Bank robberies. Kissing. Presidential announcements. Suits. In his first full-length book of poetry, Sasha Fletcher chronicles the domestic lives of two people living with ghosts, certain doom, an unidentifiable number of children, and each other. Funny and disastrous, tragic and optimistic, It Is Going To Be A Good Year is the sort of love story that you only hear about when you listen, very carefully, to the kind of things you are too terrified to ask for.

It Is Going To Be A Good Year

Literature & Fiction

Fletcher, Sasha

Poetry

Big Lucks Books

Fiction. House Shows, Couch Swaps, and Roommate Swaps. Genres, Subgenres, and Post-genres. With its confessional language and intimate tête-à-tête style, RADIO CACOPHONY pulls us into one woman's familiar-yet-singular world of social anxiety, sexuality, and musical discovery. In these short vignettes centered around a college radio station in the early aughts, Michelle Dove builds a cool and fearless interplay between individuality and community, one where eccentricity coexists with the yearning to belong. Comical, animated, and provoked, RADIO CACOPHONY is full of the imperfect encounters that make us human and buoyant revelations that we can love who we become.

Radio Cacophony

Dove, Michelle

Genre Fiction

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. The most prominent gay trans poet in America's debut collection is now available for wide distribution. For Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, simply surviving in a world that hates women is a feat, and loving and being loved an act of defiance. This painful & personal book, brimming with darkness and hope, artfully balances how difficult being alive can be--the feeling of everything, all at once, crumbling--but also why we all keep doing it. Equal parts radical, raw, and soft, in this second edition of I'M ALIVE. IT HURTS. I LOVE IT. (now with brand new poems) it is softness that saves us.

I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love It.

Espinoza, Joshua Jennifer

Poetry. WILDLIVES is a scrapbook of poems and of short stories, of nightmares and of daydreams, of love letters and of prayer cards. In her debut collection, Sarah Jean Alexander asks (and answers) the hardest questions about love and loneliness and 21st century human survival. WILDLIVES excavates the depths of heartbreak, hope, and helplessness that can exist between two people in a small, human world. Three years after its initial release, this new edition of WILDLIVES contains 50 pages of new poems in two new sections.

Wildlives

Alexander, Sarah Jean

In Wastoid’s dystopian landscape of desire, lovers love trampolines, lamp-makers, the sound of cars driving in the rain, anonymous tips that send innocent men to the electric chair, toil, silence, etc. Tender &amp; nonsensical, foolish &amp; profound, Svalina explores love’s endless variety &amp; illogical boundaries. Merging renaissance sonnet traditions with the serial explorations of Cortazar &amp; Calvino, Wastoid speaks of love &amp; pain &amp; ecstatic failure, searching for some new way to never be able to learn anything new.

Wastoid

Svalina, Mathias