I received ARCs from YesYes books for Tanya Olson’s Stay and for Ceremony of Sand by Rodney Gomez, and wrote reflections on each at isacoustic.com
They are beautiful books.
I can afford, at the moment, to purchase one copy of each and am offering to send each, respectively, to the first two individuals to email me with which one they’d like.
message me at bartonsmock@yahoo.com
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You can take a look at the books, here:
Ceremony of Sand, Rodney Gomez:
https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/ceremony-of-sand-by-rodney-gomez
Stay, Tanya Olson:
https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/stay-by-tanya-olson
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reflections, as such:
http://isacoustic.com/2019/03/28/ceremony-of-sand-poems-rodney-gomez/
you think
you might
be art. her mastering
of his blindspot
for imagery…
(every rock you throw is a bird that can’t breathe
a toy helicopter
lands
on a birthmark
and our kids
haven’t seen
their handwriting
(we run
out of tape, know
what to use
the abusive baby
with its crying (or
the blue
saint
with its bruising
thirst (will turn
the knob (the clock
of the door
Ghost Arson
(Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018)
if you’ve read it, skimmed it, or rewritten it…say something somewhere.
if interested in reviewing, contact me at ghostarson@gmail.com
book is 15.00 / orders for signed copies can be made via paypal to ghostarson@gmail.com or by using link:
PayPal.Me/ghostarson
*be sure to include your address in the notes field
or one can send a check to:
Barton Smock
5155 Hatfield Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
on amazon:
at barnes & noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-arson-barton-smock/1129931893?ean=9781946642868
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facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ghostarson/
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43229602-ghost-arson
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review by Dd. Spungin: https://kingsoftrain.com/2018/11/28/dd-spungins-review-of-ghost-arson/
review by George Salis: https://kingsoftrain.com/2018/12/17/review-by-george-salis-of-barton-smocks-ghost-arson/
interview by Crystal Stone for Flyway Journal: http://flywayjournal.org/book-reviews/interview-with-barton-smock-author-of-ghost-arson/
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facebook live reading: https://www.facebook.com/barton.smock/videos/10155837390135423/
god is the word food spells in my mouth.
you have to be this tall
to be hungry.
(there is a ghost looking for its rock collection)
our absence
unheard of
I wore
to bed
a dog’s
collar
and in
the dream
broke your leg
on mine
do you remember
being spanked
the ant
on your cheek
lonelier
than a stick
(I think
god
he put
my hand
in a hand
done
with growing (there is
the star I sleep under
the toothache
you
making owl sounds
for my son
he is so
tired
and there was a time
I invented god
thinking
I’d outlast
my body
a time
I carried
my mouth
as the stone
of the dark
and I guess
that’s how
I slept
my lips
on the head
of any
creature
mom says everyone in this photo is dead.
her eye
is quiet
the second
bird
kingsoftrain 