I`m ghost - Four Way Books
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I`m ghost - Four Way Books
FA L L 2 0 1 4 Welcome to Four Way Books Director Martha Rhodes Associate Directors Sally Ball & Ryan Murphy Financial Director Jeffery Morehouse Publicist & Assistant Editor Clarissa Long Publicist Laura Swearingen-Steadwell Associate Editors Bridget Bell, Cynthia Lowen, Ross Middleton, Kathleen Ossip, Jonathan Thirkield Web Development Maudelle Driskell Founding Editors Jane Brox, Helen Fremont, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Martha Rhodes Officers David Lee, President Owen Lewis, Vice President Jeffery Morehouse, Treasurer Marjorie Tesser, Secretary Board Members Carla Carlson Michelle Gillett Howard Levy Martha Rhodes Boris Thomas Ellen Bryant Voigt four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Contents: Fall 2014 Spring 2015 Around the Corner News Recently Published Ordering Information four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY The Invisible Kingdom Over the Orinoco Through the black fields Of what once was Eden. A queen in a glass Palanquin, I slept through the burning Author Photo: Steven Paige And was laid flat on the grass Like a child Dragged in from the ocean. In the morning, three singing women arrived. They slit open the lung of my belly. But there were no babies inside, Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Paris Review, and other magazines. Her first collection of poems, Ruin, was published by Alice James Books and her second collection, The Glimmering Room, was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Just green sea foam and jewelEncrusted earthworms. These words, this terrible song. four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY “I’m anguished—and utterly exhilarated—by this book. Its electrifying reckoning with whole worlds of trauma has this poet’s powers ratcheted up to 11, but the speakers aren’t blown out: it’s not volume that’s turned up high but emotion, articulation, and the bright amazing line connecting the two. Cruz is astonishing. This book is not merely beautiful or frightening (though it is both to extremes) but very deeply weird, weird by necessity to find the truth of intense suffering, and extraordinarily precise. The poet’s clarity doesn’t narrow or exclude; it deepens, dives. . . . Cruz exposes that glorious hell that is having a history, having a body, remembering everything and trying to make something good of it. She makes something brilliant of it: fearless close-to-the-bone truthtelling and a triumphant work of art.” —Brenda Shaughnessy “Cynthia Cruz’s daring new book is not just a cabinet of wonders but a carefully curated underworld of thought, memory, and dream. These dark and commanding poems touch the crisis that lies at the very edge of perception. Their crystalline, Baudelairean vision will haunt, trouble, and astonish you.” —Elizabeth Willis WUNDERKAMMER Cynthia Cruz Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-47-5 • Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 72 pages • 6 x 9 Also read The Glimmering Room four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY Past Praise for David Dodd Lee “Highly dynamic, irreverent, subversive, and driven by a kinetic music that often breaks into riot, The Nervous Filaments is equal parts burning car and predatory rain, an unstable, hugely intelligent electrical box that bleeds.” —Nick Sturm, The Laurel Review “This collection reads very much like a memory of some long forgotten, nonexistent place that we so desperately want to (re)discover. It is a melancholic remembering, an evolutionary ache, that unexplainable and universal feeling we wake up with each morning.” —Kay Cosgrove, Gulf Coast “Obsessively, elegantly, poignantly, David Dodd Lee immerses himself in the mysterious intercourse of self and place.” —Franz Wright Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-48-2 • Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 68 pages • 6 x 9 Also read The Nervous Filaments and Arrow Pointing North “Once in a while, a book of poems is so unmemorable that I forget it’s in my hands; once in a longer while, a book will stick in me like a spear. A grievous and gorgeous tour of things-have-goneto-pieces-since-you-left-me America, David Dodd Lee’s The Nervous Filaments is most certainly of the latter class. There is no sleep so deep I would not hear it there.” —Graham Foust four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY Author Photo: Louise Mathias I’ll Be Right With You I flipped a coin into a soda bottle and wanted to believe in something I had yet to discover. Like when one of my pills rolls across the kitchen floor. You’d think there was a great order underlying all things. David Dodd Lee is the author of eight previous books of poems, including The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010). He is the editor of two poetry / fiction anthologies: Shade 2004 & 2006 (Four Way Books) and The Other Life: the Selected Poems of Herbert Scott (Carnegie Mellon, 2010). His poems have appeared in Court Green, Denver Quarterly, Field, Jacket, The Nation, Nerve, and in many other places. He is also a visual artist, writes and publishes fiction, publishes chapbooks and full-length titles as editor-in-chief of 42 Miles Press, and teaches classes in poetry, publishing, art history, and the art of collage at Indiana University South Bend, where he is assistant professor of English. He lives in Osceola, east of South Bend, where he kayaks and fishes on Baugo Bay. four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY The Burning Ones The seraphim hovering over the city thunder holy holy holy. They moan and moan Author Photo: An Rong Xu that lone word—a prayer strangled in their sober throats. We hoist umbrellas to joust their sobs flushing from above like crushed stars. We ignore that gold chord droning Eugenia Leigh is the recipient of awards and fellowships from The Asian American Literary Review, Kundiman, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Rattle. