Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood, like the town was real, like she thinks swoon is a funnier word than mulligan, and he thinks swoon is a funny word too, but no way in hell is it funnier than mulligan, like he's searching for the Holy Grail and she has little Holy Grail-shaped pupils, like an effusion of steam, like what's cool changes, like hemisphere paint, like a blue flower, like the house you have lived above forever.

Author City: NORTHAMPTON, MA USA

Mark Leidner is the author of THE ANGEL IN THE DREAM OF OUR HANGOVER (Sator Press, 2011), a book of aphorisms. He grew up in Georgia and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Reviews and Other Links
author site
Mark Gurarie @ The Faster Times
interview by Jack Christian @ BOMBlog
First Books: A Conversation @ THERMOS
Seth Abramson @ The Huffington Post
interview by Danniel Schoonebeek @ The Rumpus