Chapbook will release on Friday, February 20 and ship soon after!
Melissa Anne Tolentino’s chapbook was the Runner-Up to the 2025 Quarter Press Chapbook Contest!
“While not lengthy, Tolentino’s manuscript is chocked full of beautiful language, opening just right with “all you have now is a name and your heart and this heist”: “Nighttime comes in a cloak you cannot unfold. The sighing hills, the snap of branches underfoot: every noise / is a rock in your stomach. You only remember being swallowed by day and desert.” - Natalie Padilla Young, Contest Judge and Author of All of This Was Once Under Water
The print edition is limited to 50 copies.
It is handmade in Millen, GA. These 16 pages are staple-bound, printed in FULL COLOR on French Paper Co.’s True White Speckletone (giving each page a unique look that has a light cream tone), and come with a 110 lb Cover Card Stark. Each is hand-numbered.
It contains 10 poems and multiple details from 17th century, public domain paintings.
Chapbook will release on Friday, February 20 and ship soon after!
Melissa Anne Tolentino’s chapbook was the Runner-Up to the 2025 Quarter Press Chapbook Contest!
“While not lengthy, Tolentino’s manuscript is chocked full of beautiful language, opening just right with “all you have now is a name and your heart and this heist”: “Nighttime comes in a cloak you cannot unfold. The sighing hills, the snap of branches underfoot: every noise / is a rock in your stomach. You only remember being swallowed by day and desert.” - Natalie Padilla Young, Contest Judge and Author of All of This Was Once Under Water
The print edition is limited to 50 copies.
It is handmade in Millen, GA. These 16 pages are staple-bound, printed in FULL COLOR on French Paper Co.’s True White Speckletone (giving each page a unique look that has a light cream tone), and come with a 110 lb Cover Card Stark. Each is hand-numbered.
It contains 10 poems and multiple details from 17th century, public domain paintings.
