This book is a humble attempt to show appreciation for all the support received in 2012 for the author and Punk Hostage Press. This modestly priced collection is available to you in order to promote the works that Punk Hostage Press plans on putting forth in 2013 and beyond. Enjoy.

A collection of Frank Reardon's most recent work that covers the transitions of the poet as he has traversed the country and developed his style into a diverse and heartfelt voice that creates hope inside the turmoil of modern living while painting vivid images for readers to walk into like a road worn pair of shoes gifted to a barefoot traveler in order to make it a little bit further down the road. "Read Frank Reardon at your own risk. He'll open your heart with a corkscrew and leave you wide-eyed and longing for more." -Dan Fante, author of Chump Change, Mooch,"86'd" and Spitting Off Tall Buildings

The first verb in SB Stokes' magnum opus, A History of Broken Love Things, is "wanna." He is a poet of hope, expectation, and desire, which prepare us for the erratic path of life as it is actually lived: "a large weepy beast, / a guy with some hats, / a stark-raging husband, / an ineffectual queen." In the beautifully titled poem, "dark magick / a solitude by duke," he writes, "The piano pounds its own heart into bits." But even desolation offers its glittering souvenir. Read this book and prepare to have your life lifted, your heart broken. Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern American Poetry

With wit and candor, Hollie Hardy writes for her life. "Break up your own little tedium," these poems remind us. With their riffs on existing literature and recurrent crises, Hardy's poems show us what can be gained from trying old tricks in new ways. Hardy shows us how to survive a life lived just over the edge. These poems are playful in the way tussling wolf cubs are playful. They are physical and practical. They are recognizing and revealing strength. Camille T. Dungy, author of 'Smith Blue' and 'What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison'

Men in the Company of Women: A Provocative Anthology of Praise & Persuasion, is a surprisingly, candid, honest and cutting edge collective of contemporary literature written by men from across the globe. Each passage is an open door, allowing the reader a glimpse into the psyche of the male gender and the impact of women upon it relayed with cinematic vision etched upon the pages. In often voyeuristic articulation, this compilation of poetry, short stories & memoir present rare perspectives shared by over 100 brilliant male writers. From wicked to wise, this tome reaches daring new vistas of insight and intrigue; a full spectrum anthology certain to leave a searing imprint of unique viewpoints, never to be forgotten.

This is a book of language/concrete post-modern paradox poetry that has the ability to transport the reader into a multi-dimensional experience of the literary extreme. Carolyn Srygley-Moore is well-versed in the art of succinct imagery with pertinent line formations that create an inner and outer exploration in every verse.

This book marks the 50 year anniversary of A. Razor in this world. There are 50 poems in this collection, 'one for each year of my life', as the author puts it. They are pieces of work written in the 50th year of this writer's life and shared with readers in this fund raising effort for Words As Works, a non-profit group that is dedicated to bringing books, readings and workshops on writing & publishing to people who are struggling against adversity in their lives, primarily people in shelters, jails, prisons, treatment programs, literacy programs and the like. Full proceeds of this book's purchase go to fund these activities.

"How do we translate the unspeakable language of grief? In the short, harrowing lines of MOTH WING TEA, Dennis Cruz gives us his answer. This is the poetics of survival: no adornment, no romanticizing; only the simple, methodical imagery of a poet saying out loud. The juxtaposition of fresh paint, chrome, and a suffering body. The world as explained by one who knows there is more to this life than simply getting up for work. The unvarnished descriptions of violence. The voice of Dennis Cruz weaves together a patchwork of tragedies into a manifesto for poets in the 21st century. As the poet says: "the fear was never/meant/to dissuade you, /but only/to heighten/your senses." Read this book, and get to work." -Rich Villar, Executive Director, Acentos

A Collection Of Prose and Poetry from A. Razor, who has published and written and shared his work on the road and from inside prison for many years, now here is the writer's work in one book that presents many styles and influences all worked out with a genuine love that has driven a lifetime struggle for peace among the words of this world.

In this book you will find a diverse style and approach to poetry and prose writing that speaks of a lyrical lifetime experience not usually apparent in a premiere collection for a writer. Along with the experience, there is the craftsmanship of a songwriter, a modern bard of contemporary musicality. This book is an amble down the open road as well as the dark alley ways and then across a soft beach sand and on into vibrant sunsets that shine on contoured boulevards of dreams both broken and healing. 8th & Agony is a broad tapestry of wordsmithing that has been assembled here in an open parade of personal triumphs and pitfalls that coincide with the scope and vision of a writer who has tuned his work through the trials of performance in a way that has shared this experience with numerous audiences and now has been laid bare for the record here in these pages. Rich Ferguson is a well-heeled spoken word performer that brings a thespian musicianship to the stage along with a storied amount of influence and knowledge of the word, hence the diversity of style and content in this collection. This work is an exploration of poetic road mapping that convenes inside the travelogue of a life experience that touches on all the muses have to bring to bear in this world.

The long awaited book from Punk Hostage Press founding editor Iris Berry, entitled the Daughters Of Bastards, is a ride through the dirty streets of 1980s Hollywood that never stops delivering the real taste of a womanhood claiming a place for itself surrounded by the perverseness of a crumbling mystique that was once a golden tinseled dreamland.

This book is a collected works of poetry and prose that appeared on the now defunct Drew Blood Press, Ltd. imprint in 11 different chapbook titles from 1985 until 1995. It is representative of the diversity in voice A. Razor developed early on as a poet and prose writer. The meticulous work to use form and create new styles within those forms in order to better describe the environment that the writer was immersed in. A. Razor was out on the streets of Southern California at a pivotal time in the development of underground music, art and philosophy that was not attached to the academic experience for support. As the writer traveled out into the world more extensively, making alliances with other people that had a similar experience, he learned to share his viewpoints in various forms, here the example being the poetic. A. Razor was supported in his efforts by many in the marginal, anarchistic community that he was close to, as well as those that stumbled upon his work through the zine culture that thrived in the 80's. The most significant form of support came from Drew Blood and his press, run out of Drew's apartment in Riverside, CA until his death in the late 90's. This book is a collection of many of the pieces and a chronology of how they appeared, along with the titles of the chapbooks they appeared in, up to the year 1995. The author did not publish any writing again, outside of a few small lit zines and some on the internet, until 2012, when A. Razor became committed with Iris Berry to form Punk Hostage Press. A. Razor is now writing and publishing again, but this collection is a look at where he came from, where the work first bore it's meaning, where he first found community and fellowship among other writers, as marginal as they might have been. It is also a slight window on a time before the internet, when there were still writers that wrote letters to each other and traveled around the world seeking out the word in person, as if their lives depended on it, risking death, imprisonment and the maltreatment of a status quo that did not seem to have a need for them. These words have survived, but many of the people and places that inspired them have not. After some time in and out of prison, A. Razor just barely survived to bring these words back into the light. So, if this is anything at all in these pages, it is a humble testament to that survival and to those that didn't make it, but are still remembered in these words forever.