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i am here And You Are Gone | Shome Dasgupta |
| “Mary and Jonas were on the playground, twirling around and around, until Hi-C came back out of their mouths. Mary’s favorite cartoon was Looney Tunes. So was Jonas’. He asked her to marry him—she said yes, and he gave her a dandelion.”–from i am here And You Are Gone
Shome Dasgupta’s debut chapbook, i am here And You Are Gone, maps the lifelong bond between Mary and Jonas, childhood friends perpetually approaching something more. Dasgupta weaves their world in elegant simplicity, striping imagery and prose to an essential core while never devaluing the sentiment behind it.i am here And You Are Gone is a love story that elevates above romanticized ideals, combining prosaic, poetic, and illustrative elements to describe a relationship in terms rarely explored in contemporary fiction. |
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Antisocial | David Blaine |
| From David Blaine, who professes to be just another bush league poet pressing the virtual flesh and hoping to become internationally famous, comes a third chapbook, Antisocial. Forget the pseudo-intellectualizing verbosity too commonly associated with poetry. Antisocial is straightforward and digestible, yet not against encouraging a bit of self-reflection. Plus, it just might make you laugh. | |
| “David Blaine’s poetry combines the wry sophisticated take on life of the best traditional poetry with the suppressed anger of the outsider. And they are reflexive in a way that totally pisses on the “I’m drinking whiskey and pounding the keys like a mofo” poetry we have come to expect of the small press.” –David McLean, poet, critic and editor with Epic Rites Press |
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By the Nails of the Warpriest| Nik Korpon |
| Rife with political and religious undertones, By the Nails of the Warpriest follows an unnamed thief who steals memories from the elderly–those who have a a vague memory of The City before The Struggle–and sells them to memory-junkies. He ekes out an existence by ruining the very souls he’d tried to save. As a fallen leader of The People, he’s almost thankful that his family is not alive to witness the depths to which he’s sunk.Then he finds a memory that suggests they weren’t killed in a riot, that someone lied to him. That someone wants to keep him from his family.
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| “Nik Korpon’s By the Nail of the Warpriest is dystopia with a capital D, and reads like some bastard hardboiled sci-fi lyric you can’t shake from your head. Don’t be fooled by the low page count, either. This is a novella that feels like a novel in the best possible way – it’s dense, atmospheric and literary. In short, you’d be batshit to miss out on this.” –Ray Banks, author of Beast of Burden |
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Charactered Pieces: stories | Caleb J Ross |
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With Charactered Pieces, Caleb J. Ross presents a varied world of familial discord, one where a dead fetus evokes more compassion than its mother (“Charactered Pieces”); where two brothers offer the destruction of a family legacy as a birthday gift for their aging father (“My Family’s Rule”); where one brother’s love of Holocaust documentaries pushes his family through the aftermath of his assumed suicide (“The Camp”). Charactered Pieces peels away the superficial armor of public life to reveal the flaws beneath and treats those perceived weaknesses not as hidden sources of pain but as reasons to celebrate life.
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| “These stories change you, and not just a little bit. Try to forget them, tell yourself they’re not true, but it’s no use. Whether you want them to or not, they’re going with you.” –Stephen Graham Jones, author of Demon Theory and Ledfeather |
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Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die | Justin Hyde |
| “Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die a skillfully rounded book. I finished reading it this last time on the stoop of my house, when a down-and-out, mustachioed bum walked past me and said, “Enjoy it while you can.” I handed him the book and felt good about literature’s ability to help people.” —Adam Robinson, JMWW.150m.com |
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One Damn Thing After Another | Tim Hall |
| One Damn Thing After Another builds on the themes of word contagion and weaponized memes that the author explored in his previous book, 2009’s How America Died. Many of the characters in these stories have likewise been sickened by language: they exchange psychotic emails, adopt covert online personas, write fictitious book reviews and preach the authoritarian philosophies of Ayn Rand, oblivious to the harm they might be doing to themselves or others.A scholar and a dropout clash in “The Condition.” Fact and fiction blur in “Drunken Fantasies, Vol. 1” as the author takes readers on a painfully funny tour through the insanity of his own booze-fueled grandiosity. For those who remain undeterred by these warnings, the author has also included a supplement that shows readers “How To Be An Underground Lit Legend” by employing many of the same tactics. | |
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OWC Poetry | 2010 |
| Created as part of our annual poetry projects for National Poetry Month (April).The cover art (photography) was done by Kristin Fouquet. Poets include: Seth Michelson, Jim Wittenberg, Linda Wastila, Chris Bodor, Paul Corman-Roberts, Sarah Page, Jessica LJ Smith, Casey Quinn, and Nicole Cartwright Denison.Poems: the night season [viii], Charade, wage war on myself, my young son teaches me how we love, Beheaded, for the recessitude of light, Graduating April, Exhale, Couch Musings Of An Agitated Empress, The Bowels, Earth, Bursts, Voice Collage #1a425x, Waxing Gibbous, American Cliche’, remember the Alamo, when there are no signs of danger, Recovering the Body. | |
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1000th Monkey (zine) |
| The Outsider Writers Collective produces the zine Thousandth Monkey. | |
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