Five Oaks Press

The characters in this terrific new book by Brenna Lemieux are hybrids worthy of Edward Hopper, Salvador Dali, and Charles Simic. They inhabit their houses, their clothing, their bodies, their lives...

In Drugstore Blue, Susana H. Case's speaker is a femme fatale in serious eyeshadow: 'You need me / like a tongue needs a second / mouth.' That's the sound of her craft, one of her dart-like...

Hooked Through studies violence--of suicide, of nature, of our "possum heart," of our "last days." Anything can destroy, deconstruct, or devour the body--teeth, tongues, bullets, bugs, the sun--and...

This book of poems purposefully presents writing in which the poet himself is absent. Instead of writing about his life or experiences, Solonche focuses on the work of other poets, rewriting famous...

How many sights and sounds our routine-framed lives keep us from experiencing. Not until something unusual strikes, something that disrupts these routines, are we apt to pay attention to all we're...

James Sallis' latest poetry collection is a study in gothic noir where post-war trauma surfaces in a speaker's haunted relationship with time and space, where the familiar is strange, and the strange...

Furious beating. In many ways that is what great poetry is, and that is what we find in KT Landon's marvelous first book. Furious beating because poetry is always fighting against a world that is not...

Boudreaux has a dazzling capacity for sudden imagistic insights: "like plucking a camellia from a neighbor's tree," "turned paradise by twilight," "a sultan with a taped wood fungo bat," "a shot of...

In Melissa Atkinson Mercer's Saint of the Partial Apology, I've rediscovered the terrifying pleasures of awe, of limbs that part like orchids in black rain, of maps made from wolves' feet, of "the...

What can we know of what's most profound? In these brief and lyrical fictions, Rob Davidson offers us glimpses of what remains out of reach. He writes, "There is inside of us dark music, the melody...

In Findura's post-diluvian lyrical apocalypse, the covenant of the rainbow is reneged, replaced by an anxiety of everyday pathologies we all feel and recognize, whether living near a coastal border...

In the expanded 2nd edition of this work, Rosemarie Dombrowki's poetry dwells between the verbal and the nonverbal through her creation of gripping symbols to represent the everyday life she shares...

The Last Bus To CamdenAuthor: Rocky WilsonPublisher: Five Oaks PressPublication Date: Jan 30, 2016Number of Pages: 91 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194435591XISBN-13: 9781944355913

Throughout The Route to Cacharel, Nickel poses a central question: "the dead speak if we listen, but how do we hear them in the cackling of the modern world?" The answer is found in the particulars...

To read these poems is to know without doubt that it's no clichE vulnerability is indeed strength - and strength, when given language, becomes a call to action. Fearless and unflinching, The Things a...

This poetry collection is deftly seamed like an heirloom quilt. Hensley ties together her experiences of rural landscapes from her home in Appalachian to the Great Plains and the desert Southwest...

Two novellas introduce two protagonists yielding to long-stymied grief. In Shoplifting, a writer named Monica Evans assumes the role of stay-at-home mother to a toddler in the sticks of Northern...