The fourth poetry journal in our Backlash collection. It's arranged as a single narrative and to be read as a book. Backlash Press is dedicated to publishing books that inform, provoke, and inspire. We publish poetry, surrealism, literary fiction, and lyric essay.
Poems written in isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020This collection is wholly unique to any that I've curated. The incomparable nature of the of the submissions I received certainly reflected the exceptional times we are living through. Some were handwritten. Many were from teenagers, children, elders, and mental health patients. All were raw, perfectly threadbare in their humanness, and pining for connectedness.Although I couldn't pos...
The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes p...
The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes p...
A particle of dirt transforms into a pearl with the ability to seed an entirely new planet. What happens when a clairvoyant, a mutant poet and a shape-shifter discover its power? And how do they stop an evil prophet from planting it first?