Books
42 Miles’ Upcoming Publication: Erica Bernheim’s The Mimic Sea
“Erica Bernheim’s poems are deft and uncanny “tales of spontaneous human combustion”: Fueled by desire, ignited by acute alertness and verbal intelligence, and stirred by withering, self-scrutinizing wit. Above all, they are models of empathetic engagement, and their hard-won bursts of spontaneity are as humane as they are exhilarating.” –Mark Levine
Available this fall.
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Carrie Oeding’s Our List of Solutions
This exciting and stunning book is available for purchase at Amazon and SPD.
Price: $15.00.
Winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, Carrie Oeding’s Our List of Solutions, masterfully utilizes voice to create personae of public selves set against a back drop of anxiety and personal longing that the speakers refuse to own up to. These vivid dramatic monologues get at the heart of human vulnerability, but they are anything (and everything) but soft spoken. Here, in this middle class world of barbecue grills and Mexican potato salad, the speakers are brazen, hyperbolic, frustrated, sarcastically euphoric, given to gossip, unbelievably funny, and often lonely. Our List of Solutions is a lacerating yet poignant picture of American culture and its attendant suburban angst.
Carrie Oeding is a native of Minnesota. She has taught at Ohio University and The University of Houston. She received her M.F.A. from Eastern Washington University and her Ph.D. from Ohio University, where she was awarded the Claude Kantner Fellowship.
For more information about Carrie Oeding, please view her website.
A view into Our List of Solutions:
Yes, go if you want.
We ll understand, we already do.
We are loud, we can be.
That is nothing new.
We realize how funny we are, how loud, how we talk
Sleep, wash, aim.
Or, yes you can stay and wait and laugh. What comes
Is always better than before, sure.
Someone will come who can make us laugh.
It s a shame she will be just like you, like you, like you.
–from “Those Women Are Laughing”
A brief review of Our List of Solutions from The Midwest Book Review:
The Midwest Book Review recently reviewed Carrie Oeding’s Our List of Solutions from 42 Miles Press!
The review appears in multiple locations, such as The Midwest Book Review’s Small Press Bookwatch (under the category, “The Poetry Shelf”) and Amazon.com.
Thank you to The Midwest Book Review for this recognition of Carrie Oeding and 42 Miles Press!
11/16/2011: Carrie Oeding Featured on Verse Daily!
42 Miles Press is pleased to share that Carrie Oeding’s poem, “Work Harder,” from her book, Our List of Solutions, was featured today on Verse Daily!
Congratulations to Carrie for this achievement!
To read her featured poem, click here.
12/05/2011: Interview with Carrie Oeding!!
IU South Bend’s very own Kelcey Parker interviewed Carrie Oeding on Our List of Solutions and her process in becoming a writer.
To read the article, go here.
A brief review of Carrie Oeding’s Our List of Solutions appears on Kent Shaw’s blog, lots and lots of neat
To read the review, click here.
Thank you, Kent Shaw, for this mention!
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Christine Garren’s Chapbook is Now Available at 42 Miles Press
Christine Garren’s handmade chapbook, The Difficult Here, is now available at 42 Miles Press.
Cost: $12.00
If you are interested in purchasing a copy, please make check payable to Indiana University and send to:
42 Miles Press
Department of English
Indiana University South Bend
P.O. Box 7111
South Bend, IN 46634
If you have any questions about making a purchase, please contact Rachel Barrett at 42milespress@gmail.com.
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A View into The Difficult Here:
The Lamp
it is midnight, but I have found the lamp
of the forest
left on, always left on – this waterfall – its surge – its white
wattage lights the hall of woods –
the rock’s moss – the stick paths – this lamp left on
does
what you once did – my missed one – come again –
annihilate
the dark
