Matthes erupts forth with his third volume of poetry, continuing his tradition from previous works "The Kaleidoscope Syndrome" and "Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel", expanding upon his view of the degrading and dehumanizing aspects of the world, the finer if not the more poignant nooks and crannies of life, women, both the beautiful and the truly internally hideous, and all things both living and otherwise existing now and hereafter.
This collection also includes the short stories "Don't Rub 'Em Out In Vain, Son,", "Seamless Melancholy on the Bayou", "Side by Side Again, One Day", and more.
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Brutal in its savagery. Lyrical and damaged. I've never had my breath taken away by poetry like this.
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
