the giving tree

kinski reads oscar wilde

the sun had left the sky

so i just go ooooooo

bonjour tristesse

cover me with words

Abayomi Animashaun's The Giving Of Pears

Eric Beeny's Snowing Fireflies






Matt Bell's How They Were Found





Kate Bernheimer's Horse, Flower, Bird







Paula Bomer's Baby And Other Stories






Mel Bosworth's Grease Stains, Kismet, And Material Wisdom






Ana Božičević's Stars Of The Night Commute





Blake Butler's Scorch Atlas





Jessie Carty's Paper House




Brian Evenson's Fugue State




Molly Gaudry's We Take Me Apart




Amelia Gray's Museum Of The Weird






Tim Hall's One Damn Thing After Another





Heather Hartley's Knock Knock





Shane Jones's Light Boxes







Bhanu Kapil's The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers





Michael Kimball's Dear Everybody





Amy King's I'm The Man Who Loves You





Tao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy




Kendra Grant Malone's Everything is Quiet







Joseph McElroy's Preparations For Search





Lydia Millet's Everyone's Pretty





Sawako Nakayasu's Texture Notes





Adam Robinson's Adam Robison And Other Poems





Caleb J. Ross's Charactered Pieces







Matthew Savoca's long love poem with descriptive title





J.A. Tyler's Inconceivable Wilson





William Walsh's Questionstruck





Mike Young's We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

Angeles

i am here

And You Are Gone




Winner of the 2010 Outsider Writers Press
Fiction Chapbook Contest

Available here.


“Shome Dasgupta writes about young love with a heartbreaking honesty and simplicity that transcends anything I’ve read in recent years. As we follow Jonas and Mary from kindergarten to senior year, we see a range of textual expression that is both innovative and wildly appealing. This book cracks powerful with youthful thunder, black echoes laced tightly with ephemeral innocence. Dasgupta’s debut hits the mark, and leaves one.”

---Mel Bosworth, author of When the Casts Razzed the Chickens (Folded Word) and Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom (Brown Paper Publishing)


“From the start, I fell in love with this book. Shome Dasgupta takes on perhaps the most common of all subjects—love—and makes it somehow fresh and new. Stunning in its use of form, language and character, i am here And You Are Gone is a delight. The book and its author are remarkable. This is the first you may be hearing from Shome Dasgupta, but I can’t imagine it will be the last.”

---Rob Roberge, author of Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life (Ren Hen Press)


“In i am here And You Are Gone, Shome Dasgupta writes with a sparse and mathematical elegance, creating a system of symbols and spaces with which to describe young Jonas’ growing affection for his friend Mary. Throughout the too-fast years of their youth, the two friends hurtle across what must feel to them like a lifetime, moving like two near-parallel lines approaching the same point, one set so impossibly infinite that they might never reach it together. Still their paths pull close, closer, so close that no matter how we might look we may be unable to divine what unsolvable span it is that at the last separates them–and so perhaps us–from each other.”

---Matt Bell, author of How They Were Found (Keyhole Press)