Poetry Chapbook by Ian Cappelli. 40 pages. Cathexis Northwest Press. 
"The poems in this collection are sharp, fiercely intelligent, multi-faceted, and, best of all, deeply-considered. Quick moving and thinking, these are truly poems that belong to our current world, which demands critical thought and nuanced artistry. While the collection meditates on the homogeneity of a suburban world, the voice of this emerging poet is anything but ordinary." 
 --July Westhale, author of Via Negativa &amp; Trailer Trash
"Each of these poems is a ludic subterfuge, countering the mindless destruction of the late capitalist enterprise with daft cunning, acrobatic humor, and brilliant irreverence. Cappelli's crafty poems are designed to crash your expectations of how "good poetry" should behave. They subvert the alleged rationality of the world with a heavy dose of madness. Their music alone will consume you." -- Zack Finch, author of Chiasmus &amp; Ten Ounces

Suburban Hermeneutics

Ian Cappelli

Cathexis Northwest Press

High Shelf VIII: July 2019

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

A Monthly Collection of Art, Photography, Poetry, and Satire. High Shelf Issue IX (August 2019). 55 pages of poetry, art, photography, and satire. Works collected from artists and writers from across America and beyond.

High Shelf IX: August 2019

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

A Monthly Collection of Art, Photography, Poetry, and Satire. High Shelf Issue XI (October 2019). 74 pages of poetry, art, photography, and satire. Works collected from artists and writers from across America and beyond.

High Shelf XI: October 2019

High Shelf XII: November 2019

Valyntina Grenier's FEVER DREAM / TAKE HEART marks a poetic "double debut" with a tête-bêche chapbook, two titles bound upside-down with two front covers, which can be read from either side. The poems shape their sense from sound, but do not hesitate to critique/navigate/decipher reality with a feminist protest. Associative and dreamy, the poems also prove to be starkly political. They explore how we are miraculously alive in the midst of degrading political and weather systems. Some of the poems derive their initial lexicon from source texts, but they all confront the tenderness and violence that mark our human natures. With subtle humor, word play, and linguistic inventions, Grenier has written a surprising tour de force whose discrete short books, taken together, range from the sexual and sinister to the prayerful and divine.

Fever Dream / Take Heart

Literature & Fiction

Grenier, Valyntina

Poetry

This book-length poem is a magical realist journey, catalyzed by war and grief. The speaker walks, impelled toward the restorative idea of the stark earthly beauty and purity represented by Antarctica, and toward the love that he knows will be awaiting him. That love, and the creative and magical power it embodies, is both encouraging and sustaining. Of course, the journey takes the protagonist deep into both beauty and evil. The journey is born of desperation, but it is carried out through acts of will and grit and openness to experience, as well as a desire to actively re-envision and recreate reality. Poetry for fans of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabelle Allende, Laura Esquivel, and Pablo Neruda.

The Book of Night & Waking

Mason, Clif

High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XVIII (May 2020) contains 80+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XVIII showcases 22 Artists/Authors from America, Canada, and Italy.

High Shelf XVIII: May 2020

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Dead Birds Of New Zealand

Czaniecki, Christian

High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXI (August 2020) contains 80+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XX showcases 23 Artists/Authors from America, Canada, England, Germany, and Australia.

High Shelf XXI: August 2020

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