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• ISBN 978-0988383784
• 164 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $14.00
Book as site for inevitable-resound
07/28/2014
Book as catapult, as dark cliffs among which an impossible voice is being initialized, is becoming confident enough to sound. Book as reverb in a yearn-school. Book as site for inevitable-resound. From a voice taken a voice is invented: Shrap. Shrap sharpens. Shrap is to shrapnel. Shrap is a profound sear along a system of…
• Book: A Child Is Being Killed
• Author: Carolyn Zaikowski
• Publisher: Aqueous Books
• Genre: Fiction
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• ISBN 9781933959238
• 87 Pages •6 x 9"
• $15.00
Submission Is the Only Window
05/18/2012
Amy King’s I Want To Make You Safe is densely packed with “the songs of undiscovered tribes” extant by way of versions of an urban feminist tonguing. Led by a brand of narrative that is not traditional at all, these poems are “an eye to cancel [a] planet’s core out.” In this book I experienced…
• Book: I Want To Make You Safe
• Author: Amy King
• Publisher: Litmus Press
• Genre: Poetry
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• ISBN 9790982744055
• 140 Pages •6 x 9"
• $12.95
It is in the combinational weaving of both the insinuating and the blatant that make this book’s singing so unsettling.
02/27/2012
J. A. Tyler’s A Shiny Unused Heart (Black Coffee Press, 2011) is, to me, a radical ballad of grief. Sometimes people think of grief in the context of loss or lack, but the grief of which this book sings is very rich — is its own indelible surplus. This is not the grief of any…
• Book: A Shiny, Unused Heart
• Author: J. A. Tyler
• Publisher: Black Coffee Press
• Genre: Fiction
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• ISBN 9781937543006
• 202 Pages •8 x 10"
• $26.00
AJS’s work here is like an acidic trance.
02/02/2012
Anna Joy Springer’s The Vicious Red Relic, Love is a grotesque, deteriorating castle. A self-made castle that like the resilience of outlying sheds remains as it (and the life it is describing) is falling apart. AJS calls the book “a fabulist memoir” and I agree that in it there is the esteemed norm of “memoir”-tone…
• Book: The Vicious Red Relic, Love
• Author: Anna Joy Springer
• Publisher: Jaded Ibis Press
• Genre: Nonfiction