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Collagist, North American Review, and the Best New Poets 2010 anthology. Eugenia serves as poetry editor of Kartika Review and lives in Chicago. and droning. We know nothing of glory. The sky, to the polluted eye, black as asphalt. four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY “This book went through me like a blue lightning strike. Part lyric, part narrative, and always alive, unflinchingly alive. A wonderful book and an even more astonishing debut!” —Thomas Lux “Whether in furious psalm or impassioned testimony, the woman we meet in these poems is sharply aware that any kind of answer fragments into further questions. And she is committed to such undertakings. In Eugenia Leigh’s moving debut collection, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, the reader is drawn into a childhood that is ‘My father’s voice full of boils’ ... ‘I offer God 1997’ ... ‘angel hunting’ ... ‘my mother’s voice / flapping in my blood: If you need to run, run’ ...and daring to ‘hate the dead’. Join her in this resolve.” —Kimiko Hahn “Built out of blood and awe, rooted in sorrow and radiant lyricism, these poems remind us that ‘to survive is to be / wholly human.’ Divine and earthly voices haunt these poems. God and parents singe the speaker’s heart; angels and sisters redeem it. These poems are brutal and brilliant. But also instructive. They teach us to ‘weld our wounds / to form tools.’ This is a book of moving and startling epiphanies. I can’t wait to teach it.” —Eduardo Corral Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows EugEnia LEigh Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-49-9 • Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 84 pages • 6 x 9 four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY GREGORY PARDLO DIGEST Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-50-5 • Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 84 pages • 6 x 9 “A bright-red thread of fatherhood runs through this book—at times tenuous, at times mythic—always searching and revelatory, grounded in our present moment while wrestling with eternity—a thrilling, brilliant, and deeply moving ride.” —Nick Flynn “Gregory Pardlo renders history just as clearly and palpably as he renders New York City, or Copenhagen, or his native New Jersey. But mostly what he renders is America, with its intractable conundrums and its clashing iconographies. With lines that balance poise and a jam-packed visceral music, and images that glimmer and seethe together like a conflagration, these poems are a showcase for Pardlo’s ample and agile mind, his courageous social conscience, and his mighty voice.” —Tracy K. Smith “In an age of poems crafted to resemble linguistic balloon-animals or sheets of floral wallpaper, it is rare to find an American poet thinking seriously about anything. . . . Smart and humane, Digest engages in lyricized textual analysis, playful philosophical exegesis, and satirical syllabi building, even as it evokes a Whitmanesque Brooklyn of the 21st Century that Pardlo inhabits with a ‘neighborknowing confidence and ease.’ These are poems that delight the ear, encourage the heart, and nourish the brain.” —Campbell McGrath four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY from Problemata Author Photo: Rahel Eliza Grifftths I finally friended my brother. It may be we will never speak again. Why speak when we have this crystal ball through which to judge one another’s lives? I imagine this is what the afterlife will be like. I’m ghost, we say instead of goodbye. Gregory Pardlo’s first book, Totem, received the American Poetry Review / Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House, as well as anthologies including Angles of Ascent, the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and two editions of Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. An associate editor of Callaloo, he is currently a teaching fellow in Undergraduate Writing at Columbia University. four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY Her Green Shoes Author Photo: Claire Siesfeld Her grass green shoes pass through our closets, their tongues broken. We hover over them, expecting them to stir, like stalks in wind. Our mother wore them to go dancing, slender in a pale silk dress, and wore them when she went for good— click click, her heels. Cammy Thomas is the author of Cathedral of Wish (Four Way Books), which received the 2006 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by Medbh McGuckian. Thomas’s poems have recently appeared in Appalachia, Bateau, The Classical Outlook, The Healing Muse, and Ibbetson Street Press. The recipient of a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, she lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and teaches literature and