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A Wake with Nine Shades is an exploration of grief and culpability, a Dantean descent through contemporary midlife crisis. Populated by ghosts and children, lovers and amputations, bodies of water, insomnia, debt and domestic violence, Steinorth measures what is broken against the white space of the page, paying homage to the Great Lakes and snowscapes her poems inhabit and the vacancies, denials and drains they circle. Formally inventive and musically obsessive, the book's unconventional formal construction and lyric wit contribute what Eleanor Wilner deems the essential "Lightness" described by Italo Calvino, noting Steinorth's "ability to treat weighty subjects with a mastery of style . . . a liveliness of imagination and intelligence that lightens, without denial, what would otherwise be unbearable. . . ."

The poems in Eschatology in Crayon Wax evoke a feeling of being caught between a fragile yearning to be transformed and a whirlwind of botched divinity. Rooted in the antiphonal tradition of early Christian liturgies, Robbins shows compassionate care for this our world of things, caught as we are between what is and what should be.

Focusing on the Merrimack River, Tender the River weaves historical, geological, social, and personal narratives together, from the last ice age, to the indigenous tribes that settled there and before driven off by Europeans, to the birth of the industrial age and the urban decline and rebirth of the late 20th century. It hopes to be a celebratory and critical look at the relationship between the various human worlds as well as the natural world they occupy and give readers a sense of the bigger story we are all a part of by using this one small scratch of the earth as an example.

The poems in Dan Leach's debut collection present lyrical portraits of dying (if not already dead) suburban neighborhoods in South Carolina. Stalled-out construction sites, abandoned shopping malls, and builder grade houses that seem haunted before they're even sold--these are the doomed spaces that populate Leach's work. Stray Latitudes investigates the spiritual and geographical crises of the New South, pitting the individual need for identity against the recent swell of nationalism and the ongoing creep of capitalism. Like the vagrant creature for which the book is named, these are poems that scratch and claw in their search for a place to call home. The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: South Carolina

A book-length narrative in poems, The Familiar explores female mid-life existential crisis through two characters, the Ordinary Self and the Extraordinary Self, who send a single household into chaos as they vacillate between the siren call of ambition, the necessity of the workplace, and responsibility to love and family. Engaging with philosophy and pop culture, bouncing between high and low diction, The Familiar considers the effects of second and third-wave feminism through an absurdist and fabulist lens, wrestling with the notion women can truly "have it all."

"Christine Kitano's Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative safety of upstate New York before and during the pandemic. In one poem the speaker reflects on current events (the ongoing pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, the surge in anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S.) and contrasts these with the peace of rural New York, wondering, "Is this / the reward for good luck, just a more / comfortable survival?" The poems in this collection orbit around this question, providing both lyric and narrative explorations on luck, guilt, and survival. Ultimately, these poems delve into how the otherwise mundane questions of selfhood and identity for a gendered and racialized body take on greater urgency during times of increased social unrest, panic, and violence"--

Ranked among the top in the nation for its range of overall biodiversity, Alabama is far more variegated than many first assume. With its volatile history, its extraordinary landscapes, and its breadth of human perspectives, Alabamians have been underrepresented in Southern poetry, and this volume seeks to shed light on established and new, diverse voices in the Yellowhammer State.

After a family trip turned chaotic, siblings Jordan and Chung come up altered: Jordan begins to emit smoke when angered, and Chung locks up in the face of conflict, flops like a fish out of water. As both siblings navigate their young lives, they each grapple with the complexity of their family history, their varied responses to trauma, and their disparate experiences of race.

Quiver is a book of reckoning and ghosts. It deals with both lineal fracture and fatherlessness, and is a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood.

J. L. Conrad's Recovery inhabits a dreamscape filled with fragments of conversation, remembered loved ones, and the profound disorientation that accompanies loss. The incantatory poems in this sequence, at a time when the only way through is through, imagine ways of moving beyond a body flooded with grief to acceptance of what is: a body marked and wounded, a body trailing ghosts.

