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 an unflinching private hell of his own making. His distinct voice reads like short stories from his diary pages, with glimpses of his travels, women, friends, and most memorably, the haunts of his famous father, the author John Fante. Fante’s poems are complemented with the unique paintings and drawings from the diary collection of Michael Napper.


. . . Intense . . . Dan Fante allows us a glimpse of the Southern California demimonde that surely escaped his father’s attention.
—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Dan Fante. Remember the name.
—Kevin Ring, Beat Scene

Fante offers moments which brush the genius of Bukowski and Hubert Selby, Jr.
—Elle

. . . finely cut gems. Now I know why Dan Fante considers himself a poet first and foremost: because he is, and he’s the best.
—Mark Safranko

Cloth hardbound edition - 128 pages- $15.95
6"x9" - ISBN 0941543315

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