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Reviews
“An ingenious gathering of
poignant leapfrogging . . . a muscular memorializing . . . a sly
haunting.” This is the book that’s everything Amato
says it is and is not. It bounces on water, refuses to be paraphrased,
and invites itself to dinner. Buy it by the case while there’s
still time.
— Cole Swensen
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Amato, Joe (Jr.)
[1955 - ?]: 5' 9", 160 lbs, beige complexion, brown hair
(some grey), blue eyes (some grey). Minor poet, sometime essayist,
and would-be screenwriter of the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries, author of Symptoms of a Finer Age (Viet Nam Generation,
1994), Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (SUNY Press, 1997),
Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (University
of Iowa Press, 2006), and Under Virga (Chax, 2006). When not teaching
literature and creative writing for various academic institutions,
Amato was known to watch reruns, argue, ogle the odd bird, motorcycle
with his brother Mike, dabble in watercolors, study the writing
of acquaintances, cook for friends and family, drink beer, go
broke, write email, read email, listen to the radio, wish everyone
had more time on their hands, hike with Kass Fleisher, and ponder
the raking of leaves and the versatility of lemons.
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