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Wang’s determined, intelligent heroine, Seaweed, is the eldest daughter of a naval officer and a schoolteacher living near Shanghai. The family drudge at home, Seaweed’s hardships continue in a rural village where she undergoes ‘re-education’ by peasants as a prerequisite for college. Years later, after emigrating to New York, she tries to send for her sisters, to get them American visas. ‘The Story of Ju’ is a gripping, longer tale of how Seaweed’s promising student hangs herself rather than submit to a marriage arranged by her abusive stepfather. ‘Song of Four Seasons’ is a generous-spirited story of a mother and daughter revising their opinions of one another after many years. Although these are universal themes of sibling rivalry, mother-daughter conflict and love, the dilemma of an intelligent woman with limited opportunities, matchmaking, adultery, bodily shame, they are also distinctively Chinese, drawing on Chinese legends, language and customs. Wang, who holds degrees from both Chinese and American universities, writes simply in a conversational English that is remarkably effective whether she is writing about life in China or in New York.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years spent farming in a mountain village commune, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the United States, earning her PhD from New York University. 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She has mastered a conversational tone that seems graceful and effortless.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In these moving, heartrending stories, told with amazing honesty, Wang Ping has captured the immigrant Chinese experience. Seaweed’s journey from the emotional and intellectual wasteland of China during the Cultural Revolution to the anonymity and despair of New York is truly memorable. Wang takes her character’s dreams and delusions and renders them with warmth and humor.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Marry Morris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAmerican Visa\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing piece of writing. Its direct unsentimental prose offers a portrait of Chinese family life and what is means to be a woman in China. 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Manley presents a cultural snapshot that is poignant, ironic, and ultimately riveting, as he examines the bleak landscape of racial prejudice and fear that isolates people from one another and lies at the heart of their own loneliness. In “Mister Butterfly” an aging prison guard, imprisoned by blind rage and disappointment, marries Asian mail-order brides and, after disposing of them, complains of being lonely and lost. In “The Housekeeper” a fifty-year-old widow falls in love for the first time with the priest who employs her. In “The Indian Way” a white man criticizes Native Americans for having lost what he calls “the Way,” meaning their traditional culture, only to realize at the end that he has lost the Way himself. Manley’s stories are set in the South as he explores an aspect of the American psyche that spans geographic and economic divisions. 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But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/em\u003eis a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Saldaña París (born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet, and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in \u003cem\u003eMexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions\u003c\/em\u003e, published in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press. \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e is his first novel to appear in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“Great fun are the jabs at academia, Mexico City and the dusty town where the action, or inaction, moves after Rodrigo meets Marcelo, a Spanish cretin with a Ph.D. in aesthetics. These flameless flâneurs humph and hump, personifying urban malaise.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—New York Times Sunday Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Full of odd twists and surprises. Among the high points are Saldaña París’ exasperated but affectionate paeans to ‘the immense, beautiful city’ that is Mexico’s capital. Though a study of slothfulness and its discontents, a welcome book on which the author has clearly expended energy.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novel takes some bizarre turns as Marcelo leads Rodrigo into experiments involving drugs, tequila, hypnosis and more, all in the name of transformation. If the young man’s notion of radical change is to take part in his life rather than observe it from afar, he’s off to a good start.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Saldaña París’s first novel to be translated Stateside is a leisurely story of slacking off that’s nicely conveyed in a sharp, cynical tone. . . . Read this messy, shaggy picaresque for its ample page-by-page pleasures, which include devilishly clever syntax, a charming tendency to digress, and satisfying flashes of Rodrigo and Marcelo getting their act together.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For all Saldaña París’ sharp wit, \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e is about waking up to the world’s brighter possibilities.” \u003cstrong\u003e—NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is something uncannily Pitolean about this novel. And that is a very good thing.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Three Percent \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd. . . . Like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky’s \u003cem\u003eUnderground Man\u003c\/em\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Fresh Air\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Partnership is important, says this young, slacker, thirtysomething Mexican writer, even if it’s only with a hen in a vacant lot.