Gravity & Spectacle. Photography and Poetry by Jia Oak Baker and Shawnte Orion. Paperback. Full-Color. 96 pages. April 21st, 2020. ISBN 9781948800334.

Jia Oak Baker's stunning photographs of Flesh Cactus, a discarded punk-rock-skateboard-video-prop-mask, and Shawnte Orion's sardonic, pop culture-infused poetry make the strange world of Gravity & Spectacle. It is a slanted ode to Phoenix and its surrounding deserts, both gorgeous and absurd, stoic and wry, gravitational and spectacular, a "love letter to the fireplace" of a hometown seen through the lens and the pens of two of its inhabitants.