Returning the Sword to the Stone
order:
Fonograf Editions, 2021
“Comic genius” – Elisa Gabbert, New York Times
“Deeply apocryphal… wry gnosis… the fool in the play that seems to know everything and is the only one who can make fun of the king” – Bianca Stone, Brooklyn Rail
“Tiptoes a line between joyful goofiness and stunning lyricism” – Nathan Hoks, Hong Kong Review of Books
“A book so of itself, in which the humor doesn’t deflect truth, it refracts it” – Jessie Gaynor, LitHub
“This wizard’s way of seeing is hilarious and hopeful” – Suchi J. Pritchard, Cleveland Review of Books
“Fasten your seatbelts . . . and prepare to fall apart” – Joseph Byrd, DIAGRAM
“[The poet] flaunts his ignorance so brazenly, so blatantly, so infectiously that we all get caught up in that unknowingness, which itself becomes a new, stranger kind of truth, a truer beauty” – Emily Alexander, Entropy
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Best Poetry of 2021 – New York Times
Favorite Book of 2021 – LitHub
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🎙 Interview with Brad List for Otherppl
📖 Interview with Zach Savich at Heavy Feather Review.
📖 First page of “Youth Is a Fugitive”:
Under the Sea
Purchase:
Tyrant Books, 2018
“Equal parts hilarity and horror” – New York Times
“An intriguing literary page-turner” – Curator
“Funny, smart, and bizarre” – Readings
“Poetic and extraordinarily strange” – Buzzfeed
“All that beautiful, deep Chekhovian crap I’ve come to love” – New Statesman
“Full of unique and engaging ideas” – Newfound
“This book is hilarious” – Queen Mobs
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Best book of 2018 by Buzzfeed, Spinoff, and The New Statesman
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📖 First page of “Avern-Y6”:
The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover
Purchase:
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
Factory Hollow Press, 2012
Out of print.