pDebut 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 C line, Sylvia Plath, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, David Lynch, Rowland S. Howard, Leonard Cohen, Jim Jarmusch, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Comte de Lautr amont, Gus Van Sant, Leonard Cohen, William Blake, Federico Garc a Lorca, and Terrence Malick. She is currently working on her first novel. p