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Now You Are a Missing Person
by Susan Hayden
$16.95
Three devastating losses are at the heart of Susan Hayden’s lyrical memoir, Now You Are a Missing Person. The suddenness of each of these deaths ― her father, her childhood best friend and her husband ― sparks and guides a series of explorations to claim equilibrium and a sense of self. Stories, poems and fragments are woven together to trace Hayden’s search for identity and belonging through lovers and friends, some enduring, some ephemeral. She creates an intimate album of her life, from the 1970s to the present, evoked in an LA populated by troubadours and actors, both shining and fading. Raised in an observant Jewish family in the suburban San Fernando Valley, she struggles and finds her footing in an ever-shifting culture of expectations around body image, sexuality, motherhood, widowhood, and autonomy.
Paradise Anonymous
by Oriana Ivy
$16.95
Like most modern poets, Oriana Ivy writes poems based on her life experiences, particularly as they pertain to having grown up in Poland and having come to the U.S., alone, at the age of seventeen. The absurd humor of foreign-language textbooks or lessons in “military preparedness” is part of the charm here, but another text is interwoven here. While the Moscow-controlled state carries on its inept propaganda (see “Cinema Desire”), the true masters of propaganda, the Catholic church, are incessantly at work, knowing that a child exposed to the teachings early enough is “ours forever.” Thus, the metaphysical, but never preachy, aspect in many poems here. The first language, the first country, and the first metaphysics are abandoned by the poet, but they leave an indelible imprint — a kind of “poem behind the poem.” The result is a satisfying richness: both the difficult everyday world and the winged imagination receive their due.
Maze Mouth
by Brian Sonia-Wallace
$15.00
Raw—as in haunting, but also as in, no condom—West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace's culminating laureate project traces the year he lost his father and moved to a gay mecca. Expect human pups, apocalypse salesmen, orgy fish, and an insatiable, sushi-eating Death.
Tangled by Blood
by Rebecca Evans
$16.95
Unlike other memoirs, Tangled by Blood is not a tale of redemption, but one of hard-earned love and high stakes. Through a shifting POV, Tangled by Blood offers social commentary on abuse, sexual trauma, addiction, and suicide. The poems and prose in Tangled by Blood reflect, among many things, fractured intimacy. This fracturing influences every subsequent relationship—carrying scars and wounds throughout one’s life.
Another Way of Loving Death
by Jeremy Ra
$15.00
Jeremy Ra's Another Way of Loving Death traces the poet’s intent to give tangible presence to the intersectional reality among biology, cultural heritage, and evolution. It wants to pierce the core of what makes a singularly-unique yet societally-connected human and solicits the readers to the sit next to the poet while listening to his particular, indelible experiences like a trusted confidant, as he wonders at the things quotidian with the amazement of treading on earth’s surface for the first time.
Kissing the Wound
by J.D. Isip
$16.95
In J.D. Isip’s second full-length poetry collection, Kissing the Wound, readers are asked to look at “this long life” through a multiversal lens, to consider how our lives and our loves, our traumas and our triumphs, fold in on one another, how we are all connected to and reflected by one another. Isip crosses genres and poetic styles, nods to X-Men and Star Wars as well as Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and the Bible; he shows readers what wonders we miss between breaths and days. “When you pay attention,” Isip seems to tell us, “You just might find the healing you were looking for.”
Feed It to the River
by Terhi K. Cherry
$15.00
Feed It to the River lets the reader into the secret world of pregnancy loss, challenging the culture of silence around miscarriage, and exploring a disconnect from the female body through the origin story of a daughter and mother. The poems depict a sisterhood in the struggle – women obsessing about motherhood over cycle tracking and fertility spells, all the while the natural world and the rivers born of this earth speak the language of loss.
Beat Not Beat: An Anthology of California Poets Screwing on the Beat
and Post-Beat Tradition
Edited by Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Alexis Rhone Fancher, and Kim Shuck
$20.00
Beat Not Beat, edited by Rich Ferguson is an anthology of California poets screwing on the Beat and post-Beat tradition. Co-edited by Alexis Rhone Fancher, S.A. Griffin and Kim Shuck, this dynamic anthology spans the postwar, atomic-bomb-obsessed American landscape to the here and now: a period when Beat poets, the Vortex, Baby Beats, and their progenitors inspired one another through cultural, political, and humorous means to create new forms of consciousness weaponizing pen and paper to enact mighty forms of lyrical rebellion. The collection features notable poets such as Bob Kaufman, Diane di Prima, Jack Hirschman, Wanda Coleman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski. It also features contemporary poets such as Douglas Kearney, Brendan Constantine, Kim Addonizio, Ellyn Maybe, Will Alexander, and former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass.
