Wings Press: 136 books
by Margaret Randall
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
Against Atrocity is Margaret Randall's first large book of poems since Time's Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018, a major collection covering work from 30 of her books over a period of 60 years. This new book shows that this poet continues to be a relevant and inspiring voice in American letters....
Their Backs to the Sea
Poems and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui-more commonly known as Easter Island-this extraordinary collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with common concerns and hopes of the present. Illustrating the unique...
Lawful Abuse
How the Century of the Child became the Century of the Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A powerful indictment of America’s abandonment of human beings, and children in particular, in favor of corporations, this account exposes the child labor, indentured servitude, and child slavery that are undeniable parts of American history. Arguing that following the election of Ronald Reagan...
Fractals
New & Selected Poems / Translations, 1980-2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sudeep Sen's Fractals includes a wide swath of his poetry, from 1980 to the present, as well as a representative collection of his translations into English of other poets writing in Bengali, Hindu, Urdu and other languages. Sen's poems are both vivid observations and insightful meditations, often...
A Tale of Three Rivers:
Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from an Applachian trout stream in western North Carolina where wild trout are reduced to sipping cigarette butts, up through his home state of Vermont where development and the ski industry threaten the state's iconic pastoral riversides, and finally into western...
Trout in the Desert
On Fly Fishing, Human Habits, and the Cold Waters of the Arid Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from tiny mountain streams in the southern Rockies of New Mexico to the mighty Colorado River at the head of the Grand Canyon, to the Hill Country of Texas, exploring these various waters that manage to hold cold-loving trout in the midst of the hot desert landscapes...
Undertow
My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2017
Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International™ is Charlene Edge’s riveting memoir about the power of words to seduce, betray, and, in her case, eventually save. After a personal tragedy left her bereft, teenaged Charlene rejected faith and family when recruiters...
by David Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Few poets of Western America fill the "organic intellectual" role better than David Lee. His poetry is the real deal when it comes to recording hilariously insightful (and linguistically accurate) observations of rural culture—and America at large—while using a host of astute literary...
by Maria Espinosa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
An intense psychological novel, this book focuses on a young woman’s dependence on her husband and her attempts to forge an independent life for herself. Rosa, a frail, sensitive American Jew living in Paris, marries an alcoholic expatriate from Chile and finds herself trapped in a sadomasochistic...
Redoubt
A Mononovel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Structured like a jazz riff, this novel addresses questions of conception and birth, gender, war, and the slouch toward apocalypse.
by Susan Sherman, Colleen McKay, Rona Holub
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Set in the 1960s and 70s, Nirvana on Ninth Street is loosely based on residents who lived on and near Ninth Street between Avenues B and C in Manhattan, in what is now known as the East Village, during an extraordinary period when the area was a mecca of political radicalism and avant-garde poetry,...
by Maria Espinosa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Set in the late 1950s, this provocative novel follows Adrianne, a Houston native who has recently arrived in Manhattan and wanders the city having indiscriminate sex with strangers. She soon falls in with Alfredo, a Cuban-American artist who coerces her into prostitution in order to support his lifestyle...
by Cecilia Urbina
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
During their travels in the Cambodian jungle, two sisters, Camila and Márgara, meet David Masters-Iturbe and discover that they all have something in common-their Mexican heritage. The three proceed to tell stories in order to alleviate the boredom of long nights in their jungle hotel and end up reconstructing...
by Wendy Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
"In the Museum of Modern Art," writes Wendy Barker, "chaos / displays itself tidily. Even the viewers // know the dance: stroll, stop, gaze, whisper. / Stroll, stop." Barker's poems tour an imagined museum, allowing us to observe the observer as she learns to see by means of her...