Prime Cuts, by Amanda Chiado

Prose poetry, chapbook, 44 pages, illustrated, from Bottlecap Features. Jump into a pop culture extravaganza with surreal prose poems spotlighting your favorite film and movie icons including, but not limited to Martin Scorsese, Patrick Swayze and Tina Fey. Each poem is a braid of scrumptious food items, pop culture icons and a central dramatic conflict. Grab a sweet or savory snack and take a romp in this Hollywood whirlwind. Just like a good film, you will be left looking up, looking in or feeling straight haunted. Both an homage and a narrative reconstruction of our most mythical cultural figures, this chapbook leaves you gut-punched, hysterically heart broken and absolutely starving for more. Amanda Chiado holds degrees from the University of New Mexico, California College of the Arts and Grand Canyon University. She is the author of the chapbook Vitiligod: The Ascension of Michael Jackson (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has most recently appeared in Southeast Review, RHINO, The Pinch Journal, The Offing and many others. She is a Community of Writers alum and Highlights Foundation alum. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart & Best of the Net. She is the Director of Arts Education at the San Benito County Arts Council, is a California Poet in the Schools, and edits for Jersey Devil Press.