Now We Are Friends - Softcover

Fitterman, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0984885706 ISBN 13: 9780984885701

Publisher: Truck Books, 2011

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Poetry. In NOW WE ARE FRIENDS, Robert Fitterman takes on some of the prime features of our intensively-networked present—the broad, continual scatter of personal information through blogs, databases, and social networking sites; and its (frequently uncomfortable) return as the stray filaments find their way back to us and "that me" trumps "me me" in other social contexts. NOW WE ARE FRIENDS blows these effects up to archival proportions, replacing the momentary slip (that terrible drunken photo) with raw scale by pulling together all findable traces of an identity online or the adventures of a name: "Ben Kessler," circa 9/2010. (With "Coda: Following Rob," by Steven Zultanski.)

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About the Author

Robert Fitterman is the author of 12 books of poetry. He grew up in a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, called Creve Coeur. His street is still flanked by a Shell gas station on one side and a Mobil station on the other. His writing is kinda conceptual and sorta involves identity issues that are complicated by the web. And the Mall. Recent titles include: NOW WE ARE FRIENDS (Truck Books, 2011), SPRAWL (Make Now Press, 2010), ROB THE PLAGIARIST (Roof Books, 2009), and NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS, co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies.

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