our books


In an age of consolidation and corporatization, Lethe Press remains an independent publisher in the old style: we curate our booklist and put out books we love. Below are our books of general interest. For books of gay/lesbian interest, please click here.


poetry & literary fiction




Michaelson


New for 2007 !


Another Word for Sky: Poems
By Jay Michaelson

"Jay Michaelson knows too well that our life is a wedding and a funeral, at the same time, in any given moment. The erotic on these pages comes hand in hand with the devotional."
- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa

" If you are comfortable in your pew, these may not be the poems for you. But if you want fully embodied poems of outrage and love -- and if you want to "make a religion of flaw," read Another Word for Sky. You wonÍt regret it."
- Richard Chess, author of Third Temple


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Lethe Press Paperback
104 pages
ISBN Forthcoming
$14.95




Mohanraj




Silence and the Word By Mary Anne Mohanraj

A new collection drawing from the many areas of Mary Anne Mohanraj's work, Silence and the Word includes everything from enticing erotica to Sri Lankan-American immigrant tales, from romantic poetry to provocative essays. Mohanraj boldly explores sexuality, ethnicity, and their interactions with the human heart. If you're a long-time fan, you'll be thrilled to have so much of her work finally collected in one place; if you're a new reader, prepare to be emotionally engaged, possibly aroused, and certainly fascinated by what you're about to read.




Lethe Press Paperback,
300 pages
ISBN 159021014X
 $15.00

science fiction

              


Elgin


Peace Talk

By Suzette Haden Elgin

The story of an ordinary man, who is so disgusted with the state of the world, so depressed at what he sees as a universal absence of hope for humankind, that he sees no way out except the most desperate of measures. But then things that are not at all ordinary start happening to him, as a stranger shows him, one small mysterious step at a time, that he has another choice. This novella in the form of a parable, leads the reader on an amazing journey from despair to joy.

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Lethe Press Paperback,
ISBN 1590210301
 $8.00

ludwigsen


  Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby! and Other Cosmic Insolence
By Will Ludwigsen

Oscar Wilde wrote that "the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their entire lack of style." Not satisfied with that, Will Ludwigsen chooses instead to add humor and flair to the horrors that surround us. Why settle for the lesser of evils in your newspaper when you can read an entire book of stories about zombie-exploiting, plesiosaur-chopping, alien-dissecting, robotically-enhanced, lunatics instead? This premiere collection by Will Ludwigsen brings together thirteen of his best horror, mystery, and science fiction stories from magazines such as Weird Tales, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Cemetery Dance, plus three originals. Though the work of a single deranged author, these varied tales share a flippant disdain for common decency, courtesy, and sense. Witty and irreverent, they remind us that we have more hope than we think--if only because we have wit and irreverence.


Lethe Press Paperback,
ISBN 1590210522
$10.00