November 27th, 2012 / 12:20 am
Author News & Presses & Web Hype

Mira Gonzalez has a book coming out

Mira Gonzalez‘s first book, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, is now available for pre-order from Sorry House, a new press founded by Spencer Madsen. It will be published in January. The trailer above is by Meggie Green and Michael Inscoe.

It’s a book of poems. I’ve read the manuscript and enjoyed it. The poems are declarative, metaphorical, full of imagination and dreams as well as physical events. They create a feeling of rudderlessness, an uncanny mixture of confusion, sadness, and detached introspection.

Click here to read a poem by her on her tumblr and see one of her collages, which I also like. Also there’s these poems and this one.

As an added bonus, Mira is a real fun, nice person to interact with, and her Twitter is very enjoyable and funny and zany.

Sorry House has rounded up an impressive group of blurbs from Blake Butler, Melissa Broder, Brad Listi, Tao Lin, and Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez.

I feel nice that Mira will have a book out in January and I’m glad Spencer is making a press according to his particular tastes and collaborating with lots of good people.

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68 Comments

  1. Mira Gonzalez

      sweeeeeet

  2. Willis Plummer

      everything about this; the article, the press, the people, the book… it’s all sweet

  3. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi

  4. Jackson Nieuwland

      it wont let me comment ‘hi’ because i already said that to mira

  5. Willis Plummer

      i feel like if you know mira on the internet and you aren’t in <3 with her, you're lying to yourself… you know?

  6. Jackson Nieuwland

      i honestly don’t know. just wish i was closer friends with everyone

  7. Mira Gonzalez

      hi guys

  8. Jackson Nieuwland

      cool people

  9. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi stephen

  10. A D Jameson

      Stephen you know all these authors where do you meet them all?

  11. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi. i like some of your posts but not all. i liked the ones about generating text. you seem nice and friendly

  12. Willis Plummer

      the man of the hour. just wait till i find a hotdog liquid pit big enough for both of us to fit…

  13. Willis Plummer

      jackson is in my top five favoriite interenet people

  14. Willis Plummer

      the internet bro. the internet…

  15. Willis Plummer

      sweet tweets

  16. Stephen Tully Dierks

      Hi Adam

  17. Stephen Tully Dierks

      thru dee internet

  18. Jackson Nieuwland

      damn seems unrealistic. what about: spencer madsen, mira gonzalez, tao lin, the other people who blurbed this book, stephen tully dierks, other people, surely there are five you prefer

  19. A D Jameson

      Thank you.

      I try to be friendly to everyone and if I fail in that I instantly regret it.

  20. A D Jameson

      I’ve been hearing a lot about that, but where can I find it?

  21. A D Jameson

      Stephen hi

  22. A D Jameson

      Holy shit, there’s a dee internet now? I can’t keep up!

  23. Jackson Nieuwland

      stephen

  24. Jackson Nieuwland

      no egrets

  25. A D Jameson

      I did just get a smart phone, though, over the Thanksgiving holiday. And have almost figured out how to use it. Watch out world! … … Although what I mainly want to know is how I can read G.I. Joe comics on it …

  26. A D Jameson

      Nor eaglets.

  27. Jackson Nieuwland

      or nest eggs

  28. A D Jameson

      Mm, I don’t know about that. Nest eggs seem important? People keep telling me that, so I keep meaning to investigate them….

  29. Mira Gonzalez

      everything is fantastic

  30. tao lin

      sweet

  31. dl.flsxzkmrkyrzk

      yes, i am her no. 1 fangirl

  32. Jackson Nieuwland

      I would advise you not to investigate eggs while their mother is nesting. She will likely feel threatened and behave violently towards you

  33. Stephen Michael McDowell

      sweet

  34. Stace

      niiiiice

  35. Scott McClanahan

      This is so great.

  36. Chris Dankland

      mostly just commenting because I want this post to have a bunch of comments, Mira is a really good writer, looking forward to reading this

  37. Chris Dankland

      I .

  38. Chris Dankland

      would

  39. Chris Dankland

      like

  40. Chris Dankland

      to

  41. Chris Dankland

      see more

  42. Chris Dankland

      stuff like this

  43. Chris Dankland

      on HTML Giant

  44. ZZZZZIPPP

      IS THIS A PARTY

  45. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi chris

  46. Jackson Nieuwland

      seymour

  47. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi buttercup. i am glad you like celestial shit

  48. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi tao

  49. Jackson Nieuwland

      stephen please

  50. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi scott

  51. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi stacey

  52. Jackson Nieuwland

      sweet simile

  53. Jackson Nieuwland

      can’t tell if this is an i or an L

  54. Jackson Nieuwland

      yes. unzip

  55. Jackson Nieuwland

      lets bring it back to the 2010 era

  56. Jackson Nieuwland

      tutu is a good word because it is two tus

  57. Jackson Nieuwland

      sweet abstract/minimal simile

  58. Jackson Nieuwland

      wood

  59. Stephen Tully Dierks

      hi! whats up jax

  60. Jackson Nieuwland

      I have a draft of an email to you in gmail. It’s not finished yet, in fact it’s barely started. Almost just wrote ‘barefully’ instead of ‘barely’. I’ll probably send it tonight. How are you bro? I like your posts on this website. I like referring to this website as this website instead of its actual name

  61. ZZZZZIPPP

      IF ZZZZIPP UNZIPPED IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

  62. Austin Islam

      if there are like, corners, of the internet, this has got to be one of the sweetest corners, that i’ve found, like, today and for the past few days

      i want to read this

      also nice ivdeo and great blurbs.. ‘hype machine’

  63. Jackson Nieuwland

      It is important to take risks

  64. Jackson Nieuwland

      hi austin. a good thing to do would be to count how many corners that internet has and use that number to figure out what geometric shape it is

  65. Mira Gonzalez

      the internet is 25 equilateral triangles

  66. Jackson Nieuwland

      that’s all good and well but how do they intersect?

  67. Willis Plummer

      The universe (which others call the Internet) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings

  68. Jackson Nieuwland

      Really like the idea of the internet and the universe being the same thing. Thinking ‘how haven’t I thought of that before’