Wanting the Mouth of a Lover: Deluxe Edition SOLD OUT

We are sold out of the deluxe edition of Charles Gramlich's Wanting the Mouth of a Lover. This was a one time only special pressing, but copies of the regular edition are still available, same poems, same price. The regular edition also includes an introduction by the author detailing the book's origins and information on the form of the haiku.

Gramlich is in: Evans is sold out...

Both the Deluxe and regular edition pressings of Charles Gramlich's Wanting the Mouth of a Lover are now available for purchase on the sidebar. We unveiled the books yesterday at BabelCon in Baton Rouge where Charles and I were panelists. Charles did a reading of a few poems and signed books for the audience. We also had a good time reading a few poems from other Spec House releases including Greg Schwartz's Bits and Pieces...a definite crowd pleaser.

Also the last copies of Kendall Evans' E.A. Poe's The Electro-Mechanical Raven were snatched up, and it is now SOLD OUT. If you missed this exquisite and very short-run folded broadside, shame, shame. Look for more of these short-run specialties from other Spec House authors in the future.

New Releases by Charles Gramlich

Charles Gramlich's Wanting the Mouth of a Lover is now available in regular and deluxe edition pressings. Wanting the Mouth of a Lover is a collection of horror haiku poems presented in the Japanese vertical style.

The Deluxe Edition is a special pressing of 9 copies, hand-numbered, hand-stitched, and signed by the author, unveiled in time for Charles' appearance at BabelCon in Baton Rouge, LA, July 19-20.

Here are a couple of poems from this collection:

soft
vapor
trails
their
last
breaths


wanting
the
mouth
of
a
lover
dark


tongues
licking
grooves
scoured
by
teeth