Books published by Kung Fu Treachery Press

The thing that gets me about Jason Baldinger''s work is this: despite being wildly prolific, it''s these poems. The poems get better, get tighter, get more honest. It''s not always going to be a pretty picture, but Baldinger - especially here in A Threadbare Universe - draws you in with each first line, creates a little world where we get to look through his eyes while he wields language like it''s music; syncopated rhythms, the skillful repetition of assonance and consonance, a sprinkling of slant and internal rhyme give these poems structures in which they dance. These poems have grit and they bite and they leave you speechless at the sheer miracle of being alive on a sunny day, barreling down the road, shaking the city dust and hustling for cash weariness in the winds of the Great Plains.Shawn PaveyAuthor of Survival Tips for the Pending ApocalypseIn Jason Baldinger''s latest book, "A Threadbare Universe" he takes you on a whirlwind ride to hell and back. The poems travel through forgotten towns where the unemployment check is a relic from another time. They take you on journeys from Pittsburgh to Evansville, Indiana, moving further along through Kentucky to the middle of Kansas. And within the desolation, little sparks of light throw out signals from this stellar poem: "The streets are empty" -we look for heroes to save this never democracy / Christianity and Hollywood led us astray. And the positive; a redemption of the new madness that haunts our each and every step hits us in this final line: we can stop this / we have to fill the streets. A powerful book that begs to be read.Richard D. HouffAuthor, journalist, and former editor of Heeltap MagazineJason Baldinger''s writing is an example of the best American poetry today. A Threadbare Universe takes America''s temperature and awakens us. It''s a poignant call from complacency, a brilliant rendition, breathtaking in its solace and lament.Jyl AnaisAuthor of Soft Out SpokenBeneath the blue collar of Baldinger''s poems lies dirt, nostalgia, a sweet solitude built of both victory and sadness. To read is to ride shotgun with road map an unfolded wreckage with America hungover in the backseat. Every stop to stretch legs and take a piss is colored by working blues and morning afters. There is coming-of-age, and there is coming to terms--this collection of work exquisitely calls forth the latter. Nikki AllenPoet

Kyle Laws is based out of Steel City Art Works in Pueblo,CO where she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. Her collections include Ride the Pink Horse (Stubborn Mule Press), Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing), This Town: Poems of Correspondence coauthoredwith Jared Smith (Liquid Light Press), So Bright to Blind(Five Oaks Press), and Wildwood (Lummox Press). Witheight nominations for a Pushcart Prize and one for Bestof the Net, her poems and essays have appeared inmagazines and anthologies in the U.S., U.K., Canada, andGermany. She is editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.

Somewhere between Dylan Thomas at his most surreal and Groucho Marx at his most dada-inspired, there is a glib gone world, an irrepressible slapstick zone to which only the fearless may go-dangerously frolicsome, recklessly free, a mosh pit of thought and word so fractiously giddy and infectiously inviting, so combative and alluring in tone and intent, it can fracture your bones (and elevate your soul). Playful? Yes. Profound? When you least expect it. But it''s a brouhaha you cannot resist. Behold!-- George Wallace, Writer in Residence, Walt Whitman BirthplaceSurrealism with the heart of a blessed, laughing madman. Deuchars plays with his words, creates language, and never tortures his fabric. A classic car of a volume and we never know if the brakes will work from one page to the next. As Jim would say: Om.-- Puma Perl, writer/poet, author of Birthdays Before and After and more.Mockingbirds Contemplating Semicolons is a delight. Deuchars'' poems are both surreal and eminently readable. The inventive and playful language pulls the reader along, and while you''re never sure where each poem will take you, it''s always a memorable ride; one you''ll look forward to repeating once you''ve reached the end.-- William Taylor Jr.