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"These tiny poems are large with insight, making me remember certain things I was sure I had forgotten. There’s a range of topics from love/romance, queer sexuality, religion, death, demons/ghosts, and more. Some of these poems will be ones I think of often. And one I already made a copy of and put it on my book cart. I want to look at it every day." --Ladies of Horror Fiction
"Over the years, Walrath has easily cemented herself as Houston's premiere horror poet, and The Smallest of Bones is her best work yet. Just watch out for splinters." --Jef Rouner, Houston Press "I emerged on the other side The Smallest of Bones with a new reverence for the tenacity of both the human body and spirit. I also realized something that feels simultaneously simple and profound: while I am not unbreakable, there’s nothing wrong with being broken. And there’s nothing wrong with learning to heal." --Kay VanAntwerpen, WayWard Magazine "The Smallest of Bones is an endless autopsy of creative discoveries. It’s full of so many ideas and ways to read the collection that we may need multiple reads to feel we’ve understood a fraction of what Walrath is conveying, but each new reading will enlighten us to understanding her brilliance as a poet. It’s a poetry collection that asks for us to keep digging through the viscera of life and how we view and treat one another to see if there’s a core to be found within." —Alex Carrigan, Heavy Feather Review "There are many poets who aim for minimalism only to miss the mark and read as too meager to contain any content. Walrath has certainly found a balance between the minimal and the poignant, and her verses force the reader to deal with many of the horrors of life. There are poems about sex and gender, poems about sexuality, poems about longing and heartbreak, poems about politics, etc. This collection runs the gamut of emotions and topics, and yet maintains a cohesivity that is impressive." --Joshua Gage, Cemetery Dance "This is a visceral, intelligent, outstanding work full of forward momentum and the grabbing of ideas and the body and wrestling with conventions and finally kicking them out the door. It’s a collection of poetry inspired by parts and places of the body, and about body, and being a woman, and loving women and their bodies, and rejecting the status quo and the male gaze and grappling with self-image. I want to give copies to every woman I know, and I want to teach it in high schools, and I want everyone talking about it, and I want to read more by this author right now." —Kendra Preston Leonard "The Smallest of Bones is unique collection of small poems with a chilling and somewhat ethereal undertone throughout. Covering topics such a love, relationships, and heartbreak in such a shattering tone, then jumping into the subjects of sexuality, queerness, gender and identity and of course death, ghosts and bones." —Bethany's Bookshelf "ABSOLUTELY. FRAKKING. STUNNING POETRY." —Rebecca Crunden, author of These Violent Nights “Between stars and shards of bone, Holly Lyn Walrath invites the reader to build a skeleton with her words, to get lost between the dark spaces of curved ribs. The Smallest of Bones offers so much within each poem -- here, we wander beneath the moon and speak with ghosts; we transform under the night sky and haunt our own minds as the words encourage us to strip back the skin and expose rawness and vulnerability. A beautiful collection!” —Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland "A striking meditation on the body and its ghosts, this collection is a blossoming of bones and the trauma we hold inside, a gorgeous homage to the fever dreams and nightmares we collect, break, and survive with each and every day." —Stephanie M. Wytovich, author of The Apocalyptic Mannequin In “the smallest of bones”, blood, bones, skin, and flesh are placed on the sacrificial altar as an offering to the gods, beautifully laid out to represent life’s journey: love, identity, volition, pain, destruction, and finally, enlightenment. Raw, visceral, and powerful, each word in Walrath’s poems is selected with the care of a surgeon for the perfect incision. It is a journey we all walk and this is its handbook. —Christina Sng, Bram Stoker award winning author of A Collection of Nightmares |
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For author inquiries, please contact hlwalrath (at) gmail (dot) com