What It Is: What It Is

Art and prose by Maust (Cold War Kids) and Paul G. Maziar "It's not poetry, it's not prose…what is it: what is it? With What It Is: What It Is, Cold War Kids bassist and visual artist Maust and wordsmith Maziar have succeeded in making a book that's less of a book and more of a guided tour through places they've been, both actual and abstract. With prose poems about taking deep breaths from our collective unconscious and making exhalations of cold smoke into thin air, and photo-collage images of cities, faces, skies and subways, the work suggests a fractured postmodern world viewed through nostalgic eyes and voiced by a warm, familiar tongue that still sounds unique. It is what it is."- Beau Powers, Filter