WINNER OF THE CARTER ROSS FICTION AWARD.

“A magical and experimental story of a Victorian Traveling Couch and his foot stomping owner Girl. Girl is a young woman who fearlessly attempts to break free from the struggles of age, choice, and lost love by exploring the world from the back of her airborne couch! Full of lyrically depicted adventures in graveyards, gypsy meadows, and the inside of tepees, Girl desperately tries to escape what she claims to be “too much to deal with.” By experiencing the fantastical events of living life, Girl may just find her outings with Couch reveal an even bigger adventure within herself.”

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Swirling in a vision of lyrical images and marching to the rhythms of her own written beats, poet Alise Versella has honored me with the freedom to represent her one of a kind onion heart and a few wild stanzas of the word she lives in for the covers of her latest books.

“I am a shy girl who on more than one occasion has been afraid to speak loud, but poetry has always been the ether in my veins and the oxygen I bleed, it is my Five Foot Voice, my Onion Heart, I am peeling back the layers of myself like a lotus unfurling its petals in order to grow fully in the waters that can sometimes weigh it down. I’m writing poetry to find myself; I’m writing poetry to save the world.” -AV

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