“Daniel Hales has written a brilliant page-turner!”– CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
(Isstories Editorial):- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 13, 2025 (Issuewire.com) – Frayed Edge Press is pleased to announce the publication of “How To Tie & Untie Mist,” a new collection of poetry by Daniel Hales.
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On the surface, How To Tie & Untie Mist seems to pick up where Hales’ previous Frayed Edge Press book, ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English, left off. But these new poems aren’t a continuation so much as a deeper dive into the questions and shifting answers we generate to manufacture meaning. This new exploded annex of poetry goes further, deeper, wilder, weirder, once more into the breach, “explaining” everything from how to tie a tie, get a job promotion, resign from your job, pray, find redemption, grieve, approach swans, die, and make a sandwich.
The book’s third section deconstructs selected poems in the previous two sections through partial erasures: new skeletal poems emerge from the mist to contradict the original poems–or to untie their knots, revealing their essence. How To Tie & Untie Mist explores the ordinary and the miraculous, the past, the future, and the mist shrouding our present moment, including the current administration’s attempts to re-name the visible world and erase history.
Daniel Hales is the author of the hybrid novel Run Story (Shape&Nature Press), the poetry collection ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems In English (Frayed Edge), & three poetry chapbooks: Shake My Ashes (Beard of Bees), Blind Drive (White Knuckle), & Tempo Maps (Ixnay). His writing has appeared in Booth, Conduit, The Massachusetts Review, Quarter After Eight, & elsewhere. He makes music as Umbral, The Ambiguities, & Selah haleS. The most recent album by his band, The Frost Heaves & Hales, is Ghost Of A Chance To The Shadow Of A Doubt. His preferred place of worship is a kayak. His sensei is The Cat Of Many Names.
American poet and professor CAConrad had this to say:
Daniel Hales has written a brilliant page-turner! “Let’s erode & sell / our wisdom teeth to Alchemy,” the poet suggests between swan warnings and mice eating the candles on his porch. By the time you reach “How To Be Mist,” you will want to begin reading these poems over the phone. Call your lover and your friends, and don’t forget to call your mother! I love this book!
How To Tie & Untie Mist, Daniel Hales’ new poetry collection, officially launched May 13, 2025 and may be purchased directly from the press at: https://www.frayededgepress.com/store/p149/mist.html The book is also available through major online booksellers, including Amazon https://www.amazon.com/How-Untie-Mist-Daniel-Hales/dp/1642510637/ Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-tie-untie-mist-daniel-hales/1147385832 and most library book jobbers, including Ingram and Baker & Taylor.
A special “deal” is also available — purchase both of Daniel Hales’ Frayed Edge Press poetry books at a 17% discount when you order directly through the publisher. The book is also available as an Amazon Kindle ebook.
Frayed Edge Press is a small independent press located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which specializes in publishing marginalized voices, forgotten history, overlooked literature in translation, and works that wrestle with important questions impacting contemporary society. For more information about the press, visit our website at: https://www.frayededgepress.com/
Title: “How To Tie & Unitie Mist”
Author: Daniel Hales
Format: 6×9; 73 p. (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781642510638
Price: $14.00
Link: https://www.frayededgepress.com/how_to_tie.html
Categories: Poetry, Literature, Experimental
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