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Books Launching in November 2023

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in November 2023 from CLMP members.

 

Song of the Mountains by John C. Mannone featuring graphic art of mountains under a sunset. Song of the Mountains by John C. Mannone

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | November 1, 2023

Song of the Mountains is “a poetic celebration, eulogy, metaphor for Appalachia. Sometimes it dances and laughs, but too many times it cries.”

 

 

 

Ghost Seeds by Sebastian Merrill featuring pink and teal patterns with the title and author name centered in a mint-green bubble. GHOST :: SEEDS by Sebastian Merrill

Texas Review Press | November 1, 2023

Winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn, this book-length poem “incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity.”

 

 

 

The Matchstick Litanies by Jo Reyes-Boitel featuring purple and pink artwork of a house’s backyard against a sunset surrounded by a purple background.the matchstick litanies by jo reyes-boitel

Next Page Press | November 1, 2023

“Blending poetic memoir and revelation,” these poems “refuse to look away from what is burning and show us that sometimes fire can create a path for self-fulfillment.”

 

 

 

No Small Thing by Ellen Rowland featuring a gold and a dark blue patterned circle against a beige background.No Small Thing by Ellen Rowland

Fernwood Press | November 1, 2023

In these poems, Rowland “summons us to presence, showing us the world through an unfiltered lens that asks us to consider the beauty and truth of the ordinary.”

 

 

 

The Inventor: A Transcolonial Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios featuring artwork of a pile of junk against a white and red background.The Inventor: A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios

Marsh Hawk Press | November 1, 2023

According to Tabios, “In The Inventor, I show how Poetry is not mere words but a proactive approach to improving our relationships with each other and life on our planet.”

 

 

 

Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose by DeWitt Henry

Pierian Springs Press | November 2, 2023

This collection features found poems transformed “from the original prose by twenty-nine classic and contemporary authors.”

 

 

 

How to Become the God of Small Things by Fiona Lu featuring a photograph of green grass surrounded by a dark green border. How to Become the God of Small Things by Fiona Lu

Map Literary | November 2, 2023

In her debut chapbook, Lu “vividly extracts the storms of familial relationships and weaves them into a work filled with feminine strengths, landscapes of fragility, and humanized gods.”

 

 

 

EtC by Laura Mullen featuring a photograph of a room graffitied with pictures of a bull sticking its tongue out. EtC by Laura Mullen

Solid Objects | November 2, 2023

This poetry collection “explores contemporary American selfhood, socially mediated and economically motivated, within a system where we learn to see and represent ourselves as one marketable image among many.”

 

 

 

La Nana Del Coquí by Georgina Lázaro featuring colorful artwork of a young boy with a toy plane sitting in the grass looking up at birds in the sky. La nana del coquí by Georgina Lázaro

Editorial Destellos | November 3, 2023

This children’s book is “a modern take on the traditional lullaby, with fantastically illustrated scenes that bring the verses to life of what will surely be a new bedtime favorite.”

 

 

 

Time Out of Joint by Teresa Carson featuring a photograph of the letters “D”, C”, “V”, and “E” repeated on the pavement and the shadow of a hand holding up a phone to take a picture surrounded by a black border. Time Out of Joint by Teresa Carson

Translated into the Italian by Alessandro Di Mauro

Deerbrook Editions | November 4, 2023

In Book III in The Argument of Time series, Carson “explores not only how places of the past are often scripted to elicit specific responses from visitors, but also how the stories we tell about the past are often scripted to fit a particular point of view about a past event.”

 

 

 

Cross Stitch by Jazmina Barrera featuring a photograph of an island with colorful circles floating across the cover.Cross-Stitch by Jazmina Barrera

Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Two Lines Press | November 7, 2023

Cross-Stitch is a “debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age.”

 

 

 

The Manning Girl by Catherine Browder featuring black outlines of two dogs and a green background. The Manning Girl by Catherine Browder

Regal House Publishing | November 7, 2023

Browder’s novel “reimagines George Eliot’s 1860 fable, Silas Marner, and places it in a contemporary Midwestern frame.”

 

 

 

Low by Nick Flynn featuring watercolor artwork of orbs attached to strings against a white background. Low by Nick Flynn

Graywolf Press | November 7, 2023

Flynn’s latest poetry collection “explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma.”

