The protagonist of Bump changes based on who is last touched, then changes again with that person’s next physical contact. The point of view changes to reveal the lives of dozens of different characters within one novel. Several genres are included in Bump, and the tone of the novel will change constantly as the story takes on the lives of various characters. The characters face loss, love, death, and the challenges of youth. Bump cannot be classified as either a romance, horror, crime, thriller, action, or adventure specifically, as it contains many elements which vary based on each characters narrative. There are happy endings, and not so happy endings, and some that are bitter sweet.

Bump

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Austin

Action & Adventure

Austin Smith

Almanac: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

The "memorable" (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune) debut from a remarkable new voice in poetry
Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land.
This collection also reflects on a long poetic apprenticeship. Smith's father is a poet himself, and Almanac is in part a meditation about the responsibility of the poet, especially the young poet, when it falls to him to speak for what is vanishing. To quote another Illinois poet, Thomas James, Smith has attempted in this book to write poems "clear as the glass of wine / on [his] father's table every Christmas Eve." By turns exhilarating and disquieting, this is a remarkable debut from a distinctive new voice in American poetry.
From Almanac: THE MUMMY IN THE FREEPORT ART MUSEUM Austin Smith
Amongst the masterpieces of the small-town Picassos and Van Goghs and photographs of the rural poor and busts of dead Greeks or the molds of busts donated by the Art Institute of Chicago to this dying town's little museum, there was a mummy, a real mummy, laid out in a dim-lit room by himself. I used to go to the museum just to visit him, a pharaoh who, expecting an afterlife of beautiful virgins and infinite food and all the riches and jewels he'd enjoyed in earthly life, must have wondered how the hell he'd ended up in Freeport, Illinois. And I used to go alone into that room and stand beside his sarcophagus and say, "My friend, I've asked myself the same thing."

Poetry

Princeton University Press

Flyover Country: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as “memorable” (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and “impressive” (Chicago Tribune)Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of his childhood on a dairy farm in Illinois, Austin Smith explores the beauty and cruelty of rural life, challenging the idea that the American Midwest is mere “flyover country,” a place that deserves passing over. At the same time, the collection suggests that America itself has become a flyover country, carrying out drone strikes and surveillance abroad, locked in a state of perpetual war that Americans seem helpless to stop.In these poems, midwestern barns and farmhouses are linked to other lands and times as if by psychic tunnels. A poem about a barn cat moving her kittens in the night because they have been discovered by a group of boys resonates with a poem about the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. A poem beginning with a boy on a farmhouse porch idly swatting flies ends with the image of people fleeing before a drone strike. A poem about a barbwire fence suggests, if only metaphorically, the debate over immigration and borders. Though at times a dark book, the collection closes with a poem titled “The Light at the End,” suggesting the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.Building on Smith’s reputation as an accessible and inventive poet with deep insights about rural America, Flyover Country also draws profound connections between the Midwest and the wider world.

United States

A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as “memorable” (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and “impressive” (Chicago Tribune)
Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of his childhood on a dairy farm in Illinois, Austin Smith explores the beauty and cruelty of rural life, challenging the idea that the American Midwest is mere “flyover country,” a place that deserves passing over. At the same time, the collection suggests that America itself has become a flyover country, carrying out drone strikes and surveillance abroad, locked in a state of perpetual war that Americans seem helpless to stop.
In these poems, midwestern barns and farmhouses are linked to other lands and times as if by psychic tunnels. A poem about a barn cat moving her kittens in the night because they have been discovered by a group of boys resonates with a poem about the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. A poem beginning with a boy on a farmhouse porch idly swatting flies ends with the image of people fleeing before a drone strike. A poem about a barbwire fence suggests, if only metaphorically, the debate over immigration and borders. Though at times a dark book, the collection closes with a poem titled “The Light at the End,” suggesting the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.
Building on Smith’s reputation as an accessible and inventive poet with deep insights about rural America, Flyover Country also draws profound connections between the Midwest and the wider world.

"All life no lemons takes photographs created by one artist and drops them into the workplace of another artist, in this case a cartoonist. The meaning of these photographs is altered, but they are not removed from their original time and place. Here unconventional humor and unconventional photography combine to create something that is unique and hardly classifiable."This full-color collection features the first 130 comics of the webcomics All life, no lemons, with comics containing photographs from all three contributing artists.dragoncompany.org/alnl

Feeding the Bear: An "All life, no lemons" Collection

Comics & Graphic Novels

Smith, Travis

Smith, Teri

Graphic Novels

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"March, 1939. The world is on fire; Japan is smothering China and the Italians have crushed Ethiopia. Now is Germany's time. The Führer's lies have not been exposed, he promises a greater Germany, a nation of honor no longer bound by humiliation. His soldiers march, but the world they find themselves in is not the picture of discipline and invincibility many nations would like their people to believe."In this book, 90 comics from the webcomic Panzerkampfwagen are collected with 21 unique maps, showcasing the war in a funny way from the perspective of the often-forgotten average German solider.dragoncompany.org/panzerkampfwagen

Panzerkampfwagen: The Sweet Song of 88s

They're trapped on paper! And not too worried about it... While the characters of Stickies are quite aware they are drawn entities in a comic strip, the have decided to just see where it takes them. And that is on a uniquely meta journey through the mind and ideas of a comic artist. www.Dragoncompany.org

Stickies: The Collection

The single-panel, off-the-wall webcomic Walking the Roosters returns in its second book about a universe where anything can happen.. and it happens to all be funny stuff. Contains 150 comics. www.Dragoncompany.org

Walking the Roosters: Tuesday's Counterattack

Your Big Box Stores sell "Felt-Tips". Over at the specialty store they have "Fine Liners" and "Technical Pens". But if you have a watchful eye you can find "Outliners" on the edge of the market. What use these devices are suited for varies wildly from provider to provider, but each has the ability to bring you into a different world. This volume brings you a collection of some of these unknown pens used by fringe artists that have banded together to find unity across their seemingly disparate realities.

Outliner: A Book-Shaped Exhibition of Illustration and Comics

Independently published

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Bump

Almanac: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Almanac: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Flyover Country: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Flyover Country: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Feeding the Bear: An "All life, no lemons" Collection

Panzerkampfwagen: The Sweet Song of 88s

Stickies: The Collection

Walking the Roosters: Tuesday's Counterattack

Outliner: A Book-Shaped Exhibition of Illustration and Comics