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Marry A Monster

Lilac City Fairy Tales

Scablands Books

Poetry. Tim Greenup's debut poetry collection, WITHOUT WARNING, probes the poignancy and absurdity of profound change. The speakers face violent, primitive landscapes and countless dangers: intruders in the home, bank shootings, melting flames, the loss of a beloved mother. Crisis lurks around every corner so that even an object as mundane as a root vegetable takes on an aspect of terror. Amidst this darkness, Greenup buoys us with an inimitable sense of humor. Like the writing of Samuel Beckett or James Tate, the surreal heightens the human here, and the carnival mirror Greenup has so carefully crafted reflects all of us dealing with change, for better or worse. This is an exciting, madcap debut, and Greenup is a stunning new voice in Pacific Northwest literature. "Tim Greenup writes poems that are as real as dreams, as forthright as drinks with a friend you're secretly in love with, as lyrically vertiginous as a day at the office. He writes poems that are beautiful and worthy answers to the unmitigated absurdity of everyday life."—Kathryn Nuernberger

Without Warning

Literature & Fiction

Greenup, Tim

Poetry

Poetry. With a startling mix of humor and conviction, RAM HANDS probes the anxieties of ecological desperation and parenting in the Anthropocene. This poetry collection is an epoch photobombing a selfie, an orca stuffed in a plastic bag, a mouth that tastes of gasoline, a call to arms against arms, and a multifarious assemblage of comedy, animality, and profound human sadness. RAM HANDS penetrates the veil of human complicity; it asks us, yes, we can evolve, but to what end? The speakers in Welcker's poems ache to become better citizens of the world, and in this aching we, too, lament and hope.

Ram Hands

Welcker, Ellen

Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Comics. The third volume of LILAC CITY FAIRY TALES, WEIRD SISTERS is a community anthology for the Inland Northwest featuring writers established and new. Including stories, poems, and non-fiction from Shann Ray, Rachel Toor, Shawn Vestal, Diana Xin, Amy Pickworth, Kathryn Smith, Maya Jewell Zeller, and many more, all based on the theme of "weird sisters," whether it evokes witchery or siblinghood or uncanny womanhood. Scablands Books' proceeds from the anthology support Spokane's Spark Central, a forward-thinking community center dedicated to brightening the future of all individuals, "regardless of income."

Weird Sisters : Lilac City Fairy Tales Volume 3 (Lilac City Fairy Tales, 3)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Poetry. In language poet Laurie Lamon calls "both spare and sumptuous," BOOK OF EXODUS narrates the imagined experiences of a Russian family who lived for 40 years in the Siberian taiga, utterly isolated from society. Kathryn Smith's debut collection examines wilderness, loneliness, and faith in poems that author Nance Van Winckel says "allow entry, or re-entry, to primal selves, we who once roamed a forest, ate of its bounty, and fought its beasts. And yes, in the best sense, the book also seems—as a marvelous abecedarian poem's title proclaims—a 'Rehearsal for the Apocalypse.'"

Book of Exodus

Smith, Kathryn

Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Comics. The fourth volume of LILAC CITY FAIRY TALES, TOWERS &amp; DUNGEONS is a community anthology for the Inland Northwest featuring writers established and new. Including stories, poems, and non-fiction from Jess Walter, Anca L. Szilagyi, Tiffany Midge, Katrina Roberts, Alexandra Teague, Peter Donahue, Derek Annis, Kate Peterson, Aileen Keown Vaux, Laura Read, Jackie McCown-Rose, and many more. The writers included wrote poems, essays, comics and stories on the theme of "towers and dungeons," examining the questions, "What traps you? What lifts you up?" Scablands Books' proceeds from the anthology support Spokane's Spark Central, a forward-thinking community center dedicated to brightening the future of all individuals, "regardless of income."

Towers & Dungeons : Lilac City Fairy Tales Volume IV (Lilac City Fairy Tales, 4)

Poetry. Regional, humorous, and wise, the poems in Aileen Keown Vaux's CONSOLATION PRIZE bloom from Central Washington State Fair themes. "Find Your Happy!" transforms into a meditation on joy's ephemerality; "Celebrate What's Great!" examines both the wonder and despair of our faculties of observation. The first chapbook published in Scablands Books's Channeled Chapbook series, CONSOLATION PRIZE promises to be a quintessential Inland Northwest read, as quirky and bright as the Yakima fair that frames it.

Consolation Prize

Vaux, Aileen Keown

Literary Nonfiction. Art. BABY SPEAKS SALISH is a one-of-a-kind manual created by a mother seeking to learn and share more Okanagan Salish language with her daughter than she herself was exposed to as an infant or toddler. Created for caregivers and the language curious, this book provides simple examples on how to integrate more Salish words into adult and child interactions.

Baby Speaks Salish: A Language Manual Inspired by One Family's Effort to Raise a Salish Speaker

Noyes, Emma

Arts & Photography

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