Coffee House Press

  • You

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    From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violence.

    Rosa Alcal?aacute; choreographs language to understand the bod… [more below]

    • Author: Alcalá, Rosa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566897017
    • Language: English
  • Good Night, Sleep Tight

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    “Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all.”

    From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits an

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    • Author: Evenson, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566897092
    • Language: English
  • Big Cabin

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    Contemplative, wry, profound observations from one of the greatest masters of contemporary poetry.

    • Author: Padgett, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 1566895499
    • Language: English
  • Coal Mountain Elementary

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    A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue t

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    • Author: Nowak, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 190
    • Publish Date: April 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1566892287
    • Language: English
  • Stephen Florida

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    Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a wrestler in North Dakota during his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further fr[more below]

    • Author: Habash, Gabe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 12 2018
    • ISBN10: 1566895162
    • Language: English
  • Your Kingdom

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    Eleni Sikelianos, “a master of mixing genres” (Time Out New York), further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, an ode to our more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our pas

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    • Author: Sikelianos, Eleni
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: January 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896592
    • Language: English
  • Sidewalks

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    Grantland Book of the Year
    Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond
    Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses

    “Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an

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    • Author: Luiselli, Valeria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: May 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 1566893569
    • Language: English
  • When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book

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    Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction

    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

    Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award

    An unflinchingly raw and lyrical explora

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    • Author: Aidt, Naja Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 06 2021
    • ISBN10: 1566895936
    • Language: English
  • Prelude to Bruise

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    Praise for Saeed Jones:

    “Jones is the kind of writer who’s more than wanted: he’s desperately needed.”FlavorWire

    “This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should.” ElevenEleven

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    • Author: Jones, Saeed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: September 09 2014
    • ISBN10: 1566893747
    • Language: English
  • Thousand Star Hotel

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    Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor.

    From “with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan”

    They gi

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    • Author: Phi, Bao
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894700
    • Language: English
  • Groundglass

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    “Could there be something humbling and revolutionary in understanding myself as a site of contamination?”

    Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked

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    • Author: Savage, Kathryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 02 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896401
    • Language: English
  • Dark Soil

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    Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small.

    Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Y

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    • Author: Sijun Lou, Angie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566896878
    • Language: English
  • Sound Museum

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    A combination of fiction and documentation, Sound Museum fearlessly interrogates state-sanctioned violence and the psychology–and banalityof evil.

    In Iran, a curator has gathered foreign journalis

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    • Series: Nvla
    • Author: Missaghi, Poupeh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566896991
    • Language: English
  • The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

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    “All I ever wanted is to keep the police away from the outside of my body and keep the police away from the inside of my body.”

    In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner

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    • Author: Borzutzky, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 156689705X
    • Language: English
  • Exiles of Eden

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    Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally exp… [more below]

    • Author: Osman, Ladan Ali
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: May 07 2019
    • ISBN10: 1566895448
    • Language: English
  • Fog & Car

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    Long out of print, Eugene Lim’s wry and haunting debut novel returns to shelves with a new introduction from Renee Gladman and a fresh, reversible cover.

    Jim Fog is marooned in a small Midwest town sh

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    • Author: Lim, Eugene
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566896932
    • Language: English
  • Mitochondrial Night

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    Taking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor

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    • Author: Lee, Ed Bok
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1566895324
    • Language: English
  • Teahouse of the Almighty

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    “Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings.”–E. Ethelbert Miller

    • Author: Smith, Patricia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 114
    • Publish Date: September 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1566891930
    • Language: English
  • Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah: Poems

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    National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.

    • Author: Smith, Patricia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 116
    • Publish Date: March 27, 2012
    • ISBN10: 1566892996
    • Language: English
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