VULGARSWEET, by Amy Jannotti (PRINT)
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PRAISE FOR VULGARSWEET
Amy Janotti is equal parts beauty and tragedy–she’s a porcelain doll with a dark secret and impeccable style, an undead ballerina. Woven with sensuality, self-effacing wit and stark horror, her second chapbook VULGARSWEET twists between romance and terror with a biting sense of purpose. It is an incredibly precise sampling of Janotti’s aesthetics, wrought from barbed wire and water colors.
– Lindsay Hargrave, author of ROT
VULGARSWEET is eviscerating, raw, dangerous, sensual, & oozing with style. In her new book, Amy Jannotti places us in the body as in the mind, centers the reader there & plants us like a seed, & we are to become as the author has made these poems—nakedly honest & emotionally vibrant. The poems in VULGARSWEET beckon us like glinting rose quartz, like the shine of sweat on your forehead, like Rimbaud would be made proud. In Variety Video, Jannotti writes: i could be ur grenade, baby – set phasors to/you’re stunning. But in reality, it is the poems that are explosive, and it is all painfully ravishing. This is the work of one of Philadelphia’s best.
– Noah David Roberts, author of STRIPS
VULGARSWEET is a diary of desire, a crossing with the poet tied to its tracks. We witness the trappings and gashes of constructing a life inside of confessionals. Amy Jannotti revives poetry and her narrative of wants through vulnerable voltas and the uncanny grammar that only she can wrangle free from her thrumming language. As always, her poetry flashes by us, in strobes, and we’re lucky to glimpse its core, in the dark moonlight, if only momentarily.
– Samantha Fain, author of Coughing Up Planets and sad horse music
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Amy Jannotti (she/her) is a pile of dust in a trenchcoat living & writing in Philadelphia, where she received her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of the Arts. She is the author of AN ANGEL IS A KIND OF GHOST (2022) with Bullshit Press, and her poems have appeared in Non.Plus Lit, Black Stone / White Stone, Warning Lines, & elsewhere. She tweets @cursetheground.
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© 2023 Vulgarsweet.
by Amy Jannotti and Gutslut Press.
ISBN: 978-1-365-77459-1
Cover and Interior Design by Ami J. Sanghvi.
First Edition: February 2023.
Published in the United States by Gutslut Press.
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RELEASE DATE: February 14, 2023
PAGES: 34
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PRAISE FOR VULGARSWEET
Amy Jannotti is equal parts beauty and tragedy–she’s a porcelain doll with a dark secret and impeccable style, an undead ballerina. Woven with sensuality, self-effacing wit and stark horror, her second chapbook VULGARSWEET twists between romance and terror with a biting sense of purpose. It is an incredibly precise sampling of Janotti’s aesthetics, wrought from barbed wire and water colors.
– Lindsay Hargrave, author of ROT
VULGARSWEET is eviscerating, raw, dangerous, sensual, & oozing with style. In her new book, Amy Jannotti places us in the body as in the mind, centers the reader there & plants us like a seed, & we are to become as the author has made these poems—nakedly honest & emotionally vibrant. The poems in VULGARSWEET beckon us like glinting rose quartz, like the shine of sweat on your forehead, like Rimbaud would be made proud. In Variety Video, Jannotti writes: i could be ur grenade, baby – set phasors to/you’re stunning. But in reality, it is the poems that are explosive, and it is all painfully ravishing. This is the work of one of Philadelphia’s best.
– Noah David Roberts, author of STRIPS
VULGARSWEET is a diary of desire, a crossing with the poet tied to its tracks. We witness the trappings and gashes of constructing a life inside of confessionals. Amy Jannotti revives poetry and her narrative of wants through vulnerable voltas and the uncanny grammar that only she can wrangle free from her thrumming language. As always, her poetry flashes by us, in strobes, and we’re lucky to glimpse its core, in the dark moonlight, if only momentarily.
– Samantha Fain, author of Coughing Up Planets and sad horse music
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Adrian Elise, author of SHIVA –
Amy Jannottis VULGARSWEET will draw you in with a siren’s gaze and “…siphon you right out with a Bubblicious flavored kiss.” This collection of poetry is a lush, Venusian fever dream in the dark commanding us to acknowledge the longing behind and beyond our own flesh.
I adore Amy’s faculty of language and the way each piece in this book builds upon the narrator’s vivid world. Readers will have the privilege of peeling back lust’s superficial layers to uncover intimate motivations, fears, desires, and passions beneath mania. “I’m serious & hollow, how a woman can be multiple things at once while trying to be less…” If you are looking for a page-turning poetry collection with a voice that echoes long after the morning light breaks, VULGARSWEET is a must-read. An instant classic for Amy Jannotti and our beloved GUTSLUT Press.