A dark gothic poetry collection that connects on the deepest levels of the human soul.

Greg Rappleye’s Figured Dark is a collection of contemporary lyric and narrative poems, set in an American landscape, which takes as its implicit theme the journey of the soul from darkness into light. The voices in the collection call across a vast landscape of myth, memory, and horrific wreckage. In the title poem, speaking of the phenomenon of fireflies rising at night from a southern field, he writes, “I could read this down to a million tiny bodies, / blazing the midnight trees,” but the reader is left to wonder whether any extravagant numbering can account for the massed starlings, dreamy raptors, dome-lighted Firebirds, flaming bodies, junk cars, and deadly archangels that come to ground in Rappleye’s world, where the spiritual exhaustion of Odysseus is visited upon Brian Wilson, and the young John Berryman seeks recompense from a wily family in northern Michigan. These poems are by turns wise, elegiac, ironic, and wickedly funny. This is a poet who refuses easy categories. If these poems are anything, they are affidavits of a heart at work, building out of darkness a kind of wild redemption, hard-earned in the real world. Figured Dark is part of the University of Arkansas’s Poetry Series, edited by Enid Shomer.

A new Deadtown novel in the acclaimed dark urban fantasy series by the author of Bloodstone and Hellforged... They call it Deadtown: Boston’s quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents, a result of the zombie plague. Most humans avoid it like...well, like the plague—but shapeshifter Victory Vaughn, Boston’s only professional demon slayer, isn’t exactly human. Boston’s demons have been disappearing, and Vicky’s clients are canceling left and right. While fewer demons might seem like a good thing, Vicky suspects foul play. A missing Celtic cauldron from Harvard’s Peabody museum leads her to an unwelcome conclusion: Pryce, her demi-demon cousin and bitter enemy, is trying to regain his full powers. But Pryce isn’t alone. He’s conjured another, darker villain from Vicky’s past. To stop them from destroying everything she loves, she’ll have to face her own worst fear—in the realm of the dead itself.

A ." . . stunning first poetry collection. . . . These poems are howlingly nasty and perfectly executed. . . . Trowbridge's weapons are a deep puzzlement of feeling and a wonderful ear; he knows how to divert with jokes while he's about to attack: 'BLAM BLAM BLAM!'" -San Francisco Chronicle

"A poem can begin anywhere, " author Udall says, "with the smallest object or image." His poems and short stories have appeared in more than 50 publications, and he is the author of two previous books of poetry, "Learning the Language" and "First Identity"--winner of the 2001 Redgreene Press Poetry Chapbook Award.

Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

Shattered; A Collection of Dark Poetry and Prose, is a poignant collection that revives the age-old art of writing poetry. S. B. Lacroixs unique writing style breathes life into words that bleed with emotion. The reader is taken on a poetic journey where the somber side of the human condition is experienced. Through traditional style poems and short pieces of prose, the author puts the reader in a position that allows them to connect with the melancholic parts of their own lives. S. B. Lacroixs pen offers a glimpse inside the soul of a poet, the mind of madness, and the heart of a creative storyteller. Profound and moving, Shattered; A Collection of Dark Poetry and Prose, is an emotionally charged experience in which the reader finds themselves wanting more.