Archives de catégorie : Poetry

YOU ARE YOUR OWN FAIRY TALE d’amanda lovelace

amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents a new companion series, “you are your own fairy tale”.

YOU ARE YOUR OWN FAIRY TALE Series
by amanda lovelace
Andrews McMeel

• The first installment, BREAK YOUR GLASS SLIPPERS (published in March 2020), is about overcoming those who don’t see your worth, even if that person is sometimes yourself. in the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character while everyone is but a forgotten footnote. even the prince.
• SHINE YOUR ICY CROWN (January 2021), the second installment, is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it’s time to take back your power & realize that you don’t need a king in order to be a queen.
• Coming March 2022: UNLOCK YOUR STORYBOOK HEART

amanda lovelace is the author of several bestselling poetry titles, including her celebrated « women are some kind of magic » trilogy as well as her new “you are your own fairy tale” series. She is also the co-creator of the believe in your own magic oracle deck. When she isn’t reading, writing, or drinking a much-needed cup of coffee, you can find her casting spells from her home in a (very) small town on the jersey shore, where she resides with her poet-spouse & their three cats.

SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems de Melissa Broder

Featuring a new introduction from the author, SUPERDOOM brings together the best of Broder’s three cult out-of-print poetry collections―When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother, Meat Heart, and Scarecrone―as well as the best of her fourth collection, Last Sext.

SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems
by Melissa Broder
Tin House Books, August 2021

Embracing the sacred and the profane, often simultaneously, Broder gazes into the abyss and at the human body, with humor and heartbreak, lust and terror. Broder’s language is entirely her own, marked both by brutal strangeness and raw intimacy. At turns essayistic and surreal, bouncing between the grotesque and the transcendent, SUPERDOOM is a must-have for longtime fans and the perfect introduction to one of our most brilliant and original poets.

Melissa Broder is the author of the novel The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, and she is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine’s The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles.

WE ARE THE ASHES, WE ARE THE FIRE de Joy McCullough

From the author of the acclaimed Blood Water Paint, a new contemporary YA novel in prose and verse about a girl struggling with guilt and a desire for revenge after her sister’s rapist escapes with no prison time.

WE ARE THE ASHES, WE ARE THE FIRE
by Joy McCullough
Dutton Children’s, February 2021
(chez Dystel, Goderich & Bourret)

Em Morales’s older sister was raped by another student after a frat party. A jury eventually found the rapist guilty on all counts—a remarkable verdict that Em felt more than a little responsible for, since she was her sister’s strongest advocate on social media during the trial. Her passion and outspokenness helped dissuade the DA from settling for a plea deal. Em’s family would have real justice. But the victory is short-lived. In a matter of minutes, justice vanishes as the judge turns the Morales family’s world upside down again by sentencing the rapist to no prison time. While her family is stunned, Em is literally sick with rage and guilt. To make matters worse, a news clip of her saying that the sentence makes her want to learn « how to use a sword » goes viral. From this low point, Em must find a new reason to go on and help her family heal, and she finds it in the unlikely form of the story of a fifteenth-century French noblewoman, Marguerite de Bressieux, who is legendary as an avenging knight for rape victims. WE ARE THE ASHES, WE ARE THE FIRE is a searing and nuanced portrait of a young woman torn between a persistent desire for revenge and a burning need for hope

Joy McCullough writes books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her family. She studied theater at Northwestern University, fell in love with her husband atop a Guatemalan volcano, and now spends her days surrounded by books and kids and chocolate. Her debut novel, Blood Water Paint, was longlisted for National Book Award and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Debut Award.

 

PILOT IMPOSTER de James Hannaham

A meditation and artful exploration into the shape-shifting voice of Fernando Pessoa, who was one of the most significant literary voices of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.

PILOT IMPOSTER
by James Hannaham
Soft Skull, Fall 2021
(chez Sterling Lord Literistic)

Photo : © D.R.

PILOT IMPOSTER is wholly extracted from an anthology of poems by the beloved Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). During a plane trip from Cape Verde to Lisbon, PEN/Faulkner award-winner James Hannaham started reading Pessoa & Co., Richard Zenith’s definitive English translations of Pessoa’s selected works. Hannaham’s trip took place two months after the 2016 election of Donald Trump, so like many people, ideas about unfitness for service, incompetence, and failures of leadership were much on his mind. Once in Lisbon, Hannaham started a regular practice of reading from Zenith’s anthology, meditating on a response, and writing pieces that span across a range of narrative forms. So began his exploration of Portugal’s role in colonialism, the global slave trade, and racialized false beliefs about people of African descent. The final design of PILOT IMPOSTOR will include snapshots of Lisbon, archival photos, and other pictures, in an effort to comprise a work that, like Lisbon and Pessoa, reveals the instability of its identity—and all identities—by exposing its multiple incarnations.

James Hannaham is the author of the novel Delicious Foods for which he received a PEN/Faulkner award and God Says No, which was honored by the American Library Association. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute. Delicious Foods was recently longlisted for the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine Award.