Black Ocean

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• ISBN 9780984475209
• 96 Pages
• $12.95
I Don't Cry Loudly, Nor Do I Cry for Very Long
09/01/2012
Dear Joe, I admit that travel, the departure and arrival associated with it, sometimes makes me weepy. If I cry, I usually cry on airplanes, most often during take-off and landing, and especially if I am reading a book. I cried on the flight home from Russia a few summers ago when I finished reading Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov.…
• Book: Pigafetta Is My Wife
• Author: Joe Hall
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Genre: Poetry

Recommended by:Ryan Call
Ryan Call is the author of The Weather Stations. He teaches English and coaches cross-country at a high school in Houston.
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• 80 Pages •5.5 x 7"
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Scary, No Scary is cleverly costumed as a Hostess cupcake.
10/31/2011
In fact, for the purposes of this metaphor, it is a Hostess cupcake. Out of the package, it presents itself as a gaudy, misshapen darkness, but it smells great and goes well with a cup of coffee. Its ingredients have familiar names, but it’s only a “cupcake” insofar as it invents its own vocabulary out…
• Book: Scary, No Scary
• Author: Zachary Schomburg
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Genre: Poetry

Recommended by:Paul Fauteux
Paul Fauteux received his MFA from George Mason University, where he was the 2011-2012 Completion Fellow. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fat City Review and Sugar Mule, and his first chapbook, "The Best Way to Drink Tea," is out from Plan B Press. How to Un-do Things, a book-length manuscript, was recognized as a semi-finalist in the 11th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize.