New Titles
The Guide to the Flying Island
Novella
Lee Upton
2009. 978-1-60743-571-6
“Lee Upton’s The Guide to the Flying Island is a carefully nuanced enchantment which unfolds in the community around an isolated island chapel and on the threshold between the psychological and the metaphysical. As I watched Jake Isinglass attempt to unravel the mysteries of a missing nun and the loss of his mother, I was captivated by the mist-filled maritime setting and the enigmatic behavior of locals and pilgrims. Any fan of Picnic at Hanging Rock or The Magus will be spellbound by Upton’s deft prose and compelling characters.”
—R.T. Smith, author of Faith and Uke Rivers Delivers
Virgil’s Cow
Poems
Frederick Farryl Goodwin
2009. 978-1-4243-3113-0
Twenty years in the making, Virgil’s Cow is the debut collection by apocalyptic American poet and former hardcore vocalist Frederick Farryl Goodwin. Improbably fusing the best of what tradition has to offer this “Oxbridge” educated poet with attention to recombinatory energies, Virgil’s Cow presents a luminous voice for today’s brave new linguistic world of “hybridized” possibility.
Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women’s Theater
Nonfiction
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson, and William A. Wortman, eds.
2009. 978-1-4243-3112-3
The result of a 2007 conference at Miami University, this book brings together some of the most prominent voices in Native North American theater. Subdivided into four thematic sections, it skillfully combines plays, interviews, surveys, critical analyses, poetic responses and essays into a truly communal approach to contemporary indigenous performance.
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.