Epic Rites Press proudly announces the release of DOING CARTWHEELS ON DOOMSDAY AFTERNOON by John Yamrus, DEAD RECKONING by Todd Moore, LAUGHING AT FUNERALS by David McLean, and CRUDELY MISTAKEN FOR LIFE by Wolfgang Carstens.
All four books are available now through Small Press Distribution. They can be found by clicking here… Each book [...]
THE BROKEN AND THE DAMNED | By Jason Hardung | 90 pages | $15.00 | Epic Rites Press
Love is the blank space
in a magician’s hand.
It used to be a red ball
maybe a coin,
the queen of spades,
a dove
so disoriented
by fingers
it flew
towards the sun
only to be eaten
by a hawk.
(from love is)
I sat down with Jason Hardung’s the [...]
started reading Hemingway’s stories and novels more than fifty years ago I was fascinated by the way he put his sentences together. For the most part, they were unadorned, pared down to a kind of muscular zen essence. Hemingway rarely ever used adjectives. Or, if he did, they were very [...]
If
the poetry is any good it comes to us with the poet’s blood smeared on it like a primitive announcement, a declaration. Here I am, it says, complete with all my anger, my rage, my skin and my bones. I have wounds to show you and I have stories to tell. [...]
A BELLYFUL OF ANARCHY By Rob Plath | 302 pages | $25.00 | Epic Rites Press
birth is
an evil
kidnapper
who
snatches you
from kind
mother nothing
& sticks
yr innocent
nothingness
into a
human meat
straitjacket
called a body
& then
for decades
you are
slashed by
the horrible
machete of
consciousness
(from life is a bad slasher flick)
One of the dominant themes in Rob Plath’s a bellyful of anarchy is birth portrayed as a [...]
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