The DEMONSTRA Manifest

Today's the final presale for DEMONSTRA, a collection of Lao American speculative poetry including artwork by Vongduane Manivong coming out in December from Innsmouth Free Press.

In addition to the appendix, illustrations, and other extras, here's an overview of the poems that are included, drawing on over 40 years of the Lao Diaspora through the lens of the horrific, the fantastic and the imaginative, including the work of writer H.P. Lovecraft. Several of the poems have appeared internationally and in journals such as The Missing Slate, Strange Horizons, Asian Pacific American Jorunal, Expanded Horizons, Lakeside Circus, Bamboo Among the Oaks, G-Fan, and Innsmouth Magazine.

1. Idle Fears
2. The Deep Ones
3. Fragment of a Dream of Atlantean Yellows         
4. Dead End in December 
5. What the Guide Said     
6. Laonomicon      
7. Kwam Yaan: A Dharma Discourse             
8. The Terror in Teak          
9. Grandma Wom Wants to Eat the World
10. Isopod 
11. Gop Nyai            
12. Songkran Niyomsane’s Forensic Medicine Museum       
13. Zombuddha      
14. Snakehead        
15. Pla Buek              
16. The Last War Poem
17. Nakology            
18. No Such Phi       
19. Kinnaly
20. Silosoth’s Secret Roads to Himapan.       
21. Passa Falang      
22. The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa            
23. Digging For Corpse Oil   
24. The Doom That Came To New Sarnath  
25. To Relatives I Never Knew          
26. Nakanya             
27. Naklish
28. Dream 
29. Into Worlds of Meaning               
30. The Raja and the Salamander    
31. Stainless Steel Nak         
32. The Spirit Catches You and You Get Body Slammed         
33. War Kinnaly       
34. Democracia       
35. World Records 
36. A Sphinx Reviews Myths as Self               
37. A Discussion of Monsters            
38. My Body, A Span of Stars to Be 
39. The Secret That Sat In the Middle
40. Midwest Shapeshifters
41. In the Fabled Midwest 
42. Iku Turso Came to NoMi              
43. Grendel’s Mother          
44. Mooks 
45. Ramakien Blues               
46. Wendigo Blues 
47. Meditation on a Wandering Arb               
48. Lemur and the Bakeneko            
49. Pondering Peg Powler  
50. Dreamonstration            
51. Temporary Passages     
52. The Tiger Penned at Kouangsi Falls
53. Charms
54. Japonisme, Laoisme      
55. BodhiGamera   
56. Flowers from Saturn
57. Destroy All Monsters!   
58. Song of the Kaiju             
59. The Moth           
60. The Big G Walking           
61. Kaiju Haiku         
62. The Robo Sutra
63. Laostronauts     
64. Full Metal Hanoumane 
65. Projections through a Glass Eye               
66. Swallowing the Moon   
67. What Is The Southeast Asian American Poem Of Tomorrow?