Fiction. In his first novel, C. Bard Cole weaves a delirious web of invented fragments of American literature with the language of nursery rhymes, school books, encyclopedias, advertisement, pop music lyrics and TV listings. A frantic field guide to a mental landscape shaped by literary allusion and littered with pop culture detritus, THIS IS WHERE MY LIFE WENT WRONG is autobiography as anti-novel, placing the universal story of an artist's coming-of-age in the context of American history, politics, and culture at the beginning of a new century.

This Is Where My Life Went Wrong

Literature & Fiction

Cole, C Bard

Contemporary

BLATT Books

Carbon

James, Heidi

Poetry. DICKLUNG & OTHERS is Travis Jeppesen's second book of poetry. "Jeppesen has a gift for balancing accessibility with lyricism, and the laconic speech of teenagers with philosophical density"--Punk Planet Magazine.

Dicklung & Others

Jeppesen, Travis

Poetry

Fiction. Vassily, the voice of Noah Cicero's new novel, is a different sort of insurgent. An insurgent battling abjection, poverty, and depression in a 21st century Middle America rapidly devolving into Third World inscrutability. In his fifth work of fiction, the Rustbelt's voice of defiance puts forth his most anti-heroic message to date, bringing us back to the "homeland" to see that the real insurgency lies within ourselves.

The Insurgent

Cicero, Noah

<p>Poetry. Travis Jeppesen's debut collection POEMS I WROTE WHILE WATCHING TV is a ruthlessly implosive meditation on the death of language in a media-saturated world. Perfectly complimented by Jeremiah Palecek's sardonic illustrations, POEMS I WROTE WHILE WATCHING TV ponders the mundane and the un-nameable with a highly personal mixture of devastation and humor.</p>

Poems I Wrote While Watching Tv