I don't really want to say anything, so this week is obviously "hook your friends up" week.
So Jessica Smith's first book Organic Furniture Cellar is finally available. Dear Reader, you should buy yourself a copy (except Jessica, because, well, she wrote it), just like I did months ago (granted, my opinion is biased, as I am a big fan of Jessica's poetry). The few excerpts are quite exciting. And if Juliana Spahr, Christian Bök and derek beaulieu liked the book, you should like it too!

Juliana Spahr wrote about the book: "Organic Furniture Cellar takes on big issues, such as how to write about the place where you live with all its distractions, beauties, and limitations intact. And she writes out of these questions a beautifully fragmented series of page aware poems. A stunning and necessary first book."

Christian Bök wrote: "Jessica Smith refuses to write like lyric poets, who merely rearrange the furniture of language in their rooms; instead, she makes her language skid 'every which way' like an office chair kicked across a parquet floor."

derek beaulieu wrote: "Each page of Organic Furniture Cellar is a physical space which the reader and the text occupy by turns troubling each other by their very proximity. (...) Jessica Smith looks to the fragment to interfere “with syntactical continuity by disrupting what the reader expects to find, or by suspending the memory of a word by breaking the word into unrecognizable fragments.”

Yeah, I should totally be a book publicist.

Why are you still reading my inane rantings? Go buy the book here.