What Came Down in the Smoke
A collection of poems by Summer J. Hart
JACKLEG PRESS, 2026
POETRY
ISBN: 978-1956907988
Trade Paper
92 pages
9″ x 6″
PUBLICITY: Heather Brown
heather@mindthebirdmedia.com
“These poems will feed you fiddleheads, cheap wine, snakeskins, “how scientists found a bacterium that can eat time,” and their capacity for noticing is never less than electric.”
BOOMHOUSE
A collection of poems by Summer J. Hart
Winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, 2024
THE 3RD THING PRESS, 2023
POETRY
ISBN: 978-1-7379258-4-2
Trade Paper
140 pages
8″ x 6″
“... ‘her song is a map’; one might aptly call this Hart’s ars poetica. Its hybrid and formal virtuosity enacts a metamorphosis through the patterning and recycling of word, color, and sound repetitions, as well as narrative continuity and fragmentation. Above all, Hart’s language is a rare and continuous marvel, characterized by unpredictable leaps, beauty, and resonance.”
11 Triptychs
11 Triptychs is a limited edition, signed, hand-bound chapbook with a hand-printed cover by Sandra Simonds and Summer J. Hart. Summer responded to words, phrases, and visual impressions in Sandra’s poems: columns of rock, fire, blood mixing with water, and bodies entwined, with a series of abstract drawings in ink, salt, and breath. To echo Sandra’s three-columned form, Summer worked in batches of threes. Some pieces are quickly recognizable as triptychs while others contain objects or creature-forms with threes as either the positive or negative space. Sandra and Summer picked 11 of the drawings, and over several months, paired poem to salt / salt to poem. These pairings don’t always appear side by side in this collection but are connected by their titles, each an appropriated line from one of Sandra’s poems.