Fowlpox Press: 8 books

Nathaniel S. Rounds’ newest chapbook by Fowlpox Press, And Your Dreams Will Be Made into Songs that Sell Burgers and Cars, starts full of the pleasure of watching a story, and its strife, unfold pell-mell (as if in a lunatic sidecar)as it draws you into the emotional complexity of the poet’s seemingly...

From the pen of KJ Hannah Greenberg comes this chapbook of new poetry. Fun, insightful, and lyrical, Fluid and Crystallizedfocuses primarily on challenging and, only secondarily, on pleasing. This chapbook uses words’ color and texture to provoke interpersonal mindfulness. “Risk,” not “peace,”...

New poems from Nathaniel S. Rounds, written while hugging the skirting of Fenwick Tower in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 26th floor, on a cold night in December.

My first clue into Rounds’ motivations came with some research into the title. The phrase “bread of tears” is taken from Psalm 80. The verses around it say the following:How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people? You have fed them with the bread...

Review of It’s a High Voltage AdventureNathaniel S. Rounds sits behind the steering wheel of life and weaves a tale of service jobs and common folk. He writes of the fatherhood of pig adoption, whether it be by bequeathing or building a cellar accidentally accessible to creatures. In a Maddening...

Nathaniel S. Round’s newest chapbook, “Clefts of the Rock“, morphs back and forth from the banal to the sordid in such a liquid manner as to celebrate both Jerry Mathers suburban ordinariness and Bukowski’s silken, boozy vision. A stanza from “In Rain on Rain” demonstrates this:It’s...

The latest chapbook of Nathaniel S. Rounds demands time, but to reap the rewards of his art on both a grand and miniscule scale...ah, well that is pleasure. His work succeeds not just on different levels, but in different layers all pulsing through the other. He travels from the oddly specific to...

The title reveals a tight association with painting, and one must refer to Rothko to see what is truly going on. Reading the chapbook proves helpful as well.