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A fiendish little book, "Imps" flies up from the dark corners of the human soul to taunt and tease us by placing our most inhuman inclinations on display. Playing the trickster, author Mathew Spano exposes our sudden urge to laugh at a funeral or turn off the headlights down a pitch black road, and reveals how these impious thoughts and impish impulses arise to prick us with tiny pitchforks that we sometimes shoo away like mosquitoes or other times allow unwittingly to bore under our skin. With Spano's demonic poems and the macabre illustrations of Gustave Dore to guide us, we are prepared to…mehr

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A fiendish little book, "Imps" flies up from the dark corners of the human soul to taunt and tease us by placing our most inhuman inclinations on display. Playing the trickster, author Mathew Spano exposes our sudden urge to laugh at a funeral or turn off the headlights down a pitch black road, and reveals how these impious thoughts and impish impulses arise to prick us with tiny pitchforks that we sometimes shoo away like mosquitoes or other times allow unwittingly to bore under our skin. With Spano's demonic poems and the macabre illustrations of Gustave Dore to guide us, we are prepared to unstopper the bottle and free our captive imps, but will we ever be able to round them all up again?
Autorenporträt
Mathew V. Spano has published poetry, short stories, and essays over the last twenty years. His work has appeared in various publications, such as The Los Angeles Times, Psychological Perspectives, Quantum Fairy Tales, The Yellow Chair Review, Frogpond, Cicada, This Broken Shore, The Heron's Nest, and Middlesex, as well as in anthologies, such as Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands (Blast Press, 2016); Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game (W.W. Norton & Co., 2007); and The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications, 2005). He has been teaching English Composition and Mythology in Literature as a full-time professor for over twenty years at Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ where he also serves as Freshman Composition Coordinator and Co-Director of the MCC Honors Program. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, his dissertation focusing on the works of pioneering psychologist Carl Jung and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Mat is also the founder and owner of the online store haiku 4u (www.zazzle.com/haiku4u) featuring merchandise with his poetry and artwork. He lives with his wife Stephanie and their two children in central NJ where the family enjoys fishing, hiking, and searching for critters under rocks-especially along Ken Lockwood Gorge.