'ImageUpdate select an annual Top Ten list from the over one hundred books, films, albums, visual art collections, and even television shows shared in the e-newsletter each year. ImageUpdate strives to direct readers attention to new and emerging artists.
Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers
Its impossible not to feel reverence when you read Holy Heathen Rhapsody, Pattiann Rogers latest collection. Rogers poems are as variegated as the world they witness, but still controlled, graceful with their details.
Arts & Entertainments by Christopher Beha
Arts & Entertainments is a charming, composed work that, in its best moments, recalls Vonnegut and Kafka. Beha demonstrates the consequences of godless men playing God.
My Brightest Diamond: This Is My Hand
Shara Worden offers herself on this album like wine pouring out to thee, for thee, and in doing so her persona possesses the same astronomical dimensions as any pop stars, but the direction of her work is toward gifting her listeners rather than building an image upon their devotion.
Make Me a Mother by Susanne Antonetta
Antonetta's adoption of a five-month-old Korean boy named Jin is set in the larger context of her dysfunctional family history including the challenges and joys of balancing nurture for her young son and the obligation of taking care of aging parents.
Trying to Get a Sense of Scale by Tim Lowly
This handsomely-printed art book, produced in conjunction with an exhibition of paintings by artist Tim Lowly, not only chronicles a large body of work by a distinguished practitioner, but serves as a profound, poignant journey into the meaning of life, love, identity, and beauty.
I Watched You Disappear by Anya Silver
In I Watched You Disappear, we move with Anya Krugovoy Silver as she touches and wonders the world in her poems: the pain of cancer, heft of ripe fruit, beauty of her sons legs, the heart / like a shattered peony, / musky petal after petal / unpeeling, pealing.
Tailings by Kaethe Schwehn
When she was just twenty-two, Kaethe Schwehn decided to spend the better part of a year at a remote retreat center in the Cascade Mountains known as Holden Village. What makes Tailings, Schwehn's account of this year, so compelling is a trick only the best memoirs can pull off: the doubleness of telling a story from the past through the mind of a gifted writer in the present.
The Soil & the Sun: Meridian
The Soil & the Sun is not shy about variety, nor creating bold, artful confusions of sounds. Neither are they shy about their intentions with the record, telling Paste, Meridian is about life and death, mystery, love, selfishness, God, technocracy, sorrow, the end of the world, and the fate of mankind.
The Red List by Stephen Cushman
Stephen Cushman's The Red List (another name for the Endangered Species List) dives boldly into the modern worlds wide-ranging forms of endangerment. Cushman's journey through 21st century hyper-connection leads reader and speaker through a complex landscape fragmented by anxiety, grief, and uncertainty.
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
Social work lit utilizes a public servant as protagonist, a police officer for example or in Henderson's book, a lonely social worker in rural Montana called Pete Snow. Snow spends his days helping broke-down families while his own family has been thrashed and tossed to the wind.
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My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave.
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