Alan Ramón Clinton


Biography

Alan Ramón Clinton currently lectures at Santa Clara University in California.

He is the author of a scholarly monograph, Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics (Peter Lang, 2004) and a volume of poetry, Horatio Alger’s Keys (BlazeVox, 2008).

This fall he will appear as guest editor for a volume of 2nd Ave Poetry entitled New Poetics of Magic.

Books

Necropsy In E Minor    by Alan Ramón Clinton
Price: $4.99 USD. 57730 words. Published by Open Books on March 1, 2011. Fiction.

Necropsy in E Minor is the tale of a young college professor who sits down to write what he calls a “memoir,” but which really only records the past six months of his life (with numerous digressions), and ends, with the last line, after a richly devastating encounter, at the moment of writing.
Curtain Call: A Metaphorical Memoir    by Alan Ramón Clinton
Price: $4.99 USD. 48220 words. Published by Open Books on September 28, 2010. Fiction.

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Stalking academia, re-ordering double prints and rewriting the autobiography of Buster Keaton, Clinton's hapless and sophomoric intellectual narrator offers his poignant and funny insights on modern-day culture in a series of slapstick misadventures.

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