Books by Beavers Winter 2025

1. One Wild Word Away

By Geffrey Davis, ’06

This poetry collection from 2024 Pushcart Prize winner Geffrey Davis confronts the realities of loss and violence with the realities of love and light. With striking imagery and sonics, Davis composes a song to chase away the monsters under the bed, both imagined and real. Davis’ many accolades include the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Porter Fund Literary Prize and the Wabash Prize for Poetry. Learn more.

2. The Ancients

By John Larison, MFA ’07

Set in a not-so-distant post-apocalyptic future, The Ancients weaves together three narrative journeys to create a sweeping and ultimately hopeful epic about human resilience in a precarious world. Learn more.

3. The Spirit of 1889

By Samuel Western, ’81

Western thoughtfully reviews the sociopolitical history of North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and calls for a return to the progressive values these “89ers” were founded on. Learn more.

4. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

By Zoë Bossiere, MFA ’14

In this tough and tender debut memoir about queer boyhood in an Arizona trailer park, Bossiere invites us to consider how we find our place in a world that insists on stark binaries. It was selected as an Indies Introduce and an Indie NEXT book. Learn more.

Books by BeaversWinter 2025