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The mission of Brick Road Poetry Press is to publish and promote poetry that entertains, amuses, edifies, and surprises a wide audience of appreciative readers.  We are not qualified to judge who deserves to be published, so we concentrate on publishing what we enjoy. Our preference is for poetry geared toward dramatizing the human experience in language rich with sensory image and metaphor, recognizing that poetry can be, at one and the same time, both familiar as the perspiration of daily labor and as outrageous as a carnival sideshow.

First Time, Every Time by Lisa Titus

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First Time, Every Time by Lisa Titus

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Publication date December 25th, 2023.

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Paperback: 99 pages
Publisher: Brick Road Poetry Press
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-950739-11-0
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces

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In Lisa Titus’ debut collection First Time, Every Time, the everyday becomes something mythic.  “Feral and alive like the hot breath of birth,” these poems straddle “the empty space between panic and bliss.”  There is playfulness and humor as well as devotion to craft.  I felt like an intruder spying on the most intimate moments in the lives of the people who populate these poems.  Sometimes I wasn’t prepared for what I encountered, but this unexpectedness is part of the journey. 

 

Jason Irwin

Author of The History of Our Vagrancies

 

 

First Time, Every Time is a ride-along with an earth goddess disguised as a bartender, poet, mother, lover and teacher. Tactile, nervy, sticky, glimmering and foreboding, Titus is incapable of spinning without belief, incanting, manifesting and celebrating the flawed and feckless life of the loving and well-loved, polishing and releasing the threads of the everyday heartbreaks and torpor. This book is a walk in the woods, a drink with a friend, a hand on your back.

 

Louisa Lam

Collaborator, Asian American Modernism with Abang-guard