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In a recent review of G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher's Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, blogger C. Moniz at California Poetics highlights the glittering electricity of their words, finding that "[t]he lines could stand on their own without the reader having to know a single detail about 'the performance,' which could be any number of life’s glittering spectacles." Moniz references the poem "A Short History of Friendship," saying, "The power of these lines is intensified by the dismissive tone of 'just' and 'anyway.' ... The downplay of these phenomena—a luminescent insect, a celestial body, a shard of geologic...

[caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignnone" width="252" caption="This New & Poisonous Air. Stories by Adam McOmber."][/caption] In his debut short story collection This New and Poisonous Air, Adam McOmber brings the influence of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allen Poe to the next generation in stories that are a blend of the fantastic and the macabre.  The book, a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly, explores in dense, richly written stories the nature of fantasy and the obsessions that too often drive them. Recently profiled in Time-Out Chicago, McOmber is also the author of the upcoming novel Empyrean. His debut novel details the story of...

[caption id="attachment_1380" align="aligncenter" width="465" caption="35th Anniversary Summer Celebration Sale"][/caption] In celebration of 35 years, BOA is holding a 35th Anniversary Summer Celebration Summer Sale.  All BOA titles are discounted 10% now until August 31st.  It is one way for us to thank our readers and offer some quality summer reading! For a link to the BOA Editions bookstore, follow the link here.

Over a year-long period, poets John Gallaher and G.C. Waldrep exchanged poems through emails, sometimes at a furious pace. Your Father on the Train of Ghosts is the culmination of these exchanges, and represents one of the most engaging and expansive collaborative projects, a collection that Bin Ramke refers to as being "Powerful and elegant."  What emerged from these poems was not a voice that either could say belonged wholly to Gallaher or Waldrep, but a third mysterious voice. Gallaher and Waldrep return to that experience in a series of conversations to discuss the process of writing the poems. In...

G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher's collection Your Father on the Train of Ghosts has been hailed before as the seamless product of a collaboration which, rather than producing a host of call-and-response or exquisite corpse poems, comes through with a third, somewhat different voice than either poet alone. In Newcity Lit's recent review of the book (and it's hard to call it just a book), however, the interlacing of American Life as subject matter with this new voice is also examined. Tackling "an undeniably complicated, expansive subject," Waldrep and Gallaher's poems "slip fluidly from topic to topic, from the interior...