BOOKSTORE
Here you can find an ongoing list of books I’ve written and published myself as well as info about how to order.1 A few others are available at Dead Mall Press.
TO ORDER:
Make a payment at Venmo (@Matt-Haines-28) or Paypal (matthaines79@gmail.com)
Send me a message with 1) name, 2) mailing address, and 3) which book/s you want. Include it in a note with the payment or hit me up at rmhaines@proton.me (also, if I know you, you can just DM me wherever).
TRAVIS
These poems look into the mirror of TAXI DRIVER’s Travis Bickle, presenting a montage of fact and fiction from inside the American nightmare.
$15 (shipping included)
pre-order on June 2, shipping by late June
32 pp., 8.5 x11’’, side-stapled chapbook
includes images in b/w
35 numbered copies
PARKING LOT HORIZON
Studies in an undead mood.
$10 (shipping included)
27pp., 8.5 x11’’, side-stapled chapbook
released May 2, 2025
includes images in b/w
35 numbered copies
A DARK ADDRESS
Originally released in April 2020 as a PDF, this full-length collection has never appeared before in print. It was my first book, and it’s more lyrical than work I’ve done since. It’s essentially about a healing psyche, my own, learning to escape its traps. Along the way, we see Ohio fields, nuclear reactors, haunted jellyfish blooms, Walter Benjamin, and drawers filled with thumbtacks and eternity. It contains some slight revision and retitling compared to the 2020 version, and it includes one entirely new poem.
Click here to see the original pdf version with unique cover and some sample poems. See sample images of the new print edition below:
$15 (shipping included)
released on Sept 9, 2024 (originally published digitally on April 27, 2020)
66 pages (including front and back matter)
8.5 x 11 inches, side-stapled booklet
TITLES TO COME
The following are expected to appear here by Summer ‘25:
The Western Motel: This is a series of poems about cinema, drugs, the 20th century, fame, wounds, and ghosts. John Lennon appears, as do Kristen Stewart, Hank Williams, and Val Kilmer— and there are found passages from old pulp novels with shitty sci-fi elements. It teases an actual plot, too, and I think you’ll like it.
Rat Heart Nebula: This one is more deranged than the rest of my work with the exception of Dysnomia. But where that one was deranged and grim, this one is actually pretty fun. There is no subject matter here, just pure improvisation over a set form.
Although I’ve released some of my work through my small press, Dead Mall, I’ve decided I don’t want to further clutter the catalogue with my own stuff. I have several manuscripts I want to put out in the next year, and I think it will begin to look like the press revolves too much around my own work. So I’m just going to list it here. There will be minimal promotion, but I will make announcements here and on socials. As with DMP, each booklet will be printed and assembled at home by me.