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Several motifs run through the formal and free-verse poems in Jonathan Fink''s debut collection: the relationship of the physical body to labor and desire, the nature of suffering that is paradoxically overpowering and instructive, and the struggle and definition of the individual will within the larger social world.

Jonathan Fink is the director of creative writing at the University of West Florida. He has received the Editors'' Prize in Poetry from the Missouri Review, the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction/Essay from Southwest Review, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Emory University, among other institutions.

Temporary People explores the human condition in all its most vulnerable exposures. Sharp and satirical, it is a breathtakingly paced romp, and the end will leave you drop-jawed and wanting more. Temporary People is a book for the ages and Steven Gillis delivers.

"Temporary People is a vicious and compelling storyboard for our time."—Jeff Parker, author of Ovenman"As thoroughly dark and thoroughly humane as Vonnegut''s apocalyptic novels like Cat''s Cradle and Galapagos.... Here''s a fable for our time, and for just about any other time you can imagine."—Chris Bachelder, author of U.S.!

Steven Gillis is the author of the novels Walter Falls and The Weight of Nothing, both finalists for the Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award and ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year awards for 2003 and 2005. He is a six-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a collection of his stories—titled Giraffes—was published in 2007.

Winner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize.

"One of the year''s most stimulating reading experiences."—Michel Ekman, Svenska Dagbladet

"Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash."—Amelie Björck, Göteborgs-Posten

Combining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, European Trash is a humorous, moving, and elegiac novel that "circles" around the image of the author''s father who, through his assemblage of objects, art, and wisdom—collected in his flat in Malmö, Sweden—strives to keep the culture and values that others might call "European Trash" intact.

I open the door and walk into my father''s empty apartment. Already in the hall I get the feeling that he is still in the kitchen making coffee, quickly turning around to look in my direction. In that unfamiliar silence, visions and memories are released: how he walked toward me with that gleam in his eye, how he pronounced my name, how he inspected me to check my level of fatigue.

Ulf Peter Hallberg is a Swedish writer born in Malmö, Sweden, who has lived in Berlin, Germany, since 1983. He is the author of many books, including The Glance of the Flâneur (translated into German and Italian), Grand Tour, Legends & Lies, and European Trash.

Erland Anderson has published several books in translation, including Between Darkness, Darkness: Selected Poems by Rolf Aggestam (with Lars Nordstrom, 1989), and Views from a Tuft of Grass by Harry Martinson (2005).

Ingrid Cassady is from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently lives in California.

Robin, an American backpacker low on money but infatuated with travel and beauty, and Piv, her charismatic Thai lover who dreams of a better life, become embroiled in the dangerous world of international animal trafficking in this exotic literary thriller.

“The book is heartily significant, featuring work that is sometimes surprising, sometimes frustrating and sometimes exhilaratingnot unlike the Web itself.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“There is good work here. Perhaps that’s all that needs to be said.”—Fiction Writers Review

At heart, these stories explore generational intersections, with teenagers confronting the moments that will foment their directions to adulthood, and adults searching out opportunities for change in their present lives, gazing back on their own defining experiences in order to help chart new courses.

Jeff Kass is a teacher of English and creative writing at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, MI, and works as the Poet-in-Residence for Ann Arbor Public Schools. Jeff directs the creative writing program at Ann Arbor''s Teen Center, The Neutral Zone, where he founded and continues to direct The VOLUME Youth Poetry Project.