Siblings by Suzanne Burns Siblings is a retelling of the Hansel and Gretel fairytale. "Suzanne Burns has perfectly captured the powerful strangeness of childhood, the fear and joy and weird rituals we invent to work out our place in the world." - Ben Marcus "My brother believes caramel is the only thing a girl like me should suck on before sleep. Each night when our parents reduce themselves to dreams he lodges a candy between my teeth"

Siblings

Literature & Fiction

Burns,Suzanne

Poetry

Red Paint Hill Publishing

Collection of four women writers whose words are not polished in word play, but are pushed by heartbeat.

Between Sentiment & Sensation: Vol I (untitled)

Riley, Donna-Marie

Khurshudyan, Tatevik

Bontas, Marlena

Gui, Jasmine

Andrea Spofford's debut poetry collection locates self within geographical experience, examining the intersection of person and place. Addressing themes of history, transformation, and youth, this collection explores the idea of poet as alchemist and scientist, explorer and observer. "Somehow, Andrea Spofford has made emotion science, and science emotion. Everywhere in this collection is the pleasure of learning more than you were prepared for, and of leaving learning behind in favor of transformation...These transcendently wise poems show how life muddles designations like 'natural' and 'human,' 'coeval' and 'historical.' They converse with astronomy, ecology, meteorology, seismology, zoology; they leap into the adulterated mix." -Angela Ball "Andrea Spofford's debut collection is an engaging eco-poetical Bildungsromanin which Nancy Drew becomes a verb, traversed geographies stretch from hippodromes to sandstone caves, and vantage points move from the naturalist's eye to the panoramic gaze of an explorer compelled by the personal histories of place.'I want to tell you about sinking ships-Andrea Doria, Monitor, RMS Rhone./ I want to tell you about black holes, twenty-million bats in darkness'- Spofford's meticulous and striking images lead us to want to hear about it all." -Rebecca Morgan Frank "A deep and luminous mystery lies at the heart of Andrea Spofford's striking debut collection, The Pine Effect. Her voice is by turns headlong and meticulous, urgent and careful. As much about place and identity as it is about language's transitory beauty, this book scalds and brands with its imagistic richness and leaves me dizzy, delighted, and freighted with the sense that the unknown has been made partially known-and that the indefatigably mysterious warrants celebration. Spofford's lines are more than gorgeous: they blur and clarify, growl and sing. The element of fire sparks and conflagrates throughout the collection, as in the poem "Cindy Avenue": "the shadowed tree, oaks / covering hillsides at your house / the same as the one my neighbor / caught afire, the one that burned, pluming / upward into alarm, everyone / rushing and water, the tree itself / later only shadow in daylight / reaching, a ghost." Spofford's first book is paroxysmal, breathless, and beautiful, teeming with flame and shadow." -William Wright

The Pine Effect

Spofford, Andrea

Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor explores what happens when the body and society each turn on themselves. The book traverses grief, disease, surgery, fertility, mass weddings, mass shootings, fallout, war, abduction, and the gradual collapse of ecosystems yet the poems are funny, confessional, and self-deprecating with a tinge of the absurd. They have a willingness not to know, to fiercely acknowledge suffering while mounting an escape. Please visit Red Paint Hill (redpainthill dot com) for additional ordering information br PRAISE I've never seen infertility described such so magically, weaving science, lyric, heartache, ruthless precision, with the fanciful strange surreal, all through an apocalyptic lens that ends with rebirth (birth!) and hope! A really fresh take on a topic close to my heart. 'Tracking,' 'How to Be Almighty,' and 'The Evidence Against Me' absolutely cinched this contest for me. I adore these poems (and many others in the collection). The speaker's examination of her own body takes my breath away. -Jennifer Givhan, author Landscape with Headless Mama, winner 2015 Editors' Prize Pleiades Press Because, as Elizabeth Onusko tells us, Sadness is rarely precise, each poem in this book tries to surround and plumb its imprecision with language so acutely exacting that the impossibility of locating sadness and its remedy is made evermore sad, the desire for a child and a pathology s thwarting of that desire evermore desirous and unfulfilled until, as magically as these beautiful poems seem to have arrived (against all odds, always), the body, too, arrives anew. There are moments in this book as rare and unexpected as any in contemporary poetry today. And that is because of one thing: Onusko is luminous. -Katie Ford, author of Deposition, Colosseum, and Blood Lyrics Welcome to the battlefield. In this electrically charged debut, Elizabeth Onusko pits societal revolutionaries against the human body fragile under the dominion of disease. Whether on the grandest scale or at the microscopic, cellular level, Onusko s precise imagery builds a new landscape both magical and terrifying. Here, we are trapped behind walls of bone, skulls become fishbowls, glass drops from a spiraling staircase charting a powerful journey in search of the healing that opens the door. -Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Sightseer, Her Human Costume, and Paper Doll Fetus

Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor

Elizabeth Onusko

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