Romance & Revolution

Debut collection of "neo-Beat" poems and prose poems by L.A.-based writer and filmmaker Vanessa Matic, whose work has appeared in C-Heads, Flaunt, ZOO, Nakid, BLEND, i Love Fake, Black & Grey, and other U.S. and European arts and culture magazines. Her influences include Louis-Ferdinand Cline, Sylvia Plath, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, David Lynch, Rowland S. Howard, Leonard Cohen, Jim Jarmusch, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Comte de Lautramont, Gus Van Sant, Leonard Cohen, William Blake, Federico Garca Lorca, and Terrence Malick. She is currently working on her first novel.