Staff Picks (September 2020)
Omg, we love small press books! And these are some of our favorites. Now they can be some of your favorites too...if they aren't already. Be sure to check in every month for a new handful to add to your reading list...lists...so many lists.
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Liam Curley
Diaries, letters, and notebooks are the saddest forms of writing, reallythe bluest. Unlike elegy, they don't know exactly when death is, and so you see a mind alive; you get to fall in love with how someone thinks and tries to be understood. WITE OUTLinda Norton's lyric recollection of the years between 1996 and 2016is a deeply sad book, then, because of how marvelous the mind is inside it. A document of race, family, poetry and the receptive spaceall the living that gets donebetween poems, the book is animated with hard-knocked empathy and wicked humour. It is like sitting at the kitchen table of a friend you've fallen out of touch with, spilling years of hot gossip, life's stings and sweetness, thinking "why don't we do this more often?" Yeah, why don't we? you think reading WITE OUT, why don't we care for each other while we can?
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Janice Worthen
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Trisha Low