from "Humidity" by Doming
Word Swell
This word-driven chapbook anthology includes innovative literary fiction and poetry by a full set of reputable authors: John Olson, Bill Yarrow, Rhys Hughes, Epiphany Ferrell, Owen Kaelin, Gloria Garfunkle, Michael Seidel, and Sara Fitzpatrick Comito. Fabulous art is by Amir Catic, Joanna Husbands, and Doming (도미솔). Created by Tantra Bensko. The e-book version is free for everyone to read and share widely.
The glossy print edition is now available for order directly from the Publisher, with a 2 dollar US, and 6 dollar International shipping/handling fee, using Paypal, or write for address to send check.
All the contributors have the books, from South Korea, to Bosnia, Tippecanoe, Wales, and Petersborough. Interested reviewers please contact. The anthology contains a substantial number of high quality art images throughout, as well as the covers, all in color. This is a fancy book with 10 full color pages inside, 34 pages overall, with art on the front and back cover as well. The back cover art is larger in the print version in order to fully honor it.
The glossy print edition is now available for order directly from the Publisher, with a 2 dollar US, and 6 dollar International shipping/handling fee, using Paypal, or write for address to send check.
All the contributors have the books, from South Korea, to Bosnia, Tippecanoe, Wales, and Petersborough. Interested reviewers please contact. The anthology contains a substantial number of high quality art images throughout, as well as the covers, all in color. This is a fancy book with 10 full color pages inside, 34 pages overall, with art on the front and back cover as well. The back cover art is larger in the print version in order to fully honor it.
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"A chrysalis of thought grows into meaning and glistens in convulsive glamour as a pair of wings find muscle and structure in a language of garish subtleties." -- John Olson (author of The Seeing Machine)
"on account of his impotence
the patient applied to Dr Hammond
who treated his epilepsy
with bromides
and advised him to hang a shoe
over his bed
and to look at it fixedly
during coitus" -- Bill Yarrow (Poetry Editor of This Literary Magazine)
"I smiled at this curious notion, her quaint and surely ironic conceit that letters might have consciousness and a deliberate purpose, that they might feel resentment and determination" -- Rhys Hughes (author of The Truth Spinner)
"I had to go and peel off the surface, didn’t I." -- Epiphany Ferrell (published in Seven Hills Review )
"Good for me I have glass in my veins.
It flows ponderously, respectfully. It gets into cracks of me and these cracks it fills to a kind of shininess. At my center it builds a wheel, then starts it spinning, and the wheel then moves ahead, regular and sure, its edges splintering light. My way is made with broken glass." -- Owen Kaelin (Editor of Gone Lawn)
"Spaghetti woman was so fleet and light she was practically invisible, like a speck of dust." -- Gloria Garfunkle
(published in Blue Fifth Review)
"I want to live the rest of my life like a prairie dog" -- Michael Seidel (published in Dogzplot )
"My heart is horizon, a peeling
back of the skin of day" --Sara Fitzpatrick Comito (Editor of Orion Headless)
"on account of his impotence
the patient applied to Dr Hammond
who treated his epilepsy
with bromides
and advised him to hang a shoe
over his bed
and to look at it fixedly
during coitus" -- Bill Yarrow (Poetry Editor of This Literary Magazine)
"I smiled at this curious notion, her quaint and surely ironic conceit that letters might have consciousness and a deliberate purpose, that they might feel resentment and determination" -- Rhys Hughes (author of The Truth Spinner)
"I had to go and peel off the surface, didn’t I." -- Epiphany Ferrell (published in Seven Hills Review )
"Good for me I have glass in my veins.
It flows ponderously, respectfully. It gets into cracks of me and these cracks it fills to a kind of shininess. At my center it builds a wheel, then starts it spinning, and the wheel then moves ahead, regular and sure, its edges splintering light. My way is made with broken glass." -- Owen Kaelin (Editor of Gone Lawn)
"Spaghetti woman was so fleet and light she was practically invisible, like a speck of dust." -- Gloria Garfunkle
(published in Blue Fifth Review)
"I want to live the rest of my life like a prairie dog" -- Michael Seidel (published in Dogzplot )
"My heart is horizon, a peeling
back of the skin of day" --Sara Fitzpatrick Comito (Editor of Orion Headless)
"Today I received the book "Word Swell". If I initially decided to buy because it contains a story of Rhys Hughes, now that I have the book in my hands, it proves to be a work of art on paper. Are the words and the illustrations that make it a unique piece. I highly recommend it.
This book validates the phrase "Fashion passes, Good Taste Remains"."
-- Paulo Britto, publisher and more
This book validates the phrase "Fashion passes, Good Taste Remains"."
-- Paulo Britto, publisher and more