"Amalgam is a collection of recent poems and ephemera by the "surreal adventurer" Sotère Torregian. Since the early 1960's, Torregian has been developing a distinctive transnational revolutionary poetics informed by deep readings and associations with the Surrealism and Négritude movements, and the "New York School" of poets. Here are poems dedicated to poet-friends from New York to Paris to Timbuktu to California with a stopover in Newark, NJ.'"--Publisher's website.