{"title":"2025-2026 Print Catalog","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pre-order-lost-found-kept-a-memoir","title":"Lost Found Kept: A Memoir","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.book2look.com\/book\/CE6pAsiSmc\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead a sample!\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does a psychologist fail to recognize that her intelligent, sensitive, and book-loving mother has created \"the worst hoarder house ever seen?\" After making the horrifying discovery that her mother had no water in her house for at least two years, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann begins the otherworldly excavation of a childhood home she hasn't been inside for three decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving back and forth in time, from this surreal nightmare of an archaeological dig to\u003cbr\u003erecollecting her past and long buried family secrets, Kossmann seeks to untangle a web of complicated familial relationships. 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Some are testy, others reverential. Some are humorous, others not so much. The reader can expect a guide, but the guides may not bother to be consistent. Graceful and intimate, Voice\/Poems plucks individual moments from the flow of time to show us how crazy remarkable our ordinary, day-in and day-out, lives are. We are a multitude and a solitude, \"a glory, tiny veins in our fingers,\/pulley of skin working index and thumb.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn these stunning, delicate poems, there is a fierce intelligence and a great tenderness. Susan Azar Porterfield is a master of restraint and deeply mines the domestic interior of her life in poem after poem. Through her speakers, she offers us meditations on family, loss, and presents us with the beauty of her lush mind. I am thoroughly moved by Susan's poems, and I highly recommend this new collection. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e—Zeeshan Pathan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Minister of Disturbances\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoice\/Poems is Susan Azar Porterfield's fourth book of poetry. Susan Azar Porterfield was born in Chicago to a Lebanese father and a mother from rural Arkansas. She was the first in her family to attend college. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British literature and an M.A. in art from the Courtauld Institute in London. She received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and was featured on the Chicago WTTW 11, Arts Across Illinois program. 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Navigating a disorienting experience of a chronic illness where thoughts \"get stopped up \/ like an autumn gutter,\" the speaker shape-shifts into a multitude of voices that reconcile and congeal a fragmented existence. \u003cem\u003eSplice \u003c\/em\u003eultimately explores our constant cycle of reinvention and imitation, an engine that both holds us back and moves us forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Borruso\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the Louise Bogan Excellence in Poetry Award for his first collection, Splice; He is a former editor of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a 2023 Best New Poet and was selected as a finalist for \u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e's Adrienne Rich Award by Natasha Trethewey. 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The work invites the reader into a yard where \"whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America\" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we \"wander streets like cartographers of poverty\" and hold our \"promises to come home.\" Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Black Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartheaus Perkins\u003c\/strong\u003e was born to a single mother in Center, Texas. After a childhood in and out of homes in Houston, he graduated from Stephen F. 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Winner of the Trio House Press Editor’s Choice Prize, Kim’s debut collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline!important; color: rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003e evokes modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of family and self, as well as the grace and generosity of healing, acknowledgement, and commemoration. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt; padding: 0in; color: black;\"\u003eThe poems reflect on what we inherit and how who we become is intertwined with who our parents were and are, and the pain of facing that reality: “One day your voice will become mine,Ka leo o maua\/Though I am not prepared for your end…”  With this mele, Kim honors the memory of a lost mother, as well as the struggles of a daughter as she becomes a wife and mother herself, while honoring her roots and forging a new path.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinging with the manifold tongues of the 'aina, Kalehua Kim gives us mana from the depths of her heart and of the heart of Hawai'i nei. 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In this collection, girlhood is a trial by fire, a bullet aimed at the head, a girl rubbernecking the scene of herself, counting herself dead. With lyric deftness, Leary’s poems in \u003ci\u003eMore Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e bristle with beasts: the swan, the ox, a bird named Ego, and at the center of it all, the animal woman folded in on herself while God watches, impassive and inscrutable as His miracles. Leary’s speaker is twin to that of W.B. Yeats, going out in search of her own face and yearning for a world uninterrupted by the illusory safety of marriage and the societal pressures to have children, more girls churned out into the charnel house. Leary’s poems are dark;\u003cem\u003e good\u003c\/em\u003e. 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