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Fall 2024
Songs for the Land-Bound
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
Poetry collection
September 2024
A lyrical and resonant new songbook for survival. Sounding out the constraints and anxieties of midlife and motherhood in a period of personal and planetary vulnerability, these poems speak to the persistence of nature, creativity, and love as necessary sources of hope and beauty. This is a book about wildness and wonder.
“Musical and rhythmic, deftly attuned to form and structure, [these poems] are simultaneously gorgeous, unforgettable, and deeply right. . . . A book to love, to share, to return to again and again.”
Certain Shelter
Abbie Kiefer
Poetry collection
October 2024
A clear-eyed portrait of an aging Maine mill town and a larger reflection on memory, making, and the meaning of home. What sources of solace and stability remain amid the ruins of industry, after the death of a parent, while raising children in an uncertain time alongside ghosts of the past? This book is a transcendent exploration of personal and communal responses to loss, concerned with the necessary task of finding shelter and making one’s way in an altered world.
“Abbie Kiefer’s poems brim with a practical tenderness. She wields a Yankee sensibility with language—every word perfectly chosen, every line a clean break. . . . There’s something for you on every page.”
Fall 2023
MAPS YOU CAN’T MAKE
Mariella Saavedra Carquin
Poetry collection
September 2023
IPPY Award gold medalist
Colorado Book Award finalist
A powerful debut about moving through loss, bound up in larger questions of race, immigration, and identity. Mariella Saavedra Carquin draws on the vivid imagery of dreams and reimagined memory in this resonant exploration of trauma—the disorientation it generates, where it resides, and how to carry it.
“Saavedra Carquin’s voice is both bold and tender, lyrical and penetrating. Here is a poet who does not turn away from what needs to be seen and named in order to be transformed.”
DARK BEDS
Diana Whitney
Poetry collection
October 2023
Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award second finalist
An anthem for the “sandwich generation” caught between demands, yearning to reclaim desire and find fulfillment, maybe even some magic, in the everyday. These poems shimmer with longing and infuse the fatigue of caregiving, motherhood, and domesticity—and the rugged landscape of rural Vermont through the seasons—with new meaning and beauty.
“Whitney’s stunning, beautiful, feminist poems lead us into the magical and sometimes dark natural world, where we find a mirror and metaphor for our wildest, deepest selves.”
Fall 2022
There Are Still Woods
Hila Ratzabi
Poetry collection
September 2022
Nautilus Book Award gold winner
National Indie Excellence Award finalist
An elegy to the earth and a call to action—a profound encounter with the real and potential losses of climate change. Hila Ratzabi’s radiant ecopoetry looks through many lenses at our relationship to the natural world and the fragility and resilience of the planet.
“To go outside sometimes and consider the world as it is, right now, without metaphor or embellishment, this can be a kind of magic too. The stripped-down, clear, and present lyrics in Hila Ratzabi’s [book] transform me with just this kind of magic.”
When I Was the Wind
Hannah Lee Jones
Poetry collection
October 2022
Washington State Book Award finalist
Nautilus Book Award gold winner
Eric Hoffer Award winner
First Horizon Award winner
IPPY Award bronze medalist
A wild and dreamy journey through the inner wilderness in all of us. Rich, intricate, and intimate, this is a collection about losing and finding one’s self—and restoring a deeper connection to the mythic, ancestral, and elemental truths that can guide our way.
“Like stepping into a dream . . . A remarkable and gorgeous debut collection—you will be better having read these poems.”
Fall 2021
sugar the blackberries
Joan Peck Arnold
Poetry collection
August 2021
A highly accessible collection that deals with the passage of time, how to find peace and beauty in the mundane, and the ways we live in and live on through memory and art and nature, all from the deepened perspective of later life.
“Traverses a lifetime, from dreams and wishes to lessons and disappointments, wisdom, aging, and the afterlife. . . . Seldom have I seen a poet so eloquently convey consequential emotion.”
leap thirty
Diane Lowell Wilder
Poetry collection
September 2021
Eric Hoffer Award first runner-up
National Indie Excellence Award finalist
A visceral debut from the vantage point of midlife—at turns playful and profound, offbeat and inviting. Diane Lowell Wilder takes us on a candid personal history tour across the decades, gathering new agency and resilience along the way.
“When executed well, poetry consists of only what is necessary—the best words in the best order to articulate the greatest truth. This collection is executed at the highest level, like a meal at a Michelin-star restaurant.”
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