DEAD MALL PRESS
A micro-press creating handmade chapbooks.
Half of of the press's earnings are donated to mutual aid, anti-carceral, and social justice organizations.
DMP is transparent about money, splits income equally with writers, and stands against the economy of prestige, professionalization, and prizes.
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All books are edited, designed, printed, and distributed by RM Haines.
For more info on origins, practices, and principles, please see this announcement.
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Email: deadmallpress@gmail.com
Twitter: @deadmallpress
CURRENT FUND-RAISING PERIOD
Currently, all sales are split 50/50 between writer and press. Of the press's half, 50% -- or a quarter of all sales from both books -- will be donated to Confluence HRKC, "a harm reduction collective serving people who use drugs and those who love them in the Kansas City, MO area." This organization was agreed upon by myself (RM) and both writers (Amalia and Franziska), and we are proud to support their work providing autonomy and life-saving care for a criminalized and vulnerable population. Receipts will be provided at the end of the pre-order period.
BOOKSTORE
SORRY TO MISS YOU
by Franziska Hofhansel
Pre-Order: March 6, 2023
Shipping: April 3, 2023
In this interwoven collection of poetry and fiction, we encounter radicalized fish, a dialogue involving a paint chip, and a border between Wal-Mart and God’s love. Through a mixture of the cosmic and the intimate, the real and the unreal, the voices here almost vibrate with feeling as they lead us through our own mesmerizing and insane world.
28 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$12.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
$5.00 (for PDF)
THE PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION OF REALNESS
by Amalia Tenuta
Pre-Order: March 6, 2023
Shipping: April 3, 2023
A collection of (anti-)lyric and visual poetry, the writing in this chapbook collides relentlessly with the possibilities of life under racial capitalism. The language moves through a kaleidoscope of registers and modes, from citation to illustration to a damaged and vital lyricism. At its core is a sustained examination of gender, of how we theorize it, and of the irreducibility of transgender life.
29 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$12.00
(for 7" x 8.5" booklet)
5.00 (for PDF)
INTERROGATION DAYS
by R.M. Haines
Released: Nov. 14, 2022
A chapbook of poems examining the US "War on Terror," featuring CIA textbooks, IMAX propaganda, Bush's paintings, and bin Laden's love of prosody. Half of all proceeds go to the Guantánamo Survivors Fund, which you can read about in this blog post. Also, you can find a sample poem here and read an interview
28 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$10.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF: free
CIVIL SOCIETY
by R.M. Haines
Released: April 4, 2022
Micro-chapbook of prose poems tracing the bizarre fusion of militarism, fascism, mysticism, and unhinged media that bombarded the US psyche from 2017-2021. An early, shorter version of this sequence can be read in Prolit.
10 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$6.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF: free
DYSNOMIA
by R.M. Haines
Released: April 4, 2022
Chaotic micro-chapbook suffering the collision of
national paranoia, the Furies, the Law of the Fathers, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, and the ever-incoming Asteroid. For more information and a few sample poems, please see this post.
11 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$6.00
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF: free
THREE ESSAYS
by R.M. Haines
Released: April 4, 2022
Three essays on the poetics of psycho-materialism, with special attention to the work of Arthur Rimbaud and Sean Bonney.Samples of the first two essays can be found here and here. A sample of the third essay can be found here.
24 pages (not counting front and back matter)
$8.50
(for 5.5" x 8.5" booklet)
PDF: free
ORDER FORM
Please fill out the form below and make a payment (cost of book(s) plus $4.50 total for shipping) at one of the following vendors:
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Once I have both your order and your payment (including shipping), I will email you a receipt and shipping info.