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New Books from NER Authors

February 2022

February 24, 2022

This winter has been a busy publication time for New England Review authors! Here are seven titles to help you transition from winter to spring.

Enduring and celebrated poet Carl Phillips combines new and older work from the previous thirteen years in a collection of poems that allows readers to revisit Phillips’ earlier work while witnessing the poet’s evolution to a contemporary presence in the American landscape. Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) stands as a testament to Phillips’ refusal of pessimism. This selection also includes Phillips’ recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. Phillips has appeared in multiple issues of NER, most recently in NER 39.1. 

In this short collection of poems, Rob Hardy’s new chapbook Shelter in Place (Finishing Line Press) showcases the present moment through keen observation of the natural world and examination of human nature. Hardy’s new collection challenges the contemplation of the future with a fearless examination of the present, offsetting dread and absence with the depth of the familiar. Hardy has appeared in multiple issues of NER. Most recently, Hardy’s nonfiction piece, “Deceit only was forbidden: A Brief Literary Biography of Richard Henry Wilde” appeared in NER 37.2.

Informed by the music that shaped him as a young man, The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (Penguin) recounts author Garrett Hongo’s audio obsession and decades-long quest for the perfect stereo setup. This memoir follows Hongo’s penchant for music from a young boy in Hawaii to his worldly adventures as an adult yearning to find his now-celebrated poetic voice. Hongo has appeared in multiple issues of NER. Most recently, Hongo’s poem, “Orison: February, Eugene, Oregon” appeared in NER 39.2.

Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin) meditates on processes of reckoning and recovery in a powerful testament to the human capacity for resilience and love. Tran’s poems take on forms that mirror the physical and emotional responses and transformation experienced in the aftermath of abuse in the form of intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism. Tran’s poem “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: Oil on Canvas: Pieter Bruegel: 1520” appeared in NER 42.2.

Maud Casey‘s latest book, City of Incurable Women (Bellevue Literary), reimagines the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues. In an exploration of the female psyche, linked prose portraits restore the humanity of history’s long forgotten—those deprived of recognition and proper care due to their gender and class. Casey has appeared in multiple issues of NER, most recently in NER 41.1.

After a compounding series of hardships—the transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—Brian Tierney reckons with the impacts of loss and pain in his debut book of poems, Rise and Float (Milkweed). Tierney’s poems provide a cathartic experience of remembrance and transcendence through lines of confession and intimacy. Tierney’s poem “Greystone Park” appeared in NER 38.1.

Lyrical and steamy, unflinching and diaristic, Richie Hofmann’s book of love poems catalog everyday experiences and encounters imbued with sex. In A Hundred Lovers (Knopf), Hofmann explores erotic desire and the complicated relationship between pleasure and pain. The speaker observes, “Our bodies manufacture their odors. I taste earth / on his skin.” These poems are filled with the tastes and textures of the carnal appetite. Hofmann’s poem “The House of Red and White Lions” appeared in NER 39.2.


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Filed Under: Featured, NER Authors' Books, News & Notes Tagged With: Brian Tierney, Carl Phillips, Garrett Hongo, Hans von Trotha, Maud Casey, Paul Tran, Richie Hofmann, Rob Hardy

New Books by NER Authors

December 15, 2015

Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 11.12.27 AMA debut collection that feels like a lost manuscript of early modernism, with its insecurities over lust and love and history, where emotion becomes an object to fear and respect. —Publishers Weekly

We are proud to announce the release of NER Reader Richie Hofmann‘s debut collection, Second Empire (Alice James Books, 2015). Hofmann’s poetry appears in NER 33.4. 

Poet James Longenbach, author of Threshold, writes of Second Empire: “Even more seductive than the preternatural elegance of these poems is the fact that Richie Hofmann inhabits that elegance truly as a style.”

Hofmann is the recipient of a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, among other honors. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including Poetry, FIELD, Yale Review, and the New Yorker.

