Bøker av Jay Sizemore

IGNORE THE DEAD. In Clarkson, Kentucky, Richard Chandler gets diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Just five years after losing his wife to the disease. He contemplates ending it all. His suicide attempt is interrupted by a call from a mysterious stranger. What the stranger offers is a way to cheat death, all he has to do is give his cancer away to other people. And ignore the dead. What transpires is a story of terror, one that delves into the existential dread lurking beneath human mortality, the secrets kept in small towns, and a chilling glimpse of what lies beyond death's invisible door.There are worse fates than dying.Jay Sizemore is damn good at crafting a story and setting a scene. This book is gut-wrenchingly beautiful and terrible all at once. Ignore the Dead effortlessly feels like a classic. -Megan Stockton, author of Bluejay "A lyrical and harrowing plunge straight to the dark depths of impossible choices and undeniable consequences. Like a blend of Matheson's Button, Button, Stephen King's Thinner, and the movie Pulse."- Ben Young, author of STUCK "The premise itself is striking for anyone who has either faced serious illness or known those who have, but I think the most impressive feature of this lean novel is Sizemore's poetic voice which pervades the mood of the piece beginning to end."-Andrew Najberg, author of The Mobius Door & GOLLITOK

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.Not for the faint of heart. Not for the easily offended. This collection of short stories has something to keep everyone awake at night, and then something to make them feel better in the daylight. Proceed with caution, but remember...It's Not All Bad. Here you will find stories of desolate futures. Stories where people kill and worse, battling demons inside and out. You'll find men willing to do anything to get back that which they lost. And men giving hope to the hopeless in the strangest of ways. There's another reason to not eat fast food. And another reason to distrust old houses. Things are not always as they seem, but in this collection, you are bound to keep turning the pages to see what's next. From Jay Sizemore, author of the critically acclaimed horror novel APNEA, comes his first collection of short fiction. Readers for It's Not All Bad have called the collection: "shocking," "disturbing," and full of "horrific visions that chill." GET YOUR COPY NOW!

If you want to know the REAL America, you will find it in this book. - Heath Brougher Sandy Hook. The Pulse nightclub shooting. Virginia Tech. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Columbine.The list of American tragedies continues to grow as the population looks on, asking what, if anything can be done. In this collection, bestselling poet Jay Sizemore takes on America's fascination with guns. Often pairing poems about incomparable violence with ones showcasing an inherent reverence for nature, here is a vivisection of a nation on display, its heart laid bare for the world to see and study. Kirkus Reviews says "...with sublimity and grace, Sizemore catches some of the allure of his fatal subject...These piercing poems about firearms cut to the core." And from poet Samantha Lazar: "Second Amendment Pastoral is both personal and universal. Yes, it is a strong statement on the American obsession with guns and the need for gun control now, but it also weaves relatable scenes of life and hope in contrast to the harsh reality of senseless gun violence and death. One thing is for certain, poems like "Organism," "Firearm Factory," and "Ode to a Waffle House in Nashville, TN" are unforgettable. Sizemore's imagery is both beautiful and grisly, and that is precisely why you should read his work."

This chapbook of poems comprises the best of a series of works written during a thirty day period in June 2015. During this time, poet Jay Sizemore wrote a poem a day, responding to favorite pieces from his favorite poets. The works were completed as part of a 30/30 challenge run by Tupelo Press. A small collection of poems, it comprises the best of this series, with pieces responding to classics and favorites by poets such as T.S. Eliot, Bob Hicok, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, William Carlos Williams and more. In this humble volume, the poet attempts to capture the essence of what inspires, what in poetry works to unveil the mystery of life. From poet/writer Christina Ward: This collection is a deep-dive into life, grief, all manner of human emotion and how it all defines the meaning of our existence. Deliberate and cerebral, yet introspective and visual, you won't be able to stop yourself from reading on to the next page, the next poem, the next deep thought so uncomfortably close to those thoughts that keep you awake at night.

Stone on top of the ground after Cesar Vallejo Jay Sizemore is dead and no one knew him.He died without fanfare, as so many do, just another day of the week, another slapof thin limbs against window glass. He wrote his words upon a cloud, soon forgotten, like the scent of rain.The computers hum onward, electric ant farms, cutting the tunneled circuits of loneliness. I died every day, but on the last one I lived.The brutal, unforgiving tide of the egowithered my fingers like figs in a cursed tree, hovering over the disarranged alphabet of ghosts, each corpse fooled into whispering to themselves.

