More of Me Disappears - Softcover

John Amen

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0893048887 ISBN 13: 9780893048884

Publisher: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2005

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This is a poetry collection of pain, confusion, and ultimate triumph of a man who refuses to submit to the shattered nature of the modern experience.

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About the Author:

John Amen's debut poetry collection, Christening the Dancer, was released by Uccelli Press in 2003 and nominated for various awards, including the Kate Tufts Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Brockman-Campbell Prize. This second collection, More of Me Disappears, was released in October 2005 by Cross-Cultural Communications. His poetry and fiction have been published in numerous magazines and journals, and he was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first solo recording, All I'll Never Need, was released by Cool Midget Records in 2005. He is also an artist, working primarily with acrylics on canvas. He travels widely giving readings, doing musical performances, and conducting workshops. He founded and continues to edit the award-winning literary bimonthly, The Pedestal Magazine.

Review:

John Amen's new collection More of Me Disappears is chock full of electric lines that sting the senses. His juxtapositions of ideas, the contrariness of his images, the turning inwards of his metaphors, condense, compress, and explode on the page. A fine work, brimming with sweetness of our human frailty and uncertainty. --Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of The Importance of a Piece of Paper --Back Cover

In More of Me Disappears, John Amen's poetry announces itself in the absence of self, therefore becoming an extension of all of us--all our voices mingled in one sometimes confused sometimes lucid cry of the heart. --Ai, author of Dread --Back Cover

More of Me Disappears is a further realization of the promise already unfolding in Amern's celebrated debut collection, Christening the Dancer. Here the surreal imagery is more visionary and startling, the exploration of the human condition more resonant. With the persistance of dreams and the insistence of memory transfigured by language and imagination, the poems in this collection cross landscapes both intense and distinctive. --Bruce Boston, author of Masque of Dreams --Back Cover

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