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THE FALLING HORSE
by Julia Johnson is here!
Julia Johnson's The Falling Horse concerns itself with what is missing, misplaced, left, lost, fallen, and then, sometimes, and sometimes often, eventually found. The poems are of the findings' evidences, examples of the kind of truths sometimes seen with close and steady and almost still observation, as in a painting or in a photograph. Every world is mystery-filled in The Falling Horse, it tells us to believe in mystery, to let mysteries remain true to their unsayable ways. We are invited into an intricate space in which nothing is predictable, and everything is transparent and habitable in unexpected ways, These poems and the imagination which has provided them lend us time that's exponentially less limited. These poems are spare, their ways unsparingly generous, every instance of noticed material, detail, language adds up.
Factory Hollow Press is enormously pleased to announce the publication of its newest full-length title Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me by Mark Leidner.
Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me is Mark Leidner's first collection of poems.
Gossip is the sound air makes
as it escapes a room
as that room’s only door
closes, or opens,
or is completely still.
It is the thinnest, and thickest
thing in the room.
It is the only exhibit in the museum,
really, if anyone was honest.
But honesty is a gold-colored farce,
at best. Gossip moves around and through
its branches like fall air,
or spring soil, still all around its roots.
(from "Gossip")
You are about to take a spacewalk
and I stop you in the airlock
by calling out your name
and as you spin around to face me
your hair splays out in the absence of gravity.
Not without this, I say
handing you your helmet.
(from "Charismatic Ambulance Driver")
Mark Leidner is the author of The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator Press, 2011), a book of aphorisms. He grew up in Georgia and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Factory Hollow Press is so pleased to announce that we have two new chapbooks!
and 
THE DUFFEL BAG WHY I LIKE CHAPBOOKS
by Luke Bloomfield by James Haug
LUKE BLOOMFIELD has poems to read here in Sir! and here in Glitterpony and here in Jellyfish. He does some other kinds of writing here for Bomblog. He is from Massachusetts. He lives in New York City. He is an editor for notnostrums. We thank Luke Bloomfield for allowing FHP to publish THE DUFFEL BAG. We thank him very much.
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JAMES HAUG is the author of three books of poetry, Legend of the Recent Past, Walking Liberty, and The Stolen Car, as well as three chapbooks, Scratch, A Plan of How to Catch Amanda, and Fox Luck. Read poems here in notnostrums, here in Strange Machine. We thank James Haug for allowing FHP to publish WHY I LIKE CAHPBOOKS. We thank him very much.
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Cover artwork for THE DUFFEL BAG is by Jono Tosch. Jono Tosch is very talented. He is a fantastic poet whose work we admire very much! He is a striking artist. He is a marvelous cook. A great gardner. Take a look at Under Sea a chapbook by Jono Tosch out from The Chuckwagon.
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Cover artwork for WHY I LIKE CHAPBOOKS is by Emily B. Goodale. We are in love with Emily B. Goodale's work. We look at this. We look at this. We love this. We love this. We are maggie in love with the world. Emily B. Goodale is one of the most incredible book designers and makers that we have ever had the pleasure of knowing and learning from. Along with Brian Foley, Emily B. Goodale runs Brave Men Press.
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The covers of both chapbooks were letterpressed at Flying Object on a Vandercook 4T by Guy Pettit.
"Good morning everybody."
If you are in DC for AWP come find Factory Hollow Press with notnostrums and Pilot Books and Minutes Books and Flying Object at Table X along with many other wonderful small presses. We have two new full-length titles: WHAT IS OWED THE DEAD by R.H.W. Dillard and THE BLED by Frances McCue. We also have a number of new chapbooks by Luke Bloomfield, James Haug, Christian Hawkey, and Michael Thomas Taren. And soon soon we will have a very small and very special chapbook by Lauren Ireland, titled SORRY IT'S SO SMALL and a fantastic chapbook by Lisa Beskin, titled PRUSSIAN BLUE.
We will also have available at AWP - CRASH DOME by Alex Phillips, the anthology DISCO PRAIRIE SOCIAL AID AND PLEASURE CLUB, as well as Chris DeWeese's chapbook FIREPROOF SWAN and Shannon Burns's chapbook PRESERVING THE OLD WAY OF LIFE.
Along with BATEAU, BIRDS LLC, BRAVE MEN, FLYING GUILLOTINE, IMMACULATE DISCIPLES, MINUTES BOOKS and PILOT BOOKS we will be hosting a reading - wide night - on Friday, February 4th, 6:30-9:30, at the Wonderland Ballroom.
Reading for Factory Hollow Press will be Luke Bloomfield and Alex Phillips!
We will hope to see you!
FHP's first full-length title is a book-length poem by Alex Phillips, titled CRASH DOME. It is a book full of exploratory feelings and information. It is a book full of humor and spirituality. A book full of journey and staying put. Its motions are simultaneously turbulent and calm. Its visions are simultaneously mournful and celebratory. CRASH DOME offers a look at the insides of ideas and like many insides these idea insides are made of many different things working with each other and against each other and for each other--the result is radical and mystical and meditative. FHP is wildly honored to have published CRASH DOME.
Poets Brian Foley and Mike Young both put - CRASH DOME by Alex Phillips-on their lists of Best Poetry Books of 2010 over at No Tell Motel!
CRASH DOME Reviews:
Luke Bloomfield reviews
CRASH DOME in BOMBLOG
Wonderful little write-up about
CRASH DOME by the wonderful Pilot Books
Sasha Fletcher review
CRASH DOME in NOO Journal
Jason Schwartz for the
Peacock Online Review
Adam Marston reviews
