The newest batch of chapbooks from Factory Hollow Press is available now! All 3 of these beautiful handmade books were designed and letterpressed by Meghan Dewar of sketchidesign.
Sinking Into The Leopard Pillow
Gillian Conoley's SINKING INTO THE LEOPARD PILLOW continues what Conoley does as no one else does it----be her kind of way of present with an eye, ear, heart, and mind attentive to and alerted by the complicated and ever-roiling human tendencies she knows; in eight poems a few of the things that happen are "I love my tiny part Neanderthal DNA," a "combustible planetarium" appears, someone says, "I am no longer afraid of robots," the "Election Year" casts its pall, there is the "leitmotif of a bra strap," we are invited to visit "The House of Love."
Patrick Gaughan’s THE IMPERSONATOR’S is a collection of prose pieces troubling the lines between audience and celebrity, where Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with Adorno and "the real" blurs into Kristen Stewart. This is all to say “I want a world of copies who can’t copyright."
Andrew McAlpine’s MY UTMOST DEVOTION is a book-length long poem, originally written as a series of Tweets during a residency with Mount Analogue, in which our hero confides “I am not afraid to be childlike/ to make my wants known/ & to look in horror at the requirements/ of a well-managed day”, and later, “when I roll my tongue on the place/ where ice cream cone meets ice cream/ I get a sense that something/ might just change forever”