Second Empire is available from Alice James Books and independent booksellers. 

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51QrfxcpW5L._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_In each piece, LaSalle shows himself to be a smart and open writer with a restless intellect and infectious passion for travel and literature.—Publishers Weekly

New England Review is proud to announce the publication of Peter LaSalle’s new book of travel essays The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling (Dzanc Books). LaSalle’s fiction has been published in NER 21.2, 32.4, and most recently his short story “He Was Beginning to Wonder” was published in 35.3.

From the Publisher: “Spanning nearly four decades of writing, these essays thoughtfully and provocatively explore the relationship between place and literature, and more especially the power of books to make their own place in the world. LaSalle ventures to Buenos Aires of Jorge Luis Borges and chases down Gustave Flaubert’s visions of ancient Carthage in modern Tunisia; he calls for broader readership of neglected classics such as Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and he explores the shabby glamour of Nathanael West’s Hollywood, among other adventures.”

Peter LaSalle has published several books of fiction. His short stories have won the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Richard Sullivan Prize. LaSalle’s essays on literary travel have been published in The Nation, Tin House, The Progressive, Worldview, Commonwealth, Agni, and The Best American Travel Writing. He divides his time between Austin, Texas, and his native Rhode Island.

Purchase this book from Dzanc Books or other independent booksellers.

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 11.24.44 AMJollimore combines the passion and wonderment of language with the stark observations that drive human curiosity. —Publishers Weekly

NER contributor Troy Jollimore published his third full-length collection of poems, Syllabus of Errors: Poems (Princeton University Press, 2015). Jollimore’s poetry appears in NER 35.1. 

Jollimore is the author of At Lake Scugog: Poems (Princeton, 2011) and Tom Thomson in Purgatory (Margie/Intuit House, 2006), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. As a philosopher, he wrote On Loyalty (Routledge, 2012) and Love’s Vision (Princeton, 2011). He has published poems in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Poetry, Believer, and elsewhere. Jollimore is the recipient of fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow.

Syllabus of Errors: Poems is available from Princeton University Press and independent booksellers. 

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 11.47.00 AMSinuously intellectualized. —The Chicago Tribune

Congratulations to NER contributor Kathryn Kramer on the publication of her memoir, Missing History: A Covert Education of a Child of Great Books (Threshold Way Publishing, 2015). Kramer’s work, including an excerpt of this memoir, appears in NER 35.1, 32.2, and 27.4. 

Kramer is the author of three novels: Sweet Water (Knopf, 1998), Rattlesnake Farming (iUniverse, 2001) and A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space (iUniverse, 2001). She is also the co-author of a language textbook, Welcome to Vermont: English for Working and Living. She teaches at Middlebury College. 

Missing History: A Covert Education of a Child of Great Books is available from Threshold Way Publishing and independent booksellers. 

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 12.03.58 PMMyka’s eleven tales effectively capture those moments in life when we find ourselves frozen at the edge of a cliff. —Booklist

NER contributor Lenore Myka has released her debut story collection, King of the Gypsies (BkMk Press, 2015), the winner of the 2014 G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. Myka’s fiction appeared in NER 35.3.

Lorraine M. López, a PEN/Faulkner finalist, wrote of King of the Gypsies: “Myka’s characters release uncountable fibers, connecting them to one another in the linked narratives, binding them to the harshly beguiling Romania they inhabit and that inhabits them.”

Myka’s fiction has been selected as “notable” by Best American Short Stories and Best American Non-Required Reading. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, and Massachusetts Review, among others.

King of the Gypsies is available from SPD and independent booksellers.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: Kathryn Kramer, Lenore Myka, Peter LaSalle, Richie Hofmann, Troy Jollimore


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Many of the poems I’ve been writing lately are trying to figure out how to think about the future, how to reasonably hope, and what we must be resigned to. How can you imagine the future when the present is so slippery, so ready to dissolve?

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