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Spiking the Sucker Punch

Author : Robbie Q. Telfer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904930
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Spiking the Sucker Punch written by Robbie Q. Telfer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer's first published collection, the author profiles the modern comedian from the inside out - starting with the innards and moving toward a damaged laughter. His work blends surrealism and narrative, bending grammar and expectations along the way. These pieces interrogate identity, place, and lead the reader to a much higher understanding of bears. This gloriously bellowed lyrical and linguistic chaos, this ‘mess of crossed wires and mixed seagulls,’ will make your status quo ache, your perceptions implode, your horizons widen and shatter. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Robbie Q, our dazzling shooting star sparking the gritty Chicago heavens, crackling with the surprising and contradictory rhythms of life on the run and in the heat. Keep on, Brother Q, dance the dialectic, your wild inspired unruly convergence and conspiracy. -Bill Ayers, activist/educator/author In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer rocks out a bestiary of antic poetics all his own. In his open and generous hands, speech acts zoom in and out of our collective desire to live and love. You will feel alive again reading it. -Daniel Nester, “How to Be Inappropriate”

Dear Future Boyfriend

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 193590471X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Dear Future Boyfriend by : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Download or read book Dear Future Boyfriend written by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her celebrated debut volume, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz tackles, among other idiosyncratic topics, love ("Science"), heartbreak ("Lit"), and thieving suburban punks ("Ode to the Person Who Stole My Family's Lawn Gnome"). Quirky and funny with a subtext of social commentary, Aptowicz's writing lets the reader ride shotgun in a hilarious sprawling road trip through America’s youth culture. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is a dizzying dervish of a poet, an astounding talent, a deft lyricist whose patented take on this dopey world is dazzling in its originality. Everything she encounters is fair game, and she jolts us into unexpected, delightful recognition. -Patricia Smith, "Blood Dazzler" Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is a flash flood of uppercut quotes. Reading her work tempts me to lean over to the people next to me, and say, “Hey, you gotta see this.” Do not miss the opportunity to absorb this woman's work, page or stage." - Buddy Wakefield, "Live for a Living"

The Importance of Being Ernest

Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912314
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Being Ernest written by Ernest Cline and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familiar and resonant, Cline's collection takes readers into a private landscape of science fiction, pop culture, and pornography. Ernest Cline is a geek, novelist, poet, and screenwriter based in Austin, Texas. In addition to winning poetry slams, Cline is known for screenwriting "Fanboys," released in 2009. He also recently sold the film rights to his latest book, "Armada."

38 Bar Blues

Author : C.R. Avery
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904094
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book 38 Bar Blues written by C.R. Avery and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.R. Avery's audaciously charismatic second book, 38 Bar Blues, is a tome of poetry loaded with bar stool musicality and brass knuckle poetry. Welcome to a clear glimpse into a motel 50 miles outside of town, a window into the life of a modern troubadour and the courage of a young father trying to keep the highway of diamonds shining while singing the song of innocence. C.R. Avery's writing flows like a Tennessee Williams stage play, from haiku-size poems to longer erotic tales that sink the reader deeper into backstage smoke of Avery’s worlds. 38 Bar Blues is like a Bob Dylan setlist; a play constructed like a Charlie Chaplain silent film; a book built to make the reader laugh and cry. It all comes out as true music. 38 Bar Blues is the perfectly crafted journal of a living legend. Enter the back-room of an old Italian cafe, where dirty dirty politics, outlaw love, and outrageous beauty are all in the cards.

Ceremony for the Choking Ghost

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904809
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Ceremony for the Choking Ghost written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first, then screaming. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body politic, memory and, of course, poems about love. From the intensely personal, “How My Family Grieved,” to the political, “What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t a Pillar of Salt),” Finneyfrock engages the reader with the chiseled images of a precise storyteller. Finneyfrock writes poetry with muscular verve and narrative push. The depth and breadth suggested in just a few polished images placed next to each other will make you reconsider what poetry can do. -Paul Constant, editor The Stranger If you've never enjoyed poetry once in your whole life-if even the word "poetry" makes you want to fall asleep, or die-you should read Karen Finneyfrock's new book of poetry, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost. -Paul Constant, editor The Stranger ...Finneyfrock's poems, then, are Shields's perfect novels: a shelf full of long, elaborate, heartfelt books that have been whittled down to their bare, sharp skeletons. -Paul Constant, editor “The Stranger”

Bouquet of Red Flags

Author : Taylor Mali
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342158
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Bouquet of Red Flags written by Taylor Mali and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the perfect blend of wit, eloquence, and honesty, Taylor Mali's poems delight, haunt, and illuminate with equal measure every subject they celebrate. Bouquet of Red Flags is laced with more than the typical LSD (love, sex, divorce) of modern poetry. Here lie poems that elevate the overlooked daily miracles of coincidence ("The Luck I Crave") as well as the blessings of loss and longing ("Love as a Form of Diving"). Whether employing form or rhyme or merely crafting the artful prose he is known for, Taylor Mali delivers entertaining epiphanies spiced with the "Deepest Condiments."

