Following the manic journey of a man stripped of memory, the poems inAmerican Amnesiacconfront the complexities of being American in an age of corruption, corporations, and global conflict. I am a man missing a nation and a wife, strung up between a past I may not want and a present in which I cannot make myself at ease. Diane Raptoshhas published three books of poems. The recipient of three literature fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she teaches creative writing and literature at The College of Idaho. She was named Boise's first ever Poet Laureate in 2013.