A Guide for the Practical Abductee by E Kristin Anderson

Poetry
32 pages
8.5" x 5.5" single signature with hand sewn binding
Published June 2014

It is hard to imagine a selection of poems that is more liberating, more imaginative, more real than the poems in this chapbook. In this collection no topic is off limits, no subject taboo. This collection reaches fantastic on so many levels.

What others are saying...

In GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICAL ABDUCTEE, Anderson leaps into an array of narrative personas with an actor's gusto --even once writing from the point of view of an animal. These are special, biting poems, written with salty/sweet relatability; who hasn't felt that they are "a traffic light set on yellow forever"?

It may be no accident that the animal she chooses to inhabit is a unicorn.

-- Kirsten Smith, author of Trinkets and screenwriter of 10 Things I Hate About You.

This guide comes from the spirit in the Ouija board, the unseen voice in the haunted forest, the shapeshifter between worlds. E. Kristin Anderson takes on the role of the mysterious mentor who has "felt the soft walls of the institution", offering a roadmap to the reader. From the loneliness of the Sasquatch to the last traces of the wolfman, this is a collection "rife with would-be magic".

--Kirsten Irving, Editor of Fuselit magazine and Sidekick Books, and author of Never, Never, Never Come Back.

Otherworldly and addictively odd, the poems in A Guide for the Practical Abductee offer insight into the obsessive human need to rely on legends, magic, and mystery. Deftly switching between powerful narrative voices, E. Kristen Anderson reveals the truth behind the strong need for stories. Smart, peculiar, and devastatingly honest, Anderson’s poems celebrate the unexplainable dark and the desire that lurks there.
-- Ada Limón, author of Lucky Wreck and Sharks in the River