"Welcome to indie poetry's hottest 14-karat bromance." -KIM VODICKA, author of The Elvis Machine "...experimental literature's best kind of gold rush." -JESSIE JANESHEK, author of MADCAP and The Shaky Phase "Long and Hannett have come together in this dual book of the everyday and the seen / heard world of our culture which some would call pop culture but is our actual reality. Long and Hannett are both writing into an exploration of this world and an escape from this microcosmos of early 21st century late stage capitalism. This book is the tl;dr poetics of the metamodern and post postmodern. As it is written: the synopsis is the story." -KENNING JP GARCIA, author of Dawn

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Literature & Fiction

Hannett, C. C.

Long, Joshua Robert

Poetry

Really Serious Literature

I have long said that C. C. Hannett is one of the best things Seattle has going for it—this leaves no doubt. Occasional, full of the everyday made extraordinary, like a Frank O’Hara poem but tucked behind a weird curtain of language. These poems are brilliant, funny, sad, and very real. Because let’s face it, taking selfies at our age does seem ridiculous. But we’ll probably do it anyway. Amber Nelson
Hannett loves words, which dance and death drop in this neo-Surrealist collection. The poet swoops from the natural world through the scientific and into the pop-induced angst of millennial social media, asking questions that are far more dreadful than they at first seem: “When is it okay to unfriend the dead?” This collection fizzes and crackles with the tension of the young poet facing the world of 2017. Evan J. Peterson

I Gave This Dream To A Color

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

“Fractal dirge drenched in dizzying anemoia. Simulation of slowly waking from a binger to imagined fragments of fleeting victories and failures: images flitting through mind as consciousness scrambles in an absurd attempt to make story, to make harsh lucid sense out of nothingness. It’s absolutely beautiful.” James Nolan
“In Triune, there is an earnest integrity that walks hand in hand with something tenebrous, infernal &amp; semiopaque. It is a city of tombs &amp; riddles where every exploration is meant to juggle emotional and psychological valences rather deftly but without being too loud about its own mastery. This book is generous with a staggering and abiding richness of imagination juxtaposed against a stark, Black Mirror-esque conjuration of the contemporary hyperrealities. On some plane, it is a celebration of doubt in all its amorphous profusion. There is unapologetic humor in what can best be described as the Common Weird—like glossing over photos of birds in google’s image search. Each poem moves like a poised octopus. Make what you will of that but to me it means that this book has anchored itself in two of poetry’s perennial harbors—Illusion &amp; Presence—simultaneously and with undeniable ingenuity.” Scherezade Siobhan
“How can poetry be a page-turner? Yet this is, without losing any harsh seduction or strange familiarity. You don’t know what is going to happen next, but you know how you feel about it.” Lydia Swartz
“What a weird and moving phantasmagoria of sci-fi surrealism, a poetic memoir in which the author splits open his psyche and creates a beautifully realized cosmos. Hannett’s deconstruction of self is scary, messy, dangerous, and done with wit and humility. Above all, this is a work of unbridled imagination, which is rare and vital these days. It’s also a crazy fun read.” Bryan Edenfield

Triune

Umami Bayou &amp; The God Star Candylabra Emote Location Heavy Metal Lorca The Mirror Is Not A Palindrome Glitcheinshocker

Saga Ctrl

“A lot I got used to reading in the same way a die hard art lover might comb for meaning from abstract expressionism. This is a maximalist overdrive collection! Like listening to some kind of metal or at least power metal.” Russell Jaffe, Poetry Onceler at Course Hero “...really wild, really out there, it's like science slime-core, it's cool...” Brian Alan Ellis, Sad Laughter “Hannett has arranged an incredible collection of poetry and prose here. It's hard for me to not see him as some phantom sneaking down to his underground lair to play sad organ music in the style of Björk, empty pizza boxes scattered everywhere. This collection is the lovechild of Samuel Beckett and 808s and Heartbreak era Kanye West. You could try to dismiss the mad scientist experimentation of this manuscript, but you'd be met at each accusation by clear intention and true vulnerability as the poet shakes through all of the realities he's dealing with and all of the holes he continues to climb out of, or at least make a bed within. This book is a dream, a dadaist rock opera that has reopened me to asking yet again what can be done with poetry, and what has it yet to be?” Brice Maiurro,author of Stupid Flowers &amp; Hero Victim Villain “C. C. Hannett is a sadboi wizard who will fuck up your day or your life &amp; make you feel like you took too many drugs &amp; not the right kind but you still believe in love after it all. This collection is a story of the falling apart—raw &amp; real &amp; mundanely apocalyptic. DAMMIT HOLE will wreck you &amp; make you wanna do sizzurp. He makes me wanna die, but, like, in a good way.” Leza Cantoral,author of Cartoons in the Suicide Forest &amp; Trash Panda

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