In a landscape charged with terror and magic, children go missing, relationships sour, and what we think we know turns strange. These stories are sketches of domestic horror, where love becomes brittle yet it is all we have. Somewhere the war is alr...
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Fictionalized memoir, personal essay, or post-blog meanderings in the picaresque tradition? Poet and novelist Owen Hill shares the experiences of a union organizer, an art lover, and an appreciator of the obscure and the famous in books and music, a...
Poetry. RESOLUTION OF THE WEST is the first full-length poetry collection by Nicholas James Whittington.
Poetry. A daybook, a memoir, and a serial poem, IRONSTONE WHIRLYGIG is also something else. The book began as a blog (ironstonewhirlygig.blogspot.com) written in stolen moments—in the hours between the local closing and the sun coming up, when child...
Poetry. "Joyce Lee is a woman, a womanist, a poet, a friend. Her book is an unsecret diary—poems, prose and notes—chronicling the life of a soul. She captured my attention by holding a mirror. By looking into it deeply, she shows us what we don't kn...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. How does one live a life between the lines of what one speaks and reads? How can the imagination, through experience, discover truth and beauty? In this second edition of NEGATIVE CAPABILITY IN THE VERSE OF JOHN WIENERS,...
Poetry. Spanning more than forty years of writing, UNION RIVER takes us across the national landscape and mindscape with poems and sketches that delve into our common experience. This lyrical Americana address combines memory work, ecstatic reports ...
Poetry. AFTERLIVES, or SEVILRETFA as the reversed lettering on the back cover presents it, is the third full-length collection by Micah Ballard. As with recent work, Ballard continues the precarious yet successful envisioning of the spirited haunts ...
Poetry. HERMETICITIES & OTHERS is the third book in Bootstrap Press' Letterpress Editions. This slim volume of poems vibrates between the poet's interests in the esoteric and political. Its title poem is an on-going serial poem written about cities ...
Poetry. "I first heard Masada Jones read her poetry when we were both 16. That was the moment I decided to be a poet. Now, ten plus years after that moment, I am re-inspired every time I come in touch with her words.This book is a literal manifestat...
Poetry. The poems in THE GENOCIDE'S LOVE BABY LEARNS TO SING take you on a journey starting from the birth of Princess Moon's parents and Cambodia's psychedelic rock n' roll era to our present day lives with everything in between. Reoccurring themes...
Poetry. Drawings and writing by Brian Lucas. This is the first book in Ensemble Editions, a collaboration series from Bird & Beckett Books. This publication is in collaboration with Bootstrap Press.
Poetry. TAKES is the second in Bootstrap Press' Letterpress Editions. Morris proclaims: "False starts, vagaries and errata accrete, slowly compounding themselves into work. The word 'takes' most obviously implicates the violence of the subject: this...
Poetry. Down midnight trails to the still reeling seawall, past campfires in the Western Jungle, with voice work from Judy Collins, Nicholas Ray, Aphra Behn, Noah Purifoy, Johnny Cash, William F. Buckley Jr. and a sadistic Black Bart impersonator al...
Poetry. African American Studies. "Eisen-Martin's syntax lands somewhere between Sphinx and Thelonious…through poem he makes spare, efficient, wild-eyed jazz…rubs mud and accountability into the pores of the zeros and ones in the glass and steel cit...