Acre Books
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Common Disaster: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA remarkable debut collection that chronicles the experience of anxiety and anguish in the face of COVID-19.
As a front-line physician, M. Cynthia Cheung started writing poetry during the worst days- Author: Cheung, M. Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 194672498X
- Language: English
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Range of Motion
$22.00 Add to cartA tender, wrenching, and comic novel that follows two twin boys from infancy to the cusp of adulthood.
Twin A and Twin B. That’s what Michael and Sal’s neuroscientist father irreverently calls them.- Author: Trapp, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1946724963
- Language: English
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Defiant Acts
$20.00 Add to cartDrawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.
James Stewart III’s powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-cl- Author: Stewart III, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1946724890
- Language: English
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Terminal Surreal: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartThis unflinching poetry collection follows the author’s diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
In her masterful poetry collection Terminal Surreal, Martha Silano confronts the reality of- Author: Silano, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1946724947
- Language: English
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Scream / Queen: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body–both its traumas and its possibilities.
Scream / Queen, CD Eskilson’s debut poetry collection, examines queerness, mental- Author: Eskilson, CD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1946724874
- Language: English
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Nothing Vast
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping multigenerational tale complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families–one Moroccan, one Polish–filled with Zionists, anti-Zionists, socialists, and reactionaries.
Spanning- Author: Marvit, Moshe Zvi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1946724793
- Language: English
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Sleepaway
$20.00 Read moreA haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.
It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber–sleeps from which most, but not all,- Author: Prufer, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1946724718
- Language: English
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Our Cancers: Poems
$16.00 Read morePoet and playwright Dan O’Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer.
On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11–an event that caused their downtown ap- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1946724424
- Language: English
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Big Familia
$19.00 Read moreBig Familia follows Juan Guti rrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, … [more below]
- Series: Acre
- Author: Moniz, Tomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 194672422X
- Language: English
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Dual: Poems
$17.00 Read moreA poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.
In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci examines masculinity and gun violence as he brings to life the grammatical conc- Author: Minicucci, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 194672467X
- Language: English
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Survivor’s Notebook: Poems
$17.00 Read moreA collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors.
Dan O’Brien’s powerful companion to Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recentl- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724637
- Language: English
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You Shall See the Beautiful Things: A Novel & a Nocturne
$20.00 Read moreEnvisioned as a “nocturne,” Steve Amick’s playful, multilayered novel expansively retells Eugene Field’s famed verse “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.”
In the fishing village of Scheveningen in 1889, three- Author: Amick, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724599
- Language: English
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Sleepaway
$20.00 Add to cartA haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.
It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber–sleeps from which most, but not all,- Author: Prufer, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1946724718
- Language: English
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Metabolics: Poems
$17.00 Read moreIn this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Jessica E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724572
- Language: English
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems
$16.00 Read moreThe coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.
In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terra- Author: Salazar, C. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: February 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1946724483
- Language: English
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Hoodwitch
$16.00 Add to cartThis riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. HoodWitch tells the story of a y… [more below]
- Series: Acre
- Author: Hicks, Faylita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1946724246
- Language: English
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Black Avatar: And Other Essays
$18.00 Read moreThe first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar, Black Avatar combines elements of memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism.
The eight piece- Author: Majmudar, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724610
- Language: English
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Pilgrims 2.0
$20.00 Read moreA novel following four passengers on a luxury cruise line that promises complete reinvention through plastic surgery.
PILGRIM, Canterbury Cruise Line’s flagship, promises its passengers not just a lu- Author: Harding, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724696
- Language: English
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Bad Mexican, Bad American: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartThis collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.
In Bad Mexican, Bad American, the minimalist, working-class aesthet- Author: Hernandez Diaz, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1946724734
- Language: English
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On the Way to the End of the World
$20.00 Read moreIn 1963, an eclectic group of characters embark on President Kennedy’s ambitious walking challenge.
As the Cuban Missile Crisis eases, President Kennedy is casting around for a demonstration of Ameri- Author: Harun, Adrianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1946724653
- Language: English
