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March in Books: Small Press New Releases

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Thanks for dropping by Entropy’s fifteenth “Month in Books” feature. If you are a small press and have some upcoming releases you’d like to see on future lists, please send an email to jenny@entropymag.org. Now, I’d just like to point out that March is FULL UP with books, so, you know, tend to the virtual shopping cart(s) of your choice, send some good vibes back into the universe, and support a small press. Buy a delicious book or two. Or five. Or eleven. Meet your edge. We’re here for you.

Awst Press

Awst Collection by Erin Pringle-Toungate
Chapbook – Awst Press

Awst Collection by Felix Morgan
Chapbook – Awst Press

Awst Collection by Lindsey Verrill
Chapbook – Awst Press


Big Lucks Books

Hyperion by Lizi Gilad
28 pages – Big Lucks Books


Black Lawrence Press

Nominal Cases by Thomas Cotsonas
180 pages – Black Lawrence Press/SPD

The View from the Body by Renée Ashley
Black Lawrence Press


Black Ocean

IAMASEASONcoverI Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World by Kim Kyung Ju
144 pages – Black Ocean/SPD

Kim Kyung Ju’s poetry operates in a world where no one seems to belong: “the living are born in the dead people’s world, and the dead are born in the living.” Already in its thirtieth edition in Korea, I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World is one of the most important books in the movement Korean critics have called Miraepa or future movement.  Destructive forces like social isolation, disease, and ecological degradation are transformed into gateways to the sublime—where human action takes on the mythic and chaotic quality of nature. Conflating human agency with the natural order, Kim’s poems have been called by critics both a blessing and a curse to Korean literature. This book will be a startling English-language debut for one of the best-known poets writing in Korean today.      –from the Black Ocean website


Boss Fight Books

Spelunky by Derek Yu
222 pages – Boss Fight Books


Brain Mill Press

Late Fall by Noelle Adams
276 pages – Brain Mill Press/Amazon

My Tall Handsome by Emily Corwin
52 pages – Brain Mill Press/Amazon

Faith Healer by Victoria G. Smith
146 pages – Brain Mill Press/Amazon


Civil Coping Mechanisms

The Sky Isn’t Blue by Janice Lee
226 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

Dear Ra by Johannes Göransson
98 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

Insignificana by Dolan Morgan
170 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

American Mary by Alexandra Naughton
236 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

The Women by Ashley Farmer
118 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

You With Your Memory Are Dead by Gary J. Shipley
122 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

MallbratcoverMall Brat by Laura Marie Marciano
120 pages – Civil Coping Mechanisms/Amazon

“This astonishing pathos-saturated debut collection was written by a 200 year old middle-schooler named Laura Marie Marciano. With pop pastiche, lyrical pirouettes, and sage insights parading as ‘confessions,’ these poems position—like a ballet class at its bar pivoting towards the mirror—the young against the old, the native against the new, and the innocent against the cynical to show them how, together, they more beautifully out of sync.”      –Monica McClure, author of Tender Data


Coffee House Press

They and We Will Get Into Trouble For This by Anna Moschovakis
112 pages – Coffee House Press/Amazon


Dalkey Archive

Empty Streets by Michael Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland
488 pages – Dalkey Archive

The Scenarists of Europe by Michael S. Judge
308 pages – Dalkey Archive/Amazon


Deep Vellum Publishing

La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
400 pages – Deep Vellum Publishing/Amazon


Dikembe Press

BIG by Drew Scott Swenhaugen
Chapbook – Dikembe Press


Dzanc Books

Machines Like Us by Joshua A. Helms
64 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon

Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan
256 pages – Dzanc Books/Amazon

OriginsOrigins and Other Stories by Angela Woodward
88 pages – Dzanc Books

WINNER OF THE 2015 COLLAGIST CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Provincial cineastes sit down to a hundred-year-long movie. The reader of an immense Hungarian novel descends the quiet corridors of its pages. An amateur archaeologist fashions a dramatic shipwreck out of a pair or iron keys. These Stories blend chemistry textbook with family memoir, the history of ordinary objects with desolate loves, creating literary hybrids of surprising form and flickering passion.      –from the Dzanc Books website

