Category: Magical Realism
The Soft Hells
Poker Night at the Justice League
What happens when comics nerds grow up? We should all wish they turn into Tod. Where some might have held at 12 years old, Tod instead took his heroes with him, exploring the trouble of aging supervillains, the superheroes married to them, and all their doting proteges. All that, and a cat with a predilection for the roof of his Tercel.
Planting Trees in Terra Incognita
The first of two volumes digging his nails largely into Spanish Fascism – a subject Gary knows a fair bit about, personally and academically. A resident of Franco’s Spain for several years in the 1970s, Gary saw (and provoked) a genuine police state, and lived to deliver us these poems.
A Novena of Mud
Damien’s first collection (ever, to our knowledge) initiated a career-long obsession with seeing Albuquerque receives its due. Poems about state political history, the importance of lying grandparents, love and Chicano culture create a confident weave of the Duke City, native son to loving mother.
Lucky Boy
Some classic Solís is covered in this book, and those lucky boys and girls who got their hands on it aren’t likely to give it up any time soon.
An Inaccurate Theory of Everything
Funny and touching, familiar and strange. With endorsements from John Hodgeman and Mos Def, how could this book possibly go awry?
Grass Knuckles
Christian departed for the wilderness. Quiet, poemless years passed. At last, nearing the bend into 2009, he announced his intention to tour North America. And those poems he’d held safe in the front left pocket of his lucky jeans found their way into the air.We’re all so much the better for it.
I Have Met the God of Fire and She is a Little Girl, Whispering
Sprawling, delicious, wise and profound poems fill this little fortune. An eight-page reflection on nighttime ambulance driving. A plumbing and deeply surreal exploration of the beauty and necessity of failure. Meditations on howling rebirth and death by stoning. God of Fire is well-worth its name. These poems burn.
Freshwater Dredge
The first section (of what turned out to be three sections itself) in Adam’s epic cycle about the evolving role of history, land identity, and erasure in his hometown. As of early 2013, the book is being released serially at dredgecycle.com.
