NEW RELEASES
THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE
(Coming October 14)
At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth—and our plastic-choked ocean—and it is visually, conceptually, and thematically unlike perhaps any book before it. The Book of Fools invents new formal structures to marry global, ecological themes of loss—focused around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—to personal, confessional ones, centered around a mother's early death to cancer.
"A masterwork..." —David Keplinger
"[a] ravishing text..." —Donald Revell
"Taylor brilliantly creates 'a composite canvas' to capture what it means to make art in our precarious times..." —Craig Santos Perez
CRUEL FEVER OF THE SKY
by Carey Scott Wilkerson
Carey Scott Wilkerson’s Cruel Fever of the Sky is like a magic carpet that sails easily between classical myth and popular culture. With touches of Symbolism, Magical Realism, and Post-Modernism, the poems are seductive. Their language is astonishingly beautiful. Whether under faerie lights strung in pepper trees or atop a Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica pier, magic and myth abound. With characters as unexpected as Norman Mailer, Jacques Cousteau's pastry chef, Mayhaley Lancaster, we watch Icarus plunge time after time--into the Hudson Bay, the Potomac, the Chattahoochee River, even onto the dark side of the Moon. In spite of the miracles of salted tomatoes, fireflies, and the scent of gardenias "trilling the air with their white perfume," we come to recognize our own "cycles of cataclysm." We realize that for us, as for Icarus, those wings we've been told to spread will eventually fail us and gravity will bring us down.”
—Marian Carcache, Author of The Moon and the Stars and The Tongues of Men and Angels
“In this remarkable collection, Scott Wilkerson proves himself a master of poetic forms and of the forms of desire, including -- perhaps most poignantly -- the longing to escape desire “that is always falling from the sky.”
—Joel Chace, author of Threnodies and fata morgana
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
by Donald Jordan
“With Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Donald Jordan reimagines nostalgia on a human scale, with all its ambiguous revelations and worn edges. Skeeter, our narrator, is a boy lost between his hard-knock childhood and the mysteries of a larger world. Framed by the strain of war and the growing pains of the New South, this novel is part coming of age tale, part ghost story, and, at every moment, a searching evocation of small-town life in America.”
—Carey Scott Wilkerson, author of Cruel Fever of the Sky and Threading Stone