 

 

 

She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner featuring a light blue and yellow ombre background with the title’s letters cut from photographs of fire, the sky, water, and dirt.She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner

Book*hug Press | November 7, 2023

In this poetry collection, Hausner “brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life.”

 

 

 

Ascent of the Mothers by Noelle Kocot featuring a plain beige cover with the title and author sideways.Ascent of the Mothers by Noelle Kocot

Wave Books | November 7, 2023

Kocot’s ninth collection is “a sagacious testament to the ways in which poetry can shape personhood.”

 

 

 

Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa featuring tribal artwork of a bird on a pot with red patterns against a white background. Ndima Ndima by Tsitsi Mapepa

Catalyst Press | November 7, 2023

This novel is “the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters—and her community—through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood.”

 

 

 

I am the dead, who, you take care of me by Anthony McCann featuring plain cream-colored background with the title in big bold black letters. I am the dead, who, you take care of me by Anthony McCann

Wave Books | November 7, 2023

The poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me “are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead.”

 

 

 

Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels by Kevin McIlvoy featuring a purple and orange photograph of tree branches. Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels by Kevin McIlvoy

WTAW Press | November 7, 2023

McIlvoy’s final work of fiction showcases his “artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fairy tales, the short short form-writing that thrives in the edges, margins, and borderlands.”

 

 

 

Uncollected Later Poems (1968–1979) by Ernst Meister featuring a plain mustard-yellow cover with the text in white font. Uncollected Later Poems (1968–1979) by Ernst Meister

Translated from the German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick

Wave Books | November 7, 2023

In these new translations of Meister’s poetry, “each line is gnomic yet ample, opening spaces of reflection on mortality and infinity.”

 

 

 

In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie by Rob Roensch featuring a beige cover with a sunset-colored pattern at the bottom half. In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie by Rob Roensch

Belle Point Press | November 7, 2023

This coming-of-age novel follows “a soulful yet aimless twenty-something” in Oklahoma City who is confronted by a family health crisis.

 

 

 

Limited Editions by Carole Stone featuring detailed artwork of fish, eggs, garlic, and hay next to an open lantern. Limited Editions by Carole Stone

CavanKerry Press | November 7, 2023

Stone’s Limited Editions is “an end-of-life narrative journey, from her long-term marriage to the illness and death of her husband.”

 

 

 

Cane: A New Critical Edition by Jean Toomer featuring black-and-white lined artwork in the letters of the title against an orange and white background. Cane: A New Critical Edition by Jean Toomer

The 3rd Thing | November 7, 2023

The 100th anniversary critical edition of Toomer’s masterpiece is “an invitation to wonder, speculate, imagine and create.”

 

 

 

Leaping from the Burning Train by Jeanne Murray Walker featuring a photograph of a woman’s silhouette leaping off a cliff from high above. Leaping from the Burning Train by Jeanne Murray Walker

Slant Books | November 7, 2023

This memoir tells the story of a teenaged girl who “abruptly realizes the tight-knit fundamentalist community she has been raised in may not have all the answers it claims to have.”

 

 

 

Sinnerman by Michael Waters featuring a red photograph of a tornado and a cloudy sky. Sinnerman by Michael Waters

Etruscan Press | November 7, 2023

This collection “charts the fluid boundaries between transgression and transcendence in narrative poems containing Waters’ signature lyrical gestures.”

 

 

 

Asides by George Singleton featuring a navy-blue outline of South Carolina against a white background. Asides by George Singleton

EastOver Press | November 8, 2023

In this essay collection, Singleton explains “how he came to be a writer (he blames barbecue), why he still writes his first draft by hand (someone stole his typewriter), and what motivated him to run marathons.”

 

 

 

Encontrando a Paco by Thaís Bermúdez and Julio Puigdorfila featuring graphic artwork of a brown dog peeking through tall grass with purple trees in the background.Encontrando a Paco by Thaís Bermúdez and Julio Puigdorfila

Editorial Destellos | November 10, 2023

This children’s book is “a heartwarming story of a lost stray dog who doesn’t give up his search for a forever home.”

