HUNTSVILLE, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 06/11/10 -- Sam Houston State University's Texas Review Press will release seven new books of fiction, poetry and essays in the coming months, according to the Review's director, Paul Ruffin.
The books include:
- "Rivers Last Longer," a novel by Richard Burgin, about whom a Chicago Tribune reviewer wrote, "Burgin writes gorgeous evocative prose... one of our finest artists of love at its most desperate."
- "Texas Death Row: Reflections of a Different World," essays and reflections written by death row inmates.
- "Blue Norther and Other Poems," by William Bedford Clark, poems "rooted in the life and culture of the South and Southwest." Clark teaches English at Texas A&M.
- "Maker of Shadows," a book of by Joshua Cohen, a poet and elementary school teacher in Boston.
- "Names We've Never Known," a collection of poems by 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate Karla K. Morton.
- "Journeys" by Sam Pickering, "an inveterate wanderer," who writes essays about his journeys around the United States and abroad. Pickering teaches English at the University of Connecticut and has written more than 20 books. One reviewer said that reading Pickering was like "taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend."
- "The Shadow of Violence," a "noir novella set in Depression-era Southern Colorado," by Daniel Robinson.
The catalog and the books can be ordered from the Texas A&M Press Consortium at www.tamupress.com.
Sam Houston State's Texas Review Press is directed by Paul Ruffin, Texas State University System Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of English and Texas's official State Poet Laureate in 2009. The press publishes 12 books a year and has more than a hundred titles in print.
"We conduct four international competitions: the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize for best poetry chapbook of up to 32 pages, the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize for a full-length collection of poems, the George Garrett Fiction Prize for a short novel or collection of stories, and the newly named Clay Reynolds Novella Prize for best novella," Ruffin said.
The Press will begin a new award next year for poets seeking to publish their first book, to be called the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Poetry Award.
More info: http://www.pauldruffin.com/ and www.tamupress.com.
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