Sounds in My Möbius Mind
“Each poet’s journey entails risks that a reader is spared. With an abundance of selfless generosity, Ash Good lets us savor her hard-won knowledge, etched in succinct rhythms and luscious detail. Her poems constitute an invigorating addition to the canon-yet-to-be of West Coast poets that has been shaped by Eloise Klein Healy, Sharon Doubiago, Judy Grahn and Philip Whalen. She is well on her way to joining these comrades with poems that joyfully offer you the pleasure of their company.” —Bill Mohr, author of Hidden Proofs & Vehemence
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These Things Will Never Happen Quite Like That Again
"In this sense-rich, threshold-crossing, body-wise, girl-to-woman story, the lyricism of the verse novel allows for fluidity between internal and external impressions. Wonderfully grounded in concrete descriptions of cooking, crafting and motorcycle riding, it is the space between words and the ideas suspended in the titled chapters that makes way for the heightened or expansive awareness that the narrator realizes. It is through her sense-rich and supersensible realizations that she can experience the beauty of what will never happen quite like that again." - Michael Ventura & Jazmin Aminian Jordán
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us clumsy gods
“If you’re ‘thinking yourself a stranger,’ ash good’s us clumsy gods might remind you we are not alone. They sing a philosophical thrum between the ‘i’ and the ‘we,’ acknowledging how our multiple voices are ‘indistinguishable from stars.’ Poem after poem, you’ll want to witness their reinvention of memory peal and risk-defying consciousness. Personal, and political, this beautiful book burns in timeless revolution.” - Elena Karina Byrne, author of If This Makes You Nervous & Moderator, LA Times Festival of Books
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We Are Not Ready For What We Are
First Matter Press, 2019.
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Year Grew a Keloid
"The voice of a medicine girl all grown up..." - Jazmin Aminian Jordán
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Error
"David Greenspan’s Error uses language error, fragmentation, remixed text, and nonlinear temporalities to present a failure of childhood/a childhood of failure. Error examines parental abuse and animal death in Michigan’s crumbling palm, while also echoing life with an auditory processing disorder. Logic subordinates itself to aural pattern in Greenspan’s failures, turning from stutter to sustained wail."
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Nervous System with Dramamine
“Nervous System with Dramamine is a questioning of self. What is a self, what makes it, what unmakes it. Explored through poems that circle around time, reflection/refraction, language’s errors, stitched together persons, hunger, addictions, social and economic failure, and other diffuse forms of being.”
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One Person Holds So Much Silence
"Flush with grief, insistent in its longing, at times flashing with anger, the language of David Greenspan's poems—so exact, so exacting—propels the reader into all the open astonishment that the Ordinary affords us. What more could we ask of poetry than that?" - Richard Deming, Director of Creative Writing at Yale University
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Take This Longing
“I’m enthralled with the poetry of Tresha Faye Haefner; her ability to effortlessly weave the spectacular with the everyday, the celestial with the mortal and erotic. Take This Longing marks the debut of a brave and innovative voice, a sensibility that soars across galaxies of yearning in the space of a single line. Here you have it all: hotel rooms, oceans, tattooes, whales and stars–Haefner’s vision–bone-raw and myth-savvy. Romantic, gritty, and ripe with the ache and ecstasy of physical desire, these poems transcend even as they refuse to release the darkly celebrated body. This is a knockout collection from a poet I deeply admire.” –Michelle Bitting, author of Notes to the Beloved
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Echo Park
“From "pink-spangled bikinis" to "your mother's stolen perfume," Christine Hamm's Echo Park is littered with the strange, sexy detritus of life, gorgeous life.” —Kate Durbin, author of The Ravenous Audience
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Girl into Fox
“In these sparse, haunting lyrics, Christine Hamm captures the terror and uncertainty of girlhood. She asks, ‘What is a girl/ if not a rack of unprocessed meat,’ and her poems answer this question through their startling and tactile images, surprising leaps and magnetic fissures. The book is called Girl into Fox, but it could just as well be ‘fox within the girl;’ as her poems remind us of the wild, dangerous, cunning potential within what appears to be the merely innocent.” - Joanna Fuhrman, author of The Year of Yellow Butterflies
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Gorilla
“Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Tenth Gate Prize. This surreal series of prose poems, harmonic and jarring, pops the reader into a world where the animal is a danger-suit we might all don, or is a force of chaos that breaks families, or America's unconscious hatred of women. Perhaps it is our world, perhaps more real than surreal. One of the most unusual investigations of gender and family, this collection disorders and disturbs, knowing that upending the status quo makes the best manners of all.”
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Saints & Cannibals
“Hamm's world is female and Plathian, in fact, in its unflinching pronouncements of truth. Joyfully acrobatic is her language and the wonderful jumps she makes. Hers is a voice we have been waiting for.” - Cynthia Cruz, author of Ruin
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The Salt Daughter
“The Salt Daughter takes us on a journey through the secret kitchen of an American family. This daughter is no shrinking violet. Like Alice in the well, she swims through spoilt milk, soup, wine, rotten eggs and ice cream. She is the dark bud on a head of cabbage, the burnt patch in the pot of soup, the cotton candy under the nails of a fighter. In turning back to see mother, father and siblings, The Salt Daughter is sea water and chloride, cathartic and acid. Hamm's brilliant collection resounds with the force of a fairy tale.”
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The Transparent Dinner
“Christine Hamm's poetry brings the reader into a fairy tale world of dark and dangerous secrets, where a mother is a pile of sticks, a husband can be wished into a cat and a movie can be made from adolescent sexual experiences. Within the imaginative world of THE TRANSPARENT DINNER, Hamm reveals truths about a woman's intimacies and relationships.”
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A Glint of Light
“In [these} whisper moment[s],” Hildebrand brings readers poems of gentle clarity, uwords that are rich with intimate detail. Though fall and winter days and nights can be dark, Hildebrand offers color and sound—owl’s screech, flash of blackbird’s wings. Spring arrives with its trails of geese and a yellow dog. Nothing gets past this writer’s keen ears and eyes. These luminous poems glow like small blessings”. –Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017—2018, Author of Grief Bone and The Theory of Lipstick.
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Light from a Small Brown Bird
“Like some primitive craftsman, Rich Ives engages his medium with the care and patience of the woodcarver, the glassblower, the silversmith, to reveal the hidden lives of objects that pass through his hand and eye. His poems sometimes move in halflight, sometimes break into sudden clarities, restoring our kinship with remote ancestors, the possibilities of our buried selves.” - Madeline DeFrees
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