Installations by Joe Bonomo - Penguin National Poetry Series

Selected for the 2007 National Poetry Series by Naomi Shihab Nye

The prose poems in Installations invite the reader to encounter, in one extraordinary afternoon, a series of twenty art installations where something fantastic, perhaps improbable, occurs at the intersection of installed and imagined, spectator and event. Installations unites personal experience, suspense, and narrative—in those moments when we are forever altered by the mysterious and the enchanted.

About the Author

Joe Bonomo was born and raised in suburban Washington, D.C. He is also the author of Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band. His personal essays and prose poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals and magazines. He is a recipient of fellowship awards in both prose and poetry from the Illinois Arts Council, and teaches at Northern Illinois University.