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the syllable that opened an eye micah cavaleri (May 2018, 2nd edition) 40 pages, $12.00
The poetry of this volume takes us into the bird-twitter language that unravels the most difficult philosophical knots. As readers pass through Mexico, Nicaragua, Greece, somewhere in Africa, China, we feel through the words and spacing and punctuation on the page what is immediately, clearly communicated, rather than working to decode and understand the book’s meaning. The poems demonstrate the anti-philosophy of the opening essay of the first edition in a way revealing what can be called mystical, void of a clear and rigid metaphysics, soaked in language and the very real world.
(This is the second edition, in which the original philosophical essay on the absurdity of metaphysics is replaced by a letter from the author on the reality of inspiration considered against the typical picture of inspiration as visionary, miraculous and determined. The first edition was published in 2010.)
The romances and other poems micah cavaleri (September 2012) 50 pages, $10.00
A book that recaptures the heart of romance. A syntactic meditation on love.
In The romances and other poems, Micah Cavaleri turns the lyric into a field of small, flickering enchantments: yellow leaves and green nests, warblers and grandmothers, rivers and deserts, all refracted through parenthetical asides and shifts of color, voice, and thought. These poems move like someone talking under their breath to a friend and to God and to the landscape at the same time—tender, odd, and quietly stunned by the fact of being here at all.
Magical Energy in the Gnostic Mass IAO131 (October 2016) 38 pages, $9.98
Magical Energy in the Gnostic Mass is the intersection of a crossroads in Thelema. Very little work on Thelema has been done within the realm of philosophy and religious studies. IAO131 has labored for years at the boundary between scholarship and devotion. Magical Energy showcases the mind of a deep intellectual who operates as a professional psychologist and an adherent of the way of Thelema. Although the work is quite short, we see comparative religion sitting side by side with practical reflections on the techniques of the Thelemic magician. We are left to take up these various threads and develop them for ourselves. This essay by IAO131 therefore stands as an invitation to fearless and aimless winging in the infinite abyss.
Sighs and Stray Gusts and Other Occasional Poems Frank Praeger (May 2016) 84 pages, $14.95
A quiet voice finds himself astonished by the luminosity of nature and the inadequacy of language.
Witness: A Memoir Scott Rutherford (June 2018) 144 pages, $17.32
“I wish to say something about my passage through the world, particularly about the last 30 years. In 1985, when I was 52 years old, I experienced an epiphany. God broke through. I came to know and believe in Jesus Christ. My life was given new structure, new direction, new meaning. I was a convert. What is rather improbable about my conversion was that I knew almost nothing about Christianity.”
ALEPH Reverend Micah Anthony Cavaleri (May 2024) 26 pages (Hardback), $30.16
Written in the voice of a pastor who can no longer protect his flock from the God he has preached, ALEPH is a stark, unsparing meditation on divine violence, religious trauma, and the unbearable distance between hope and experience.
This is not a book of easy answers or gentle consolations. It is a brief, searing tract for those who have prayed, trusted, waited—and found only fire. For anyone who has come to suspect that the “God of this world” is indistinguishable from the powers that crush us, ALEPH names the horror without blinking and dares to ask what is left when even God becomes nothing.
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Nothing and the Existence of God Reverend Micah Anthony Cavaleri (May 2024) 40 pages, $12.50
In Nothing and the Existence of God, Rev. Micah Anthony Cavaleri follows the failure of classical proofs all the way down into the abyss they were meant to bridge. Setting aside cosmological arguments and metaphysical foundations, he turns instead to “nothing” itself—the void at the edge of language, the silence beneath every name of God.
What emerges is a stark, strange, deeply personal experiment in negative theology. Cavaleri traces the way thought negates everything it tries to grasp, until even “God” dissolves. And yet, in the ruins of certainty, a cry still rises: a wounded invocation, a Eucharist offered to the no-God who may not exist and yet somehow still haunts the heart.
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Faith and Hope: either/or and not both/and Reverend Micah Anthony Cavaleri (August 2024) 44 pages, $12.49
In Faith and Hope: (either/or) and ~(both/and), Rev. Micah Anthony Cavaleri refuses the easy “both/and” of contemporary spirituality. Returning again and again to unanswered prayers, unhealed wounds, and the brutal stubbornness of the world’s suffering, he asks what it means to speak of a good and loving God when the promised help never arrives.
This is not a book of tidy theodicies. It is a patient, unsparing dismantling of the stories we tell to protect God from the facts. With the precision of a logician and the raw honesty of someone whose theology has already broken on the rocks of experience, Cavaleri shows how faith without hope curdles into cruelty—and how hope without evidence becomes its own kind of delusion.
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All the White Men Killed Themselves Mark Lounibos (March 2025) 31 pages, $10.00
The poetry of Mark Lounibos looks deeply into the nature of being people out of place and not belonging. The title poem “All the White Men Killed Themselves” shows us the nature of the loss we experience through such diseases as Manifest Destiny and white culture. The book opens up a raw feeling of loss and displacement. It is time for this document of repentance.
All the White Men Killed Themselves is an incomplete anatomy of one species of despair. It traces an inverted arc of impotency, love, nihilism, and hope. It marks a beginning, not an end. It speaks for no one but itself.
Philosophy: in 6 fragments of New Writing Micah Anthony Cavaleri (May 2025) 199 pages, $22.28
Cavaleri explores the possibilities of biography and writing. He presents us with fragments that tell the story of a life in a way that can only be experienced directly: “A reflection on a moment of my experience, even looking at a long story from the years of my life, is a fragment (or fragments, fragmentary) at most. A written account of life is always only a fragment. A written phenomenology of perception is never more than a fragmented reflection of what I experience. Life, living it, seeing it and being struck by it is the closest maybe we get to a full account.”
One Bright Morning When My Work is Over Micah Anthony Cavaleri (June 2025) 40 pages, $12.94
One Bright Morning When My Work is Over is a blazing, broken psalm for those caught between despair and prayer, theory and flesh, silence and the scream. In a voice that is both guttural and lyrical, Micah Anthony Cavaleri strips language to the bone and listens for the spirit inside the fracture. These poems are not polite. They testify. They bear witness. They seethe with grief, burn with injustice, and yet, astonishingly, still reach for beauty.
This is not a collection. It is a threshold. Here, theology is undone, time is shattered, and the body—its guts, its scars, its hungers—becomes the last place of truth. Cavaleri writes with prophetic vulnerability, conjuring a kind of post-secular scripture for those who no longer believe in salvation but still hope to be seen. Whether you call it poetry, prophecy, or field notes from the edge of being, this book will haunt you, bless you, and demand your presence. It’s not a final word. It’s a way through.
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