Jenny Boully
not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them

“Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way. It's not just her subject here, the Peter Pan story, but the way she reconfigures it—rips all the stuffing out of it, pops off its heads and parts, then shuffles, sexes, and reanimates it.”—ANDER MONSON “[T]he key to her prose here lies not in its darkness or its grownup-ness, but rather its careful tiptoeing between the minds and hearts of characters whose surfaces we've known for decades.... [A] a fresh, imaginative look at a tale as ageless as Peter himself.”—BOOKSLUT “What Boully does with J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy is both astonishing and creepy. The book is genius.”—HEY, SMALL PRESS!

ISBN 9780982541678 |
Fiction / Poetry / Lyric Essay |
6" x 8", 80 pp., pbk. | June 2011
    
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Johannes Göransson
Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate

"I don't know where else you could contract the plague in these words but by ten TVs at once. On the TVs play: Salo, the weather channel, 2x Fassbinder (any), Family Double Dare, ads for ground beef, blurry surgical recordings, porno, porno, Anger (all). . . . Burroughs and Genet and 'Pac are dead. Long live Göransson.” —BLAKE BUTLER "A hybrid form somewhere between or among the categories of poetry, prose, essay, theatre production, and instruction manual. . . . It is a pile up of sequined things and fleshy things. . . . The audience is often implicated. After all, torture and interrogation is not borne out of individual will and action alone. . . . All aboard.”—RYAN DOWNEY, HTML GIANT “This pageant is ultimately redemptive—in a world where much is hidden and persecuted, all parties involved are catapulted into a liminal state that requires a confrontation of the concealed/uncanny. Instead of accepting the paternal law as such, we must create our own, while allowing for a multiplicity of laws to flourish and coexist.”—DREW KREWER, MARS POETICA

ISBN: 9780982541654 | Fiction / Poetry / Drama | 5.5" x 7", 100 pp., pbk. | Spring 2011
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Sarah Goldstein
Fables

“In the meadow of fairy tale, Goldstein unrolls ribbons of story that fly gamely and snap with brilliance. Truly worth gazing at.”—DEB OLIN UNFERTH “I’ve never read a debut this stunning.”—JOSH RUSSELL “Goldstein lightly treads up and down the spectrum of delightfully playful to hopelessly grim via vivacious and unsettling possibilities. . . . For fans of Brothers Grimm, Angela Carter, and César Aira.”—HEY SMALL PRESS!

ISBN: 9780982541661
Fiction | 5.5" x 7.5", 92 pp., pbk. | Spring 2011
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James Haug
Scratch

"Scratch proves beyond a reasonable doubt that James Haug is one hell of a Mystery writer. That’s “Mystery” with a capital “M,” which is to say Haug is a real poet with many anonymous sources whispering in his ear"—WILLIAM WALTZ

Chapbook, poetry | 5"x7", 40 pp, perfectbound
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Emily Toder
Brushes With

"Positively bursting with imagination, and the delighted language Emily Toder has shaped invites and rewards our attention at every turn."—HEATHER CHRISTLE; "If geometry approaches shapes in space, and poetry approaches shapes in thought, and if these combine to acknowledge one another's significance and affinities in human nature's never-ending wandering, then what we have been given is the genius and pleasure of Emily Toder's poetry"—DARA WIER

Chapbook, poetry | 5"x5", 40 pp, perfectbound
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Joanna Ruocco
Man's Companions

"When you read her stories, you find yourself warped from one world to another, transported by the flight of her words between languages."—THE NATION; "Playful, experimental appeal"—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY; "Consistently inventive"—TRIQUARTERLY; "Not to be missed"—BRIAN EVENSON; "Early Lydia Davis seems not unfairly applicable, as does Amy Hempel . . . alternately insouciant and piercingly human wit"—ART + CULTURE

Fiction | 6"x8", 144 pp, pbk | May 2010
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Shelly Taylor
Black-Eyed Heifer

"Radically innovative use of language"—JIM HARRISON; "A mighty anthem to down home local culture"—BRENDA IIJIMA; "Hell-bent, mad-cap adventures whose diction & syntax defy category"—JANE MILLER

Fiction/Poetry | 6"x8", 88 pp, pbk |May 2010
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Traci O. Connor
Recipes for Endangered Species

"A kind of nut job's notebook, full of . . . tender, aching love stories"—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY; "Connor’s thought about every single word, every gesture, and she can turn each story on a dime. This is a marvelous debut"—BRIAN EVENSON; "Compel[s] the reader to face her own fears and prejudices, to embrace the monstrous within herself. . . "—MELANIE RAE THON

Fiction | 6"x8", 208 pp, pbk |May 2010
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Kim Gek Lin Short
The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits

A Small Press Distribution Bestseller; "Irresistible!"—NORMA COLE; "Do not read this book at night"—BHANU KAPIL; "This small unsettling book . . . both conceals and reveals its morbidity, its twisted thirsts"—JOYELLE MCSWEENEY; "An opiate trip . . . terrifying, ungraspable . . . sad and beautiful"—NEW PAGES; "Valentines . . . cut from thick, mealy-colored childhood stock. Here is language as enchantment"—SELAH SATERSTROM

