Poetry. Ken, the publisher, here. I couldn't be more thrilled to make this book flesh. This collection of aphorisms—concise, eloquent truths—contains so much poetry and passion and deep thinking, I've been caught by single pages for hours. This book is sharp, funny, tragic, irreverent, wise. All beauty. It puts fire in me. I invite you to enjoy that fire, too.

The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms

Literature & Fiction

Leidner, Mark

Poetry

Sator Press

Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood, like the town was real, like she thinks swoon is a funnier word than mulligan, and he thinks swoon is a funny word too, but no way in hell is it funnier than mulligan, like he's searching for the Holy Grail and she has little Holy Grail-shaped pupils, like an effusion of steam, like what's cool changes, like hemisphere paint, like a blue flower, like the house you have lived above forever.

Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me

Factory Hollow Press

Under the Sea is Mark Leidner's debut story collection published by Tyrant Books in 2018 and named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Spinoff, and The New Statesman. 
 In the gripping opener "Bad-Asses," a naive drug dealer's stash is stolen, leading her to unleash her inner bad-ass as she tries to recover it. In the bizarre and hilarious "21 Extremely Bad Breakups," each breakup is more absurd than the last: lovers get side-swiped by speeding busses, play paper-rock-scissors with each others lives, cause an asteroid to destroy the planet, and more. In "Under the Sea," a woman with one day to live has an affair with a loser she picks up at a video game arcade. In the unbelievably epic "Avern-Y6," a despondent insect gets shitfaced at the brink of a colony-wide civil war, only to learn he has an role to play in history after all. A social outcast going off on some teens in a bougie café, a depressed man in a physical fight with an interdimensional void, a middle-school student waxing memoiristic about heartbreak, a self-defeating academic sending a career-ending email - indelible characters are the heart of every story's wild ride in Under the Sea. 
 Mark Leidner is a Georgia-born writer of books and films. He resides in Atlanta and is @markleidner on Twitter and Instagram.

Under the Sea

United States

Tyrant Books

This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to indie lit cult figures like Scott McClanahan, this anthology collects writing from some of today's best literary talent.

Pets

BEATTIE, ANN

Manguso, Sarah

Nutt, David

Lin, Tao

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke

Butler, Blake

Pink, Sam

Polek, Nicolette

Schütt, Christine

Cottrell, Patty Yumi

McClanahan, Scott

Scanlan, Kathryn

Hodson, Chelsea

Bird, Raegan

Choi, Ryan C. K.

Clune,Michael W.

DeWitt, Annie

Igarashi, Yuka

Iskandrian, Kristen

Okoyomon, Precious

Whitten, Mallory

Genre Fiction

Product Description 
Poetry. California Interest. Art. Film. Music. The follow-up to his beloved debut collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner's RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE is simultaneously profound and irreverent, in the same way that the world is flat as we walk and round as we live. "A child surprised that a neon sign / isn't hot the first time they touch one / knows how it feels as an adult to achieve one's goals" states the speaker of "Youth Is A Fugitive" and this sentiment is one of the central precepts of RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE. Congealing directly off the page, these are poems that only Mark Leidner could have written. 
 Book Description 
An engrossing and fantastical poetry collection by Mark Leidner, one of contemporary poetry's most idiosyncratic voices. 
 About the Author 
Mark Leidner is the author of two feature films: the sci-fi noir 
Empathy, Inc. (2019) and the relationship comedy 
Jammed (2014). He is also the author of RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE (Fonograf Editions, 2021), the story collection 
Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), the poetry collection 
Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow, 2011), and the book of aphorisms THE ANGEL IN THE DREAM OF OUR HANGOVER (Sator Press, 2011).

Returning the Sword to the Stone

Arts & Photography

Music

Fonograf Editions

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