Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner DWW for getting a free copies of the chapbooks Typewriter by Jimmy Chen and Less Shiny by Mary Miller.
This week, we are giving away TWO books: The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey and We Were Eternal and Gigantic by Evelyn Hampton. The Drunk Sonnets full-length book of poems by Daniel Bailey. From forgiveness in a beehive to tiny banquets for retired janitors, Bailey’s celebrated sonnet sequence arrives in a perfectbound volume that you can carry and eat and hold against your heart when your heart catches a shake. Bailey’s work has appeared in No Colony, Abraham Lincoln, NOÖ Journal, elimae, Opium Magazine and more. We Were Eternal and Gigantic is a collection of prose and poetry from Evelyn Hampton, the editor of Dewclaw. We Were Eternal and Gigantic asks: What do you do when there’s a shape in you the size of your body? When some haircuts are wolverine kits and some cling to bulwarks? When you want to be more sincere but the economy says NO / EAT MORE? Doesn’t husband sound like has-been? Maybe you are in love with the one who took a sun fish from your mom’s aquarium. Maybe in America, the male lead has lost his really great mustard-colored slacks. Remember: when the world is too much with you, the world can can still look white from the air.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Magic Helicopter Press. 
They are focused on publishing across platforms, mediums and “the universe.” Their paper books are collectible art items, not unlike Dale Earnhardt commemorative plates. Their e-books are not paper books melted onto the screen but books aware of their digital space. They also publish experimental multimedia projects: poetry videos and poetry video games. But they call them all books. They are literature with feet—for open mics and reading tours—and fingers—for online workshops and collaborative projects. But they call it all live. They are literature with a daisy for a rotor. They land on your head.
To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is comment in the space below. Make sure to tell us your email address so we can contact you if you win! We also recommend doing the following:
- Checking out Magic Helicopter’s free online books
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, July 2 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner MELANIE. Try your luck again in the new Free Book Friday with Corey Mesler’s The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores.
