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Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights by Belinda Subraman, Illustrated by César Ivan As a Registered Nurse, Belinda Subraman has worked in several difficult areas, but from 2001 to 2007 she was working as a hospice nurse. Hospice is the art of preparation, and when Belinda's own father reached his final days in 2008, she took what preparation she had and flew back to Carolina to assist him in his passage. No doubt she was more aware than most of us that no preparation is adequate. Unlikely 2.0 is priviledged to present the resulting book of poetry, Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights. It is not an easy book of poetry to read. It is easy enough to understand—though Belinda's extensive poetic education is clear, this is essentially plain-language poetry, written to be accessible by anyone. But Belinda's brutal analysis of her grief brings the reader's own tragedies into sharp definition. The book mercilessly explores the author's most painful memories, and aspires to share the most fundamental aspects of human experience with the reader. It is by turns discomfiting and comforting, in the way that great poetry is meant to be. Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights contains thirty poems by Belinda Subraman and five full-color images by César Ivan, spanning forty-eight pages. It sells for $10, and shipping on this item is free to the U.S. and Canada. If you'd like to learn more about it, check out Unlikely 2.0. ISBN: 978-0-9822934-0-9
Anonymous Gun by Kurtice Kucheman Published in 2008 and available as a free downloadable chapbook or a serial, this chapbook is now available for sale to the less masochistic or those otherwise disinclined to read chapbooks on a computer screen. Anonymous Gun the sprawling, neo-pulp novella by Kurtice Kucheman, a.k.a. Kurt Lee. Kurt explores addiction, violence, and every sort of depravity with a sort of icy passion that'll leave you questioning the reader as much as the narrator. It's forty-eight pages and we're selling it for just $5.

Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights
by Belinda Subraman, Illustrated by César Ivan
As a Registered Nurse, Belinda Subraman has worked in several difficult areas, but from 2001 to 2007 she was working as a hospice nurse. Hospice is the art of preparation, and when Belinda's own father reached his final days in 2008, she took what preparation she had and flew back to Carolina to assist him in his passage. No doubt she was more aware than most of us that no preparation is adequate.

Unlikely 2.0 is priviledged to present the resulting book of poetry, Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights. It is not an easy book of poetry to read. It is easy enough to understand—though Belinda's extensive poetic education is clear, this is essentially plain-language poetry, written to be accessible by anyone. But Belinda's brutal analysis of her grief brings the reader's own tragedies into sharp definition. The book mercilessly explores the author's most painful memories, and aspires to share the most fundamental aspects of human experience with the reader. It is by turns discomfiting and comforting, in the way that great poetry is meant to be.

Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights contains thirty poems by Belinda Subraman and five full-color images by César Ivan, spanning forty-eight pages. It sells for $10, and shipping on this item is free to the U.S. and Canada. If you'd like to learn more about it, check out Unlikely 2.0.
ISBN: 978-0-9822934-0-9

Anonymous Gun
by Kurtice Kucheman
Published in 2008 and available as a free downloadable chapbook or a serial, this chapbook is now available for sale to the less masochistic or those otherwise disinclined to read chapbooks on a computer screen. Anonymous Gun the sprawling, neo-pulp novella by Kurtice Kucheman, a.k.a. Kurt Lee. Kurt explores addiction, violence, and every sort of depravity with a sort of icy passion that'll leave you questioning the reader as much as the narrator. It's forty-eight pages and we're selling it for just $5.


Moonlight on Moloch by Luke Buckham, illustrated by Kelly Hoffman Published in 2005 and available free at Unlikely 2.0, this chapbook is now available for sale to the less masochistic or those otherwise disinclined to read chapbooks on a computer screen. Moonlight on Moloch is a proud, feisty condemnation of American values and morés. Billing itself as "twenty redneck symphonies," this book criticizes both intellectualism and "family values" with the same thoughtful cynicism. Its twenty-eight-page interior includes six full-color photographs. You can buy it for $7.
When Red Blood Cells Leak by Anne McMillen Published in 2005 and available free at Unlikely 2.0, this chapbook is now available for sale to the less masochistic or those otherwise disinclined to read chapbooks on a computer screen. When Red Blood Cells Leak is a complex, sophisticated, and beautifully ugly journey into hatred of the self, hatred of the other, and too much sex with both. Graced with Matt Sesow's oh-so-appropriate cover image of a woman with projectile nipples attacking a small bird, this chapbook will leave you with the uncomfortable, guilty feeling that all modern human interaction should. It's twenty-eight pages, and we sell it for $5.
Star-Spangled Banter by Bob Marcacci Published in 2007 and available free at Unlikely 2.0, this chapbook is now available for sale to the less masochistic or those otherwise disinclined to read chapbooks on a computer screen. Star-Spangled Banter is an extroverted passage into the psychological and spirtual American Self; a discussion of boredom, lust, greed, fury, self-righteousness, and other peaceful motives in wartime. Laid out in a wild, spiraling projective verse, Star-Spangled Banter is a controlled and organized wail, a study of the agony of the destructive nature in every nation's soul. It's twenty-eight pages, and we sell it for $5. The cover art by Nancy Victoria Davis originally appeared in Unlikely's July 4^th Issue, 2004.
Blood and Salsa/Painting Rust double-chapbook by Jonathan Penton Published in 2006 and written by the Editor-in-Chief of Unlikely 2.0, these twin chapbooks, bound together in one volume, attempt to reconcile the politics of the bedroom with the politics of the wider world. Check out Jonathan's personal page for more information, or Mary Jo Malo's review at Galatea Resurrects and Tom Bradley's in-depth analysis at Nthposition. Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust come to sixty-four pages and sell for $7. Cover art by Shari Nettles.
Prosthetic Gods by Jonathan Penton Well, I mean, this is completely unacceptable. This book wasn't published by Unlikely Stories, Unlikely 2.0, or Unlikely Books at all. Rather, it was published by Winged City Chapbooks, a division of New Sins Press. I guess our editor just figures he can sneak anything he wants to in here. Whatever. If you'd like to learn more about it, you can check out Jonathan's personal page. In any case, it's twenty-eight pages and sells for $6. Cover art by Sri Nash Parker.