New and Forthcoming Titles by Wings Press
Again for the First Time — (Rosemary Catacalos)
ISBN: 9781609403232 || || Published 2013
The 30th Anniversary edition of Again for the First Time, the award-winning first book of poems by Rosemary Catacalos, the 2013-2014 Poet Laureate of Texas.
As If The Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacia — (Margaret Randall)
ISBN: 978-0-916727-80-2 || 9780916727802 || Published 2011
Facing-page Spanish translations by Leandro Katz and Diego GuerraLimited edition, hand-sewn collection of poems and photographs about the desaparacidos of Latin America, by activist and prolific author, Margaret Randall.
Black Like Me (50th Anniversary Edition) — (John Howard Griffin)
ISBN: 0-930324-72-2 || 0-930324-73-0 || Published 2004
Foreword by Studs Terkel. Additional texts by the author. Historical photos by Don Rutledge. Afterword by Griffin biographer, Robert BonazziBlack Like Me, by John Howard Griffin. ISBN: 978-0-930324-72-8, $24.95. The definitive hardback edition of the American classic on racism in the Deep South, corrected from the original manuscripts, now with an index and historical photographs.
Colony Collapse Disorder — (Keith Flynn)
ISBN: 9781609402945 || || Published 2013
The poems of Colony Collapse Disorder form a geopolitical abecedarium that lives up to Keith Flynn's reputation as "a seminal force in poetry ... a voice for the dispossessed ... with rock-gospel charisma and riddle-like revelations" (Choice).
Contrary People — (Carolyn Osborn)
ISBN: 9780916727963 || || Published 2012
A novel set in Austin, Texas, and Paris, France, that examines love in the later years, social rule breaking by elders, and in general the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Curandera — (Carmen Tafolla)
ISBN: 9781609402372 || || Published 2012
Banned in Arizona, this is the 30th anniversary edition of a Chicana/Latina poetry classic, by Carmen Tafolla, the current Poet Laureate of San Antonio, Texas. With a new introduction by Dr. Norma E. Cantú and historical photographs.
The Devil Rides Outside — (John Howard Griffin)
ISBN: ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-138-2 || Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-139-9 || Published 2012
The Devil Rides Outside is a study of the struggle between faith and temptation, a "raw, sprawling work that seems to have sprouted like a mushroom in the garden of Texas letters." It is the first novel of John Howard Griffin, written during his decade of blindness, before he wrote Black Like Me. A challenge to this book's presence in public libraries was taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step — (Cecile Pineda)
ISBN: 9780916727994 || || Published 2012
Cecile Pineda's astonishing investigation of the American nuclear industry, the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, and the fate of our planet. In the form of daily journal entries for the year following the meltdown at Fukushima.
Dream Cabinet — (Ann Fisher-Wirth)
ISBN: 9780916727932 || || Published 2012
Ann Fisher-Wirth's collection of poetry focuses on nature, man-made and natural disasters, and family history. A much praised collection.
Early Farm Tractors: A History in Advertising Line Art — (Jim Harter)
ISBN: 9781609402525 || || Published 2013
Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton — (John Howard Griffin)
ISBN: ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-141-2 || Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-142-9 || Published 2012
Indios — (Linda Hogan)
ISBN: 9780916727857 || || Published 2012
Indios speaks to us the truth of a history twisted to suit the needs of a conquering power. It is an old story and yet a tragically contemporary one. Indios the character speaks to us from a jail cell, a Native woman falsely accused of the death of her children. In her plight we hear echoes of Malinche, cursed and blessed as both a race traitor and as the mother of all mestizos. We hear echoes of Pocahontas, of La Llorona, and ultimately, of Medea.
KD: A Jazz Biography — (Dave Oliphant)
ISBN: 9780916727956 || || Published 2012
In KD: a Jazz Biography, noted poet and jazz historian Dave Oliphant has written in nearly 200 pages of tightly-constructed rhymed quatrains the first biography of internationally-acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham.
Lawful Abuse: How the Century of the Child Became the Century of the Corporation — (Robert Flynn)
ISBN: 978-1-60940-277-8 || || Published 2013
"America has never known what to do with needy children." Thus begins Robert Flynn's powerful indictment of America's abandonment of human beings, and children in particular, in favor of Corporations, beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan.
The Light that Puts an End to Dreams — (Susan Sherman)
ISBN: 9780916727949 || || Published 2012
Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. A multi-generational cante hondo that will resonate with almost any reader who ever felt the urge to protest the loss of personal freedom, the curtailing of choice or expression, the pain inflicted on the many by the few. The title sequence was inspired by Sor Juana's great poem, Primero Sueño.
Longing — (María Espinosa)
ISBN: 9780916727895 || || Published 2012
Winner, American Book Award. Longing is an intense psychological novel focusing on a young woman's dependence on her husband and her attempts to forge an independent life for herself by escaping their unhealthy relationship.
Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me — (Robert Bonazzi)
ISBN: ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-135-1 || Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-136-8 || Published 2012
Robert Bonazzi, the authorized biographer of John Howard Griffin, tells in detail how Griffin's classic work came to be written. Drawing on Griffin's extensive journals, Bonazzi gives us an inside look at this "reluctant activist"
María, Daughter of Immigrants — (María Antonietta Berriozábal)
ISBN: 9781609402440 || || Published 2012
Maria Antonietta Berriozabal's parents fled the Mexican Revolution soon after it began. But Berriozabal is not simply a "daughter of immigrants." She was the first Latina to be elected to the City Council of San Antonio, Texas. In 1991 she narrowly lost a race to become Mayor. In 1994 she received a presidential appointment as the U.S. Representative to the Inter-American Commission on Women of the OAS. She also represented her country at UN Conferences and at the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Her powerful memoir documents her long journey.
