Poetry. "Sam Truitt gives 'mouth to mouth resuscitation' to the ancient quest poem as he writes 'to voyage is to become/Hysterical.' In the maximal narrative loop of this book, Marilyn Monroe's skirt is perpetually going 'whoosh' in an Einsteinian vacuum where 'the displacement of the figure is the form" -Peter Gizzi.

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Sam Truitt is the author of VERTICAL ELEGIES 6: STREET METE (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 2011), VERTICAL ELEGIES: THREE WORKS (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008), Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (University of Georgia Press, 2003) and ANAMORPHOSIS EISENHOWER (Lost Roads Publishers, 1998), among other books. Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan, and holds degrees from Kenyon College, Brown University and the University at Albany. He currently teaches in the Language and Thinking Workshop at Bard College and is Managing Director of Station Hill Press.