Poetry. "The quiet village where Barone lives, with its tight-lipped locals and New England decorum, seems a suitable palette from which to draw ruminations about half-meanings, truncated logic, and the deception of language. In any case, it's clear that Barone's methodical and economical work, employing strikingly simple language, is interested in the various ruses of language itself"—Stacey Levine.

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Dennis Barone is a Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. A graduate of Bard College, he received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished Fulbright lecturing award, in the Netherlands, and in 1997 he received the America Award for fiction. His many books include AMERICA/TRATTABILI (Bordighera Press, 2011), PARALLEL LINES (Shearsman Books, 2011), FIELD REPORT (Quale Press, 2011), NORTH ARROW (Quale Press, 2008), PRECISE MACHINE (Quale Press, 2006), THE WALLS OF CIRCUMSTANCE (Avec Books, 2004), TEMPLE OF THE RAT (Left Hand Books, 2000), THE RETURNS (Sun & Moon Press, 1996) and ON THE BUS: SELECTED STORIES (BlazeVOX [books], 2012).

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