Curtain Call: A Metaphorical Memoir

By Alan Ramón Clinton

Stalking academia, re-ordering double prints
and rewriting the autobiography of Buster Keaton, Clinton's hapless and sophomoric intellectual narrator offers his poignant and funny insights on modern-day culture in a series of slapstick misadventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Books
• Release date: Sep 28, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452481999

Alan Ramón Clinton

Alan Ramón Clinton currently lectures at Santa Clara University in California.He is the author of a scholarly monograph, Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Peter Lang, 2004) and a volume of poetry, Horatio Alger’s Keys (BlazeVox, 2008).This fall he will appear as guest editor for a volume of 2nd Ave Poetry entitled New Poetics of Magic.

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