Release: August 2013
Guy Benjamin Brookshire lives in Vallejo, CA with a family and a beard.
Guy Benjamin Brookshire
The Universe War
Joseph Young
Moby Dick, or, The Whale
Release: August 2012
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Joseph Young (the author of Easter Rabbit and the visual artist behind the work at Very Small Dogs) has discovered a grotesque way to look at Melville's masterpiece. The book was found in a trunk; the text was applied by whale oil transfer.
Release: August 2012
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Joseph Young (the author of Easter Rabbit and the visual artist behind the work at Very Small Dogs) has discovered a grotesque way to look at Melville's masterpiece. The book was found in a trunk; the text was applied by whale oil transfer.
Polly Duff Bresnick
Old Gus Eats
Release: July 2012Download a PDF (great for iPads)
This chapbook contains stanzas fourteen through twenty-three of the The Odyssey by Homer, mistranslated visually from the ancient Greek. Polly Duff Bresnick's process involves looking at the foreign shapes and symbols of the Greek in search of familiar, English words. This has been termed eye-rhyming, bad lip reading, or Rorschach writing. Here, the Greek and English are placed side-by-side so that the reader can judge the visual translations.
Joe Hall
Released February 2012.
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Via "Read This Awesome Book": POST NATIVITY is a long poem in 3 parts--at moments it prays, other moments it's drunk and falling over, other moments it's being degraded, other moments it's looking around at the terrifying landscape of our inhabitable (UN-inhabitable?) spaces.
Joe Hall was born in the woods and is devoted to Cheryl. Black Ocean Press published his first book of poems, Pigafetta Is My Wife, in 2010. With Chad Hardy he wrote The Container Store Vol. I (SpringGun 2012). His poems, fiction, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, Octopus, HTMLGiant, The Colorado Review, Versal and elsewhere.
SAMPLE TEXT:
Make me your pen, your two turntables and a microphone
Your air raid siren, your silence, the IED
Detonated, my brain slammed against my skull, Beast
Make me your staff, your sword, your brick, your bottle, your rod
You stacked me in a pile of other bodies, you took pictures
Lauren Bender
This book was originally published as the second chapbook from PGP. It was digitally printed inside, with a potato-print cover. The text was composed for the IE Reading series in 2007, where Lauren Bender performed the reading from inside of a cardboard box. It is reproduced here, with more information and reviews at Publishing Genius's main site. Lauren Bender lives in Baltimore, where she is part of the Narrow House Publishing Concern.
Jesse Tangen-Mills
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Jesse Tangen-Mills is a writer and translator in Bogota, Colombia.
Emily Kendal Frey & Sarah Bartlett
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Sarah Bartlett lives in Portland, OR. Her chapbook (co-written with Chris Tonelli), A Mule-Shaped Cloud, was published by horse less press in 2008. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Filter, New Delta Review, Jellyfish, NOÖ, Burnside Review, Raleigh Quarterly, Coconut, Sir!, Sixth Finch, Diagram, and elsewhere. Poems co-written with Emily Kendal Frey have appeared in New Pony: a horseless Anthology, Bat City, Portland Review, Caffeine Destiny, Alice Blue, and elsewhere.
Emily Kendal Frey is the author of Airport (Blue Hour 2009), Frances (Poor Claudia 2010), and The New Planet (Mindmade Books 2010) as well as three chapbook collaborations. Her first full-length collection, The Grief Performance, was recently published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Andrew Borgstrom
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Andrew Borgstrom is the author of the chapbooks Explanations (The Cupboard) and A State of Unbelief and Hawthorn Blossoms (Pear Noir!). He is the associate editor of Mud Luscious Press and can be found in the Matted Welcome Desert.
Jason Bredle
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Jason Bredle is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including Smiles of the Unstoppable and The Book of Evil. He lives in Chicago. A new collection, from which many of the poems here are taken, will be released in December by Magic Helicopter Books.
Buck Downs
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Buck Downs lives and writes in Washington, DC; poems are forthcoming in Compost and The Equalizer. Books, postcards and more available at www.buckdowns.com.
Check out this interview about this collection with Buck Downs at the PG Blog.
Ben Segal
Science Fiction Pornography
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Ben Segal is the author of 78 Stories.
