"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

Literature & Fiction

Saul-Zerby, Amy

Poetry

be about it press

"In a world where cruelty seems to be the choice cowardly mode of survival, to believe in the power of beauty, compassion, and love is a radical act, and with her first book, I LOVE YOU IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN, June shows us just how radical and necessary that act can be. June's words will make you feel more, laugh more, cry more, and, in the end, love more. " - peyton burgess, author of “the fry pans aren't sufficing” "like opening a really sexy wound." - daphne calhoun, co-founder of Omaha Zine Fest "June Gehringer is the only good poet." - el pearson, author of “a nt” and “what if there aren't enough twitter notifications to solve this.” i love you, it looks like rain by June Gehringer is the second full length poetry collection to be published by be about it press.

i love you, it looks like rain

Gehringer, June

"Cassandra Dallett writes from the perspective of someone who is fed up with the United States of America, and she presents us with an oppositional paradise in the wilderness that is a refuge from the chaos. Chaos that has been dividing and conquering us ever since the tactic was first used by white Europeans to massacre the indigenous peoples--enslave Africans--and to keep all marginalized people in the lower classes from rising up and destroying the wealthy, ruling class. She shows us what the barriers and borders set up by brokers have done to us all, as well as, gives us a vision of what we all can become if these walls of separation are burned down. Cassandra presents us with an argument on what capitalism has done to us all, her evidence are her own experiences and the experiences of those whom she wishes had more power, and her reason is what we all can become if we remembered that we can still rise from this chaos--and rise into a wilderness where we can all just start this shit over from the ashes of revolution. This book is a hard reset on a cell phone with no more memory for bullshit." - Vernon Keeve III, author of Southern Migrant Mixtape

A Pretty Little Wilderness

Dallett, Cassandra

Emoji Revival is both listing and listless. This collection is a series of series. Events are explored and worked with but not always through. Marzi Margo is especially skilled at making a serious game of sentimentality in ways that nostalgia can be played with in negative yet humorous ways. That one can continue to hurt while growing and can have desire if not fondness for embracing past selves and past others who have helped to get one to this point in life. Margo also looks to the mundane and movies and life as living in the everyday. The keenness with which the movies are watched is the same keenness with which life is rewatched.\n-- Kenning JP Garcia, author of OF (What Place Meant) and WITH

EMOJI REVIVAL

Margo, Marzi

"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