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The Ways I Tried to Call You Home
by Christina Brown
This is a book about near misses; about codependency; about unfinished business. It is about trying to make a home of another person—what that effort gives and what it takes. “The Ways I Tried to Call You Home” is an exploration of what stays long after a relationship has ended.
February 2025.
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Recurring Characters
by Evan Chelsee
This is a story about the scripts we have a hard time letting go of and the moments we focus on, to the exclusion of everything else.Through playlists, text messages, flowcharts, and other forms, recurring characters tells the story of one chaotic year and its reverberations.
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The Ways I Tried to Call You Home
By Christina Brown
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"Christina Brown’s 'The Ways I Tried to Call You Home' is a passionate, tender love story that pays bittersweet tribute to those magnetic yet tumultuous relationships that shake us, crack us open, and ultimately leave us forever changed. It’s easy to get lost in the delicious wistfulness of these pages, just as these young lovers are lost in each other like “two waves swallowing each other.” There is a hypnotic quality to these exquisite poems as they glide smoothly through the liminal, foggy dreamscape of memory, somersaulting in a play of language, cresting and breaking in a crescendo of nostalgia. This collection presents a savory taste of a dizzying intimacy wrapped in the push and pull of need. Though the relationship inevitably ends in heartbreak, it’s clear that some soul connections are deeply ingrained in our bones even long after the person we once loved is gone." - Nancy Lynée Woo, author of I’d Rather Be Lightning
"Christina goes beyond the breakup poem, exploring the universe of absence made around another person. This book is for anyone that has held onto someone who may not have been fully there to begin with." — Evan Chelsee, author of Recurring Characters
“To read this poetry collection is to witness the beauty, fallibility, and torment of love. Brown's verse is both soft and visceral, peeling back layers of the heart to expose its anatomical and sentimental truths.” — Tiffany Michelle Brown, author of How Lovely to Be a Woman: Stories and Poems