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Part memoir-through-film, part inquiry into the effect art has on our lives, The Doubles is Scott Esposito's passionate, exquisitely written examination of 14 films that have come to define him. Retelling one film per year, and covering 20 years of Esposito's life from 1996 - 2016, The Doubles shows the development of a mind via film and the formation of self-identity. From classic cinema like A Clockwork Orange to cosmological documentaries l...

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Shep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised by a cold grandmother and chronically ill following his deployment in Desert Storm, he self-medicates with alcohol and daydreams of salvation at the hands of women-ultimately landing on one woman in particular: Lila, the young actress he believes is his daughter despite all evidence to the contrary. As Shep navigates the mystically rendered streets and strip malls of the San Fernando...

I don't write about race is a poetic exploration of identity, as told through apologies, anecdotes, and admonitions. An autofictional cosmogony of a girl who has been alive too long, this collection of poems represents both the absolute culmination and the ultimate failure of the author's lifelong search for identity.As its speaker becomes ever more estranged from conventional sources and modes of meaning and kinship, delving from relationship...

Written while working at a bookstore in lower Manhattan, Tom Sawyer is a book of poems about heartbreak, depression, family, role models and heroes, and growing up in America.It is as if you approached Joseph Grantham while he was sleeping & nudged him & he rolled over half asleep & told you about all of the things that embarrass him, all of the people he loves, & all of the things that make him who he is.It's like a package of candy cigarette...

Andrew Choate's Learning is a dazzling testament to remaining forever a student in the for-profit racket known as life, particularly the university of hard knocks. Free of hierarchical notions about where or from whom one gets an education, Choate gleans knowledge from disparate sources including his 8th-grade girlfriend, the Viennese poet Friederike Mayröcker, and an issue of the New Yorker that he read to his father, who was struggling to re...

Born unto a father steeped in violence, the fat kid grows up tortured for his ever-expanding girth. As a young man, the fat kid tends bar where his friends and coworkers muddle about the drinkers, including the fat kid's own daddy. They are all subject to the influence of a mysterious blond-haired and black-garbed stranger who comes and goes, known only as the Man. Unbeknownst to all save the fat kid's daddy-who migrated across the vast countr...

Young woman moves to the big city to "make it" as an artist - it's a classic bildungsroman. Hollywood Notebook's narrator worries, in these frantic, disparate journal entries, about rent, overdue library books, joblessness, and the lack of cold running tap water…You can hear the growl of the Metro bus on every page, feel the squeak of the Naugahyde chair, and smell the cigarette smoke. Each tenderly wrought detail evokes the crackling sense of...

This collection hinges on the image of a globe. Composed as three long poems in the second person interrupted by a visual fragmented movement. The modes address (to afar/from afar) are informed by distances made by war and globalization. With collage, maps, lyric nonfictions, storytelling, chants, sonnets, treated screenshots, a sestina, and new family pictures of old places - this book addresses displacement, memory and the darkness and light...

The second collection by Los Angeles poet Chiwan Choi explores the arc of his life, and that of his family, through an alien abduction mythology.Abductions is Book #1 of Choi's "Home in Three Parts" trilogy."On the surface, Choi's poems have a quiet, controlled quality to them. Underneath, there's danger and rage and sadness. His voice rings clear and true in this volume, and I can't stop hearing it in my head."-Charles Yu, author of How to Li...