in which I take myself hostage
in which I take myself hostage
Spuyten Duyvil Press
poems by Erik Fuhrer
all images by Kimberly Androlowicz
"This book of poems is a horror film. It is a book in which the weird transformations, animate horror, and tender gore of Argento, Cronenberg, and Carpenter receive a horrible rebirth in language. Bodies invaded by flies, walls covered with cockroaches, spores that ache to sicken you proliferate within these pages, squarely sourced in the soil of the everyday. Read this book; insert these poems into your skin."
-Ali Raz, co-author of Human Tetris
not human enough for the census
not human enough for the census
Vegetarian Alcoholic Press
poems by Erik Fuhrer
all images by Kimberly Androlowicz
"In Erik Fuhrer's not human enough for the census, there are creatures of dark habits, organ breathers, tree butchers, and 1 in 100 scientists agree the state of god is liquid. In these poems, aftermath requires a new language. Dust and ash compound with mother and father, mud compounds with blossom. These spare lyrics contain numerous transformations, and 'just because the body is gone/does not mean the absence of body is gone.' Absences loom everywhere--the mouth, the breath, the treacherous god in the tempest."
—Traci Brimhall, author of Saudade
VOS
"Erasurist, Erik Fuhrer, in his Voyage Out Sonnets, is part vivisectionist, part misprisonist. In surgically erasing Virginia Woolf's A Voyage Out, Fuhrer augments the canon of great erasurists dating back to the Dadaists. A palimsest of memento mori collages in noir serve as VOS' metadata for this book Fuhrer's VOS us erasure's crescendo."
—Daniel Y. Harris, Editor-in Cheif of X-Peri
VOS
Yavanika Press
poems and collages by Erik Fuhrer
Cover by Kimberly Androlowicz
Forward by Dr. Laci Mattison
every time you die
"This new collection by Erik Fuhrer is as the title suggests - it deals with death. Ironically, what makes this collection truly unique is that each relatively short poem is fully alive, vibrant and possesses a cathartic power that is both personal and universal. Here is a poet who is a master of metaphor and creates lucid narratives that are layered with complexities that capture an inspired fusion of loss and enlightenment."
—Kevin Pilkington, Author of Where You Want to Be: New and Selected Poems
every time you die
Alien Buddha Press
poems by Erik Fuhrer
all images by Marcel Herms
At Root
At Root is a minimalist erasure of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The geometric renderings by the author function as translations from the textual into the language of shape and color. Each individual three-lined poem is loosely crafted as a haiku, which resonates with Beckett’s Godot in its fragmentariness and partiality. Every textual and visual element of At Root is in conversation with Beckett’s work about absurdity, form, and relationality.
At Root
Alien Buddha Press
poems and interior art by Erik Fuhrer
cover image by Erik Fuhrer
