[SQUELCH PROCEDURES] Is Available for Preorder

MLA Chernoff's new collection of poetry, [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], is now available for preorder.

In [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word “squelch” acts as a guide to Chernoff’s unique voice, which uses language to swaddle intrusive thoughts and mimic defense mechanisms such as avoidance, depersonalization, and derealization. [SQUELCH PROCEDURES] is an ambitious attempt to show how healing and regression are often indistinguishable, while the past is always predisposed to happen more than once: first as tragedy, then as farce.

[SQUELCH PROCEDURES] is available in Fall 2021.

“squelch is wun uv th best books evr in unusual fasten n fashyun it squelches evreething n evn th squelch is up 4 squelching as in heidegger go eeek sew manee konstrukts sew onanistic in theyr self referenshul aliteez is nothing cred sew manee genres tropes jestyurs apokriphyl mountains uv marshmallows all that sum beautifull konkreet vizual pomes heer n th enquiree in2 th rabbit hole uv meening is in sum uv th best hands n minds evr” — bill bissett, author of breth