Poetry. "'An ingenious gathering of poignant leapfrogging...a muscular memorializing...a sly haunting.' This is the book that's everything Amato says it is and is not. It bounces on water, refuses to
Fiction. A work of highly unconventional literary fiction, BIG MAN WITH A SHOVEL is a modern-day John-Henry fable in which a powerful laborer befriends a young worker only to find himself pitted again
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
The current trend to shake up what many see as a moribund medium is exemplified by Amato, who calls for a gutsier approach to poetry, writing about his life and art in an iconoclastic style often remi
Poetry. "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 wor
Fiction. Art. Film. "I can think of no other writer who can better express the ineffable sense of being born into the working poor before moving through different genres of living--hired factory hand,
