A Shotgun Life is a new series of poems that chronicles my journey from losing myself to heartbreak to finding new love, and eventually finding myself…as a mother.
The collection is published by Big Table Publishing.
**A Shotgun Life is now on your Kindle!
Click here to buy your copy!
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If you’d rather send a check, email me.
If you’d rather buy one from me in person, find me at Prose in Pubs, or catch me at a reading.If you’d rather not buy a copy, well, I’m sure you’re not alone.
*I will probably sign your copy, unless you ask me not to.
The buzz on the street about A Shotgun Life…
“There is sorrow and joy and anger in these poems, but always, there is the strength of Archer’s voice and her unflinching willingness to cut herself open and bleed beautifully, recklessly onto the page.”
-Roxane Gay, author of Ayiti and Co-Editor of [PANK]
“The best book I have ever read. Ever, ever.” -Mom
“The poems in Amye Archer’s A Shotgun Life are suffused with hard-won– sometimes reluctant-insights. With frankness, perseverance, and wry good humor, Archer charts her way from betrayal and divorce to new love and motherhood, without ever losing the ability to calculate the losses along with the gains.”
-Christine Gelineau, author of Appetite for the Divine
“I’m sure it’s….nice.” -Grandma
” Amye Archer’s A Shotgun Life is a fiercely honest exploration of the slow motion eruptions and unexpected life events through which we surge as we’re carried down the “darkening road we’ve yet to meet.”
-Tony Morris, author of Back to Cain
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