Chris Pusateri

Anon Chris Pusateri

Poetry. What's at stake in this book is nothing less than the fascination and frustration informing the felt distance between printed word and peopled world. With Pope-like precision, Pusateri would parlay 'the me who is he' into a quick-witted poetic for our precarious times, each pointed sentence pointing up both an artifice 'illuminated by its own refrain' and the shared punch lines of those who will 'know which years were feast and which ones famished.' That would be us, people. Like this reader, readers will be sure to pilfer from anon, presently--Joe Amato. Chris Pusateri is the author of one book of poetry Berserker Alphabetics (xPressed, 2003) and five chapbooks. His poetry and critical prose have appeared in many publications, including American Book Review, Chicago Review, Jacket, Verse and others. A librarian by trade, he lives in Colorado with his partner, the poet Michelle Naka Pierce.