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    50 Miles by Sheryl St. Germain

    50 Miles is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life of the author’s son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, and his death from a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author’s own recovery from substance abuse.

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    A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems From the Odyssey by D. M. Spitzer

    A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey offers a fresh approach to — and a collaboration with — the Odyssey by weaving together translated fragments from the Greek text with a sequence of poems drawn from an imaginative engagement with the Odyssey.

    D. M. Spitzer’s collection unfolds within the framework of the ancient epic: 24 books and a well-known and complex narrative architecture. The poems contained in A Heaven Wrought of Iron inhabit a range of voices drawn from both the world of Homer’s Odyssey and from that of the poet-as-reader.

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    A Poetics of Hiroshima by William Heyen

    In A Poetics of Hiroshima, William Heyen has broken through to face full square what has been working its way to surface through several of his highly-praised earlier books including Erika: Poems of the Holocaust and Shoah Train (Etruscan, 2003): the interfusions, in art and in our desire for art, of beauty and atrocity. Heyen’s lines claw their ways into an aesthetics of formful but obscene sound that may now be our century’s only viable, or possible, home.

    “A remarkable poet in whom the ‘visionary’ and the unblinkingly ‘historical’ are dramatically meshed. He writes with the wild, radiant audacity of the visionary; yet his eye and ear are sharp, unsparing.”—Joyce Carol Oates

    “William Heyen’s music and meditations continue to amaze. I’ve now read and absorbed all the poems of A Poetics of Hiroshima. I am not ready to write anything about them, except to express my awe.”—Cynthia Ozick

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    Aard-vark to Axolotl: Pictures From my Grandfather’s Dictionary by: Karen Donovan

    Karen Donovan’s Aard-vark to Axolotl, an eclectic series of tiny stories and prose poems, is based on a set of illustrations from the pages of her grandfather’s 1925 Webster’s New International Dictionary. The author collected pictures of plants and animals, diagrams and devices, and dozens of other charmingly quirky objects and created a new narrative context for each one. Sometimes sneaky mysterious, sometimes downright weird, these small poetic stories work on the reader like alternative definitions for items drawn from a cabinet of curiosities.

    View all books from Etruscan Press by Karen Donovan

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    All the Difference by Patricia Horvath

    All the Difference is a captivating account of the author’s transformation from a visibly disabled young woman to someone who could, abruptly, “pass” for able-bodied. In prose that is searing and humorous Patricia Horvath details her experiences with bracing and spinal fusion, as she considers the literature of physical transformation and how folk and fairy tales shape our attitudes towards the disabled.

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    American Amnesiac by Diane Raptosh

    Following the manic journey of a man stripped of memory, American Amnesiac confronts the complexities of being American in an age of corruption, corporations, and global conflict.

    “Straddling confession and prophesy, history and myth, intimacy and anonymity, American Amnesiac offers a riveting meditation on a distinctly American condition. We are lost and at home in its world, a world in which past and present collide and identities fold and collapse. Following the hypnotic voice of the amnesiac speaker, the stranded reader stumbles along in a landscape marked by its own odd, jarring, incoherent signposts — shreds of a past as recognizable as it is impenetrable (the relentless refrain is, after all, “My name is John Doe”) and scraps of a world reduced to a collection of headlines, names, titles, symbols, letters — familiar and cryptic at once. With her consummate craft, Diane Raptosh has given us a collection of stunning, timely, and unforgettable poems.” —Edvige Giunta, author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors

    The self is a thousand localities

    like a small nation—assembly required: borders and roads,armies, farms, small and large pieces of parchment. I stand by

    all the territories I have ever been, even as I can’t

    remember them. I am a locum—ear to the emperor penguin, a banner ad
    blinking to the hoi polloi. Since I’ve become John Doe, I swear

    I can feel most objects with sixty digits
    instead of five. This makes me think

    of Lisette. Makes me miss her left collar bone. Her hips’ wingtips.
    A train moans from a far hummock.

    Which reminds me that everyone I’ll have to live without
    I must help to find a place within. Which is an act

    of granite will. A strain. A ditty.
    An exercise in utmost beautility.

