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  Kissed by a Fat Waitress (Paperback) By (author) Dan Fante

  

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  Short Description for Kissed by a Fat WaitressIn the not-so-gentle hands of Dan Fante, poetry is more akin to surgery or the body shop than to the techniques of music and painting. Fante excises whole slices of life and lays theme bare for us to inspect. Pain and self-mocking humor are the writer's tools here. He pries open and exposes his heart with the kindness of a hammer or crowbar. Indeed, what could be more ego-sizing than to have all p...
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  • Publisher: Sun Dog Press
  • Published: 01 May 2008
  • Format: Paperback 117 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780941543477 ISBN 10: 0941543471
  • Sales rank: 261,193

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Full description for Kissed by a Fat Waitress

• In the not-so-gentle hands of Dan Fante, poetry is more akin to surgery or the body shop than to the techniques of music and painting. Fante excises whole slices of life and lays theme bare for us to inspect. Pain and self-mocking humor are the writer's tools here. He pries open and exposes his heart with the kindness of a hammer or crowbar. Indeed, what could be more ego-sizing than to have all pretense flattened, laying bare the raw self underneath?