Returning the Sword to the Stone
order:
Fonograf Editions, 2021
“Comic genius” – New York Times
“Deeply apocryphal… wry gnosis… the fool in the play that seems to know everything and is the only one who can make fun of the king” – Brooklyn Rail
“Tiptoes a line between joyful goofiness and stunning lyricism” – Hong Kong Review of Books
“A book so of itself, in which the humor doesn’t deflect truth, it refracts it” – LitHub
“[The poet] flaunts his ignorance so brazenly, so blatantly, so infectiously that we all get caught up in that unknowingness, which itself becomes a new, stranger kind of truth” – Entropy
“Full of zingers, yuks, and shocks. Recommended” – Phil Elverum
“Too good to have been written” – Oscar Schwartz
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Best Poetry of 2021 – New York Times
Favorite Book of 2021 – LitHub
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🎙 Interview with Brad List for Otherppl
📖 Interview with Zach Savich at Heavy Feather Review.
🎙 Reading for Talking Book.
📖 First page of “Youth Is a Fugitive”:
Under the Sea
Purchase:
Tyrant Books, 2018
“Equal parts hilarity and horror” – New York Times
“An intriguing literary page-turner” – Curator
“Funny, smart, and bizarre” – Readings
“Poetic and extraordinarily strange” – Buzzfeed
“All that beautiful, deep Chekhovian crap I’ve come to love” – New Statesman
“Full of unique and engaging ideas” – Newfound
“This book is hilarious” – Queen Mobs
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Best book of 2018 by Buzzfeed, Spinoff, and The New Statesman
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📖 First page of “Avern-Y6”:
The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover
Purchase:
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
Factory Hollow Press, 2012
Out of print.