BOOKSTORE
Note: Free .pdf's available by request at deadmallpress@gmail.com
RIVER, OUR RIVER
by MJ Stratton
​
Pre-Order: May 30, 2023
Shipping: July 3, 2023
Written during a single month, this collection comes from a place of fluent imagination and feeling. Moving through a variety of forms, the poems are both dreams and exposed nerve ends, asking us questions about identity, need, suffering, and the body, while revealing a garden of cinders, moons wrung out into jars, and bees singing in the chest. MJ Stratton draws us into a river of language, at once gentle and cruel, that accepts fluidity and refuses to claim anything for itself as final.
18 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$12.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF (pay what you can / free via email)
THE PIGS
by Tim Carter
​
Pre-Order: May 30, 2023
Shipping: July 3, 2023
THE PIGS responds to the repetitive horror of gun violence in America's schools. A former middle school teacher whose career spanned from the Sandy Hook to Parkland shootings, Tim Carter reflects on masculinity, radicalization, policing, and the way selves are born, transformed, and destroyed. This single, long poem unfolds with endless immediacy, its images colliding and braiding together, pulling us into the nightmare and yet never losing its intelligence and compassion.
​
Read an excerpt here.
​
18 pages (not counting front and back matter)
​
$12.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF (pay what you can / free via email)
SORRY TO MISS YOU
by Franziska Hofhansel
​
Released: April 3, 2023
In this interwoven collection of poetry and fiction, we encounter radicalized fish, a dialogue involving a paint chip, and a border between Wal-Mart and God’s love. Through a mixture of the cosmic and the intimate, the real and the unreal, the voices here almost vibrate with feeling as they lead us through our own mesmerizing and insane world.
​
28 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$12.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF (pay what you can / free via email)
THE PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION OF REALNESS
by Amalia Tenuta
​
Released: April 3, 2023
A collection of (anti-) lyric and visual poetry, the writing in this chapbook collides relentlessly with the possibilities of life under racial capitalism. The language moves through a kaleidoscope of registers and modes, from citation to illustration to a damaged and vital lyricism. At its core is a sustained examination of gender, of how we theorize it, and of the irreducibility of transgender life.
29 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$12.00
(for 7" x 8.5" booklet)
​
PDF (pay what you can / free via email)
INTERROGATION DAYS | DYSNOMIA | CIVIL SOCIETY
by R.M. Haines
These chapbooks create a small trilogy focused on war, policing, fascism, and the American psyche. Each can be bought individually and stands on its own, but the three share many motifs and themes and were originally conceived as part of a single work.
​
(Note: Each book has been re-designed from its original release in 2022.)
​
Bundle of all 3 chapbooks: $15
(each is 5.5" x 8.5")
​
Interrogation Days (29 pages) : $10
Dysnomia (11 pages) : $6
Civil Society (10 pages) : $6
​
PDF: free download
THREE ESSAYS (for a poetics of psycho-materialism)
by R.M. Haines
​
Released: April 4, 2022
Three essays on the poetics of psycho-materialism, with special attention to the work of Arthur Rimbaud and Sean Bonney.
​
24 pages (not counting front and back matter)
​
$8.50
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
​
PDF: free download
