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Fast Geek Press is proud to announce the release of 7 inch EP and multimedia book called Retrospect/ed by poet and artist Charly Fasano featuring the music of Memphis, Tennessee’s Lucero.

ONLY 500 PRESSED!!!!

ON SALE NOW!!!! 

Produced by Roy Berry and Chris Scott.

Mastered by Dan Utter at What? Mastering.

Get ‘em here.

Purchase the 7" w/Book, Pocket Book, T Shirts and Block Prints @

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Purchase the mp3 @

charlythecitymousefasano.bandcamp.com 

Retrospect/ed features Fasano reading the poems “Gasoline Fumes” and “Teddy’s Bowling Alley” accompanied by the music of Lucero. In addition to the recordings, Fasano (a.k.a. “the city mouse”) has created a multimedia experience by creating twenty-two linocut block prints and two short films that illustrate and complement the poems throughout the book. How did he put movies in a book, you ask? Well, he has placed QR Codes throughout so folks can scan them with a smart phone or tablet to quickly access the films and recordings. Produced by Roy Berry and Chris Scott. Mastered by Dan Utter at What? Mastering. Cover art by Vincent Cheap.

Retrospect/ed will be released as an illustrated book with a hand-numbered 7 inch record (500 pressed), a hand-pulled block print, and an mp3 download code with bonus tracks of Lucero and Fasano’s first EP. It will also be released as a pocket edition book that includes a mp3 download code (no 7 inch).

WATCH A SHORT FILM FROM RETROSPECT/ED

TEDDY’S BOWLING ALLEY: SIDE B

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Charly Fasano will be in Denver, Colorado Oct/Nov 2014 telling stories and reading poetry. He will also be the artist in residence and showing all the linocut block prints from Retrospecte/ed at Cabal Enterprises (1875 South Broadway, Denver, CO). Tell your pals!

For more info go to cmousefasano.com

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Listen to NOT GOOD WITH NAMES audiobook featuring the music of Malamadre. Download purchase comes with a PDF booklet of all 30 linocut portraits you can print into a zine at home! $4.00.

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Not Good With Names is a multimedia book of 30 poems based on 30 linocut block print portraits by Charly Fasano. It includes an mp3 download code of Fasano reading the book in its entirety, backed by the music of Malamadre. It will be released as a paperback book, an ebook, and an mp3 download audio book. Not Good With Names can be thought of as a book of poetry or a record with an illustrated lyric book. Either way, it immerses the reader into Fasano’s brief observations of thirty composite characters. 

The paperback version features a QR Code at the beginning of the book that the reader can scan with a smart phone application in order to access streaming audio portions of the book while looking at the illustrations and reading the poems.

                          GET A COPY HERE From Fast Geek Press

                          GET A COPY HERE From Amazon

Listen to NOT GOOD WITH NAMES audiobook featuring the music of Malamadre. Download purchase comes with a PDF booklet of all 30 linocut portraits you can print into a zine at home! $4.00.

<a href="http://charlythecitymousefasano.bandcamp.com/album/not-good-with-names" data-mce-href="http://charlythecitymousefasano.bandcamp.com/album/not-good-with-names">Not Good With Names by Charly "the city mouse" Fasano</a>

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DENVER by Ken Arkind - Illustrated by Charly Fasano - paperback book

Denver is a chapbook-length poem by Ken Arkind illustrated by a collection of linocut block prints by Charly the city mouse Fasano. Denver is a meticulous tour of a city cursed by its history and geography. It is a bar by bar, neighborhood by neighborhood walk of triggered memories and self-destruction. Denver is about a city that continually attempts to search for an identity, but in doing so, collectively buries its true character in the bottom of a glass and passes out before last call.

Ken Arkind is an American National Poetry Slam Champion, Tedx Fellow, Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion and published poet who has performed his work in 49 States, 6 countries and at over 150 colleges and universities.  He is the current Executive Director and head coach of Denver Minor Disturbance, an independent literary arts organization dedicated to helping Colorado youth find voice through the mediums of poetry and performance.

Charly “the city mouse” Fasano is a poet, block printer, and film maker from Ithaca, NY via Denver, CO..  He has performed and opened up for bands like Lucero, Drag the River, The Queers, Crime in Stereo, Mark Mallman, Tim Barry, Matson Jones, Land Lines, Cory Branan 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, 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 multiple poetry podcasts.  His last book of poems “Next Analog Broadcast”  was published by Sunnyoutside Press. His  films and music videos have appeared at movingpoems.com, Westword and The Onion’s AV Club.

Available on April 1, 2013 at

AT OUR STORE

AMAZON.COM

Or stop by MUTINY INFORMATION CAFE (2 South Broadway, Denver CO.)

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Fast Geek Press Presenting 4 Days of Art!

Charly the city mouse Fasano will be in Denver, Colorado for a bunch of poetry readings, rock shows, art shows and such. Come out and check some of these events out if you are in the area.

Fri March 29 - Art Show @ Fast Geek Boutique 321 West 11 Ave Denver, CO 7pm 

I will be exhibiting over 30 linocut block prints featuring the illustrations that are included in Ken Arkind's new poetry book called "Denver", a multimedia collection of short films and block prints called Turnbuckle: An afternoon of Lucha Libre Wrestling in Block Prints and Strikes at the Fireside Bowl.

Take a look at Turnbuckle at http://turnbuckleproject.tumblr.com/

Check out cmousefasano.com to take a look.

Fri March 29 - Mr. Pacmen, Magic Cyclops and Charly the city mouse Fasano @ Hi Dive 7 South Broadway Denver @ 9:30 pm 21 and up.

Sat March 30 - Ken Arkind's Book Release Event! A poetry reading featuring Ken Arkind, Dan Landes, Denver Minor Disturbance and me back up by the music of Malamadre. Rock and Roll by HINDERSHOT. All  Ages 8pm @ The Deer Pile 206 East 13th Ave Denver, CO (above City O City)

Sun March 31 - Poetry Reading at Mutiny Books Denver with Dan Landes, Ken Arkind, Brian Polk and Denver Minor Disturbance 5 pm

Mon April 1 - Three Kings Tavern 60 S. Broadway Denver, CO. Reading some poems with MALAMADRE during their Happy Hour Residency.

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Announcing a new release on Fast Geek Press!

On Saturday, March 30, 2013 we will be celebrating the release of this amazing collaboration at The Deer Pile in Denver, CO. Stay tuned for more information.

Denver by Ken Arkind, Illustrated by Charly Fasano

It will be available in paperback and a special handmade and block printed book that will be limited to a run of 20 copies. Denver will be for sale at Amazon.com and createspace.com.

If you buy the book HERE you will get a free linocut block print featured in the book.

Here's a little info about Ken Arkind.

Ken Arkind is a National Poetry Slam Champion, Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion and full time touring artist who has performed his work in almost all of the Lower 48 states, Hawaii, Canada and at over 200 colleges and universities. With Panama Soweto he is one half of The Dynamic Duo, the nations most highly sought-after Spoken Word act. He has been featured in the documentaries SPIT!, Slamplanet, as well as Borders.com’s Open Door Poetry series alongside former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

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Get a copy of Charly the city mouse Fasano's new multimedia poetry book.

Excuse Me, I Think You Dropped Your Dreams is a collection of poetry, recordings, block prints, and short films created by Charly the city mouse Fasano that investigates the American mental recession. The poems in this book are complimented with QR Codes that can be scanned to access the accompanying multimedia content on a “smart” phone or tablet.

          Available at amazon.com  HERE

       Available at createspace.com HERE