 


FC2

Natural Wonders by Angela Woodward
152 pages – FC2/Amazon


Flood Editions

The Ecliptic by Joseph Gordon Macleod
112 pages – Flood Editions/SPD


Gauss PDF

PUNCTD by Barrett White
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a goney island of the kidneys: dry poems and wet poems by Gillian Lee
GPDF

In Between, Little Observations by Arjan Stockhausen
GPDF

AGGREGATION, ANALYSIS, AND PRESENTATIONOF PORTFOLIO FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (March 2016) by Matt Earnshaw
GPDF


Greying Ghost Press

Grit Lords: Volume One
Chapbook – Greying Ghost


Graywolf Press

Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
272 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon

99 Poems: New and Selected by Dana Gioia
208 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon

The Making of the American Essay by John D’Agata
864 pages – Graywolf Press/Amazon


H_NGM_N

Think of the Danger by Thea Brown
110 pages – H_NGM_N/Amazon


Kenning Editions

.Style by Dolores Dorantes, translated by Jen Hofer
108 pages – Kenning Editions/SPD

Dolores Dorantes’s Style is a prose book in which a plural feminine voice narrates the vicissitudes of a war designed to suppress that voice. A voice that represents the war on the Mexico-U.S. border? Guerrilla adolescents taking their revenge? Enslaved girls who appear in order to combat a macho presidential figure linked to our current-day Central America? Latin America advancing on a fascist-capitalist government? These are some of the questions that might arise from Style. The book was written in 2011, in some dark place in Texas, during the first three months Dorantes was awaiting political asylum.      –from the Kenning Editions website


Les Figues

SomeVersionsoftheIceSome Versions of the Ice by Adam Tipps Weinstein
96 pages – Les Figues/SPD

In this debut collection, Adam Tipps Weinstein essays the space between fiction and non-, examining such phenomena as graveyard- shoe collecting, collars, and garden sub-plots. Such speculations result in fact-filled fabulations and histories woven from esoterica—quotes and anecdotes assembled into tapestries of synergistic references as immutable as the paper they are printed on. Some Versions of the Ice reads like a walking tour of exhibits and non-exhibits at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, where history, theory, and philosophy merge, become poetic.      –from the Les Figues website

 


Magic Helicopter Press

Distress Tolerance by Kamden Hilliard
52 pages – Magic Helicopter Press


Melville House

A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
288 pages – Melville House/Amazon

Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck by Peter Manseau
224 pages – Melville House/Amazon

Break Up the Banks!: A Practical Guide to Stopping the Next Global Financial Meltdown by David Shirreff
112 pages – Melville House/Amazon


Milkweed Editions

Post- by Wayne Miller
96 pages – Milkweed Editions/Amazon


New Directions

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert
320 pages – New Directions


Noemi Press

Ford Over by John Pluecker
146 pages – Noemi Press/SPD


OR Books

Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web by Scott Malcomson
202 pages – OR Books/Amazon

Forsaken: The Persecution of Christians in Today’s Middle East by Daniel Williams
216 pages – OR Books/Amazon


Other Press

Guapa by Saleem Haddad
368 pages – Other Press/Amazon


Poor Claudia

The Second Body by Claire Donato
100 pages – Poor Claudia/SPD


Queen’s Ferry Press

Whiskey, Etc. by Sherrie Flick
224 pages – Queen’s Ferry Press/Amazon


Restless Books

The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
144 pages – Restless Books/Amazon

The Face: Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw
80 pages – Restless Books/Amazon

The Face: Cartography of the Void by Chris Abani
96 pages – Restless Books/Amazon

Almost+HomeAlmost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York by Githa Hariharan
304 pages – Restless Books/Amazon

