Not Good With Names - Tapa blanda

NOT GOOD WITH NAMES is an illustrated collection of thirty poems based on thirty linocut block print portraits by artist Charly Fasano. It includes a download code to listen to a recording of Fasano reading the book in its entirety featuring the music of MALAMADRE.

Charly "the city mouse" Fasano is a poet, block printer, and film maker from Ithaca, NY via Denver, Colorado. As a spoken word performer he has opened up and has shared the stage with Lucero, Drag the River, The Queers, Crime in Stereo, Mark Mallman, Matson Jones, Land Lines, Cory Branan, Ken Arkind, William Trowbridge and more. He is the co-founder of cassette tape and book label - Fast Geek Press, Pretend You Can Reab audio zine, and As Well As Magazine. He has released a vinyl EP backed by the music of Lucero, a CD, two cassette tapes and four books of poems. Fasano's poems have appeared in Yellow Rake Zine, Lubricated Magazine, Growing Strange Magazine, This Ain't No Cowtown Compilation Number Two and The Blunt Edition. His films and music videos have appeared at prickofthespindle.com, movingpoems.com, Westword.com and The Onion's AV Club Online.