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[It] Incandescent by Amy Pence (New, March 2018!)
It] Incandescent puts us on the path near Emily Dickinson’s home in a timeless Amherst where we embark on a multi-layered journey: poems written by a fictional narrator are interceded by details from Dickinson’s life as well as the tragic story that propels the narrator to a stunning, yet indeterminate, conclusion. What was Dickinson’s “secret” and how does the experience of trauma both obscure and reveal? In this truly sui generis book, poetry, fiction, and fact blend, reminding us of the complex tissue of narratives and psychologies whenever we try to uncover the truth of someone’s life, especially Emily Dickinson’s.
The Ocean Container by Patrik Sampler
In this surreal and lyric debut novel, an environmentalist accused by a North American petro-state of “economic terrorism” takes refuge in a compound for vagrants. Surrounded by a variety of social and political outcasts—dubious charity providers, a spiritual healer, a man with two right eyes, contraband exotic species, and a theatrical company that may be a front for prostitution—the “terrorist” gradually embraces the exile of his improvised home, a shipping container, where the division between imagination and external reality will irrevocably blur.
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Stela by Anca Cristofovici
"Cristofovici's work comes to us like scraps of paper drifting down from a library whose collection has burned. We must gather all we can, and set about the task of their decipherment and reconstruction."
—Ellen Hinsey, author of Update on the Descent
"Stela is a novel of exception. The writing is magical, inventive, whimsical…funny…sinister and slightly disturbing."
—Juliet Bates, author of The Missing
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—Ellen Hinsey, author of Update on the Descent
"Stela is a novel of exception. The writing is magical, inventive, whimsical…funny…sinister and slightly disturbing."
—Juliet Bates, author of The Missing
Click to Visit Anca Cristofovici's blog
Armor, Amour by Amy Pence
Amy Pence's second collection thrives on both contradiction and expansion. Her short works, comprising two-thirds of the poems in the book, fulfill Blake's call for "Eternity in a grain of sand," while the longer pieces--rangy, kinetic, meticulously shaped--follow Mallarme's throw of the dice into new and eye-opening frontiers. Pence's poetic world is simultaneously a "Tender, small universe" and a "red sac torn open," and Armor, Amour forcefully captures these conversant facets of her imagination.
--Gregory Fraser, author of Answering the Ruins
Equally at ease with pop culture, Greek philosophy, a sleeping cock, and Bach's Partita No. 3, Amy Pence reconfigures the lyric, the body, and language itself.
--Jillian Wiese, author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Armor, Amour rejects all seamlessness, soullessness. In reading, we do not "glide past earth's fierce and mythic wreckage": we must, by way of the poem, go in--to an interior where dangerous secrets seed themselves and a beast chambers. But Pence, both ingenious and generous, breaks us out as well. I am grateful for these poems, dark & glittering.
--Kate Northrop, author of Clean
--Gregory Fraser, author of Answering the Ruins
Equally at ease with pop culture, Greek philosophy, a sleeping cock, and Bach's Partita No. 3, Amy Pence reconfigures the lyric, the body, and language itself.
--Jillian Wiese, author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Armor, Amour rejects all seamlessness, soullessness. In reading, we do not "glide past earth's fierce and mythic wreckage": we must, by way of the poem, go in--to an interior where dangerous secrets seed themselves and a beast chambers. But Pence, both ingenious and generous, breaks us out as well. I am grateful for these poems, dark & glittering.
--Kate Northrop, author of Clean
Elegy for a Fabulous World by Alta Ifland
The surreal and darkly humorous stories of Elegy for a Fabulous World describe an eccentric family and their polyglot friends and neighbors--Ukrainians, Hungarians, Germans, Romanians, Gypsies, Jews, Russians--surviving together in a land where fable, reality, and State-issued lies are impossible to untangle. In the book's second section, the narratives emigrate to the United States, where the skepticism learned in fabulous youth infects and frustrates American attitudes and institutions. Real fictions of strange lands, Ifland's stories demonstrate a deep sympathy with the visionary outsider and a vital and provocative international point of view. Alta Ifland grew up in Eastern Europe and emigrated to the United States in 1991. Elegy for a Fabulous World was selected, from an extremely competitive field, as a finalist for the 2010 Northern California Book Awards.
Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad edited by Sandra Meek
Deep Travel, winner of a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal, brings together thirty-four contemporary American poets whose work has been significantly informed by international travel or by living abroad. The book includes poems by Pulitzer Prize-winners as well as mid-career and emerging writers. Participating poets also contributed original prose statements on how travel has deepened their work, their understanding of poetry's aesthetic and human value, and their sense of self and "Other."
This anthology has been used successfully at colleges and universities in travel writing and poetry writing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; the collection is appropriate for a wide variety of courses in writing and literature, including contemporary literature and American literature courses, as well as courses examining American perspectives and aesthetic responses to other cultures. Ninebark is committed to keeping its books in print, affordable, and available, so the anthology is a good choice for regularly offered courses as well as special topics seminars.
This anthology has been used successfully at colleges and universities in travel writing and poetry writing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; the collection is appropriate for a wide variety of courses in writing and literature, including contemporary literature and American literature courses, as well as courses examining American perspectives and aesthetic responses to other cultures. Ninebark is committed to keeping its books in print, affordable, and available, so the anthology is a good choice for regularly offered courses as well as special topics seminars.
