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New Books from NER Authors

May 8, 2017

Irwin is a writer undaunted by the lyric’s insufficiency. He makes from our confusion and bewilderment a poetry of propulsive language, imaginative depth, and a wounded moral authority that recalls the work of Milosz, Herbert, and Szymborska. In other words, Mark Irwin fashions poems that matter.—David Wojahn

We are pleased to announce the publication of Mark Irwin’s A Passion According to Green. Irwin’s work has appeared in a number of NER issues over the years, including 22.1. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, among them American Urn: Selected Poems (2015) and Large White House Speaking (2013). He has translated Philippe Denis’s Notebook of Shadows and Nichita Stanescu’s Ask the Circle to Forgive You: Selected Poems. His poetry and essays have appeared in literary magazines including American Poetry Review, Agni, the Atlantic Monthly, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, and the Nation. His collection of essays, Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry, will appear in 2017.

Recognition for Irwin’s work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, four Pushcart Prizes, two Colorado Book Awards, the James Wright Poetry Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He is an associate professor in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles and Colorado.

 Purchase  A Passion According to Green from New Issues Press.

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Every page of Our Lady of Not Asking Why is lit by an electric human voice. . . . [Kampa] possesses the lyric gifts to say what is hard and make us feel the truth of it. This is beautiful, sensual work, rich with precision and poise. —Mary Szybist

Congratulations to Courtney Kampa on the publication of her new collection, Our Lady of Not Asking Why. Kampa’s poem “Cardiac” appeared in NER 33.4 (2013). Her writing has been published in Boston Review, TriQuarterly, the Journal, the National Poetry Review, and elsewhere, and she has received awards from Best New Poets, the Atlantic, Poets & Writers magazine, and North American Review. In 2014, she won the Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, as well as Columbia University’s David Craig Austin Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Thesis. She was raised in Virginia.

Purchase  Our Lady of Not Asking Why from OxBow Press

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This extraordinary and sobering debut begins with a literal stutter—”Since I couldn’t say tomorrow / I said Wednesday.” In trade for this impediment, Adam Giannelli finds that, in poetry, what can’t be said gives way to what must be said.”—Craig Morgan Teicher, judge, Iowa Poetry Prize

We are pleased to announce the publication of Adam Giannelli’s Tremulous Hinge. Giannelli published two poems in NER 32. 4 (2012), as well as poems in the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

From the Publisher: Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia—in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. . . . From its initial turbulence to its final surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes.

Purchase Tremulous Hinge from University of Iowa Press.

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Teicher’s poems are largely confessional and autobiographical, and The Trembling Answers is no exception; this particular volume deals with explorations of family and fatherhood, and the role his poetry plays across each. One of Teicher’s great strengths is his honesty. He frequently reveals his flaws and mistakes to the reader, laying bare intimate details about his wife, his son, and his marriage to illustrate his humanity. —Literary Hub

From the publisher: At once an extension of and a departure from his previous explorations of family and art, Craig Morgan Teicher’s The Trembling Answers delves boldly into the tangled realms of . . . day-to-day—including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with severe cerebral palsy—these personal narratives brightly illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived.

Teicher, whose poetry appeared in NER 34.3-4, is the editor of Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz. His first book of essays about poetry, We Begin in Gladness: On Poetic Development, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2018. He works at Publishers Weekly as Director of Digital Operations, previously serving as PW’s poetry reviews editor. He remains a prolific critic and reviewer of poetry, contributing regularly to the New York Times Book Review, the LA Times, NPR, and other publications. He has served on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and has taught at NYU, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Princeton, and elsewhere. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, and their children.

 Purchase The Trembling Answers from BOA Editions

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[Richard Tillinghast] brings to his sojourns a brilliant eye, a friendly soul, and eclectic knowledge of a variety of disparate areas—Civil War history, Venetian architectures, Eastern cultures, Irish music, and the ways of out-of-the-way people.—Philip Brady, author of By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard

From the Publisher: Renowned poet Richard Tillinghast’s wanderlust and restless spirit are nearly as well known as his verses. This book of essays captures that penchant to wander, yet Journeys into the Mind of the World is not merely a compilation of travel stories—it is a book of places. It explores Ireland, England, India, the Middle East, Tennessee, and Hawaii in a deeper way than would be typical of travel literature, attempting to enter not just the world, but “the mind of the world”—the roots and history of places, their political and cultural history, spiritual, artistic, architectural, and ethnic dimensions. . . . Readers will feel a sense of being everywhere at once, in a strange simultaneity, a time and place beyond any map or
guidebook.

