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A beautiful new book from Magda Kapa, now in pre-order!

7/15/2021

 
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We're delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Losing Touch, by Magda Kapa - her second book with Phoenicia. It's available for pre-ordering now, directly from the publisher, and should begin shipping in early August, when it will also become available via Amazon in various countries.

In Losing Touch we find a series of ten-line poems, written between March 2020 and the end of February 2021. They are about living during the pandemic, but they are not about the pandemic in a descriptive or overt sense. By regularly condensing her thoughts and emotions while also chronicling the passage of seasons and her own individual life, Magda Kapa has expressed with poignancy, sensitivity, and yes, even humor, what so many of us have experienced during this time. The poets George Szirtes and Mariadonata Villa have both praised this book; please visit the web page to read their comments, find a full description,  and ordering information.

This beautiful edition is printed on high-quality cream paper, and includes twelve drawings by Elizabeth Adams, most of which were created during the same months when Magda's poems were written.
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A New Book from Rachel Barenblat, Now in Pre-order!

11/11/2020

 
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Phoenicia is delighted to announce that pre-orders are open for the forthcoming publication of Crossing the Sea, a cycle of poignant, deeply thoughtful, and sometimes even funny poems written by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat during the year following her mother's death.

 "Heart-full, love-rich, rapt with intricate attention and memory, but never shirking the hard parts."
--Naomi Shihab Nye, author of The Tiny Journalist and Transfer, among others

This is a full-length book of 88 pages, and it's available at a special price until the end of November. We expect to start shipping books in early December, and hope you'll take advantage of this early offer.

"I was moved, I was brought back to my own loss, and I was brought a little closer to healing."
--Mark Nazimova, Jewish liturgist, NYC

Please visit the book's page on our website for full details and how to order.

"Rachel captures the complexity of their relationship through similar telling descriptions and snippets of dialogue, then a miracle happens. My mother is there, too."
 -- Nan Cuba, author of Body and Bread, winner of the PEN Southwest Award in Fiction

Coming in September!

8/5/2019

 
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The Creative Process: Gildas Berthelot, Sculptor
Le processus créatif : Gildas Berthelot, sculpteur
by/par Jonathan Sa'adah
black & white photographs, bilingual text (French / English)
photographies noir et blanc, texte bilingue (français / anglais)

In September, in conjunction with their joint exhibition in Montreal, Phoenicia will release this book of photographs by Jonathan Sa'adah, capturing the creative process of Gildas Berthelot. The French-born sculptor, who lives in Montreal and works in wood, makes large pieces of fantastic shape that blur the boundaries between furniture and sculpture. His process is intense, physically demanding, and astounding, as planks of hardwood are transformed into organic forms. The bilingual book includes two interviews, one with the photographer and one with the sculptor, about this project and their approach to their work. A pre-order offer will be announced in late summer. ​ We invite your inquiries about both the book and the possibility of other exhibitions. Publication launch and vernissage will be in September 2019.
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Phoenicia publiera, en septembre, conjointement avec leur exposition conjointe à Montréal, ce livre de photographies de Jonathan Sa'adah, documentant le processus créatif de Gildas Berthelot. Le sculpteur français, qui vit à Montréal et travaille le bois, fabrique de grandes pièces aux formes fantastiques qui brouillent les frontières entre mobilier et sculpture. Son processus est intense, physiquement exigeant et époustouflant, alors que les planches de bois dur se transforment en formes organiques. Le livre bilingue comprend deux interviews, une avec le photographe et une avec le sculpteur, sur ce projet et leur approche du travail. Une offre de pré-commande sera annoncée à la fin de l'été. Nous vous invitons à nous contacter à propos du livre et de la possibilité d’autres expositions. Le lancement de la publication et le vernissage auront lieu en septembre 2019.


Luisa A. Igloria's "The Buddha Wonders..." shortlisted for Rubery Book Award

7/15/2019

 
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We were delighted to learn that The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, 2018) was shortlisted for the prestigious Rubery Book Award (UK) in the poetry category. Congratulations, Luisa!

