Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "A wit that turns absurdity into sharp literary and cultural irony"—Library Journal. SELECTED ACCIDENTS, POINTLESS ANECDOTES is the first prose collection from Paul Violi. "His vision is an essentially tragic one, but one that is constantly goosed by a riotous sense of the absurd"—The Bloomsbury Review.
Author City: New York City, NY USA
Born in New York City in 1944, Paul Violi grew up on Green Lawn, Long Island. After earning his BA in English literature at Boston University, Violi traveled to Nigeria to conduct surveys for the Peace Corps. The author of eleven volumes of poetry, Violi lived with his family in Putnam Valley, New York, and taught at New York University. He passed away in April 2011.
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Marnie Mueller @ Peace Corps Writers