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Howie Good
Love Surrounds You Like a Posse in Bulletproof Vests
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Howie Good is the author of twelve other chapbooks.
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Howie Good is the author of twelve other chapbooks.
Forthcoming from
Mark Baumer
Andrew Borgstrom
Jason Bredle
Ingrid Burrington
Buck Downs
Sasha Fletcher
Molly Gaudry
and
Mathias Svalina
Matt Jasper
The Tip of the Iceberg
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Matt Jasper is the author of Moth Moon.
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Matthew Salesses
We Will Take What We Can Get
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Matthew Salesses is the author of Our Island of Epidemics.
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Francis Raven
The C&O Canal
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Francis Raven is the author of Inverted Curvatures.
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Paul Druecke and Claire Readig
The Last Days of John Budgen Jr
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Paul Druecke lives in Milwaukee, WI.
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Paul Druecke lives in Milwaukee, WI.
Jamie Iredell
Before I Moved to Nevada
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Jamie Iredell is the author of Prose: Poems, a Novel.
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Jamie Iredell is the author of Prose: Poems, a Novel.
Chris Higgs
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
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Chris Higgs is the author of The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney.
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Shane Jones/Sam Pink
Interview with Shane Jones
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Shane Jones is the author of Light Boxes.
Sam Pink is the author of Person.
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Shane Jones is the author of Light Boxes.
Sam Pink is the author of Person.
Kathryn Regina
As I Said
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Kathryn Regina is also the author of I Am in the Air Right Now.
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Kathryn Regina is also the author of I Am in the Air Right Now.
Ryan Call and Christy Call
Pocketfinger
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Ryan Call is Christy Call's brother.
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Christy Call is Ryan Call's sister.
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Ryan Call is Christy Call's brother.
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Christy Call is Ryan Call's sister.
Zachary German/Adam Robinson
Screwing the System with Zachary German
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Zachary German is the author of Eat When You Feel Sad.
Adam Robinson is the founding editor of Publishing Genius.
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Zachary German is the author of Eat When You Feel Sad.
Adam Robinson is the founding editor of Publishing Genius.
Nate Pritts
Endless Summer
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Nate Pritts is the author of The Wonderful Yeare, which includes this section.
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Daniel Trask
from DMR
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Daniel Trask is the author of DMR. This publication is an excerpt from that novel.
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Daniel Trask is the author of DMR. This publication is an excerpt from that novel.
Blake Butler
Pretend I Am There But Very Little
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Blake Butler is the author of EVER and Scorch Atlas.
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Joseph Young
God Not Otherwise
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Joseph Young is the author of Easter Rabbit and NAME.
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Jen Michalski
Cross Sections
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Jen Michalski is the author of Close Encounters and other works of fiction.
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Jen Michalski is the author of Close Encounters and other works of fiction.
Chris Toll
I'll Be the Invisible Girl Till the Day I Die
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Chris Toll is the author of Be Light and other books of poetry.
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Chris Toll is the author of Be Light and other books of poetry.
Stephanie Barber
For a Lawn Poem
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Stephanie Barber is a filmmaker and the author of These Here Separated a collection of film narrations, packaged with a DVD of the films.
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Stephanie Barber is a filmmaker and the author of These Here Separated a collection of film narrations, packaged with a DVD of the films.
Ric Royer
Hystery of Heat
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Andy Devine
As Day Same That The the Was Year
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Tips on Printing
The print versions of Chapbook Genius series are formatted to be double-sided. This is a snap to do; your printer can do it automatically. After you select File Print, look for "Preferences" or "Properties" or "Advanced" and select the option that makes you happiest. Use your best judgment. On most HP printers, the function is labeled "2-Sided (Duplex) Printing."
Presto bingo.
When you choose this option, your printer will output the odd sides and then ask you to reinsert the same pages to print the other sides. Follow its lead, and once you've printed with satisfaction, align the pages, fold them, and staple. If you've only got a regular stapler, you're going to have to gently fold the back half of the book so that the stapler arm can reach the fold. Be careful!
Master this technique; there are lots of eJournals that offer PDF books that are formatted the same way. Like this George Saunders stuff. And hey, now that you're getting really good at it, why not try using some nice, 100lb cardstock for the cover? Or, sometimes you might want to just stick a blank sheet of paper between the first and second page before you fold and staple. Sometimes I do that with great pleasure.