Amalgamate: The Art, Design and Exploration of Blaine Fontana…

Straddling the physical and metaphysical, organic and architectural, painterly and graphic sensibilities, Fontana fuses multiple visual strategies to forge an aesthetic language entirely of his own making. The book contains an introduction by poet Derrick Brown, whose written and performance has won him the California Independent Book Critics’ Award in 2004 and six first-place slam finishes.

Ltd. Edition of 1,000

Hardcover, cloth with paper jacket
11 x 11″ (28 x 28cm)
108 pages
Zero+ Publishing

$45

Here’s a brief video flip through tour…VIMEO

The poems in Mindy Nettifee’s second book, Rise of the Trust Fall, possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she’s comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing, the perils of self-actualization, or the contemporary experience of womanhood, the poems in this daring collection are gorgeous and vibrant, bitingly funny, and unflinchingly honest. Rise of the Trust Fall challenges more than our understanding of ourselves. It calls us to connect to our humanity, to celebrate its flaws, and then to demand more of it, in every well crafted line.

Synopsis:

“Mindy Nettifee’s Rise of The Trust Fall is an intimate cartography of the poet that is at once lush with emotion and sharp with a bright, raw edge. This beautiful collection of poems will make you rise, rise up.” – PANK Magazine

“Mindy Nettifee poems inspire and fulfill. Rise of the Trust Fall has become a necessary book for me.” -Beau Sia, Def Poetry Jam On Broadway

“Mindy Nettifee is destined to be the next Dorothy Parker.” -Poetic Diversity

Fourteen stories that defy logic in only the most perverse and elegant of ways. Part One, “Kittied to Death,” includes 7 stories that delve into the mysterious and often inexplicable nature of love. Part Two, “Nagasaki and What Not,” brings you 7 more equally disturbing tales of dreams, adventures and life inside trauma.

Reviews:

Andrew Leland from The Believer says: “I was kittied to death by these stories. Matty Byloos’s fiction doesn’t go down smooth, and that’s a good thing: his sentences are hot blurts that bust rudely and hilariously into the reader’s consciousness. The revelations of Byloos’s book are many: I’m very glad I now know about ‘Momma’s little ham-glazing sessions’; I’ll never forget that ‘my couch is like a soap opera….’”

From Casey McKinney, Writer and Founding Editor, The Fanzine: “The miracles of Don’t Smell the Floss are actually the exquisite detritus of a hard working craftsman of the Word. His lines are chiseled, and like a sculptor, or a mad surgeon with a double degree in the murkier matters of psychoanalysis, he digs deep through the sinews of body and mind and often yanks back a funny bone. I’m still coughing bones back through a few of my orifices and am never the worse for wear.”

I was walking through a late New York City weeknight with acclaimed poet Mike McGee. We had been dancing ridiculously with the brilliant poets of the Bowery Poetry Club and The Louder Arts lushes from Bar 13. We were in the mood. You know that mood, when no one leaves early, no wallflowers are left, the dancing escalating into prime morning conversation embarrassment.

Mike and I began officially wandering the streets. I love wandering … when I have money to get home. That night I had some. I think we were near 14th st. and Blasted. We found some graffiti. We stared at it until booze tears welled up a little. He took a photo of it. It became the title of this book. You should make someone’s day by posting the phrase somewhere. Here’s to not getting caught, here’s to writing like you’re possessed, here’s to you being nuts – D.

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