Roberto Tejada. Amulet Anatomy. Had...

Roberto Tejada. Amulet Anatomy. Hadley, MA: Phylum Pres 2001

The intricate hand stitching, the almost-square shape, and the functional zipper upon the black cover make Roberto Tejada's Amulet Anatomy (designed by means of Thomas Glassford) seem more like a collaboration--or an artist's book--than a standard chapbook. Glassford's design gives Amulet Anatomy the visual appeal of a fetish use and creates an appropriately erotic connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts before the poems are flat read. Although the poems within Amulet Anatomy manipulate a wide range of formal strategies--long, near prose-like lines,