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This is technically Nate Maxson's second book but the first one made the editor go crazy. His third book is called I Wished For A Serpent (published by Mercury Heartlink and also available on amazon).

This is Nate Maxson's 3rd book of wild, free verse poetry after last year's Vaudeville Jihad and one other book that wasn't published because it made the editor go crazy. I Wished For a Serpent pushes what the author calls "the theory of total poetic annihilation" even farther yet.

Maxson's voice is the perfect tour guide for this strange world of poetics. He invents a new form with which to capture the chaos and subtlety of a language on fire—it's full of surprise followed by shock, and shock followed by quiet awe. This is poetry you've been waiting for: rambling but crafted, precise and wild, respectful of the traditions but traveling terra incognita at breakneck speed.

In Maps To the Vanishing, Nate Maxson is the cartographer who guides us through the labyrinthine nature of our impermanent existence. In these poems, we lose ourselves within the shifting geographies of memory and history. Under "the shadow of the sound and the shadow of the weight," Maxson asks us to peep the comet and listen for the echo over the remnants of all the landscapes in this universe. From Caravaggio to imperialism, physics to Stradivari, Mars to Maxson's own past, he pushes us to consider "what we might be willing to burn if it meant we could remember." -James Croal Jackson, author of Our Past Leaves "This is the way," Nate Maxson intones, "Come inside." A perfect introduction to another beautifully composed, versatile collection of poems. Maps to the Vanishing is the struggle between hope and terminal cynicism that every single one of us needs to read right now. I'm begging you to read one of the best poetry collections you're going to find in 2021. -Gabriel Ricard, author of The Oddities on Saturday Night and Clouds of Hungry Dogs Some of the most uniquely threaded and captivating verse you'll find today. Language is cool again and if you don't think so look behind you, Language is gonna sort you out. -Barracuda Guarisco, author of Uncomfortable Music and EIC of @rlysrslit

"I'm chasing something into former black forests," Nate Maxson writes in his extraordinary new collection The Torture Report. The notion of restless, constant, almost destructive pursuit is just one of the complex, disconcerting themes of this book. As each of these six poems spirals out of control in its own singular, devastating way, Maxson continues to be the kind of sharp cynic who believes the world is doomed. Yet at the same time, he can't quite shake the romantic necessities of hope. The Torture Report is a hell of a beautiful misadventure for the read. It is a masterpiece of form and function."-Gabriel Ricard- author of (Clouds of Hungry Dogs, Kleft Jaw Press 2014.)

Kleft Jaw Press Semi-Quarterly Journal of transcendental realism. www.kleftjaw.com

Herein are several (and by "several" I mean 27) stories recounting the various and sundry adventures of Nate Creekmore in the great and grand city of Atlanta.

Volume 1 collects several episodes of the hit web series "Creeking More In The ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)". It's good. You should buy several copies.