creative writing at Concord Academy. four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Fall 2014 POETRY “The poems of Cammy Thomas’s second collection, Inscriptions, have an emotional ferocity and lyric intensity that cut to the quick of desolating loss and fraught family legacies. ‘Air froze as they breathed it, icicles / in the lungs. They were pierced / by that which melted and left no trace,’ she writes in ‘The Emperor of Oyster Bay,’ the poem capturing in its final image the very essence of woundedness—the painful thing that leaves no trace but shapes, and makes, a life. These are poems that seek what endures beyond lack and the fragile consolations of a seemingly allconsuming world. The implacable balm Thomas offers, and the mercy, is her refusal to look away.” —Daniel Tobin Inscriptions Cammy Thomas Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-46-8 • Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 72 pages • 6 x 9 Also read The Cathedral of Wish “‘All that is personal soon rots,’ wrote Yeats, ‘unless it is packed in ice and salt.’ His words seem a fitting herald for the stark poems of Cammy Thomas’s Inscriptions—words exact, incised, cut deep—and not one word more than will suffice. In a world not made for us, the implacable is given voice in an unadorned, unerring Anglo-Saxon— written with a candor that is its own searing source of light. —Eleanor Wilner four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 FICTION Liam Callanan “Over and over Callanan finds that moment when a character’s past, their deepest longings, their most intimate fears, emerge from the flood waters of daily life and stand exposed. These richly imagined and beautifully written stories transport the reader from TV studios to lonely woods, from an old convent to a new gym, from war-time Alaska to the beach at Santa Monica. The result is a wonderfully readable and hugely pleasurable collection.” —Margot Livesey four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY Furs Not MiNe ANdreA CoheN “Furs Not Mine is a book full of completely new form and tone. To call this work ‘intricately crafted’ is an understatement, but needs to be said. Reading these poems, one feels a little afraid to breathe, that to shift a comma or change a line break would be to blow down the cathedral that’s been built out of grains of sand. This is craft, but it’s also infused with mystical moments, sacred intuitions. Delicate and difficult, these are some of the most memorable poems I’ve ever read. Period.” —Laura Kasischke four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY SerieS | india elizabeth t. gray, jr. “With her invocation of John Ashbery at the head of her long poem, Elizabeth Gray takes aim at an older mood that surrealism and modernism divided between them: Shakespearean woe-or-wonder, the Sublime, and the marvel. Her little band of American travelers, in their muddled breakthrough passage to India, refracts what the writer more clearly and subtly has found there. As one of several works that will be geographically centered while plotted by ‘field,’ it commences a spiritual adventure, a passage through India and on out.” —John Peck four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY Lighting ShADOW thE RAChEL ELiZA gRiFFithS “Lighting the Shadow is a unique embodiment of the unseen space between language and spirit. In bristling eloquence, Griffiths has written about history as the embodiment of personal loss, about the soul’s traveled landscape in the inner breath of what constitutes gender and humanity. The imagery in these poems rips through to the reader with a freshness that comes only from a poet who knows the terrain of the subconscious, the place where speech and gesture, word and act, water and stone form the invisible reality. The figure of the mystic in the body of mythos, these poems are astonishing and tangible as Johnny Cash’s black suit. This is the brand of a sincerity in suffering that has made of itself the deepest compassion. Lighting the Shadow is as much about the truer definition of art as it is about the subjects that live inside it. Bravo.” —Afaa Michael Weaver four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY TIDAL Josh Kalscheur WINNER OF THE FOUR WAY BOOKS LEVIS PRIZE IN POETRY “Some great books of poems feel driven by the play of language, endlessly inventive syntax propelling us headlong down the page. Other great books feel driven by conviction, the poet enraptured by a world that feels bigger, messier than the language at hand. Josh Kalscheur’s Tidal is both these books at once. Set from start to finish in the seductively claustrophobic culture of Micronesia, the poems make the act of recording the world seem indistinguishable from an act of the highest imagination. Every perspective (male, female, old, young, outsider, insider) is rendered here in a language whose inventiveness feels inexhaustible—syntax, line, and diction colluding to build poems that are themselves the world in which the poet walks. This world, the world of human suffering, human folly, belongs to all of us, but the language—pulsing, tender, giddy, suave—is Josh Kalscheur’s alone.” —James Longenbach, judge four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY Pax americana Paul Otremba “Reading this book, I felt the world I live in melt away. Each story is so different from the next, each character a little code to be cracked, each time period and geographical