    From American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press 2013) by Diane Raptosh

    Awards

    2013 – National Book Award Longlist, Poetry

    2014 Finalist – Housatonic Book Award for Poetry

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    American Anger: An Evidentiary by H.L. Hix

    More than an expressive book of poems, American Anger is an evidentiary reflection of civility and self-correction. Just as a documentary assembles documents, American Anger assembles evidences: found poems, testimonies, narratives, statistics, translations of short topical excerpts from classical literature, all of which bring American anger to light. Born from the poet’s own philosophical research, these poems present current sociocultural circumstances and employ arguments of dissonance between the statements and actions of the United States government, creating an engaging social and cultural movement focused on how anger is part of everyday American life. American Anger stimulates discussion important to any concerned citizen.

    Within the work, a fully developed author biography is present in its own right, affording the reader a chance to learn more about the poet through philosophy and lyricism. The interior of the book has a unique design, which is expertly typeset to create essentially a manuscript within a manuscript. A ribbon of text runs in boustrophedon, an ancient Greek writing form, like a watermark behind the poetry.

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    American Fugue by Alexis Stamatis

    American Fugue (Amerikaniki Fouga) is Stamatis’s first book published in America and available to U.S. readers. The book, which was translated by Etruscan author Diane Thiel and by Constantine Hadjilambrinos, follows a Greek protagonist who visits America, travels across the country, and has a strange and compelling adventure. American Fugue examines the basic themes that are persistent in all of Stamatis’s works of fiction: an all-consuming past, the flight to escape one’s personal demons, and, most importantly, the search for personal identity that is ultimately revealed only through what is unknown to the self. The treatment of these themes is also characteristic of the author’s other novels—travel narrative on the surface, mystery or thriller with an existential dimension at another level, but ultimately a quest for self-discovery and personal redemption.

    “One of the most gifted writers of his generation.” —Francoise Noiville, journalist at Le Monde

    “Alexis Stamatis always starts his books smoothly, seductively so, but one chapter in you find yourself rushing the pages, intrigued, amazed, surprised. . . ”—Nicholas Papandreou, author of A Crowded Heart

    Award

    2007 Winner – NEA 1st International Translation Award

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    An Archaeology of Yearning by Bruce Mills

    An Archaeology of Yearning explores a father’s effort to understand a family landscape altered by autism.  Ultimately, however, the book is not about autism; it is about the central role of storytelling in sustaining human connections and the power of shared desires in embracing difference.

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    Arcadia Road: A Trilogy by Thorpe Moeckel

    Arcadia Road is three long poems – narrative, lyrical, meditative – each as audacious as down-to-earth, each as strange as intimate. Moeckel’s trilogy is as rich, lush, and organic as the soil of his Virgina Blue Ridge homestead. In a mode both contemporary and as old as Hesiod, Moeckel sustains a cosmic and earthbound incursion into essential techniques and textures of life. These poems are organic and intimate, revolving around the time, work, grace and struggle of bringing food from field to table.

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2020 Book Releases Catalog

2020 Book Releases Catalog

Bearing Imagination – Outreach

Enjoy our latest video "Bearing Imagination - Outreach" which describes Etruscan's mission and continued literary efforts, funded by grants and donations, including the Ohio Arts Council.

Laurie Jean Cannady – A Reading from Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul

Visit “At Length” to Read About Their Latest Feature

"At Length", an online journal, has just released a chapter from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet (forthcoming from Broadstone).

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Etruscan Co-Founder Receives Governor’s Award

Etruscan Co-Founder Receives Governor's Award
See the video of Etruscan Co-Founder receiving the Ohio Governor's Award here.

Out of Our Minds with H. L. Hix

Out of Our Minds with H. L. Hix
H. L. Hix appeared on KKUP's Out of Our Minds podcast. Listen to the podcast here »

WVIA Interview With Tim Seibles

WVIA Interview With Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles was interviewed on WVIA Radio ArtScene with Erika Funke.
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WVIA Interview with Phil Brady

WVIA Interview with Phil Brady
The Etruscan Press Executive Director, Phil Brady, was interviewed on WVIA Radio ArtScene with Erika Funke.
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