Release date: April 1, 2024

New poems by Kat Giordano!

“Kat Giordano's Thumbsucker is one of those bruised, bloody-knuckled, cut-lipped books that has flung itself into life and all its suffering and is here to tell you, dripping in manna and umbra, how it survived. But behind this, cast like a shadow at dusk, is an argument that says despite its pain, its ugliness, life is beauty, is splendor, laughter and love. Read these poems for the iron in them, for Giordano's ability to rock you with a line like a surprise left hook. Return for the way these poems part the dark to show you something bright. "it felt wrong of me / to eulogize something I killed, / to miss it, even, / and still not be sorry." —Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish.

“In Thumbsucker, the dingy dive bars, ex loves, and junior high bullies of Kat Giordano’s life are portals to unexpected worlds. These poems are emotional snapshots of despair; no matter how blinding a light once was, the images always fade.” —Graham Irvin, author of I Have A Gun

“Kat Giordano has written a collection so real and so specific it might as well be your own memories. These poems puked all over my heart. These poems put their fingers in my mouth and I liked it.“ —Axel B. Kolcow, Deputy Editor of Taco Bell Quarterly

Cover design by Angelo Maneage.