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Samuel Taylor is not a rock star - Samuel Taylor is a writer. Samuel Taylor is not a rock climber - Samuel Taylor is a teacher. Samuel Taylor has lost his job, Samuel Taylor has lost his wife, Samuel Taylor is beginning to lose his fortitude. Samuel Taylor is beset by moral failure, by mortal failure, by the failure of his species to safeguard its survival. Samuel Taylor must do better than to fail better, and failing that, Samuel Taylor must find in failure the means to move forward.
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Joe Amato (born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in the metro area) isan American writer best known for his poetry and his work in poetics. Alicensed Professional Engineer in New York State, Amato spent sevenyears in industry working in various project engineering capacitiesbefore returning to graduate school. He holds degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering from Syracuse University (B.S./B.S., 1976), anddegrees in English from University at Albany (M.A., 1986, Doctor ofArts, 1989). Amato is the author of nine books, including a memoir andtwo novels, and numerous essays and reviews. With his frequent writingpartner, Kass Fleisher, he's written a full-length play and severalscreenplays (none of which have been produced to date). Since 2003,Amato has taught writing and literature at Illinois State University inNormal, Illinois. He's the production manager at Steerage Press.
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Part novel, part mémoire, part inventory of everything thought and seen in the heterogeneous landscape of the daily life of "just another poor bastard who thinks his life is worth a permanent entry in the archive," Samuel Taylor's Last Night lists and leans, careens and lurches, swerves and accelerates through a range of rhetorical shifts of gear as its narrator-protagonist turns his psychic pockets inside out and throws all the small-change detritus and wide-ranging vibrant currency of his mind into full view.
(Johanna Drucker)
[T]his novel's whirling blocks of prose suggest faces glimpsed from behind a podium, or the landscape outside a spinning car, or the fast-moving crises of our time.
(John Domini, Inside Higher Ed)
[T]he book's ultimate accomplishment is, in fact, the masterful integration of the drama and overall performance of writing, on one side, and, on the other, the tragedies, comedies, and other theatricalities hardly absent from Samuel Taylor's life.
(Christian Moraru, Los Angeles Review of Books)
When the dust settles . . . what emerges is a convincing portrait of a man filled with moral conviction whose career has stranded him at the bottom of the ladder . . . . Amato’s view of the underside of academia offers something unexpected.
(Martin Riker, The New York Times Book Review)
(Johanna Drucker)
[T]his novel's whirling blocks of prose suggest faces glimpsed from behind a podium, or the landscape outside a spinning car, or the fast-moving crises of our time.
(John Domini, Inside Higher Ed)
[T]he book's ultimate accomplishment is, in fact, the masterful integration of the drama and overall performance of writing, on one side, and, on the other, the tragedies, comedies, and other theatricalities hardly absent from Samuel Taylor's life.
(Christian Moraru, Los Angeles Review of Books)
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)When the dust settles . . . what emerges is a convincing portrait of a man filled with moral conviction whose career has stranded him at the bottom of the ladder . . . . Amato’s view of the underside of academia offers something unexpected.
(Martin Riker, The New York Times Book Review)
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- Publication date2015
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