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John Yamrus is a writer who shoots holes in everything he sees.

In RMA, his follow-up to his popular memoir, MEMORY LANE, John Yamrus returns to the streets and scenes and people of the town where he grew up. The book is not only informative as to how the mature poet was shaped and formed, but also evocative of a time and place now long gone and nearly forgotten. RMA.

Todd Cirillo is the best American poet hammering out clean, honest lines. His newest book KISSES FROM A STRAIGHT RAZOR represents poetry without smoke and mirrors, stripped down to its barest essentials-where everyday, ordinary language is transformed into high art. This book is a line drawn in the sand, a declaration of war, a benchmark of where modern poetry stands. Forget Charles Bukowski-have you read poetry by Todd Cirillo?" -Wolfgang Car...

Ben Newell lays it down in clean, honest lines. Fuzzball is poetry as it was meant to be experienced: raw, honest and unforgiving.

BASH THE KEYS UNTIL THEY SCREAM is a goddamned bombshell. Each poem I dug in. Hooked. Like being slapped in the face. I am simultaneously dissapointed and relieved that I am incapable of this level of honesty in my writing (or life)."-Robert Hanson, Poems-For-All

If Rob Plath's critically acclaimed 300 page collection A Bellyful of Anarchy was the monster, and his follow-up book There's A Fist Dunked In Blood Beating In My Chest was the bride, My Soul Is A Broken Down Valise is the bastard child of this unholy union. Here, Plath forges new ground in clean, concise lines and demonstrates why he has been called the father of modern poetry.

These poems are sincere and simple. They evoke the same feeling as reading a postcard or slowly flipping through an old photo album. These are poems of bars, bikinis, backpacking, break-ups, best friends, and beauty. Of seasons and search for companionship, speedy getaways and summer crushes, whiskey shots and twelve hour shifts. Memories we cannot forget.It is refreshing to read a poet who doesn?t want to con-fuse, condescend, lecture or pont...

ÒJohn Yamrus is a master of short form poetry. After reading this new collection of poems, I wasnÕt surprised that every single poem in this book was as good, if not better, than anything IÕve read by him in the past.Ó ÑCharles Joseph, Indigent Press ÒJohn Yamrus is a readerÕs writer whose poems are built from one honest line after another. I ADMIT NOTHING, again and again, captures the profundity within the everyday trials and triumphs that m...

Brenton Booth (b.1978) lives in Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a wildlife park attendant, dishwasher, bartender, security guard, cashier, actor, blackjack dealer, cleaner, usher, tour guide, clothing salesperson, and is currently a deck hand. He started writing when he was nineteen and had his first poem published when he was thirty-three. He has been published widely over the past few years. The poems in this collection were written betw...

In this volume you find "savage love, " "savage art, " and "savage laughter!" -Tony Moffeit, PUEBLO BLUES "Banned in Boston...and elsewhere! This book is incendiary, to say the least!" -John Yamrus, ALCHEMY