Memoir. A wit that turns absurdity into sharp literary and cultural irony-Library Journal. SELECTED ACCIDENTS, POINTLESS ANECDOTES is the first prose collection from Paul Violi, the author of ten book of poetry including the SPD titles FRACAS, BREAKERS, LIKEWISE, and THE CURIOUS BUILDERS. He is the recipient of the 2001 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and two NEA poetry fellowships. His vision is an essentially tragic one, but one that is constantly goosed by a riotous sense of the absurd-The Bloomsbury Review.