Amorak Hueyis author of two previous poetry collections: Seducing the Asparagus Queen ( Cloudbank Books, 2018), winner of the Vern Rutsala Prize; and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress Publications, 2015). Co-author of the textbook Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), he teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Other poems by Amorak Huey in Verse Daily:
December 10, 2018:   "Elegy with 'Satisfaction' Playing in the Background" "Life is assembled from the splinters and shards..."

Books by Amorak Huey:

Other poems on the web by Amorak Huey:
Many poems

Amorak Huey's Website.

Amorak Huey on Twitter.

About Boom Box:

"It is impossible to do justice to Amorak Huey's Boom Box within the acceptable word count of a blurb. If you could conjure a collection of poems that mix Bob Hicok's wry humor, Ada Limón's candor, Greil Marcus' knowledge of rock music, and Ernest Cline's nostalgia for the '80s, you might start to get close to everything going on in these pages. However, Huey's poem are all his own. Yes, they are smart and funny but also brilliantly incisive and masterfully crafted. Boom Box is a brave book bolstered by a sense of language and form that lifts the poems out of mere autobiography and into the realm of art."
—Dean Rader

"If poems are magic, then the poems of Boom Box are rife with the magic of childhood in guitar-solo riffs of splendor and nostalgia. Amidst sweeping narratives, the past stands as a monument to be worshiped instead of forgotten. The sorrow, the thrill, the sex, the music, the awkwardness, are all captured as if in time capsules—these are poems of loss and marrow and place, of time and the wars it wields. They are profound in their honesty: bittersweet, heartbreaking, yet redemptive."
—Chelsea Dingman

"Amorak Huey's Boom Box is a collection chock-full of pop culture references and possibility, 'so many ways this can end.' Huey's speaker, intent on arriving at what proves an often slippery narrative and truth, offers a rich, prismatic vantage of the most formative events of his life: the year of the divorce, adolescent hunger and thirst among them. The collection deeply explores the duplicitous body 'capable of all kinds of lies,' the body in which there's music as well as the possibility of going boom. "
—Nathan McClain