Kill Your Darlings, Clementine released in 2013 from Rye House Press as a limited edition, hand-bound chapbook with a letterpress cover and printed dust jacket. The edition is out of print.
Kill Your Darlings, Clementine was named as a finalist for the 2012-13 New Delta Review Chapbook Contest. Poems from the Kill Your Darlings series appear in these journals:
Better: Culture & Lit (with audio! and video!)
Anti-
Interrupture
Bone Bouquet (in print)
Sixth Finch
Forklift, Ohio (in print)
New Delta Review
Thrush Press Broadside Series
Set in a location of unknown but strongly felt isolation, Kill Your Darlings, Clementine observes the actions, attitudes, of a group of men again and again, echoing its opening refrain throughout: The men here, the men here…
Kill Your Darlings, Clementine speaks not only to the constructs of masculinity, fatherhood, and small town life, it works with the themes of observation, isolation, potency, and forgiveness. The language is powerful and chiseled. Kill Your Darlings, Clementine is both anthropology and archeology. Uncover it for yourself.