Taleb traces the wavy lines of desire that link self with body, body with family, with language, with God. In every prayer, the speaker of this moving collection listens for her own name and teaches us to listen for ours. — Sonia Feldman
flower / وردة
The lives of the characters in Lighthouse Dreams are tenuous and endangered, but hope arrives in the form of startling synchronicities, spontaneous visions, and the unexpected compassion of others.
Lighthouse Dreams
Jason Masino’s poetry and storytelling here are both sharp and humanly messy, all serving these complex notions of how we can be alone by ourselves, and alone with other people. Sinner’s Prayer inspires me to be more kind to myself. — Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat
Sinner’s Prayer
Lauren Fath writes beautifully and authentically about love and loss, desire and selfhood, and about the artistry of knitting and sewing… Sensual, elegant, and filled with hard-won wisdom, this captivating book is a gift to readers. — Maureen Stanton, author of Killer Stuff and Tons of Money and Body Leaping Backward
My Hands, Remembering
A prayer, a plea, a testimony. Working from a deep, abiding belief, and a skill for laying down couplets, Dannielle Carr offers a poetic divine comedy. She recounts her husband’s, and her own, arduous and intimate journey through the promises and torments of his Stage Four cancer, in the hands of a medical system that, if unwittingly, offers as much torment as hope, testing the speaker’s faith at every turn. — Johnny Payne
Aching for the Amen
Here, Green honors the tradition of Zora Neale Hurston by steeping each story with African-American lore and complex female characters. The event horizon of terror and hope builds a home in the pages of The Bones Stay… and that home looks like an old house in the woods, either inhabited by three sisters or haunted by them. — Isabel J. Wallace