A Choir of Honest Killers April 29\

A Choir of Honest Killers April 29\A Choir of Honest Killers is an episodic novel exploring his creative climb out of the gritty underbelly of anger and shame, into the dissolution of tragedy addiction and the unmistakable clearing ahead. Having toured the world performing poetry for the last twenty five years, navigating the blunt loneliness of life on the road and a rotating cast of unlikely antagonists, Buddy keenly unpacks topics like the intense overcompensation of his

and struggles one makes when reclaiming themselves in the face of sexual abuse

a guide to finding ourselves in what we lose

the capacious yearning that loss yields

If being floored is new to you

loss and trauma

Their work does not apologize for existing at the intersections

and triumph through the lens of personal experience

With a musical rage and a sacred love

Ollie Schminkey

illustrated throughout with evocative line drawings by Sarah J

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

His language is angular and surprising