The Swallows of Lunetto

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The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing does not currently have an audio format, unfortunately, but here is a clip of me reading the first chapter: https://m. This Distance' is a badass book full of meditations on the moments when we're alone, vulnerable and striving for connection. Between the pages of an ever-shifting eternal text known as the Patasphere, a coven of psychedelic fiction fanatics and a duo of agents working for a private intelligence firm known as The Geist, LLC navigate their ways simultaneously through a labyrinthian pilgrimage to the ole haunts of their favorite thoughtform, a cult classic weird fiction author named Rocco Atleby, who may or may not be both creator and destroyer of their world. Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh’s poetry chisels pictures into your head with his dramatic imagery and striking spiritual themes. Similar to the River Styx, it serves as the gateway between the realms of the living, dead, and in-between.

Aaron Burch, author of Year of the Buffalo "Birds Aren't Real is euphoric, ridiculously funny, and so very good. Joseph Fasano, 40, from New York, noticed an older lady sitting next to him was reading his new novel The Swallows Of Lunetto. The poems have the kind of specificity that allows them to feel universal, like some beautiful, demented collective dream. at the end of the year he fleshed out each note into a journal entry of the day that was centered around petting the dog. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini’s fallen Republic of Salò.

The characters have a freedom their parents never did, but also no road map for how to navigate it—as a result, they make messes in their lives, but the truly intriguing aspect of the novel is how they right their paths. We are given an extremely personal, honest, and strong collection of poems that present vignettes of struggle, brutality, and war. The romance at the heart of this book is a story about how love and forgiveness can attempt to heal the deepest wounds—of a person, a country, or a world. In this close narrative, Seidlinger captures the doubt, desperation, and deceit involved in finding purpose. Nate Perkins lets you into this world of travelers, the secret passwords that allow you into the Western Lands.

Good Grief captures the spirit of a generation raised on Social Distortion records, Sega Genesis, and Ninja Turtles. Erin Taylor, author of OOOO “Sometimes Cool Things are Terrible occupies the quiet moments of nostalgic being. I was thrilled to read this book before its release date as an ARC and I’m so excited for it to be introduced to the public.Fasano’s writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, Measure, Tin House, The Adroit Journal, Verse Daily, PEN Poetry Series, American Literary Review, American Poetry Journal, and the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program, among other publications.