Nick Murray interviews asks poets to wax on their favorite poems in honor of National Poetry Month.

"In celebration of that I contacted several influential literary figures in the area and had them recommend their favourite poems and/or poems that have inspired them or affected them in a way so as to make those poems memorable and worthy of sharing." 

8th House Publishing's Rolli (Charles Anderson) was interviewed for his choice. Read it here.

EMILY AS WE PLANTED THE LILY ABOVE THE VALLEY by Darren C. Demaree featured in Forage Poetry. Read it here.

Darren C. Demaree's Emily as She Begins to Look Like Joy Harjo featured in the Blue Heron Review. Read it here.

8th House Publishing is proud to announce the advance sales launch of Craig Wells' "The Blasphemous Bible".

Due to high demand, we are allowing our customers to reserve copies before the official launch in April. Rewritten in their entirety, these blasphemous new and old testaments are an attempt at a reversal of morals--a dialectical approach to the truth in which the opposite is mirrored against the established with the goal of producing a new transcendent truth uniting the two contradictory views.

THE BLASPHEMOUS BIBLE by Craig Wells

496 pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 978-1-926716-49-7 | $34.99 | Info Sheet:; pdf, jpg

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"The entire King James bible written irreverently and satirically.""

“. . . a means of challenging zealots to read their own holy books and possibly force them to consider the harder questions and contradictions contained therein, the author decided to rewrite the Bible. Years of indefatigable work later, The Blasphemous Bible was created. All the many stories, verses, and ‘facts’ contained in the Bible are here rewritten with no apology for the obvious wickedness, cruelties, atrocities, and overall unbelievable fallacies it may be said to chronicle.”

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The book will be officially released in April and is now available for pre-ordering. 

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Afropunk features "God's Wife and the Synonymous X" by Jesse Chase

Novel explores how imperialism & racism erase History, and how to decolonize our minds...Novel explores how imperialism & racism erase History, and how to decolonize our minds...

God’s Wife and the Synonymous X is the first novel by writer Jesse Chase. An existential novel that follows a male protagonist while they try to develop a new analytical methodology for decolonizing the black mind as it pertains to “inhuman ideologies and oppressive technologies”.

An experimental piece of semi-autobiographical fiction, the prose read as a version of stream of consciousness that defies standard (read: Western) grammar standards and formatting and slipping into poetic stanzas at will.

“the characters deal with homelessness, mental health issues, latent shamanism, the streets, police, dismantling patriarchy, identifying the origin of slut shaming of god’s wife, the last western goddess before monotheism asherah aka ishtar aka esther aka mary aka the black madonna. the book is a tribute to the black madonna as a symbol of alterity,” Chase tells AFROPUNK.com

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Cultural Weekly on Darren C. Demaree's "Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly"

"Within each section, each sequence, readers are given new discoveries, internal and external.... Within each section, each sequence, readers are given new discoveries, internal and external.... "

"From many shifting shapes and senses, to many steadfast directions, to pieces leaving keys to rituals, Many full hands applauding inelegantly manages to be meditative and ponderous even as it is driven by a frenetic energy."

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God's Wife and the Synonymous X - Released!

8th House Publishing is proud to announce the release of Jesse Chase's first novel, "God's Wife and the Synonymous X'.
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"God’s Wife and the Synonymous X", Jesse Chase's first novel follows the protoganist on his search for a new cultural and literary theory. Finding all of history and culture appropriated by imperialist and racist perspectives inimical to his own self, he must construct his own program of decolonization and dismantle the philosophic mindspace of the inhuman ideologies and oppressive technologies he has inherited.

"A brave, fresh work that champions an ethics of self-recovery and rehabilitation of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism and oppression."

God’s Wife and the Synonymous X is the first in a series of three books in different genres: (1) a novel, (2) a book of critical, cultural and literary theory as an assassination attempt on philosophy and the hegemonies; of cultural appropriation by inhuman ideology and oppressive technology, and (3) a treatment of the process of the making of the first two books; as these literary processes are an experiment in the ethics of self-recovery, and recovery of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism and oppression.

GOD'S WIFE & THE SYNONYMOUS X by Jesse Chase

170 pages | 5.5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-43-5 | $16.99 | Info Sheet:; pdf, jpg

 

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EMPIRE BURLESQUE by Charles Talkoff is now available ...

8th House Publishing is proud to announce the release of Charles Talkoff's latest novel, "Empire Burlesque".

276 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-42-8 (pbk.) | $19.99 | Info Sheet: pdf, jpg

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EMPIRE BURLESQUE by Charles Talkoff

Call it America. Vast the tumble-rocket-particle-wave shows the world in a rush to arrive deparpt and become and forget and remember everything all at once. Call it history. Call it time and memory the way water is the measure of the clock your bones the measure of love. I mean everything passes. I said the earth is a sentry, everything passes and nothing escapes. Call it home; call it exile in a kingdom of rain. - Empire Burlesque, Charles Talkoff 

The first novel in an upcoming trilogy, "Empire Burlesque" is an attempt at reaching a realism with modernity, finding a continuity in fractured timelines and significance in chaos in a world in which these very things--realism, continuity and significance--have been deconstructed and possibly destroyed. In this "Empire Burlesque" of modernity, many things occur in the novel (life) with no apparent significance until imbued with meaning by the subject (us) and narrative authority (authority) itself is assailed by arbitrary, chaotic and decentralizing forces. This means the plot (political framing) to the extent one exists, may be ignored or contradicted and information might arrive to intrude into the narrative for no apparent reason and with no obvious connection to the events in the story. Welcome to the modern, schizoid, fragmented,unhinged burlesque empire that the West has become where Trumpian characters define reality and distort reason. An existential detective story with Theseus and the Minotaur as characters, taking on the many forms of man versus beast, citizen versus state, liberty versus control, "Empire Burlesque" renders our modernity with all its farcical, Faustian fog. 

8th House is going to China!

8th House will be in Beijing, August 23-27 for the 2017 International Book Fair. Drop by and say hello.... 

Construction Lit Magazine Features "Trump as Fire Without Light" by Darren C. Demaree

Construction Lit Magazine features Darren C. Demaree's Trump as Fire Without Light alongside a photovideo presentation. See/Read it here.