New and open work in poetry by Joan Fiset accompanied by images of quilt-like collages by Liz Gamberg.  As one reviewer stated, it is a book that presents and evokes textures as a means of exploring nature and the self.  As one of the poems says, “we revise toward green” — altogether a refreshing and inspiring read.

[Available for purchase now on this site.  Also available through our distributor, Itasca Books, our preferred US outlet Powell's Bookstore, our preferred UK bookstore Blackwell's and also available, we are told in France.]

Announcing publication of Golden Gate and Other Stories by the justly celebrated Clarence Major.  As Luis Alberto Urrea says, “Clarence Major is the voice of our country singing sweet and bitter and loud.”

The book is a gathering of thirteen unpublished stories of aspiration, thriving and authentic lives set in California’s Bay Area. A few examples: A frustrated married woman searching for happiness online and at conferences. A reporter from San Francisco goes to Rome to interview the widow of a world-famous deceased American novelist. A young woman goes on a date with a young man just to teach him a lesson. In a San Francisco boarding house, a man is the bane of everyone’s existence. Two children are disappointed when their mother marries while they are away visiting their father. A dilettante throws parties everybody loves. A communist from France becomes paranoid when the man she is dating might be spying on her.

CLARENCE MAJOR’s two previous collections of short stories are Fun & Games and Chicago Heat; his novels include Dirty Bird Blues (a Penguin Classic), Such Was the Season, a Literary Guild selection, My Amputations, winner of the Western States Book Award; Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Harvard Review, and dozens of other periodicals. Major won a National Book Award Bronze Medal and many other awards. He was elected to The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2021. Major is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of California at Davis.

Delightful new short fictions by the inimitable Parker Tettleton. OR is a travelogue of language via relationships—a state of endless conjunctions & several abbreviations. It’s also a meditation on the idea of home & a crooked bookend of sorts to This Is A City.

A novel, in flash fiction style, Pipette starts with a woman on a train returning from the ballet, to her dogs, her partner.

Trouble at home escalates. The country is on edge. She tries to escape a threatening situation.  Then comes a pandemic; our protagonist hangs out with her dogs, manages remote teaching.

With leitmotifs of skiing, dogs, trains, waterways, birds, nature, spiritual guides, triathlons, she writes, she teaches, she swims/bikes/runs. The novel dips into her past—trauma, relationships, activities, working in the lab—which pendulums, then finally propels forward.

Pipette was include in IndiReader’s list of Best Reviewed Books, October, 2022.  Also see the very nice review by David Reyes for The Book Commentary  and an interview with Lisa Haselton.

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A brilliant first book from poet Sati Mookherjee exploring the exile of her grandfather from India to pre-World War II Europe, his interior voyage from grief to insight and the echoes of those journeys in the lives of his descendents.

[Announcement:  MoonPath Press has announced that Sati Mookherjee has won their 2022 Award for her collection, Ways of Being, as judged by Alice Derry.]

“The eye is the first circle,” says Emerson in the epigraph to this stunning first book by Sati Mookherjee, who in widening circles embraces continents and generations.—Robert McNamara, author of Incomplete Strangers

Mookherjee’s graceful collection vividly charts his journey through an alchemy of details in which we see “ordinary things turned holy.” —John Willson, author of Call This Room a Station

The poem cycle in Eye moves in exquisite orbits, beginning with the image of the eye, then radiating out, rippling with worldly details, coalescing finally with the appearance of his great-grandchildren, even one yet unconceived, continuing the circle.” —Arlene Naganawa, author of Private Graveyard.

READ a fine review in Raven Chronicles by Frances McCue.

Also see the great interview by Erica Reid in Michigan Quarterly Review.

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We’re happy to publish in our pocket series, bearing an imaginative and stylish cover by Faruk Ulay, all six Marco and Marian stories, written at the beginning of the new century by “distinguished elder statesman [Norman] Lock (Kirkus Reviews)”  As in Norman’s A History of the Imagination and Love Among the Particles, Dutch Stories is a commingling of Postmodern wit and playfulness, enchantment and disenchantment, rendered in the author’s virtuoso style.

Search under Norman Lock to see his other Ravenna Titles: Escher’s Journal, The King of Sweden, Two Plays for Radio (one copy left), Trio, Notes to ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for March Knauf’s Universe, Triple No. 4, In the Time of Rat (a narrative poem), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (now out of print), Impossible Objects (now out of print), Under the Balconies of the Moon (pamphlet)