 

 

 

Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away, Edited by Hannah Grieco, featuring a silhouette of a girl against an orange, yellow, red, and green-lined background.Already Gone: Forty Stories of Running Away

Alan Squire Publishing | November 14, 2023

Edited by Hannah Grieco, this anthology is “a collection of runaway stories that explores what it means to fly, to flee, to escape—to search for who we are.”

 

 

 

As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson featuring a photograph of sideways mountains with melting blurry colors of pink, purple, and orange on the right side.As The Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson

Translated from the French by Anita Anand

Book*hug Press | November 14, 2023

This autobiographical, coming-of-age novel “probes the plurality of identity, elucidating the interwoven complexities of immigrating to a new country.”

 

 

 

An Unruled Body by Ani Gjika featuring artwork of a hand holding a spiraling mirror looking at a woman’s reflection against a dark starry night background. An Unruled Body by Ani Gjika

Restless Books | November 14, 2023

In this debut memoir, “Gjika tells a different kind of immigrant story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.”

 

 

 

Neither Created Nor Destroyed by Zara Jamshed featuring artwork of a hooded figure against a cloudy night sky with photos of a temple, rocketship, and satellite dish surrounding them. Neither Created Nor Destroyed by Zara Jamshed

Game Over Books | November 14, 2023

Jamshed’s memoir “is the brave and vulnerable story of a young woman who explores her own trauma, belonging, and self-actualization.”

 

 

 

Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record by Steven L. Jones featuring graphic artwork of a man and woman with white hats and guitars sitting on a bench under a tree in a cemetery. Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record by Steven L. Jones

Feral House | November 14, 2023

“An exploration of an age-old topic—our human need to document the horrors of the world around us,” this book includes a wide range of songs and performers about “killers and victims.”

 

 

 

Hulk Church by Justin Lacour featuring a photograph of a statue of a man holding a spear and crying dark tears behind green abstract artwork. Hulk Church by Justin Lacour

Belle Point Press | November 14, 2023

The speaker in this chapbook “evokes a sacramental vision that grace may continue to abound whether we are prepared to welcome it or not.”

 

 

 

Best Amigas by Patricia Marcantonio featuring graphic artwork of two young girls sitting on the sidewalk in front of a house. Best Amigas by Patricia Marcantonio

Fitzroy Books | November 14, 2023

In this children’s book, “Juana Méndez and Diane Conrad are going to save each other’s lives. Not with super heroics, but with a friendship that gets them through everything.”

 

 

 

Queer Ideas by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies featuring a plain purple cover with the title and authors in yellow and white text. Queer Ideas

Feminist Press | November 14, 2023

This book from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies “collects the first ten historic Kessler Lectures by influential scholars, writers, and activists including Cherríe Moraga, Samuel R. Delany, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Barbara Smith.”

 

 

 

Cells by Lucianna Chixaro Ramos featuring half a black and grey spotted cell against a white background. Cells by Lucianna Chixaro Ramos

Burrow Press | November 14, 2023

“Using bees, hives and keepers as a central conceit,” this poetry collection “explores how language acts as imperfect material for building not only poems, but also laws and institutions.”

 

 

 

The Accomplished Muskrat Trapper by Arno E. Schmidt featuring a beige and blue patterned background against red text. The Accomplished Muskrat Trapper by Arno E. Schmidt

Long Day Press | November 14, 2023

This reprinting of Schmidt’s 1922 “quintessential introduction to trapping muskrats” is presented in a new edition with an introduction by Kyle François.

 

 

 

 

We Go Liquid by Christian TeBordo featuring a black cover with red patterns.We Go Liquid by Christian TeBordo

Long Day Press | November 14, 2023

In this novel, a boy receives an email that “may be a message from his mother beyond the grave or it may be spam offering free movie tickets.”

 

 

 

 

Pervatory by RM Vaughan featuring hot pink and black patterns circling around a pink and white circle with black droplets in the center. Pervatory by R. M. Vaughan

Coach House Books | November 14, 2023

Pervatory is “a novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love and madness.”

