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Praise for As If Scattered“As If Scattered is rich with penetrating insights into all the various hidden corners of being human. The poems here are surrounded with that otherwise ‘unseen unshared tenderness’ that arises when we take risks in love and creativity, when we face our inner worlds and our relationships with acceptance. They look unflinchingly at love, aging, and death with an unwaveringly empathic eye.”
—Judith Pacht, author of Infirmary for a Private Soul & A Cumulous Fiction “These evocations between poet and the body of the self & the beloved, mortality, dream, psyche, fable, heart, and time, transport as they witness and instruct in an intimate landscape that, at times, stuns with skilled linguistic precision and an opulence found within lyric constraint. Readers are in for a treat in this poet’s gritty, grand, and mystical hands: ‘Come close to me my love, close as you can. / When you get here / I will make you something nice.’ Well, who can resist that?” —Michelle Bitting, Pacific Palisades Poet Laureate (2012) & author of Notes to the Beloved “The poems here are raw yet elegant. They are erotic, direct, detailed, musical and carry with them moments of joyful experience, but also the desolate fears, that for all of us, lurk ahead. This poet’s language is ravishing! The final elegy for the poet’s mother is breathtaking. I have read every word of this collection. Lucky me! Buy this book and read it!” —Susan Terris, author of Memos “In Holaday Mason’s poems there’s the sense of having come through, of having arrived at ‘moments / you can’t make up,’ moments urgently evergreen. Imperfection is here too, and illness, wars, the endless bad news and old demons, losses that no one escapes. And time, always time. That’s how it works. Yet there’s beauty in that, too, as these poems so memorably show us: ‘Midsummer behind us—a leaping wild fox.’ Moments, and poems, like this are not soon forgotten.” —Mary Ann Samyn, author of Captivity Narrative HOLADAY MASON is the author of five previous collections of poetry--Towards the Forest, Dissolve, The Red Bowl: A Fable in Poems, The “She” Series: A Venice Correspondence (with Sarah Maclay), and The Weaver’s Body—as well as two chapbooks--Interlude & Light Spilling From its Own Cup. Nominated for multiple Pushcart prizes, publications include Hotel Amerika, Spillway, Solo, Pool, Poetry International, The Laurel Review & more. Co-editor for Beyond Baroque’s anthology Echo 681, where she has also led writing workshops, she is currently poetry editor for online art & poetry magazine Furious Pure and was previously poetry editor for Mental Shoes. A portrait & fine art photographer focusing on the surreal nature of beauty and humans as a part of nature, she has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1993. Ms. Mason lives in Venice California with a mean-ass cat named Ms. T.T. (AKA Ms. Twirly Tail) a big ol’ dog named Chewie & her husband, the musician and educator Adrian Baer (#jellybirdla). She can be found at #holadaymasonphotography, #holadaymason, holadaymason.com or holadaymasonphotography.com.
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An imprint of What Books Press, Los Angeles
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GIANT CLAW is a small press located in Los Angeles, California. We are an imprint of What Books Press. Both presses are run by the Glass Table Collective, a diverse group of artists and writers.
In keeping with the original vision of What Books Press, GIANT CLAW will be publishing unique works of literary merit. In addition, GIANT CLAW will seek out and publish ground-breaking books of rigorous intellectual imagination and accomplishment. Submit to Giant Claw via the What Books Press Submittable page. Click here to see if submissions are open. For all other inquiries, please contact publisher Gail Wronsky at [email protected] or (310) 663-2130. |