Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books published in November 2024 from CLMP members.
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
This poetry collection is “a poetic memoir of a life well-lived and well-examined for all of its eccentricities and triumphs.”
The Other Altar by Nicholas Gulig
The Center for Literary Publishing | November 1, 2024
The speaker of Gulig’s third collection “wanders in a world illumined at every turn by ghosts whose shape and form he hopes to language in a litany of books, one inside the other.”
A Knock at the Door by Lily Hoàng
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
This short fiction collection “peeps through a tiny, distorted keyhole, and on the other side, fairy tales wait—with patience, with malice, with magic.”
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
This novel “weaves diverse elements into a story both light-hearted and philosophical, exploring along the way universal human touchstones of obsession, ruined love and the inexplicable mysteries that shape our lives.”
The Thankless Paths to Freedom by Medbh McGuckian
Wake Forest University Press | November 1, 2024
The poems in this collection “are preoccupied with imprisonment, from the County Down Maze Prison to the sentencing of revolutionary nationalist Constance Markievicz, as violence mingles with a dreamlike glow.”
Translated from the Croatian by Vinko Zgaga
Deep Vellum | November 1, 2024
Popović’s short story collection “is a playfully existential meditation on youth and the search for the self.”
Lady Without Land by Krystal Anali Vazquez
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
This debut novel “is a story told in fragments about señorita who feels lost in and lost without Los Angeles.”
The Mary Years by Julie Marie Wade
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
Winner of the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, “this nonfiction novella follows our protagonist from her pre-teen years in Seattle through tenure at an academic institution in Miami.”
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | November 1, 2024
Edited by William Wright, J. Bruce Fuller, Jesse Graves, and Paul Ruffin, this poetry anthology “serves as a testament to the resilience and beauty found in the works of Appalachian poets, painting a vivid picture of a culture that defies easy categorization.”
The Last Song of the World by Joseph Fasano
BOA Editions | November 5, 2024
The poems in this collection “serve as vignettes of fatherhood, love, and desire against the backdrop of apocalyptic events.”
Animal Husbandry by Taylor Garcia
Unsolicited Press | November 5, 2024
The men in Garcia’s short story collection “are in the midst of their own personal apocalypses as the real and artificial world decays around them.”
Fragments of a Paradise by Jean Giono
Translated from the French by Paul Eprile
Archipelago Books | November 5, 2024
This is a new edition of “Giono’s oft-overlooked seafaring tale” that “sweeps the reader along a narrative as poetic and undulating as the wind.”
Distant Story Blue by Magdalena Louise Hirt
Sea Crow Press | November 5, 2024
This book “takes readers along this journey with poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, interwoven, stretched, and pulled like the lines of a taunt sail.”
Low: Notes on Art & Trash by Jaydra Johnson
Fonograf Editions | November 5, 2024
Winner of Fonograf Editions’ inaugural essay collection contest, Johnson’s memoir is an “indispensable meditation on poverty and art, and a compelling corrective to conventional memoirs about overcoming disadvantage.”
From a Basement in Seattle, the Poster Art of Brad Klausen by Brad Klausen
Akashic Books | November 5, 2024
According to Publishers Weekly, this book of poster art is “a must-have for any music fan, artist, or aspiring graphic designer.”
The Devil Orders a Latte by Katrin Talbot
Fernwood Press | November 5, 2024
According to David Southward, this poetry collection “captures the ephemeral feelings of connectedness we all have but seldom manage to put into words.”
Eyes Moving Through the Dark by William Woolfitt
Orison Books | November 5, 2024
According to Alejandra Oliva, this essay collection is “a sprawling Appalachian palimpsest, writing and rewriting the lives and histories of this singular American region.”
Akashic Books | November 5, 2024
This fiction anthology edited by Chris McKinney is “a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochure.”
The Poems from On the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Translated from the Latin by Peter Glassgold
World Poetry | November 7, 2024
According to Eugene Ostashevsky, Glassgold’s “translingual renderings of the Latin poetry from the book refashion the originals and their English rephrasings into a composition of ‘lower limit speech, upper limit music,’ letting the reader overhear, in snatches, how Boethius was received over the ages.”
So Much More by Darren C. Demaree
Small Harbor Publishing | November 7, 2024
According to Dustin Pearson, the speaker in this poetry collection “is a husband, father, Ohioan, and a self-deprecating, ambivalent, and sometimes resigned American man whose spirit burns in the shadow of something revolutionary.”
