Of Small Things
A Collection of 4 Chapbooks + Outtakes by Dave Church, Stephanie Hiteshew, B. Z. Niditch, & More
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1 chapbook of 41 poems, stories, art, and nonfiction by 22 authors; 1 chapbook of 54 fictional letters by Stephanie Hiteshew and Dave Church; 1 chapbook + outtakes of 28 poems by Stephanie Hiteshew; 1 chapbook + outtakes of 32 poems by B. Z. Niditch
This anthology is the second of the archival chapbook collections in Alternating Current Press’ Violet Ray series. One of the missions of ACP is to keep alive the pre-digital words of authors from the turn of the new millennium, the post-Beat and avant-garde poets of the 1970s through early 2000s who may have had their heydays before the Internet was a widespread thing. This anthology comprises 4 chapbooks + outtakes, including never-before-published poems:
Taxi Cab Poet Confessions: A Small-Press Tribute to Dave Church (1947-2008)
by 22 Authors and Artists, including Dave Church
On Thanksgiving day, 2008, the small-press world lost one of its own—the gruff, moody, sobering voice of poet Dave Church. On these pages, writers, artists, and family members recount the memories, anecdotes, inspiration, and passion of this small-press legend through poetry, tributes, photos, artwork, interviews, collaborative efforts with Church, and archives of old poems and letters dug up by friends and admirers over the decades.
Billy and Cindy
by Stephanie Hiteshew and Dave Church
A story of desperation, crime, beauty, kindness, anger, and love played out in a series of letters between two troubled fictional characters, Billy and Cindy, held expertly in the hands of Dave Church and Stephanie Hiteshew, with eerily similar reflections of their own lives and struggles on multiple metaphorical levels. The two come together here to bring to life the last work of the late Church.
Under a Bridge
by Stephanie Hiteshew
World-weary and street-savvy, Stephanie Hiteshew comes face to face with drug addiction, poverty, bullying, and making her way through a dismal past to find a better future in poems that will strike you in the heart.
The Poet
by B. Z. Niditch
We follow B. Z. Niditch on a journey from place to place, beaches and towns, tributes and memoirs, realities scrawled out as dedications to loved ones and dead ones, past ones and present ones. With a continuous sense of movement, of laying down your suitcase just long enough to take out a pen and jot down the name of someone you loved while passing by, you will feel a circular momentum, only moving fast enough to stay ahead of yourself.
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Authors
• Leah Angstman
• John Berbrich
• Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
• Alan Catlin
• Dave Church
• Jonathan Church
• Glenn W. Cooper
• Steve Dalachinsky
• Henry Denander
• R. Emolo
• Nathan Graziano
• George Held
• Kevin M. Hibshman
• Stephanie Hiteshew
• B. Z. Niditch
• David S. Pointer
• Michaela Pommells
• Herschel Silverman
• T. Kilgore Splake
• Rod Weston
• A. D. Winans
• Robert M. Zoschke
Other Violet Ray Series Books
Also by Kevin M. Hibshman & B. Z. Niditch
Also by John Berbrich, Glenn W. Cooper, Henry Denander, R. Emolo, George Held, Kevin M. Hibshman, Stephanie Hiteshew, & T. Kilgore Splake
Also by Leah Angstman, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Alan Catlin, Nathan Graziano, George Held, Kevin M. Hibshman, & David S. Pointer
Also by Leah Angstman, Alan Catlin, & David S. Pointer
Also by Leah Angstman & Alan Catlin
Also by David S. Pointer
Also by Leah Angstman
Also by B. Z. Niditch
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The Violet Ray Series is an archival preservation collection of chapbooks and limited-edition publications from the first 20 years of pre-digital operation at Alternating Current Press. The mission of the series is to preserve, reprint, and digitize the voices of the zine generation at the turn of the new millennium.
• Violet Ray Series Book 4
• Poetry | Prose | 4 Chapbooks + Outtakes
• 155 Pieces by 22 Authors
• 5½” x 8½” Perfectbound Trade Paperback
• Cream Paper, 212 Pages
• Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-946580-26-9
• Paperback ISBN-10: 1946580260
• Ebook ISBN-13: Coming Soon
• Ebook ISBN-10: Coming Soon
• LCCN: Not Registered
• First Edition: November 10, 2020
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Cover design by Leah Angstman with artwork by Prawny.
About the Editor
LEAH ANGSTMAN is the founder and executive editor of Alternating Current Press since 1993. She has also been an editor/fact-checker for Pacific Standard, Underscore News, Mother Jones, Departures, and Smithsonian, and she is the author of Out Front the Following Sea, Shoot the Horses First, and Falcon in the Dive.
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