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Books Launching in January 2025

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in January 2025 from CLMP members.

 

Cover of Stones are the First to Rise by David Giannini, featuring a painting of two yellow, round shapes on a green and yellow surface against a blue background. Stones Are the First to Rise by David Giannini

Dos Madres Press | January 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962847-16-2

According to Katie Lehman, Giannini is a “true poet-seer, a wise explorer who has traveled wooded landscapes before, moving stealthily through narrow paths to this world’s “brilliant blinking chaos.”

 

 

 

Cover of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, featuring a red cross over black and white photographs of a propeller plane, a soldier kissing a woman, and soldiers marching single file. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Warbler Press | January 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965684-24-5

Hemingway’s classic novel, featuring a new afterword by Ulrich Baer, “presents an honest view of the physical and emotional toll of war, and the often complicated nature of love.”

 

 

 

Cover of Learning to Drown by SM Stubbs, featuring white text over a watercolor painting of an abstract landscape that is partially covered by dark blue paint. Learning to Drown by SM Stubbs

Gunpowder Press | January 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957062-19-8

According to Vandana Khanna, the poems in this collection “shine an incandescent and intimate light upon memory, childhood, and survival in the aftermath of trauma.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Feast of the King's Shadow by Chaz Brenchley, featuring a green background with several small illustrations of hooded figures, swords, fantasy creatures, and a city of tall buildings in the desert. The Feast of the King’s Shadow by Chaz Brenchley

Wizard’s Tower Press | January 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-913892-80-7

According to SFX, this series has “all the adventures a discerning fantasy reader could wish for and Brenchley’s concise, muscular prose makes the story flow, free of genre clichés.”

 

 

 

Cover of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, featuring white and purple text on a brown crinkled background, and three squares that are yellow, blue, and orange. Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann

Trio House Press | January 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949487-33-6

In this memoir about her mother’s hoarding, Kossmann “comes to understand what’s been lost, what’s been found and what’s been kept in both her own and her mother’s life.”

 

 

 

Cover of Arabic, between Love and War, featuring the Arabic words for “love” and “war” combined and a black and white photograph of rippling water on a cream background. Arabic, between Love and War

trace press | January 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2

Edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, this bilingual poetry anthology—in which “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air”—features George Abraham, Eman Abukhadra, Omar Aljaffal, and more poets and translators writing in Arabic and English.

 

 

 

Cover of She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann, featuring three overlapping photographs of a black animal’s eye reflecting a foggy mountain landscape. She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann

Flood Editions | January 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9857874-5-0

This novel-in-verse “follows the contours of an Australian landscape and dreamscape, accompanied by magpie and owl, sun and moon, as well as a daughter named Blessing.”

 

 

 

Cover of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan, featuring orange and brown text on a navy blue background. Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue by Merrill Gilfillan

Flood Editions | January 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9857874-6-7

Gilfillan’s new poetry collection “draws from more than a dozen volumes since his first book appeared in 1970, concluding with three short ‘poetic diaries’ in the tradition of Japanese haibun.”

 

 

 

Cover of Winter of Worship by Kayleb Rae Candrilli, featuring an illustration of a person with a black plastic bag over their head reclining in a floral chair on a grassy background. Winter of Worship by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Copper Canyon Press | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-55659-693-3

Candrilli’s fourth poetry collection is a “patchwork of the pastoral and the ‘litter swirled around us’—a pandemic, global warming, a hometown hit by storms of fentanyl and Oxycontin scripts.”

 

 

 

Cover of Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam by Robert Dayton, featuring a multicolored maple leaf design with a white star in the center, and white text with a rainbow border. Cold Glitter: The Untold History of Canadian Glam by Robert Dayton

Feral House | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62731-154-0

This book about the history of Canadian glam rock is “filled with stories from musicians about what they did to build a career and fight against the old guard controlling the airwaves and stages.”

 

 

 

Cover of When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones by Amanda E. Hawkins, featuring a repeating pattern of curved light gray lines against a dark gray background. When I Say the Bones, I Mean the Bones by Amanda Hawkins

Wandering Aengus Press | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-218-35040-6

According to Jennifer Chang, the poems in this collection “exude tenderness and the passionate hope that our belief systems need not be bound by institutions or orthodoxies but by witness, love, and a shared sense of possibility.”

 

 

 

Cover of To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish by Ted Kessler, featuring a green-tinted photograph of a man with white hair, a mustache, and a tattooed chest looking down at the camera. To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish by Ted Kessler

Akashic Books | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-213-5

According to Miki Berenyi, Kessler “has elegantly, wittily documented Billy Childish’s maverick life, achievements, and persona with insight and skill, never allowing himself to be slavishly captivated—or repelled—by Billy’s ‘dangerous charisma’.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev, featuring red text over a white background with two black handprints in the corners. The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev

Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis
New Vessel Press | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954404-30-4

In this historical novel, Lebedev “portrays a ghostly realm riven by lust and fear just as the Kremlin invades the same part of Ukraine occupied by the Wehrmacht in World War II.”

