Tolsun Books

A small press based out of Tolleson, Arizona

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🎼On the second day of Tolsun, my true love gave to me... two Ostrowskis, and a Jackalope under the tree🎼 #12daysoftolsun #12daysofchristmas #penultimatehumanconstellation #smallpress #publisher @benjamin_ostrowski @steven.ostrowski https://www.instagram.com/p/BreSnw3nIzp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1df226i1b4g5r

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🎼On the first day of Tolsun, my true love gave to me... a Jackalope under the tree🎼 #12daysofchristmas #jackalope #tolsunbooks #12daysoftolsun https://www.instagram.com/p/BrakFp7ngeA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rdyg5ygak7fi

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Let’s all celebrate pungent dins concentric by Vanessa Couto Johnson available tomorrow from Tolsun Books! Order your copy! https://tolsunbooks.com/new-products/pungent-dins-concentric #pubdate #smallpress #poetry #tolsunbooks #pungentdinsconcentric #bookrelease https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8pGbFnbgB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uytbe36616ws

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Animal You’ll Surely Become by Brittany Hailer comes out Tuesday! Order now!! #tolsunbooks #animalyoullsurelybecome #creativenonfiction #poetry #blurb #fairytales #debut #beautifulbooks #smallpress #publishing https://www.instagram.com/p/BopYkeHnV6U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=llzts5d8qxvt

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Animal You’ll Surely Become by Brittany Hailer comes out Tuesday! Order now!! #tolsunbooks #animalyoullsurelybecome #creativenonfiction #poetry #blurb #fairytales #debut #beautifulbooks #smallpress #publishing https://www.instagram.com/p/BopYaR9nOAB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=176s52wvqz8e9

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Carolyn Guinzio’s latest book, How Much Of What Falls When It Gets To The Ground? features incredible hybrid poetry and photo pieces throughout. September 25th cannot come soon enough! The book is available for pre-order at tolsunbooks.com and Amazon. #carolynguinzio #poetry #poetryofinstagram #poetryphotography #hybridpoetry #tolsunbooks #pubdate #publishing #smallpress https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn5HyHBnzFP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d0vv9zn54sgu

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New 2019 author, Sarah Adelman! Sarah Abigail Adleman was born and raised alongside the bayous of Houston, the swamps of Louisiana, and the hills of Texas. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bangladesh, studied yoga in India, and taught English in China. Her work as a Yoga Therapist concentrated in Brain Injury Rehabilitation balances the many hours she spends writing. After living on the border in El Paso for ten years, she moved to Denver with her husband and their dog, Bartelby. She earned an MFA from The University of Texas at El Paso. #newauthor #tolsunbooks #authoralert #poetry #narrativenonfiction #hybrid #smallpress #publishing #2019 @doulayogi https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn17aqUHXXF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u154qi8zpznn

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Mute by Shome Dasgupta is available today! Order your copy at tolsunbooks.com or amazon.com #mute #shomedasgupta #pubdate #publishing #tolsunbooks #smallpress #books #shortfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/BnoIDv2FXTd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jwkfem84nalh

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Mute by Shome Dasgupta is coming September 12th! Available for pre-order at tolsunbooks.com “Shome Dasgupta's Mute reveals how the desperation to please friends, coaches, would-be lovers, parents, wives, and daughters results in an overwhelming sense of disorientation. Fraught with anxieties, Mute transforms situations that could easily turn toxic into moments of personal sadness and loneliness that, productively for our time, unveil a multitude of imaginative maneuvers that help these narrators accept their lives and fates.” —Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apart and the forthcoming Desire: A Haunting #tolsunbooks #smallpress #publishing #fiction #pubdate #shortstories #magicrealism #magicalrealism #mute #shomedasgupta https://www.instagram.com/p/BnH31fiFMkN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4feu6bfzykhn

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Penultimate Human Constellation by Steven and Benjamin Ostrowski is coming this Tuesday! Order on Amazon or Tolsun Books. “Penultimate Human Constellation is an ecstatically authentic conversation, poetry full of unapologetic humanity. This is not just call and response but challenge and answer, parry and thrust. Two voices calling each other higher, reveling in each other's performance. We could not ask for more from such a talented father-son team." --Will Hicks, author of Stargazer’s Kitchen @steven.ostrowski @benjamin_ostrowski #books #publisher #smallpress #poetryofinstagram #fatherandson #poetry #releasedate #pubdate #coverart #penultimate #human #constellation #tolsunbooks