 Tillinghast has published his work in NER numerous times over the years, most recently in NER 35.3. He is the author of three recent books of poetry: Sewanee Poems (Evergreen, 2009; second edition, 2012), Selected Poems (Dedalus, Dublin, 2009), and Wayfaring Stranger (Word Palace, 2012). Among his nonfiction books are Finding Ireland (University of Notre Dame, 2008) and An Armchair Traveller’s History of Istanbul (Haus Publishing, London, 2012).

Purchase Journeys into the Mind of the World from the University of Tennessee Press or your independent bookseller.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: Adam Giannelli, Courtney Kampa, Craig Morgan Teicher, Mark Irwin, Richard Tillinghast

New Books from NER Authors

August 13, 2012

Paula Bohince

The Children

“Another writer with Paula Bohince’s gift for the ravishing image—and such writers are very few—would have us on our guard. We are wary of beauty; we have seen too often what beauty leaves out. But Bohince, in her magical capture of the material world, scorns all euphemizing edits; ‘the condom listing against milk-/weed’ is registered as scrupulously in these pages as are the combs of the abandoned hive. Which makes these poems transformative in the true and difficult sense: they bestow on the world the blessing of having-been-seen. And beauty too: ‘Something to recall / as beautiful, in the future. As the sewer was / in summer. Little childhood river.'” (Linda Gregerson)

 

Gordon Bowker

James Joyce: A New Biography

“It is a great boon that British biographer Gordon Bowker, who has written lives of Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell, should have taken on this task, and better yet that he has produced such a fine portrait of the artist and the man who was James Joyce . . . Instead of being daunted by Joyce having in a sense got there before him, Bowker makes this a strength, as he skillfully presents incidents and experiences both as they happened in life and, suitably transformed to varying degrees, on the page . . . the reader has the best of both worlds, being informed—or in the case of those already familiar with the books, reminded—both of the glories of Joycean fiction and of their roots in his life. Never reductive, genuinely attuned to both Joyce’s fictive methodology and his human qualities, Bowker manages to be immensely sympathetic to his subject while managing to preserve necessary critical distance and acuity.” (Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle)

 

Michael Collier

An Individual History

“Collier’s sixth collection engages with childhood, fatherhood, and family life, in the living present and memorial past, a history explored with brilliantly precise detail and originality of perspective.” (Publishers Weekly)

 

Eduardo C. Corral

Slow Lightning

“[W]e can make of what would blind us a conduit for changed vision, suggests Corral. In these poems, a cage implies all the rest that lies outside it; any frame frames a window through which to see other possibilities unfolding… Like Hayden, Corral resists reductivism.  Gay, Chicano, ‘Illegal-American,’ that’s all just language, and part of Corral’s point is that language, like sex, is fluid and dangerous and thrilling, now a cage, now a window out.  In Corral’s refusal to think in reductive terms lies his great authority.  His refusal to entirely trust authority wins my trust as a reader.” (Carl Phillips, from the Foreword)

 

Norman Lock

Escher’s Journal

“Lock’s work seems to emanate…from an essential strangeness, an estrangement from easily agreed-upon psychologies, from popular culture, from anything resembling a zeitgeist. It is marked by an eerie tonality and an intense, unsettled intellectual curiosity—a Lock novel might take place during any time period, anywhere in the world.” (Dawn Raffel)

 

Padgett Powell

You & Me

“Wonderful…You & Me is by turns hilarious, depressing, gnomic, smutty, and just a far better Saturday night than anything to be had in Jacksonville and Baskersfield combined.” (BookForum)

“…swaggering genius and ribald wit.” (Vanity Fair)

 

Gregory Spatz

Inukshuk

“Inukshuk is a feat of empathy and honesty, a taut tale of fear and resentment and other threats from within, meticulously observed and fearlessly rendered in vivid, authoritative, gripping prose. It’s a virtuoso performance.” (Doug Dorst)

 

 

Craig Morgan Teicher

To Keep Love Blurry 

“A liberating push-back against the idea of economy. More play, more improvisation, and more defiantly deadpan humor – this is the vital shot-in-the-arm American poetry needs.” (D. A. Powell)

 

 

Matthew Thorburn

Every Possible Blue

“If Fred Astaire could write, it might sound like this: practiced, complex, graceful…These are a sequence of anecdotes daring to love again, dreaming in daylight.” (Grace Cavalieri)

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books, NER Community Tagged With: Craig Morgan Teicher, Eduardo C. Corral, Gregory Spatz, Matthew Thorburn, Michael Collier, Norman Lock, Padgett Powell, Paula Bohince


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