POETRY
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Kissed by a Fat Waitress
In the not-so-gentle hands of Dan Fante, this book of new poetry is more akin to surgery or the body shop than to the techniques of music and painting. Fante excises whole slices of life and lays them bare for us in inspect. Pain and self-mocking humor are the writer's tools here. He pries open and exposes his heart with the kindness of a hammer or crowbar. Indeed, what could be more ego-sizing than to have all pretense flattened, laying bare the raw self underneath?
- 120 Pages
- Sun Dog Press
- First Edition: 2008
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A Gin Pissing Raw Meat Dual Carburettor Son of a Bitch from Los Angeles.
In this searing collection of poetry by the author of Chump Change, Fante tracks twenty years of excess: booze, drugs, and women. He infuses his poetry with bawdy humor, philosophical sensibilities, and tales of a private hell of his own making. (Original art by Michael Napper, foreword by Joyce Fante and introduction by Ben Pleasants).
- 208 Pages
- Sun Dog Press
- First Edition: 2002
