Support small presses and indie bookstores by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in March 2022 from CLMP members.
Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic by Anthony Romero, Daniel Tucker & Dan S. Wang
Soberscove Press | March 1, 2022
Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic is a collection of interviews, critical essays, and artist portfolios “that consider matters of life and death having to do with breath, both allegorical and literal.”
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms by Tim McLoughlin
Akashic Books | March 1, 2022
In this collection of short fiction and nonfiction, McLoughlin “draws upon his three-decade career in the criminal justice system with his characteristic wit and his fascination with misfits and malfeasance.”
Tanto Tanto by Marina Carreira
CavanKerry Press | March 1, 2022
This poetry collection “highlights two queer daughters of immigrants and the struggles they face in a romantic relationship in the presence of oppressive, culturally sanctioned heteronormativity.”
Gentlemen Callers by Corinne Hoex
Translated from French by Caitlin O’Neil
Dalkey Archive | March 1, 2022
In this English-language debut, “every night when she goes to sleep, a woman dreams of erotic encounters with different men.”
Little Matsue and Other Tales by Larry Boyd
Spineless Wonders | March 1, 2022
Boyd’s short story collection “encompasses a magnificent thread of entangled journeys of acceptance and resignation, but also longing, and resolution.”
The Exquisite Egg: One Artist’s Embellished Creations by Isabel B. Anthony
Et Alia Press | March 1, 2022
The Exquisite Egg: One Artist’s Embellished Creations features the work of egg artist Isabel B. Anthony, styled and photographed by Arshia Khan.
Changeable Gods by Richard Wollman
Slate Roof Press | March 1, 2022
Wollman’s poetry collection “compels the reader through a sequence of beautifully imagistic love poems, in which the changing hues of early morning and the gods themselves emerge and recede.”
Before The Dark Comes by Arturo Mantecón
Nomadic Press | March 1, 2022
In this poetry collection written under the pseudonym José Primitivo Charlevoix, “Arturo Mantecón, translator and bibliophile, chances upon a strange leather-bound book found in a vast private library.”
Nothing Resplendent Lives Here by Renuka Raghavan
Červená Barva Press | March 4, 2022
According to Jayne Martin, in this short story collection “Raghavan cuts to the heart of the human experience, revealing characters at their most vulnerable.”
Screaming in the Night: Sinister Supernatural Stories, Volume 1
Sinister Smile Press | March 7, 2022
The Sinister Supernatural Stories series “brings you delicious horror that focuses on elements of the supernatural,” including stories by Nick Roberts, Matthew R. Davis, Alexandr Bond, and more.
Crow Funeral by Kate Hanson Foster
EastOver Press | March 8, 2022
According to Kristin Hersh, “Foster’s world is a beautiful barn, a frightening mind, and a shimmering street. A timeless America.”
Book*hug Press | March 15, 2022
In this poetry collection, “akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada.”
The Support Verses: Earliest Sayings of the Buddha
Translated from Pali and Sanskrit by Christopher Carter Sanderson
Sagging Meniscus | March 15, 2022
In this translation of The Dhammapada, Sanderson “aims to artistically transmit the essence of Buddha’s sayings in a form useful for meditation.”
Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir by Jonathan Alexander
Acre Books | March 15, 2022
In this unconventional memoir, “Alexander, who grew up in the Deep South during the 1970s and ’80s, addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self.”
Palm-Lined with Potience by Basie Allen
Ugly Duckling Presse | March 15, 2022
Allen’s debut poetry collection is “by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps.”
Behind the Tree Backs by Iman Mohammed
Translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida
Ugly Duckling Presse | March 15, 2022
This poetry collection “excavates war and displacement through a constellation of animate memories carved out of deep pleasure as well as brutality, the ancient and the institutional, the everyday and the geopolitical.”
