Tim Wise
City Lights Publishers
360 pages
$16.95
“ise has spent many hours reading what the Right has written to dehumanize poor people, so you don’t have to! He humanizes them back, using real evidence.”
—James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns.
Charles Wyatt
Univ of Iowa Press
180 pages
$20
“Fascinating and provocative.”
—Choice
Nate Marshall
University of Pittsburgh Press
80 pages
$15.95
“In his powerful debut collection, winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Marshall explores the perils and praise songs of black lives on the South Side of Chicago. Much of the collection takes shape through the voice of a young black man navigating high school, family, friendships, and the physical and mental dangers that surround him as he strives toward manhood.”
—Publishers Weekly
Jewel
Blue Rider Press
384 pages
$27.50
“From the very beginning of her recording career, Jewel’s lyrics reflected the America she lived in with her conversational poetic touch. My friend Ben Keith brought her to my ranch to record, collecting our favorite musicians together for her early songs. The result, the enduring Pieces of You, was a great record. Jewel’s lyrics resonated with the times. In this, her first memoir, she has a lot to reflect on, and the touch to tell her story well.”
-Neil Young
Corey Mesler
Lulu.com
110 pages
$7.50
“Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People is filled with young, vibrant poems from a wise voice. The poems often wax reflective, filled with the historicity of experience, yet always returning to the now.”
–From the publisher
Anders Carlson-Wee
Bull City Press
40 pages
$12
“So attuned to the music and texture of syllables, the sound-sculptures of syntax, and the complex under-meanings of metaphor, that shaping phrases and sentences to enact (rather than merely express) their own meanings is already second nature to him. Anders Carlson-Wee makes the rugged physical and emotional world of the upper plains our world”
–B.H. Fairchild