 

 

 

Cover of Hunters in High Heels by Omar Rodríguez-López, featuring a photograph of a figure dressed in black walking on tarmac towards a white plane. Hunters in High Heels by Omar Rodríguez-López

Akashic Books | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-210-4

The photographs in this collection present an “elusive and evocative aesthetic that includes subjects such as highway signage, city skylines, and cloud formations, along with empty arenas and recording studios with friends and colleagues.”

 

 

 

Cover of Notes Scattered & Lost by Amelia Rosselli, featuring a multicolored abstract painting of geometric shapes against a green background. Notes Scattered and Lost by Amelia Rosselli

Translated from the Italian by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
Entre Ríos Books | January 7, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-960045-77-8

This collection of twentieth-century poet Rosselli’s notes contains “bursts of inspiration that she enjoyed writing out by hand on tracing paper, along with passages cut from longer work she found unsatisfactory.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Star-Spangled Brand by Marcelo Morales, featuring a navy blue background, a rectangle of small white stars, a red triangle with one star in its center, and a red droplet. The Star-Spangled Brand by Marcelo Morales

Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra
Veliz Books | January 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949776-19-5

According to Don Mee Choi, Morales’s “groundbreaking prose poetry unfolds like film, from his double nation-state consciousness—Cuba and the US.”

 

 

 

Cover of The River, the Town by Farah Ali, featuring an illustration of three black figures walking on a rocky red, white, and black landscape against a light blue and white sky. The River, The Town by Farah Ali

Dzanc Books | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-17-4

This decade-spanning novel is a “poignant and powerful literary debut following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging.”

 

 

 

Cover of Prayers to a Small Stone by Jo Brachman, featuring a green leaf curled into a circle with a hole in its center against a black background. Prayers to a Small Stone by Jo Brachman

Cider Press Review | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-930781-66-5

According to Katie Chaple, the poems in this collection “traverse the veil, whether it be through a woman metamorphosing into a doe, or the speaker communing with the dead or conjuring the ancient past.”

 

 

 

Cover of What She Wants by Kim Dower, featuring an illustration of a woman in a light blue dress looking out of an open, blue-curtained window at a body of water with green land in the distance. What She Wants by Kim Dower

Red Hen Press | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-263-3

The poems in this collection “run through the four phases of Limerence, the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person: Infatuation, Crystallization, Deterioration, and Ecstatic Release.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir by Freda Epum, featuring an illustration of a Black woman in an orange shirt holding either side of her head against a background of blue swirling patterns. The Gloomy Girl Variety Show by Freda Epum

Feminist Press | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-55861-310-2

In this memoir, Epum “explores the opposing forces of her ‘no-place, no-where’ identity as a Nigerian American daughter, diasporically displaced, who spent years in and out of institutions seeking treatment for life-threatening mental illness.”

 

 

 

Cover of North of Ordinary by John Rolfe Gardiner, featuring white, light blue, and black text over an illustration of clouds illuminated by pink and gold sunlight. North of Ordinary by John Rolfe Gardiner

Bellevue Literary Press | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-95427-632-1

The short stories in this collection “offer an intimate, revelatory look at our fractured society and pull us together through the power of art.”

 

 

 

Cover of A Tea-Dark Bearing by Janice Kidd, featuring an illustration of a boar and a river in a woodland clearing, in dark earth tones against a black background. A Tea-Dark Bearing by Janice Kidd

Regal House Publishing | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64603-575-5

In this novel set in the Adirondack Foothills in 1801, “two women devise a daring plan of escape through a rugged, untamed wilderness, fleeing the dangerous prejudice of unscrupulous men as well as the stranger that haunts them all.”

 

 

 

Cover of Pleasureis Amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger, featuring black and green text on a neon pink background and a small black outline of a classical painting in the bottom corner. pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger

Nightboat Books | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-164362-241-5

Messinger’s new collection is a “book of poems written out of a depressive episode, in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poet’s body and the world.”

 

 

 

Cover of Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump by James Ridgeway, featuring orange and white text over a photograph of a group of white nationalists holding torches.Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump by James Ridgeway

Haymarket Books | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64259-465-2

According to the New York Times, this revised new edition of Ridgeway’s 1990 book is a “guidebook through the nether regions of the racist universe.”

 

 

 

Cover of Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross, featuring a background fading from teal to black, and an illustration of a girl in a red coat walking next to a streetlamp. Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross

Deep Vellum | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-354-4

In this debut novel, Ross “tells a story of intergenerational change and conflict in a Black American family in the pre-Civil Rights era.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Ocean in the Next Room: Poems by Sarah V. Schweig, featuring white text surrounded by a multicolored circle on a beige background. The Ocean in the Next Room by Sarah V. Schweig

Milkweed Editions | January 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-57131-563-2

The poems in this collection “guide us to look past branding, content-creation, and relentless jargon to find meaning in those layers of the world that operate without human intervention.”

