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Tom DiVenti
“Tom DiVenti is a force of nature, a tornado of words and ideas that blows the roof off the ordinary, knocking down established norms with a razor sharp wit and eagle eye, cutting the meat of the matter down to it’s essential bone.
He’s brutal in his honesty, never pulling his punches in order to crack the nut of the daily nonsense that’s life. Averse to grand subjects, characters and the artificial flavoring of capital A artistic endeavors, he in fact thrives in the gutter, where he Knights the down and out low life’s of his Kingdom with a royal prose worthy of a good belly laugh, a few tears and finally…silent meditation upon the oddly unique and exceptionally unimaginable road he leads you down.
In this artist’s world there’s is no difference between life and art, writing like composing music, creating sculpture or paintings is as natural as breathing and The Good Lord has blessed DiVenti with one Hell of a set of lungs . . .”
William Moriarty
Listen to Tom on Podcast interview at Writing Itself
Books Published through Hekate
The Baltimore Kid
Presented here is Volume One of Tom DiVenti's illustrated cultural essays, serialized in Splice Today, and encompassing a sixty year span of music, poetry, politics and Baltimore esoterica. The author takes stock of our American Mythology in plain language, defining himself, his context and his shadow. He survived the game, a horse that made up twenty lengths in the stretch and took the trouble to write it all down. Prolific at an age when most men are rolling over, his second wind serves us an ice cold can of Natty Boh in flickering neon, an homage to the underdog and underbelly of not only his hometown Baltimore but our entire fruited plain.
Available in paperback and ebook.
Product Information
Paperback: 183 pages
Publisher: Hekate Publishing (May 21, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912017741
ISBN-13: 978-1912017744
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches