Poetry. "Put this book down and go be with other people," urges Chris Vitiello in his playful and grave second book. Where music, science, and poetry discover the grounding necessity of measurement in this work, Vitiello is just as likely to destabilize, boldly, all manner of life, repeatedly undercutting urgent concrete statements and smashing them into granular moments.

"The great pleasure of Chris Vitiello's IRRESPONSIBILITY comes from its outrageous conceit: to write ambitiously while refusing to render the act of writing in any of its normative or nostalgic guises. 'All you have to do is pay attention,' Vitiello writes, 'and it's not that simple.' Each page of this absolutely essential book is a testimony to the thrills and difficulties of such unceasing attention."—Tony Tost

Author City: DURHAM, NC USA

Chris Vitiello lives in Durham, North Carolina, and writes about performance, hockey, and the arts, earning a 2011 AltWeekly Award nomination for arts criticism. He is the author of Nouns Swarm a Verb (Xurban Books, 1999), IRRESPONSIBILITY (Ahsahta Press, 2008) and OBEDIENCE (Ahsahta Press, 2012).

Reviews and Other Links
John Harkey in Coldfront
Brian Howe in Fanzine
Cara Benson in H_NGM_N
Jamiee Hills in the Independent
Karyna McGlynn in NewPages
Chris Tonelli in Black Ocean
Saroja on her blog
Nicholas Manning @ Galatea Resurrects