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A Fight in the Doctor’s Office
Novella
By Cary Holladay
2008. 978-1-4243-3111-6
In Spring, 1967, Jenny Havener, a young newlywed in Washington, DC, finds herself deserted by her husband. Her parents, ashamed and eager to find him, take Jenny on a search through the Virginia countryside. Their travels lead them to the rural community of Glen Allen. Jenny doesn't find her husband, but she meets a disabled African-American baby with whom she falls in love on sight. She abandons her search for her husband, parts way with her parents (who worry she is becoming unhinged) and settles in Glen Allen for the purpose of spending as much time as possible with the child. She settles into an abandoned furniture store and defies the community’s growing suspicions about her reasons for being there. As her obsession about the baby grows, a battle of wills erupts between Jenny and the child’s guardians—his elderly, impoverished great-grandparents—leading to Jenny’s attempts to claim the baby as her own.
Between Cup and Lip
Poetry
By Peter Manson
2008. 978-1-4243-3110-9
Between Cup and Lip Lip is Peter Manson’s first American book publication. Containing 18 years of previously uncollected work, Between Cup and Lip forms the missing link between two collections published in Britain, For the Good of Liars (Barque, 2006) and Adjunct: An Undigest (Edinburgh Review, 2005), demonstrating the continuum between the prosodically-dense, endlessly considered poetry of the former and the procedural work of the latter.
Badlands
Novella
By Cynthia Reeves
2007. 978-1-4243-3109-3 / 978-1-4243-3108-6
Badlands, winner of the 2006 Miami University Press Novella Contest, portrays the twenty–four–year marriage of Caro and Daniel Singleman—the marriage that was, is, and might have been. As the dying Caro confronts a night of crisis, the couple attempt to reshape the present by reconstructing the past through the interleaving of memory, hallucination, and dream. In this fraught terrain, Badlands explores two human mysteries—the inscrutability of the heart and the persistence of hope in the face of overwhelming loss.
Talk Poetry
Poetry
By Mairéad Byrne
2007. 1-881163-49-7
Be the first on your block to have a copy of our hot new poetry title, Talk Poetry by Mairéad Byrne. See why Jow Lindsay says, “You could use this stuff for stand-up and STILL have enough leftovers to construct a small working Christopher Marlowe.” You may also wish to view Mairéad’s performances on Miami University’s Meshworks web site.