WINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD

From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as transcendent by Kevin Young and steadily confident by Carl Phillips, Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker throughout North America and abroad, illuminating the ways in which home and place may inhabit one another comfortably or uncomfortably--or both, simultaneously.

From the Bahamas, London, and Cairo to Bemidji, Minnesota, and Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill interweaves the contemporary with the historical, and explores with urgency the relationships among travel, migration, alienation, and home. Here, playful postcard poems addressed to Nostalgia and My Third Crush Today sit alongside powerful reflections on the immigration of African Americans to Liberia during and after the era of slavery. Such range and formal innovation make Hill's second collection both rare and exhilarating. Part shadowbox, part migration map, part travelogue-in-verse, Dangerous Goods is poignant, elegant, and deeply moving.

Sean Hill's debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, which he transforms into a poetic landscape that can accommodate the scope of his vision of collective and personal history. The poems create a call and response across six generations of family of the fictional Silas Wright, a black man born in 1907. As Hill takes on the voices and experiences of diverse characters in or connected to the Wright family, these individual glimpses add up to an intimate portrait of Milledgeville's black community across two centuries as it responds to stirring events both public and private.

From a slave woman's scratchy hay-stuffed mattress to a black insurance agent's sinister patter, from sweet honey to the searing heat of brickyard kilns, the poems make vivid the sensuous details of quotidian lives punctuated by love and violence. From pantoum to haiku, from high-toned lyricism to low-down blues, Hill uses language in all its many incarnations to speak deeply about both southern identity and African American community.

Moving micro-stories with powerful twist endings!

Experience storytelling reimagined with author Sean Hill's captivating 140-character stories in Twisted Fiction. This refreshed collection of his tiny Twitter tales features hundreds of riveting bite-size stories that end with an unexpected twist. From heartbreak to humor, love to lust, and mystery to misery, these intriguing wee narratives capture the complex spectrum of human experience in just a sentence or two. Sometimes poignant, often witty, and always unforgettable, they'll be your new favorite stories in no time.

Read your diary, discovered your secret. I thought I loved you, but now I'm not sure. Don't know what to do, you look so human.

Alex bought Sharon a ring for Valentine's Day, which she sold to buy the gun that stopped him from loving her.

In this collection of 250-Word stories, author Sean Hill (creator of @VeryShortStory) has crafted fifty creative, humorous tales that include a touch of strange. These engaging flash fiction stories invoke worlds that entertain and stay with you long after reading them. PRAISE FOR SEAN HILL'S WRITING Story telling is his bag, pure and simple. - Austin American Statesman Witty, well-crafted and always thought-provoking. - Salt Lake Tribune Stories in this collection: Harmony Sometimes Cake Love This Time Around Jared Your Birthday Slave Wanted From Nothing My Collection Mother(R) Puppy One. Two. Three. Permanent Match Therapy Pain Firing People Donna I Like You Ted Nedland The Kim and I Hilda To Become King Hotel Lobby The Closet Fat The Map Old Photograph Expanding My Horizons Will of Alfred Lochner Re-parenting Freedom Ballpark Strange The Clown Terry Imagining Things You Would Think Monkey Paw It Happened Again Candy On the Prowl Who Wears the Pants? Battleground I've Always had It Tess Day at the Office Martin Smash the Hammer Family Dog Large Coffee, Cream, Seven Splenda Rainy Day

CREATIVE FICTION THAT FITS ON A POST-IT BUT CAN MOVE READERS WITH POWERFUL TALES OF LOVE, LIFE, DEATH, AND EVERYDAY LIFE

In this one-of-a-kind collection, author Sean Hill has crafted hundreds of engaging stories that conjure an entire novel in just a sentence or two. Sometimes sad, often humorous and always creative, these tales touch on a wide range of life experiences from romance and family to death and sex.

Nana rocked in her old wooden rocking chair. Timmy, you have always been my favorite, she said. He looked at her. Nana, I'm Bobby.

Read your diary, discovered your secret. I thought I loved you, but now I'm not sure. Don't know what to do, you look so human.

Clowning was Daryl's profession, cooking was his passion. Stella thought he was perfect. She liked to laugh and never learned to cook.

Alex bought Sharon a ring for Valentine's Day, which she sold to buy the gun that stopped him from loving her.

In 2009, Sean Hill combined his love of writing and technology by creating @VeryShortStory, a Twitter feed where he interacts with his readers and shares his 140-character stories.