I Have Seen the Bluest Blue by Natalee Cruz
Ugly Duckling Presse | March 15, 2022
In this debut poetry chapbook, Cruz “uses loose translations and manipulated language to tell the story of a step-mother’s deportation and a father’s heaviness without her.”
Dear Damage by Ashley Marie Farmer
Sarabande Books | March 15, 2022
According to Publishers Weekly, in this collection of hybrid essays Farmer “parses her complicated family history to create a heart-wrenching portrait of love, family, loss, and aging.”
Radix Media | March 16, 2022
Illustrated by artist Matt L., Mortals is “a deeply meditative graphic novel about aging and posterity.”
Masks: Stories from a Pandemic by Peter Cherches
Bamboo Dart Press | March 17, 2022
The 16 stories in this collection “capture the surreal experience of living through a global pandemic and all its attendant challenges—personal, political, and social.”
Bone & Marrow: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern
Wake Forest University Press | March 17, 2022
Edited by Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair, Bone & Marrow: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern “is the most inclusive and comprehensive anthology of Irish-language poetry to date.”
CavanKerry Press | March 21, 2022
The poems in this collection “use the literal metaphor of the highway as an intersecting ‘half-life’ point of America, Asia, and the globe to portray journeys from the Korean and Vietnam War eras to current times.”
The Sun of Always by Liliana Ancalao
Translated from Spanish by Seth Michelson
Eulalia Books | March 22, 2022
Published trilingually in Mapudunzun, Spanish, and English, this poetry collection is “a reckoning and interrogation of the narrative of the benevolent (Western/-minded) naturalist.”
This Could Take Some Time by Clara Muschietti
Translated from Spanish by Curtis Bauer
Eulalia Books | March 22, 2022
According to Robin Myers, “Muschietti’s poems have the immediacy of photographs, but also their disquiet: they present themselves candidly to the reader before revealing, bit by bit, their strangeness, their secluded disturbances, their expressive shadows, even their humor.”
The Adventurists by Richard Butner
Small Beer Press | March 22, 2022
According to Publishers Weekly, this debut short fiction collection “wends ghosts, virtual futures, and the intricacies of friendship into 16 breathtaking, intimate stories.”
Feminist Press | March 22, 2022
In this novel set during the ongoing pandemic, “a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.”
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Natalie Hodges
Bellevue Literary Press | March 22, 2022
Concert solo violinist Hodges “traces her own passage through difficult family dynamics, prejudice, and enormous personal expectations to come to terms with the meaning of a life reimagined.”
i take your voice by Marina Blitshteyn
Switchback Books | March 23, 2022
Winner of the 2021 Gatewood Prize, selected by Joy Priest, this book-length poem “reaches towards bridging languages and generations, mother and daughter, both of whom are given unfiltered voice.”
Myth of Pterygium by Diego Gerard Morrison
Autumn House Press | March 24, 2022
This debut novel is set in “a vaguely dystopian, yet also realistic, Mexico City—endless traffic jams, relentless clouds of pollution, economic hardships, and the ever-present threat of drug cartels.”
Deep Vellum Publishing | March 29, 2022
Edited by Basma Ghalayini, this short fiction anthology “gathers 12 stories of speculation about the future of Palestinians, holding space for conversations about trauma, memory, and contemplation of change.”
The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America by Javier Sinay
Translated from Spanish by Robert Croll
Restless Books | March 29, 2022
Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, “unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the ‘Jerusalem of South America,’ and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.”
The Birthday of the Dead by Rachel Abramowitz
Conduit Books & Ephemera | March 31, 2022
In this poetry collection, Abramowitz “sings of our fallen world, its forgotten seedpods and smoldering fires, and the terrible, steaming coats of ancient wolves, unearthed from glacier-melt.”
Autumn House Press | March 31, 2022
In her debut poetry collection, Sears “navigates the challenges of growing out of girlhood and into womanhood with its potential dangers, interrogating the male gaze, beauty standards, and confidence and identity.”
