New Poetry from Monkey Puzzle Press

Attached below: New Poetry from Monkey Puzzle Press! For more info and to read free samples go to www.monkeypuzzleonline.com/press/books/.



and now, a very special announcement from Monkey Puzzle Press.

New Books Now Available!
We're stoked to announce the debut of three new MPP books - now in stock and available for purchase:

The Aftermath, etc. by Get in the car, Helen

Here's what people are saying about it:

“In The Aftermath, etc. poet Rob Geisen (writing as Get in the car, Helen) mounts an astoundingly affectionate all-out assault on heterosexual male grief and loss and does so in a way that draws upon an array of comedic surreal phanopoetic vernacular traditions. Amped up by accurate, lyric, mass media hysterica as well as a naked, private despair."

- Jim Cohn, author of The Ongoing Saga I Told My Daughter

"The Aftermath, etc. goes after the topic of romantic love with a meat cleaver and a machete."

- Olatundji Akpo-Sani, Baobob Tree Press

"The Aftermath, etc. is a rare look at the broken man in his natural environment: a wastelande of pizza, shark flicks, porn and beer. Seemingly, his only escape is through the pen, and if it were not so, the fine art of handmade explosives."

- Andi Todaro, author of Why My Penis Is Bigger Than Yours

Available for $15.00 from Monkey Puzzle Press and Amazon.com!

Cold Instant by Jack Collom

Here's what people are saying about it:

“For only a very few of us, making poems is as natural, as inborn, as breathing. Jack Collom is such a poet. These poems bring it all together–’profusion, extravagance/ ‘invisibility’/ holiness’– proving that ‘each tiny direction’s a universe.’ Collom capers with the joy and earnestness of a kid within his wild poetic traceries. His gift to us is to demonstrate that play is the form of wisdom we most urgently need.”

- Elizabeth Robinson, author of The Orphan and Its Relations

“With Cold Instant, Jack Collom offers a compendium of recent poetic proclivities and favored shapes, including the sonnet, the slice, the lune, the perfect daily account, and the acrostic, all with ubiquitous variation and permutation. Surprises here for everyone who loves and studies art."

- Reed Bye, author of Join the Planets

Available for $16.00 from Monkey Puzzle Press and Amazon.com!



expired Rx by Brandon Arthur

Here's what people are saying about it:

“Brandon Arthur has the uncanny gift to be both Personist (see Frank O’Hara) and Archetypal (see Robert Duncan) in his works. Looking OUT at the phenomenal, looking IN at the possibly even more phenomenal (but not immediately accessible to others), his poems truly ‘own’ their sound/vision/intelligence.”

- Anselm Hollo, author of Guests of Space

“Brandon Arthur says ‘gravity.’ He says ‘run your finger along the grain.’ It’s the weight & texture of a good particular poem he’s referring to. These poems have grain to them, American grain, & they have gravity. First the vocabulary catches you. Then notice the ambiguity, how it opens an influence that is magical, even spiritual. A physical space for the unknown & uncertain to enter your life.”

- Andrew Schelling, author of Old Tale Road

Available for $15.00 from Monkey Puzzle Press and Amazon.com!