good reads

the high point of my day yesterday was getting joanna ruocco's chapbook 'the baker's daughter' in the mail. i read the whole thing right then out on the front stoop. it's a short little thing. the chapbooks from mud luscious are petite and precious (in that good, closeness-provoking kind of way). it was very much a grim little fairy tale in many ways but in a contemporary cadence that i really loved. i checked out the mud luscious web site this morning so that i could link to her chap so's you can buy yourself a copy - all their stuff is on sale right now - but i didn't see her chapbook there anymore. all gone! but while you're at it, may as well get a copy of molly gaudry's 'we take me apart'. it is awesome! a strange and stark fairy tale told in verse. a seamstress. a heart-broken daughter. just gorgeous and i'd say it belongs high on the list of things to read next.

all this to say... mud luscious is putting out some stuff i really really like! check em out! there are online issues available too. lots of totally cool writing.