 | The Horror Beneath Koble’s Hollow Kindle Edition $6.99 (Amazon) Paperback (forthcoming) Publication date: November 25, 2025 137 pp. Miners in Koble’s Hollow should be extracting coal from the seam below their isolated little Appalachian town. Though they have been digging furiously, no coal has been shipped off their mountain in years. Something else has been drawing them deep underground, something that needs their help to get out, something that has changed the people of Koble’s Hollow into beings no longer human. | Professor Lincoln Davis, born and raised in the hills of West Virginia, has found success as an academic and activist in the large cities of the lowlands. But now a voice from his past is calling him back home for the first time in decades. Enough time has passed, or perhaps the voice has made an offer so beguiling, that he can’t quite remember why he left in the first place. As he travels the miles toward home, though, his memories begin to return, and he starts to recall fleeing the hills at night and in secret when he was little more than a boy. Before he reaches the end of the road, will he remember why he was running for his life from a place called Koble’s Hollow? |
 | The Last Messiah on Earth Graphic pb novel: $30.00 Publication date: tba 148 pp. | In 1933 a Norwegian philosopher wrote a pessimistic essay on the futility of continued existence entitled “The Last Messiah.” In 1961 actor Vincent Price traveled to Italy to make a low budget movie entitled The Last Man on Earth. Decades later a child is born, his body inexplicably covered in elaborate, knotted tattoos. The connection between these three events might be found in a new retelling of an ancient myth. The Last Messiah on Earth is a graphic novel combining forms in a hallucinatory collage of essay, fiction, movie stills, graphics, urban legends, folk tales, and scientific publications. The storyline develops into an alternate history of the 21st century in which human disappearance becomes not only a possibility but, for some, a quest. |
 | Pepkin’s Travels: A Surreal Journey Through the 80s, New York, and Other Inconveniences Kindle Edition $9.99 (Amazon) Paperback $18.00 (Amazon) Hardcover $29.95 (Lulu.com) Publication date: Sept 23, 2025 194 pp. | A Novel Poem of New York: Before the imBlank Towers burned, before the Manhattan Wall rose, before the defenestration of Mayor Cloud and his fiduciary clergy, there was a city. Golden in the sun. A city of peace and beauty and learning. A big golden apple. A Golden Delicious apple. Then came Pepkin. Madman. Bum. Angel. A man in love with an entire country yet bound for now to a single city. A minister without portfolio, paperless, unsanctioned, unsavory, starved for sex and soup, tortured by sidewalks leading him to eight million stories in the naked city. “Sweeping, stirring, and perspective-shifting, a world in which everything.” – Future Science Fiction |
 | How To Make Verse Kindle Edition $3.99 Paperback $12.00 Publication date: June 13, 2022 88 pp. ISBN: 9798832225760 | A translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s statement on aesthetics. Mayakovsky remains one of the most powerful voices in Russian literature and twentieth century poetry. Written in 1926, How To Make Verse synthesizes his views on individual artistic integrity with the demands of committed Marxist populism while also giving insight into the details of his personal creative process. |
 | Esau’s Fables Kindle Edition $6.99 Paperback $16.00 Publication date: September 13, 2024 111 pp. ISBN: 9798991475808 | Prose poems. Working in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, John Lennon, and Jorge Luis Borges, Jedediah Smith uses surrealism and the absurd to travel easily between Homeric battle fields and Universal monster sets, quantum physics and the Fortean paranormal, archetypal mythology and modern pop culture. |
 | Bulletin to the Brain: Factions Paperback $16.00 Publication date: October 5, 2024 112 pp. ISBN: 9798991475815 | A collection containing Caitlin Jenner’s Clitorectomy, The Two State Solution, Trigger Warnings, I Am Joe’s Senile Psychosis, Taylor Swift Descends to the Nether World, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dahmer. These factions – a genre which blends fact and fiction to make something not quite as good as either – harness our beautifully designed global pandemic to erase our future/ |
 | No va Paperback $14.00 Publication date: December 17, 2024 82 pp. ISBN: 979-8991475822 | No va. Possibly a poem. Possibly an urban myth about the Chevy Nova in Spain. Possibly an imitation of Georges Perec’s MICRO-TRADUCTIONS, 15 discrete variations on a known poem. Certainly based on Arthur Rimbaud’s short prose poem “Fête d’Hiver” from Illuminations. No va presents 22 variations by constraint on each of the 22 keywords in Rimbaud’s original the car sold poorly because its name “Nova” translates to “doesn’t go” in Spanish. |
 | Acts: 9 Variations of Rimbaud’s “Scènes” Chapbook 8.00 Publication date: Dec 9, 2024 32 pp. ISBN 979-8-9914758-7-7 | Acts: 9 Variations is a sequence excerpted from the forthcoming book Pepkin’s Travels, a serial narrative set in New York City in the 1980s. Based upon the prose-poem “Scènes” from Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, the sequence makes use of the constrained writing techniques of Oulipo, the French “workshop of potential literature” to create variations on the original poem. |
 | Mad King Dad Chapbook 10.00 Publication date: Apr 14, 2025 36 pp. ISBN 979-8-9914758-3-9 | The poetry chapbook Mad King Dad is excerpted from the forthcoming Pepkin’s Travels, a book about the picaresque adventures of a little dirty man in a big dirty city, namely New York in the late 1980s. The chapbook sequence focuses on the decline and demise of the protagonist’s father from Lewy body dementia. For all the king’s a sage, his horses can’t put stars back in their courses again. |
 | Gospel of the Apocryphon Chapbook 12.00 Publication date: Apr 29, 2025 44 pp. ISBN 979-8-9914758-6-0 | A single long poem excerpted from the forthcoming Pepkin’s Travels. The temporal tectonics of The Gospel of the Apocryphon, the literal shards of an animated civilization that existed thousands of minutes in the past, constantly remind us of our founding national dialectic of pluribus and unum. |
 | The Gunslinger in Technicolor: Poems Paperback $14.00 Publication date: May 28, 2025 98 pp. ISBN 979-8991475846 | An expanded second edition. “To show false art what beauty was of yore, go west.” –Shakey Soule “Jedediah Smith is the best bet and don’t let Satan draw you too fast. Who shot me? No one.” –William S. Burroughs Millions of Gunslinger in Technicolors once thundered across North America. The American Gunslinger in Technicolor and the American Indians lived together in harmony for many years on the Great Plains before European pioneers and the railroad started to move west. The Plains Indians were almost totally dependent upon Gunslinger in Technicolors. They were a source of food, shelter, utensils, and clothing and most importantly spiritual strength. |
 | Morning Is a Nationality: Poems Paperback $14.00 Publication date: June 5, 2025 100 pp. ISBN 979-8991475884 | The poems employ a stylistic variety that represents a veritable literary history course in formal developments of Western (and Eastern) poetry. The many forms are united by their adherence to the long-discredited Romantic notion of poetry as an art of self-expression, with the poet as driver of private language derived from meditation or intimate conversation with another. Worse, by giving credence to the poem as a means for persuasion, this approach mires itself in the tired tropes of most poetry today, the mainstream that calls itself transgressive, the poetry of witness, of lived experience, the progressive, engaged, activist, political poetry. As Kenneth Rexroth said, “Rhetoric is the opposite of poetry.” |
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