Drawing equally from Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and Robert Frost, this collection features poems where personality is foregrounded and speech is both bizarre and familiar.
Samuel Amadon was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Boston Review, VOLT, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the author of the chapbooks Advice for Young Couples, Goodnight Lung, and Each H, he is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Houston and the coeditor of Projective Industries, a chapbook press.
