Into the Dark… by Rachel McKibbens
ABOUT THE BOOK
Into the Dark & Emptying Field is an interrogation of loneliness and its many masks. It explores innocence as the price of knowledge in a host of voices that share an emotional truth. McKibbens offers a monument of understanding for even the bleakest pieces of our human conundrum.
1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-9848744-3-9
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback Edition, May 2013
Edited by: Carrie Seitzinger & Matty Byloos
Cover Design and Interior Layout by: Carrie Seitzinger
Cover artwork by: Ian Anderson.
Type set in Didot & Nanum Myeongjo.
96 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution.
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Fall Ill Medicine Named a Finalist for Oregon Book Award
Small Doggies Press is pleased to announce that our second title, Fall Ill Medicine by Carrie Seitzinger, was today named one of five finalists in the poetry category for the 2013 Oregon Book Awards, organized by Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations Carrie!
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Judge: Mary Jo Bang
Jean Esteve of Waldport, Off-Key (Finishing Line Press)
Toni Hanner of Eugene, Gertrude: Poems and Other Objects (Traprock Books)
Alan Peterson of Ashland, Fragile Acts (McSweeney’s)
Zachary Schomburg of Portland, Fjords Vol 1 (Black Ocean)
Carrie Seitzinger of Portland, Fall Ill Medicine (Small Doggies Press)
Learn more details here: 2013 Oregon Book Awards Finalists & Fellowship Recipients
Edie & the Low-Hung Hands by Brian Carr
ABOUT THE BOOK
After murdering his elder brother, Marlet must flee the broken town of Victory. With his sword, our low-hung handed hero maneuvers his way through a decrepit southern desert murdering blank-skinned men, being pursued by his illegitimate son, and deceiving those he encounters. All the while, Marlet holds on to his precious memories of Edie, the widowed wife of his brother.
1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-9848744-2-2.
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback Edition, January 2013
Edited and Published by: Carrie Seitzinger, Matty Byloos & Small Doggies Press
Cover Design and Interior Layout by: Olivia Croom
Cover Art: John Casey.
Type set in Bell MT Std and Hoefler Text Black Swash Small Caps.
132 pages.
Distribution: Ingram. Read More
Fall Ill Medicine Reviewed at The Portland Mercury
08/30/2012 Fall Ill Medicine by Carrie Seitzinger
reviewed by Jacob Schraer (reprinted here in its entirety)
The first review for Carrie Seitzinger’s book, Fall Ill Medicine. Jacob Schraer, an important member of Portland’s literary community, tackles the substance of the book for The Portland Mercury.
“FALL ILL MEDICINE, the latest collection from Carrie Seitzinger, is a slim volume of work displaying the range and seriousness of the Portland poet’s talent. Most of the poems are stories in verse with an autobiographical feel. Aside from a few detours, the book keeps a tight focus on personal upheaval.
The poems capture and unpack memories, helpless moments of trauma or sadness that haunt the narrators. In “Like a Broken Window, Held with Tape,” a perverse grandfather invades a dinner “in his bathrobe again,” “explaining his wife had a tilted womb and in order to conceive he had to enter from the rear.” A poem about an abortion is vivid, unsparing, and very good. There are also humorous asides, like in the brief gem “Fluorescent.” “If someone hits on you at the supermarket, you should feel great. Those are some very powerful lights in there.” Read More
Variations of a Brother War Reviewed at The Fiddleback
08/10/2012 Variations of a Brother War by J.A. Tyler
reviewed by David Tomaloff (reprinted here in its entirety)
Another super review for J. A. Tyler. We’re finding that the book seems to be inspiring some really wonderful prose in the form of reviews that are as poetic as anything, which has been cool to see…
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It seems there are many J. A. Tylers, each with hammers and chisels and methods of distillation they would call their very own. The J. A. Tyler at work between the pages of VARIATIONS OF A BROTHER WAR (Small Doggies Press, 2012) is a careful architect of elegant short sentences presented in sections of 100 words each—three sets per page, each page consisting of a triptych focused on a theme unfolding around Gideon, Miller, and Eliza. Gideon and Miller are men born of the same mother; men fighting in a War that is by no means Civil; men with hearts and hands and eyes bent on a woman called Eliza, whose affections both men will gain and lose repeatedly as their stories re/unfold.” Read More