New books out by Colby Creative Writing faculty.

Wesleyan University Press will be publishing Adrian Blevins's second book of poetry--Live from the Homesick Jamboree--in fall of 2009.  Here's what an early reviewer has to say about the work:  

"The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevins’s work. This poetry is plainspoken and streetwise, brutal and beautiful, provocative and self-incriminating, with much sound-play and a corrosive bravura, brilliantly complicated by bursts of musical language and flashes of compassion."

Debra Spark's third novel, Good for the Jews, is the winner of this year's Michigan Literary Fiction Award.  It will be published in the fall of 2009 by the University of Michigan Press.