 

 

 

At Night He Lifts Weights by Kang Young-sook featuring artwork of a head with red hair split into fragments against a mustard-yellow background. At Night He Lifts Weights by Kang Young-sook

Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong

Transit Books | November 14, 2023

This short fiction collection “offers a disquieting vision of a society grappling with ecological catastrophe and unplaceable forms of loss.”

 

 

 

Pilgrims 2.0 by Lindsey Harding featuring a textured blue photograph of a cruise ship.Pilgrims 2.0 by Lindsey Harding

Acre Books | November 15, 2023

Pilgrims 2.0 is “a novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery.”

 

 

 

Churn by Chloe Chun Seim featuring the title in large black letters scattered around the cover and the author’s name in white letters against a blue background.Churn by Chloe Chun Seim

Texas Review Press | November 15, 2023

Churn “mines the uncanny to tell a story of rural Kansas” in this novel spanning “from the plains of rural Kansas to hundred-acre towns, the end of the universe to its primordial breath.”

 

 

 

In Lieu of Solutions by Violet Spurlock featuring a plain blue cover with the title and author’s name in white letters scrambled all over the cover. In Lieu of Solutions by Violet Spurlock

Futurepoem | November 15, 2023

According to Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Spurlock’s debut poetry collection is “a trans ars poetica for our zeitgeist,” featuring “a dazzling array of poetic forms, linguistic permutations, and neologisms.”

 

 

 

Driftwood at the River’s Edge by Peter Wortsman featuring a blue and white photograph of a rocky shore against a forest. Driftwood at the River’s Edge by Peter Wortsman

Bamboo Dart Press | November 15, 2023

According to Wortsman, “Like driftwood, words, phrases and severed sentences come floating by. Part fisherman, part scavenger, I spread my net and rescue these bits of debris from the deep.”

 

 

 

Angela’s Mixtape + The History of Light by Eisa Davis featuring three vintage photographs of a Black child in a red shirt. Angela’s Mixtape + The History of Light by Eisa Davis

53rd State Press | November 16, 2023

In Angela’s Mixtape, “time shifts like a mixtape, and like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a gift”; The History of Light is “a study in black and white, love and alienation.”

 

 

 

The Quality of Mercy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu featuring a series of photographs of a bird, flowers, a horn, and a book against a black background.The Quality of Mercy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Catalyst Press | November 19, 2023

The final novel in the City of Kings trilogy, set in South Africa, follows “the investigation of Spokes Moloi, the first black chief inspector in the City of Kings, who on the eve of his retirement is handed one final crime.”

 

 

 

Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, Edited by J. Robert Lennon & Carmen Maria Machado, featuring blue game menus against a black background.Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games

Graywolf Press | November 21, 2023

Edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado, this anthology features essays exploring video games by Hanif Abdurraqib, Charlie Jane Anders, Alexander Chee, Larissa Pham, and more.

 

 

Shake the Atmosphere to Reclaim An Empty MomentShake the Atmosphere to Reclaim and Empty Moment by Caroline Reddy

Pierian Springs Press | November 21, 2023

This poetry collection is “based on the life of a woman who has rediscovered peace and purpose after years of depression, heartache, and trauma.”

 

 

Alice B. Toklas is Missing by Robert Archambeau featuring a blue graphic of a red shoe and hat left on the sidewalk under a glowing streetlamp with the Eiffel Tower in the background.Alice B. Toklas Is Missing by Robert Archambeau

Regal House Publishing | November 28, 2023

In this novel, “young Midwesterner Ida Caine arrives in Paris with her husband Teddy, a would-be Hemingway who thinks he can adventure first and write later.”

 

 

 

G.I. Days, An Anthology of Military Life, edited by Mary Senter, featuring artwork of a soldier in uniform with a gun and helmet smoking a cigarette.G.I. Days: An Anthology of Military Life

Milltown Press | November 28, 2023

The twenty-nine stories and poems in this anthology edited by Mary Senter “give a glimpse into the lives of a diverse cross-section of U.S. military-connected writers, from Vietnam veterans to current military spouses.”

 

 

 

Dark Wings: A Brief Anthology of the Eerie & Uncanny

The Fabulist | November 29, 2023

This chapbook “collects two short fictions from The Fabulist Magazine’s archives that transport us beyond the fields we know, to a place that seems familiar, yet is full of disquieting strangeness.”