NEW BOOKS

How to Catch a Falling Knife

April 2010ISBN: 978-1-882295-79-1

paper l $15.95

May 2010ISBN: 978-1-882295-81-4

paper l $15.95

Shahid Reads His Own Palm

Daniel Johnson

Reginald Dwayne Betts

“Fans of poets as disparate as Troy Jollimore, Dean Young and Billy Collins will love Johnson’s How to Catch a Falling Knife—a mournful but wry homage to a childhood in the Rust Belt, to the subtle dangers of family, to overpowering love, to so many things. Johnson’s voice is clear, distinct, and he creates an indelible world that could not have existed without his verse.”

—Dave Eggers

“Dwayne Betts’ poems―from the first moment I encountered them—read like revelation. This poet has entered the fire and walked out with actual light inside him. These poems―clear, muscular, musical―are what the light says. I’ve waited for this book for years!”

―Marie Howe

“...fierce talent...surprising and emotionally resonant...”

—Publishers Weekly

“How to Catch a Falling Knife is a perfect title for this book: there is danger, playfulness, impossibilities made possible, and surprise, in varying doses, in every poem! Most of all though, what I end up loving most about these spare, intense poems, is their heart, their urgent, nutty, burning, utterly whole heart.”

—Thomas Lux

2010 NAACP Image Award Winner!

Fall 2009

The Bitter WithyDonald Revell

September 2009 l ISBN: 978-1-882295-76-0$15.95 (paper)

Father DirtMihaela Moscaliuc

January 2010 l ISBN: 978-1-882295-78-4$15.95 (paper)

PageantJoanna Fuhrman

November 2009 l ISBN: 978-1-882295-77-7 $15.95 (paper)

Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems

1-882295-52-8 (paper) $18.95(cloth) $26.95

My Mojave

1-882295-40-4(paper) $13.95

A Thief of Strings

978-1-882295-61-6(paper) $14.95

also available

A Publishers Weekly “Best Books of 2009” pick!

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—Sacramento News & Review

...fantastic images...”“

—Publishers Weekly

...hard to forget...”“ —Publishers Weekly