A novel of heartless romance and wanton love south of the Mexican border as related by a wandering expat American. Funny, sad, and truthful in its description of his continuing quest for desire that does not desire you back, yet foolish enough to pursue it, realizing that the end result will most undoubtedly end in tragedy. A bitter sweet tale for the search for love and acceptance in it's most raw form.

Like nearly all of Blasini's writing, the novel OF MEN AND MAGGOTS is a thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of the author's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by John Poston, one of Blasini's alter-egos, OF MEN AND MAGGOTS is a cross-country odyssey that brings out the junkies, hoodlums, prostitutes, sexual perverts, and thieves crawling in the back alleys of the world. OF MEN AND MAGGOTS composes a very tough, yet very funny narrative of two friend's adventures with drugs, homelessness, and lifeless romance. OF MEN AND MAGGOTS is hard, derisive, inventive, comical, serious, poetic, and ineradicably American - a fast paced, quirky work in which you are not permitted to laugh and yet, at times, will find yourself doing so.

The captivating story of a homeless gay man and his desperate struggle to survive on a road trip from El Paso, Texas to San Diego, California as he comes to grips with his own personal convictions and the unending despair and empty hopes of the interesting characters he meets along his journey. The author Luis Blasini spins the story in a hard edge style. A provocative and emotional novel filled with street slang and gripping drama centered on the outcasts of today's society.

Luis Blasini composes a book of prose ripped straight from the gutters of Hell. His poetry will not be for everyone. He is dirty, crude, has an almost absolute reliance on free verse, and is rather graphic when it comes to sex and booze. Blasini goes straight for the jugular. This is not poetry for the meek at heart. Class Conscious Poetry is, however, very funny and very direct., resonating with brilliance. There is no craft here. The poetry flows from Blasini's hand with such ease that it's akin to the remark said about Kerouac: "It's just typing."