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Korrektiv Press rose from the primordial soup of a blog inspired by the spirit of Kierkegaard and Walker Percy. (The press takes its name from Kierkegaard’s effort to provide a “korrektiv” to Hegel’s philosophy of world-historical forces, asserting against those forces the significance and worth of the individual.) Korrektiv, the blog, appeared in 2004, and the press emerged miraculously from a melding of it and Godsbody in the aftermath of the great lightning storm of 2010.


New from Korrektiv Press!

 

Available now: Scarecrow Oracle — poems by Mark Anderson

Cover art by Tiffany Patterson

Mark Anderson is the oracle of memory and longing, of hide-a-beds and rusted Chevys. And these poems show him writing with his trademark sense of wonder and humor and place. I really enjoyed this collection.

—Jess Walter, author of The Cold Millions


Tulips for Elsie — poems by Jonathan Potter

Tulips for Elsie cover image

Mr. Potter’s given us a bold adventurous book with plenty of sharp turns at high speed, with some gestures toward Neruda and Merwin but also “Sk8,” a gr8 skateboarding poem, and sonnets, and brave ventures into rhymed verse, poems for friends and relatives, “Stopping by Blogs on a Frosty Evening,” and poems of passionate love with angels looking down from above. Plus tulips and Elsie.

—Garrison Keillor


Words of the Day: Doggerel — poems by Brian Jobe


What the Sky Lacks — poems by Thom Caraway


Damn Good Cookie by Chris Cook: a collection of poetry, written and spoken, shaken and stirred.


Bird’s Nest in Your Hair by Brian Jobe: a novel about bartending, old-time religion, and the twilight years of commercial pornography. Plus, poetry!


Surfing with Mel

Surfing with Mel
A Story in Script Form by Matthew Lickona
based upon
A Story in Epistolary Form by Joe Eszterhas
regarding
A Failed Film Project by Mel Gibson
based upon
The Book of Maccabees by God.

Volume 1 of the Korrektiv Press series
Lives of Famous Catholics.