Sebastian Matthews is the author of a collection of poems, We Generous (Red Hen Press), and a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps (Norton). He co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, a recent finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Matthews teaches part- time at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal. He is on faculty at the Queens College Low-residency MFA in Creative Writing. His poetry and prose has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Brilliant Corners, Georgia Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, Seneca Review, Tin House and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Matthews was recently a recipient of a 2006 North Carolina Artist Grant.
Latest Book: We Generous
Poetry By Sebastian Matthews
ISBN: 1-59709-087-5
6 x 9; 112 Pages
Price: US $16.95
In Sebastian Matthews’ debut collection of poems, as if a horn blew them on the page, a voice of experience emerges to blend objective details of daily life with the lyricism of a jazz musician into poems that—consistently and thoughtfully—illuminate. Here is a voice you have never heard before and what a refreshingly unforgettable song it is. Listen with “heads bent in reverie” to what his poems offer up in their swell of desire, music, personal history and revelation. Place his poems in your hands, and you’ll “want to place/ a coin on his lips in homage/ to all the music that will blossom there.”
–A. Van Jordan
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