Autofiction and poetry e-chapbook by Barracuda Guarisco
 
Praise for It's Not A Lie If You Believe It
 
Whipped with profound gritty realness... this is a mean one, pricked with a candidness that is in equal parts vulnerable and cutthroat. Guarisco throws a damn good party. It's Not A Lie If You Believe It is a cacophony of harmonious snapshots, technicolor and sepia at the same time, as if déjà vu was as familiar as a bedroom ceiling, and human limitation was a foreign matter entirely. This is a good book, is what I'm trying to say, this shit slaps. — Brianne Agnizle
 
 
Barracuda Guarisco, God bless him, is the Poet Laureate of drunkenly passing out on a random park bench in some strange city with 10% battery life left on their cellphone, which is basically the only kind of poet I will wholeheartedly endorse on this entire muck-pie planet. — Brian Alan Ellis
 
 
A masterpiece of momentary existences & nostalgia for the dark and dirty, like a ghost you watch the stories unfold as you hang in the air like torn pages of kink-magazines. Pictures of mistakes that aren’t so, every page masters the balance of heart and hurt. Barry unfolds those instances we reflect on when we’re alone, not without reminding us to laugh at ourselves, to unveil friends and lovers, to unveil ourselves. Unnerving as much as it is cathartic- It’s Not A Lie If You Believe It is the book we’ve all been feeling, please believe that you need to read it.
 
It’s Not A Lie If You Believe It is the book we’ve all been carrying in our hearts, please believe that you need to read it. — McKenna Clarke
 
 
"But Elaine...I am Pagliacci." Barracuda Guarisco is the poet with a soul of a clown, which seemly forces them to blow it at the most important moments. It's Not A Lie If You Believe It is equal parts absurd and sincere in a way that only Barracuda could pull off.  — Ira Rat