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              Stumbles and Half Slips - Advanced Ordering
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              Novel by Zack Wilson
              184 pages
              $17.50 plus shipping
              ISBN 978-1-926860-09-1

              Epic Rites Press, May 2012

              “Zack Wilson is one of that most important, yet often most overlooked, breed of writers: a chronicler of the extraordinary hearts that beat out ordinary lives.”

              – Matthew David Scott
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              An Age of Monsters
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              Stories by William Taylor Jr.
              Featuring photography by Julie Michelle

              182 pages
              $17.50 plus shipping
              ISBN: 978-1-926860-08-4

              Epic Rites Press, November 2011

              “William Taylor Jr. is a clever, natural born story teller who loves to describe people and relationships, especially when things fuck up.” 
              – George Anderson


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              Frostbitten
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              Poetry by Mark Walton
              103 pages
              $17.50 plus shipping

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              978-1-926860-00-8

              Epic Rites Press, November 2011


              “I found Frostbitten lucid, harrowing and compelling.  It’s a cogent and passionate first collection shot through with hard-won self-knowledge.”
              – Paul Magrs
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              We’re No Butchers
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              A play by Rob Plath
              40 pages, 8.5” x 11”
              $10 + shipping

              ISBN: 978-1-926860-07-7

              Epic Rites Press, August 2011


              “Rob Plath exudes divine madness.  He is Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera slamming the same keyboard.”
              – Dan Fante

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              Crunked*
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              Poetry by Jack Henry
              113 pages
              $17.50 plus shipping

              ISBN 978-1-926860-01-5

              Epic Rites Press, June 2011


              “The poems veer between being heartbreakingly sad and
              really, blackly funny.  It’s really good stuff, very powerful.”
              – Tony O’Neill

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              Can’t Stop Now!
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              Poetry by John Yamrus
              136 pages
              $17.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 978-1-926860-06-0

              Epic Rites Press, March 2011


              “Terse profundity would be the phrase I would use were someone to pin me down and force me to describe this work by John Yamrus.”
              – Zack Wilson
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              Blood And Greasepaint
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              Stories by Karl Koweski
              202 pages
              $17.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 978-1-926860-03-9

              Epic Rites Press, January 2011


              “Koweski shows his breadth as a writer in this witty and engaging collection.”
              – Rebecca Schumejda

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              Look inside Blood and Greasepaint by Karl Koweski.
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              There’s A Fist Dunked In Blood Beating In My Chest
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              Poetry by Rob Plath
              179 pages
              $15.50 +shipping
              ISBN: 9781926860022

              Epic Rites Press, October 2010


              “In the war over the heart and soul of modern poetry, Rob Plath will be the last man standing.”
              – John Yamrus

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              Epic Rites Journal: Building A Better Bomb
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              Poetry and Prose by various contributors.
              Edited by Wolfgang Carstens
              146 pages
              $15.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184494


              Epic Rites Press, April 2010

              “This is a not just a journal, this is a weapon against miles and miles of rotting woods of so-called modern writing.”
              – Rob Plath


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              Doing Cartwheels On Doomsday Afternoon
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              Poetry by John Yamrus
              124 pages
              $15.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184487

              Epic Rites Press, March 2010


              “The poetry of John Yamrus demands
              more attention.  There is real blood in this man’s work.”
              – Todd Moore

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              Crudely Mistaken For Life
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              Poetry by Wolfgang Carstens
              98 pages
              $15.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184463

              Epic Rites Press, March 2010


              “This book grows on you.  Enters your blood.  This is compassionate, carefully crafted poetry fascinating to read and worthy of detailed
              study.”
              – George Anderson
              Look inside Crudely Mistaken For Life by Wolfgang Carstens.
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              Dead Reckoning
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              Poetry by Todd Moore
              146 pages
              $15.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184470

              Epic Rites Press, March 2010


              “Every word, every line, every poem is stitched together perfectly, seamlessly with not a single thread out of place.  These poems go much deeper than bone, they speak to the blood in us.”
              – Wolfgang Carstens
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              Laughing At Funerals
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              Poetry by David McLean
              98 pages
              $15.50 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184456

              Epic Rites Press, March 2010


              “The thing that really strikes me about these mostly very short poems is the economy of language McLean employs.  He gets it.  He understands it.  He knows that it doesn’t take a very long knife to kill... just a sharp one.”
              – John Yamrus
              Look inside Laughing At Funerals by David McLean.
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              The Broken And The Damned
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              Poetry by Jason Hardung
              90 pages
              $15 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184449

              Epic Rites Press, November 2009


              Vivid imagery combined with abundant candor make this collection sing.  Travels on the vulnerable landscape of the psyche, memorable, beautiful, painful, human.”
              – Ellyn Maybe
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              A Bellyful Of Anarchy
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              Poetry by Rob Plath
              302 pages
              $25 + shipping
              ISBN: 9780981184418

              Epic Rites Press, July 2009


              “Plath has taken skin from man... given it back to God... and made cosmic provolone of us all... one stinking pink wheel of cheese.”
              – Frankie Metro
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              Hellbound
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              Poetry by David McLean
              48 pages
              $10
              ISBN: 9780981184425

              Epic Rites Press, 2009


              “Forget cheesy horror film remakes.  If you want to get scared, really scared, wrap your trembling fingers around Hellbound and let David McLean lead you deep into the labyrinth of the human psyche and leave you for dead.
               – Wolfgang Carstens
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