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a novel that sneaks up on you in the best possible way.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Vol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Saldaña París’s \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims . . . \u003c\/em\u003eis, despite the questions surrounding the Latin American canon, a natural successor in the Latin American oeuvre. Saldaña París eases forward from the Crack and McOndo movements, yet still evokes the hues of Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch. But, perhaps most crucially, \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e still wonders what this Latin American-ness could mean.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Full Stop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The real life absurdities surrounding Trump’s visit are definitely stranger than the fictional absurdities Rodrigo faces, though I can’t help but wonder if somehow these narratives are cosmically linked. Daniel Saldaña París’ pulse on the Mexican psyche feels that precise, that honest, that timely.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Ploughshares\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novel teases and revises questions about how to live a meaningful life with agency by turning them into a thought experiment that Saldana París handles with formal invention and a Millennial twist.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Words Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Saldaña Paris’ first novel to be translated into English is an expertly composed, leisurely read that sucks you in but never spits you out. . . . This book is a must-read.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Largehearted Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Although its stylized narrative can be an acquired taste, \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e is deceptively affecting.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Star Tribune\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a novel that comes at you from odd angles, making a memorable impression as it goes.”\u003cem\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Vol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In an easygoing, oddly entrancing style, París presents a meandering plot . . . but the events of the narrative pale in comparison to the surprising pleasure of the thoroughly offbeat prose. . . . Par\u003cspan\u003eí\u003c\/span\u003es has mastered the art of spinning an outlandish, entertaining tale.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is impossible to read \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e without being charmed by its wit and disarmed by its fierce and mysterious languor. In this novel, Daniel Saldaña París asks how one should cope with the impossible burden of living your own life—and gives a graceful riddle of an answer that will linger with you long after the book is done.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Alexandra Kleeman\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Translator Christina MacSweeney has done an excellent job bringing the intelligent vitality of Paris’s prose into English. . . . What has happened to the life of the artist, \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e asks. Why do we so often build critical distances between ourselves and our lives? 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It does so with such thorough and seamless skill that the reader becomes a victim of this strange, off-kilter world.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Cleaver Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e is] an impressive work by a talented young writer.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Largehearted Boy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As I read [\u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e],\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eI felt I was witnessing a great performance. It reminded me a little of young Mozart showing off at the emperor’s golden harpsichord, giggling and improvising variations on Salieri’s welcome march, startling all the wigged and powdered Viennese stiffs. And I sensed something desperate and inflamed in the writing too, as though the author assumed all along that nobody would ever read his book. That’s probably what I like most about it—the cocky, indulgent, nihilistic virtuosity.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—BOMB\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Quirky and absurd, it’s a funny, shambling look at the benefits (and drawbacks) of living life at your own lazy pace.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Men’s Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The English debut by the young and talented Daniel Saldaña Paris, \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive millennial existentialist novel of Mexico City.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The Culture Trip\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Saldaña París writes with a gifted and confident prose that is as much the star of this singular novel as its unforgettable characters and delighting plot. 