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Our Dogs Are Restless
Andrew Macy and Jake Page
2009
45pgs, $10
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Our Dogs Are Restless is a collection of bloody, lovelorn, whiskey drenched, ocean sprayed poems. They tenderly address the illusions that make our lives meaningful and the way our crutches are so often sucked beneath the undertow, rendering us wobbly, naked and sun burnt. The book is fully illustrated by Jake Page, whose drawings uniformly capture dogs engaged in human leisure activities

a lump of braille, sensitive by god

bring in the sadness
bring in the love
and fill our cups
with teaspoons of disbelief
and mountains of release

you don't look so good
but i am certain, really
i promise
that what got you here,
will get you back

emily heard a fly buzz when she died

where were we now
leaving impressions
so we can stop talking
and still say 'hello'
and 'here's where
the peacock should be'
emily heard a lot of things
that never broke the air
and we plaintive
laugh through

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Bodega Doldrums
Gus Iversen
2008
130pgs, $15
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Fully illustrated book of free form poetry and sprawling prose. Deals largely with the mundane and what an intense business that can be!

Phineas Vs. The Strawberry Beverage (excerpt):

you lifted the pitcher to your lips. that hot july afternoon. it was like drinking the water in an olympic size swimming pool after a strawberry had peed in it.

you went back to his bedroom to ask him if he'd come with you to the airport tomorrow but he wasn't in there. you found him, with his gentle palette, laying in the hallway snoring peacefully. you laid down next to him on a carpet you were sure had never been vacuumed before. you exhaled and soon you fell asleep too.



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JAR
Gus Iversen
2007
150pgs, $15
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150 or so short poems originally written on index cards. Mostly about what if feels like to wake up really early and the concept of containing something. Dreams. Moments. Beliefs. Intentions. An entire head of hair. Also photographs, naturally.

Paint Brush Cup

The cup you wash your
Paint brush in
Runs with the colors
Inside you
Your paintings feel naked
Around it

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The Prismatic Cathedral
Will Lasky
2008
130pgs, $15
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Short stories by Will Lasky.

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Weekends In The Megacluster
Gus Iversen
2006
80pgs, $15
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Poems about leaving a small town full of people that you love very much and moving to a big city on the other side of the country. Poems that take comfort in the meaninglessness of existence and the quaintness of the heart. Poems that drink deeply. Drawings too.

The Broken Tongues of Lovers

at the italian opera
the music is epic
full of heavy consequence,
(like tom and jerry
or insomnia).
the singing too:

caramel thick -- these lovers
flailing about in the throes
of the rarest, most chaotic
passion the world has ever known

ripe with romantic fits
of melodrama, and the
tragically inadequate sub-titles
could not have been more appropriate:

"You are my love"
"I am glad I am your love."
"Am I your love too?"
"Yes. You are my love too."
"Then why must you leave me?"
"I must leave you because I must leave you"

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Sleeping Fully Dressed
Gus Iversen
2005
300+pgs, $30
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Short stories, poems, illustrations... cheap thrills and shockers. Loneliness, debauchery, desperation, awkwardness and all around handsomeness.

Fishbowl Helmet

there is a three headed monster
plotting my murder as i type
there is a miserable old man
criticizing the way i spread the icing
there is a world famous actress, and she
she wants to sign my scrapbook
i used to have a cat i loved
but it's gone and dead meow
there is a meeting i must be missing

there's a cop car in the rearview
there's a book, too many books
and a thousand too many songs

i had a dream while sleeping sound
i forgot it
my chair at school it sits me down
i've gotten good at that

you show me movies you call mother
when one ends you start another
drinking whisky and pissin' urine
photographs of ol' van buren

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Cocktail Salute
Kevin Estrada
2007
30pgs, $10
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Poems by Kevin Estrada.

Queen's Rush

The queen, god save her, walks down the aisle
alone, between rows of adult plushophiles.

Her crown, pinned to her bouffant, is unmoved
by flashing glances that “belong in the Louvre

ooo-ing at paintings or whatever is art,”
she thinks, as her mascara runs brittle and hard.

Her majesty’s audience stands stiffly stoned
awaiting the moment she steps up the throne

but her excessive armills slip off her wrists,
land in the folds of the train of her dress.

The queen turns ‘round swift, her hair tilts right
then sways to the left, she collapses like a kite
when a wind dies down, or interest wanes
and the children go search for a different game

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Thinking of Saints
Kevin Estrada
2005
140pgs, $15
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Poems by Kevin Estrada.

The Sierra Gang Takeover

a clique of fires ablaze in the redwoods -
some of the only playing fields left untouched
near sasquatch towns where
"Tiiiiiimberrr"
is rarely cried
the overcast sky reddens the dust and ash;
shadow silhouettes pantomime life
in a ritual bonfire of archaic symbols
the sun is covered with a thin filmy haze
and serves as the devil's peephole

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Old Stories
Gus Iversen
2005
175pgs, $15
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Short stories with the direction, drive, and clear-sightedness of a college student sinking in the shadow of a creeping deadline.

Stranger's Song (excerpt):

Then it was night and the map collector was forced to light his only candle. He took a book of matches from the window sill and taped it to the foot of the tube. He laid the matchbook on the floor and stepped on it to keep it steady. With a grand sweeping motion he tee'd off upon the phosphorous strip, igniting the match. He navigated the tube down gently upon the wick of his apple scented candle. The candle flamed and he waved the tube to extinguish the match. Then the cardboard tube became a spear, which he lunged into the closet, which was full of rhinoceri.