Joe Amato completed his undergraduate degrees
in mathematics and mechanical engineering at Syracuse University,
and his Master of Arts and doctoral degrees at University at
Albany. A licensed professional engineer in New York State,
he spent seven years in industry working in various project
engineering capacities. He's the author of five books: Symptoms
of a Finer Age (poetry, Viet Nam Generation, 1994); Bookend:
Anatomies of a Virtual Self (criticism, SUNY Press, 1997); Under
Virga (poetry, Chax Press, 2006); Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks
for a Mobile Culture (criticism, University of Iowa Press, 2006);
and Finger Exorcised (poetry, BlazeVOX Books, 2006). Chapters
of his memoir, Up from Ellis Island, have been published in
The Iowa Review, Square One, and Voices in Italian Americana;
and his essays, poetry and digital art have been published in
Antennae, 88, Chain, Crayon, Jacket, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly,
Mandorla, New American Writing, Postmodern Culture, MiPOesias,
Notre Dame Review, Nineteenth Century Studies, The Iowa Review
Web, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and electronic book review.
Two of his screenplays, Bear River and High Country (coauthored
with Kass Fleisher), advanced to the semifinal round of the
2003 Chesterfield Writer's Film Project fellowship competition,
hosted by Paramount Pictures. And his most recent screenplay,
Yellow Medicine (also with Fleisher), advanced to the semifinal
round of the 2006 Nicholl Fellowship competition, hosted by
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, while placing
in the second round at the Austin Film Festival. He's just finished
a novel, Big Man with a Shovel. Amato currently teaches writing
and literature at Illinois State University.
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Finger ExOrcised
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.
Anselm Hollo
Of interest :
ISU webpage :
http://www.ilstu.edu/~jamato2
Book Information:
· Paperback: 139 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (Dec 2006)
· ISBN : 1-934289-23-X
$14
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