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  Crohnic

  Jason Purcell

  Charting two years of treatment for Crohn’s disease, these poems explore the landscape of a medicated life. The speaker connects deeply with the forest and rivers, learning from the cycles of life, most particularly the winter, a time of rest and waiting, and draws parallels between the degradation of the land and of the body.

  (Arsenal Pulp Press, $19.95 Paperback, 96 pages, ISBN: 978-18-34050-10-2)  

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  Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate

  Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Liz Harmer, Fawn Parker

  Four novellas examine the struggles of psychological crisis. In Parker’s “Some Recent Experiences,” a young wife and mother continues to struggle with an eating disorder; “Lighthouse” by Harmer follows a writer who is writing a fictional memoir about her time in a psychiatric hospital; the neurotic narrator of McCreesh’s “My Close Friends” lives almost entirely on social media; and in Ah-Sen’s “Busybody,” a social outcast agrees to spy on his roommate on behalf of her ex-lover.

  (Arbeiter Ring Publishing Ltd., $28.00 Hardcover, 168 pages, ISBN: 978-19-97544-00-5)  

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