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New Books from NER Authors & Staff

March 2022 (Part 1)

March 21, 2022

This roundup includes several poetry collections, a short story debut, and a biography of a groundbreaking neuroscientist. Give these titles a look and stay tuned for part 2!

Daisy Fried’s follow-up to Poems and Advice is The Year the City Emptied (Flood Editions), a collection that translates and reimagines French author Charles Baudelaire’s poems. Although Fried interprets Baudelaire “without the grave difficulty of confronting a completely blank page,” her poems are raw and visceral in their treatment of contemporary issues, including the ongoing pandemic, lockdowns, political protest, and the death of a loved one. Fried’s poem “Forcefeeding” appeared in NER 36.1.

In her debut short story collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere (Catapult), O. Henry Prize winner Sindya Bhanoo tells the story of three South Indian immigrants. Each of these women embark on parallel journeys where “regret, hope and triumph remain in disguise.” Bhanoo’s stories are consistent in their haunting prose, as well as their meditative, empathic style. In “No. 16 Model House Road,” a woman deliberates on whether she will defy her husband; “A Life in America” focuses on a professor who is accused of exploiting his students; a school shooting destroys a mother’s world in “Nature Exchange.” “No. 16 Model House Road” appeared in NER 41.4.

Poet Tomás Q. Morín’s memoir, Let Me Count the Ways (University of Nebraska), explores and reconciles machismo, poverty, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Morín—who grew up in a small South Texas town in the eighties and nineties—recalls events from his tumultuous early life, including a memory of helping his father spot unmarked cop cars. Let me Count the Ways is a “vivid portrait of South Texas life” that “challenges our ideas about fatherhood, drug abuse, and mental illness.” Morín’s poems appear in multiple issues of NER, most recently in issue 35.3.

In The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)—the first major biography of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal—author Benjamin Ehrlich lauds the incredible achievements and research of his subject while telling a deeply human story set in early 20th century Spain. Beginning with Cajal’s complex relationship with his father—a temperamental physician—Ehrlich steadily makes the case for the importance of Cajal’s work to our modern understanding of neurons. Ehrlich is a senior reader for NER.

Wry, unorthodox, and delightful, Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) by poet Susan Rich demonstrates a literary balancing act between the serious and the whimsical. Subjects in Rich’s fifth collection of poetry include vegetarian vampires, musings on middle age, and fun vignettes that explore the nature of travel. “Let love be imminent and let it be a train; / let it arrive at dawn, its whistle whiskering the air,” Rich writes in “A Middle Life: A Romance.” Rich’s poem “String Theory with Heartache” was published in NER 39.2.

Matthew Olzmann’s Constellation Route (Alice James) presents poems as letters—epistolary verses written by mailmen to recipients; conversations between couriers; points of understanding or chaos that flash out between nomadic souls. “In language at once direct and artful,” the author “memorably explores the question of how one might speak across the gulfs dividing humankind.” Olzmann’s work has appeared in multiple issues of NER, most recently in issue 42.2.


Visit our page on Bookshop.org for cumulative seasonal lists of NER author releases.

Filed Under: Featured, NER Authors' Books, News & Notes Tagged With: Benjamin Ehrlich, Daisy Fried, Matthew Olzmann, Sindya Bhanoo, Susan Rich, Tomás Q. Morín, Yanyi

New Books by NER Authors

December 21, 2016

9780857423689 Geltinger’s second novel traces a lavishly descriptive path through the titular landscape—finely rendered in Booth’s translation. —Publishers Weekly

Congratulations to NER author Alexander Booth on his recent translation of Gunther Geltinger’s German Moor. Moor is . . . a story of escaping the quicksand of loneliness and of the demands we make on love, even as those surrounding us are hurt in their misguided attempts to bear our suffering. Powerfully tuned to the relationship between human and nature, mother and son, Moor is a mysterious and experimental portrait of childhood.

Booth is a writer and translator currently living in Berlin. A recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translations of Lutz Seiler’s in field latin (Seagull Books, 2016), he has also published his own poems and other translations in numerous print and online journals. His poetry translations appeared in NER 37.3.

Moor can be purchased from the University of Chicago Press and other booksellers in December.

 

 

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Benjamin Ehrlich’s careful translation lets English-speakers explore Ramón y Cajal’s dreams, which reveal the vulnerability of one of the world’s greatest neuroscientists. In a lucid introduction, Ehrlich lays out the parallels and final divergence of Freud’s and Cajal’s scientific lives. —Laura Otis, PhD, Emory University

NER staff reader and author Benjamin Ehrlich is publishing the first English translation of the lost dream diary of Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, illustrated with Cajal’s own sketches. The text is accompanied by an introduction to the life and work of Cajal, his relationship with the famed Viennese psychoanalyst, Freud, and the historical context surrounding the contributions of two great dueling intellects. Ehrlich’s translation of Cajal’s Café Chats has appeared previously in NER and can be viewed here.

Cajal (1852–1934) explored the microscopic world of the brain and found a landscape inhabited by distinctly individual cells, later termed neurons. “The mysterious butterflies of the soul,” he called them, “whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.” Although he ranks among the greatest scientists in history, the name of the Nobel Prize-winning “father of modern neuroscience” is not as well-known. Before he was a neuroanatomist Cajal conducted psychiatric experiments and before Freud, his contemporary, became a psychiatrist, he worked in neuroanatomy. In public, Cajal spoke respectfully about Freud, but in private, Cajal rejected the man and his theories. In order to disprove Freud’s “lies,” Cajal started to record his own dreams in a diary, part of a notably personal book project, which he worked on from 1918 until his death in 1934. For reasons unknown, Cajal never published this work. Until recently, it was assumed that the manuscript had been destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.

Benjamin Ehrlich is a Salzburg Global Fellow. His work has appeared in Nautilus and NER 33.1. He is a co-founding editor of the Beautiful Brain, an online magazine devoted to art and neuroscience. Ben graduated from Middlebury College with Highest Honors in Literary Studies and currently serves as a nonfiction reader for NER.

The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is now available for pre-order and will be released on December 13, 2016 by Oxford University Press.

 

 

This impressive yet approachable selection . . . offers an excellent introduction to his relentlessly crafted work. —Publishers Weekly

9780374260828-1Replacing an earlier selected, Paul Muldoon publishes Selected Poems 1968-2014 this month from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Muldoon, originally from Ireland, is Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University, Bread Loaf School of English faculty, and poetry editor of the New Yorker. His most recent collections are Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Horse Latitudes (2006), and Maggot (2010). His essays on Fernando Pessoa, Emily Dickinson, and Seamus Heaney have appeared in NER 23.4, 24.2, and 34.2, respectively.

Selected Poems may be purchased from FS&G, or from your local independent bookseller.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: Alexander Booth, Benjamin Ehrlich, Paul Muldoon


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