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#017

Travel By Haiku:
Volumes 6-10
Far Out On The Road With Friends

compiled by Marshall Deerfield

Travel By Haiku: Volumes 6-10, Far Out On The Road With Friends is a modern ode to the community found on the road, written by six navigators of its far reaches over the course of three separate road trips. The first, a roadrunner's ramble through the Big Bend region of West Texas with Augustus Depenbrock. Followed by a month-long jaunt up the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle, stopping at every natural wonder along the way, with Shane Donnelly and Tara Lynn Faith Williamson. Last, but not least, a dive deep into the Rockies with Stephanie Beattie and Cameron Christopher Stuart, on the way from Taos, New Mexico to the crown jewel, Glacier National Park in Montana. Those familiar with the American Pops of Jack Kerouac, the blues-infused ku of Sonia Sanchez, or the travel fiction of Basho will see the parallels between the spirit of the road, as it was and as it is now. An ever-changing, undying wanderlust that brings people together across distances unknown, until they adventured together.

180 pages
to be released on March 31, 2021
with an introduction by Andrew Galati

Police In The Wilderness

by Cameron Christopher Stuart

Cameron Christopher Stuart's collection of plays titled Police In The Wilderness features two versions of the same play written and revisited along with various dramatic stagings by Saints Of An Unnamed Country over a ten year period, creation an experience to fully absorb the psychedelic audacity of this wild exposé on the human wilderness. With themes of climate change, life in a dystopian police state, and mind-altering philosophical dialectics on the birth and death of poetic meaning, this collection could've chosen no better time to make its grand entrance into our collective consciousness.

164 pages
​published on January 22, 2020
​with a cover illustrated by Stephanie Beattie

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#015

The Edge of Waking

by Julia Daye

The Edge of Waking is a collection of poetic works that follow fundamental truths, venturing into the ever ripening heart's innate echo of the natural world. Reaching continually for simplicity, this collection captures a fascination for, and celebration of, basics.

28 pages
First print, hand bound edition published on December 1, 2017 

2 Clown Plays

by Cameron Christopher Stuart
and Seraphic Romance Rots Truth

2 Clown Plays collects two (2) scripts performed by Saints of an Unnamed Country, a NYC-based theater company, in the year of the clown, 2015. Written by the scholarly duo of Cameron Christopher Stuart and Seraphic Romance Rots Truth, these plays catalog dream poetry transcribed by a floating mirror hand for transmission to a smiling, make-up smeared clown visage replete with mouth-machine -- in this case talented performer Lily Chambers (pictures of her clown prowess included in this volume). Satirical, delicious, suffused with rocket fuel and cinnamon toothpaste, these paroxysms of ghostmothership amorphous chocochippy candykaynes are blow-pops for the undernourished mindhole. Performable! By clowns and cats alike. Instructions included. DO NOT MISS THE BONUS LEVEL.

100 pages
published on January 12, 2017

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#013

Water Is The New Precedent
a dream dialectic from Standing Rock

by Marshall James Kavanaugh

In April of 2016, youth from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe ran across the country from North Dakota to Washington DC in order to deliver petitions against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the White House. Soon after an encampment of thousands of Water Protectors formed along the Missouri River to pray for the waters and the people of the land, and to stop the construction of the pipeline. Collected here are a series of essays written before, during, and after my time spent at Standing Rock. Each essay attempts to capture the love and prayerful community found there, the lessons learned from native relatives and the hope so present in that space. 

60 pages
published on January 20, 2017

​Seeds of Illumination

by Sage Kohen

Seeds of Illumination is a poetic compilation of true tales inspired by a host of wild initiations, raw revelations, and cathartic celebrations experienced while traveling the rocky road of realization. This book is a testament to SPIRIT, to the realms that exist within and beyond the five senses, to those places shrouded in mystery with more presence and power in our lives than we realize. Through reading this collection, the words work to inspire us to dive deeper, so that we may dream ourselves awake.

​90 pages
published on December 21, 2016
with a cover painted by Laura Peacewalker

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#011

Travel By Haiku:
Volumes 1-5
Still Trippin' Across The States

by Marshall Deerfield

Travel By Haiku: Volume 1-5, Still Trippin' Across The States is a collection of poetry written during travels across the United States in 2014 and 2015. Each haiku brings the reader along on the road across the country taking brief pauses to admire the air, the sunsets, the beaten earth, the tall trees on high mountains, and the breath of the ocean surf. Readers will find themselves transported to a humble place with a still mind and a new found admiration for their natural surroundings.

​170 pages
published on March 1, 2016
with an introduction by Stephanie B.

​Letters To Aunt Lucy
Chapter 1

by Stephanie B.

Letter's to Aunt Lucy is "a letter and poetry exchange between a letter-writer and the Australopithecus Lucy. It's an exploration of deep ancestral memory, our biology, and the many forms of love we share with ourselves, each other, all the creatures, and this great big planet."

Themes explored include womanhood, relationships, agriculture, and environment. The text is meant to be read out loud at top volume in order to fully awaken the primal rhythms that beat away inside us all.

