Offering high-quality publications of Literature & Photography since 1965
Short poems unique in Berry's work. “Berry has set down moments of his life—snippets of conversations, sharply remembered scenes, folks who stopped by for coffee...and he has made little poems of them.”
—John Filiatreau
Stories with their humorous sides.
“Maybe if we could combine the talents and quirks of Kaye Gibbons, Mark Twain, and Thelma and Louise, we could come up with another Jo Carson. As it stands she is just about alone out there on the edge,
smack in Appalachia...”
—Louisville Courier-Journal
"Hell and Ohio is an impressive
debut collection from
an award winning
fiction writer..."
—Journal of Appalachian Studies
Poems by Joyce and a story by Willis that work well together.
"In a series of poetic monologues, journal entries, and letters, the book chronicles the journey of the Clay family from Kentucky to Oregon in the 1850s. Drawing on actual diaries written by pioneer women, Joyce is able to convey the rigors of this journey with the wealth of detail that makes such an account believable."
—Small Press
"There are endless riches in this small
masterpiece, not the least of which is
the language itself...
I predict it will eventually
find its place
beside great coming of age books like
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
and Catcher in the Rye."
—New York Times Book Review
Mendes' first collection of photographs with many iconic portraits of friends and artists.
Miller's two novels which share the same characters and should be read in sequence (with Newfound first).
Best Book of the Year from
Learning Magazine and Booklist.
"Perhaps the real pleasure of Newfound is
Jim Wayne's
sense of irony,
his sustaining humor that
invites readers to laugh with,
but never at, his people, his world."
—Wilma Dykeman
"Robert Morgan's lyric mountain language
is equal to the epic sweep of history,
to the grandeur of the land"
—Lee Smith
One of his earliest books of poems and containing some of his most anthologized.
First published
in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue. This novel “shows itself to be a subtly written and morally passionate epic
of the counterculture, a fictional explication of the hopeful new
consciousness come to birth..."
—John Updike, The New Yorker
"A chilling and compelling story...
The narrative races along like
one of those Bluegrass Thoroughbreds
in the setting of this wonderful novel."
—Bobbie Ann Mason
A new edition with an Afterword by Wendell Berry that pays special attention to Still's mastery of language and dialect.
One of his earliest and
most beloved
book of poems.
Thirty classic photographs of the writers Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Merton, Basil Bunting, Mina Loy, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg; the artists David Hockney and Claes Oldenburg; the photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White; the musician and composers Carl Ruggles and John Jacob Niles.
A vivid portrait of rural life in Vermont.
Collecting Cid Corman's versions
of fourteen Japanese poets
that have appeared in a number
of different collections.
A Commonplace A-Z selection of one of the most prominent 20th Century thinkers, writing that is refreshingly irreverent, yet with thoughts deep and considered.
The only woman who belonged among the Objectivist School of Poets, to whose leader Louis Zukofsky she was close.
"These poems take the risk of beauty
and survive. By their brevity
they invite, and reward,
the closest attention."
—Wendell Berry
Founded in 1965 by publisher and award-winning book designer Jonathan Greene, Gnomon Press specializes in books of high quality in the fields of literature and photography.
All books are printed on non-acid paper and designed to last for years.
Most of our titles are smythe-sewn.
“What we see here is the work of one of the country's preeminent book designers, Jonathan Greene of Gnomon Press of Frankfort, Kentucky.”
—Georgia Review