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Back Patio Press is a small, DIY press that focuses on weird writing outside the purview of established literary publishing. The press was founded in 2019 by Cavin B. Gonzalez, with an accompanying literary magazine. We published 10 books before taking a hiatus ~2022-2023, but have recently reopened to focus just on publishing books. The press is currently run by Zac Smith . We are not entirely sure who runs the twitter account. We publish slim volumes of poetry and literary fiction, typically by debut auth
Death Egg by Nathaniel Duggan Poetry / 99 Pages / Soft, matte cover Death Egg is a collection of ~60 poems about unemployment, love, jellyfish, despair, and apocalypses. Each poem is a bleak, dense rumination on contemporary American life, creating both powerful levity and despair with its exploration of the banal through dramatic, video game-like conceits, honing in on the uniquely modern insanity of knowing everything and nothing all at once. Cinematically tongue-in-cheek yet deeply earnest, unique yet re
Sad Sad Boy by Michael O'Brien Poetry / 69 Pages / Soft, matte cover Maybe you're Sad Boy. Maybe you're not. Eat acorns to kill your soul. Catch moths. Break horses. Live with a heart the size of Danny Devito.Your father has died. There is nothing in the bag of carrots. Blending poignant and strange haiku-like imagery with a minimal, laconic style, Sad Sad Boy is a calm, bleak, weird, and inventive collection of short fiction by internationally renown poet Michael O'Brien. Excerpts: Being Sad is Sad, Bro Pr