location completely convincing, each life thoroughly absorbing. A strange, illuminating, and compelling book. Like falling into a cloud.” —Monica Wood four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY Repetition Rebecca Reilly “Rebecca Reilly’s admirably stark account of grief is as laconic as Anne Carson at her rigorous best. Reilly writes about brokenness in phrases that feel divinely secure. Her voice has a durable core, rooted in wry wisdom and in musical honesty. Through poetic simplicity and philosophical profundity, Repetition weaves a mesmeric spell, its deathless words arranged with uncommon beauty.” —Wayne Koestenbaum four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY The Names of Birds Daniel Wolff “The poems in The Names of Birds aren’t really about birds. Instead each individual species is a filter through which the human is seen, so that observation and introspection become overlaid and compounded acts. These poems show us the more accurately we can look outward, the more deeply we can see within our human selves.” —Lucia Perillo four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Around the Corner Fall 2015 J. Mae Barizo Reginald Dwayne Betts Laurel Blossom Patrick Ryan Frank Stephanie Ford Rebecca Okrent Jonathan Wells Spring 2016 Catherine Bowman Cynthia Cruz Sydney Lea Mark Levine Rajiv Mohabir Maya Pindyck Daniel Tobin C. Dale Young Selected Reviews “. . . a collection that’s both mordantly funny and delightfully hopeless, as Cruz’s imagination roams between several nebenwelts (side-worlds) while indulging itself in fineries and miseries galore.” —Review of Wunderkammer by Cynthia Cruz in Publishers Weekly, September 15, 2014 “. . .Ms. Cruz’s poems are an ecstatic overdose of language and emotion. . . Her razor-wire stanzas in The Glimmering Room, even better than her fine debut, Ruin (Alice James Books, 2006), are full of too-young desolation angels, ‘the other almost-girls’ and ‘the boys who want to die.’. . . This powerful poetry is a heart offering by way of Ms. Cruz’s ancestor-sisters Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath.”—Dana Jennings, the New York Times “All You Do Is Perceive operates mostly as a kind of constrained verse — not constrained formally, as the term is generally applied, but constrained by a rigorously limited perspective.” —Review of All You Do Is Perceive by Joy Katz in Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) by Alan Michael Parker, February 14, 2014 “Lauer’s poems ripple like muscle, even as they circle around the notion that we may not possess tools strong enough to arrive at a singular definition of who and what we are….By laying bare superstitious patterns of mind that we routinely interpret as meaning, Lauer’s poems reveal the indeterminacy of what we’re able to know…without forgoing what beauty is to be found in the attempts we make to know it.”—Review of A Hotel in Belgium by Brett Fletcher Lauer in Publishers Weekly, April 28, 2014 “Through delicately woven motifs, the poems in Miller’s debut collection echo and build off one another cohering in central themes of navigation and orientation (and its inverse, disorientation).” —Review of Without Compass by Benjamin Miller in Publishers Weekly, July 21, 2014 “Self-styled in its epigraph as ‘biomythography’ in the tradition of Audre Lorde’s Zami, the collection is strongest in its gestures towards universality through the examination of the particular. Via a steady injection of iconography among the details of family life, Kamilah Aisha Moon’s debut weaves a kaleidoscopic set of poems with intimate insight and textural multiplicity.” —Review of She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon in The Rumpus by Melissa Leigh Gore, May 14, 2014 “Through the backward glancing, Prufer uncannily circles to the present, letting it recede to make way for an alarming future...” —Review of Churches by Kevin Prufer in Publishers Weekly, August 3, 2014 “Poet and novelist Redel knows how to freeze those serene moments that often come just before disaster. In this collection of short prose, protagonists struggle to balance a zeal for adventure with reasonable caution. The narrators are often parents in or nearing middle age who are startled by troubling signs in their children. Dan, the callow narrator in ‘Red Rooster,’ preens through much of the story about his new girlfriend and ability to coparent successfully with his ex-wife. After a chaotic outing with his son and girlfriend’s family, however, Dan hears desperation in his son’s voice and feels ‘that he was seeing for the first time just how reckless the last couple years had been. He couldn’t count how many times he’d claimed that the whole damaging-cost-on-the-kid argument was way overrated.’ In ‘On Earth,’ a married mother suddenly realizes that her eccentric, survivalist-leaning lover may have an unhealthy interest in her daughter....”