National Book Critic's Circle Award finalist, 1994. Colorado Book Award winner."...elemental and direct with a tremendous evocative force of imagery..."--Publisher's Weekly
A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a mesmerizing tale of love and anger, hope and tragedy. At the heart of this rich and bewitching story is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband Candelario, the
From Japanese-American writer Yamashita: a story of Japanese emigration set, like her first novel (Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, 1990), in Brazil. A range of characters, male and female, tell a
The linguistic playfulness and imagistic sensibilities that typify the New York School Poets are revealed in the first definitive collection in twenty-five years of the late poet's work. Original.
Engaging and entertaining, Bone Truth is the story of a woman about to start a new life. But Elizabeth Etters' present is filled with complex choices and her past with even more persistent questions.
Honest, biting, and bittersweet, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart is a rich collection of stories by critically acclaimed author Jonis Agee. Packed with emotional detail and compelling narrative forc
Winner, PEN Center USA West 1997 Literary Award. Finalist, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award. "Straight from some astral plane comes the ghost of this great Beat poet. . . . This is not so
Stories describe the experiences of Filipina American women handling work, love, identity, family roles, social roles, and stereotypes of Asian behavior
Irena Bozinska, beset by difficulties with love, language, and change, is a mathematician who has recently emigrated from Poland to America. She works as an attendant for an aging jazz musician who l
American Book Award winner. Short stories set among the Chinese-American community of Oakland, California. "[Chin] writes an oceanic prose teeming with wild images and long surreal passages."--Richard
A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure."[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."?Ann
Poets, rock stars, filmmakers, activists, novelists, and historians lend their voices to this landmark collection about the daily grind."M. L. Liebler is the poet laureate of America's working class.
