59 books by Cleveland authors released in 2020
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
Posted Dec 18, 2020
Plenty of new books arrived in 2020 by local authors and writers with ties to Northeast Ohio. Check out some of the new releases in this guide.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Looking to pick up a few more books in the new year, or hoping to get to know Northeast Ohio’s busy literary scene? There are plenty of great reads written by authors with connections to Greater Cleveland.
We put together a selection of some great books that arrived this year from prominent Northeast Ohio authors, poets and artists, split up into different sections. Whether you’re looking for a new cookbook, a thrilling mystery, a children’s story or a graphic novel, we’ve got you covered.
Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020). Even though the Lebanese American poet and academic has been writing about U.S. folly abroad since the Gulf War and even theorized about war resistance verse in a critical work in 2007, says Purushothaman, Metres has little time for pat poems that turn on simple conflicts like Us vs Them, and isn t interested in resistance literature. More:
For much of his career, Metres has focused on American wars in the Arab world. In
Shrapnel Maps, his new collection of poems from Copper Canyon Press, he shifts his terrain to Palestine-Israel. Drawing on disparate sources, including 1948 memorabilia, maps and texts from centuries earlier, and testimonies of refugees, activists, and suicide bombers, Metres orchestrates a grand conversation of voices and perspectives across three nations. The book is broken into ten sections, resembling a binder containing a war correspondent’s notes. At a climactic moment, Metres turns “shrapnel” into