Joe Taylor is the author of the novels BACK TO THE WINE JUG: A COMIC NOVEL IN VERSE, PINEAPPLE, Oldcat & Ms. Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me and LET THERE BE LITE, OR, HOW I CAME TO KNOW AND LOVE GÖDEL'S INCOMPLETENESS PROOF, as well as a book of stories, GHOSTLY DEMARCATIONS: STORIES. He is the director of Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama.
"Joe Taylors Pineapple is Chaucer for the Atomic Age: wise, bawdy,
howlingly funny cultural/political commentary on the state of our
stateand rhymed, of course! Aided by able muse Trixie, OBW (Our
Beloved Writer) delivers a rollicking tale of mystery, mayhem,
government shenanigans, lost daughters and writers revenge under a
blistering New Mexico sun in a Los Alamos youll ever after consider
the real Los Alamos. What more could a reader ask of OBW and his
dratted characters? Not a damn thing. Follow line 23, chapter eight
instructions to the T: Buy J Taylors books, theyll improve your
head." -- Kat Meads, author of "For You", "Madam Lenin" & "Ladies:
First".
Pineapple is a tour de force -- marvelously witty, filled with
characters a reader is unlikely to forget, hilarious rhymes and
turns of plot that kept me laughingsometimes hooting -- as I turned
the pages. A novel in verse is a tall order, and Joe Taylor fills
it to the brim. -- Susan Ludvigson, author of "Sweet Confluence"
(New and Selected Poems) and "Trinity".
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