"In questioning the boundaries between the world and oneself, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers unflinchingly explores the dark eddies of coming of age and coming out. Kelly McQuain's poems are far roaming in setting and far ranging in style, depicting the richness of a rural West Virginia upbringing as well as contemporary adulthood in the big city and abroad. Glints of humor and glimpses of pathos abound in the imaginative leaps these poems take as they tackle such subjects as LGBTQ sexuality, homophobia, domestic abuse, and racism. Unafraid to push the limits of contemporary sonics, McQuain's work is rich in music and varied in form, with new riffs on the sonnet, the villanelle, and the persona poem. Accessible and lyrical, this debut collection deftly explores the homes we come from and the homes we create-all the while shining with wonder and resolve"--

"The essay begins as an exploration of James's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 1960s. But what begins as a straight reported piece on how the film set erupted into chaos, quickly devolves into its own chaos as the essay splits into 5 different narrators, each with their own agenda of what the essay is actually about. Is it about how Peter Sellers and his oversize ego ruined Casino Royale? Is it about how society has too long allowed horrible men to run the world? Is it an exploration of the nature of the essay as a creative form? Or is Peter Sellers and his genius at impersonation actually a vehicle through which James probes her own shifting identity as a Mexican-American woman? The answer is...yes"--

Hidden away in an East Texas thicket, Petra Caldwell, the prophetess of a reclusive religious movement called "Acacia," compiles the true account of her life and captivity. But the premonitions and intricate wiles of Petra's predecessor, The Prophetess Mother Salome Nightingale, threaten her dominion.

"An anthology comprising the best of contemporary fiction and nonfiction by South Asian American writers, to spotlight the literary work being produced by the South Asian diaspora in the American South. "The eight short stories and seven essays included in this anthology give us a glimpse of the diverse facets of South Asian experiences in the American South. These narratives do not necessarily weave a homogenous South Asian story in the American South, which is not the aim of this project, but create small, local narratives as windows to the world of transnational exchanges made possible by migrations of various kinds. They, like most all immigrant writing, expound a sense of being in two places but hardly entrenched in any one, the proverbial displacement.""--

Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not all, volumes in the series indirectly reflect literary changes over time and/or how literary variations have manifested themselves in a given state. In some cases, publisher permissions and other factors have foiled the editors from including the work of deserving writers. Nevertheless, the abundant literary talent across the South has lessened the impact of the occasional unfortunate omission. ';TRP has for years now published an annual collection of poetry from each of our Southern states, and these anthologies have done very well for us, both inside and outside university classrooms. We welcome this new series on Southern nonfiction and look forward to visiting these fine essayists, state by state.'Paul Ruffin, Director, Texas Review Press

Gabrielle Civil makes black feminist performance art in Mexico to explore--and expand--the parameters of her own body, artistic process, heritage, and culture. In and Out of Place archives her vibrant 2008-2009 Fulbright project and activates her trajectory as a black woman artist in the world.

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia's artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focus on newer, diverse poets who continue to broaden and enrich the literary legacy of this beautiful state.

Flare Stacks in Full Bloom is a collection of eco-feminist poetry set in southeast Texas. These poems explore the tension of climate change and industry in the region and bear witness to Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath.

A riveting story of how a suicidal African American teenager's forcing a young white cop to kill him devastates the teenager's mother as well the rookie cop. It also sparks a massive race riot and puts the mother and rookie in the crosshairs of a deranged gunman.

Ray's got a problem: His wife's parents have won the lottery - just as he's in the process of leaving her for another woman. Although he's successfully self-employed, how can he avoid the temptation of returning to a marriage that's suddenly a lot more appealing? Set in rural Maine, The Megabucks explores moral choice in an age of economic desperation.

Consequences of a Moonless Night deepens its native primitivism through humour, surrealism, and soul searching lyricism. These poems take the reader on a journey where a grandmother "walks with the Beast of the Apocalypse on a leash" into visions of grief, eroticism, and an indelibly reflective reticence that continues to unfold with each reading.