Crack the Spine: Spring 2012

Publisher Marketing: Crack the Spine. Go ahead, you know you want to. Just bend a fresh book until your hands meet beneath its stressed strings and feel the weight of words snap free. Dig in. This anthology includes the best poems and stories from Crack the Spine Literary Magazine's weekly publications. "Forget arsenic, trains and Eros Flauberts and Tolstoys dipped their pens in black tongues and railroad tracks." - Alessandra Bava "I am the recipient of a blown kiss from a friend and that is all I'm left with at that particular moment, standing on the sidewalk. There is a light on in the kitchen, on that I imagine will burn until end times." - Thomas Mundt "When we kiss our eyeglasses clink like we're toasting..." - Alan Passman "She collects books with questions of provenance, reads the inscriptions as if she were psychic as much as she reads the text..." - Tobi Cogswell Authors: Susan Adams, Suzanne Allen, Rosemary C. Anderson, Alessandra Bava, Rich Boucher, Valentina Cano, Tobi Cogswell, Kyle Hemmings, Steve Klepetar, Zack Nelson Lopiccolo, J. W. Mark, Peter Marra, Joan McNerney, Ben Nardolilli, Amit Parmessur, Alan Passman, Deana Prock, David Spicer, John Stocks, Les Wicks, Laura Bogart, Chris Deal, Lily Dodge, Len Kuntz. D. N. A. Morris, Thomas Mundt, M. Y. Pastorelli, Richard Peabody, Luca Penne, Eric Prochaska, George Sparling, Christi R. Suzanne