Unlikely Stories & Unlikely Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Knowable Emotions: Poems
Heikki Huotari
Meet Heikki Huotari, who brings us three prose poems on shibboleths and spiders at https://t.co/lD639stOCn #poetry #smallpress #litmag
Paperback, 2019
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Jared Schickling
Why hello there. Did you miss the video footage of the book release party for Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual -- starring authors Jared Schickling, Dylan Krieger, Té Smith, and Erik Bosse? Watch it on the YouTubes at https://t.co/eewx52EJHa
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Georgy Girl
Dale Massey
Meet Ben Umayam, author of “Georgy Girl,” a short story of priests, poverty, and power at https://t.co/U8PyAooyeo
Paperback, 2019
$14.65$7.32 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wake Up & Manifest: A Daily Manifestation Journal
Bekkah Marie
Check out "Daily Manifestation Journal," a disturbing and difficult short story by @pascalepalaces. Be advised that this story deals with mass murder and suicide: https://t.co/i4oZYIhKeQ
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flight Advice: a fabulary
Tobey Hiller
Unlikely Books has a new Editor! TOBEY HILLER is the author of a novel, four collections of poetry, and a book of short stories, Flight Advice: a fabulary (Unlikely Books, 2021). Jonathan Penton is staying on as Editor-in-Chief. Come meet them both at https://t.co/5xHLBqYOzg https://t.co/jLeERAXUKu
Paperback, 2021
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Journal
General Assembly
Darryl Wawa, a.k.a. Baron Drave, is back in the pages of Rigorous: a journal by people of color with the latest in his "Draw Me a Veve" series of poems: Kalalou avan kashiman nan bol devan tele: South Carolina Ocra, TV, White Noise and Dragonfruit: https://t.co/DGZBhwM0nW
Paperback, 2012
$17.75$8.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Willingly: Poems
Marc Frazier
Marc Frazier brings three poems on various types of martyrs to https://t.co/w4chJIWvDc
Paperback, 2019
$19.60$9.80 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Memo from Alamut
Vernon Frazer
Psst. Hey there. we've been working hard to help @c22press put out "Memo from Alamut," the new book by Vernon Frazer! Its a beautiful tome of typographical poetry, in a large and fun format. Learn all about it at https://t.co/sbwOYLzbOS
Paperback, 2023
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Here, Which Is Also a Place
Mark DuCharme
@FlockReader White Van by @megtuite Here, Which Is Also a Place by Mark DuCharme Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual by Jared Schickling with lots of information at https://t.co/Xwk3KvvYWd
Paperback, 2022
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pidgin Eye
Joe Balaz
For the latest issue of Rigorous: a journal by people of color, editor Rosalyn Spencer reviews "Pidgin Eye" by Joe Balaz: https://t.co/zcCU775xD8 https://t.co/Pi0t80D7mj
Paperback, 2019
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book