Tobias Carroll of Vol. 1 Brooklyn has written a review-in-lessons of Anatomy Courses. Click on Lesson 2 below to read it.
No One Can Do Anything Worse To You Than You Can by Sam Pink
20 Mar
Why is it that we’re always afraid of our ankles getting grabbed by a hand coming out of the gutter? And why will our lives be completely fulfilled when we look down one day and notice we’re wearing underwear made out of a brown paper bag?
Thankfully, you don’t have to think about any of that because in his second collection of poetry, Sam Pink has done the work for you.
You will see a crowd of people in your head and the crowd will point at you and say, “Ewww.” You will hang yourself from the ceiling with a hook though your bottom jaw. You will feel at home eating your own heart off a commemorative plate featuring a picture of your corpse.
You won’t learn anything except that, “No one can do anything to you that’s worse than what you’re already thought to yourself. No one can do anything worse to you than the things you’ve already done. No one can do anything worse to you than you can.”
Click here to order No One Can Do Anything Worse To You Than You Can.
Tags: best american poetry, no one can do anything worse to you than you can
Raffle of a Painting by Alan M. Clark Inspired by OF THIMBLE AND THREAT
19 Mar
The image above is Alan M. Clark’s sketch and contrast study, produced with black and white pencil on brown paper, for the painting he will later produce for the raffle [details below]. The image is inspired by Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim, published by Lazy Fascist Press. In a final message about the raffle, just before the drawing, we will post the image of the painting.
For those of you who missed the initial announcement, here’s how to enter the raffle:
A. Take a picture of yourself with Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim and post it online (on your blog/website, Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere). Send a link to the photo to
lazyfascist@gmail.com.
OR
B. Correctly answer the following trivia questions (send your answers to lazyfascist@gmail.com):
1. What song did Katie sing in the novel during her cousin’s execution?
2. What was given to infants by the childminder, Patricia Ennis, in order to quiet them?
3. What item in the novel is referred to by the slang expression “nose warmer”?
No purchase necessary. If you have any questions about the raffle, please email lazyfascist@gmail.com. The winner will be announced on June 4th, 2012.
Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victimis a story about the intense love between a mother and a child, a story of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is the devastating portrayal of a self-perpetuated descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.
Alan M. Clark is a World Fantasy Award-winning artist. He has illustrated the works of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Keene, William F. Nolan, George Orwell, Poppy Z. Brite, and Christopher Golden.
Tags: alan m. clark, painting raffle
The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1
7 Mar
Coming this year from Lazy Fascist.
Tags: matthew revert, scott mcclanahan
I Never Liked My Dad by Sam Pink
6 Mar
Excellent tape label Tent Revivalist has released I NEVER LIKED MY DAD, a cassette of Sam Pink reading from various books. Here’s the description: “You still remember that first time your father took you to the zoo. The horses lying dead in their stables, just waiting to be kicked. The mechanical spider and the squeal of its motorized fangs. The cat that turned out to be something else entirely. Though there’s no way of traveling back to that serene morning, Sam Pink offers you the next best thing in the form of nearly an hour’s worth of readings. With excerpts from such classics as Person, The No Hellos Diet, and Hurt Others (not to mention a hefty helping of poems), there’s a little something for everyone (even your dear ol’ Pa). Edition of 50.” Click here to order.
Tags: sam pink, tent revivalist
Sean Kilpatrick reads from Anatomy Courses at AWP
5 MarOrder Anatomy Courses here.
Tags: anatomy courses, awp, readings
