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Samuel Taylor's Last Night – A Novel
Joe Amato
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Description for Samuel Taylor's Last Night – A Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
A failed professor, Samuel Taylor is haunted by the premonition that in attempting to write out of his system the circumstances surrounding his failure, he'll only find himself at the mercy of another system, language itself. Each iteration of his creative effort, whether centered around seemingly mundane activities such as driving or manual labor, or scrutinizing the current cachet of rock climbing, illustrates that while experience might preempt artistic aspiration, those who are wedded to the demands of literary art are at its beck and call. By turns comic and tragic, Samuel Taylor's Last Night asks us to consider what ... Read more
A failed professor, Samuel Taylor is haunted by the premonition that in attempting to write out of his system the circumstances surrounding his failure, he'll only find himself at the mercy of another system, language itself. Each iteration of his creative effort, whether centered around seemingly mundane activities such as driving or manual labor, or scrutinizing the current cachet of rock climbing, illustrates that while experience might preempt artistic aspiration, those who are wedded to the demands of literary art are at its beck and call. By turns comic and tragic, Samuel Taylor's Last Night asks us to consider what ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970999
SKU
9781628970999
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About Joe Amato
Joe Amato (born May 31, 1955, in Syracuse, New York) is an American writer best known for his poetry and his work in poetics. A licensed Professional Engineer in New York State, Amato spent seven years in industry working in various project engineering capacities before returning to graduate school. He holds degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering from Syracuse University ... Read more
Reviews for Samuel Taylor's Last Night – A Novel
Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph world, but then they recoil from it with speedy wit and righteous indignation, in a weave of rhetorics designed to ward off the 21st century's demons.
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