If I ever wake up in a dark wood, facing an impassable mountain, assailed by beasts and unable to find my way, I hope hope that Nick Sturm will show up with some enchiladas and lead me out of the abyss and back to the light and safety of my nest. But if for some reason he can't, he's written A BASIC GUIDE to help me help myself, and for that I am very grateful. You should be too....
Nick Sturm is the author of How We Light, from H_NGM_N Books, as well as a number of chapbooks including, with Wendy Xu, I Was Not Even Born (Coconut) and, with Carrie Lorig, Labor Day (Forklift, Ohio) and Nancy and the Dutch (NAP), an erasure of paperback biographies of Ronald and Nancy Regan. Poems have appeared in Black Warrior, Typo, PEN, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.