When There Are Nine: Poems Celebrating the Life and Achievements
of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Edited by Rebecca Evans, Shaneen A. Harris, and Ashley Kunsa
$15.00
When There Are Nine is a collection of poems in tribute to the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Award-winning poet, Patricia Smith pens the foreword. Contributors of when there are nine include Faylita Hicks, Brian Turner, and Chelsea Dingman, among others. With RBG as the focal point, the book underscores the human condition and creates connections across borders and boundaries.
The Knife Thrower's Daughter
by Terri Niccum
$16.95
The Knife Thrower’s Daughter is Terri Niccum’s first full-length volume of poetry. Peopled with a range of characters (farm children, early-day factory seamstresses, the 50-Foot Woman, and, yes, carnie folk) these poems reflect the delicate choreography needed to honor our human commitments while reaching for what makes life glorious. But, in typical Niccum style, death and his partner grief are only a misstep away.
2 Revere Place
by Aruni Wijesinghe
$15.00
In 2 Revere Place, Aruni Wijesinghe unfolds her family’s first ten years in the United States through a gently curated collection of poems. The lush narrative moves from Sri Lankan beaches through apartment living in the Bronx to a quiet Rockland County suburb, leaving a trail of exquisite details charting the journey. Wijesinghe chronicles her family’s evolution into Americans through the eyes of a child learning what it means to hold two countries inside herself. Her reflections on the past glimmer with firefly light while calling the immigrant experience of 1970’s America into laser focus.
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Here Go Knives
by Kelsey Bryan-Zwick
$15.00
Kelsey Bryan-Zwick’s debut book of poetry, Here Go the Knives, portraits life with disability in America. Diagnosed with scoliosis as a child, Bryan-Zwick has navigated nine extensive spine surgeries, over two decades of debilitating pain, and countless medical procedures. To tell this story, they draw upon memoir, magical realism, and the tarot deck in this hybrid-multi-modal text: pages that unfold for the reader’s interpretation. Included in, Here Go the Knives, are illustrations by the author that pace this narrative much like an illuminated manuscript. This multisensory approach creates space for this delicate story to extend from skin to spine, metal to bone, and body to page.
Trumpets in the Sky
by Jerry Garcia
$15.00
Trumpets in the Sky is a collection of poems that point to the universe while proclaiming the complexities of living on planet earth. These poems are full of astonishment, absurdity, reverence, and social science. Some are surreal, some are staid, all are sincere.
Threnody
by Donna Hilbert
$15.00
In Threnody, there is solace attending to quotidian rituals. In birdlife, landscape, seascape, joy and grief join hands. There is a measure of peace walking the beach, stirring the soup, pressing the shirt.
A Burning Lake of Paper Suns
by Ellen Webre
$15.00
Winner of a 2022 Best Indie Author Award, A Burning Lake of Paper Suns is a book of twisting love poems, scintillating through a heart bursting at its seams. With the decadence of stars and pomegranates, Ellen Webre's poems illustrate the transfiguration of a girl to a monstress. Here she is ravenous, and tender for what desire haunts. Yearning alchemizes through the bones of this book, each page a siren song to lure readers into a blooming grave, where they may find themselves on the threshold of myth and miracle.
Head *V* Heart
by Rob Sturma
$15.00
Head *V* Heart, the second full-length poetry collection by FreezeRay Poetry editor-in-chief and poet Rob Sturma is a deep dive into the ways that pop culture and nostalgia can be used as medicine as well as metaphor. Music, movies, television, and comics battle it out in this examination of pivotal moments of Sturma's life, love, and recovery. From Los Angeles to Yancy Street, from Sunnydale to Oklahoma City, this book is scheduled for many, many falls with no time limit.
Instructions for an Animal Body
by Kelly Gray
$15.00
In Instructions for an Animal Body, Kelly Gray leads readers on a journey where body is both the death ground of grief and the birthplace of resilience. Using natural history to flip human constructs around predator and prey, violence and sensuality, Gray reimagines a lush modern mythology. From the work of vultures to weather systems between legs, these poems will transport you into a gritty world where boundaries between beasts and humans merge and the beautiful monster-within reigns supreme.
Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity
Edited by Dania Ayah Alkhouli, HanaLena Fennel, and Victoria Lynne McCoy
$20.00
Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity includes the work of over 70 poets of different backgrounds, genders, sexualities, creeds, and colors. Their poems share personal stories about weaponized power, engrained misogyny, and finding one's complete personhood in a system that tries to make you less.
Flower Grand First
by Gustavo Hernandez
$15.00
Gustavo Hernandez’s debut poetry collection, Flower Grand First, moves through the complex roads of immigration, sexuality, and loss. These poems are points plotted on maps both physical and emotional—the rural landscapes of Jalisco, the glimmering plains of memory, the busy cities of California, and the circular paths of grief. Hernandez’s stunning elegies float along a timeline spanning three decades, honoring family, recording a personal history, and revealing a vulnerable but resilient voice preoccupied with time, place, and what is left behind out of necessity.
Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates
by Rich Ferguson
$17.95
Beloved Los Angeles poet/performer Rich Ferguson delivers a tender, complex collection whose 8 sections offer free verse and prose poems ranging from hip satire to elegy and beyond—to gentle mantras that you might repeat to yourself in a parking lot or in bed at night when your obnoxious downstairs neighbor won’t quieten down. Bold, generous and self-deprecating, Ferguson’s work challenges readers to accept grief and dare—despite it, because of it—to dream of glorious things.
When the Pain Starts: Poetry as Sequential Art
by Alan Passman
$20.00
Alan Passman's When the Pain Starts is a poetry anthology crafted into a graphic novel, wherein this Southern Californian poet collaborates with comic book artists from all world to bring the imagery of his words into another dimension. Tackling relatable topics—questions about mortality, battles with one's physical and mental health, and all things existential—Passman's book will make you laugh, cry, and believe in the value of preventative medicine.
Lullabies for End Times
by Jennifer Bradpiece
$15.00
Lullabies for End Times is a surreal lullaby to living, always in the shadow of loss. The poems weave a tapestry of abstract, personal, and political themes. They dwell as much in the immediate as the in-between. Perhaps you are drunk on love, death, and gin in an alleyway. Perhaps as you hunch in the wet dark stench you hear some beautiful and sad music echoing out the drain pipe of a jazz bar. Perhaps as you drift in and out of waking, the moment illuminates how the sacred is never far from the profane. Perhaps the notes or rhythms that find your half-drunk ears will remind you of some of these poems.
Impossible Thirst
by Kathryn de Lancellotti
$15.00
Impossible Thirst is an awakening into both the personal and historical present moment. It questions what it means to possess a body, and how we must move through an oppressive landscape. Unapologetic and raw, the poems do not flinch from uncomfortable truths about motherhood, grief, God, womanhood, and our own impermanence. Versed in an earthy yet cosmic sense of place, the poems evoke animalism and intelligence, wildness and serenity, heartache and grace.
This Place Could Be Haunted if I Didn't Believe in Love
by Lincoln McElwee
$15.00
This Place Could Be Haunted If I Didn’t Believe in Love is a vulnerable yet bold collection that explores selfhood and the augury of belief. The poems bear witness to a thorny relationship that is doubly haunted by love and lust, pain and healing, as well as by the stories we tell ourselves—how we at times mythologize love, and how devastating myths can become when they implode our beliefs.
Crabgrass World
by Robin Axworthy
$15.00
The poems in Crabgrass World paint vibrant portraits of family and self-discovery all while orchestrating language into a symphony of gut-pull and heart-song. Robin Axworthy shows such a mastery of narrative and sound she makes it look easy. That poetry is breath and she is simply inhaling and exhaling. But make no mistake—these are poems that have lived in her bones for years. She has carried and cared for them and now has released them onto us, the reader, to house in our own bodies—to build ourselves into something better with.
Contortionist Tongue
by Dania Ayah Alkhouli
$15.00
Contortionist Tongue is vulnerable but fierce collection of poetry on the realities of being a Syrian Muslim woman and survivor in the current socio-political climate. From bridging the gaps of a broken heart, to bridging the gaps between two homes and two cultures, these poems underscore every angle of womanhood and resilience.
