Books from 39 West Press

A Secret History of the Nighttime World
By Jason Ryberg
I see a man shuffling down a dark street, unable to sleep without his nightly dosage of Ellington's Indigos or Gould's Variations. His heart is a wasp's nest laboring earnestly to make honey. His head is a hotel kitchen full of ...
Where Water Meets the Rock
By Lindsey Martin-Bowen
In her fourth collection of poetry, Where Water Meets the Rock, Lindsey Martin-Bowen explores loss and recuperation in three sections. “Erosion,” the book’s elegiac opening sequence, laments a trinity of tragic Greek personas: ...
Ghost Sign
By Al Ortolani, Melissa Fite Johnson, Adam Jameson
... to Robert Stewart, William Trowbridge, and Jo McDougall for their advice on this thematic collection of previously collected poems; and then, of course, to the editors at Spartan Press and 39 West Press, especially Jason Ryberg, ...
Dumpster, for God's Sake
By Ben Stoltzfus
With compelling prose, canny insight, and artful empathy, Ben Stoltzfus brilliantly examines group behavior in a timely tale of collective zeal and righteous intent that explores a city’s urgent quest for soul.
Romoland: A Pictonovel
By Ben Stoltzfus
The gray within the white square was once black-as black as the parallelogram. She draws lines on the zinc with an oil crayon, and that is the beginning of the blacklined surface. She covers the white square to protect it and sprays the ...
Finishing Touches
By Ricardo Quinones
Finishing Touches, Quinones fourth book of poems, is a purposeful combination of the old and the new.
Prompts! A Spontaneous Anthology
By Jeanette Powers, j.d.tulloch
... In the eyes of the living, surviving the dead In the end, nature, it wins Felling the sins cast down upon By nature There are no truths like the lies of a stranger prompt: giving the devil his due microbio: doesn't make art; is art.
Desolate Country: We the Poets, United, Against Trump
By j.d.tulloch
Desolate Country, therefore, represents an amalgamation of defiant work by established artists and those who, as a result of Trump's election, were inspired to write in protest.
Black Girl Shattered
By Sheri Purpose Hall
... daughter into the type of woman that broke you? a. She bet not break him. She bet not try to dice roll his heart on the ground because you taught her love was a game. b. We don't play those types of games: the kind that leave deep scars ...
Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America
By Ted Rall, Harmon Leon
Adding an innovative extra dimension to the book, two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist TED RALL enhances the carefully crafted narrative—and connects Leon's audacious accounts to the greater Trump ...
A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems
By Ricardo Quinones
The volume also announces the demise of the popular "Wallet Poems," mainly by virtue of their own superabundance and their replacement by a new kind of verse, "Bloc Notes.
Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea
By Gregory MacDonald
... Baja Sea Guide. Vol. II. San Franciso: Miller Freeman Publications, 1971. Linck, Wenceslaus. Wenceslaus Linck's ... Outpost. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2003. Peterson,Walt. The 148.
Roberta and Other Poems
By Ricardo Quinones
... Dante Alighieri (Twayne 1979; updated revised edition 1998) Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton UP 1985) The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother (Princeton UP 1991) Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's “ ...
Tribespotting: Undercover Cult(ure) Stories
By Harmon Leon
"This book was eye-opening ..." –David Litt, author of NY Times bestseller Thanks, Obama The United States is a divided country, where two disparate tribes fight to provoke, condemn, and defeat the other.
The Life and Times of José Calderon
By José Faus
" The Life and Times of José Calderon — compiled from papers he left behind and the cryptic asides he made to the few acquaintances he let into his musty house on Independence Avenue in Anytown, USA, where he lived with a rambunctious ...
To Act Is To Do: Six Classes for Teachers and Actors Based on the Uta Hagen Technique
By Richard Alan Nichols
To Act Is To Do by Richard Alan Nichols, who studied as a scholarship student for five years with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York, is the ultimate guide for both actors and teachers.