The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, winner of the 2007 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, was published in early 2008 as a hand-sewn limited-edition letterpress volume.

Written mostly in the voices of record holders from the Guinness Book of World Records, the chapbook is an ode to human superlatives, ludicrous acts, and our common strangeness.

It is available for purchase from the Slapering Hol Press website or from Amazon.com.

Reviews:

"Lenox's poems are playful and inventive, yet her subjects preserve their dignity."
-- Rigoberto González, Poetry Foundation

"Stephanie Lenox's The Heart That Lies Outside the Body ... does what a chapbook does best, concentrates its attention on an intimately connected, carefully selected set of poems -- poems that belong together even as they suggest the nucleus of a longer future collection." -- Philip Miller, Home Planet News

"Stephanie Lenox's The Heart That Lies Outside the Body is a gift."
-- Eileen Tabios

Sample poems:

The Heart That Lies Outside the Body & others in DIAGRAM 7.1

The title poem from this collection is available as a limited-edition broadside from The Center for Book Arts.

Other poems can be found in: AGNI Online, Atlanta Review, Bellowing Ark, Best New Poets 2006, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, CutBank, DIAGRAM, Ellipsis, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Main Street Rag, MARGIE, North American Review, Rattle, Raven Chronicles, Red Rock Review, Seattle Review, Sou'wester, Swink, Washington Square, and Willow Springs.