McPherson & Company | November 8, 2024
In Hill’s novel containing 265 short titled passages, “a mercurial young woman comes to believe that the barren city she inhabits is actually the underworld.”
Graywolf Press | November 12, 2024
Davis’s historical novel about Marie Antoinette “is an enchanting meditation on girlhood, womanhood, architecture, and—above all—time and the soul’s true journey within it.”
Day Lasts Forever by Mario dell’Arco
Translated from the Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino
World Poetry | November 12, 2024
According to A. M. Juster, dell’Arco’s poems “bring alive daily life in Rome in a unique colloquial voice that often feels like a blend of Martial’s humor, Giuseppe Belli’s grittiness, and the surrealists of the era.”
Zombie Vomit Mad Libs by Duy Đoàn
Alice James Books | November 12, 2024
According to Tamiko Beyer, “these poems exist on the razor-thin edge that divide the states of waking and sleep, of being high and sober, of living and not living.”
Not Even the Sound of a River by Hélène Dorion
Translated from the French by Jonathan Kaplansky
Book*hug Press | November 12, 2024
“Told through multiple perspectives, newspaper accounts, and historical documents,” this novel “is a moving tale of love’s phantom pains as shared through the relationships between three generations of mothers and daughters.”
The Moonstone Covenant by Jill Hammer
Ayin Press | November 12, 2024
This fantasy novel follows “the story of four women who set out to uncover the secret origins of an intricate, magical city—and to change its fate.”
Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury
Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
Archipelago Books | November 12, 2024
In the second installment of his trilogy, Khoury “weaves personal and cultural memory into a tale that humanizes the complex Palestinian experience, and traces the careful contours of the unspeakable.”
My Home Somewhere Else by Federica Marzi
Translated from the Italian by Jim Hicks
Sandorf Passage | November 12, 2024
Marzi’s English-language debut “weaves together a multigenerational story about how hard it can be to let the wounds of the past heal.”
A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space by Peter Selgin
Regal House Publishing | November 12, 2024
According to Michael Nethercott, Selgin’s novel “presents a lost world of 1960s small-town life with all its constrictions and aspirations.”
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuang-zi
Translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King
Graywolf Press | November 12, 2024
A finalist for the 2024 National Book Award in Translation, this novel “unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.”
To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone by Kathryn Kruse
JackLeg Press | November 14, 2024
According to Juan Martinez, the stories in this collection “startle with their attention to our most elemental selves: our bodies, our work, our health, our language.”
Book of Exercises II by George Seferis
Translated from the Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg
World Poetry | November 14, 2024
Book of Exercises II is the first English translation of Seferis’s “lesser-known political, satiric, and erotic poetry as well as previously unseen material from his diaries.”
The Glass Clouding by Masaoka Shiki
Translated from the Japanese by Abby Ryder-Huth
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 14, 2024
This poetry collection “wrestles with the limits of translation, using experimental forms, image, parallel texts, and prose to question what translation can and cannot make visible.”
Notes of the Phantom Woman by Iana Boukova
Translated from the Greek and Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova and John O’Kane
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
The poems in this collection “are connected by a rigorous inquiry into the illusions of thinking, the blind spots of utopianism, and the trouble with moral positioning.”
The Month of the Flies by Mirtha Dermisache and Sergio Chejfec
Translated from the Spanish by Rebekah Smith and Silvina López Medin
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
This chapbook is Sergio Chejfec’s response to Mirtha Dermisache’s Book N ° 8: 1970, and “is something of an ‘arbitrary sequel’ to a text which both demands to be read, yet remains silent.”
Heavy Metal Nursing by Scott Frey
University of Tampa Press | November 15, 2024
Frey’s debut collection “plumbs the depths of unthinkable loss in poems that are as formally agile as they are unflinching: prose poems and slant-rhymed pantoums alongside odes to nurses and therapists, a poem-as-instruction-manual for a deep suction machine.”
A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Rachel Britton
Circumference Books | November 15, 2024
These poems explore “what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power, no matter how strange.”
Black Box Named Like to Me by Diana Garza Islas
Translated from the Spanish by Cal Paule
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
This debut poetry collection “challenges the limits of syntax and image to hold the full scope of the imaginary in its grasp, touching on questions of motherhood, the future, memory, and the acquisition of language.”
Mongrel Kampung by Mikael Johani
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
The poems in this collection are “translingual mini-tomes—tirades, historiographic treatises, love letters, protest songs, errant tweet threads.”