What does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington, D.C.? How do people in Kashmir imagine the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately carved essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan tackles these questions and takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the world’s most fascinating and fraught cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s playful and powerful writing about journeys and cities, Almost Home combines memory, cultural criticism, and history to sculpt fascinating, layered stories about the places around the world—from Delhi, Mumbai, and Kashmir to Palestine, Algeria, and eleventh-century Córdoba, from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the lives of these place’s vanquished and marginalized, she plumbs the depths of colonization and nation-building, poverty and war, the fight for human rights and the day-to-day business of survival.      –from the Restless Books website


Siglio Press

Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living by Ricky Jay
160 pages – Siglio Press/Amazon


The Song Cave

What the Lyric Is by Sara Nicholson
112 pages – The Song Cave/SPD


Sundress Publications

TheaterofPartsTheater of Parts by M. Mack
Sundress Publications

Theater of Parts investigates dramatic forms through impossible theater, a term coined by Caridad Svich in her collection of Federico García Lorca’s drama, and the impossible body. Mack’s project is clearly influenced by Lorca, Jack Spicer, and Gertrude Stein. The manuscript is obsessed with transmogrification through a cast of characters including Milquetoast the crossdressing transfeminine cockroach, The Actor whose body is ether, and the controlling force of The Poet whose transmasculine body stubbornly is. The project engages with the other, in the vein of queer and feminist theory, existing in and pushing against the confines of academic space.      –from the Sundress Publications website


Tin House Books

Relief Map by Rosalie Knetch
275 pages – Tin House/Amazon


Torrey House Press

Alibi Creek by Bev Magennis
280 pages – Torrey House/Amazon


Three Rooms Press

My Old Lady: Complete Stage Play and Screenplay with an Essay on Adaptation by Isael Horovitz
336 pages – Three Rooms Press/Amazon


Tyrant Books

Life is With People – Second Edition by Atticus Lish
Tyrant Books


Ugly Duckling Presse

Staying Alive by Laura Sims
80 pages – Ugly Duckling Presse/SPD

YourlapidariumYour lapidarium feels wrought by Jennifer Stella
Chapbook – Ugly Duckling Presse

Your lapidarium feels wrought is an exhibition of jeweled fragments in the form of language and experience. Beginning with raw materials, Jennifer Stella has wrought precious stones from rock, exposing crystallized, vivid imagery: hewed gems that catch and reflect light. Each poem functions as a postcard, an instant in time that harkens back to both the memory it recalls and to the moment it emerged in its new, polished state. Each instance of correspondence also speaks to the others within and across the seven cycles, via a shared parlance that spans time and space while retaining its particular, imagistic, and commemorative nature with a faint sheen of “wish you were here.” In her role and function as lapidary, the poet communicates how cutting away the opaque reveals an illuminated relationship between word and image.      –from the Ugly Duckling Presse website


Unnamed Press

Deep Singh Blue by Ranbir Singh Sidhu
256 pages – Unnamed Press/Amazon


 Wakefield Press

Life in the Folds by Henri Michaux, translated by Darren Jackson
168 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon

pig4The Pig in Poetic, Mythological, and Moral-Historical Perspective by Oskar Panizza, translated by Erik Butler
120 pages – Wakefield Press/Amazon

The Pig is the Sun…” So begins Oskar Panizza’s outrageously heretical and massively erudite essay on the pig, originally published in 1900 in Zurich Discussions, a journal self-published by Panizza in Switzerland after he had served a year in a Munich prison on 93 counts of blasphemy for his play The Love Council. Moving from the Rig Veda to the Edda to Ovid, from the story of Tristan and Isolde to Nordic celebrations of Christmas, from Grimm’s fairy tales to Swedish folklore to Judeo-Egyptian dietary restrictions, the author contends, through a dizzying exposition of painstaking philological argumentation, that the miraculous swine occupies a central, celestial position as the life-giving force animating the entire universe, usurping the place of God as the beginning and end of all things.      –from the Wakefield Press website


YesYes Books

Dream with a Glass Chamber by Aricka Foreman
38 pages – YesYes Books/SPD


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