A 2023 Quarter-Finalist for the BookLife Prize from Publishers Weekly in the category of sci-fi/horror. IF YOU FALL ASLEEP, YOU DIE.In the future, a virus threatens humanity with extinction. During the Great Sleep, nearly all men on the planet suddenly perish, throwing the world into chaos. For the few left behind, but one hope remains: an experimental drug that keeps carriers of the virus awake for 21 straight days. The treatment offers a slim chance of survival, but those willing to undergo the trial do so at the risk of losing their very minds. Joseph Conrad is about to begin this treatment...AGAINST HIS WILL. BookLife Reviews called APNEA "delightfully surreal," "Cronenbergian" with "vivid prose," and "gut-churning, taboo-flouting horror."...If you've enjoyed books such as I am Legend by Richard Matheson, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, or Misery and Gerald's Game by Stephen King, then this novel will surely satisfy your taste for something new....GET YOUR COPY NOW.

Seriously riveting read. Sizemore's sense of metaphor appeals to me a lot. It's like film noir monologue, gritty, visceral, hard-boiled. His content reminds me of Bukowski, and the way he dives into selfhood, and then dives deeper, and deeper still. This stuff's dark but there's redeeming truth in it. - Daniel Ari, poet The second chapbook of poems to be released by bestselling poet Jay Sizemore, delves into the dark waters of obsession, relationships, objectification, and desire. Bare and bold honesty proves to be essential to this exploration, through poems that don't flinch and strike to the heart and guts of the matter. In Confessions of a Porn Addict, Jay Sizemore bravely dives into the pool of desire, compulsion, and dealing with the consequences. In the opening poem, Sizemore writes, "I hate lying, but I lie to myself." This character can't help himself, though it doesn't mean he's happy: "These walls are painted with regret, / and broken promises / linger like ghosts in the halls." Even if these poems are relayed through an unreliable narrator, there's an honesty lurking that is rarely found in poetry. In "It's selfish to demand honesty," Sizemore declares, "the butterflies will never love you," and it's the kind of truth that a person who admits to objectifying his love interests can deliver. The subject may feel raw at times, but Confessions of a Porn Addict delivers beauty in its honest appraisal of desire and wanting to be desired. Robert Lee Brewer, author of Solving the World's Problems. Jay Sizemore writes in the tradition of books like Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Confessions of a Hope Fiend, and Life Studies. These are poems that Thomas da Quincey might have written had he heard The Beatles, poems that Timothy Leary might have written if he were a poet with Tourette's, poems that Robert Lowell might have written if he'd had access to the Internet. These are poems to read when you can't sleep, poems to deeply inhale and hold in your lungs, poems that will make you want to double-click and double-click until satisfied. Tom Hunley, author of PLUNK, and The Poetry Gymnasium.

A TRUE EXPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH...AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BOOK. Jay Sizemore's incendiary poem SCOWL was released to intense controversy on 8/24/2015. Published by the now rebooted Revolution John Magazine, an online journal, the poem was immediately met with a backlash of criticism and condemnation in a brutal display of unmitigated irony. SCOWL was written to showcase the hypocrisy of "call-out culture" and "mob shaming" that had become a prevalent staple of new-wave feminism and social media activism. The provocative nature of the work garnered the exact type of response it set out to critique, proving the thesis of the work. As a result, Revolution John was intimidated through ruthless online bullying until its editor decided to permanently delete all web content. The poem is printed here for the first time, along with several other poems that had been showcased in Revolution John Magazine, many of which are themed around freedom of expression. Poet Heath Brougher says, "This book is a True expression of freedom of speech. It's sad that we live in a society that censors free speech like we do, but this book reminds us that we need to wake up before it's 1984. The embers of pure unadulterated Freedom live within the pages of this book. This book is an extremely imortant book. It is a must read for anyone who is against censorship. " Poet Dustin Pickering says, "...draws comparisons between the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo, Puritanical forms of shame-and-blame, and other varieties of censorship to the current trend of social media activism. This is a fine work of social criticism..."