The only thing that makes sense is to grow
by Scott Ferry
$15.00
The only thing that makes sense is to grow traces the lineage of a family through the voices of its ghosts. This collection takes the grief and residue of generations, places it in moist soil, and lets it root and spread into unlikely openings of enlightenment and humor. Yet, far from being opaque, these poems remain accessible and edible as the cherry tomatoes that somehow survived this dry and bitter stretch. Life and death, decay and regeneration, childhood and blind adulthood, and language and its innate power to heal are all themes that weave through these narrative poems with a refreshing candor.
Dead Letter Box
by Terri Niccum
$15.00
The poems in Dead Letter Box are not about the postal service, although a postman does appear as a character in one poem. Neither are the poems so much about death as they are about how death colors our lives. Some of the poems in the book celebrate those moments when the narrators feel the world has shifted into just the right place, when they feel most alive. Without these moments—when we feel able to grab life with our bare hands and experience those brief trills of victory—death holds no tragedy. These poems aim to provide different takes on death woven through with strands of life. And somewhere within these poems, the poet hopes the reader may find rescue.
Tea and Subtitles: Selected Poems 1999-2019
by Michael Miller
$15.00
"In a city awake on tea and subtitles, / the freshman boys fight off sleep / to hear a bluesman sing at the corner club"—so begins Michael Miller's "College Town," which served as the title poem for his first book and now provides the title phrase for this retrospective collection. Miller, a former Los Angeles Times journalist and organizer for years of the Muckenthaler Cultural Center's poetry series, published his first poem, "Elegy for a Rhythm Guitarist," in 1999 in the UCI literary journal Faultline. That effort appears in this collection along with 49 other poems.
At the Table of the Unknown
by Alexandra Umlas
$15.00
At the Table of the Unknown confirms that the possibility for poetry is everywhere. These poems are clear, open-eyed, and harvested from two decades of writing about everything from the echoing feeling of loss to the gritty strangeness of parenthood. Here, language is harnessed, sometimes by formal elements, and sometimes by its own energy, to explore what it means to be alive today.
Everything I Write Is a Love Song to the World
by David McIntire
$15.00
Everything I Write Is a Love Song to the World is composed mostly of attempts to understand the healing properties and redemptive potential of new love. It is an exploration of these possibilities coming in the wake of years of trauma and self-denial.
The Book of Rabbit
by Vince Trimboli
$15.00
Somewhere between a research project and a concise study of loneliness, The Book of Rabbits examines the heartbreaking brevity of sadness and seclusion. Through the retelling of the famed medical hoax surrounding the life of Mary Toft and her curious case of birthing rabbits, Vince Trimboli’s collection of poetry lives between the worlds of 1700’s Surry England and current day Appalachia, focusing in on the intersection of poverty, mental health, illiteracy, privilege, and the lengths we are willing to go to escape them.
Letters to the Leader
by HanaLena Fennel
$15.00
Leaders to the Leader is a poetic response to the 55 Executive Orders signed by Donald J. Trump in the first year of his presidency. Unflinching in the face of reckless political forces, this collection of intimate poems seek to illuminate the connection between the personal and the political. HanaLena Fennel’s voice weaves the surreal with acute realities about our stark political landscape. Engaging and empathetic, this book untangles the reader’s spirit from the turmoil of a nation confronted with itself.
Darwin's Garden
by Lee Rossi
$15.00
In Darwin’s Garden poet and critic Lee Rossi returns to the original garden, childhood, in search of clues to his long, strange life. Part paleontologist, part historian, he seeks to uncover the physical and cultural artifacts left behind in the long climb to adulthood. Is it religion, is it science, is it myth which best describes the arc of a life? He tries them all, and finds only himself wanting.
Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror
Edited by Eric Morago
$15.00
Dark Ink is a collection of poetry inspired by, or in response to, the genre of horror as found in film, literature, folklore/mythology, or just classic monster tropes. This anthology features 66 poets who celebrate the fun and fright for everything that goes bump in the night...we have poetic takes on Frankenstein's monster and his bride, musings on zombies, Lovecraft-ian (is that a word?) love letters, metaphorical monsters (and Munsters), vampiric verses, and much, much more. If you are a fan of poetry or horror or BOTH, this is a book for you!