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His father, in thrall to a myth, has disappeared; his mother and sister, too; and Lydia, his lover, leaves him and the novel he cannot finish for quantum mechanics, the place where theory tells tales about the real. And then there is Pearl, the girl beneath the floorboards, whose adventures hum alongside Daniel’s own. In this contemporary, contemplative fairy tale, the autobiographical novel takes on the cast of legend, and the uncertainty of memory leaves reality on shaky ground. Can parallel universes exist? Can a preoccupation with \u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e overwhelm the story unfolding before you? Where do you stand in relation to the metaphysics of your own life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDan Beachy-Quick is the author of five books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eCircle’s Apprentice;\u003c\/em\u003e two books of prose, \u003cem\u003eA Whaler’s Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWonderful Investigations;\u003c\/em\u003e as well as a number of chapbooks and two collaborations, \u003cem\u003eConversities\u003c\/em\u003e (with Srikanth Reddy) and \u003cem\u003eWork from Memory\u003c\/em\u003e (with Matthew Goulish). 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She’s got a sister and a grandmother to look out for, and a burgeoning consciousness of the unfairness in the world—in her family, her community, and her country.  Set against the backdrop of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution, the struggles of surviving Filipina “Comfort Women” of WWII in the early 1990s, and a cold winter’s season in the city of Chicago is the story of a daughter coming of age, coming to forgiveness, and learning to move past the chaos of grief to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. 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To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a “Best Feminist Book for Young Adults“ on the 2014 Amelia Bloomer List\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Angel’s] intimate storytelling style will appeal to teenage readers and adults. Galang draws us into a foreign world with beautifully rendered sketches. . . . 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Yet it’s a story built on a universal template: a mother and teen daughter who don’t understand each other in the moment.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Angel’s story shows the struggles of a young woman who tries to keep it together as everything she has known and loved slowly slips away from her grasp. . . . [She] is never afraid to take a stand—something individuals of all ages can aspire to do.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorthwest Asian Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Galang’s writing is lyrical and rich—something to savor . . . This is a book not to be missed.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRich in Color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With YA fiction titles being so strongly tilted toward the paranormal and the speculative, M. 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Each new word or phrase calls forth another; attentions create their own nimbus of associations. Davidson’s poems are a kind of battleground, where larger philosophical questions are grappled with through the sieve of language and form, but they are also a response to the vital use people make of everyday speech. Faced with hearing loss, he questions the acoustical models—voice, ear, rhyme, rhythm, text—upon which poetry depends and takes as his subject the problems and questions of our cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Davidson is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several critical works, including \u003cem\u003eGuys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConcerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body,\u003c\/em\u003e and five books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Arcades\u003c\/em\u003e in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“Davidson has created in \u003cem\u003eBleed Through\u003c\/em\u003e a beautiful balance between vulnerability, wit, and critique that is utterly entertaining and insightful.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eArcadia Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Michael Davidson’s poetry has always been a push-pull experience between total courage and exacting care, as if a fine Swiss watchmaker had suddenly taken up skydiving. It’s a heady ride, dedicated at once to both risk \u0026amp; precision, and the pleasures of vertigo, thrill, speed, and terror are never very far. At the end of it, you find yourself surprised at how quiet it all was, up there in the clouds, or just how solid the ground now feels. \u003ci\u003eBleed Through\u003c\/i\u003e is a book we have needed for a very long time. What a joy to have it in hand.” \u003cb\u003e—Ron Silliman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Michael Davidson refuses to treat history, philosophy, and the lives we live as separate phenomena. The language of intimate experience interrupts that of public atmospheres and vice versa. Heavens and aprons ‘slightly melt’ into each other; Kant is at the mall, while our leaders eat cereal. These poems—many from rare and out of print books—converse as lucid shocks under a critical sun.” \u003cb\u003e—Jena Osman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Across a lifetime in poetry, Michael Davidson has plumbed the relationship between the ordinary and the uncanny, and the timeless and the timelessly amusing, within this all-too-mortal coil. His welcome ‘new and selected’ is rich with those swift turns and exploratory revelations poetry, at its most dynamic, is singularly designed to offer. It is a pleasure indeed to hail his accomplishment.” \u003cb\u003e—Michael Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43707414862,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/products\/Bleed-Through.jpg?v=1499210573"},{"product_id":"blindsight","title":"Blindsight","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry by Greg Hewett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNovember 1, 2016 • 6 x 9 • 112 Pages • 978-1-56689-448-7\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWitty, touching, introspective—\u003cem\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/em\u003e finds Hewett becoming a parent and easing toward middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn poems that are full of wit, touching, and introspective, as well as formally inventive, we find the poet losing his sight, becoming a parent, and occupying middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability. Hewett draws inspiration from the grand and the mundane, the abjection and joy of creating a vision out of blindness. These poems will change how you perceive the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreg Hewett is the author of \u003cem\u003edarkacre\u003c\/em\u003e (Coffee House Press, 2010), \u003cem\u003eThe Eros Conspiracy\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eRed Suburb\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), and \u003cem\u003eTo Collect the Flesh\u003c\/em\u003e (New Rivers Press, 1996)—poetry collections that have received a Publishing Triangle Award, two Minnesota Book Award Nominations, a Lambda Book Award Nomination, and an Indie Bound Poetry Top Ten recommendation. The recipient of Fulbright fellowships to Denmark and Norway, Hewett has also been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France, and is Professor of English at Carleton College. He is currently finishing a biography of the film noir actor Thomas Gomez.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vsamn.org\/\"\u003eVSA Minnesota\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“These poems are interested in the contemporary moment so much as it is the site of their reflections. Yet these poems firmly resist nostalgia. Their speaker is caught between the desire to make a record and the insistence that all records fail, and that their failure, the gaps of what’s unseen or unseeable, is interesting and necessary.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—American Microreviews and Interviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Throughout \u003cem\u003eBlindsight,\u003c\/em\u003e the reader is presented with the voice of a poet whose urges to feel and desires to know reflect those universal to humanity. Through his plainspoken language which is, at times, conversational and, at times, confessional we are reminded of our own desires, those things for which we do still burn.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Cleaver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“The poems are complex, yet simple, resisting efforts at reductionist understandings of what comprises a man.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/em\u003e] as a whole is full of wonderfully quiet musings on vision and memory, cogent observations about longing and loss.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lambda Literary Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Questioning the relationship between the transcendent and earthy leads Hewett to a skeptical look at language itself (more precisely, poetic language) as metaphor, the intuiting of similarity between things that first might appear dissimilar.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Singapore Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The poems here are so plainspoken you might think them ‘ordinary.’ If they are ‘ordinary,’ though, it is because they speak to the most common and universal urges of a human’s life. But in their spareness, their quiet and matter-of-fact tone, they go way beyond the vision of the farthest telescope, way more intimate than the most powerful microscope. Hewett is a poet desperate to know—that ‘knowledge’ is never cheap and always comes at great cost is of no importance, because if anything this poet mistrusts simple vision. He aims deeper, darker. The stakes are high for this poet and his gamble pays off stunningly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Kazim Ali\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was utterly blindsided by \u003cem\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/em\u003e, so aurally and intellectually seduced by its prime and primal rhythms and organization that I was unprepared for the ferocity of its content, the ‘divine funk’ of its spiraling queer-otics, the shattered mending of its desirousness, and the profundity of its vision of losing vision. If Wallace Stephens’s spirit object was the wilderness-organizing jar in Tennessee, Hewett’s is ‘a condom, unfurled and full,’ which ‘holds dominion over this satellite world.’ Even in this deeply literary collection, Hewett expresses a renegade distrust of the mechanisms of language: ‘\u003cem\u003eTake blindness as metaphor,\u003c\/em\u003e \/ you say, but I say \/ take metaphor as blindness \/ deforming life to get at \/ the idea behind life \/ tires me.’ Always, he seeks the pulse of the unsayable prime beneath words, the visible vision in ‘blindness deep and far.’” \u003cstrong\u003e—Diane Seuss\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘We sense numbers in our breath, \/ in a line of poetry, a measure of music \/ running through our heads,’ Greg Hewett tells us. In \u003cem\u003eBlindsight\u003c\/em\u003e he brings his acute poetic vision to the peculiar power of prime numbers, which manifest in the sinuous rigor of his syllabic lines and the acuity of his insights into the essentially incalculable truths of our lives. In a collection rich with lyric assurance and generosity of spirit, Hewett riffs on music theory, classic movies and texts, porn, the power of place, and loss and desire, past and present. Leading us into ever-greater clarity and compassion, he pays undivided attention to the world we share, where ‘there’s no greater vision \/ than in finally seeing \/ details reigning everywhere.’” \u003cstrong\u003e—David Groff\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘The man at the door \/ of this stanza is a ghost’: Greg Hewett’s poems embody astonishingly precise awareness. 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From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression 12 developed, through August 28 when it became a Category 5 storm with its “scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent,” to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched on television.