“Kathmandu” contains reflections of an immigrant mother raising two young children in America. In the backdrop of her memories of Kathmandu, Anuja Ghimire is trying to find her place in the world and trying to make sense of it. Through a journey of political violence from her first home to her new home, she finds enduring love and hope in the first sightings of spring and in the blossoming of her children. “Kathmandu” poems speak of being a neighbor while still feeling out of place, speaking a foreign tongue while finding it to be a lifeline, all the while readjusting the conclusion of what home is.
Ghimire’s poems reflect the incomplete circularity of returning and moving forward. To understand her children, she returns to her first years and to her mother. To comprehend maddening gun-violence in America while her children begin attending elementary school, she returns to the bombing of Rajiv Gandhi in India when she was a child and the Royal family massacre in Nepal when she was a teen. To satisfy her immigrant hunger, she returns to semolina pudding, the first comfort food she made as a ten-year-old for her little brother. To persevere through headlines fraught with political calamities, Ghimire remembers surviving, as a child, India’s blockades of oil and sugar. To poetize while being lost in transit, she makes art in Walmart. In the twenty-one poems that span a decade, Anuja Ghimire writes about the complexity of never leaving home while moving “to keep things whole.” #poetry #poet #bookstagram #readersofinstagram
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Did you know when you buy one of our books from Bookshop.org, 10% of the sale goes to a local bookstores to help keep the in-store book culture alive? Bookshop also matches that 10% and gives 10% to the publisher. For our small press that's 10% that could support operations, marketing, design, and more. While we always encourage our readers to buy books from our shop, or their local bookstore in person or online using Indiebound (/?aff=20122018), we love the idea of being able to give a piece of the pie the bookstores that have made reading an adventure.
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Looking for a remarkable #feminist book? Read Tsipi Keller's latest book AND YES SHE WAS.
The diary of Annette, a young wife, And Yes She Was is a funny, painful, and insightful account of a marriage disintegrating before our eyes.
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At once delicate and visceral, the poems in To Drown a Man chronicle the long gauntlet from a life of secrets to a life of intimacy. “The only difference between imprisonment and hiding,” Russell writes, “is who shuts the door.” Exploring the meaning of redemption and shame as related to the personal, the marital, and the spiritual, these are the poems of a soul at war with itself. They read like chunks of ore being burned of their dross.
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In The Last Tiger Is Somewhere, two poets from the West bring their work together and take apart the news. Recent history gets jigsawed. Current events get skewered. The result is thirty praise songs, fairy tales, guilty verdicts, and mathematical equations. There are prayers here, and new commandments. There are portraits and photographic negatives. And an introduction by Carney and an afterword by Poole form a frame around it all.
Rob Carney and Scott Poole turn the news on its head in The Last Tiger Somewhere, a poetry collection that brings together the best of both poets. The poets jigsaw recent history and skewer current events. What results is a series of prayers, praise songs, fairy tales, commandments, guilty verdicts, and mathematical equations.
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Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cameron Miller's words in his latest book CAIRN: POEMS AND ESSAYS. After decades of reading and ogling poetry, Miller made room among the novels, newspaper columns, and preaching to hone poems amidst the wild beauty of northernmost Vermont and the pastoral beauty of the Finger Lakes. The elements of nature are this poet’s paint but he also paddles a gondola through the dark channels of the mind while lighting the way.
The words themselves are cairns guiding readers on an inward journey. Both poems and essays work on the reader from two directions, the brain down and the ground up. Poems like “I want to be Mary Oliver” seem whimsical at first but quickly instigate a new look at an old subject. Poems that immediately jump into deep water like “Depression,” offer a sense of liberation via blunt and unvarnished authenticity.
"Cairn" speaks from these two hemispheres of the human experience in a way that aids those who start out with discomfort around poetry. It quickly demonstrates that poetry need not be a strange or inaccessible medium after all.
You can get a copy through our website (unsolicitedpress.com), any major retailer, and as an ebook.
Here are some links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/32QypJw
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Ebook: https://amzn.to/2OKnZD1
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PREORDERS are now available for what may be the coolest book this #fall2020. "From the Land of Genesis" is a profound collection of short stories centered on veterans whose lives have been permanently affected by the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Based on research and interviews that O’Shea conducted himself, these interwoven stories offer insight to the struggles that veterans face upon returning home. However, the stories also feature glimpses of hope amidst the despairing truths that make for beautiful stories veterans can relate to, and for civilian readers to experience vicariously the extremes of the human condition.
