Recent PEN USA Member Publications
Recently published PEN USA Member books.
Last updated on August 1, 2007.
Oakland Out Loud
An anthology of work from members of Oakland PEN. Oakland is a place well known for it’s diversity and spirit. There are many talented writers between these covers, some are Opal Palmer Adisa, Ishmael Reed and Al Young.
Editors: Brundage, Karla and Shuck, Kim
Published by: Jukebox Press April 2007
ISBN: 0-932693-17-2
HOURS OF DEVOTION
Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women
Edited and adapted into verse by Dinah Berland
Published by Schocken Books, http://www.schocken.com
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4245-4
(Publication date: August 28, 2007)
Pre-order at: Amazon.com
Contact: Katie Freeman, Publicist
Pantheon & Schocken Books
Phone: (212) 572-2685
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First published in Prague, Frankfurt, and Leipzig in 1855, HOURS OF DEVOTION is Dinah Berland’s verse adaptation of the first Jewish prayer book for all occasions written by a woman for women.
Edward Hirsch, author of Lay Back the Darkness, writes, “Dinah Berland has been preparing all her life to recreate Fanny Neuda’s deeply useful and soulful Hours of Devotion. She has given us a woman’s book of illuminations, a compilation of prayers that moves from suffering to gratitude, a work that sanctifies life.”
Visit http://www.dinahberland.com for more information about HOURS OF DEVOTION.
CASPIAN RAIN
Gina B. Nahai
From the bestselling author of Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, a stirring, lyrical tale that offers American readers unique insight into Iranian culture.
(Publication date: September 14, 2007)
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Contact: Julie Burton
Phone: 415.986.7502
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MacAdam Cage
In the decade before the Islamic Revolution, Iran is a country at the brink of explosion. Twelve-year-old Yaas is born into an already divided family: Her father is the son of wealthy Iranian Jews who are integrated into the country’s upper-class, mostly Muslim, elite; her mother was raised in the slums of South Tehran, one street away from the old Jewish ghetto.
Yaas spends her childhood navigating the many layers of Iranian society. Her task, already difficult, becomes all the more critical when her father falls in love with a beautiful woman from a noble Muslim family. As her parents’ marriage begins to crumble and the country moves ever closer to revolution, Yaas is plagued by a terrifying genetic illness that is slowly robbing her of her hearing. Facing the prospect of complete deafness, Yaas learns that her father is about to abandon her and her mother, and so she undertakes a desperate, last-ditch effort to save herself and her family.
At once a cultural exploration of an as-yet unfamiliar society, and a psychological study of the effects of loss, Caspian Rain takes the reader inside the tragic and fascinating world of a brave young girl struggling against impossible odds.
“Unexpected and heartrending, but also witty, elegiac, sophisticated and edgy. Caspian Rain is a beautiful book.”
— Chris Abani, author of Graceland and The Virgin of Flames
VISITING PICASSO
Jim Barnes
The book “contains poems of such enormous integrity, alertness, and formal control that Jim Barnes manages to accomplish what few poets ever can: to look into the heart of human experience, its haunting elegiac certainties and its fleeting life-affirming joys, and to tell us the truth about what he sees. Truth? Yes. For here is visionary language chastened by the knowledge which only experience can bring and only artists can preserve.” --Sherod Santos
Editor: Laurence Lieberman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, June 2007
120 pages
Cloth ISBN 0-252-03129-6
Paper ISBN 0-252-07373-8
The Astonished Universe
Helene Cardona
A bilingual collection of poetry in English and French about consciousness. http://www.helenecardona.com
(Publication date: November, 2006)
Red Hen Press
Love Bites, Poetry in Celebration of Dogs and Cats
Floyd Salas
A collection of witty, joyful, elegiac, philosophical, fun and moving poems about our furry companions. Illustrated with whimsical line drawing by the author.
Floyd Salas is the critically-acclaimed author of six previous books, two of which, “Tatto the Wicked Cross” and “Buffalo Nickel,” are included in “Masterpieces of Latino Literature.”
Publication: Fall, 2006
Mad Dog Publishing Company
ISBN 0-96559-747