Poetry. "MUTED LINES FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S MEMORY is a heartfelt and gutsy investigation into the human brain's infinite possibilities, possibilities that remain potential in most of us, but geyser forward from Berg's consciousness in every poem. Nowhere in this book are we safe from clownfish in straitjackets, from wizards playing piccolos, from children with 'fleshy little prods.' Berg's world is rife with the nightmares and euphorias of his own relentless imagination, one that is not merely burns, but is fire itself, sweeping the cortex, the hippocampus, the frontal lobe, re-forging the cerebral universe in the most pleasurable manner imaginable. The only thing wrong with this book is the title—there is nothing muted about any of these lines. They scream at maximum volume. They break glass. How could they not when every syllable is so utterly alive?"—Larissa Szporluk.

Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory

Literature & Fiction

Berg, Seth

Poetry

Dark Sky Books

A collection of thirty short fictions by Ethel Rohan

Cut Through the Bone

Rohan, Ethel

Fiction. Winner of DARK SKY MAGAZINE's 2010 chapbook contest, Gregory Sherl's I HAVE TOUCHED YOU is a debut collection of linked stories exploring the hurt, drive, remorse and pleasure of fleeting relationships and casual sex. Through rapt, often kinky language and quick-fire observations, Sherl's stories linger and provoke, presenting the reader with a series of swollen hearts, unmade beds, and potent narratives. "If Tao Lin put the heart back into his writing, exchanged the bored neutrality for a sense of hope or lust or longing, we would have Gregory Sherl's I HAVE TOUCHED YOU. As with Lin, there are the musical references, the mapping of movements, and a diary of food and drink and drug ingestion, but instead of trapping them inside a forever monotonous plain, Sherl elongates them into beauty and rifle-fires them from a language-musket, something at once wonderfully matured and yet able to open gaping holes in our chests"&#8212;J. A. Tyler.

I Have Touched You

Sherl, Gregory

Fiction. This is your new favorite book. You will read it on highways and down in the sand of a deserted island. You will learn Michael Bible's striking and gentle language, which booms and slithers like silver percussion, and ride elevators in the forest, this horse named Forever. You will use secret cameras for spying and come to know COWBOY MALONEY'S ELECTRIC CITY and see single bolts of lightning raising up from the ground. You will know this book is not like anything. It's a book of brightness and purpose. It's a book that's pure and liquid and fuel. This is your new favorite book. Get ready. "Michael Bible may have hit what a lot of us were trying, a singular new voice for CEOs to slackers. He's so open, so easy, so fluid, you'll smile with joy turning every page"—Barry Hannah.

Cowboy Maloney's Electric City

Bible, Michael

Fiction. A sham pastor hires a cocaine-sniffing centaur to act as mascot for an Evangelical mega-church's arena football team; Paul Revere flashes across a revolutionary sky on the back of a sunbird; an ammo-less infantry drummer and a bleeding medic are beat back to a Best Western parking lot in the Battle of Sacramento&mdash;such are the situations contained in Ryan Ridge's HUNTERS & GAMBLERS. Winners of the negative lottery, these characters have learned to love to lose everything until there's nothing left to lose. And the end is desperate, black, drenched in whiskey, but punctuated by poignancy and revelry and revelation. The tales in this lurid, edgy debut illuminate blackness with even blacker humor and a sense of outlandish beauty.

Hunters & Gamblers

Ridge, Ryan

Fiction. In his debut collection, Jensen Beach's characters discover what it means to be individuals, colleagues, husbands and fathers in a world that too often complicates even the best intentions with sabotage and subterfuge. What's most striking about these stories is the protagonists' ability to continually make right, difficult decisions despite being placed in challenging, dangerous situations. Readers will delight in Beach's powerful, deft prose, and the surprising warmth that radiates from his people. Each story is a robust chronicle that churns and evolves and offers glimpses into fully-realized lives. To say this marks the arrival of a gifted author is true but somehow misses the mark, as the maturity and sincerity that pulses throughout this collection signals a writer whose many talents have been developed and honed over time.

For Out of the Heart Proceed

Beach, Jensen

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