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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
against a tyrannical foreman. Set in Upstate New York in 1965, this
coming-of-age drama mixes folklore, myth, and metafiction in a
story that is by turns playful, suspenseful, and mysterious."If
there could ever be anything like The Great American Novel, it
might look like BIG MAN WITH A SHOVEL, an achievement that shows
just how flexible and surprising the novel can be, and how, in the
hands of a poet, it may still be the most incisive means we have
for examining who we are as individuals and collectively as a
society."--Steve Tomasula"The charm and power of Amato's book is in
its mutability. Amato's text moves easily through working-class
narration, American folklore, high academic palaver, war narrative,
editorial splashback, history and ephemera, in an intelligent,
erudite, and passionate novel."--Steve Katz
A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing-prose, poetry, and
hybrid-from its most significant practitioners and innovators A
variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and
hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream
traditions. Those phrases include experimental, conceptual,
avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream,
avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
writing, alternative, and anti- or new literature. Conceptualisms:
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid
Writing as Contemporary Art is the first major anthology of writing
that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives
in the early decades of the 21st century. Featuring over 100 pieces
from more than 90 authors, this anthology offers a plethora of
aesthetics and approaches to a wide variety subjects. Editor Steve
Tomasula has gathered poems, prose, and hybrid pieces that all
challenge our understanding of what literature means. Intended as a
collection of the most exciting and bold literary work being made
today, Tomasula has put a spotlight on the many possibilities
available to writers and readers wishing for a glimpse of
literature's future. Readers will recognize authors who have shaped
contemporary writing, as among them Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein,
Jonathan Safran Foer, Shelley Jackson, Nathaniel Mackey, David
Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. Even seasoned readers will
find authors, and responses to the canon, not yet encountered.
Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and
scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature
can live. The text features headnotes to chapters on themes such as
sound writing, electronic literature, found text, and other forms,
offering accessible introductions for readers new to this work. An
online companion presents statements about the work and biographies
of the authors in addition to audio, video, and electronic writing
that can't be presented in print. Visit www.conceptualisms.info to
read more.
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