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Happy birthday to the incredible Jennifer Battisti! She is celebrating by reading from her beautiful collection of poems, Echo Bay at Janco Books today. @jennbatt3 @jancobooks #books #publisher #smallpress #poetryofinstagram #shewrites

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Penultimate Human Constellation by Steven Ostrowski and Benjamin Ostrowski will be here August 21st! Poetry fans, pre-order your copy today! #books #publisher #smallpress #poetryofinstagram #fatherandson #spine #beautifulbooks

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Tolsun would like to introduce you to Johnny Salas, our newest author. ​Johnny Salas is a photographer based in Phoenix, AZ. His photos have appeared in Hamburger Eyes and Waxwing. #photography #photobook #wrestling #phoenix #35mm #foldingchair #developing #smallpress #publisher @jawkneesalas

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#Proofs of Animal You’ll Surely Become by Brittany Hailer. Our first #hardcover 📖 forthcoming October 9th! #smallpress #publishing #creativenonfiction #poetry #prosepoetry #books #bookdesign #fonts @musabeeeee

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Penultimate Human Constellation by Steven Ostrowski and Benjamin Ostrowski forthcoming August 21st! “You will never encounter another volume of poetry like this. Father and son, Steven and Benjamin Ostrowski give the reader the most intimate and engaging look into a closeness between two family members I’ve yet encountered; a dialogue couched in experimental form and imagery that is always fresh and inventive. A book of correspondences that often spans oceans and continents as the two are separated. Not a single lazy line and nothing telegraphed. Surprises abound around every corner, hallmarked by wit, love and a genuine, deep affection for one another. Each poem is masterfully sectioned by the authors, a joy to read. Would that all fathers and sons could share such a genuine interest in each other’s lives. Imaginative writing at its very finest, employing free-association writing techniques that keep the reader transfixed and entertained page after page. Unique is a term often overused. Penultimate Human Constellation is inarguably unique, and lives up to the volume’s title in the most unanticipated and delightful ways.” -Robert Nazarene, founding editor & publisher, The American Journal of Poetry #pubdate #blurbbooks #poetry #fatherandson #poetryofinstagram #smallpress #publisher #books @steven.ostrowski @benjamin_ostrowski @theamericanjournalofpoetry @robertnazarene747 https://www.instagram.com/p/BmGt6gylGJH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=njm9s2ro83im

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Blood In the Asphalt: Prayers From the Highway by Jesse Sensibar is coming October 16th. “In one of my former lives, before I reinvented myself once again, I was a tow truck driver out of Flagstaff, the small mountain town in Northern Arizona where I still live. The stories I can tell about those years of my life go on for as long as the highway itself, all the way to the sea and then back. I understand this better than most having spent my own successful life out here and seeing so many lives spent, and in many cases lost, on these strips of pavement. These days I drive a lot and I stop a lot. I take a few careful iPhone pictures and I turn some of them into Facebook posts. Mostly they are pictures of the monuments of our own recent passing: closest to my own pain are the roadside shrines to the dead that have been lost to the highway. I feel a special kinship to these things, whether I am working my way across the Mojave Desert and then up Highway 58 across Southern California’s Inland Empire to the City of Gold beside the bay or across Southwest Texas in the Borderlands. I try not to judge too harshly and I try not to preach too hard. Mostly I try to let my pictures and my words convey what is important.” -Jesse Sensibar #bookannouncement #pubdate #shortfiction #prose #descansos #shrines #roadsidememorial #highwayshrines #roadsideshrine #descansado #highwaymemorial #gonebutnotforgotten #mydissapearingwest #nevada #arizona @jessesensibar https://www.instagram.com/p/BmGkzErlJwa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rcvwdt4boaey

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Check out our website, tolsunbooks.com, and peruse our new subscriptions/products page. #publishing #smallpress #shortfiction #poetry #prose #covers #books #readinglist #read https://www.instagram.com/p/BmEdBjvlVuE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gjn1lc2oxcl6