EASY TIGER
EASY TIGER, my new book of poems and collages, arrives this year from Future Tense Books. Cover by Angelo Maneage.
A dunce cap on a dead dog. An emu knight. The world’s longest sausage. A halibut donut. A head that is a canoe…
Clad in minimalist collages, absurd poems and turns of phrase, EASY TIGER is on a multimedia quest about love, doubt and taking scissors to the everyday.
Featuring cats and canines, pelicans, a crippled giraffe, a komodo dragon, ducks in hats, a vampire deer, a melancholy gun, and much more, this collection is exceptionally fun. Brief, jokey, loving and mean, EASY TIGER will have you laughing and sobbing into your chainmail sleeve.
PRAISE FOR EASY TIGER
"The world is a collage and so is Evan Nicholls' beautiful, marvellous and inventive EASY TIGER. It’s our world— wondrous, strange, worrying, magic, hilarious and filled with both danger and comet light. 'Amazing place this earth, the way it makes you/stay holding onto it with no hands.' So hold tight, this book has all the feels of a popemobile driven by the moon."
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— Gary Barwin, author of SCANDAL AT THE ALPHORN FACTORY
"If you need something in your backpack that's exciting and strange and innovative, put EASY TIGER by Evan Nicholls in there. It ambushes all expectations. The works in EASY TIGER freeze me, ask me to get down on my knees with the sweet wet leaves, examine every phrase and idiom and gesture and image with more curiosity and appreciation. So many final lines in this book leave me baffled and laughing."
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— Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, author of DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY
"All Evan Nicholls’ poems need are two things. He just puts them together, like feathers on a horse. One of those things is another thing, and the other thing is a word, like cake or boat or moon, for example. It could be anything! There’s a recklessness to it. All I’m saying is watch out!"
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— Zachary Schomburg, author of PULVER MAAR
"EASY TIGER is America’s freaky dreaming! Little surreal images and wonder-filled sentences in scalpel-short poems, where everything spins and shoots in all directions. Here, there is a joyful refusal to become jaded, a relentless commitment to the weird and strange, a breeziness as response to the world’s nonsense from Nicholls’ candy-poem dispenser. From parlour tricks and wipeable toucans, emu knights and pinball machines, to pillow factories, triceratops and Orangina spokespersons, this is the world you enter at your own gleeful peril."
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— Vik Shirley, author of SOME DEER
"EASY TIGER features gemlike poems and poem-like collages that knot together life and myth in tiny, anti-tall tales and fragments thereof. Fun to read and minimalistically expansive."
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— Mark Leidner, author of RETURNING THE SWORD TO THE STONE
"Actually, put this wizardry back where it came from."​
— Zachary Schomburg, author of FJORDS VOL. II