The Bookstore --> Joseph O'Leary

The Open Wound Manifesto: Leaves of Grass for the New Millennium, by Joseph O'Leary, is an amorphous poetry idea that has had many editions. The all new second edition has 32 pages, fifteen poems, from 1997-1999. It features "1/31/99", "Coney Island", and "Sex Me Moon." Buy it now for $4.95 from Gateway Drug Press, at gatewaydrugpress@hotmail.com.

Transit is a smaller chapbook, but the author's personal favorite. It features poems from the turn of the millennium into 2000, and Joseph's departure from New York. His most autobiographical work. Featuring "Impasse", "Transit", and "The Bare Essentials". Nine poems, sixteen pages. It, too, is $4.95 from Gateway Drug Press.

A Laughter, Interrupted is Joseph's darkest work. It's poems from his first few months in Maine. His move from Augusta to Portland, his struggle to return to New York, and his fight for focus. It features "The Benefits of Home Schooling", "Please Pardon Our Appearance While Remodeling", and "What the Fire Taught Me" 14 poems, 20 pages, Guess what? $4.95 from Gateway Drug Press.