Candidate For a Fat Lip
Candidate for a Fat Lip is a sparse volume of melancholic, bloody, and occasionally humorous poems. Written over the course of a turbulent year marred by health issues, heartbreak, and general bemusement, this collection is written with the vigor of a midwestern scream queen and read with the verve of a consumptive widow.
“Wild and troubled. Good and true in a way that things rarely are.” - Adam Gnade, author of After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different
“I can hear Zena in these poems. A particular person, saying these lines and breathing in between them, looking back at me. She’s the real thing. She knows what the stakes are, and she writes for keeps.”
-Mike DeCapite, author of Through The Windshield, Jacket Weather
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Chapbook published by Outlandish Press
Tape published by Hello America Stereo Cassette in partnership with (Recorded) Books on Tape
Tape features the entire chapbook of 24 poems read by Zenaida Smith and scored by Kyle J. Osborne
Listen: https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/album/candidate-for-a-fat-lip
Candidate for a Fat Lip is a sparse volume of melancholic, bloody, and occasionally humorous poems. Written over the course of a turbulent year marred by health issues, heartbreak, and general bemusement, this collection is written with the vigor of a midwestern scream queen and read with the verve of a consumptive widow.
“Wild and troubled. Good and true in a way that things rarely are.” - Adam Gnade, author of After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different
“I can hear Zena in these poems. A particular person, saying these lines and breathing in between them, looking back at me. She’s the real thing. She knows what the stakes are, and she writes for keeps.”
-Mike DeCapite, author of Through The Windshield, Jacket Weather
—
Chapbook published by Outlandish Press
Tape published by Hello America Stereo Cassette in partnership with (Recorded) Books on Tape
Tape features the entire chapbook of 24 poems read by Zenaida Smith and scored by Kyle J. Osborne
Listen: https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/album/candidate-for-a-fat-lip
Candidate for a Fat Lip is a sparse volume of melancholic, bloody, and occasionally humorous poems. Written over the course of a turbulent year marred by health issues, heartbreak, and general bemusement, this collection is written with the vigor of a midwestern scream queen and read with the verve of a consumptive widow.
“Wild and troubled. Good and true in a way that things rarely are.” - Adam Gnade, author of After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different
“I can hear Zena in these poems. A particular person, saying these lines and breathing in between them, looking back at me. She’s the real thing. She knows what the stakes are, and she writes for keeps.”
-Mike DeCapite, author of Through The Windshield, Jacket Weather
—
Chapbook published by Outlandish Press
Tape published by Hello America Stereo Cassette in partnership with (Recorded) Books on Tape
Tape features the entire chapbook of 24 poems read by Zenaida Smith and scored by Kyle J. Osborne
Listen: https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/album/candidate-for-a-fat-lip