Artistically Declined Press

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• ISBN 9780578042169
• 290 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $12.00
Hush Up and Listen: An Interview with Ken Sparling
01/26/2013
Ken Sparling is the author of Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, For Those Whom God Has Blessed with Fingers, Untitled: A Novel, and Book. His recently re-released novel Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt is what we’re here to talk about today, and you should check out Amazon to find out about…
• Book: Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt
• Author: Ken Sparling
• Publisher: Artistically Declined Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Molly Gaudry
Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards and shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil. She is the founder of The Lit Pub.
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• ISBN 9781467513425
• 86 Pages •5 x 8"
• $9.00
They Obliterate Us with their Aerobatics of Language and Rhythm
10/04/2012
My brother used to build these rockets we’d launch when we were kids that would blast up into the atmosphere forever. We searched and searched to find out if its explosive magic would ever manifest in the vacant lot where we stood staring up into the sky. We were sure it had found its way…
• Book: You Are Jaguar
• Author: Ryan W. Bradley David Tomaloff
• Publisher: Artistically Declined Press
• Genre: Poetry

Recommended by:Meg Tuite
Meg Tuite's writing has appeared in numerous journals including Berkeley Fiction Review, Epiphany, JMWW, One, the Journal, Monkeybicycle and Boston Literary Magazine. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press, and is also the author of Domestic Apparition, Disparate Pathos, and Reverberations.
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• ISBN 9781450776714
• 126 Pages •5 x 8"
• $9.00
Glimpses of Personal Secrets, Situations of Real Human Beings
06/25/2012
Ayiti is the first book I have ever read by an author whose work I discovered on a blog. Roxane Gay is a regular contributor to HTMLGIANT, “the internet literature magazine blog of the future,” which I unearthed (and obsessed over) in my senior year of high school, desperate to become a part of the…
• Book: Ayiti
• Author: Roxane Gay
• Publisher: Artistically Declined Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Nathan Goldman
Nathan Goldman is a student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Gadfly, the student newsmagazine. He is pursuing a degree in Liberal Arts. His fiction has appeared online in the Journal of Microliterature.
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• ISBN 9781450748391
• 222 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
• $12.00
When Publishing a Book Becomes More than Publishing a Book
02/26/2012
When I think about You Can Make Him Like You I feel incredibly lucky to have published it; to have been any part of it at all means the world to me. My goal as a publisher has always been to honor great writing with great design, but YCMHLY went beyond that — it became…
• Book: You Can Make Him Like You
• Author: Ben Tanzer
• Publisher: Artistically Declined Press
• Genre: Fiction

Recommended by:Ryan W. Bradley
Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, and managed an independent children's bookstore. He is now a freelance book designer.
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• ISBN 9781450724654
• 96 Pages •5 x 8"
• $9.00
She moves, oftentimes, as a stranger in a strange land.
02/11/2012
I don’t get to travel as much as I’d like, which is one of the reasons Rose Hunter’s poetry collection To the River was a special treat for me: Essentially, it’s a passport that grants the reader access to places all over the globe, foreign places, or at least places foreign to me. And I didn’t even…
• Book: to the river
• Author: Rose Hunter
• Publisher: Artistically Declined Press
• Genre: Poetry

Recommended by:Mel Bosworth
Mel Bosworth is the two-time Pushcart nominated author of the fiction chapbook When the Cats Razzed the Chickens, the novella Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom, and the novel Freight.