Points of Amperture/When I Ask My Friend Chapbook by Daniel Owen, Jennifer Soong, and DoubleCross Press
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
Points of Amperture - Daniel Owen
"I thought that amperture is how you spell embouchure, but when I found out it's not, I started thinking of amperture as being some kind of hybrid between embouchure, amplitude, aperture, and armature. This mistake serves, I think, as a way of describing the poems in this book, which I also think of as points of departure. I think these poems are about gratitude and wonder at being part of processes that are baffling, disturbing, immense, mistaken (perhaps sometimes serendipitously)… maybe the poems are prayers for belief in the goodness of endurance in the light of such processes. maybe they are sometimes denunciations of such a belief. at any rate, the intention to make a considered, spontaneous expression that could possibly (hopefully) do something ultimately positive for someone else animated the writing. a cyclical expression of gratitude intention. along with a whole batch of other questions, speculations, concerns, and hopes." - Daniel Owen
When I Ask My Friend - Jennifer Soong
“The poems of When I Ask My Friend engage various degrees of density: density of line, density of phenomena, and density of breakage and fluctuation. Meditating on everything from bug bites to optimism, The White House, and onion and parmesan scones, these poems test the possibilities and impossibilities of poetic freedom, how one ‘moves in / uncertain ways.’" - Jennifer Soong
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
Points of Amperture - Daniel Owen
"I thought that amperture is how you spell embouchure, but when I found out it's not, I started thinking of amperture as being some kind of hybrid between embouchure, amplitude, aperture, and armature. This mistake serves, I think, as a way of describing the poems in this book, which I also think of as points of departure. I think these poems are about gratitude and wonder at being part of processes that are baffling, disturbing, immense, mistaken (perhaps sometimes serendipitously)… maybe the poems are prayers for belief in the goodness of endurance in the light of such processes. maybe they are sometimes denunciations of such a belief. at any rate, the intention to make a considered, spontaneous expression that could possibly (hopefully) do something ultimately positive for someone else animated the writing. a cyclical expression of gratitude intention. along with a whole batch of other questions, speculations, concerns, and hopes." - Daniel Owen
When I Ask My Friend - Jennifer Soong
“The poems of When I Ask My Friend engage various degrees of density: density of line, density of phenomena, and density of breakage and fluctuation. Meditating on everything from bug bites to optimism, The White House, and onion and parmesan scones, these poems test the possibilities and impossibilities of poetic freedom, how one ‘moves in / uncertain ways.’" - Jennifer Soong
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
Points of Amperture - Daniel Owen
"I thought that amperture is how you spell embouchure, but when I found out it's not, I started thinking of amperture as being some kind of hybrid between embouchure, amplitude, aperture, and armature. This mistake serves, I think, as a way of describing the poems in this book, which I also think of as points of departure. I think these poems are about gratitude and wonder at being part of processes that are baffling, disturbing, immense, mistaken (perhaps sometimes serendipitously)… maybe the poems are prayers for belief in the goodness of endurance in the light of such processes. maybe they are sometimes denunciations of such a belief. at any rate, the intention to make a considered, spontaneous expression that could possibly (hopefully) do something ultimately positive for someone else animated the writing. a cyclical expression of gratitude intention. along with a whole batch of other questions, speculations, concerns, and hopes." - Daniel Owen
When I Ask My Friend - Jennifer Soong
“The poems of When I Ask My Friend engage various degrees of density: density of line, density of phenomena, and density of breakage and fluctuation. Meditating on everything from bug bites to optimism, The White House, and onion and parmesan scones, these poems test the possibilities and impossibilities of poetic freedom, how one ‘moves in / uncertain ways.’" - Jennifer Soong
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Annie Won (she/her) is a poet, yoga teacher, and a former medicinal chemist. Annie is particularly interested in spaces of mind, body, and page. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a Juniper Writing Institute scholarship recipient. Her chapbook with Brenda Iijima, Once Upon a Building Block, was published with Horse Less Press, and her chapbook, so i can sleep, is from Nous-Zot Press. Her work has appeared in Shampoo and RealPoetik, and is forthcoming from EAOGH, TheThePoetry, TENDE RLION, and New Delta Review. Her critical reviews can be seen at American Microreviews and Interviews.
Brenda Iijima (she/her) is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human modes of expression, and telluric awareness in all forms. A play, Daily Life in China, is forthcoming from elis press in 2023, and a novel, Presence, is forthcoming from Georgia Review Press in 2024. A novella, A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, written in collaboration with Janice Lee, was recently published by Meekling Press. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.
Marcy Rae Henry (she/her) is una Latina/e de Los Borderlands and a multidisciplinary artist. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination and first prize in Suburbia’s 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest. Her work will be included in the Best New Poets of 2023 anthology. Other writing and visual art appear in The Worcester Review, Mud Season Review, PANK, The Southern Review, Thimble Magazine and The Brooklyn Review, among others. M.R. Henry is an associate editor for RHINO and an associate professor of English and creative writing at Wilbur Wright College. For more than twenty years she has curated and co-curated poetic events for the City Colleges of Chicago and Chicagoland communities, including readings and performances for Red Rover Series and 100,000 Poets for Change. Though she is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts, she can be found at marcyraehenry.com and Poets&Writers.
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