Laura Moriarty, Author . Hyperion $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0031-9
For 10-year-old Evelyn Bucknow, there really is no place like home. On all the world maps she's ever seen, the United States has been smack dab in the middle, with Kansas in the middle of that. "I feel so lucky to live here, right in the...
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Laura Moriarty, Author . Post-Apollo $14 (125p) ISBN 978-0-942996-51-7
Moriarty enters the third decade of her career with an exciting book that extends both the penchant for splitting, doubling and twinning seen in Symmetries
(1996) and the enigmatic handling of narrative fragments first perfected in the brilliant...
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Laura Moriarty, Author . Atelos $13.50 (262p) ISBN 978-1-891190-24-7
In her enchanting second novel, Moriarty (Cunning
) goes for nothing less than the nature of time, space, life and art—literally creating a fictional universe. Stella Nemo, the most appealing sort of sophisticated naïf, plunges her paper...
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Laura Moriarty, Author . Hyperion $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0271-9
Moriarty's follow-up to book-group favorite The Center of Everything
again explores a tense, fragile mother-daughter relationship, this time finding sharper edges where personal history and parenting meet. Now a junior high school English...
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Laura Moriarty, Author . Omnidawn $14.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-890650-27-8
The publication last year of Moriarty's novel Ultravioleta
(Atelos) was greeted with such praise that its small press publisher sold out its first run. This book brings together many hard-to-find pieces from 12 collections of verse, making a...
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Laura Moriarty, Author . Hyperion $24.99 (305p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0272-6
Moriarty exposes the underbelly of family strife in this coming-of-age college drama set near Lawrence, Kans. One day, Veronica Von Holten is happy, med-school bound, in love with her boyfriend and not far from her supportive family. Then her father
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Laura Moriarty, Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $14.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-9822645-6-0
The California Tonalist painters of the early 20th century were arguably the first modern artists to capture West Coast light and space. Moriarty's long and challenging work—part verse, part prose poem, part manifesto—juxtaposes painters with...
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Laura Moriarty, Author Krupskaya $13 (88p) ISBN 978-1-928650-07-2
A mature exhibition of the powers of late modern, or perhaps early ""new modern,"" writing, Moriarty's latest, book-length poem is part spiritual autobiography, part post-feminist re-examination of the body and love, and part ambient wash of...
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Laura Moriarty. Riverhead, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59448-701-9
Moriarty (While I’m Falling) skims the surface of 1920s life in Wichita, Kans., where homosexuality, contraception, and being just about anything other than white and Protestant is considered a moral offence. In the summer of 1922, prim, married...
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Laura Moriarty. Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (132p) ISBN 978-1-937658-19-9
Moriarty (A Tonalist) calls upon a wide range of poetic styles to explore the connection between agency and the divine in her latest collection. Opening with a Luce Irigaray epigraph—“Divinity is what we need to become free, autonomous, sovereign”—Mo
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Laura Moriarty, Author, Cydney Chadwick, Editor Avec Books $9.95 (124p) ISBN 978-1-880713-04-4
The surfaces of these poems shiver with a tensile strength. Although the language is simple and the topics vaguely commonplace (in the manner of Francis Ponge or Pierre Reverdy), Moriarty, here in her fourth book, manages to array across a single...
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Laura Moriarty. HarperTeen, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-269410-2
In 16-year-old Sarah-Mary’s near-future America, the U.S–Mexico border is closed and Muslims are being sent to internment camps. These aren’t things Sarah-Mary thinks about much. She doesn’t know any Muslims; she and her younger brother, Caleb, are...
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