—Review of Make Me Do Things by Victoria Redel in Booklist by Carolyn Alessio, September 20, 2013 2014 Four Way Books News, Announcements, and Awards Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White is a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry. Topaz by Brian Komei Dempster is the winner of the 2014 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto González received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. Unpeopled Eden is also the winner of 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey is the recipient of the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award, a nominee for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the 2013 IndieFab Award for Poetry. George Kalamaras, author of The Theory and Function of Mangoes, became the Poet Laureate of Indiana in January 2014. She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon was a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. Victoria Redel has been awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and the 2014 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose for her collection of stories Make Me Do Things. January Machine by Rob Schlegel is the winner of the 2014 Grub Street Poetry Prize, selected by Stephen Burt. Rajiv Mohabir is the winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry selected by Brenda Shaughnessy. Dana Jennings from the New York Times wrote a profile of Four Way Books, published on July 17, 2014. October 15. 2014 Four Way Books & Friends Fall 2014 Launch Reading four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Authors Out Loud: A Selection of Readings Cynthia Cruz, Patrick Lawler, David Dodd Lee, Howard Levy, Gregory Pardlo, and Cammy Thomas NYU Main Bookstore October 16, 2014 Four Way Books Fall 2014 Launch Reading Brooklyn, NY Cynthia Cruz, David Dodd Lee, Gregory Pardlo, and Cammy Thomas Berl’s Poetry Shop November 6, 2014 at 7 pm Cammy Thomas reading at Concord Bookshop (65 Main Street) in Concord, MA November 6, 2014 at 7 pm Rigoberto Gonzalez on Poetry Society of America Panel on “The Voice of Women in American Poetry” with Julie Agoos, Hilton Als, Cate Marvin, Maureen McLane, Robert Polito, and Monica de la Torre The Graduate Center, CUNY, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC November 14, 2014 Gregory Pardlo reading at the Downtown Writer’s Center Syracuse, NY November 18, 2014 at 8 pm Rigoberto Gonzalez reading at Georgetown University with Natalie Diaz Washington D.C. May 4, 2015 The Blacksmith House with Daniel Wolff Cambridge, MA May 5, 2015 The Annual Four Way Books Benefit and Auction at the Bubble Lounge with readings by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Liam Callanan, Josh Kalscheur, Daniel Wolff, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Andrea Cohen, Paul Otremba, and Rebecca Reilly May 6, 2015 at 6 pm readings by Paul Otremba, Josh Kalscheur, Rebecca Reilly, and Andrea Cohen NYU Main Bookstore May 7, 2015 at 7 pm readings by Daniel Wolff, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Liam Callanan, and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. McNally Jackson Books New York, NY four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Recently Published POETRY & FICTION A hotel in belgium little da rk karen brennan brett Fletcher lAuer The Meaning of If Patrick Lawler WITHOUT COMPASS poems by Benjamin Miller s Churche Kev in r Pru fe stories JANUARY MACHINE Rob Schlegel The Net Daniel Tobin four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Four Way dances at Dumbo Sky. . . Date for 2015 tba. . . Photos: Aubrie Marrin four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com Four+ Ways to Submit The Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry Judged by Martha Collins In 2015, submissions will be accepted from January 1-March 31. The Four Way Books June Reading Period In June, our editors will read poetry, novellas, and short story collections. It’s No Contest For a book-length collection of poetry (approximately 48-80 pages of text) in English by a New York City resident (5 boroughs) for a first or second collection of poems. November 15-December 15, 2014. Throughout the year On rare occasion, we can read outside of our reading periods. You may query. But please do not email a query to us during our reading periods (see above), asking if we will read your manuscript. “Outside our reading period” means at a time other than our formal reading calendar. It is rare that we can accommodate such a request, but we will try. In truth, we are geared up to read during our formal periods. These are the best times to submit. Queries may be directed to [email protected]. Four Way Review Four Way Review (fourwayreview.com) is a biannual electronic literary journal from nonprofit, independent literary publisher Four Way Books. We publish poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors through our open submissions process. In 2012, we celebrated the Review’s innaugural issue and the 20th anniversary of Four Way Books. for complete guidelines, please visit www.fourwaybooks.com four way books | pob 535, village station | new york, ny | 10014 | 212-334-5430 | www.fourwaybooks.com How to order Four Way Books titles Our books are available to the trade through University Press of New England, www.upne.com, 1-800-421-1561. Individuals may shop through Four Way Books at www.fourwaybooks.com. You may also purchase our titles through local booksellers and online. Course adoption information If you would like to receive an instructor’s copy, please email us at [email protected]. Author availability for readings If you would like to schedule our authors for readings, please email us at [email protected]. We are grateful to the Jerome Foundation for a generous grant that has supported the publication of this catalog and our books, in particular books by emerging writers from New York City. 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