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cheryl-l-snell's picture
Oct.13.2008
When Alice marries Ramesh, her new mother-in-law, named Shiva for the Hindu god of Creation and Destruction, usurps the young woman’s authority in her own home, never letting her forget her lowly place in the Indian joint-family. On one annual visit, the power struggle between the women is...
celia-lisset-alvarez's picture
Sep.30.2008
A collection of coming-of-age poems set in Miami, Florida.
celia-lisset-alvarez's picture
Sep.30.2008
Award-winning collection of poems dealing with identity issues stemming from the author's Cuban-American identity.
leza-lowitz's picture
Sep.29.2008
MANOA: Towards and Literature of the Periphery-anthology of Japaneseliterature in translation edited by Leza Lowitz, University ofHawaii Press, Volume 7, No. 1 Summer, 1995. Includes fiction by KyokoMurata, Hiromi Itoh, Yoshiko Shibaki, Teru Miyamoto, Ango Sakaguchi.
brenna-d-lyons's picture
Sep.29.2008
Coming Together: Under Fire is a multi-author anthology of erotic fiction and poetry edited by the dynamic writing (and now editing) team of Alessia Brio and Will Belegon. ALL proceeds from the sale of this volume will benefit relief efforts for the victims of the 2007 Southern California wildfires.
brenna-d-lyons's picture
Sep.29.2008
Poetry has long been a short form method to story telling. Morals, epic tales, even desperate pleas for understanding have been recorded through the ages in verse. And yet, somewhere along the line of our technologically advancing society, it seems those small intimate pleasures are growing lost....
leza-lowitz's picture
Sep.21.2008
100 poems about the moon, inspired by the woodblock prints of Yoshitoshi and the author's 40th birthday. Foreword by Donald Richie
leza-lowitz's picture
Sep.21.2008
Groundbreaking collection of yoga-inspired poetry. Hardcover and paperback editions. French an Farsi translations also available. Editor's pick from Yoga Journal.
robert-gray's picture
Sep.18.2008
"Robert Gray expertly weaves his own words with those of some of the great poets to honor and illuminate their lives. Each poem sparks the imagination and challenges the reader to move beyond the surface into the red hot center of life." --Irene Latham, author of What Came Before "...