Hello again,

Tuesday, I shared some stuff about the smaller, newer poetry books available on the campaign as add-ons. This time, I want to share some info on these behemoths! So if you missed the smaller books, go take a look at that update!

This book is 600 pages of poetry. It collects the three poetry collections of the Every Day in Love series, my love letter to horror movies, under one super huge, pink cover. I began this collection in 2013 during grad school, writing the first book by taking scripts from Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street, drawing shapes on them, finding words that intersected with the shapes corners or edges, and inputting the words into google. That determined the core theme or focus of the poem.

I marry Freddy Krueger and Pinhead, and we adopt Jason Voorhees. Yeah, it's domestic horror, humor, and poetry, baby!

The first book was very artsy, abstract. There were script-style long poems where we heckled their own movies, but the smaller poems tended to be more art than story-telling. The second book, which came years later and heralded the adoption of Sammy from Trick r Treat and Samara from The Ring, became the opposite, more of a sitcom style episodic nature, with less focus on the highfalutin poetics. The third book saw Jason move out and Billy (and Chucky) move in with us. This final book became more a mix of the first two books, exploring how such a story could end.

This is a 500 page collection of selected and edited works from the first 15 years of my poetic career. It contains both poems that are in While Widening the Wound, but a pre-final edit version of the second poem. I also feel that While Widening the Wound holds the two poems together in a way more respectful to them, rather than being lost in the giant tome.

This looked at the previous 12+ books of poetry I'd written and found chunks of each one to come to the modern day. You'll get work from 2010 in here, then work all the way up to a couple years ago, as well as a new piece at the end of it. It's huge, it has an MRI of my actual brain on the cover, and it covers so much of my poetic career. Other than the two poems of While Widening the Wound, this book does not overlap with anything else offered on this project.

Together with the 600 page Every Day in Love book, this represents a vast period of my poetic career. 1100 pages... So maybe I write a lot! So it goes.

Thanks for joining me friends,
See you soon!

7DA