Handmade Memories

Poems & Essays, 1997 – 2011

by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

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REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, MENTIONS

• “I think the poetry is excellent.” – Thad McIlroy
• “Check out his book, including that amazing cover.” – Lou Freshwater
• “This is a beautiful and intimate collection of poems and essays.” – Kalen Landow
• E-Chapbook Profile: Handmade Memories by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez – Letras Latinas
• 5 Innovative Poets to Watch & Learn From – Jane Friedman
• The Kindle Chronicles Interview – Len Edgerly
• Publishing: A New Punk Ethos – Dan Blank
• An Interview With Guy LeCharles Gonzalez About His New E-Chapbook “Handmade Memories” – Christina Katz
• Chronicling a Handmade Memories sale – Spencer Haley
• What I Read and How I Found It – Kalen Landow

ABOUT THE EBOOK

Handmade Memories is part experiment, part closure, and a total labor of love. It’s a DIY echapbook of my favorite poems and a couple of related essays written between 1997-2011, and I created it with the assistance of Joshua Tallent’s excellent book, Kindle Formatting, which I had open in Kindle for PC while putting together the manuscript in Microsoft Word and Mobipocket Creator.

It features a selection of 18 poems & essays from 1997 – 2011, including:

• Handmade Memories
• Breathless
• Running Bases
• Behind the Music
• Prodigal Son
• Sunday Mornings in the Kitchen with Gan’ganny
• Mozer, Bethea and I
• Bury Me in the Leaning Rest
• Old New York Love Story
• Daughter of the Revolution
• latter-day saints
• Party Like A Rock Star
• Crazy White Devil
• 33-1/3 Revolutions Per Minute
• I Am – Cryptogram
• Fulano
• Burning Down the House: True Story
• Unleashing Stories, Engaging Communities

Several of the poems collected here have been previously published, mostly in the out-of-print Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s National Poetry Slam Champions (Soft Skull Press, 2000), while the two essays were originally published on my website, loudpoet.com.

I hope you enjoy them, and either way, take a minute to let me know what you thought via a review. Thanks!

PURCHASE AND SHARE

The ebook is available for purchase via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Goodreads. If you’re interested in purchasing a PDF or ePUB version directly from me,

And, if you’re on Goodreads, why not add Handmade Memories to your “To-Read” shelf; you can also preview half of the book there, too!

REVIEWERS: If you’d like a review copy in PDF format, drop me an email request and I’ll send it to you.