Category: Poetry Publisher: Cervena Barva Press
Copyright: July 12, 2008
A collection on finding your "Self" in a world bombarded by contradictory images.
"Crossing the intersections between media, militarization, and post-9/11 consciousness, Amado's Stunted Inner-child Shot the TV, gives us a view of the complicated relationship between society and self, consumerism and identity." -Edward J. Carvalho (Doctoral Candidate, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short)
"Take Mike Amado's red Morpheus pill and follow him down the rabbit hole of America's mad matrix of warped dreams, tabloid icons, chrome-eyed military men and infopreachers....His writing is elastic, vivid and wise. With a heart for an undetermined and undetermining God, Amado's revolution cannot be downloaded. It's amazing any of us make it out alive." -Lo Galluccio
Excerpt
CONDEMNED '84
Dark-blue linen suit
Dressed, but not ready for church
I'm watching the Smurfs
"Turn that TV off" mom barks
Knob clicks, screen goes gray
"That stuff warps your brain"
then mom drags me by neck nape
To hear some guy read
From a comic book.
From the author of Jupiter Remembered and Until It’s Time: Embracing Life In Our Later Years comes Petals of Love: Poetry of a Woman’s Soul – a heartfelt collection spanning more than thirty-five years. Through tender reflections, these poems offer g
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