I’d Rather Be Destroyed: Now Available!

It’s Publication Day for I’d Rather Be Destroyed!

Grab a copy of Zach Goldberg’s collection.

We have limited SIGNED copies still available!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Earnest and darkly funny, this collection rebuilds the self from its broken pieces. Playing with dynamic and experimental forms, Goldberg explores modern Jewish identity, familial and cultural inheritances, and managing mental health. Its historical and religious allusions navigate modern and personal conversations, reflecting how we embrace and reject the legacies that shape us. Sharp and captivating, I’d Rather Be Destroyed’s honesty and artistry make it a must-read.

PRAISE FOR ZACH

Zach Goldberg writes like an inventor, making the page his play ground. I’d Rather Be Destroyed is as brilliant as it is easeful. Each page is a home we are invited into. Each line is a table we sit down at, grateful.

—Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

Dexterous and innovative, Goldberg’s poems traverse between intimate struggles to geopolitical conflicts. Moving from aching present to past and back again, these poems reach towards the possibility of healing, inviting us to reach for “Home, the place you leave / to find.” A beautiful debut!

—Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, 40 Weeks

I’d Rather Be Destroyed is an intricate map shepherding its reader into possibilities of home. Goldberg shows us that diaspora can be a nesting doll of ghosts, that correlations and revelations share a piercing proximity; a split-atom I understand more through its blaze.

—Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, Composition

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Best of Button – Week 56

“Sometimes, I look up at the night sky and it reminds me that people and planets aren’t so different. We all have an orbit, our energy decides what comes into our atmosphere.We all have our own gravity.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Porsha Olayiwola, Reagan Myers, Neil Hilborn, Sarah Kay, and Patrick Roche! Congrats Poets!

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Donte Collins – Adoption Day, Coming Home, 1998

“If you knew her you knew about the dream, the one where her fruitless body wished for the plum-skinned boy and then the boy walked through her front door.”

Don’t miss this poem from Donte Collins

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Jazzmyne Odom – Love is a Feeling

Performed at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024

“it is indeed crazy to hide your feelings, but it is even crazier to experience the things love can truly make you do.”

Don’t miss this poem from Jazzmyne Odom, performing at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024

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Porsha Olayiwola – When God Created

Performed at IWPS 2015

“Even while being eaten my pussy has an appetite”

Don’t miss this poem from Porsha Olayiwola, performing at IWPS 2015

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Ty Chapman – Confessions of a Bastard

Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN

“It clicked that you, father, were a holy man who believed in honeyed concepts.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN

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Best of Button – Week 55

“I know a few things about healing, it’s not a good employee. It shows up when it’s ready, only works when it wants to.”

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Usman Hameedi – Building a Home

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“I’m strong enough to hold my loved ones but I don’t know if I can support a home.”

Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Matthew Richards – Hospitality

Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals

“Why call the police on a flock of angels and order them to circle until, exhausted, they fall from the sky?”

Don’t miss this poem from Matthew Richards, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals

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