Kirk Glaser
The House That Fire Built
MadHat Press, 2025
$21.95
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A house possessed by a mysterious suffering. A house where a father dies whose actions fed the madness and death of wife and sons. A house a family enters to be caught in this web of inheritance, consumed by nightmare visions and haunting events until the house burns to the ground and leaves them spinning in mysteries. The House That Fire Built tells the true story of a family pulled into the disturbing and sometimes violent mysteries of this house, and how they slowly come to see that the forces of destruction may also save them from a worse fate.
Sandra Marchetti
Diorama
Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2025
$20
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Diorama is a new full-length collection in which the female speaker undergoes a re-wilding process in her exploration of the natural world. The collection draws heavily from other poets and provides an immersive, sonic experience. Diorama can be purchased at the link above or or anywhere books are sold.
“In Diorama, Sandra Marchetti’s pensive and beautiful collection, a poet’s deeply lyric engagement with the world plays out as a series of tense, distilled encounters filled with longing." —Sandra Beasley
Poems read:
“Semblance"
“Seven Sisters"
“Triptych"
“Breath"
“A Swim at Europe Bay Beach in July, Deserted"
Theodora Ziolkowski
Ghostlit
Texas Review Press, 2025
$21.95
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Ghostlit is part trauma narrative, part pop cultural examination, and part gothic fever dream. Memory, too, is at the heart of these poems, as enacted through a speaker who is continually working to reconcile her past with her present.
Poems read:
“In the dream in which I refuse to repair us”
“At the memory care center, the waters are calm before they are choppy”
“From NPR, the wife learns of the hog problem in Texas”