Staff Pick
An explosive series of maternal campfires, with the words stacked tall and lean and treacherous and then set aflame from below. This is emotional charred kindling and its smoke is mysterious and sometimes even soothing. Recommended By Kevin S., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Based on a true story and in a unique voice that is both touching and funny, A. M. O'Malley gives us a poignant and beautiful book of prose poems that captures the experience of growing up on back roads, in smoky bars, and kitchens full of women. She writes about striking out into the world alone and finding her way and her truth. O'Malley breaks from traditional forms to tell her story with a hybrid of narrative and lyricism and explores the possibilities that happen when form is broken.
About the Author
A. M. O’Malley has been published in The Newer York, Nailed Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Jerkpoet, Poor Claudia, The Burnside Review, Fog Machine, and The Portland Review. A.M.’s first full length book of hybrid poem-memoir Expecting Something Else will be published on University of Hell Press in 2016. She teaches writing, collage art and self-publishing at Portland Community College and lives and works in Portland, Oregon where she is the Program Director at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.