"In this haunting collection of brief, essayistic pieces that often read like prose poems, Manizza-Roszak has composed, with a kind of childlike innocence, a series of literary Joseph Cornell boxes: artful juxtapositions of seemingly disparate objects, images, and shards of family history that bring to life both the past and the present in ways traditional narrative cannot."
— Charles Siebert, author of Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A collection of lyric essays and hybrid writing forthcoming in March 2027 from Veliz Books.

Brutal Noises is a collection of lyric essays and hybrid writing about intergenerational trauma and the search for a sustainable home. By turns explicit and oblique, it interrogates the connections between a mother's death by suicide and a larger culture of American brutality that manifests in gendered, ethnocultural, and environmental forms. Written on the author's relocation to the Netherlands during the coronavirus pandemic, the collection places private family stories of trauma and its after-echoes alongside public patterns of ecological recklessness, school violence, and workplace misogyny—asking, amidst all this, where the enduring place for joy is.