Nick Carbo Tia Chucha Press ($10.95) by Thomas Fink The "bare-chested muscled Filipino" Ang Tunay na Lalaki, "the real man" in Tagalog, is a seventies/eighties

Michael Heffernan Salmon Publishing / Dufour Editions ($12) by Will Clemens Another Part of the Island is the sixth book of poems from Michael Heffernan, whose Love's

Sharon Doubiago West End Press ($19.95) by Michael McIrvin Why write history and facts and story and autobiography in poetry? "Poetry is the true revolution,"

John Ash Talisman House ($14.95) by Robert Kelly It is a curious thing that travel literature embraces two utterly different, incompatibly opposite sorts of text:

Paul Violi Coffee House Press ($14.95) by Fred Muratori The publication of a Selected Poems is one of the two or three most significant milestones

Teresa Porzecanski University of New Mexico Press ($17.95) by Jay Miskowiec Uruguayan writer Teresa Porzecanski embodies a lesser-known facet of the Latin American experience: the

Edited by Sheree R. Thomas Warner Books ($24.95) by Rudi Dornemann Anthologies have long been important in science fiction and fantasy. Whether pulling together previously

Anne Enright Atlantic Monthly Press ($24) by Amy Halloran What Are You Like? is the first novel published in America by BBC Radio journalist Anne Enright,

Linh Dinh Seven Stories Press ($23.95) by Thuy Dinh “After Vietnam, however, Philadelphia will be possible again," the narrator of Linh Dinh's "Two Who Forgot"

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