Fiction/Poetry | 5"x7", 72 pp, pbk |May 2010
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Ana Božičević
Stars of the Night Commute

2010 LAMBDA AWARD FINALIST FOR LESBIAN POETRY: "Thought-provoking, inspired and unexpected. Highly recommended"—AFTER ELLEN; "How does she do it?"—EILEEN MYLES; "Anything can happen next but whatever it is, it will be perfect"—FRANZ WRIGHT; "Shamanistic"—ANNIE FINCH; "A mastery of language, a distinct and singular voice"—NOELLE KOCOT; "Hungry for the redemptive and the beautiful, after having experienced all that is contrary"—JACKET

Poetry | 6"x8", 84 pp, pbk
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Andrew Zornoza
Where I Stay

A Small Press Distribution Bestseller; "Refreshing, pitch-perfect" —BLAKE BUTLER, HTML GIANT; "A gifted journey through borderlands between text and image . . . facts and fictions, sanity and the other thing . . . just off the grid, just below the radar, and always in beautiful pieces"—LANCE OLSEN; "I hesitate to simply call it a book; its ambitions, beautifully realized, make it a hybrid of textual and visual arts" —SMALL PRESS REVIEWS

Fiction | 8"x5", 108 pp, pbk
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Gordon Massman
The Essential Numbers 1991 - 2008

"These are some unyielding monoliths of spit and tongue. . . . The kind of book you can’t ask for until you have it" —BLAKE BUTLER, HTML GIANT; "Gordon Massman is a 'Vulgar poet, disgusting egotist, porn purveyor, fixator / on genitals,' and his Numbers are absolutely essential"—BLACK OCEAN BOOKS; "You should read it to get a feel for one of the angriest men alive"—NATE TYREE, TRICK WITH A KNIFE

Poetry | 6"x8", 184 pp, pbk
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Mark Cunningham
Body Language

"The appeal of Body Language is universal. Always thought-provoking, always enjoyable and unexpected, the combination of topics of math, language and symbolism via the alphabet and the body as a complex system, turns out to be an appropriate, engaging compendium"— PRICK OF THE SPINDLE; "With its trope of clue-like instruction and unique, flip-book embodiment, Cunningham‘s book creates a kind of hybrid detective f(r)iction, an intrepid mash-up of high and low cultures in which the reader is as likely to encounter Rilke and Proto-Sinaitic inscription as Lacan, Film Noir, The Three Stooges, cell phones, higher mathematics, binary thought, and Coyote and Road Runner cartoons."—LISA RUSS SPAAR

Prose Poetry | 5"x7", 136 pp, pbk, tête-bêche | Nov. 2008
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Joyelle McSweeney
Nylund, the Sarcographer

A Small Press Distribution Bestseller; "Like interesting on steroids. . . . Other than the incomparable Ben Marcus, I’m not sure anyone in contemporary letters can compete with the voracity of ingenuity, complexity, and beauty of McSweeney’s usage."—BOOKSLUT; "Masterful redefinition of what constitutes prose. . . . The very embodiment of writing, reminding us of how flexible the narrative form can be."—NEW PAGES; "Flights of campy-cum-lyrical post-Ashberyan prose. . . . Language dissolves into stream-of-consanguinity post-surrealism and then resolves into a plot again. . . . recommended."—STEPHEN BURT, HARRIET; "If Vladimir Nabokov wanted to seduce Nancy Drew, he'd read her Nylund one dark afternoon over teacups of whiskey. Welcome to fiction's new femme fatale, Joyelle McSweeney."—KATE BERNHEIMER; "You thought you knew your own language. This book hands it back to you on a platter and includes the instructional manual for its further use."—MICHAEL MARTONE

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Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
with black and white drawings by Noah Saterstrom
Figures for a Darkroom Voice

A Small Press Distribution Bestseller; "Figures for a Darkroom Voice enacts the transformations that occur in the objects that exist in our world. For Gordon and Wilkinson, this change normally follows an eroding path—a stripping away either to the essential or to the garbage. In this way, their voice comes across not as a warning, but as an ominous knell."—INTERIM; "Two of the poets to watch in the next generation. Gordon just won the National Poetry Series Open (judged by the legendary John Ashbery) for his Novel Pictorial Noise, and Wilkinson won the coveted Iowa Poetry Prize for Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk. Here the two have combined voices for a frisky, lithe, verbal romp. . . . One of the most interesting books of last year. . . . With whimsical drawings by Noah Saterstrom, and published by the always stellar Tarpaulin Sky Press."—POWELLS STAFF PICK

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Danielle Dutton
Attempts at a Life

