Slant Books
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The Future of Love
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Poch’s eighth collection, The Future of Love, is comprised of poems written over the past twenty years, rooted in and inspired by the landscape of Spain, Federico Garc?a Lorca’s surrealism, and
- Author: Poch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822119
- Language: English
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Time and the Temple: God and Man
$19.00 Add to cartThis book collects a series of meditations given by Father Luigi Giussani, the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation. It represents a concise and illuminating synthesis of what
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822143
- Language: English
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James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems
$19.00 Add to cartThe capstone of a distinguished literary career, James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems is Baron Wormser’s eleventh book of poetry. It speaks to matters that have haunted and obsessed the a
- Author: Wormser, Baron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822178
- Language: English
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Brooding Upon the Waters: A Memoir of Farming, Fishing, and Failure in America’s Lost Landscape
$22.00 Add to cartWhen thirty years of untreated bipolar disorder left his father fighting for his life, Howard Schaap began to wonder how this man had fallen so far-from Minnesota’s Young Farmer of the Year to financi
- Author: Schaap, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639822089
- Language: English
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Invited to the Feast
$19.00 Add to cart“Do not hurry your journey,” the poet says midway through this stunning collection. “Better if it lasts for years, so you arrive / laden with all you’ve lost along the way.” Bonnie Naradzay’s journey-
- Author: Naradzay, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1639822054
- Language: English
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Child of These Tears
$19.00 Add to cartIn the early years of the eighteenth century, the settlers living in the hamlet of Hartfield Falls in “English America” face the looming threat posed by historical and political forces beyond their co
- Author: McNett, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 163982202X
- Language: English
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Flight from Meaning
$18.00 Add to cartAccording to T.R. Hummer, “Stephen Haven is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate, humanistic ethos.” His poems reflect “concern for humanity, and concern for language,
- Author: Haven, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821848
- Language: English
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The Grand Valley: On Going to Hell, to France, and Back to Childhood
$19.00 Add to cartIn the final, absorbing volume of his Three Paintings Trilogy, philosopher and critic Morgan Meis explores the art of Joan Mitchell and in particular one of her crowning achievements, the Grand Valley
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821996
- Language: English
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We Shall Not All Sleep
$38.00 Add to cartIn a small North Carolina riverside town where past and present are mysteriously entangled, young Daniel Waterson is growing up in the towering presence of his father Ray, a decorated Vietnam veteran
- Author: Woodlief, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821759
- Language: English
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Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land
$20.00 Add to cart“‘Gather the Olives’ is an achingly lovely essay collection that celebrates the multiculturalism of Israel and Palestine, lifting up those whose generosity and kindness lights the way to lasting peace
- Author: Lott, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821627
- Language: English
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Your Names Are Written in Heaven: The World of Rose Busingye
$19.00 Add to cartIn the 1990s, a young Ugandan Catholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala with the many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS. Many of them were refugees from civil war in t
- Author: Perillo, Davide
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821813
- Language: English
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Whole
$35.00 Add to cartOn the first day of spring in the Inland Empire of Southern California, our narrator Joe inadvertently rams his car into Ronnie, a homeless man riding a bicycle. The bike is crushed, aluminum cans are
- Author: Updegraff, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821694
- Language: English
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Featherless
$17.00 Add to cartPlato famously defined a human being as a “featherless biped.” It’s hard not to sense the ironic humor in this definition, a reminder that, for all our talk about human dignity, our condition is conti
- Author: Mojtabai, A. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821775
- Language: English
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In Search of the Human Face
$21.00 Add to cartWhat do we mean when we say “I”? Behind that word there exists today a deep and abiding confusion. And yet what could be more urgent for each and every one of us than an understanding of what it means
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821902
- Language: English
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Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani
$32.00 Add to cartWhen he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but af
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821880
- Language: English
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Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani
$19.00 Add to cartWhen he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but af
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821872
- Language: English
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Twin A: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartShortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal conge
- Author: Majmudar, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821384
- Language: English
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We Shall Not All Sleep
$22.00 Add to cartIn a small North Carolina riverside town where past and present are mysteriously entangled, young Daniel Waterson is growing up in the towering presence of his father Ray, a decorated Vietnam veteran
- Author: Woodlief, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821740
- Language: English
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Whole
$19.00 Add to cartOn the first day of spring in the Inland Empire of Southern California, our narrator Joe inadvertently rams his car into Ronnie, a homeless man riding a bicycle. The bike is crushed, aluminum cans are
- Author: Updegraff, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821686
- Language: English
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Correspondence with My Greeks
$18.00 Add to cartCiting a line from Elizabeth Bishop-“The bight is littered with old correspondences”-Scott Cairns avers: “So, also, is my mind.”
Indeed, it was Bishop’s “The Bight”-encountered late in his undergraduat
- Author: Cairns, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821716
- Language: English
