"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 "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 Jannotti'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
