Sarabande Books imprint: 84 books

by Mary Ruefle
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

Latest volume in Sarabande's well received Quarternote Chapbook Series Featuring original interior illustrations by Sarabande designer (and accomplished graphic memoirist) Kristen Radtke Mary Ruefle has a large and devoted following in both poetry and essay communities Likely pickup for course adoptions
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta....

Legitimate Dangers

American Poets of the New Century

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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017

*Modeled after the significant 1982 Morrow Anthology of Younger Poets, edited by Dave Smith and David Bottoms *Course adoption potential. Sarabande in Education Website to include reading & writing exercises, thematic links, and other teaching tools *Nationwide tour to include several celebratory...
by Kiki Petrosino
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

The poems in this, Kiki Petrosino's second collection, fulfill the promise of her debut effort, Fort Red Border, and further extend the terms of our expectations for this extraordinary young poet. The book is in two sections, the first a focused collection of wildly inventive lyrics that take as launch...
by Elena Passarello
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

“It might be the best book on animals I’ve ever read. It's also the only one that's made me laugh out loud.” —Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen...

Multiply/Divide

On the American Real and Surreal

by Wendy S. Walters
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain...

Possibility

Essays Against Despair

by Patricia Vigderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

“The essays in Vigderman’s collection dwell not on despair, but on the project of translating chaotic experience into art or memory . . . Lyrical and graceful” (Publishers Weekly).   In this accessible collection of essays, Patricia Vigderman attempts to translate some of life’s disordered...

Limber

Essays

by Angela Pelster
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014

“As the author reveals in these charming essays, nature is imbued with enticing mysteries, and trees can be agents of salvation.” —Kirkus Reviews   Angela Pelster’s startling essay collection charts the world’s history through its trees: through roots in the ground, rings across wood, and...
by Paula Bohince
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015

Excellent publishing history: Author's poems have appeared in nearly every top-tier English language publication, including The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. Highly-anticipated follow-up: Author's previous collection, The Children, was praised in the New York Times Book Review and many other outlets (including several overseas publications)
by Laura Kasischke
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Fifteen “alarming and gorgeous” stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author about the quiet terrors of American life (The Boston Globe). Laura Kasischke, national bestselling author of The Life Before Her Eyes and White Bird in a Blizzard, both adapted for film, looks...
by Jeffrey Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a life. Revealing, hilarious, and peppered with sly takes on the ins and outs of contemporary American poetry (chapters include "The Silence of the Iambs,"...
by Thomas Heise
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013

“Thomas Heise has written a deeply moving account of loss, migration, and memory that blurs the line between poetry and prose” (Montreal Review of Books).   The narrator in Thomas Heise’s adventurous novel tries to fuse together his present and past, abandonment by his parents, childhood in...
by Rosellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stowaway to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty a façade...
by Jason K. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

“Candid, cunning, brave, and wickedly funny,” these stories “will make you remember the first time you read Philip Roth” (Salvatore Scibona). Set it the Jewish communities of Georgia—from the 1920s to the present day—this Mary McCarthy Prize-winning collection investigates the crossroads...
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