Hello,
I'm a new small press publisher (White Gorilla Press) and am trying to get the word out on the first title, The Slaughterhouse Poems by Dave Newman. Here's an excerpt from an incredibly thoughtful review by William Boyle over at Cleaver Magazine this week that will hopefully stoke some interest in these parts:
"The Bukowski influence runs deep in Newman’s poetry but not in a way that’s derivative. In fact, Newman breathes new life into a form that, in lesser hands, could easily slide into self-indulgence. I’d forgotten what it felt like to read poetry with this sort of intensity, to burn through a collection in an hour and then flip back to the beginning and start again. It’s the same feeling I had when, buried in the stacks as a freshman in college, I read Mockingbird Wish Me Luck with a sort of drunken ferocity. The world closed around me. The book was the world."
There's more information and a few poems up on the WGP site. I can send a pdf file to folks from the forum who want to take a longer look as well. Print copy is just $10.79 over on Amazon. About the cost of a 12-pack.
Thanks,
Mike
I'm a new small press publisher (White Gorilla Press) and am trying to get the word out on the first title, The Slaughterhouse Poems by Dave Newman. Here's an excerpt from an incredibly thoughtful review by William Boyle over at Cleaver Magazine this week that will hopefully stoke some interest in these parts:
"The Bukowski influence runs deep in Newman’s poetry but not in a way that’s derivative. In fact, Newman breathes new life into a form that, in lesser hands, could easily slide into self-indulgence. I’d forgotten what it felt like to read poetry with this sort of intensity, to burn through a collection in an hour and then flip back to the beginning and start again. It’s the same feeling I had when, buried in the stacks as a freshman in college, I read Mockingbird Wish Me Luck with a sort of drunken ferocity. The world closed around me. The book was the world."
There's more information and a few poems up on the WGP site. I can send a pdf file to folks from the forum who want to take a longer look as well. Print copy is just $10.79 over on Amazon. About the cost of a 12-pack.
Thanks,
Mike