The Pasolini Book — Stacy Szymaszek

Golias Books is pleased to announce

New Releases for 2022

We are very happy to announce two new publications for 2022: Matt Longabucco's Heroic Dose and Stacy Szymaszek's The Pasolini Book. We received our largest and strongest pool of submissions ever this summer, and we've spent the last several months reading, rereading, and discussing quite a number of excellent projects; thank you so much to everyone who shared their work. In the end, we were thrilled to find in Stacy's and Matt's manuscripts not only a good fit for Golias but the kind of sustained attention, strong conceptual and genealogical architecture, and care for the felicity of individual words that any press would be lucky to publish.

Longabucco's Heroic Dose collects longer poems and serial works into an extended journey in which lyric and critical reflections collocate a range of social geographies and milieus, narrative temporalities and mythic histories, into a richly guided passage through our ongoing contemporary underworld. Szymaszek's The Pasolini Book documents a nearly two-decade engagement with the "civic poetry" of Pier Paolo Pasolini and a two-fold cultivation of identity and vocation through the daily work of language and the re-visionary creation of one's own intellectual and political precursors. Suffice it to say that we were deeply impressed by both projects' combination of intellectual rigor and commitment with a clear and contagious enjoyment of words, thoughts, and images that make each line a springboard for one's own inquiry.

We offer our warmest thanks and congratulations to Stacy and Matt, and we look forward to making these books available next year.

Please stay tuned for more information on release dates and readings, and as always, thank you all for your support of the press. Feel free to take a look at our books here, and consider ordering one or more of the excellent titles from our back catalogue that you may have missed or that might make a good gift in the upcoming months.

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of the full-length books Emptied of All Ships (2005), Hyperglossia (2009), hart island (2015), Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (2016), which won the Ottoline xPrize from Fence Books and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2017, A Year From Today (2018) and Famous Hermits (forthcoming). Once the director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (2007–18), Szymaszek is now a nonprofit arts consultant and teacher, living in the Hudson Valley region of New York. Szymaszek's work was recognized with a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in Poetry. She serves on the boards of Wendy's Subway and The Committee on Poetry.

Matt Longabucco is the author of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain (Ugly Duckling Presse 2021). His chapbooks include Athens Notebook and The Sober Day. Poems and essays have appeared recently in Mirage, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.