Stephen J. O’Shea is a writer, documentarian, and (now) sailor, who tells stories to stay alive. His research for From the Land of Genesis was the catalyst for a sailing expedition around Cape Horn to raise awareness about veteran suicide rates. Having miraculously survived that feat (and transformed that journey into the feature documentary, Hell or High Seas) he's now writing and producing stories through a number of mediums, including literature and film.
Preorder wherever books are sold and directly from the publisher:
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"Letters to Minnehaha Creek" is a poetry collection structured in four sections of poems through the passing seasons. In many of the poems, the narrator addresses Minnehaha Creek directly, reminiscing about her deceased friend, Dorothy, as she walks the same neighborhood routes they once traveled together.
The tone of the poems reflects the seasons. Fall takes place in the aftermath of Dorothy’s death and explores the narrator’s longing for her friend. Winter highlights the narrator’s sadness and acceptance that Dorothy is truly gone. Spring follows, with a lighter tone as the narrator embraces life after the loss of her friend. Summer offers a sense of renewal, with poems that are letters written from the creek, rather than to it. The titles reset to one again, almost as if the manuscript experiences a rebirth.
The setting and symbolism portrayed in Letters to Minnehaha Creek complement the writing
style. For example, the speaker says, “A pair of mallards swim by / as I find my way up the stairs. // A female cardinal / in scalloped flight moves // across the sky alone, surprised / at times her partner is gone.” These vivid images of scenery surrounding the narrator also reflect the speaker’s emotional state. The symbolism of the pair of mallards and the female cardinal flying alone contrasts the speaker’s loneliness with the companionship she once
had.
"Letters to Minnehaha Creek" will resonate with readers who have lost someone or lived with a loved one suffering from illness as it illustrates a vivid path towards healing and rebirth.
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From 7/1-7/31 we are offering all of our ebooks on #smashwords for 50% off. You can download books in whatever format you love.
Download poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction such as Gary M. Almeter's book THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM (/books/view/929690?ref=unsolicitedpress).
Use the code: SSW50 at checkout
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Edit to previous post:
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Raki Kopernik's short story collection THE THINGS YOU LEFT as an audiobook on Audible (/The-Things-You-Left/dp/B08BTXP7CM). You can use this link (https://amzn.to/3dLJmhA) to sign up for Audible and you'll get the first two audiobooks free of charge.
The Things You Left is a 37-story collection built on magical realism and seemingly inconsequential moments between sweet and strange loners that meet in the space between the heart and the mind. A couple throw plates at each other for therapy, a cat shape shifts into a woman, a man is obsessed with canned tuna, a woman relives time with her lover through objects left behind. Sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, The Things You Left explores love, addiction, relationships, and loss.
Raki is a #Jewish, #queer, experimental #fiction and #poetry #writer. She is the author of The Other Body chapbook (Dancing Girl Press) and The Memory House (The Muriel Press). Her work has been published in New Flash Review Fiction, Blue Lyra Review, El Balazo, Duende, and others. It has also been shortlisted and nominated for several awards, including the Pushcart Prize for fiction. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and lives in Minneapolis.
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Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cameron Miller's words in his latest book CAIRN: POEMS AND ESSAYS. After decades of reading and ogling #poetry, Miller made room among the novels, newspaper columns, and preaching to hone poems amidst the wild beauty of northernmost Vermont and the pastoral beauty of the Finger Lakes. The elements of nature are this poet’s paint but he also paddles a gondola through the dark channels of the mind while lighting the way.
The words themselves are cairns guiding readers on an inward journey. Both poems and essays work on the reader from two directions, the brain down and the ground up. Poems like “I want to be Mary Oliver” seem whimsical at first but quickly instigate a new look at an old subject. Poems that immediately jump into deep water like “Depression,” offer a sense of liberation via blunt and unvarnished authenticity.
Cairn speaks from these two hemispheres of the human experience in a way that aids those who start out with discomfort around poetry. It quickly demonstrates that poetry need not be a strange or inaccessible medium after all.
#poet #bookstagram #book #books #writingcommunity #summerreading #reading
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