
The Other One: Stories, by Hasanthika Sirisena. University of Massachusetts Press: $22.95 paper.
Meditations After the Bear Feast: The Poetic Dialogues of N. Scott Momaday and Yuri Vaella, edited by Claude Clayton Smith and Alexander Vashchenko. Shanti Arts Publishing: $19.95 paper.
Things Seen, poems by Joseph Stanton. Brick Road Poetry Press: $15.95 paper.
For All the Obvious Reasons And Other Stories, by Lynn Stegner. Arcade Publishing: $24.99 cloth.
Divine Nothingness: Poems, by Gerald Stern. W.W. Norton & Company: $16.95 paper.
Uniform, poems by Lisa Stice. Aldrich Press: $17.00 paper.
Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography, by John Sutherland. The University of Chicago Press: $25.00 cloth.
But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”? Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A, by The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff. The University of Chicago Press: $15.00 paper.
The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose, by Helen Sword. The University of Chicago Press: $15.00 paper.
Stereo.Island.Mosaic, poems by Vincent Toro. Ahsahta Press: $18.00 paper.
Tenement Threnody, poems by Meredith Trede. Main Street Rag Publishing Company: $14.00 paper.
Whereso, poems by Karen Volkman. BOA Editions, Ltd: $16.00 paper.
Bardo or Not Bardo, a novel by Antoine Volodine, trans. from the French by J.T. Mahany. Open Letter: $13.95 paper.
Celestial Joyride, poems by Michael Waters. BOA Editions, Ltd: $16.00 paper.
God’s Foolishness: Poems, by William Wenthe. LSU Press: $17.95 paper.
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, by Terry Tempest Williams. Sarah Cricton Books/FSG: $27.00 cloth.
