Poems and Fake Book Reviews was produced in a limited edition of 100, with teal endpapers and a beautiful letterpress cover printed by Seattle's Fernandez and Sons.
Joshua Baldwin’s poems and real book reviews have appeared in Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. His novella, The New York Sun: A Story of Los Angeles will be published by Turtle Point Press in the fall of 2011. He graduated from the college at the University of Chicago in 2006 and lives in Brooklyn.
depress, the print deployment of digital emunction, is excited to present its inaugural publication: Poems and Fake Book Reviews, a chapbook by DE contributor Joshua Baldwin.
Taking readers on a wild romp across a deranged and timeless America of the imagination, Poems and Fake Book Reviews adds six exclusive fake book reviews to the nine that originally appeared at digital emunction.
The book also includes the poems “Red Hook Fragments,” “Los Angeles Series” (with striking ink illustrations by the author), and “Four Architecture Poems.” Hilarious and madcap, Baldwin's Poems and Fake Book Reviews bursts at the seams with absurdity and wild discovery, and is a true literary entertainment.