No One Said a Word — (Paula Varsavsky)
ISBN: 9781609402693 || || Published 2013
No One Said a Word was hailed upon its initial publication as "an Argentine Catcher in the Rye. Luz Goldman, the main character, lives in a Buenos Aires bubble of wealth and privilege where such horrors are simply ignored. Luz is precocious yet solipsistic, rich yet disaffected. She and her friends spend their allowances on expensive drugs, their unfettered days having casual sex. Varsavsky's narrator describes this life in stark language that echoes the unsentimental, bored mind of a young teen.
Nuni — (John Howard Griffin)
ISBN: ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-144-3 || Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-145-0 || Published 2012
In Nuni, John Howard Griffin's main character encounters a "primitive," almost Neolithic society. He learns to cope, not so much in terms of survival as in finding a new meaning to his own life by questioning the basic tenets of what is and is not "civilized."
Ostrich Legs — (Alicia Kozameh)
ISBN: 9781609402488 || || Published 2013
A masterpiece of introspective, linguistically innovative fiction, Ostrich Legs is about the relationship between two sisters, one severely handicapped, the other gifted yet overlooked. It is also, of course, a metaphor for the abuse of power in Argentina by a former political prisoner.
Prison of Culture: Beyond Black Like Me — (John Howard Griffin)
ISBN: 9780916727826 || || Published 2012
This companion volume to the Wings Press 50th Anniversary edition of Black Like Me (2011) features John Howard Griffin's later writings on racism and spirituality. Contemporary Catholic theology met liberal humanism in Griffin, a precursor in many ways to liberation theology.
Rebozos — (Carmen Tafolla)
ISBN: 978-0-916727-98-7 || || Published 2012
Rebozos features passionate poems by San Antonio's Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla and haunting paintings by California artist Catalina Gárate García. It is a magnificent art book that re-creates the originality of Mexican rebozos in vivid images and colors. Simultaneously it is a celebration of womanhood and a gift book rich in cultural history. — Robert Bonazzi, in the San Antonio Express-News
The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones — (Margaret Randall)
ISBN: 9781609402853 || || Published 2013
Margaret Randall's The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones is a bounty of profoundly moving long poems as well as powerful briefer ones. As its name implies, it moves beneath the surface with a dark wisdom, even as it gifts the reader with a liberating sense of connectivity. Family, war, exile, legend, difference, historic figures, and the secrets to be found in ancient ruins are all mediums for this poet's mature work. The rhizome has never had a more creative interpreter.
Rudiments of Flight — (Frances Hatfield)
ISBN: 9781609402563 || || Published 2013
A Jungian counselor, Frances Hatfield repeatedly ventures to the edge of the known world and beyond in her poems, bearing unflinching witness to the terrors and ecstasies to be discovered there. We are dazed by a kaleidoscopic intertwining of the worlds of humans, nature, myth, and spirit. World Literature Today said: "Rudiments of Flight is elegiac and celebratory, dauntless in its exploration of both the 'soul's chemistry' and the metaphysics of everyday minutiae."
Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision — (John Howard Griffin)
ISBN: ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-117-7 || Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-118-4 || Published 2012
John Howard Griffin was blind for almost a decade before he regained his sight. During that time he wrote several novels, including The Devil Rides Outside. Shortly after he regained his sight, he journeyed through the Deep South in the guise of a black man, experiencing the racism that prompted him to write his masterpiece, Black Like Me.
Strange You Never Knew — (Robert Fink)
ISBN: 9781609403027 || || Published 2013
Robert Fink's sixth collection of poemshis "best yet" according to Ed Hirschis "filled with vivid colors, characters, even memorable dogs" (Wendy Barker). Fink's poetry sings the landscape of central and west Texas in a remarkable way.
Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes of Pablo Neruda — (Pablo Neruda)
ISBN: 9780916727871 || || Published 2013
Translated by William Pitt RootAmerican poet William Pitt Root brings us poems from the first of Neruda's three collections of odes, Odas elementales (1954). In his introduction, Root praises Neruda's form, with its phrases that "fall like thin wrists of water cascading from great heights." Here are poems addressed to hope and gloom, to numbers and to the atom, to blue flowers and artichokes. This is Neruda at his finest. Includes, among others: "Oda al vino," "Oda a la pobreza," "Oda a la tristeza," "Oda a los poetas populares," "Oda a los numeros," "Oda a la malveida," "Oda a la intranquilidad," "Oda a la flor azul," "Oda a la esperaza," "Oda al atomo," "Oda a la alcahofa," and "El hombre invisible."
Sueño — (Lorna Dee Cervantes)
ISBN: 9781609403102 || || Published 2013
The fifth major collection of poetry by iconic Chicana/Native American poet, Lorna Dee Cervantes. Intellectually brilliant, linguistically playful, politically intense, sensually aflame, these poems engage the reader on half a dozen levels at once. More than any other, perhaps, Sueño lives up to Lorna Dee's reputation for both intellectual brilliance and brilliant word play.
Wild in the Plaza of Memory — (Pam Uschuk)
ISBN: 9780916727925 || || Published 2012
Wild in the Plaza of Memory contains some of the finest eco-poetry in the language. Uschuk's vision encompasses war, environmental degradation, cultural collapse and yet simultaneously celebrates life and resistance. Beautiful and powerful.
