

Surface Tension by Patrick Ocampo
Mongrel Empire Press CATALOGUE
Not Exactly Job by Nathan Brown
In this book of poetry, photographs, and scripture, Nathan Brown expands the tradition of literary spiritual struggles by engaging with the Book of Job both as poetry and as catalyst for personal, contemporary questions of innocence and experience, faith and doubt. Often irreverent but always honest, Not Exactly Job is an emotionally powerful and intellectually challenging work.
Poetry, Scripture, Photography
$14.00
56 pages, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9801684-0-2
Are You Doing Fine, Oklahoma?
Essays Edited by Catherine L. Hobbs
Oklahoma’s next generation of leaders respond to the Oklahoma Centennial with insightful essays centered on the state’s history, centennial-year events, and their personal and familial Oklahoma connections. Contributors: Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Buchanan, Katrina Colbert, Andrew Edgren, Sarah Evans, Gage Jeter, Alisha Kirk, Sydney Teel, Christopher Turner. Cover photo by Danielle Knight.
Essays, & Historical & Contemporary Photographs
$15.00
170 pages, 2008
ISBN 978-0-9801684-1-9
Poetry,
Flash Fiction, Photographs
$14.00
63 pages, 2008
ISBN 978-0-9801684-2-6
“Welcome a new voice to Oklahoma poetry! Ocampo’s voice is tender and competent, grounded in good earth, but a voice that also explores the forbidden, the forgotten, the futile, then returns us toward wisdom.”--Ken Hada, author of The Way of the Wind.
“Patrick Ocampo’s Surface Tension stunned me; I couldn’t put it down. I read it cover to cover in one sitting. From the red earth to the green and yellow peppers, I can smell this book, as well as see it and hear it. Ocampo has given us the gift of an outsider-come-Okie, whose tilted angle on things is as refreshing as it is unpredictable.”--Nathan Brown, author of Not Exactly Job.