We celebrate new books by our Quartet Series authors! Below is a round-up of titles from 2009 to present. Updates? Things we’ve missed? Email [email protected] to let us know.
Diana Woodcock, Tamed by the Desert (Finishing Line Press), forthcoming Fall 2013
Marcia Arrieta, triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths 2011); lulu.com
Elizabeth Austen, Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press 2011); bluebegoniapress.com
Emily Carr, 13 ways of happily (Parlor Press 2011); parlorpress.com
These stunning, articulate fragments of Carr’s poems etch their odd way into a narrative of sorts that almost work on the microscopic level, like thousands of tiny pinpricks that accumulate into something larger, something unbelievably grand. When she writes, “aimless wasteful & drunk the sun is lunatic logic but lovely yes like / lemonjuice” something happens, something that can’t entirely, immediately, be understood.-from rob mclennan’s Top Eleven (Canadian) Poetry Books of 2011! in DUSIE
Maxine Silverman’s book Transport of the Aim is due out from Parallel Press in Fall 2013. See Maxine’s website http://www.maxinegsilverman.com/books.html for links to two of the poems from this book. Meanwhile, Maxine has a new chapbook, 52 Ways of Looking, a chronicle: bricolage and poems, published digitally by Brooklyn Art Library. It will be on the national tour as part of the Sketchbook Project: see http://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/12892.
Allen Strous, Tired (The Backwaters Press 2009); at Amazon or B&N.com, or ask your local bookstore to order through Ingram
Sarah Suzor, The Principle Agent (Black Lawrence Press 2011); blacklawrence.com
Winner of the 2010 Hudson Prize, The Principle Agent is a fragmented story told through the eyes of a narrator who is desperate to re-unite with a lost love, writing, “I fear for her. // West all day. // And remembering.” -from the back cover
Meredith Trede, Field Theory (SFA University Press 2011); tamupress.com
“Field Theory is a moving, fierce collection of poems: sometimes playful, always hard-headed, these are sharply observed meditations, across space and time, on village, nation, gender, and class. Sometimes witty, sometimes tender, Trede’s poems are direct, faithful, sometimes joyful, sometimes grieving, and always courageous: this is the work and play of a wide-awake conscience.”—Jean Valentine
Jennifer Wallace, It Can Be Solved By Walking (CityLit Press forthcoming April 2012); for orders, review copies, course adoption examination copies, email: [email protected]
Diana Woodcock, Swaying on the Elephant’s Shoulders (Little Red Tree Publishing); littleredtree.com