Best Reading for Fall, 2009
Chosen By Book Review Editor Grace Cavalieri
Assistant to the editor Greg Ambros
BEST NOVELS
Success: Stories by David A. Taylor © 2008 Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 205 pp. ISBN: 978-0-931846-90-8.
Calvin by William Littlejohn © 2009 Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0-931846-92-2.
BEST HISTORICAL NONFICTION
This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces by Kyra E. Hicks © 2009 Black Threads Press, 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9824796-5-0.
Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women by Dai Sil Kim Gibson © 1999 & 2000 Mid-Prairie Books. 201pp. ISBN: 0-931209-88-9.
BEST CHAPBOOKS
Little Spells by Emma Trelles © 2008 Goss 83 Casa Menendez, 33 pp. ISBN: 978-1440433900.
Night Fires by Edward D. Nudelman © 2009 Pudding House Publications, 36 pp. ISBN: 1-58998-784-5.
A Thirst That’s Partly Mine by Liz Ahl © 2008 Slapering Hol Press, 25 pp. ISBN: 978-0-931846-90-8.
Solitary Conversations by Mark Dawson © 2008 Aralia Press, 6 pp.
BEST INSPIRATIONAL BOOK
Loving Grief by Paul Bennett, © 2009 Larson Publications, 96 pp. ISBN 978-0-943914-64-0.
BEST BILINGUAL POETRY
The Silk of The Tie by Moira Egan, translated by Damiano Abeni © 2009 Edizioni L’obliquo, 63 pp. ISBN: 88-88845-75-3.
BEST LITERARY JOURNALS
Oranges & Sardines SUMMER VOL.2 ISSUE 4 edited by DiDi Menendez & Ivonne Bess © 2009 Goss183::Casa Menendez, 112PP.
10x3 Plus edited by Sue Ann Simar © 2009 Beginner’s Mind Publishing, 55 pp.
Gargoyle 54 edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody © 2009 Paycock Press, 375 pp. ISSN: 0162-1149.
The Bitter Oleander edited by Paul B. Roth © 2009 The Bitter Oleander Press, 125 pp. ISSN:1087-8483.
VIA edited by Chiara Mazzucchelli © 2009 Bordighera Incorporated, 141 pp. ISSN: 1048-292X
Atlas Poetica NUM. 3 edited by M. Kei © 2009 Modern English Tank Press, 73 pp. ISSN: 1939-6465.
BEST TANKA POETRY
Take Five Best Contemporary Tanka edited by M. Kei © 2009 Modern English Tanka Press, 235 pp. ISBN: 978-193539808-0.
Tanka from the Edge by Miriam Sagan © 2009 Modern English Tanka Press, 113 pp. ISBN: 978-098176919-6.
Blue Night & The Inadequacy of Long-Stemmed Roses by Larry Kimmel © 2009 Modern English Tanka Press, 124 pp. ISBN: 978-193539802-8.
Streetlights edited by Michael McClintock and Denis M. Garrison © 2009 Modern English Tanka Press, 255 pp. ISBN: 978-193539804-2.
BEST FOREIGN PUBLICATION
Silver-Painted Gandhi & Other Poems by Jose Varghese © 2008 Writer’s Workshop Redbird, 99 pp. ISBN: 978-81-8157-725-2.
BEST BOOKS OF POETRY
The Waker’s Corridor by Jonathan Thirkield © 2009 Louisiana State University Press, 84 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8071-3441-2.
Voice Like Water by Deanna Nikaido © 2008 Word of Mouth Poetry Series, 69 pp. ISBN: 978-1-888018-96-7.
And Then You Know by Kwame Alexander © 2009 Word of Mouth Books, 132 pp. ISBN: 978-1-888018-57-8.
Awayward by Jennifer Kronovet © 2008 BOA Editions LTD, 78 pp. ISBN: 978-1-934414-18-7.
The Looking House by Fred Merchant © 2009 Greywolf Press, 63 pp. ISBN: 978-1-55597-528-9.
Cadenzas by Needlelight by Paul B. Roth © 2009 Cypress Books, 92 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9647754-1-1.
Van Gogh in Poems by Carol Dine © 2009 Bitter Oleander Press, 103 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9786335-2-3.
Dark Things by Novica Tadic , translated by Charles Simic © 2009 BOA Editions LTD, 205 pp. ISBN: 978-1-934414-23-1
The Great Wave by Ron Slate © 2009 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 76 pp. ISBN: 978-0-547-23274-4.
In Places with Bad Lightning by Adam Trice © 2009 Mr. DIYDS Publishing, 54 pp. plus audio soundtrack (5 songs.)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
Anthology of Appalachian Writers by Adriana Trigiani © 2009 Shepherd University, 136 pp. ISSN: 1946-3103.
BEST ART BOOK
A Solitary Moment: photographs by Dan Murano, © 2009, color and black & white, 67 pp. dan_murano@hotmail.com.