 

 

 

Cover of Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul by Christopher St. John, featuring gold and white text and a gold outlined illustration of an angel against a maroon background. Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul by C. Marshall St. John

Sinister Wisdom | January 15, 2025

ISBN: 978-1-94498-170-9

The protagonist of this novel, originally published in 1915, “longs for love and passion, leading her to Catholicism, and most importantly, a desire for women.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Choreic Period: Poems by Latif Askia Ba, featuring red, black, and green disjointed handwriting on a yellow background. The Choreic Period by Latif Askia Ba

Milkweed Editions | January 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63955-118-7

This book is “a ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy.”

 

 

 

Cover of Finding Normal by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, featuring an illustration of two teenagers by a campfire, one standing and one kneeling, against a background of green trees, blue mountains, and a pink sunset. Finding Normal by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

Regal House Publishing | January 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64603-563-2

According to Val Emmich, this young adult novel is a “riveting tale of two not-so-‘normal’ teens (and a baby raccoon) who are on the lam and heading across the country toward self-discovery, self-acceptance and each other.”

 

 

 

Cover of Encounters with Men by Bob Ostertag, featuring an outline of two men kissing in blue waist-deep water, filled in with a map of North America. Encounters with Men by Bob Ostertag

Black Lawrence Press | January 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62557-089-5

This memoir contains a “lifetime of intimacies and distances, moments with fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers, cops, and criminals—even one of the great mass murderers of the late twentieth century.”

 

 

 

Cover of Under The Light Of Fireflies by Lee Sanders, featuring an illustration of an illuminated firefly inside a jar against a dark blue grassy landscape and a light blue crescent moon. Under The Light Of Fireflies by Lee Sanders

Flare Books | January 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-96351-101-7

This novel is a “big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world.”

 

 

 

Cover of Dispatches from the District Committee by Vladimir Sorokin, featuring a minimalist illustration of a woman’s figure with red and black skin and a blue and black dress bending over to reveal white underwear. Dispatches from the District Committee by Vladimir Sorokin

Translated from the Russian by Max Lawton
Deep Vellum | January 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62897-517-8

This collection of short stories offers a “revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism.”

 

 

 

Cover of We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard, featuring blurry pink and yellow gradient text over a blue gradient background. We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard

Milkweed Editions | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-57131-148-1

Béchard’s new novel “tackles the most pressing issues of our time—from AI and the genetic modification of humans to gender roles, discrimination, free speech, and class divisions.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Good War by Elizabeth Costello, featuring an aerial image of a white boat on fire with black smoke rising from it in the middle of a blue and white ocean.The Good War by Elizabeth Costello

Regal House Publishing | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64603-546-5

This historical novel about a mother and daughter “unfolds over the course of watershed summers in the lives of two very different women who share a desire to make it new even as they reckon with painful truths.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Enumerations by Maire Fisher, featuring an image of a boy in a blue hoodie with a serious expression on his face, partially obscured by shadows.The Enumerations by Maire Fisher

Catalyst Press | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-96080-308-5

According to the Cape Times, this novel is “an unsentimental but real story about the dark that surrounds the most seemingly successful and ordinary people.”

 

 

 

Cover of Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers, featuring white text over a photograph of brown dirt in a jar.Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers

Spiegel & Grau | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-95411-868-3

This collection of personal and political essays “​​equips us with clarity, lights a way forward, and rouses us to action–for ourselves and for each other, for our communities, and, ultimately, for our planet.”

 

 

 

Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanović

Translated from the Croatian by Ena Selimović
Sandorf Passage | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-9-53351-512-0

Kolanović’s English-language debut “brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity.”

 

 

 

Cover of Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama, featuring black text on a dark green background.Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Copper Canyon Press | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-55659-710-7

The poems in this collection are “finely honed melodies of survival—shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.”

 

 

 

Cover of Nobodaddy's Children by Arno Schmidt, featuring three black and white images of a man’s shadow, a pile of rubble, and a soldier holding a drum. Nobodaddy’s Children by Arno Schmidt

Translated from the German by John E. Woods
Deep Vellum | January 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62897-456-0

According to Kirkus Reviews, the novels in this trilogy “comprise—in their unique author’s highly personal style of hybrid digressive montage—a hilariously confrontational picture of his native Germany from the Hitler years well on into the indefinite, postapocalyptic future.”

 

 

 

Cover of Resembling A Wild Animal by Clara Bush Vadala, featuring labeled black and white illustrations of a rat, a cat, a rooster, a sheep, and a dog. Resembling A Wild Animal by Clara Bush Vadala

ELJ Editions | January 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-94200-481-3

The poems in this collection “delve into the wildness of motherhood, animal personas, and the weird streaks of feral that can be found in everyday life.”