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssuming the voices of flailing politicians, the dying, their survivors, and the voice of the hurricane itself, Smith follows the woefully inadequate relief effort and stands witness to the immeasurable losses. 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To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.7.1\/jquery.min.js\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tester3.yolasite.com\/resources\/javascript\/jtruncate.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\n\/\/ Settings for script \n$(document).ready(function() { \n$('.text').jTruncate({ \nlength: 1000, \/* The number of characters to display before truncating. *\/ \n\nminTrail: 0, \/* The minimum number of \"extra\" characters required to truncate. 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At the same time, the audience who prefers the live mic will be seized by the power of her voices, including that of Katrina ‘in full tantrum.’ From a confluence of poetic sensibilities, in a hot political wind, Smith rises above mere topicality to address timeless concerns.” \u003cstrong\u003e—National Book Award judges’ citation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hurricane Katrina has receded from the national news, but the destruction it wrought has found testimony in literature. Patricia Smith’s fierce, blood-in-the-mouth collection of poems, a finalist for the National Book Award, grows out of this disaster and already has the whiff and feel of folklore.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Freeman, NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Smith’s sensibility and facility with the vernacular, combined with her enormous poetic gifts, imbued her with everything she needed in order to write about the victims of Hurricane Katrina. . . . \u003cem\u003eBlood Dazzler\u003c\/em\u003e is the narrative of a shameful tragedy, but it is lyrical and beautiful, like a hymn we want to sing over and over until it lives in our collective memory.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Charleston Post and Courier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Patricia Smith brings an incantatory brilliance to the horror of that hurricane and our nation’s shameful response to it. . . . 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We see the world through her ‘solo swallowing eye.’ . . . \u003cem\u003eBlood Dazzler\u003c\/em\u003e is hauntingly beautiful.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaily Sentinel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lyrical, political, sensory and utterly amazing feat that only an artist of [Patricia Smith’s] caliber, heart and imagination could pull off.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Root\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful, comprehensive and moving. . . . This is less a book about death than about life. It is about the will to live, the resilience of the spirit.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePedestal Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBlood Dazzler\u003c\/em\u003e is a shining example of what poetry can do for a country. . . . 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Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks’s debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America’s boomer counterculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach book comes with a free download of the companion soundtrack, \u003cem\u003eDylan Hicks Sings Bolling Greene,\u003c\/em\u003e written and performed by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eBoarded Windows,\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2012, along with a companion album of original songs, \u003cem\u003eDylan Hicks Sings Bolling Greene.\u003c\/em\u003e His journalism has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice,\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times,\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eGuardian,\u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eStar Tribune, City Pages, Rain Taxi, \u003c\/em\u003eand elsewhere. 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To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please email us at \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:info@coffeehousepress.org\"\u003einfo@coffeehousepress.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text\"\u003e“Nuanced with fluid prose and a pensive, melancholy undercurrent.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This novel calls into question the notion of truth and asks to whom one’s story really belongs. . . . 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The characters will haunt you with their longing, and inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit. Dylan Hicks knows his music and his prose is a song in itself. He’s given light to the shuttered and boarded parts of life.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Sam Lipsyte\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a novel, Dylan Hicks’s \u003cem\u003eBoarded Windows\u003c\/em\u003e takes a sly, questioning, sidelong glance that keeps both the narrator and his listeners—because this novel is whispered, confided, mused, as much as it is written—continually off balance. As a work of American iconography, it’s a continually hilarious, hopes-dashed account of an indelible American character: the con man.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Greil Marcus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBoarded Windows\u003c\/em\u003e is a luminous novel about love and loss. Written with wit, profundity, and compassion, Dylan Hicks’s debut delights in language and music and the joys of being alive. 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