At the Edge
Douglas Carlson
Nature, Essays

“follow him to the edge, to the brink, to that place where our self-assured pose in life is simultaneously given a pat of confidence and a malicious shove.”—Artifacts

ISBN 0-934834-29-6 ·5.5x8.5 ·98 pages ·$9.00 paper

My Father Sings to My Embarrassment
Sandra Castillo

Selected by Cornelius Eady, these poems reflect the experience of leaving her Cuban homeland on the last of the Johnson administration’s Freedom Flights and building a new life in the United States.

“...the landscape of loss and gain we call exile, seen through the poet’s sharp eye and described in a voice that never wavers from the truth. I felt I was re-encountering Cuba in the light of new imagining, freed of ideology and therefore resplendent and complete.” --Pablo Medina

Selected by This remarkable first book begins with Castillo’s Cuban childhood, and follows her family as they "start over without a language" on one of the last Freedom Flights to Miami. The poems chronicle the visit of a Cuban uncle, who’s surrounded by relatives that "twenty years and English have turned into strangers," and Castillo’s bittersweet return to her homeland: "Even a map cannot show you the way back to a place that no longer exists."

Poetry Latin American Literature
White Pine Press Poetry Prize: 7

6 x 9 96 pages $14.00 1-893996-52-2

This Smoke That Carried Us
Selected Poems of René Char

This bilingual collection contains work from all phases of Char’s remarkable career. Considered by many to be the greatest French poet of the 20th century, Char (1907–1988) filled his work with a simplicity of vision and expression that links him to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece. For a time associated with the Surrealists, his poetry changed to work that confronted the major moral, political, and artistic concerns of the time after his experiences during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when he worked under the cover of darkness to attack Nazi installations. “Poetry will rob me of my death,” he anounced in “The Library is on Fire,” and this, as Christopher Merrill states in his informative introduction to the book, “was true. His bold spirit lives on not only in his poems but in the figure he presents to the world.”

Translated by Suzanne Dubroff
1-893996-70-0 200 pages $16.00 Paper

Herman: A Novel by Lars Saabye Christensen
Translated by Steven Nordby

&#147...a tragicomic coming of age story...told from the perspective of an imaginative, funny kid. Christensen uses fresh imagery and lyrical prose....” -Publishers Weekly

ISBN 1-877727-24-5 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 186 pages · $12.00 paper

The Joker : A Novel by Lars Saabye Christensen
Translated by Steven Nordby

Hans Windelband finds himself, at the age of 26, among the living dead-until he opens the morning newspaper and reads his own obituary. “exciting detective story. Recommended.”-Library Journal

ISBN 1-877727-11-3 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 200 pages · $10.00 paper

Always Filling, Always Full

Margaret Chula

Always Filling, Always Full is an exciting collection of tanka, the ancient Japanese five-line poem. Chula’s tanka are concise, moving, alive perceptions of the full range of human feelings. Working within the sinuous tradition of the Japanese tanka form, Chula has found a voice that bows both in the direction of earlier works and towards the unknown:the next poem, whose perception is always ungraspable until the words fall into place.

"This book is welcome proof of the universality and the particularity of the human heart." -Jane Hirshfield

The ancient Japanese form of tanka has been used since literature was first recorded in the Kojiki in 712. By the 1600s, however, tanka had fallen out of favor. The form was revived in the early 1900s, and has grown steadily since. "I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek the things they sought," said Basho, and the same could be said by Chula. This collection blends Japanese tradition with an American sensibility to produce poems concise, moving, and filled with vivid perception of the range of human feeling. Maggie Chula spent twelve years living and studying in Kyoto, Japan, and has published three collections of haiku. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Poetry Asian Studies

6 x 9 96 pages Trade Paper $14.00 1-893996-11-5

The Small Bees‘Honey
George Clark
Fiction; Multicultural Studies; African-American Studies

These stories —some of which will make you laugh, some of which will make you cry —reflect the experiences of a black man passing for white in his native Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), his adventures after being drafted into the army and being sent to fight against Cuban troops in Angola, his foray into smuggling in the Dominican Republic, and ultimately, his new life in the U.S.

Original Trade Paperback
ISBN: 1-877727 - 74-1·6x9 ·208 pages ·$14.00

Way Back

Wyn Cooper

This second collection of poetry by Wyn Cooper includes the poem “Fun” which Sheryl Crow used as the lyrics to her Grammy-Award-winning song “All I Wanna Do.” Cooper’s poems paint a portrait of a world filled with equal shades of wry humor and desolation. It’s a place where men and women can’t seem to find common ground and where “all we need is here. We have forty words for fear.”

Poetry

5.5 x 8.5 84 pages $14.00 1-893996-03-4

There Is No Finished World - Stephen Corey
96 pages - $14.00 ISBN 1-893996-68-9 September

In poems that are relentlessly introspective yet never
trivial, Corey delves into human experience at its
most potent moments and shows us that the large
questions are best considered within the context of
the most minute details.

Stephen Corey is the author of several collections of
poetry including All These Lands You Call Country, and
Synchronized Swimming. Corey is the editor of the
Georgia Review.

"Corey writes with a poet's intensity and an editor's
keen awareness of audience."
-Andrea Hollander Budy

"Intelligence lights up the air everywhere in these
new poems by Stephen Corey. This is passionate,
hard-edged poetry. Not since The Metaphysicals,
perhaps, has wit been employed so precisely and so
well. Whether dark or bright, Corey's metaphors shine
with insights and delight, and sometimes with a wild
outrageousness."
-Robert Dana

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