Samuel Taylor′s Last Night – A Novel

Joe Amato (born May 31, 1955, in Syracuse, New York) is an American writer best known for his poetry and his work in poetics. A licensed Professional Engineer in New York State, Amato spent seven years in industry working in various project engineering capacities before returning to graduate school. He holds degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering from Syracuse University (B.S./B.S., 1976), and degrees in English from University at Albany (M.A., 1986, Doctor of Arts, 1989). Amato is the author of six books, numerous essays and reviews, and three award-winning screenplays (none of which have been produced to date), coauthored with his spouse, Kass Fleisher. In recent years he has begun to publish creative nonfiction and fiction. Since 2003, Amato has taught writing and literature at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.

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