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Aphorisms from Mark Leidner, whose Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me I loved.

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This month, poet and old friend of THERMOS Mark Leidner has published a book of aphorisms, called The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover. Put out by Sator Press— a self-made pay-what-you-will indie publisher— the book is available right now. Go get it! Here’s a selection of work from inside:



the purpose of love is to gain so much of one person’s trust, that when they are dying you can tell them it will be okay, and they will believe you



the period of time beginning halfway into the previous second, and ending halfway through the next, is what is known as the “fiscal second”



early on in his career, the poet sold his soul; he then spent the rest of his life trying to redeem it; as a result, he was highly motivated, and all of his ambition was sincere



missing someone is like what the…

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The Spoils: February 2013

The Trees Around

Goat in the Snow

The French Exit

Either Way I’m Celebrating

Kings of the F**king Sea

Five titles from Birds LLC, who published Partyknife by Dan Magers, one of my favorite books published 2012 (the other is Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins):

1. The Trees Around by Chris Tonelli
2. Goat in the Snow by Emily Pettit
3. The French Exit by Eliza Gabbert
4. Either Way I’m Celebrating, poems and comics by Sommer Browning
5. Kings of the F**king Sea, poems by Dan Boehl, images by Jonathan Marshall

So far, the only Birds LLC title I don’t have is the just-released Rise in the Fall, with poems by Ana Božičević and art by Bianca Stone. I’ll most likely order that when they also release The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather.