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Books of all shapes and sizes. Words of the most beautiful kind. Enter the world of Marshall James Kavanaugh's surreal mind. Become an avid reader of the punk rêve brand. breathe, dream, and transcend.

Travel By Haiku
Volumes 6 - 10
​Far Out On The Road With Friends

compiled by Marshall Deerfield

Travel By Haiku: Volume 6-10, Far Out On The Road With Friends is a modern ode to the community found on the road, written by six navigators of its far reaches over the course of three separate road trips. Those familiar with the American Pops of Jack Kerouac, the blues-infused ku of Sonia Sanchez, or the travel fiction of Basho will see the parallels between the spirit of the road, as it was and as it is now. An ever-changing, undying wanderlust that brings people together across distances unknown, until they are adventured, together.

​180 pages
published on March 31st, 2021
with an introduction by Andrew Galati
​co-written by Augustus Depenbrock, Shane Donnelly, Tara Lynn Faith Williamson, Cameron Christopher Stuart, and Stephanie Beattie
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Poets For Peace
Zine #1 - Poems For Resistance
         #2 - Poems For Resilience

Poets for Peace is a collective of artists spread out across the United States. We stand in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and wish to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who can imagine a world beyond our current reality. any proceeds from this zine will be used to support BIPOC individuals, organizations, and communities striving to create safe and healing spaces made for them, by them through the many paths of protest.

Vol. 1 features writing and artwork by: Jay Morris, Kyky Renee Knight, Juan Camillo Garza, and Omar Pitras Waqar allied voices include: Marshall James Kavanaugh, Jeremy M. Brownlowe, Julia Daye, and Anthony Carson
layout designed by Lawson Chambers

Vol. 2 features writing and artwork by: J
avan Howard, Quentin The Poet, Lindo Yes, and Cashmere Harper
allied voices include: Ludlow, Valore, and Marian McLaughlin
infographic about POLICE BRUTALITY + RACIAL TRAUMA by Jay Morris

28 pages
​published on July 17, 2020

Water Is The New Precedent
A Dream Dialectic from Standing Rock

by Marshall James Kavanaugh

Collected here are a series of essays written before, during, and after my time spent at Standing Rock. Each essay attempts to capture the love and prayerful community that I found there, the lessons I learned from my native relatives and the hope I felt so present in that space. The words contained here are the seeds of a message that needs to spread: Mni Wiconi! Water Is Life!

All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Standing Rock or other indigenous led movements fighting for sovereignty around the American continent.

60 pages
published on January 20, 2017
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Travel By Haiku
Volumes 1 - 5
​Still Trippin' Across The States

by Marshall Deerfield

Travel By Haiku: Volume 1-5, Still Trippin' Across The States is a collection of poetry written during travels across the United States in 2014 and 2015. Each haiku brings the reader along on the road across the country taking brief pauses to admire the air, the sunsets, the beaten earth, the tall trees on high mountains, and the breath of the ocean surf. Readers will find themselves transported to a humble place with a still mind and a new found admiration for their natural surroundings.

​170 pages
published on March 1st, 2016
with an introduction by Stephanie B.

A-Politico Absurdia

written by Jozef Maguire
words collaborated with Marshall James Kavanaugh

In 2011, Jozef Maguire and Marshall James Kavanaugh set out to write a manifesto for a culture movement that James Kavanaugh had been developing called Dream Punk. Originally intended to incite a radical break from consensus reality in pursuit of empowerment through lucid dreaming, the text became an experience of manifestation through language. While writing it, the authors quickly developed their own vocabulary as they searched for words that would better describe the characters and states of mind they found in this alternate reality. The collaboration that happened while they lived together for six months in Philadelphia had a visionary effect on both writers that still calls out in both of their writings to this day. The text is only the beginning.

14 pages

First print, hand-bound edition published on January 10, 2016
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Fire. Sun. Salutation.
a collection of surreal shorts and intimate transformations

by Marshall James Kavanaugh

Fire. Sun. Salutation. is a collection of 9 short stories, both surreal and erotic in experience. It is the story of a writer trying to arouse his muse. A lecher learning to dance. Three psychonauts camping in a slowly fading fairy tale. A rêvelutionary road trip across the great American plains. A man discovering the sensual power he holds in his fingertips, while another finds he is ruined by it. And all throughout this journey, fire haunts the narrative in the form of an all-loving goddess. Written in the context of a dream world, readers of Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and/or Arthur Rimbaud, as well as anyone looking for a new love, will find their every fantasy satisfied between these pages.
 
110 pages
published January 31, 2015
with an introduction by Augustus Depenbrock 
and cover illustrated by Julia Crachiolo


A Dream Dialectic:
The Little Death

by Marshall James Kavanaugh

In the summer of 2013, Willow Zef and Marshall James Kavanaugh set out on the road again. This time their adventures take them to Massachusetts and Southern Vermont. With a car full of poetry and two axes for chopping wood, they end up in the mountains. This is the story of what they find or rather what finds them in the black of night with only the stars for guiding light.


28 pages
First print, hand-bound edition published on March 1, 2014

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A Dream Dialectic:
The New Aesthetic

by Willow Zef
and Marshall James Kavanaugh

In the Spring of 2013, two young poets from Philadelphia, Willow Zef and Marshall James Kavanaugh set out on the road in search of a new aesthetic. This is their double-tongued rucksack hallucination of the wild ride they embarked upon through the state of New York.

28 pages
First print, hand-bound edition published on July 2013
Second print, hand-bound edition published on October 2013
Third print, hand-bound edition published on March 2014

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The Sleepers and 
A Midsummer Day's Dream



by Marshall James Kavanaugh

Marshall James Kavanaugh's first collection of short stories with A Freedom Books. These are two stories of surreal erotica written between 2011 and 2012. Influenced by a trip to Spain, James Kavanaugh takes the reader through the exotic fantasy land of his subconscious mind.


60 pages
First edition of 50 copies printed and hand-bound on November 21, 2012
Second edition published on July 1, 2013
with an introduction by Willow Zef

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