The Great Game by Amit Majmudar
Acre Books | November 15, 2024
In this book of critical essays, Majmudar “practices literary criticism as a global art, one with the intensity of verse, the depth of philosophy, and the scope of history—and does so with the infectious curiosity of a passionate reader.”
Against the Regime of the Fluent by Natasha Tiniacos
Translated from the Spanish by Rebeca Alderete Baca
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
The poems in this chapbook are “fragments that dream of becoming ruins of a present still unfolding against the systems of power, (the) body, language or all the systems.”
Lemonade: A Paranormal Investigation by Catalina Vargas Tovar
Translated from the Spanish by Juliana Borrero
Ugly Duckling Presse | November 15, 2024
This poetry chapbook “dives deep into the entrails of mountains, embodies the softness of shadows, intends to think from the darkness like seeds, and hopes to learn to see before language.”
The 53rd State Occasional No. 3
53rd State Press | November 15, 2024
In this collection of essays edited by Lucas Baisch and Emma Horwitz, artists, thinkers, and members of the 53rd State Press community answer the questions, “What are you obsessed with? And how are you holding it?”
Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home
Book*hug Press | November 19, 2024
The personal essays in this collection, edited by Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem, “weave socio-political commentary with writers’ reflections on who they are, where they belong, and what ‘home’ means to them.”
Love Prodigal by Traci Brimhall
Copper Canyon Press | November 19, 2024
According to Barbara Hoffert, this poetry collection “addresses life’s everyday suffering in astonishing language that will attract a wide range of readers.”
Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin
Winter Editions | November 19, 2024
The poems in Fagin’s third collection “celebrate moments of simplicity and ease while facing catastrophic change, weaving deep relational webs to bind isolated efforts of resistance.”
The Everyday Life of Design by Alan Gilbert
Winter Editions | November 19, 2024
The second edition of Gilbert’s “sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow.”
The Moon Won’t Talk by Morgan Howell
Regal House Publishing | November 19, 2024
According to Ellen Parent, this protagonist “speaks with the wisdom of youth and the wit of a poet in this coming-of-age story teeming with ghosts, naive young love, mysterious neighbors and dreamy days spent fishing beside the river.”
Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy by Karla Kelsey
Winter Editions | November 19, 2024
Kelsey’s “lyric-documentary rendezvous” with writer and visual artist Mina Loy combines experimental biography with fiction and fact and “elevates networks, constellations, and tracings over conventional chronology.”
Leaves of Healing: A Year in the Garden by Matt Miller 
Belle Point Press | November 19, 2024
This debut essay collection “journeys through the garden year and the church year together to uncover how life in both realms can help us rediscover our bodies and our sense of time, thereby helping us reach toward the sense of wholeness we all seek.”
Sundown in San Ojuela by M. M. Olivas
Lanternfish Press | November 19, 2024
According to Nalo Hopkinson, this horror novel is “a wild ride of brujas and old Aztec gods, chupacabras and haunted houses that gets stranger, darker, and more dire with each turn of the page.”
Coolest Stories Press | November 21, 2024
According to Bobbie Ann Mason, this anthology of short stories edited by Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey—featuring Linda Bernal, Demond J Blake, Philip Cesario, and more—is “tender, moving, electrifying, comical, and quirky.”
Fucked and Jolly: Ten Years of the Exponential Festival
53rd State Press | November 26, 2024
This anthology edited by Nic Adams “is a reflective compendium of artist-to-artist interviews commemorating a boffo decade of The Exponential Festival.”
Grid Books | November 26, 2024
Medved’s poetry collection is part memoir, part spiritual exploration and “tells of the struggle to process loss without any physical anchor.”
Slant Books | November 26, 2024
Mojtabai’s novel “offers us a varied cast of characters at Shady Rest, including: Eli, who fancies himself a ladies man; Elora, anxious about her wayward nephew; the aloof but lonely scholar Wiktor; and Maddie, a bit eccentric, true, but more wise and compassionate than most.”
If I Gather Here and Shout by Funto Omojola
Nightboat Books | November 26, 2024
Omojola’s poetry collection “illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning-making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context.”
The Third Temple by Yishai Sarid
Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan
Restless Books | November 26, 2024
According to Reza Aslan, this science fiction novel is “an unsettling—one could say prophetic—reflection on faith, zeal, and the consequences of ideological extremism.”