Learn Then Burn

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904868
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Learn Then Burn written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we’ve heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F’s and the S’s and the B’s and the Z’s. We’ve provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what’s around. We’ve also included some amazing lessons in its companion book for the teacher, sold separately.

How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps

Author : Laura Yes Yes
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904175
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps written by Laura Yes Yes and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Yes Yes' sultry, wry first book, How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps, dazzles us with its bold exploration into the politics and metaphysics of identity. From fierce and funny sexual fantasias to cutting observations of interracial dynamics, her work asks us to fully consider what it is to be human in an age of fragmentation and double meanings. There are no easy answers here: the voice of the liberated woman rings clearly as a man-eater in one moment, and shudders under the weight of lost love in the next. Laura skillfully navigates the trauma of being Other while acknowledging the absurdity of our perceptions of race. With precise craft and breathtaking imagery, How to Seduce a White Boy blooms as a ferocious celebration of life.

Open Your Mouth Like a Bell

Author : Mindy Nettifee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912926
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Open Your Mouth Like a Bell written by Mindy Nettifee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Your Mouth Like A Bell is ultimately a book of love poems to poetry itself, or rather, to the gift of language and its powerful mercury. "Sincerity is the only currency I bring," writes Mindy Nettifee in her haunting poem "Election Eve," a piece composed in a state of not-knowing, just days before the 2016 U.S. election that delivered the presidency to Donald Trump. In this third full-length collection of poetry, Nettifee's powers are on the wax. The book follows a course of descent, tapping wells and constructing thresholds to underworlds. She's plumbing the dark unknown, in search of wild memory and buried trauma and the stories of the dead. She is seeking the roots of the personal, familial and cultural madness blossoming aboveground. Her studies of the unconscious mind, archetypal psychology and western mysticism are in conversation with punk chaos, feminist politics, and the evolution of kissing. The lineage of poems as spells is humming and cracking beneath the surface, asking questions about what it takes to imagine, create and enact change. Nettifee won't banish the mystery, but does not leave us in the dark. By the end of the book we are led up and full circle, reinitiated into the bright, light-filled, mundane world. Only everything has changed. Here, in the surreal real and the strange and sacred ordinary, we must use our own voices to emotionally echolocate, to sense new landscapes both inside and out. We must tell the stories it is impossible to tell. We must speak until we feel the ring of truth.

Hello. It Doesn't Matter.

Author : Derrick C. Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912772
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Hello. It Doesn't Matter. written by Derrick C. Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown is our modern-day Neruda, hailed as the king of the fast gut punch and champion of the unforgettable line. Here is a brilliant imagination working at its highest level of creative force and naked, cinematic intimacy. Winner of the 2013 Texas Book of The Year for Poetry and owner of Write Bloody Publishing, Derrick C. Brown, author of UH-OH (“...a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.” Joel Lovell, The New York Times) and Born in The Year of the Butterfly Knife, elevates his newest collection of writing in Hello. It Doesn’t Matter. with short burst of dazzling light, dark humor and longer bouts of sorrow and rise. This road-traveling bard fearlessly delivers on laughter and unashamed romance.

Everything is Everything

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904582
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Everything is Everything by : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Download or read book Everything is Everything written by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fifth collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz polishes her obsessions until they gleam. Whether she is exhuming the bizarre ("Cryptozoology" and "A Short History of Unusual Fish"), exorcising her demons, ("Hog Butcher of Workshop Table" and "On Why I Shouldn't Read Books") or celebrating the uncelebrated oddballs of the world ("Little Heard True Stories of Benjamin Franklin" and "Crack Squirrels"), Aptowicz's poetry sings and singes. Everything is Everything illuminates the dark corners of the curiosity cabinet, shining the light on everything that is utterly strange, wonderfully absurd and 100% true.