Listed #2 of "Ten great titles from underground presses" in TIME OUT NEW YORK; A Small Press Distribution Staff-Pick and Fiction Bestseller for 7 months; "Deft explosiveness that craters the page with stunning, unsettling precision.... Like Gertrude Stein, she knows how to be 'at once talking and listening'"—LAIRD HUNT; "An important new literary voice"—PETER CONNERS, RAIN TAXI; "It’s serious, but as many dramatists celebrate: comedy orbits a dark sun. Which is to say, this is also a very funny book"—SELAH SATERSTROM, AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW; "Dutton's work is 'accessible' in the best way possible. She's working at a remarkably high level of insight while still inviting you to enjoy yourself." —COLDFRONT; "A compelling, enigmatic read. Ideal for readers of the fiction and the literary essay alike, Danielle Dutton's new book is a significant contribution to contemporary experimental writing"—DOGMATIKA; "Complete and devastating"—OCTOPUS MAGAZINE

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Max Winter
The Pictures

"A long-awaited debut by a promising younger poet"—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY; "The Pictures . . . knows how to please; its breathy moments of profundity are tempered by an evenly handled attention to the landscape of the imagination"—BOOKSLUT; "Solid evidence that something new can still happen"—OCTOPUS MAGAZINE

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Jenny Boully
[one love affair]*

Winner of two awards from Coldfront Magazine, including Best Book-Length Poem. Nominated for three other awards from Coldfront: Best New Book of the Year, Best Second Book, and Best Technical Innovation. "A genre-bending back-pocket book.... Gritty and intellectual ... addictive and soothing ... fitting for just about anyone’s bookshelf.... You’re reading the book for second, third, and fourth time"—COLDFRONT; "Boully’s fluid, lyrical writing makes what could be a difficult, intimidating read instead a delightful one.... I highly recommend it, especially if you’re looking for a way into the 'trans-genre' of prose poetry"—ELISA GABBERT, OPEN LETTERS MONTHLY; "Her fresh style challenges the ways in which we construct narratives and read texts ... and ultimately leaves us wanting more, more, always more Boully"—MATRIX; "Boully has not only written the speaker’s one love affair, she has written our collective love affair"—CUTBANK; "One begins to feel there another form embedded within the prose, though not a poetic form as much as the formed outline of a lover’s body, a book one has loved....—GALATEA RESURRECTS

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Paul McCormick
The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter

150 numbered copies
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Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal
Issue #15 | Print Issue #2

Cover Art by Brandon Downing. New work by 35 contributors: Aidan Thompson, Amber Nelson, Andrew Michael Roberts, Bernard Noël, Blake Butler, Brian Henry, Brigitte Byrd, Cal Freeman, Corey Mesler, Dan Thomas-Glass, Erin Lyndal Martin, George Kalamaras , Gregory Howard, Heather Green, Jamey Dunham, Jess Neiweem, Jill Magi, Joanna Ruocco, Jonah Winter, Kim Gek Lin Short, Kristen E. Nelson, Kristi Maxwell, Laynie Browne, Mark Cunningham, Megan Martin, Michael Clearwater, Michael Rerick, Patrick Morrissey, Peter Davis, Rae Gouirand, Rauan Klassnik, Richard Froude, Rob Cook, Sara Veglahn, and Tim Roberts.

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Teresa K. Miller
Forever No Lo

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Brandon Shimoda
The Inland Sea

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Jeanne Morel
That Crossing Is Not Automatic

100 numbered copies
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G.C. Waldrep
One Way No Exit

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Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal
Issue #13 / Print Issue #1

Featuring new work by Rosa Alcalá, Samuel Amadon, Lucy Anderton, Claire Becker, Cara Benson, Ilya Bernstein, Joseph Bradshaw, Popahna Brandes, Daniel Brenner, Lily Brown, Julie Carr, Laura Carter, Jon Christensen, Heather Christle, John Cotter & Shafer Hall, Patrick Culliton, John Deming, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Danielle Dutton, Sandy Florian, Hillary Gravendyk, Annie Guthrie, Brent Hendricks, Anna Maria Hong, John Hyland, Lucy Ives, Karla Kelsey, Steve Langan, Barbara Maloutas, Sarah Mangold, Justin Marks, Teresa K. Miller, Jefferson Navicky, Bryson Newhart, Nadia Nurhussein, Thomas O'Connell, Caryl Pagel, Nate Pritts, Elizabeth Robinson, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Spencer Selby, Brandon Shimoda, Lytton Smith, Sampson Starkweather, Mathias Svalina, Jen Tynes, Prabhakar Vasan, Della Watson, Theodore Worozbyt, Bethany Wright, and Kristen Yawitz.

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Sandy Florian
32 Pedals & 47 Stops

Chapbook. Poetry.
7" x 8.25", saddle-sewn, 36 pages
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Danielle Dutton
Attempts at a Life

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25 numbered copies
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Max Winter
The Pictures

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25 numbered copies
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Andrew Michael Roberts
Give Up

Chapbook. Poetry.
5.5" x 7", saddle-sewn, 32 pages
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Chad Sweeney
A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer

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Jenny Boully
[one love affair]*

Second handbound edition
5.5" x 7", stab-binding, 76 pages
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Jenny Boully
[one love affair]*

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