What Books Press

  • zirconium ash

    $17.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Centered around loss and death of individuals, relationships, and ways of communicating, the poems of zirconium ash drive at intensified high speed, physically and psychically mapping the geography of

    [more below]

    • Author: Vega, Jimmy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 108
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798990014992
    • Language: English
  • How to Capture Carbon, Stories

    $18.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    In a dozen luminous stories, award-winning author Cameron Walker brings readers to the water’s edge, where the known world collides with magic and with the mysterious depths of the human heart. Here,

    [more below]

    • Author: Walker, Cameron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798990014947
    • Language: English
  • Father Elegies

    $18.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Stella Fridman Hayes’s second poetry collection, Father Elegies draws from an impressive range of literary forms, from familiar couplets and tercets to erasure, blackout poems, and hybrid prose. While

    [more below]

    • Author: Hayes, Stella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798990014930
    • Language: English
  • Dreamer Paradise: Poems

    $17.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    To be undocumented, to be America’s shadow, can be the worst thing any youth or adolescent can experience. In some cases, undocumented immigrant youth will only know that they are undocumented once it

    [more below]

    • Author: Quiroz, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798990014909
    • Language: English
  • God in Her Ruffled Dress

    $17.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    God in Her Ruffled Dress enacts conversations between illness and wellness, body and spirit, the temporal and the eternal. These poems chart a personal investigation of the divine, in which erotic des

    [more below]

    • Author: (Lisa Bernstein), Lisa B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 110
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986625867
    • Language: English
  • A Plea for Secular Gods: Elegies

    $17.99
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    A plea for secular gods was written under the strain of spiritual crisis. The author lost his father and maternal grandparents over a short period of time between 2016 and 2017, which put him to worki

    [more below]

    • Author: Price, Bryan Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986625812
    • Language: English
  • Start with a Small Guitar

    $12.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    American poetry; exciting and riveting experimental love poems.

    • Author: Thompson, Lynne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 55
    • Publish Date: October 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 0988924838
    • Language: English
  • The Shoes of Our Guests

    $15.95
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    A book of contemporary surreal prose poems, often humorous and always surprising, gorgeously and innovatively formatted. Experimental prose poems by a California poet and visual artist living in Los A

    [more below]

    • Author: Goyer, Celeste
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 82
    • Publish Date: May 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986625843
    • Language: English
  • Nightfall Marginalia

    $17.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    A book of nocturnes and ekphrastics, the poem of the dream and the poem as dream, Nightfall Marginalia abandons diurnal constraint as it flickers through lyric and narrative, abecedarian, OuLiPo, pros

    [more below]

    • Author: Maclay, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986625829
    • Language: English
  • That Blue Trickster Time

    $18.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    In revisiting her family’s history during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, Amy Uyematsu’s latest collection, That Blue Trickster Time, is a powerful affirmation of Asian Americans

    [more below]

    • Author: Uyematsu, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0996227695
    • Language: English
  • Figures of Wood

    $17.00
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Figures of Wood, the debut novel by Venezuelan writer Mar? Pé§»ez-Talavera, now translis a thought-provoking and gripping novel that delves into the mind of L, a young man questioning his own guilt an

    [more below]

    • Author: Pérez-Talavera, María
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 158
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986625836
    • Language: English
Shopping Cart