Bücher veröffentlicht von Querencia Press, LLC

The World Eats Butterflies Like You dives into the intersection of the human journey with that of the rest of the natural world. Quilty weaves lush plant life and nature's inhabitants into the weft of what it is to traverse the darkest parts of being human. This collection makes the trauma of living in modern-society clear while still managing to reject settling for its inherent toxicity.

How Long Your Roots Have Grown is a mental health journey across childhood trauma, deep-seated anxiety, and long-lived fears. Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos reappropriates the structure of the Ancient Greek tragedy to lure the reader into a dark fairy tale of memories that come back to haunt you and tie you with their tentacles. Greek identity, intergenerational trauma, and unholy powers merge in a chapbook that listens to your struggles and guides you, across time and space, into redemption.

Will Russo's Dreamsoak speaks to us with an uncanny braid of eloquence and strangeness, as if simultaneously channeling the rhetorical decorum of Yeats and the hallucinatory power of Rimbaud. ¿Russo makes his poems sparkle in their exploration of innovative forms that scurry across the page, yet he also draws from the oldest sources of lyricism: longing, loneliness, despair, desire, and a keen attentiveness to the world as experienced through the senses. These poems fill me with delight and joy. Even on the grayest days of winter, they are a kind of "[d]aylight / filling the lung of my living room."Nathan Hoks, author of Nests in Air

Steeped in nostalgia and memorable imagery, Ghost Hometowns will take you from sunny but decadent Italian landscapes to the cold streets of London, full of unseizable possibilities. This poetry book explores the disorienting feeling of not knowing where you belong. Written from a migrant's perspective, it's a doomed quest for a home in your birth country, abroad, and even with family sharing opposite views. Let it guide you through your own, unescapable journey!

"I squeeze myself in places I never want to see with everything that I have in the hopes that I can squeeze myself back together in places I don't understand, and perhaps if I squeeze hard enough, I will escape the black holes" Beneath the Light is a collection centered on traumatic birth scenarios and navigating the aftermath. Lewis-Waters flawlessly meshes the disparity and cross-section of the anxiety and grief of trauma recovery with the joy and comfort that can be found in motherhood. This work is raw and honest and entirely unafraid of the messy and uncomfortable sides that are often buried and forgotten in an act of beauty.

Hospital Issued Writing Notebook is a vehicle of catharsis for anyone who has ever journeyed to the edges of their own functional level of sanity. Flore holds the reader's hand as he takes them through a hospital stay and the aftermath, allowing all to look through the two-way mirror of his experience as an observer. This collection tests the constraints of mental health and uses them to shut down stigma and preconceived notions on the limitations those constraints may place on an individual.

Retail Park is a reconciliation with the ubiquity of coming of age in one's hometown. This collection is a reminder of all of the emotions and reactions that face us as we grow and challenge our surroundings. These pieces journey through the questions we ask of ourselves as we learn our own beliefs on family, religion, grief and illness, and the general navigation of life. Sam Millar illustrates what it is to sit with yourself and make sense of the world and sometimes to give in and look to the birds when nothing makes sense.