28 pages
First print, hand bound edition published on March 1, 2016
with an introduction by Marlon MacCallister
​and illustrations by Seth Rogers

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#009

A-Politico Absurdia

written by Jozef Maguire
word collaborated with Marshall James Kavanaugh

In 2011, Jozef Maguire and Marshall James Kavanaugh set out to write a manifesto for a culture movement that James Kavanaugh had been developing called Dream Punk. Originally intended to incite a radical break from consensus reality in pursuit of empowerment through lucid dreaming, the text became an experience of manifestation through language. While writing it, the authors quickly developed their own vocabulary as they searched for words that would better describe the characters and states of mind they found in this alternate reality. The collaboration that happened while they lived together for six months in Philadelphia had a visionary effect on both writers that still calls out in both of their writings to this day. The text is only the beginning.

14 pages
published on January 10, 2016

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Birds & Commas

by Willow Zef

Poetry dealing with love, romance, and activism. Written through status updates and short tweets during the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a text that confronts the reader with tough times in our history. ​





54 pages
published on August 3, 2015

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# 007

Fire. Sun. Salutation.
a collection of surreal shorts and intimate transformations

by Marshall James Kavanaugh

Fire. Sun. Salutation. is a collection of 9 short stories, both surreal and erotic in experience. It is the story of a writer trying to arouse his muse. A lecher learning to dance. Three psychonauts camping in a slowly fading fairy tale. A rêvelutionary road trip across the great American plains. A man discovering the sensual power he holds in his fingertips, while another finds he is ruined by it. And all throughout this journey, fire haunts the narrative in the form of an all-loving goddess. Written in the context of a dream world, readers of Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and/or Arthur Rimbaud, as well as anyone looking for a new love, will find their every fantasy satisfied between these pages.
 
110 pages
published on January 31, 2015
with an introduction by Augustus Depenbrock 
and cover illustrated by Julia Crachiolo

Borderline Fictions

edited by Morrison Willow

Borderline Fictions tracks the growing years of a young poet navigating the journeys of finding a voice. You'll see him or her take on many different transformations as they dive through college slums haunted by Bukowski, the streets of South America chased by a post-imperialist anarchy, and that word called love which grows fiery in the erotic late night satin light. It is a collection of poetry & prose that is abstract & psychedelic as it progresses through the shadows of dreaming and ever persistent reality of travel. Pablo Neruda is there to get things started, as well as Brother Josef, Jade Hart, Dick Richey, and many others you'll soon know by name.

108 pages
published on April 8, 2014
with an introduction by zef aka sauce 
and cover designed by Marshall James Kavanaugh
photo by Paige Osbourne

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# 005

A Dream Dialectic:
The Little Death

by Marshall James Kavanaugh

In the summer of 2013, Willow Zef and Marshall James Kavanaugh set out on the road again. This time their adventures take them to Massachusetts and Southern Vermont. With a car full of poetry and two axes for chopping wood, they end up in the mountains. This is the story of what they find or rather what finds them in the black of night with only the stars for guiding light.


28 pages
First print, hand-bound edition published on March 1, 2014

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# 004

A Dream Dialectic:
The New Aesthetic

by Willow Zef
and Marshall James Kavanaugh

In the Spring of 2013, two young poets from Philadelphia, Willow Zef and Marshall James Kavanaugh set out on the road in search of a new aesthetic. This is their double-tongued rucksack hallucination of the wild ride they embarked upon through the state of New York.

28 pages
First print, hand-bound edition published on July 2013
Second print, hand-bound edition published on October 2013
Third print, hand-bound edition published on March 2014

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The Sleepers and 
A Midsummer Day's Dream


by Marshall James Kavanaugh

Marshall James Kavanaugh's first collection of short stories with A Freedom Books. These are two stories of surreal erotica written between 2011 and 2012. Influenced by a trip to Spain, James Kavanaugh takes the reader through the exotic fantasy land of his subconscious mind.


60 pages
First edition of 50 copies hand-bound on November 21, 2012
Second edition published on July 1, 2013
with an introduction by Willow Zef

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# 002

Surreal Psychedelia:
A Poetic Dream

by Willow Zef

Surreal Psychedelia is Willow Zef's debut on A Freedom Books. It is a collection of poems and literary shorts that examines the far out realms of surreal psychedelia. Published while Zef was still learning his craft on the west coast it retraces some themes already examined in his earlier collections including Anarchy and Baroque Mystica.


leather hand-bound edition published on April 20, 2012
with an introduction by Marshall James Kavanaugh

# 001

In The Night Time 
Of The Mind

by Salvador Chanza

In The Night Time Of The Mind takes place in Chile and Salvador Chanza is a traveling journalist who manages to capture all of the social intimacy that lies in the city of Valparaíso. Through poems that take on a visionary tone, the reader is transported into a web of arts and culture, underground revolution, and education alive on the streets.


published on January 1, 2012
with a cover illustrated by Willow Zef