How We Know It Is That by Jennifer Denrow
Jennifer Denrow’s amazing chapbook How We Know It Is That is now available; visit our catalog to order.
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December 19, 2013
December 18, 2013
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by Tim Earley
In just a few weeks, we will be sending Tim Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery to the printers, and we are so excited. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek of the amazing cover, by designer Alban Fischer. Take the opportunity to save some money and pre-order now! You can also read and listen to some excerpts here. Visit our catalog for more details and ordering information.
December 18, 2013
GRACERIES by JenMarie & Travis Macdonald
Visit our catalog to order Graceries by JenMarie & Travis Macdonald. And don’t forget! This month, add “well house” to your Paypal note, and we’ll donate the proceeds of the sale to Well House, an organization that helps provide affordable, safe housing for the homeless in Kent County, Michigan.
December 17, 2013
Chapbook & Book Proceeds to Well House
Usually, around the holidays, we offer a discount on chapbook orders. This year, I’d like to try using our sales to gift an organization in the community instead. Well House is located in Horse Less Press’s home city, Grand Rapids, MI, and they focus on providing safe and affordable housing for the homeless. I’ve already given them a small donation of my own, but we’d like to improve on that a little by the end of the year. If you order a chapbook or book from our catalog between now and Jan 1 and add “Well House” in the notes section, we’ll donate the price minus shipping to Well House.
December 14, 2013
Open Reading Period: Chapbooks
Horse Less Press is reading chapbook submissions until the end of January! Read our vaguely threatening submission guidelines here: https://horselesspress.submittable.com/submit
October 31, 2013
More Advance Praise for Tim Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (forthcoming early 2014)
The only way these poems could’ve existed without the glorious mind of Tim Earley is if Gertrude Stein, having found herself suddenly preaching in the deep south, punched Gerard Manley Hopkins in the face while he sang in her choir, and if the rearrangement of bruise and bone, fist to face, her language against his, was delivered to the congregation as a prayer, as a whole town’s last goddamn hope, then maybe, maybe the faintest scent of these poems, having stayed on the collar of a small boy’s woolen coat a little too long, wafted into the cold, crisp air, traveling from bird to bird, waking up the oldest prisoner with only minutes before his sentence to write Earley’s words down. This is how beautiful and impossible. This is how rare. Thank god for Tim Earley and his new, heavenly sack of genius poems.
— Sabrina Orah Mark
Slinging anti-psalms about the southland, Tim Earley plays chicken to win, thus upending so much of what you thought you thought about the American poem in prose. Herein are oaths–as in both promises and curses–and the good kind of being buried alive.
–Graham Foust
You, yes you, can pre-order this and many other fine books from our forthcoming 2014 catalog here.
October 24, 2013
New Chapbooks from Paige Taggart & Annah Browning!
They’re here they’re here! Visit our catalog to get more details and order your copies of Last Difficult Gardens by Paige Taggart and The Marriage by Annah Browning: $8 each or both for $14!
October 22, 2013
Advance Praise for Tim Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (forthcoming in 2014)
“John Clare has slipped the asylum again, returned to the ‘poetical prosings’ that drove him mad, passing himself off, in our time, as ‘Tim Earley.’ These lunatic pages are a continuous delight. They map the linguistic wilds and psychic pasturelands of our moment, where entire lives can unfold in a single deep-breathing sentence. Earley’s dazzling and exact juxtapositions of image call up scene after scene, each with its own pathos, rage, wit, or celebration. We wander, happy to be there.” Joseph Donahue
Pre-Order Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and the rest of our 2014 catalog here.
October 10, 2013
Advance Praise for Pattie McCarthy’s nulls (forthcoming in early 2014)
Laynie Brown on Pattie McCarthy’s nulls:
In Pattie McCarthy’s wonderful new collection, Nulls, we are compelled to consider a collage of possible meetings which ultimately lead to birth— the birth of the poem, the birth of assumption, the birth of identity, and the birth of expectations and restraints which press upon any person with the aspiration to decode domestic entropy and to deftly shepherd living form. With urgency you will be asked, WHO SAYS THAT WOLVES ARE BAD MOTHERS?” and “DO YOU HAVE YOUR EXHAUSTION LETTER?” McCarthy’s asking is hypnotic, acute and probes discrete categories of collapse. Nulls beautifully demonstrates how iteration can become palimpsest, how “invisible ink” may “make your mouth noun” and how interrogation can cause fracture. Nulls provides proof that texts can change the dimensions of mental space and transmute or reveal the inaudible which exists alongside any transcription.
Pre-order nulls, and the rest of our 2014 catalog, here.
October 5, 2013
Mini-Chapbook Bundle #2: Encino by Chad Scheel and The Dark Mouth of Living by Jenn McCreary
Horse Less Industries has been stymied by a possessed printer, but we’re getting back on schedule this month! Mini-chaps by Chad Scheel and Jenn McCreary are FINALLY here, and they are ALWAYS very good. Buy them together for $10.
If you haven’t already heard, our full-length 2013 books — The Disappearing Cowboy Trick by Kristin Abraham and In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments by Stephanie Anderson — are also now available! Read about them and the rest of our catalog.
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