Sisters Kim and Kathy Hodges are born sixteen months apart in a middle-class existence parented by Linda and David Hodges of Houston, Texas. The happy couple welcomes their 'lucky daughter' Kim, who is physically and mentally advanced. Following several miscarriages, Linda delivers 'unlucky' Kathy at twenty-nine weeks, ensuring a life of cognitive ......
Bold and biting, /CUTS redefines what the novella is and what it can do, opening new doors of possibility. At its heart is Columbian protagonist Lucia Nieto's secret struggle with addiction-her father's and her own. Having relocated to Madrid, Lucia breaks down, each splinter of her identity and self, creating multi-faceted truths and realities ......
Two Appalachian men dig deep-with poetry as their working tools-into their hearts to settle up with the loss of their fathers. 21st Century Poets, No. 48
Chapters in this edited book fill a timely need in the area of creative writing across the curriculum (CWAC). Creative writing classes and majors remain among the most popular English department offerings in US higher education. At the same time, humanities-related fields find themselves increasingly needing to justify their contributions to ......
A Brief History of Accidental Inventions explores the emotionally fraught territory of pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. By equal measures harrowing and humorous, the collection chronicles the speaker's freefall into postpartum depression against the backdrop of American gun culture and the repeal of Roe v. Wade. The poems peer keenly into ......
In the third poetry collection by Sylvie Baumgartel, Christos Anesti takes beautifully rich textures of art, history, and mythology and melds them with raw images of pain, trauma and environmental devastation. Each page delivers a lush declaration: God is who we are. These poems journey into territories, typically uncomfortable, but laced in ......
Crying My Best is a powerful poetry debut that brims with emotional urgency and that delves into the complex, often hidden histories of the poet's Midwestern Mexican American family. With unflinching honesty and clarity, these poems confront intergenerational addiction, cultural estrangement, and personal and collective grief. Here, language makes ......
Suspirium is narrated by Kairos, the depth dimension of Time. It is the story of a man named Fields, described on the opening page as a man whose soul has been "criminally mislaid." Shortly after Fields' death at sixty-two, Kairos accompanies him to a meridian between this life and the next, a kind of purgatory where he has one last chance to ......
Darrell White, a Country Boy, and a Country Sheriff
Darrell White is known as one of Texas's most colorful lawmen. White once arrested one of the most notorious criminals in the history of the United States, Charles Manson. The six-foot tall, lanky Sheriff was criticized and praised. He fought legal battles from accusations of water torture, physical brutality and burying prisoners under the jail. ......