Drop and Dazzle
by Peggy Dobreer
$15.00
Los Angeles poet Peggy Dobreer's second full-length collection of poetry, Drop and Dazzle, has been described as a tennis match played with snow globes or a game of poker dealt with tarot cards. Following threads of assonance and alliteration, rhythms and story, Dobreer varies poetic styles throughout the book and creates a lyrical world that is part jazz, part classics, part pedestrian interference, and all parts love.
Junkie Wife
by Alexis Rhone Fancher
$12.00
"Not since Bukowski have we seen an L.A. like this; not since Simone de Beauvoir, such a force of feminine will; and not since Baudelaire, have we seen the dysfunctional marriage of vice and virtue as a means to attain the spiritual. “No names were changed. No one was innocent.” So begins Alexis Rhone Fancher’s Junkie Wife, a stunning work of raw honesty that injects grit back into the bloodless veins of contemporary American poetry and holds it there until a dark and addicting beauty oozes out."
- Clint Margrave
The Moon, My Lover, My Mother, & The Dog
by Daniel McGinn
$15.00
"I have no business on the moon, writes poet Daniel McGinn in one of the pieces of The Moon, My Lover, My Mother, & the Dog, and you know immediately that he is lying, and also that he is telling the truth. It's exactly the kind of spot you want to find yourself in in a poem, a spot of mysterious sadness and paradoxical delight, and this latest collection is packed with them."
- Mindy Nettifee
Lullaby of Teeth: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry
Edited by Eric Morago
$15.00
With a combination of new and established poets, Lullaby of Teeth showcases the variety and power of SoCal poetry. The common thread of these poems is their humanity. They tackle real issues of life and death, with heart, insight, and, often, humor, so that the reader both feels and understands them.
- G. Murray Thomas
Angels in Seven
by Michael Miller
$15.00
The third book of poems by Los Angeles Times journalist and poet Michael Miller, Angels in Seven is a spiritual sequel to Miller's The First Thing Mastered, which tracked the phases of life from infancy through the dawn of middle age. This collection centers on the mid-thirties and the changes they bring, from marriage and travel to parting with childhood passions.
A Likely Story
by Robbi Nester
$15.00
New collection of poems by Southern California poet Robbi Nester.
Embers on the Stairs
by Ruth Bavetta
$15.00
New book of poems by Southern California poet Ruth Bavetta.
The Green of Sunset
by John Brantingham
$15.00
A collection of prose pieces from a master Southern California poet.
The Savagery of Bone
by Timothy Matthew Perez
$15.00
First collection of poems by Timothy Matthew Perez.
The Silence of Doorways
by Sharon Venezio
$15.00
Sharon Venezio's terrific first collection of poems, The Silence of Doorways, reminds us that the best new poetry—the kind we delight in reading—is nimble in its negotiations between assurance and surprise, wit and discovery, sense and transcendence.
- Dorthy Barresi
In the Lake of Your Bones
by Peggy Dobreer
$15.00
The first collection of poems by renowned Los Angeles poet Peggy Dobreer.
I Was Building Up to Something
by Susan Davis
$15.00
A collection of poems by poet, Susan Davis.
What We Ache For
by Eric Morago
$15.00
First collection of poems and short stories by Eric Morago, an acclaimed performance poet and slam champion from Southern California.
Pop Art: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry
Edited by Michael Miller
$15.00
The third anthology from Moon Tide Press, featuring poems by Steve Goodyear, Jane Hilary, April Jones, Robert Lanphar, Heather Autumn Love, Gabriella Miotto, Danielle Mitchell, Edward Obuszewski, Jessica Patapoff and Daniel Romo.
Sleepyhead Assassins
by Mindy Nettifee
$15.00
First collection of poems by Mindy Nettifee.
Carving in Bone: An Anthology of Orange County Poetry
Edited by Michael Miller
$15.00
Carving in Bone is the definitive anthology of the Orange County poetry scene, one of the richest in the United States. Among the authors represented here are Brendan Constantine, a renowned poet and teacher for two decades; Steve Ramirez, co-host of Orange County's most prolific poetry reading; Mifanwy Kaiser, who oversees the poetry nonprofit Tebot Bach; and G. Murray Thomas, editor of the Poetix website that covers literary events across Southern California.
A Wild Region
by Kate Buckley
$15.00
In A Wild Region, Kate Buckley explores the connections between landscape, memory and history...Buckley's style is perfect for this task.