New poetry collection by Alexandra Naughton, published by Spooky Girlfriend Press
San Francisco, CA - Alexandra Naughton’s new poetry collection, a place a feeling something he said to you, published by the independent literary house Spooky Girlfriend Press in January 2020 is “a graceful, fearless, and regrettably relatable book about surviving an abusive relationship and finding power in telling your story,” says Amy Berkowitz.
Copies may be ordered via the Spooky Girlfriend website, and to purchase a bulk order for your bookstore please email editor@spookygirlfriendpress.com.
This book is a warning. One that starts as a secret, evolves into a whisper, and ends in a blaring alarm that shatters us to our core. Recounting the horrors of finding oneself suffocating in an abusive relationship, Naughton devotes herself to regaining her narrator's agency. As she tries to write a clear path out, we find that it's never as easy as it seems. a place a feeling something he said to you devotes itself to narrative as a means to cleanse, heal and write oneself out of a nightmare. The effect is gut-wrenching in its vulnerability; livid in its vividness. a place a feeling something he said to you is a brave and timely work.
- Ashley Obscura, author of Ambient Technology
A compilation of advance praise for the book can be found on the author’s website.
An official book release tour is being scheduled in locations around the Bay Area for late March and April 2020.
Excerpts from a place a feeling something he said to you have been published in various literary journals including Berfrois, Placeholder Press, Panoply Zine, Real Fake Lake, Zoomoozophone Review, along with a piece forthcoming in Witch Craft Magazine.
a place a feeling something he said to you is Naughton’s tenth published poetry collection, making its home alongside her previously published works such as Rapid Transit published by Nomadic Press in 2018, My Posey Taste Like: The Paradise Lost Edition published by Bottlecap Press in 2017, and You Could Never Objectify Me More Than I've Already Objectified Myself published by Punk Hostage Press in 2015.