Our 2018 Pushcart Nominations: 6 Poems by Luisa A. Igloria

11/17/2018

 
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Phoenicia Publishing is honored and delighted to announce that our nominations for the 2018 Pushcart Prize are six poems by Luisa A. Igloria, from her book The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Midlife Crisis (Phoenicia, March 2018).

It was a hard choice, to decide on just six poems form this stellar collection. In the end, we chose the following ones, "Five Mysteries," "Never Full, Never Empty," "Ghazal, With Cow Burial," "Absence, Presence," "Keep Me," and "Is the Sparrow happier than we are? Is the crow?"

Congratulations, Luisa, and thank you for continuing to write memorable, unique, and personal poems that help to illuminate life, and help us to live it.

Luisa A. Igloria awarded 2nd Place in 2018 Bridgport Prize

10/22/2018

 
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We're so proud of Luisa A. Igloria​ , who has won 2nd place for poetry in the 2018 Bridgport Prize, an international creative writing competition, and was judged this year by Daljit Nagra, Monica Ali, and Kamila Shamsie. Luisa is the author of two books published by Phoenicia: "The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Midlife Crisis" (2018) and "Night Willow" (2014). Congratulations, Luisa!!

Poetry Judge Daljit Nagra wrote this about Luisa's poem:
“My second prize, ‘what we learn from movies about surviving a nuclear blast’, dramatizes the terrifying consequences of a nuclear explosion. The witty parallel of an old film with an actual situation that occurred earlier in the year shows desperate nurture and human incapability. The form of the poem, with its teeming line endings and line openings, enact its own anxiety and locks us into the chamber of the language. The poem makes us feel breathless and miasmic as it gathers momentum and brings us into a series of vivid and appalling images. We are reminded that the role of poetry is to provoke, to shock, to warn, and this poem achieves all these terms with deft authority. We are left ‘crouched in the cellar or bathroom’, as was the case earlier in the year, when Hawaiians were told for 38 minutes, that they were under nuclear attack.” 


Coming in March, and Now Available for Preorder!

2/26/2018

 
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The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis
Poems by Luisa A. Igloria

Now available for pre-order at a special price through March 20, 2018.

"Reading Luisa A. Igloria’s poems is like opening doors within doors within doors. These doors give access to the mind, the imagination, into lush and lyric worlds. ...Poem after poem reveals the Buddha. S/he is sneaky and coy. S/he peeks behind every stanza, meditating at every end-stopped line, her robes overflowing in every layer of images. And in the end, after we’ve taken in every poem, s/he finds a place in the center of us." -- from the foreword by Ira Sukrungruang, author of  Southside Buddhist, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, and the forthcoming Buddha's Dog and other meditations, and professor at the University of South Florida.

For full information and to place a pre-order, please click the image or links, and sign up for our newsletter to be eligible for one of two free copies to be given away in March.

(Cover art by Elizabeth Adams)

Forthcoming: Buddha Poems by Luisa A. Igloria

1/2/2018

 
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Phoenicia Publishing is delighted to announce that a new book of poems by Luisa A. Igloria, The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis, will be published in March 2018. This is a collection of 53 "Buddha poems" that Luisa wrote in early 2016, many of which have appeared online at Via Negativa, where she has posted a new poem every day since November 2010.

The author says these poems began from the premise that "if the Buddha in me can greet the Buddha in you," then the aspiration to transcendence is a daily work in progress. She writes about the constant seesaw between our appetite for worldly things and the hunger for deeper permanence; about our human imperfections and foibles; and our longing to be touched by grace, if not love and absolution, in this lifetime.

There will be a pre-order period a month before publication, with discounted pricing and special offers for Phoenicia newsletter subscribers, so please be sure to sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list!




Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world's first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. She is the author of the chapbooks Haori(Tea & Tattered Pages Press, 2017), Check & Balance (Moria Press/Locofo Chaps, 2017), and  Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass (Kudzu House Press eChapbook selection for Spring 2015); plus the full length works Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press), Night Willow (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2014), The Saints of Streets (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013), Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), and nine other books. She teaches on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, which she directed from 2009-2015. www.luisaigloria.com
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