Sayeth Juliet Cook of Blood Pudding Press:

Blood Pudding Press will officially announce and make available its next provocative poetry offering on Black Friday — The Spare Room, by Dana Guthrie Martin and with cover art by Keith Part2ism Hopewell.

Starting this Friday, you’ll have the chance to acquire something entirely different than your usual consumer item, as an artistic alternative to the buying frenzy. Consider supporting microcosmic creation instead of (or in addition to) mass market production.

Guthrie Martin’s poems are amazing, the cover art is wonderfully disturbing, and like most Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, this one will be ribbon-bound by hand, as well as tied in ribbony bondage, so every single slim and searing volume will have been touched by my hands.

Not that my hands are anything special (but at least they’re not twitching like my left eyelid),* but my point is that personalized and loving attention is devoted to each and every Blood Pudding Press tome.

Here is what Mary Biddinger, author of Prairie Fever and Saint Monica, says about the collection. (And I didn’t even have to torture her until she said it):

Remember the first time you pried off the cover of an IBM PS/2, only to discover darkness where the spark should be? Reading Dana Guthrie Martin’s poems will result in the exact opposite effect. ‘The Spare Room’ shimmers with intensity, from the quiet chronicle of an everyday moment turned hyperbolic, to a litany organized into its own grid. These are poems of the body that do not divorce the body from the mind, beckoning: ’slip your hands :: where they don’t belong.’

Visit Blood Pudding Press’ Etsy Shop this Friday to acquire your own dark spark. Quantities are limited. Very limited. I know you’re bound to buy a copy. Do it. Don’t make me tie you up until you hit the “buy” button.

Here’s a little note from Juliet at Blood Pudding Press about the Etsy interface: “For anyone who is confused or does not want to set up an Etsy account or would rather not go that route, I am happy to sell the chapbook directly from me, if they contact me by email. It is $7.00 and shipping is $1.50 (more if they’re outside the United States). Another thing about Etsy is the way it’s set it up, it makes more sense to post items one by one, so if it says “1 in stock,” that just means I only have one listed in my Etsy shop at that time; it does not mean I’m down to the last available chapbook.”

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Notes

*Weird. My left eye has been twitching, too. For days now.