Shaken, Not Stirred

Do you love a treasury of well-crafted and sophisticated poetry? This isn't it. It is Mug & Mali's Shaken, Not Stirred: Cockeyed Cocktail Poetry, where Mug & Mali mangled 449 of your most beloved poems, limericks, holiday Cocktail Carols, Mother Booze rhymes, slobbets, t'odes, spree verse, brazenings, pantaloons, and stank verses, and festooned them all with authentic tipsy illustrations. This is the ideal gift for light and heavy drinkers, bar flies, and wannabe English poetry major snots. Curl up with this viscous volume and join the legions of buzzed readers who have been delighted by the magic of alcohol-induced altered states.

The New Century Dada Press brings the charisma and influence of avant-garde Dada to the 21st century. Dada was officially not an art movement, its artists not artists and its art not art. Dada's post-World War I works rebelled against the norms of bourgeois culture and war, and included automatic collage, poetry, painting, sculpture, film, performance art, and lately, absinthe-crazed cocktail poetry. Dada influenced Surrealism, Futurism, Cubism, Expressionism, Bobism, The Fat Earth Society, miscellaneous authors, and is the foundation of many New Century Dada works.

Here are a few of these liver-boggling ditties:

Drink up! Drinks are sweeping by;

Gulp them down before you die.

Something mighty or sublime,

Guzzle all at cocktail time.

- Johann Wolfgang von Ginthe

These are the things I hold divine:

An ice cold beer, a frosty stein,

Rich dark rum, and hand-tossed gin,

The taste of scotch, our Bar Maid's grin,

Martinis, shots, the buzz that flowers,

The cheery call of "Happy Hour!"

- Jean Booze Burt

Here's what the critics are saying about Mug & Mali's Shaken, Not Stirred: Cockeyed Cocktail Poetry:

"This work pairs comic alcohol-related verse with unforgettable images. You can't unsee any of it." - William Baked, Art and Pennilessness.

"Infested with genuine literary calamity." - John Meltin, Stained Pants Quarterly

"This ambitious anthology of mangled cocktail poetry aims high, and misses." - Murk Twain, Academy of Second-Rate Poemers.

"Mug and Mali are two of a handful of artists whose double-visionary cocktail work is defining New Century Dada." - Marcel Duchump, Questionable Dadaist Journal.

"Shaken, Not Stirred: Cockeyed Cocktail Poetry is the best book I ever read." - Abraham Lincoln, Pittsburgh Address

"If this poetry doesn't move you, you're not drinking hard enough." - Ulysses S. Grunt.

"A thoughtless dive into a flaming Tiki bowl." - Walt Witless, True Crime.

"This poetry is frankly no good. I feel like I may throw up." - Emily Drinkinson.

"Violent, perverse, tender... it's like swimming in a pitcher of icy dry Martinis." - Dorothy Darker.

"Mug & Mali are up to their usual shenanigans." - Vito Powers, The New Yanker.

"A stunningly unique volume that will be banned for ages." - Robert Flost, Poetry Nightmare Quarterly.

"This collection of cocktail poems and images, which feature innovative depths of alcoholic fervor, reinforce Mug and Mali as leaders of the New Century Dada movement." - Hugo Balk, Impractical Dadaist.

"How do we get our money back?" - Helen Wheels, The Chicago Chugger.

"This book looks like I need a drink." - Rhoda Booke, Quarterly Literary Bungle

"A powerful, ground-breaking work of timeless importance and stature." - Liza Round, The Paid Reviewer.

"If Mug & Mali aren't America's leading humorists, we can see why." - Ira Gurgitate, The Vodka Guzzler.