From firewatcher/poet comes a powerfully meditative with a basis in Japanese poetic form Haibun; comps are Peter Matthiesen's Snow Leopard and The Nine-Headed Dragon River, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, and even Norman MacLean's Young Men and Fire. Multi-award-winning writer Philip Connors had been a fire watcher in the Gila Wilderness for ......
New in paper, James Beard Award winning Nabhan (Agave Spirits) creative revolutionaries from the southwest border who change American culture in countless positive ways. A celebration of the artists, activists, and writers who are not Anglo-centric. A century ago, William Carlos Williams's In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish ......
Poetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson's work is inspired by Afro-futurism. small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis, featuring original and remixed superheroes who are othered for more than just their skin and are subsequently and simultaneously celebrated, ......
By the author of Chicano Frankenstein, this is "Waiting for Godot" in a modern retelling with Borderlands immigration and ICE in the mix. Waiting for Godinez has been workshopped in Los Angeles and New York, had a world premiere in Sacramento, California, and is being shopped to Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico stages. Olivas's extraordinary ......
Suit up with celebrated literary master Rick Bass as he writes, ala Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights) and George Plimpton (Paper Lions), through the prism of battered semi-professional football and the refractions it casts on matters of race, masculinity, and yes, faith. The Montana writer Norman Maclean wrote, "In our family, there was no ......
Teo Shannon's debut collection of poetry casts an unflinching eye on the issues in the author's life which includes themes of sexual abuse, gun violence, and conversion theraby. The poems in a chronology of blood embrace trauma survivors, the LGBTQ+ community, and lovers of poetry. A stunning debut collection by a gifted poet, a chronology of ......
Winner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west, the Chicano movement, by one of its founders. Winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A unique voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing ......
Reprint from hardcover by first time author as she shares her journey - spiritual, emotional, and female positive - toward self-sufficiency via hunting. Raw, powerful, and filled with love of the animal world. For readers of Cheryl Strayed. Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her New Mexico garden. As an act ......
At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development in post-World War II poetics. In Geopoetry, Dale Enggass argues that certain literary works enact geologic processes, such as erosion and deposition, and thereby suggest that language itself is a geologic--and not a solely ......
