Dreamland for Keeps
by Sarah Nichols
Dreamland for Keeps is a whisper in the dark giving voice to Elizabeth Short through poetry of erasure. Nichols’ poems return agency to the spirit of a woman so often sensationalized, examining Short’s many names, her impression forever etched on the American consciousness. For her, death is not the end of the story; in some ways the puzzle is never solved. (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
32 pages
handprinted cover
numbered editions of 50
Additional Info
WHAT DARKNESS BRINGS ME
When I ask,
the dark
offers me its
gifts.
A tree of eyes. A
hand in a jar,
its owner, lost.
I swallowed a
wedding ring,
once.
It tasted like
dust and tears.
Bone and gold.
ABOUT THE POET
Sarah Nichols lives and writes in Connecticut. She is the author of seven chapbooks, including How Darkness Enters a Body (Porkbelly Press, 2018), and Little Sister (Grey Book Press, forthcoming, 2018). Her third chapbook, She May Be a Saint (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), was selected in 2017 for inclusion in San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange Program. Her poems and essays have been published and are forthcoming in Five 2 One’s the Sideshow, Dream Pop, Memoir Mixtapes, Calamus, Rogue Agent, and the RS500.
ABOUT THE COVER ART
The cover is screen printed in gold metallic ink on cover stock (purple or black). Each book is lovingly handbound and trimmed by hand. Custom red end-papers, featuring black dahlia (flower) illustrations, bookend the text block. These are printed in editions of 50, each chapbook numbered. Nicci Mechler is the printmaking & bookbinder: @wickedlittleheart on IG.
OTHER BOOKS
Little Sister (Grey Book Press, 2018)
How Darkness Enters a Body (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
She May Be a Saint (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2017)
Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens (Dancing Girl Press, 2015)
INTERVIEWS
28 August 2018 - interview at A Garden of Words with Frances Donovan
REVIEWS
You’ll Want the Gory Details via Rag Queen Periodical (review by Camaryn Wheeler)
100 Word Book Review via Jeanne Obbard up at Drunk Monkeys
“What the Dead Know” via Anne Graue at Whale Road Review