Said The Manic To The Muse

Author : Jeanann Verlee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 194934214X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Said The Manic To The Muse written by Jeanann Verlee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanann Verlee's second book, Said the Manic to the Muse, takes a deeper, more focused look at the erratic, whimsical, ominous, and sometimes perilous ways manic depression functions. Introduced through the careful prophecy of three archetypes: Medea, Jezebel, and Kali–each a woman largely misrepresented and wholly misunderstood–these poems detail the story of one woman's struggle to maintain both strength and sanity in the face of abandonment and aging. From dangerous trysts and barroom brawls to "grief-induced psychosis," Said the Manic to the Muse recounts the year she lost everything, including her mind.

Gentleman Practice

Author : Buddy Wakefield
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904116
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Gentleman Practice written by Buddy Wakefield and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddy Wakefield’s third book, Gentleman Practice, documents the figurative contents of a man’s body attempting to stand firm in the presence of all that is. It’s a poetry book, from the perspective of a journal entry in the National Archives. The National Archives live in a building in Seattle behind barbed wire, directly next door to the Center for Spiritual Living. This is no accident. Gentleman Practice is a disarming de-haunting of accidents. There are no stunt doubles performing the honesty in this book. Head raised and victorious, he has crafted a translation of the human spirit on a small, practical patch, with a very fine tooth indeed. And, while many poetry books read like a thick epic series of sections, Gentleman Practice will no doubt rest in your hands like a well-oiled novel.

Counting Descent

Author : Clint Smith
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912667
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Counting Descent written by Clint Smith and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans" 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Academy of American Poets "So many of these poems just blow me away. Incredibly beautiful and powerful." -- Michelle Alexander, Author of The New Jim Crow "Counting Descent is a tightly-woven collection of poems whose pages act like an invitation. The invitation is intimate and generous and also a challenge; are you up to asking what is blackness? What is black joy? How is black life loved and lived? To whom do we look to for answers? This invitation is not to a narrow street, or a shallow lake, but to a vast exploration of life. And you’re invited. -- Elizabeth Acevedo, Author of Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths "These poems shimmer with revelatory intensity, approaching us from all sides to immerse us in the America that America so often forgets." -- Gregory Pardlo "Counting Descent is more than brilliant. More than lyrical. More than bluesy. More than courageous. It is terrifying in its ability to at once not hide and show readers why it wants to hide so badly. These poems mend, meld and imagine with weighted details, pauses, idiosyncrasies and word patterns I've never seen before." -- Kiese Laymon, Author of Long Division Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. "Do you know what it means for your existence to be defined by someone else’s intentions?" Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward.

Pecking Order

Author : Nicole Homer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342107
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Pecking Order written by Nicole Homer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicole Homer's first full-length poetry collection, Pecking Order, is an unflinching look at how race and gender politics play out in the domestic sphere. Homer challenges the notion of family by forcing the reader to examine how race, race performance, and colorism impact motherhood immediately and from generation to generation. In a world where race and color often determine treatment, the home should be sanctuary, but often is not. Homer's poems question the construction of racial identity and how familial love can both challenge and bolster that construction. Her poems range from the intimate details of motherhood to the universal experiences of parenting; the dynamics of multiracial families to parenting black children; and the ingrained social hierarchy which places the black mother at the bottom. Homer forces us to reckon with the truth that no one–not even the mother–is unbiased.

Strange Light

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904760
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Strange Light written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derrick Brown's fourth and final collection of poetry and short stories is a unrelenting machine of honesty that has been called his finest collection of new work. Strange Light takes us back to the docks, to a violent drama class and boring prom, an undersea conversation with Jacques Cousteau, and into his famous romantic bursts of verse. The epic poem, Strange Light, anchors this collection as one of the most inventive and potent collections of modern American poetry. About.com called his 2009 collection Scandalabra, one of the best books of the year. Everything hilarious and stirring is illuminated. The power of Strange Light is waiting.

Oh, Terrible Youth

Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904671
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Oh, Terrible Youth written by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fourth collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz uses her youth as muse. Whether ruminating on the trials and tribulations of life in the single digits ("My Elementary School Confessions"), exposing her unapologetic high school geekiness ("The Secret Language of Nerds") and exalting all the melodramatic yet sincere love verses she ultimately penned in vain ("On Reading Old Unrequited Love Poems"), this plump collection commiserates and celebrates all the wonder, terror, banality and comedy that is the long journey to adulthood.