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A full length collection of prose and poems by pet and author Richard Loranger.

Another tour de force book of poetry and flash prose from the multi-genre talent, Richard Loranger. MAMMAL is a collection of Richard Loranger's poetry and flash prose that is grounded in his poetics of reexamination and the consistent questioning of the nature of most everything. Starting with a delve into his experience of fluid gender, identity, and self, the work expands to explore protean perspectives of culture, institutions, sex, relationships, self-reflection, and American life, carried by his distinctive and gleeful language-play and stylistics that push the boundaries of connotation and embrace a plurality of meaning. "I avidly look forward to each new Richard Loranger book. Loranger has a very distinctive poetic voice, and it is on full view in MAMMAL. Equally persuasive on the subject of butterflies, pronouns, or insomnia, Loranger takes us all on a wild ride through levels of understanding. 'As long as we think we're our bodies / we're fucked,' Richard offers, and it would be ungrateful to disagree."--Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita Poetry, LGBTQ+ Studies.

poetry chapbook

Natasha Dennerstein's "About a Girl" is a complex and compelling work that turns on a dime to tell the story of a life through shifting perspective and rhythm. This exquisitely crafted novella in verse reads like a great rock album, the book includes Bowie and T-Rex and it reminded me in equal part of the musical Tommy, a work which also deals with a troubled adolescence. Dennerstein is an innovative and radical poet and this work bursts through genre boundaries in incredibly satisfying and exciting ways. The content fits the form perfectly, this story could have been written in no other way and by no other writer.