The Rusted City

Key reviewers include Publishers’ Weekly, Library Journal, The Writer’s Chronicle, Rain Taxi, Bookslut, Booklist, Gently Read Literature, and The Rumpus. We’re hoping for reviews in literary journals familiar with Rochelle’s work, including New Pages, The Kenyon Review, Cleveland Review, The Southeast Review, and CALYX Journal. Ads in Rain Taxi and other literary magazines Promotion on Good Reads, Facebook, author's website

Set in a surreal, post-industrial wasteland, this fable is a striking addition to the Marie Alexander Series."In Hurt's breathtaking mixed work of prose poetry and verse, a history of place is caked in a 'deep layer of red dust.' The Rust Belt's rattling structures and sutured-up asphalt roads are palpable here in every musical sentence."--Oliver de la Paz "In Hurt's sparkling debut, the tinny, melancholic, gorgeous stir of Baudelaire's heartbroken metropolis is heard again, but this time its flesh and spirit are rusted. Hurt brings the prose poem back to life."--Sabrina Orah Mark Rochelle Hurt was forged from iron ore in the steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio. Currently, she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is pursuing a PhD.