The Haunted House
by Marisa Crawford
Switchback Books, 2010
Winner of the
2008 Gatewood Prize
BUY THE BOOK
"This poetry is the unholy and inevitable spawn of Emily Dickinson and Judy Blume. And it's a sugar high. Enter and enjoy the rush." -Arielle Greenberg
"These poems are sticky and tough and glossy and romantic - coded love notes passed behind a teacher's desk in high school" -Michelle Tea
"...poems that offer up humor with your thrills, language so sharp it chills, and lines that will make you stop dead in your tracks... It's scary how good this is." -Toni Mirosevich
If you love Jack Kerouac, librarians, Bay Area writers or all of the above then you will surely love Small Desk Press’s guest post on Sarah O’Holla’s Young Adult Lit blog, desirious of everything at the same time.
And then maybe you should listen and be inspired by Katy Perry’s own ode to the Beat Generation.
Read genius poet Seth Landman talking about his well-loved copy of Moby Dick, over at We Who Are About to Die.
First things first please read this write-up of Switchback Books & other rad feminist poetry presses on Ms. Magazine’s blog.
Then, check out Lily Ladewig & Anne Holme’s new chapbook, I Am a Natural Wonder, now available for free online from Blue Hour Press!
And lastly, please come to the Small Desk Press/Switchback Books reading tonight in Brooklyn! It’s guaranteed to knock your socks off.
In D.W. Lichtenberg’s series “We Who Are Now Published Authors,” Small Desk Press author Lizzy Acker talks about her new (& amazing) first book, Monster Party:
“There are a lot of things in the book that I am just too much of a wuss to do in real life but WRITING about doing them is nearly as satisfying because with an imagination you can feel the consequences at two thirds power. Maybe this is why people write at all? To organize their brains and experiment with lives they are having/want to have/are scared to have/are too ugly to have/are too poor to have?”
Read more at We Who Are About To Die.
I’m reading at Madam’s Organ in DC on Friday night for the Switchback/Coconut/Horse Less event. 7Pm! Other readers are:
- Becca Klaver
- Brian Foley
- Bruce Covey
- Cathy Park Hong
- Christopher Salerno
- Claire Becker
- Daniela Olszewska
- Gina Myers
- Jennifer Tamayo
- Jen Tynes
- Natalie Lyalin
Check out Switchback editor & amazing poet extraordinaire Becca Klaver‘s playlist for her very excellent book of poems, LA Liminal, at Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes series. Authors creating playlists for their books = basically the coolest idea ever.
Here’s my favorite excerpt from Maree Hamilton’s lovely review of my book over at The Rumpus:
“…you can follow Crawford’s rambling thoughts as far as they go—almost too far!—but they always stop right where they need to. She retains a certain precision, a polished offhandedness, similar to what she is alluding to in “Yum Poison Apple”: “I / spent all morning getting the I slept in my makeup look.” It appears that she churned these out as some do diary pages, but upon closer inspection, they are the product of a poet with a firm grasp on her craft (similar to the way being a teenage girl looks like fun and games and lipstick, but is a more serious and difficult undertaking).”
Read the entire review here!
Hello & welcome to my new website! Please take a look around, kick back & make yourself at home.
