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LA based, est. 2014. In honor of Eva Hesse (1936-1970). Distro @asterism_books @public_knowledge_books Editor @tru_clarity Art direction @sad_psychics

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This singular essay is released as a limited risograph edition, critiquing the 3rd film of the Terminator franchise from a feminist lens. Release date November 1, $6, available from @asterism_books and our website. by @hessepress

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Three of our five readers from last week’s Hawaiian Punch Spoonbill Live Read give their recommendations of classic and contemporary literature. These slushy readings have been so fab but we’re sensing a chill in the air and the resulting necessity of a new temperature of beverage for these coming months…

Cris Garcia recommends Carver’s What We Talk When We Talk about Love, Matthew Goldin’s Matthew and Joyce’s Dubliners

Eero Talo recommends Tales of White Back by Bill Moran

Victor Florence recommends Proust’s in Search of Lost Time by @hessepress

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for today’s #weirdpoemwednesday (extremely complimentary), here is Clare Kelly (@tru_clarity) of @hessepress in Keep Planning ➰ Pantheon

lisping sullen on the tide
a funny end to the dream vacation

a nest of three joined redwood trunks
speak to me in rainbows
source of all our loveliness

remove the veils o statues
dust on a sliver of the light

I am diamond-minded
down a jade green velvet tunnel

the perfect apple still believes in bananas

o irises in the field
look how they spin! by @hessepress

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This is our 7th printing of trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer @malefragility . Thank you to every person who has supported the book. A special shout out to @johnathan.posting for helping me put all of these boxes in the shed today. by @hessepress

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20 days ago

Great blurb from @dchaon for Z.H. Gill’s forthcoming TV&Treadmill, now available to preorder from @asterism_books by @hessepress

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24 days ago

Another wonderful recommendation of Sea-oath by poet Mary Helen Callier. We have also now made Sea-oath into a $6 ebook, available from @asterism_books . Thanks so much for your support. by @hessepress

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24 days ago

Thanks to Oliver Land of @plaguecircuspress for this ringing endorsement of Blue Heron Inn, a 100 page riso poetry book by Spencer Eckhart that is $12 and available for preorder now with @asterism_books by @hessepress

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25 days ago

“before there was language
there was water

can’t a woman have a secret?”

The one and only Clare Kelly (@hessepress) returns to The Bulb Region with three mind-bending poems.

Link in bio! by @hessepress

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coming soon from @hessepress: my debut book of poetry ‘tv & treadmill: poems toward living alone’—you can preorder it at asterism right now. link is in my bio. here’s what asterism has to say about it:

TV & Treadmill is a poetic chronicle of post-cohabitation, a roughly six-month project capturing the mundane terror-hum of a writer living alone for the first time in many years.

When one of poet Z.H. Gill’s oldest friends loaned him a treadmill “indefinitely,” his evenings spent jogging in front of the television—before ghost-hunting reality programs, Shark Tank, and Rossellini films—became a despondent writing practice which grew into a productive fixation and, eventually, a balm.

Through forms found and invented, Gill ecstatically plunders culture high and low in TV & Treadmill—from Ted Berrigan, Marguerite Duras, and Elaine May to Zak Bagans, Lisa Vanderpump, and Paul Westerberg—to fend off the soft horror of solitude and find a new way of living.

go buy my book or i will cut you out of my life. taken in East Hollywood by @hessepress

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Ecstatic to announce our next risograph poetry book. This one is Blue Heron Inn by the beautiful and lovely Spencer Eckart. Gentle, sad, spiritually demented/enlightened, funny. I love this book. @sarpsozdinler called it “A delicately built mental palace”. Riso edition of 100, black ink, perfect bound, 103 pages, $12. Preorder from @asterism_books or from our website in bio. Ships in October/November. Thank you all for your support of our press. 💛 by @hessepress

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“Alter’s poems resemble amorphous deep-sea creatures: they expand, contract, taper, or sprawl toward whatever pressure their particular environment demands of them.”

To accompany Eva Alter’s (@eva.alter.poet) poems in The Bulb Region, make sure to read our review of “Sea-oath” today. Published by @hessepress

(Link in bio!) by @hessepress

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2 months ago

Thanks so much to @davidhorvitz for having us in the Poetry Garden — thanks so much to @appleappel for MC’ing — thanks to @eva.alter.poet for the wonderful “Sea-oath” and to @burialmagazine for reading with me and Eva. 🕊️💝🫂 come ! It will be mellow 🪴 by @hessepress

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