Shame is the best way to start: the moment of injury

or the moment after—a synapse—the blood’s path

making itself just for me and the world, a highway

doubling back for the living, aerial view, the sky

dizzying as ever, my pain nomadic, thinly clothed

and wandering.  I had to arrive where I first ended,

creep back to the body, hover into a high branch

and nest.  Are you troubled?  I blink back to July

on a porch, our porch, and you speak in past tense,

my body caught in so many blackout afternoons,

a version of me you struggle to hold onto, but

you do not say we, only then or you were drunk,

like I remember how it feels.

–Erin Veith; from I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story
   (Latham House Press, 2014)

Erin Veith’s collection I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story, the launch publication of Latham House Press, will be published on July 7, 2014.  This will be a limited-run edition of 250 numbered copies.

Copies are now available for pre-order via the form below.

Reservation requests will be answered with an emailed invoice.  After invoice is returned with payment, reserved copies will be mailed out beginning July 8.  Latham House Press will pay shipping.

Please email editor@lathamhousepress.com with any questions.