Matt F. Amati’s For Sale: Baby Shoes, Feet Included
Matt F. Amati’s new collection of flash and short fiction, For Sale: Baby Shoes, Feet Included , is not for all sensibilities nor all senses of humor. The quirky and the oddball, however, will find their troves of treasure : stories dystopian, stories fairtytalish, stories poetic, stories grotesque, and stories simply strange. Their nature is so concentrated as to be as much prose as poetry of a kind, a long and free form of dense and hypnogogical images that will mark your mind. Just a taste of titles gives out the sounding chords this spicilegium plays upon: "About Her Bones so Bleak and Bare"; 'The Word 'Blindness' Repeated Endlessly by a Broken Mechanical Bird"; "100 Cheerful Facts about the Square of the Hypotenuse." Such bizarre delights could only have been written by, as the author describes himself, someone who "has lived in various places on earth and worked jobs that have included farmhand, talk show assistant, Mandarin interprete
