Release Week Final Day
There are more interviews and reviews yet to come, that's for sure, but I'm happy to end release week with this illustration, by Edward Mullany himself, that goes behind the scenes of the making of If I Falter at the Gallows.
Release Week Day 6.5
There's no news today. Edward Mullany covers that at Robert Lopez's blog.
And at Big Other, Edward has written a fascinating consideration of Mark Leidner's book, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me.
After reading that, you order If I Falter at the Gallows.
[Also enjoy release week Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more reviews, interviews and stuff about the book. Release week ends tomorrow. And check out the book's website, here.]
And at Big Other, Edward has written a fascinating consideration of Mark Leidner's book, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me.
After reading that, you order If I Falter at the Gallows.
[Also enjoy release week Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more reviews, interviews and stuff about the book. Release week ends tomorrow. And check out the book's website, here.]
Release Week Day 6
Happy Saturday. Check out the illustration that John Dermot Woods drew. It's based on the title poem of If I Falter at the Gallows. Here's a cross-section:
You can pick up a copy of the book for $12, with no shipping costs, here.
[Also enjoy release week Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more reviews, interviews and stuff about the book. We're celebrating the book all week, with more tomorrow and Monday. And check out the book's website, here.]
You can pick up a copy of the book for $12, with no shipping costs, here.
[Also enjoy release week Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more reviews, interviews and stuff about the book. We're celebrating the book all week, with more tomorrow and Monday. And check out the book's website, here.]
Release Week Day 5
Today to celebrate the release of Edward Mullany's amazing collection, If I Falter at the Gallows, there is an interview with the author at NANO Fiction. In the fascinating and profound Q&A, I'm most struck by this nugget:
I don’t aim to write funny poems, but neither do I aim to write sad poems. I try to describe reality through the voices of people so stunned by their experience of reality that they see with a kind of insane clarity.That seems to be what many of the reviews of the book are responding to.
Today, why don't you pick up a copy of the book from our distributor, SPD?
And also, since it's Friday, what's say you take a minute to relax and check out Edward's paintings on display at his Tumblr site, The Other Notebook.
[Don't forget to tune in through Monday for more. Also enjoy release week Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more about the book and its author.]
Release Week Day 4
As release week continues, I'm delighted by how many poems are being excerpted in the reviews people are writing. Samples abound, and I kind of hope the whole book gets reproduced this way so that 10 years from now, enterprising college students won't have to buy the book from the school bookstore, but will be able to Google the poems and put the whole book together. I remember doing this for T.S. Eliot and Elizabeth Bishop.
So to help with that cause, here's another poem from the book -- one of my all time favorites, which was originally published in isReads (you can see photos of it there):
Mel Bosworth, in his review of the book at Outsider Writers Collective, notes the same effect, writing, "They’re filled, each of them, with an odd, grinning infinity, and with the booming magnificence of change."
He also says, "This book has fast become a favorite of mine because it isn’t simply for poets or fiction writers or mothers or shaggy sons . . ."
[Also enjoy release week Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more about the book and its author.]
So to help with that cause, here's another poem from the book -- one of my all time favorites, which was originally published in isReads (you can see photos of it there):
Silence in the Milky WayTo me, much happens in those eleven words that can't be accounted for.
A man
knits
while a woman
who likes to knit
gardens.
Mel Bosworth, in his review of the book at Outsider Writers Collective, notes the same effect, writing, "They’re filled, each of them, with an odd, grinning infinity, and with the booming magnificence of change."
He also says, "This book has fast become a favorite of mine because it isn’t simply for poets or fiction writers or mothers or shaggy sons . . ."
[Also enjoy release week Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 posts, where you can learn more about the book and its author.]
Release Week Day 3
Today in If I Falter at the Gallows news, there are a couple great posts about the book around the Internet.
- First, check out Christopher Newgent's review at Vouched, which went up yesterday. It's a meditative consideration of the book that makes Christopher want to follow it with a reading of Ecclesiastes (but he's hampered by his cat.
- The review at Vouched compares If I Falter at the Gallows to Joseph Young's Easter Rabbit, so it's cool to have Joe's thoughts on the book over at his (long active and currently graphic-arts-loaded) blog, Very Small Dogs. "... the poems are too strong," he writes. "What loveliness."