Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife
Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife

Author: Derrick Brown

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1935904949

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The most famous collection and largest selling title on the Write Bloody roster. Butterfly Knife contains such award winning pieces such as �The Kurosawa Champagne,” A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me,” �Pleased to Meet You Yellow,” �The Chinese Elevator” and �Hot for Sorrow.” These are his classic, unforgettable works of poetry and fiction from 1993-2004. �A wit as sharp as Sedaris, a sensibility as poignant as Sexton, Brown manages to blur the lines between cult writer and poet with remarkable ease and grace.” -Anthem Magazine �Sincere, twisted and violently romantic.” - OC Weekly �Derrick Brown�s work-both on and off the page-sizzles with jolting images and blasts of humor, yet retains a deep compassion at it�s core. He has a heart the size of a Mack truck, but we�re not sure who�s behind the wheel.” -Jeffrey McDaniel, author Alibi School and The Endarkenment

Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife
Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife

Author: Derrick C. Brown

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0978998901

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The most famous collection and largest selling title on the Write Bloody roster. Butterfly Knife contains such award winning pieces such as "The Kurosawa Champagne," A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me," "Pleased to Meet You Yellow," "The Chinese Elevator" and "Hot for Sorrow." These are his classic, unforgettable works of poetry and fiction from 1993-2004.

The Importance of Being Ernest
The Importance of Being Ernest

Author: Ernest Cline

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1938912314

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Familiar and resonant, Cline's collection takes readers into a private landscape of science fiction, pop culture, and pornography. Ernest Cline is a geek, novelist, poet, and screenwriter based in Austin, Texas. In addition to winning poetry slams, Cline is known for screenwriting "Fanboys," released in 2009. He also recently sold the film rights to his latest book, "Armada."

This Way to the Sugar
This Way to the Sugar

Author: Hieu Minh Nguyen

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1938912586

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Hieu Nguyen's bruising collection of poems, This Way to the Sugar, puts a blade and a microscope to nostalgia, tradition, race, apology, and sexuality, in order to find beauty in a flawed world. His work has been described as "an astounding testament to the power and necessity of confession." This powerful book asks whether it might be better "to leave the blade inside the body," whether "forgiveness will bleed you thin."

Junkyard Ghost Revival
Junkyard Ghost Revival

Author: Anis Mojgani

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 193590454X

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This book contains poetry from a small team of wildly unique, talented and award-winning authors who have been touring the world for years. They have united for a once in a lifetime tour to perform their work and to charge the hearts of America with gut-splitting, lust wrangling, socially active verse. This is the Junkyard Ghost Revival.

I Love You Is Back
I Love You Is Back

Author: Derrick Brown

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1935904353

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I Love You Is Back is the second collection of work from this internationally celebrated poet, spanning 2004-2006. It includes such popular works such as ‘The Victory Explosions,” “All Distortion, All the Time,” “St. Marks,” and “The Last Poem about Anne Sexton.” I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and revelatory - here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent. -Janet Fitch, Author of White Oleander A wit as sharp as Sedaris, a sensibility as poignant as Sexton, Brown manages to blur the lines between poet and cult writer with remarkable ease and grace. - Anthem Magazine Derrick Brown is one of the greatest contemporary poets. Done. I always keep him on my radar. -Sage Francis, Hip-Hop Artist

Learn Then Burn
Learn Then Burn

Author: Derrick Brown

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 1935904868

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Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we’ve heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F’s and the S’s and the B’s and the Z’s. We’ve provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what’s around. We’ve also included some amazing lessons in its companion book for the teacher, sold separately.

Scandalabra
Scandalabra

Author: Derrick Brown

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1935904922

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Derrick Brown’s long awaited new collection of poetry and prose, Scandalabra, is a book that boils with true grit Americana, sensual power and black oceanic wildness. About.com rated his newest collection 'Scandalabra' as one of the top poetry books of 2009. Written at sea aboard a fishing vessel and in the hills of Tennessee, these poems roar in six unique sections never before seen from this acclaimed writer. I wish I had written “Patience”. I mean written it down on paper. I’ve thought it to myself several times in different countries, but now Derrick has re-earned my trust after initially losing it by naming his book with a pun. -Comedian David Cross Brown is leading a revolution to inject poetry, both written and spoken, with the raucous and booze-infused spirit of rock n’ roll. -Sara Graham, VenusZine

Over the Anvil We Stretch
Over the Anvil We Stretch

Author: Anis Mojgani

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1935904884

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Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the country in the shape of his wild surreal poems. These are memories of a life, captured through the blue green filter of the bayou. Mojgani's latest poems are tinged with the sound of crickets spying on us in the darkness. They move forward honestly, brutally and sweetly. The reader will be led into briar patches as well as the moonlight just on the other side. Anvil is a book of poetic truth, packed with humor and insight. It is a juggling act of the epic and the intimate. I read it and it echoes. Shut up so I can hear more. -David Gordon Green, filmmaker, All the Real Girls and The Pineapple Express Anis Mojgani, Andrea Gibson, and other young poets of their talent are the future of American poetry and frankly, that fills me with joy! --Thomas Lux, Guggenheim Fellow & recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book Split Horizons He’s probably the best poetry slammer alive. The intellect, optimism and humility with which he speaks feel like proof of the relevance of “spoken word” as a genre. He processes the world in slices of beauty, frustration and sympathy... -Willamette Week Newspaper

Reasons to Leave the Slaughter
Reasons to Leave the Slaughter

Author: Ben Clark

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1935904337

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Reasons to Leave the Slaughter speaks of a rural landscape, this “farm life,” will lure you in, draw you down to the pond for afternoons of fishing, picking mulberries, and climbing trees. It is also a place of broken limbs, animals dying every season, storms raging down on the flimsy shell called home. Reasons to Leave the Slaughter speaks of the balance between our desperate human need to “own” land, to have a place, a home, and to control it with fences and property lines. This book also calls upon nature’s constant battling back, crushing plans and hopes with an infestation of one pest or another, a tornado crumpling new buildings into dust, an animal’s death. This book revels in the discoveries of youth, the hopes and despairs of growing old without seeming purpose and the ever-present balance of beauty within brutality. Ben Clark’s poems understand the weirdness of living, of loving and being loved, of grit and breath and what bangs around in our everyday bodies. Made of asphalt and sweat and farm dirt, these are honest, important poems. I love their singing. - Marty McConnell, author Clark's voice welds tension to narrative so seamlessly, we can scarcely tell sometimes where the literal ends and the wonder begins. His, is an armageddon of tension holding together taut strands of unbelievable beauty and charismatic curiosity. -Roger Bonair-Agard, “Tarnish and Masquerade"