Before the Next Ice Age - by Lisa J. Cihlar (CC#115)

Crisis Chronicles Press is thrilled to announce our second new publication of 2022, Before the Next Ice Age by Lisa J. Cihlar. We've been huge fans of Lisa's work for well over a decade and are happy as can be to have had the opportunity to work with her again. 

Before the Next Ice Age features more than twenty prose poems on 34 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5". The front cover painting is also by Lisa J. Cihlar. Published 22 January 2022. ISBN: 978-1-64092-953-1. First edition of 150 copies.

 

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Before the Next Ice Age is available for only $10 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44143 (plus $3 for shipping in the United States). 

 

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Earlier praise for Cihlar's work:

"When I first encountered Lisa Cihlar's poetry, I sensed an electricity in the air, a subterranean movement that insinuated itself up from the ground into my bones. And then I felt flooded, suddenly, with the wonder only great art inspires. Cihlar's poetry is full of muscle and sinew, power and verve, a voice so undeniable that it wraps itself around your synaptic connections and becomes indelible, essential. This is poetry of the highest order, of the most terrific, breath-stripping power."

—Terri Brown-Davidson, Author, Pulitzer Prize Nominee, The Carrington Monologues

 

Lisa J. Cihlar's poems have appeared in Blackbird, Gargoyle Magazine, South Dakota Review, Crab Creek Review, and Mid-American Review. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net award. Her three previous chapbooks are The Insomniac’s House from Dancing Girl Press, This Is How She Fails from Crisis Chronicles Press, and When I Pick Up My Wings from the Dry Cleaner (winner of the 2013 Blue Light Poetry Prize) from Blue Light Press. Cihlar lives in rural southern Wisconsin.

 

This Frankenstein Union - by Esteban Colon (CC#75)

Crisis Chronicles Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Esteban Colon's latest poetry chapbook, This Frankenstein Union,  on 30 November 2015. It is the latest release in our Ninesense series of 9-poem chapbooks by writers you ought to know.

Colon's work is dark, funny, sexy, heavy in all the right places and unflinchingly truthful. This cycle of poems pulls love and passion through seductive fire. Come close, get hot, combust, and then remember it warmly.

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North America $4.99 USD Elsewhere $7.99 USD

This Frankenstein Union is 16 pages, hand assembled and saddle stapled, 8.5 x 5.5", laser printed on white pages with kelly green card stock endpapers wrapped in white cover stock. Front artwork by Kevin Eberhardt. ISBN 978-1-940996-27-1. Limited edition of 150 copies, each available for a mere $5 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44143 USA.

Esteban Colon is a Pushcart nominated writer and experiential educator from Kenosha. His work has found print in a variety of journals and anthologies. He is also the author of chapbooks Edgar Avenue (Naked Mannequin Press) and Between Blue Lines (Exact Change Press), along with his full length collection Things I Learned the Hard Way (Plain View Press).

This is How She Fails - by Lisa J. Cihlar (CC#23)

Our latest Crisis Chronicles Press chapbook, This Is How She Fails by Lisa J. Cihlar, is a cycle of more than two dozen prose poems - often haunting, always gorgeous - comprising 26 pages, 8.5 x 5.5", hand assembled and saddle staple bound, featuring a white and dual blue cardstock cover with cover art by Lisa Marie Peaslee.  Published on 8 May 2012, I imagine you'll love it every bit as much as I do.

This Is How She Fails is available for $7 US (includes shipping) to Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44143 USA. Approximately 150 copies in print.  One reader writes, "WARNING: Do not read before bedtime. [This book] will follow you into your dreams."

If you prefer an electronic format, please click here to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99.

Click here to read "Damage" from This Is How She Fails in the Crisis Chronicles.
Click here to read "The Wind Lass" from This Is How She Fails in the Crisis Chronicles.
Click here to see a Swoon film of "Sunday Service" from This Is How She Fails.
Click here to read an interview with the author at r.k.v.r.y. quarterly.
Click here to read reviews of This Is How She Fails at Goodreads.

Poet's bio (as of 2012, from the chapbook):

Lisa J. Cihlar's poems have been published in South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, In Posse Review, Bluestem, and The Prose-Poem Project. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first chapbook, The Insomniac’s House, is available from Dancing Girl Press. She lives in rural southern Wisconsin.