On a chilly November day in 1962, two teens go deer hunting with their Air Force mechanic fathers. After the kills, the boys are left in the car while the dads enter a Black Hills bar to drink. As the day unfolds, the narrator will learn a lot about adults, kids, violence, race, sex and proving oneself. The book is narrated through the lead's lenses as a 13-year-old and as a mature adult thinking back. The story line features comic observations as well as painful experiences, including vio...

A highly readable, provocative, and comical short-lined verse meditation on life and living, "An Actor's Prologue" is fun to read alone or aloud with people who want to consider what it means to act in this world of beauty, love, and stupid ********. If you feel both excited by life and frustrated by the sorts of people you have to deal with, you may find this book not only a lively kick but also a comfort and an inspiration.

The month after the Cuban missile crisis, a teen ager on a hunting trip in the Black Hills hunts game but also learns skills necessary to deal with heavy drinkers, violent people, and different kinds of women. By turns darkly comic and sweetly tragic, this is a story for readers interested in coming of age stories, hunting stories, and American history in the Kennedy years.

A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder’s writing offers a gritty, sincere perspective on the subtle joys and modern pains of living. Her debut collection The Bones Below delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder’s personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the young artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms. DeMulder possesses the most important quality a young writer can h...

Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories, lush love letters, re-visionary fairy tales, predictions,strange new games, dream transcripts, and a complete handbook of absurdist instructions, including one on the dangerous arts of pig-swallowing. With all the lyricism and wit which have made his columns in NOW magazine and his Dr. Poetry segments on CBC's Wordbeat so entertaining and provocative, this collection gathers for the first time the very...

Poetry that explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliationWhite⋅out: n. a surface condition … in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible …Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised ima...

This is a collection of poems that are usually dark and sexual in nature. Symbols from literature and mythology inform the author's thoughts on his life and the world in which he lives. Sometimes shocking, sometimes funny, always engaging.

CHORUS is the anthem of a new generation of poets unified by the desire to transcend the identity politics of the day and begin to be seen as one. One hundred voices woven through testimony and new testament. It is the cry of the unheard. The occupation of the page itself. It embodies the “speak-up” spirit of the moment, the confidence propagated through hip-hop, and the defiant “WTF?” of the now. It is the voice that comes after the rebellious voice that once cried, “I wa...

*Author wrote book in 2016-2017 when she was living in New Jersey and traveling to Philly for grindr hookups. She says, “I was bored, broke and lonely, and then I was in the hospital for a while, and I wanted to talk to my friends. I thought about how hard it is in certain arrangements of sexual and gender life to talk about sex and gender honestly with the people you’re fucking….Writing a series of letters in persona solved a number of problems at once: I could talk about myself without f...

"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."-The New York Times Book Review"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline."-Voice Literary SupplementThis fast-paced, verbally dexterous book-honored as a "Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly-"boils up and boils over" ...

Good, Clean Mania is a collection of three zines that Jasper Ezekiel put together over the years of 2020-2022. These zines have been further edited into completion to be the book you hold in your hands today. Topics of Jasper's poetry spans from things like God and love to a bad day at the hardware store to a connection with his cat right before she passed away.

"Glare is a high-energy, relentlessly self-aware collision with the whole of life."—Albert Mobilio, SalonA superb long poem by the contemporary master of the form, Glare comprises two sections, "Strip" and "Scat Scan." The poem demonstrates, yet again, why A. R. Ammons's poetic voice is a national treasure: by turns cosmic, self-inflating, self-deflating, eloquent, intimate, bawdy, comic, precise—and always unmistakably his own.