Publications

"Brilliant and beguiling; this book is magnetic as the Yooper iron that binds it. As a U.P. rock opera, Amasa Speaker Factory is a tantalizing mind meld memory--divine, devilish, hardscrabble, tumultuous reckoned life--pierced with the cold flames of youthful gains shredding loss. The heart skips less beats when we up and lose ourselves."

"I loved this grave, manic, kickass, drug-addled, sex-drenched, visionary memoir. It starts as a tale of rootlessness and slowly becomes the opposite of that: the story of a constant love between a troubled boy and his unhinged mother—the portrait of an iron chain. It's mesmerizing."

"Chad Faries' new poems are passionately rendered and good food for both head and heart. This poetry rolls me back to why I fell for poems in the first place: to be taught to pay attention, to see the world through words in a way that I could never see with my eyes, to be awake now before I wake up dead."

"Oscillating between the poetic polarities of Celan and Whitman, between the personal and the political, Chad Faries' The Border Will Be Soon enacts a powerful phantasmagoria of the ruin that was Yugoslavia which has the richness and the texture of real experience."