Books of Ink
Limited Edition Broadside
The Museum of Broken Promises
Printed in a limited run of 25 copies, these hand-numbered brochuresides feature the titular poem on the internal three folds along with some images closely illustrative of the imaginary exhibits. The flip side offers up a few Easter eggs and visual puns as well as a heartfelt dedication and not so heartfelt About The Author blurb. Only 18 copies left! (Price includes first class USPS shipping.)
$7.00
Pining
Pining (2023), 43 pages
What happens when a creative energy sponge of a poet is absolutely smitten with a woman and sits down to read a tortured Japanese modernist tanka poet? In this chapbook, you get a compilation of short(-form) poems – haiku, tanka, senryu – about falling in love, having that love acknowledged, and enjoying that love returned as well as reflections on life and mortality for all the fewer years remaining for having fallen in love later in life. (Price includes first class USPS shipping.)
$14.00
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The Vessel of the Now
The Vessel of the Now (2023), 32 pages
If Gregory Orr’s Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved is a heartfelt homage to all stories told, then The Vessel of the Now is a flippant disowning of each of those stories for the incremental moments that comprise them. The poems in Ink’s latest chapbook, with humor and tilted head, examine the frame around abstracted moments to challenge the reader to laugh at and think about (but mostly laugh at) the worlds within fractions. Inconsequential in the most enjoyable way while shunning humility with faux shame, The Vessel of the Now is ready to accept you at the turn of every page, at every line, and upon every word / syllable / sound. Originally published by Back Room Poetry, this chapbook is no longer in print, and no copies exist save the one Ink keeps to read from occasionally. Read a little about what you missed here.
61 Central
61 Central (2018), 32 pages
61 Central exploits the history and myth about an abandoned coal town for the sake of atmosphere, and that atmosphere best serves readers combing the pages in the grip of the dying and dead months of winter. I still have copies of what I consider to be my best work and want people to be able to enjoy it with a chill on the breeze and in their bones. (Shipping included.)
$14.00
Death Loves a Drinking Game
Death Loves a Drinking Game (2014), 144 pages
A collection of poems loosely themed around the author’s favorite vice. This is a Piscataway House Publications Duel Book, so if you flip it around and read from the other side, you also get the wonderful poems of Mark Baird’s collection, Before I Die I Want to Swim with Sharks. Supplies are limited, and shipping is included!
$17.00
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Miserable with Fire
Miserable with Fire (2011), 114 pages
The first formal collection of poetry penned by a New Jersey author who calls himself Ink. Gathered under the umbrella of frustration, poems comprising this volume concern themselves with the inability to fulfill a driving passion or realize one’s own raison d’etre as well as the efforts and triumphs involved with and resulting from overcoming such obstacles. Supply is limited, and shipping is included!
$17.00
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