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Saints of the Republic is a stunning and magical work of poetry. Wrapped in eros and ethos, this new body of work is a body of metaphor, a body of testimony, and a body in prayer with another body. With flocks and exaltations, many gods to love, and a Baptist bodybuilder, these poems are a commitment to sound and image. The form is a letter to tradition and silence; they are born in verse and dressed up as an unlocked kiss. Expect to fall in love with these stories over and over again.

Jake Skeet

"Chip Livingston's new collection, Crow-Blue, Crow-Black, with its north/south orientation, resists the traditional (Native) American east/west telling. Livingston, with his perfect ear, chooses his dazzling, shining words carefully, like his corvine brothers. And like his southern hemispheric rosins, the bowerbirds, arranges and constructs these bowers, these poems, to draw us in and delight. Here we find a happy home." 

- James Thomas Stevens

“All poets must juggle the sacred and profane and each must make some kind of peace with the paradox, fight it, or find a unique road in the up and down. Chip Livingston, in his first book, Museum of False Starts, makes a distinct trail of poems, through Mvskoke ancestral country, through the maze of American myths, through bars and parties at the edge, through disturbance and awe. What an auspicious beginning!”
- Joy Harjo

“More than a delightful record of a unique literary friendship, more than a chronicle of how Lucia and Kenward negotiated distance, patronage, moodiness, and the volatility of two artistic temperaments, Love, Loosha is a splendid treatise on aging out of lives in which decisions were made for pleasure and art more than for practicality or stability. A luscious and lyric counter argument to the dangers of a life lived in pursuit of beauty. Brava. Bravo.”

—Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding

“This story of an American college student struggling to piece together his Creek Indian heritage and learning what it means to love – really love – his HIV-positive boyfriend, no matter the prognosis is a triumph. Chip Livingston’s novel dramatizes the many unexpected ways that Place, Culture, and Ancestry lay claim to us even as we strike out and make our claim on the world. An utterly lovely, genuinely touching book.”     

  – Patrick E. Horrigan

“Chip Livingston’s empathetic take on a variety of men and women, along with his poet’s knack for precise, revealing details and descriptions make this eclectic, cosmopolitan collection a joy to read. His renderings of contemporary gay and Native American life are compelling, and the periodic glimpses into the dramatic relationship of the lovers, Peter and Elan, keen and poignant. This is spirited, compassionate, far-ranging fiction.”  

 – Cyrus Cassells

A Poetry Anthology

Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

Poemas de Uruguay

Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers

Indigenous American Poetry, Craft, and Conversations 

Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman