Ernest Hilbert

Beyond All Bearing

Arts & Literature

“Peaceful celebration and profound mourning, injury and sustaining revelation, faith and astounding beauty--they all live in Susan Spear's perfectly balanced poems. . . . Each page grips the reader with precise and commanding language in lines that compel us to resist the urge to look away from what we 'don't want to see' while commending us to moments of grace and consolation to help us live 'as we wander through this glacial grief.' . . . Beyond All Bearing brings us stunningly fresh, resilient, and deeply moving poems of daily life, love, and inconceivable loss that will not soon be forgotten.”

Horses All Over Hell

Fiction

“With a forceful grasp of character and pitch-perfect dialogue, Ryan Blacketter brings us a deftly woven collection of stories about love and survival in a troubled, yet enduring, American family, reminding us that those who bring the greatest hardship may be the only ones left to offer shelter. Blacketter summons a world equal parts whiskey and evangelism, exhaustion and hope, charged with the curiosity and confusion of childhood, where loyalties are tested and rewarded, and too often broken. Horses All Over Hell is a heartbreaking and mesmerizing new book from a master of modern American fiction.”

Where Sunday Used to Be

Arts & Literature

“Daniel Klawitter’s Where Sunday Used to Be is a book in love with life when it is fully lived, as when the poet writes of having ‘devoured the heart of the morning’ while his wife is still abed, concluding ‘Evening is for the insomniacs— / Sunrise is for the famished.’ This intelligent book is attuned to the wonder of the ways the universe unfolds itself for a poet who seeks ‘the poem behind the poem.’”