"Amy Saul Zerby is a roller death derby of sharp and fast clarity ... [H]er poems convey a blast of sass and short punchy wonder." --Derrick Brown, Our Poison Horse (Write Bloody Publishing) "The smart, alluring voice we encounter in Amy Saul-Zerby's Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds is by turns zany, dark, casual, lyrical, angry, direct. I say voice, because these poems are constantly addressing us, implicating us as readers, as they map a psychological pathway through love, desire and pain always thrumming just beneath the surface. It's a sophisticated voice and entirely contemporary, having learned as avidly from Confessionalism and the New York School as from social media. It's a voice that longs for enlargement and anonymity at the same time; Amy Saul-Zerby's poems themselves become places for hiding and places for being seen: 'i am everything that i'm not / when i am a poem in your hands.'" --Richie Hofmann, Second Empire "Amy Saul-Zerby doesn't know what a cliché is. Her poems are strange new flowers bursting from all angles out of everything." --Bud Smith, F-250

Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds

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Saul-Zerby, Amy

Poetry

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"Amy Saul-Zerby's language is direct, beautifully clipped-a terseness that poem after poemswells into an expansive reckoning with depression, love, and, of course, the self. Insight, here, ishard-won. These memorable poems ripple with intimacies and linguistic pleasures. They willstay with you."- Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine"Amy Saul-Zerby's unforgettable new poetry collection, Choose Your Own Beginning, isrevelatory in its frankness and sexy in its cool detachment. "i have no interest / in being / yoursmall dependent // animal?" the speaker of one poem claims, even as the poems explore ouranimal need for love, connection, danger, and surprise. Hungry, seductive, confessional, pithy,the intimacy of these poems is bracing and gorgeous."- Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers"Choose Your Own Beginning is a collection of beauty, devastation, and deep resilienceresonating through every poem. Moving naturally between humor and harsh truths, these poemsdemand to be reread again and again, revealing a little more with every image and every line,every crevice in every word. When Amy Saul-Zerby writes "i am trying to // tell you it's okwithout lying" you believe her and brace yourself."- Ariel Francisco, author of Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just YankOff Your Head

Choose Your Own Beginning

Literary

Some memories are transformed into myths at the very moment that they are remembered. Stories are told for those who have vanished, for the loves that have been lost. Language is borne out of this absence. In spare yet luminous prose, Between Appear and Disappear is a lyrical love story of Mai and Doug, and of the way that memoir is turned into myth. "An unforgettable and perfect book." -Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan In Japan, the concept of ma (&#38291;) - literally "the gap", "the space", or the interval that glues one space to another, people, people to objects, and even what we are as human being s - predominates how we live, who we are, and how we interact with things around us. In Doug Rice's Between Appear and Disappear, this concept appears again and again: the muted space between Mai and "Doug", the tension between photographs and texts, fiction and nonfiction, meditation and action. What is this book - is this a philosophical book on loss and time? A book about aesthetics of photography? A love story? A memoir? A book of photographs with texts, or a narrative with photographs? But this is what is apparent: the world in this hybrid book is the in-between ma, where what is visible and invisible, knowable and unknowable, what is uttered and what isn't uttered, gentleness and terribleness, mythic and mundane, all come together to show us, through Rice's exacting words, a new way of looking at this world that is both cruel and beautiful. This is a terrifying book to read - illuminating, wise, philosophical, and, at the end, devastating. -Mariko Nagai, author of Irradiated Cities

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Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds

Choose Your Own Beginning

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