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Clint Catalyst (Author)
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  • Paperback: 158 pages
  • Publisher: Manic D Press,U.S. (9 July 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0916397653
  • ISBN-13: 978-0916397654
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,861,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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With wicked sarcasm and brilliant agility, Catalyst shreds the surface of all his many subjects - gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction - and ignites a bonfire of personal honesty.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elvira meets Bridget Jones 17 Nov 2000
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After reading a couple of Catalyst's articles I was very surprised when I found out he even wrote a book. Full of curiosity I got a crossover in the 'Elvira meets Bridget Jones' line: Short stories about normal (Goth or not-so-Goth) young people and their love, their autodestruction, drug addiction, sex, friendship... Their lives. Not only prose but also poetry. Ironic, Sexy and a must-have: A (Goth) Jewel
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elvira meets Bridget Jones 17 Nov 2000
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After reading a couple of Catalyst's articles I was very surprised when I found out he even wrote a book. Full of curiosity I got a crossover in the 'Elvira meets Bridget Jones' line: Short stories about normal (Goth or not-so-Goth) young people and their love, their autodestruction, drug addiction, sex, friendship... Their lives. Not only prose but also poetry. Ironic, Sexy and a must-have: A (Goth) Jewel
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5.0 out of 5 stars "So 15 minutes ahead it hurts!" 17 Oct 2000
By Ryan Wildstar - Published on Amazon.com
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Mouth-watering! Catalyst lives up to his name, candidly plunging his reader/victim into lethal accounts of feverish boy lust, middle-Americana , gritty drug-sex, and the peril of Gen-X relationships with dragonfly-wit. For those initiates, Cottonmouth Kisses is an eye-opener- an absolute required text from a venerated voice of the San Francisco underground scene. For that "been-there, done-that" audience, this collection of poems and prose should resonate with genuine laughter and remorse, sighs of remembrance, and an unsynthetic frankness. Pieces like "Everbody's Big Exception," and "Panhandled Presence," (almost criminal without the inflection and intonation from Clint's live readings) are carefully intermingled with prose/poem passages whose allusions range from 70's sitcoms and K-tel to Jean Genet, from Coil and Siouxsie to Plato and Donatello's David. The result is a humorous, insighftul, and well-crafted collection of work from a brother who survived to tell the tale. A millennial tour de force!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Snake Charmer 2 Sep 2000
By Just Jean - Published on Amazon.com
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I was introduced to Clint Catalyst's work when I saw him read at Tonic during the Fringe Ink/FringeFest. Astounding. _Cottonmouth Kisses_ is a remarkable, varied work with an array of voices. Catalyst's prose is not unlike the (cottonmouth) snake from the book's title: it is rapid, seductive, a force with which to be reconed. Furthermore, each piece has its own "turn," so to speak-- its own venomous lifebite.

The story "Metaphor and Remorse" is one of the most remarkable works I've read in my life, a frightening tale of artifice and addiction told through a complex narration: the words of the narrator interspersed with the narrator's thoughts, memories of his lover's words. What they reveal, as well as what the narrator doesn't reveal, is both poignant and haunting.

And the final piece, "The Dreaming Real," is one of the bravest and most beautiful things I've ever read in my life. Through contemporary, whip-smart diction in the form of a letter, we learn about the death of a chemical romance and the rebirth into clear-thinking, cloudless emotions, a new life.

Clint Catalyst has a wickedly beautiful new voice. This book is both queer and universal, gritty and gorgeous....a must read & must re-read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars kodak moments from hell 29 Aug 2000
By Lynda Licina - Published on Amazon.com
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I've been reading Clint since he was an imprisoned resident of a small Arkansas town and admired every word he put down on paper - or whatever it was he wrote on. I only say prisoner because I've heard the horror stories a small religious/KKK town can produce. Fortunately for us, he escaped.

Clint can take a mundane situation, (though in his world the mundanes are few and far between) and using his powerfully artistic words, turn even the simplest event into a kodak moment from hell. The book's range of emotions, sheer boredom to absolute terror, innocent love to brutally ecstatic rape, uncertainty, yet cocky as all hell attitude allow the person reading his individual pieces to be right there beside him at every incident, observing and feeling. Clint scrutinizes unnoticed and sees all the absurdities in life that most people wouldn't give a second thought to. He has a unique way of seeing the glass neither half full nor half empty but either overflowing with some seedy liquid or dry as a bone, shattering at any moment into itchy sand particles.

I don't know where he finds his words or exactly how he puts them together to create such (well, I won't say beautiful although beauty IS in the eye...) narratives but I hope his fairy tales never go away. I recommend this book to all of you who have survived, or are still trying hard to. And I look forward to what this brutally honest writer has for us in his future never-never land.

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