Cats, families, death, whimsy, and aliens: award-gathering poems.    Some pieces previously published in science fiction and nature   magazines, some new.   Some will make you giggle, some will make you   weep.  Nothing preachy.  Nothing sentimental. Pick it up for your   coffee break or when you want a quick but juicy read. Cats. Aliens.   Life.

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Literature & Fiction

Mary Turzillo

Poetry

vanZeno Press

Dark Regions Press is excited to announce Lovers & Killers, a new collection of thirty-seven poems from Nebula Award winning author Mary Turzillo (also known as Mary T. Brizzi)! The collection includes twenty-five original poems. “Mary Turzillo sees the bones beneath the skin, and lays bare the nerves. Like shiny scalpels her sardonic and lovely words mordantly reinterpret botany and biology, astronomy and mythologies, crimes and passions, pungently, poignantly.” – Ian Watson, BSFA Award author of The Butterflies of Memory “In Turzillo's razor-sharp lines, lovers and killers are examined, deftly dissected, and exposed to the world. The lovers and killers that you thought you knew are transformed, viewed from new perspectives. All types are captured in these pages. Even the page and the reader fall under her scrutiny. One can't help but surrender to Turzillo's vision and unique blend of wit and profundity.” – J. E. Stanley, author of Dark Intervals and Intrinsic Night “Lovers & Killers is another gem-filled collection by a consistently imaginative master. Disturbing, playful, ruthless poetry. Turzillo is an emblem of the speculative poetry genre. She's not afraid to show that Iphigenia, Shakespeare, Fomalhaut, Basho, physics and dragons all exist in the same poetic universe. Her deeply serious irony fills these poems with delightful surprises.” – Timons Esaias, Asimov's Readers Award author, BSFA Award Finalist. “Mary Turzillo’s exciting new book, Lovers & Killers is a bold series of interpenetrations of various religious and psychological traditions from Europe, India, ancient Greece, North America, and elsewhere. Portals of human experience open and close in these poems, the past melts and stands again in younger tenses, the future shapes content while time keeps the poet's beat. I love these poems. Turzillo spreads her wings so we can spread ours.” – Michele F. Cooper, author of Posting the Watch “…this morning I opened it up, planning to read a couple poems and send an offer to finish reading and blurb immediately if it was still applicable, but here I am, having read the entire collection in a sitting and letting you know how horribly delicious it was. The blood, the tender death, the vicious love. If the book has already gone to press, this blurb is for you alone. Would that I could have shared it with your readers.” – Laurel Winter, Rhysling and World Fantasy Award winner "Mary Turzillo's writing is wonderfully, delightfully twisted. The poems found in 'Lovers & Killers' will ignite your imagination with fantastical worlds and scenarios, make your heart ache as tragedy unfolds, cause your stomach to squirm in disturbance, and make your spine tingle with excitement, often all at the same time." - Vertigo Xi'an Xavier, publisher of The Poet's Haven

Lovers & Killers

Dark Regions Press

The title of this collection sets you up for the surprise of lyrical stories of victimizations with unexpected endings for the villains. Be ready to have your heart opened and cheer for perceived victims, human (made and unmade) and other life forms, victorious in the hands of these two award-winning poets. -Linda D. Addison, award-winning author, HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and SFPA Grand Master. Across histories and cultures and from Auschwitz to Babylon this book leaves you questioning who are the victims, and regardless of your conclusion you're likely to get throat-punched. This is horror where everyone has a knife, and is ready to deliver this message: "Remember, you are always guilty. -Herb Kauderer, author of Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead. Simon and Turzillo have only gone and startled me again. What a collection! Brutal. Beautiful. This quiver of poems strikes with the unflinching truth of persecution and oppression as seen through the lens of feminism. Prepare to come away bruised and yet strangely bolstered by Victims, a symphony of sadness orchestrated by two masters of dark poetry. -Lee Murray, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-winner. This is one of the braver dark poetry collections I've seen in a while. Horror poets generally employ victims in their work, but the focus is generally on the Evil. Turning the camera the other way is unusual, unsettling, emotionally risky, and surprisingly effective. From their stark opening take on Pygmalion, to the ending poem about the wasted life of Stateira of Persia, this powerful collection teases apart an impressive number of the threads of victimhood. Some are the usual cases, but quite a few are surprises, or reversals, or cases with unexpected layers. There is nothing repetitive about this collection. -Timons Esaias, winner of the Asimov's Readers' Award and the Winter Anthology Contest Victims is a relentlessly evocative, fearlessly imaginative examination of the emotional impact of torment. Sometimes we feel it from within the victim's tormented bodies and minds -- at others we are forced to bear cruel witness, helpless to prevent the pain as it is inflicted mercilessly by a cruel villain. It is a masterful volume of empathy, written by two veteran poets who know the full spectrum of pain upon which a victim -- usually, though not always, innocently -- suffers the wrath of a rogue, be it historical, imaginary, or spiritual. It is also written by two powerfully visionary women, collaborating to show the pain that women, especially, have often endured across history and continue to suffer through in the present (and likely future). This book is feminist, yes, but it is not simply a vehicle for warranted female rage. It is an extraordinarily gritty book of poetry, focused on feeling and empathy and stripping horror of any seductive veneer, while using the speculative lens of "what might be" to not only warn us about what inevitably happens when power is wielded against the helpless unsparingly, but also what might make it even worse than we could ever imagine. This book bends sadism toward a different angle; it seeks to change the reader and it will. -Michael Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Freakcidents.

Victims

Marge, Simon

Weasel Press

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