Hosho McCreesh

In the footsteps of Charles Bukowski comes Hosho McCreesh's magnum opus of drunk poetry. Mammoth in size and scope, DrunkSkull books is pleased to release the audiobook version of A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, a drunken, epic collection about death and love that is unlike any of McCreesh's previous work.

"Because writing and drinking go hand in hand, it may seem an impossible challenge for a poet to offer new perspective of this well-worn, symbiotic relationship. But Hosho McCreesh does, and in his brilliant collection “A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst” he uses subject matter that might feel old and tired in the hands of a less capable poet and turns out poem after poem as exciting and irresistible as the first flush of new desire."—Tony O’Neill, author of Black Neon and Sick City

“A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst” is a sweeping collection that is, on the surface, about booze and bars and drinking a lot, something the speakers in Hosho’s poems know something about. But what’s beneath the surface is what counts. The people in these sly, funny, often heartbreaking poems know that a bar is never just a bar, a drink is never just a drink. These are poems about being human, the heartbreak and joy and horror of all that. McCreesh—like Joseph Mitchell (see McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon), John Fante (Brotherhood of the Grape), and of course Charles Bukowski—knows that the truth comes up when illusions of control come down.—Lori Jakiela, Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker

"A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst is a beautiful book about something we too often see portrayed as the source of all bad luck and trouble. It’s goddamn uplifting. Now, fuck it, I’m going to the bar and I’m bringing these poems with me and I’m letting them sing straight to my drunken heart."—William Boyle, City of Margins and A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself

Joshua Mohr

Michael Phillips

Ryan W. Bradley

Willy Vlautin

Russ Litten

Juliette Beck

Abbie Foxton

Bastien Chiarini

Ben Tanzer

Brian McGettrick

Brody Lee

Chris Field

Chris Oxley

Christopher Cunningham

Claudia Bierschenk

Craig McCaskill

Freddie De La Cruz

Janet McCaskill

Joesph Ridgwell

justin.barrett

King Lutzo

Memes aka Mema aka The Proud Mother of Hosho McCreesh

Michael D. Blum

Nancy Pogue LaTurner

One Anonymous Reader

Papa

Rebecca Schumejda

Sakesan

Samuel Snoek-Brown

Sasha Montaigne

Scott Meier

Scott Silsbe

Sean Lynch

Tina LaTurner-McCreesh

Waleska Perez-Herrera

William Boyle

DrunkSkull Books

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