International Orders available via Asterism Distribution.

Standard Edition: $18

Limited Edition: $30

26 copies signed/lettered by the author. Includes limited edition print of a collage by the author.

In Eric Amling's Wet Manual, nothing is too geologic or fragile, too monstrous or saccharine to occupy its own landscape of attention. Two potted plants, a father who plays god, a banana going bad in a bag, the Santa Ana winds inhabit the same careful plane. The map, the manual that forms, wry and grief-laden in turns, rushes through a distinctly American terrain. There are glass Uzis filled with rum, a dentist's kids idling on jet skis, bogs confident in their burping, keyboards that have become sundials, and meteorites hidden in every Bob Ross painting. There is also immeasurable sadness, with the funny and strange coming at an obvious cost. What do you even do with poems anymore, the speaker laments. As the poems wind with the tightest of control, they remind us that we are at once enormous and negligible and also simply passing through.

A kitchen drawer with various sauce packets...
The whole world having been at some point put in various types of mouths.