This manuscript has been floating around and looking for a home for a little over a year (I think I started submitting different versions of the manuscript in February 2011 and from then to now, it's received about 10 rejections) and now its home has been found and its tentative publication date is October 2023.
That may sound like a while away, but time speed races fast and plus October is my favorite month. Just don't ask me how old I'll be in October 2023, because in my mind, that's one down side to the speed racing of time.
But one upside is that this new chapbook of mine will be newly brought to life by a fabulous independent press!
The 20+ poems in this chapbook collection are filled with internal and external violence and abuse, chaotic horror and entrapment, humans trapped behind walls or in beds, dolls thrown down the stairs and hiding in partially contained places, dolls pretending to be humans, humans pretending to be dolls, real humans fused together with evil. A lot of the inspiration for many of the poems at least partly derives from Twin Peaks. 15 poems in the collection have the title "FLESH WORLD", which comes from the name of a magazine in Twin Peaks. But there are other titles too and other inspirations and insinuations too.
I'm very happy that this manuscript found a fabulous home and also that it found its home during poetry month!
They also have tons of other fabulous poetry chapbooks available, so I recommend checking them out and buying a handful of chapbooks! https://www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-minibooks
