“A Gimlet-eyed chronicler of subterranean scene, Brian Jabas Smith has spent a career finding both truth and beauty among those who’ve been co-signed the narrow margins of society. At least we’re given a collection that captures the essence of his vintage neon prose. But Spent Saints is more than just glorious guttersnipe poetry—it’s a work of deep empathy and trenchant wit, a humanist drama that seeks to understand the live of the artistic demimonde and the unglamorous working masses at once ”