Now Available from Greying Ghost Press

“Joseph Riippi’s poems? Imagine if Confucius, a Grimm Brother, and Lou Reed were to somehow procreate. Well, this book would devour their offspring. His writing blends countless styles with a modern twist that will stick to your sternum like no other chapbook we’ve published.”
- Carl Annarummo, Greying Ghost Press

“Joseph Riippi knows how to grow an elegant surface and a darkly remembered underbelly together. In Treesisters, he elevates the dematerialization of childhood to the disappearance of a sibling—and only-children too will be dazzled.”
- Melissa Broder, author of Meat Heart

5 x 6 chapbook. Six colored letter pressed covers w/ punch out. Repurposed end papers. Each copy is unique and hand numbered. Printed on high quality 24# copy paper. Printed and bound in an edition of 100.

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Carry Me in Tin House Flash Fridays

A pretty good way to start a Friday is seeing part of the novel you’re struggling with on the Tin House blog. Thanks, Tony Perez!

COMING MARCH 2012 FROM HOUSEFIRE PUBLISHING

AVAILABLE AT AWP 2012 IN CHICAGO

In A Cloth House, Joseph Riippi creates a world that’s both soft and sharp, deftly examining the ways our tragedies shape us and the memories we invent to survive in the aftermath. Simply put, A Cloth House will break your heart.

         – Sarah Rose Etter, Tongue Party

In A Cloth House, Joseph Riippi is alive to the modes of regret and tenderness that can exist at the same time, in the same person.  His great talent is for dramatizing these modes with a purity that can make his readers feel as though they are watching a beloved film.

         – Edward Mullany, If I Falter At The Gallows

Joseph Riippi knows what it’s like to be ‘the fat girl’ and he proves it in A Cloth House. He also proves that houses made of cloth (or any other ad-hoc tent or ‘fort’) is not enough to shield that girl from pain or to protect her from the things that she will lose.

- John Dermot Woods, The Complete Collection of People, Places & Things

With A Cloth House Joseph Riippi is here to remind us that our imaginations are as fragile as the pillow forts we built in our youth. And for the love of God, we’ll thank him for helping us think about those things that don’t hurt quite so much.

            – Mark Cugini, Big Lucks

Presented by Housefire Publishing

AWP 2012 – Thursday night