Michael Coffey, Author Sun & Moon $10.95 (102p) ISBN 978-1-55713-240-6
Coffey's first volume, number 22 in Sun & Moon's forward-looking New American Poetry series, uses forms founded by this century's avant-garde (e.g., Gertrude Stein, Jackson Mac Low and the Dadaist sound poets) to show how the very materials of...
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Michael Coffey. Bellevue Literary (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-934137-86-4
The riveting prose in Coffey’s first collection of stories leaves the reader feeling unsettled and unmoored. In “Sunlight,” a man named Michael who works for Publishers Weekly (where Coffey was co-editorial director before retiring earlier this year)
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Michael Coffey. Bellevue Literary (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-934137-87-1
The riveting prose in Coffey’s first collection of stories leaves the reader feeling unsettled and unmoored. In “Sunlight,” a man named Michael who works for Publishers Weekly (where Coffey was co-editorial director before retiring earlier this year)
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Michael Coffey, Author, Mike Wallace, Author, Mike Wallace, Introduction by Hyperion Books $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6556-7
From the chauffeur's wrong turn that helped start WWI to the (unexploded) nuclear bomb that the United States Air Force once dropped over Spain, this engaging set of brief cautionary essays--a companion volume to a History Channel series--presents...
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Michael Coffey, Author, Bill James, Foreword by . Atria $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4606-8
More than 150,000 major league games have been played in the modern era, Coffey (The Irish in America
, etc., and PW
's senior managing editor) tells us in this marvelous book, but only 14 have been "perfect games." A game is perfect...
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Michael Coffey, Author . O Books $14 (122p) ISBN 978-1-882022-56-4
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black—with forms that mimic the basic tones from which all colors are blended and printed, this third outing from New York poet and PW
executive managing editor Coffey returns to the experimental, procedure-oriented...
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Michael Coffey. OR, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-1-944869-59-5
Coffey (The Business of Naming Things), former co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, blurs genre and form in a clever exploration of the ways in which art gives life meaning. He pulls inspiration from Samuel Beckett, framing the book with a...
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Michael Coffey. OR, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-68219-608-3
In this probing hybrid of literary analysis and memoir, Coffey (Samuel Beckett Is Closed), the former co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, uses the rumor that Nobel winner Samuel Beckett was the father of poet Susan Howe as a springboard to...
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