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Amato, Joe

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1943170215
ISBN13: 9781943170210
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Dec 16 2016
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Despite the dedicatio/warning-not for everyone-this book is indeed for everyone. Joe Amato is a straight talker able to weave those tough gossamer gab lines into strands for a dinger of a poetry rope lassoing the facts. The work's (manu)facture enlivens an endangered species: a poetry of facts, with which he drives a word-stake through the American (wet) dream. Hear, hear him, comrades, read Amato's hoarse-powered ode for this Poor dumb oilrigged hydrofracked Fukushima'd bastard / civilization-though there is nothing oily about his message, because Wethinks poetry is crude, baby, fundamentally crude. And needs to be so in/for a country where we note what strange fruit falls / with supremacist fictions run amok. This blues that stays news, these Urgencies of some noirceur, police / state tactics... need a poetry-vérité as we speak of a cinéma vérité and Joe Amato's eye & ear for these Younighted States-close cousins to Jean Rouch's hand-held camera-manage to scan an Earth that at its best is one hell of a / paradise.- Pierre Joris, author of An American Suite & A Nomad Poetics

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