Daily Archives: February 23, 2010

The Stark Electric Space Now at Virgogray Press

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The Stark Electric Space is an international anthology of indie writers and was published by Graffiti Kolkata, an independent press working out of Kolkata, India. Now, their seminal publication is available in the United States through Virgogray Press! We’re very proud to distribute this collection of independent writers from around the world! The book comes perfect bound and packed with art, photography and poetry! Artists include: Elli Griva and Sharmy Pandey, photography by Henry Avignon and Swadesh Misra. Some poets included in the anthology: Malay Roychoudhury, Bob Rosenthal, Yannis Livadas, Ateendriya Pathak, Joseph Goosey, Subhankar Das, Federica Nightingale, Selim Morshed, Michael Aaron Casares, and Jeff Calico to name a few.  Be sure to pick  up a copy for only $10! Compiled by Subhankar Das. 112 pages.

Anne McMillen: Mind Static Volume 2

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expendable.
isolation bliss.
pain is easier to comprehend even when
it’s faked..
you’re another whore reduced from horror. we all deserve
a person
who will throw themselves away
in our name.
you can play jesus,
i’ll play the nail.

- Our Relationship


The second volume of the serial chapbook Mind Static by Anne McMillen. Part two is darker, more cutting, more jarring than the first! Life eviscerated by lost love, dreams and the waking nightmares of coming of age. An observation of the self as much as at society, these poems slice at its fabric. A collection of sobering yet insightful poetic anecdotes and narratives.

Cover Art: Michael Aaron Casares

$11

Anne McMillen: Mind Static Volume 1

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options now:
sell kidneys to grad students
who can’t pay tuition,
just like i can’t
go back to safety in college cocoon.
run off to texas,
can’t find work here
too addicted
to escape affliction.
onward to california
the rest
of the “i’ll be part of the next big thing” brand of
douche bags are there
aren’t they?
illegally immigrating to canada,
do you think if i tell them,
i’m an american radical
they’d be more liberal
in their criteria for legal registration?
i’ll probably end up staying here,
kept warm by others charity,
in the arctic life of psychological isolation,
having pushed everything else away
but my own adaptation of a “writers”
redundancy.

-Where is My Destiny When I Need it

Mind Static is a phenomenal, brutal and honest analysis of the life and times of Anne McMillen. It’s gritty, it’s shocking, and hard to put down. The first in a series of three chapbooks, Mind Static grabs daily life by the head and sends it through a grinder where everything meshes into chaos, confusion, contemplation of sordid images and poetic narratives spoken plainly in easy to understand and cutting language. From childhood on, this first volume examines the earliest years through the development of free thought and independence. Inserts of wit and mental coital interruption make for a blood thirsty read into the savage landscape that Anne McMillen gives readers in her seminal collection Mind Static!

Cover Art: Michael Aaron Casares

$11