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PAUL FATTARUSO
Bicycles, cycles and psychic icicles
By LUCY BARBER
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Whether or not you are already a cycling enthusiast, scissoring through traffic, dodging death and car doors, Bicycle, the latest work from author of Patrick Fattaruso, will convert you into a believer. As the celebration not just of bikes but of the iconic worth of everyday objects, the book flaunts the author's careful and deliberate poetic prose while Fattaruso reminds his reader that beauty and inspiration are commonplace. These one-line musings, accompanied by sparse line drawings by artist Adam Thompson, not only redefine a poem's subject but what in fact a poem is. The writing is disarmingly simple, stripped to its frame without bells or whistles—the minimalism echoes writers like Eula Biss or the bare bones of Sufi poets. Naturally, there is a local connection: Fattaruso completed his MFA at UMass Amherst. Joining him is rising star of the hipster clique Elizabeth Crane (Believer Magazine and, yup, McSweeney's). Fattaruso's Bicycle is an altar to the average in an age of excessive expectations.
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