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Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Paul transforms the people, neighborhoods, bars, funeral homes, airports, and anxieties of New England into poems that are devastating, hilarious, surreal, and deeply human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the collection, fathers become myths, ghosts wander interstate highways, lawnmowers speak, children teach impossible lessons, and ordinary moments open into something larger and more mysterious. Family history becomes folklore. Survival becomes myth. The familiar world reveals itself to be stranger, funnier, and more haunted than we ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than two decades, Paul has occupied a singular place in underground literature. As both poet and lyricist, he has built a reputation for work that is ferocious, funny, emotionally devastating, and impossible to mistake for anyone else's. Drawing equally from poetry, punk, autobiography, dark comedy, and American mythology, his work uncovers the extraordinary hidden within ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Heartworm Press, the publication carries special significance. Eric Paul was first published by the press when it was founded in 2008. Seventeen years and more than one hundred titles later, \u003cem\u003eProvidence\u003c\/em\u003e, published as Heartworm Press #139, brings the story back to where it began. The reunion between press and author feels fitting. Both have evolved, endured, and remained fiercely committed to singular voices outside the literary mainstream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Paul is the author of \u003cem\u003eI Offered Myself As The Sea\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Popular Place To Explode\u003c\/em\u003e. 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