Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self

Meet me in cyberspace where the self transmogrifies into ecstatic and traumatic forms of new and simuluated selfhood, and you will understand the "virtual reality" territory Joe Amato is venturing into and mapping with all the rage of a concerned citizen and the talented writing skills of an innovative poet. This timely SUNY Press book is exploring and opening new territory for US poetics of the counter-canonical sort, and as such is a valued and compelling foray into this new sublimity of cyberspace writing. The "book may end" here, but the "virtual self" and its masks, tasks, and possibilities are only beginning, dear mongrel reader, lost and wandering in this same vasty & unexplored hyper-capitalist transnational space yourself...