Celebrate the release of HOW TO TIE & UNTIE MIST by Daniel Hales, with readings by CAConrad & Daniel Hales, followed by live music (& a chance to sing along) with The Frost Heaves & Hales.
Daniel and CA will read their poetry, followed by an intermission to greet friends, make new friends, enjoy snacks & drinks, and buy books. Then The Frost Heaves & Hales will lead a "Mystical Song Singalong," playing a short set of songs that have a mystical dimension, including Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Under The Milky Way, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Visions of Johanna, and more. Lyrics will be provided if you feel like singing along. Part of the event may take place outdoors in Unnameable Books' courtyard, weather permitting.
HOW TO TIE & UNTIE MIST has an official release date of 5/13, but is already available for pre-order from Frayed Edge Press
https://www.frayededgepress.com/how_to_tie.htmlOf the new book CAConrad says: "Daniel Hales has written a brilliant page-turner! "Let's erode & sell / our wisdom teeth to Alchemy," the poet suggests between swan warnings and mice eating the candles on his porch. By the time you reach "How To Be Mist," you will want to begin reading these poems over the phone. Call your lover and your friends, and don't forget to call your mother! I love this book!
On the surface, How To Tie & Untie Mist seems to pick up where Hales' previous book, ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English, left off. But this new exploded annex of poetry goes further, deeper, wilder, weirder, once more into the breach, "explaining" everything from how to tie a tie, get a job promotion, resign from your job, pray, find redemption, grieve, approach swans, die, and make a sandwich.
The book's third section deconstructs selected poems in the previous two sections through partial erasures: new skeletal poems emerge from the mist to contradict the original poems--or to untie their knots, revealing their essence.
