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"In the tradition of forebears Borges and Angela Carter comes a complex and wonderful puzzle named "Gnarly Wounds." It has humor, intrigue, violence, love, talking animals, a social conscience, and the most important ingredient of all, humanness."
--Joshua Mohr, author of "Fight Song, Damascus, Termite Parade," and "Some Things That Meant the World to Me."

Praise for Jayson Iwen's "A Momentary Jokebook"
"I've never read anything quite like "A Momentary Jokebook." It is wonderfully intelligent, terribly funny, thought provoking, often wise and always compelling. Think Milan Kundera meets "South Park." What unifies this wide ranging work is Jayson Iwen's fresh approach to form and language, and his ability to surprise us and turn us on our heads."
--Tom Barbash, author of "The Last Good Chance"
"The words of Iwen's novella have angry sex with one another, climaxing in transcendent moments of laughter and love. His themes are our most fetishistic desires--to be both nurtured and do violence, to humiliate and be humiliated, to pervert history while singing our innocence. Such is the pathos of our uncertain age, and here is a marveously crafted tragic-comic record of it." --Christopher Grimes, author of "The Pornographers" and "Public Works"

Praise for Jayson Iwen's "Six Trips in Two Directions"
"Jayson Iwen's "Six Trips in Two Directions" is a stunning first book, joining private and public experience more effectively than any volume of poetry I've seen."
--Paul Hoover
In the tradition of forebears Borges and Angela Carter comes a complex and wonderful puzzle named "Gnarly Wounds." It has humor, intrigue, violence, love, talking animals, a social conscience, and the most important ingredient of all, humanness.
Joshua Mohr, author of "Fight Song, Damascus, Termite Parade," and "Some Things That Meant the World to Me."

Praise for Jayson Iwen's "A Momentary Jokebook"
"I've never read anything quite like "A Momentary Jokebook." It is wonderfully intelligent, terribly funny, thought provoking, often wise and always compelling. Think Milan Kundera meets "South Park." What unifies this wide ranging work is Jayson Iwen's fresh approach to form and language, and his ability to surprise us and turn us on our heads."
Tom Barbash, author of "The Last Good Chance"
"The words of Iwen's novella have angry sex with one another, climaxing in transcendent moments of laughter and love. His themes are our most fetishistic desiresto be both nurtured and do violence, to humiliate and be humiliated, to pervert history while singing our innocence. Such is the pathos of our uncertain age, and here is a marveously crafted tragic-comic record of it." Christopher Grimes, author of "The Pornographers" and "Public Works"

Praise for Jayson Iwen's "Six Trips in Two Directions"
Jayson Iwen s "Six Trips in Two Directions" is a stunning first book, joining private and public experience more effectively than any volume of poetry I ve seen.
Paul Hoover"

Gnarly Wounds tells the tale of one man's horrifyingly funny journey through grief, madness, and amnesia. In three linked novellas, Jayson Iwen takes readers into a smart and raunchy dreamscape full of riddles, jokes, and metaphysics, with a cast that includes the ridiculous son of an eastern European dictator, monks, witches, soldiers, furry animals, an ex-hitman, a super strong baby, and more. Told in several different cultural registers elegant and blunt, tragic and comic, contemplative and action-packed this is a one-of-a-kind mystery, hilarious and profound.