Inez's family is shattered when her father is arrested on the Tex-Mex border. The old ways cherished by her beloved Mexican grandmother offer refuge. But life in 1960s El Paso is far more exciting, as miniskirts, rock, and the sexual revolution shatter tradition on both sides of the border. “More than a coming-of-age story … American Tumbleweeds is a story of bravery, family, and humanity.” — Latin é - Short-listed for the 2017 Sarton Women's Literary Awards - American Tumbleweeds captures poignantly the growing pains of a teenaged girl and of all immigrants whose dual cultural identities lend them both strength and strife. From Amalia, the matriarchal grandmother, to Inez, woman-child of the 1960s, these “American tumbleweeds” portray every family: loving and clinging, wounding each other deeply while comforting each other in the soul-deep ways that only families can reach. Says Sonia Manzano, "Maria" of Sesame Street: "This is an experience all Americans should know about.”

American Tumbleweeds

Literature & Fiction

Marta Elva

United States

Circling Rivers

Gritty and tender, lyrical and raw, Robert Hazel’s poetry illuminates the mystical in the commonplace, the sacred body in the exploited flesh, the human voice nearly lost in the racket of our machines. His vision of America’s life never flinches, it never loses faith, and it stays true to this day. "Robert Hazel has written poems that stand, not only apart, but high and alone.” —Wendell Berry "Instead of polishing the shoes of the American dream or shrieking at it, Hazel is rude to it. He dislikes the usual clean-shaven version of American history…. Hazel is something independent—a voice strong and unpleasant." —Robert Bly "There is no poet of his generation to whom more has been given." —Allen Tate

Who Touches This

Hazel, Robert

Poetry

With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, in America

WITH WALT WHITMAN: HIMSELF immerses the reader in the life and times of the poet called “America’s bard,” with over 300 period images and text including extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and a few enemies). Explore the fascinating roots of Whitman's great work Leaves of Grass: a family harrowed by alcoholism and mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward. The coming year 2019 will mark the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth; this book anticipates the celebration with a perspective of Walt Whitman “in the nineteenth century, in America,” as he himself put it.

Biographies & Memoirs

Huets, Jean

Arts & Literature

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems

In Greek myth, Alcestis descends to the underworld in place of her husband, a king, so that he may continue to rule the living. After she returns, she and her family live--presumably--happily ever after. But she has seen and learned things no one else knows. Alcestis in the Underworld articulates a poet's personal experience of civic duty: her life in Moscow as a U.S. diplomat, after growing up in then-USSR Ukraine. 
Praise for Nina Murray's Minimize Considered
"These poems--this poet--bear the unmistakable stamp of the real thing." -- Roy Scheele, author of The Sledders and A Far Allegiance
"Reading Nina Murray's work is, in some ineffable way, like turning the pages of your own life. It leaves you in greater harmony with the world and more deeply in touch with its infinite possibilities.... Beautiful writing, a singular book of poems, rendered in precise, crisp language yet, marvellously, managing to produce a powerful visceral, vivid, heart-bound, near-inarticulable impression." -- Mikhail Iossel, author of Every Hunter Wants to Know and contributing writer New Yorker

Murray, Nina

With Walt Whitman, Himself immerses you in the life and times of the poet called "America's bard," with over 300 period images and text that includes extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and enemies). Explore the fascinating roots of his great work: a family harrowed by alcoholism and mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward.
"A true Whitmanian feast--for the intellect as well as for the eyes.... Illustrations of Whitman's places, friends, family, disciples, contemporaries--his cities and his rural retreats. The descriptions of his life and times are concise and smart. The book keeps opening up to new facets of Whitman, his work, and his era." -- Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and Co-Director of The Walt Whitman Archive
"With Walt Whitman, Himself is perfectly titled for to read of him so closely is to feel his eyes upon you, to sense his company as real as your own. Jean Huets has made a book of marvels and I can't put it down." -- Steve Scafidi, recipient of Miller Williams Prize and Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry

Raw, tender, always unsparing, Wilson gives us a woman growing even as her children grow, revealing to her more of the world, dissipating the violence of the self. Total easement is not granted-just, perhaps, a gentler reckoning with existence. Brian Brett, winner of CBC Poetry Prize, says, "This is one of the most powerful gathering of poems I've read in years. Our study is to understand that a new voice has strode across the field, and made its place."

At Home with Disquiet: Poems

Wilson, Erin

In Greek myth, Alcestis descends to the Underworld in place of her husband, a king, so that he may continue to rule the living. After she returns, she and her family live - presumably - happily ever after. But she has seen and learned things no one else knows. Alcestis in the Underworld articulates a poet's personal experience of civic duty: her life in Moscow as a U.S. diplomat, after growing up in then-USSR Ukraine.

Says Pulitzer Prizing winning poet Carl Dennis, "Love's Fingerprints makes its strange and original music from the duet of past and present. Emerson said that when he was educating himself in his youth, two great parties were in contention, 'the party of hope and the party of memory.' The poems in Love's Fingerprints belong to both parties, braiding them together in moving dialogue." Poet Bernard Horn investigates the deep imprints made on us by those we love, living and remembered: mother and father, wife/lover, children and grandchildren, ancestors known only through stories passed down, homes long lost and homes holding us today, and two nations--the United States and Israel. Family life intersects with the larger world, with an undercurrent of the Book of Job. Says Major Jackson, author of The Absurd Man: "Love's Fingerprints emerges in the ear as a jubilant song of persistent memory that entrancingly recalls a life made rich by the promontories of family and abundant love. Humane and exuberant, his is the kind of intellect that rushes over the past like water over pebbles, elevating ordinary moments to the realm of art with a luminosity that startles. Such wondrous clarity of language and sound are owed to feats of wisdom but also a loyalty to one's revelations."

Love's Fingerprints: Poems

Horn, Bernard

Praise and Threnody

"Robert Hazel has written poems that stand, not only apart, but high and alone."? -Wendell Berry. Gritty and tender, raw and lyrical, Robert Hazel's poetry illuminates the mystical in the commonplace, the sacred body in the exploited flesh, the human voice amidst the racket of our machines. His vision of America's life never flinches, it never loses faith, and it stays true to this day.

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American Tumbleweeds

Who Touches This

With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, in America

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems

With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, in America

At Home with Disquiet: Poems

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems

Love's Fingerprints: Poems

Praise and Threnody

Praise and Threnody