We at Two Crows are proud to announce the release of Christopher Shugrue's new prose chapbook:
Straw Writes!! The book was published by the great people at
Monkey Puzzle Press and is now available for purchase
here.
You can also read an interview with the author about the work
here. Get your copy today and enjoy!
Praise for Straw Writes
Straw
Writes is nothing short of astonishing. The
ghosts of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg weave through the text, and
Christopher Shugrue ably shows himself to be one of their literary heirs.
Christopher. P. Shugrue is an incredible
person. Have you heard him read? Try. It's an altering and
intense experience. To read his work, yourself, is to enter into a space
that is shattering something, always. And finding a way back. In
this sensitive and brave first book, Shugrue works hard to make sense of the
materials of war, and of the time that follows it. He considers the
memory that a person might build -- and loop -- in civilian life. The life
where you get to love someone and follow them a little bit of the way. He
is not afraid to write into the madness. What it means to go and not,
always, return. I am honored to write in support of this generous writer
who is -- as they say -- the real thing. I never knew what that actually
meant until I encountered Chris himself, as I hope you will one day.
World
on fire, ghost winds, naked children in the American night, as a Whitmanic and
Ginsbergian ethos permeates the battleground of a Fallujah nightmare. This is the scape of Straw Writes, a hybrid text of conviction and urgency.
