Drama. "In Joshua Young's WHEN THE WOLVES QUIT, the palpable influences of cinema and surrealism are woven together in this luminous play-in-verse. The firing of a gun triggers this emotional investigation of faith, memory, and the afterlife. With the same ferocity of a fired bullet Young's work accelerates the reader through his poetic obsession where the woods are ghostly and the path through the thicket is somewhere off the stage. With ingenuity and his strong gifts as a storyteller, Joshua Young's tale invites readers to become major characters and to explore a place that is the "middle ground between closure and myth."—Oliver de la Paz"Long after reading it, Joshua Young's WHEN THE WOLVES QUIT still sits on my chest heavy as stone, lapping at my throat with a sometimes tongue and the always threat of teeth. When I scream blood-lust for new words, this book is what I greedily nightmare about."—J. A. Tyler"A remarkable and delightful full-length debut, Joshua Young's WHEN THE WOLVES QUIT is a poetic Lynchian noir unlike any poetry before. Interrogating a familiar, provincial American space where 'secrets are damp, / caught in the space between the throat and the front teeth,' Young entices us to step onto the stage itself. ENTER STAGE LEFT: someone disappears. ENTER STAGE RIGHT: see the missing through a keyhole—or worse, through the slats of your neighbor's nearly closed blinds. Brilliantly suppressing distinctions between poetry, drama, and fiction, here is a frightening polyphony of voices, where all become victims of their own crimes—where 'suffering moves and breathes.' The smallest details are even more disturbing, such as an out of tune piano plinking over the debris of other people's lives in half-abandoned rooms. When told in the book this is dream, we think nightmare. Most worryingly, Young manages to implicate an audience who is much too titillated by the oblique violence happening offstage. Just try to remove yourself from that association, reader."—Richard Greenfield

When the Wolves Quit: A Play-in-Verse

Literature & Fiction

Young, Joshua

Dramas & Plays

Gold Wake Press

Drama. Poetry. It's easy to dismiss the Holy Ghost People. They travel door- to-door in white sheets spouting pseudoscience about time travel, wormholes, and a new galactic gospel. Most of the town has already laughed them away. But when the Holy Ghost People start to perform "miracles," denial becomes difficult, and conversation quickly shifts to what ought to be done. A new play in verse about science, religion, and group mentality by poet Joshua Young.

THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE

53rd State Press

Drama. Poetry. PSALMS FOR THE WRECKAGE collects Joshua Young's trilogy of scripts in verse—To the Chapel of Light (Mud Luscious Press, 2012), WHEN THE WOLVES QUIT (Gold Wake Press, 2012), and a third, previously unpublished play in verse, This is the Way to Rule—in a single edition. Exploring faith, dogma, and the politics of power, PSALMS FOR THE WRECKAGE is a stunning collection of poetic, epistolary playwriting as well as a fascinating look at one author's evolving relationship with genre. "Who are the characters in Joshua Young's PSALMS FOR THE WRECKAGE? Probably places. Probably ghost towns, silos or churches, probably 'just the stretch of highway and grain, and maybe dead grass' that 'leads to sin or Arkansas.' The survivor sounds of these sites travel, 'Memphis-bound and gagged,' by wrenching epistle and sundered imagism through a landscape of ongoing apocalypse. There's an 'ark in a middle of a field stacked full of rocks and newspapers.' There's a place where 'you might wave a cigarette around like a roman candle or a fishing pole.' In reminding us that the interior may be everywhere, that all scenes might already be deleted, Young's plays offer a travel guide to 'parts of America no one gives a fuck about' and to the unquiet beauty that washes its creases with dust."—Zach Savich

Psalms for the Wreckage

I Am Heavy w/ Feeling: A Correspondence

Pope, Alexis

Fog Machine

Dating a prince wasn't exactly Aaron Wood's dream, until it was. For the unthinkable and reality begin to mesh when Aaron is entangled in tangible-disturbingly-believable-yet-surely-impossible dreams which seem to transport him beyond the bounds of space and time, rending his life into unrecognizable shards of chaos, and bliss, in the process. Has he gone mad? It's possible. More so than what appears to be real. But this sudden flux threatens not only his sanity; he finds himself fighting for the life he'd once taken for granted. Danger surrounds him, and one faux pas can be fatal. Is there any reason? In the boy who visits his dreams and steals him away from whatever strife he faces? In the madness his life has become? In resisting? Is it just as dangerous to let down his guard with this "dream guy" as it would be to put down his defenses before his many, new enemies? Most importantly, does he have the strength to resist it all? Even the illusion that is so beautiful and promising, he desperately wishes it into being?

Belestar (Belestar novel series)

LGBTQ+ Books

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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