Thirty West Newsletter - July 2023
A new title on the rise, a throwback sale, and a chance to recoup.
Happy summer. For many of you, these months may be your only reprieve from the hectic academic year. The days are long and hot, and the potential to build everlasting memories grows. It is a time to put your feet up and binge that show you’ve been fancying, to burrow each toe into the warm sand at your favorite beach, to dangle those hiking boots over the edge of a boulder. We all need a rest some days, like, a true switch-your-brain-off rest.
If only Thirty West would assume that mantra…
From the author of the award-winning books, Theater of Animals and Recital, comes a poetry collection, Musical Figures. A slim volume of confessional poetry, it officially releases on July 28th. Poems within have been published in Ploughshares, Anomaly Literary Journal, Chafin Journal, and others. The cover art is an original painting by TW’s own, Knox Peters.
PRAISE FOR SAMN STOCKWELL
“Stockwell is sui generis, no other poet I know delivers so much by way of such an artful economy.”
—Sydney Lea, author of What Shines and former poet laureate of Vermont.
“In Musical Figures, Samn Stockwell’s visions of a childhood enact a triumph over insufficiency and; pain—not by making claims for oneself but through the countervailing sounds of incisive remembrance.”
—Ron Slate, author of The Great Wave and The Incentive of the Maggot.
“Samn Stockwell’s poems in Musical Figures are beautiful, searing, and intimate. Stockwell’s sharply observed poems of domestic life explore emotional landscapes that expose what it means to be human. A magnificent achievement.”
—Julie R. Enszer, editor and publisher of Sinister Wisdom.
You can reserve your preorder copy and throw in a chapbook, or two, or three. Continue your summer reading with your favorite Thirty West books.
The sun is setting on our “throwback” Summer Solstice Sale. Remember when books were this inexpensive? We don’t!
Hand-made chapbooks for $5 and any book for $10. No codes or hoops to jump through. Well, unless you have a $30+ subtotal. Then you can use the code FREESHIP at checkout for free shipping.
That’s all for now, friends. My birthday is in a few days, so I think I will be taking my own advice for a change. I’ll see you in August (unless an op-ed opportunity arrives sooner) with the highly anticipated, and contest-winning chapbook, BLOSSOM BOY, and maybe some eye-popping details for the FALL OF FICTION novella series. Take care.
-Josh D.