Juliet Cook and j/j hastain have collaborated on a macabre series of poems that dissect the body and leave the reader stunned. These poems explore the physical displacement of the femine through the cultural displacement of horror and the grotesque.

A Red Witch, Every Which Way

Literature & Fiction

hastain, j/j

Cook, Juliet

Poetry

Hysterical Books

A recently divorced single father struggles to maintain his identity and integrity working for the City of Richmond's Solid Waste pick up. The protagonist negotiates the environments of manual labor and family life while trying to avoid the costs of his alcoholism on his family, his past, and his sense of himself. Nearly brought to suicide, the protagonist survives by discovering the basic beauty of the humanity he shares with the people he works with.

Avenue of Champions

Blancett, Clay

In Bluer and More Vast, Michael Hettich writes, "Scientists had discovered a way to ascertain whyeach of us was born, by pricking us slightly through the moons of our thumbs . . ." Elsewhere the poet invents the remarkable notion that "Inside our bodies, in secret places, there are large-shouldered animals moving slowly through the tall grass . . ." Throughout this stunning collection of prose poems, life's mysteries are magnified by the poet's vast imagination. Each poem's magical conceit and earthy embrace reminds us of our place in the universe and the universe's place within each of us. -- Mia Leonin

Bluer and More Vast

Hettich, Michael

Rad Sick Record is a radioactive revision of our Cold War fears, a fantastic story set in North Florida swamps and springs, clicking with energy. In this wild and wonderful novel, Michael Trammell explores the uneasy coexistence between the everyday and the surreal. In Trammell's world there might be radiation, terrifying hallucinogens, and the threat of the Cold War, but as well there's basketball, love, and friendship, and it's all told with a sense of humor like no other.

Rad Sick Record

Trammell, Michael

Erotica

Memory's Blue Sedan

Millner, Jesse

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