{"product_id":"9781943170210","title":"Sipping Coffee @ Carmela's","description":"Despite the dedicatio\/warning-\"not for everyone\"-this book is indeed for everyone. Joe Amato is a straight talker able to weave those tough gossamer gab lines into strands for a dinger of a poetry rope lassoing the facts. The work's (manu)facture enlivens an endangered species: a poetry of facts, with which he drives a word-stake through the American (wet) dream. Hear, hear him, comrades, read Amato's hoarse-powered ode for this \"Poor dumb oilrigged hydrofracked Fukushima'd bastard \/ civilization\"-though there is nothing oily about his message, because \"Wethinks poetry is crude, baby, fundamentally crude.\" And needs to be so in\/for a country where \"we note what strange fruit falls \/ with supremacist fictions run amok.\" This \"blues that stays news,\" these \"Urgencies of some noirceur, police \/ state tactics...\" need a poetry-vérité as we speak of a cinéma vérité and Joe Amato's eye \u0026amp; ear for these Younighted States-close cousins to Jean Rouch's hand-held camera-manage to scan an \"Earth that at its best is one hell of a \/ paradise.\"\u003cp\u003e- Pierre Joris, author of An American Suite \u0026amp; A Nomad Poetics\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lit Fest Press \/ Festival of Language","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033810813168,"sku":"9781943170210","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943170210_p0.jpg?v=1763786931","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943170210","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}