América invertida presents Spanish poems and their English translations side by side to give readers an introduction to Uruguay's vibrant literary scene.

The Woman Who Married a Bear showcases the wholly individual voice of a talented poet.

The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness.

Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth.

The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling.

"Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'"--Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.

"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."--Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid

Celebrating life, travel, aging, and nature, this new book shines with Luschei's view of the world.

"Through the lens of her singular and compelling life, Carole Simmons Oles guides us through our fractured, confused, violent century. At seventy, facing an increasingly fragile body, Oles crafts language that creates bonds--across cultures and tongues, across decades and oceans and continents. These powerhouse poems reach out generation to generation with generosity and compassion. These poems invite us in, offer food and drink and shelter."--Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones