Democracy of Noise | Poetry
Dan Pinkerton
Available in April 2025
88 pages; will be available as a paperback and as an e-book; preorder options coming soon
Democracy of Noise is a hilarious, surreal send-up of soulless, late-Empire America, a land, that even in our quickly diminishing state, is one of unparalleled power, cartoonish wealth amid deep pain and poverty, scientific prowess never-before-seen, but also a place sick at heart with an endless streak of greed, authoritarianism and violence ready to erupt, and more than anything, a nonstop yearning, everywhere, for unmet meaning. In Democracy of Noise, Dan Pinkerton has written the perfect summary of our surreal, depressing-to-the-point-of-hilarity times. A once-in-a-century recession followed by a global pandemic, amid hundred-year floods happening, it seems, every half an hour. And all of it ushered in by a clown college of politicians, TV pitchmen, influencers, not to mention a rather famous former reality show host. These poems are a Venn diagram of all of us. And don’t be fooled: this isn’t some idle art; if you pay attention, you might just recognize what’s wrong in our shared life, or your own. In a country where book bannings are now a point of pride, it’s rare for any book, especially a poetry title, to be important. But this one, without question is.
Now Through Labor Day: A State Fair Love Story | Romance
Kayli Schaaf
134 pages; available in paperback and as an ebook
Published August, 2018
Annie Jenkins doesn’t believe in a power larger than herself, but the Minnesota State Fair won’t let her stay away. Through craft beers and Pronto Pups and a flowering onion or two, she reconnects with some of the most important people in her life at a time she needs them the most.
A Hundred Years from Launch | Romance
Kayli Schaaf
Published September, 2022
273 pages; available in a paperback, and as an e-book
If Terra is humankind’s last hope, Sera doesn’t see a way forward. Her entire life has been aboard a space station on the far side of a planet with air she can’t breathe and pressure she can’t bear, despite fifty years of work on the planet’s surface. She has never been happy on Terra. When Cam, the person she was supposed to spend her life with, shares a secret that changes everything, it only gets worse. Sera has never seen the sun, felt a warm breeze, or heard the crash of waves against a shore, so she builds a virtual reality worth living in. She doesn’t want to make Terra home. She wants to escape. But when Earth begins its final evacuation, Sera realizes her ability to create worlds may be what saves them all.