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The Gulf War has begun. To Linus Grey and his circle of bohemian friends, this just might be the last, great gasp of “beat” culture. But what to do? Where to go? When Sara heads out for San Francisco, Linus picks up from the seacoast town of Portsmouth, NH, and sets out after her. Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/8561f1b0-6c98-42da-8ebd-35f68fbbfe4b/travelogue-cover-500.jpg Books - Make it stand out Travelogue: A Photographic Journey Born out of the pandemic, Travelogue: A Photographic Journey—a collaboration between writer and photographer, father and son—features nearly 80 of Charter Weeks’ amazing photographs alongside my “takes” on them. Along the way, I interviewed Charter on his work, his approach to photography, and on his life as a traveler, street photographer, and filmmaker. Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092064-MRSFC2AYFX6GM0EHJ5RA/Screen+Shot+2020-04-11+at+7.59.24+PM.png Books - Make it stand out The Beginner’s Guide to a Head-On Collision Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision offers the deeply moving poetic memoir of Sebastian Matthews’ life in the years after the car accident that devasted him and his wife and son. ~ Kevin McIlvoy Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/c78d8677-a9c5-4c00-8ab2-20943ae35d19/Screen+Shot+2020-04-17+at+1.08.30+PM.jpg Books - Make it stand out Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State Beyond Repair is a portrait of community in traumatized times…With wryly insightful observations, [it] brings us closer with every sentence to the deep repairing we need. ~ Beth Ann Fennelly Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1b6f6812-137f-45c8-868f-a026b2c48a79/miracle-day.jpg Books - Make it stand out Miracle Day Poems Sebastian Matthews’ poetry has an enviable and light-hearted spontaneity. He has a voice and an eye that act like Velcro, picking up all the sights and sounds around him. ~ Jennifer Grotz Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/fd5534f5-e311-47af-a9f4-1b08d7d0f31e/we-generous.jpg Books - Make it stand out We Generous Poems Sebastian Matthews writes a poetry that is wonderfully, and unfashionably, human. In poems that explore love, nature, jazz, and the experiences of a white man in black culture, Matthews ventures boldly and open-heartedly into the world. ~ Dana Levin Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/8712df52-1da9-41e1-b1d1-b9d77e9a230c/fathers-footsteps.jpg Books - Make it stand out In My Father’s Footsteps A Memoir At the center of his personal labyrinth, Sebastian Matthews found his own father, a brilliant man, one of the finest American poets of his generation, who was meticulously careful in what he showed his son—and the world—about himself. ~ Charles Baxter Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/6092a3fc-08d2-47b1-b37a-2d13c71c9653/search-party.jpg Books - Make it stand out Search Party With Search Party, his son Sebastian and his friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly have brought together a collection drawing from all of William Matthews’ previous published work. Here are meditations on relationships, work, family life, and, of course, jazz. Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1b3b93da-6ab5-4ea7-8479-89dc81857882/poetry-blues.jpg Books - Make it stand out The Poetry Blues Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in which the things about which he feels passionately help to define and shape him. Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/8509d457-29c9-41b9-b139-3b23c662d50f/newhopecvr.jpg Books - Make it stand out New Hope for The Dead New Hope for the Dead features the best of Matthews' remaining uncollected work, including over 30 poems spanning Matthews' prolific but tragically cut-short career. 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The Gulf War has begun. To Linus Grey and his circle of bohemian friends, this just might be the last, great gasp of “beat” culture. But what to do? Where to go? When Sara heads out for San Francisco, Linus picks up from the seacoast town of Portsmouth, NH, and sets out after her. The original version The Life & Times of American Crow appeared a few years back as a limited-edition, book-arts collage novel—11 chapbooks coming together to create a boxed-set edition. To learn more, click here. Now, after two years of collaboration with book designer Tess Pechenik, the pulp paperback version is coming with Red Hen Press in Spring 2022. A full 260 pages, in both color and in black-and-white, this new version boils the essence of the original down into a readable, dynamic format that mixes together aspects of the traditional and graphic novel styles. https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/the-poetry-blues monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092113-91KILQVDBVB23QSGZWNM/Poetry+Blues.jpg Books - The Poetry Blues - The Poetry Blues Edited by the poet’s son Sebastian Matthews, The Poetry Blues, by the late William Matthews, holds forth on a medley of topics ranging from jazz to nude photography, Byron to Elizabeth Bishop, opera to Emerson. Throughout, Matthews writes about his love of music, language, poetry, and art while illuminating the subtle and important ways in which the things about which he feels passionately help to define and shape him. https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/new-hope-for-the-dead monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/8509d457-29c9-41b9-b139-3b23c662d50f/newhopecvr.jpg Books - New Hope for the Dead - New Hope for the Dead New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews is the last of poet William Matthews' posthumous collections, following Search Party: Collected Poems (Houghton Mifflin) and The Poetry Blues: Essays & Interviews (University of Michigan Press), all edited by son Sebastian Matthews and close friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly. New Hope for the Dead features the best of Matthews' remaining uncollected work, including over 30 poems spanning Matthews' prolific but tragically cut-short career. https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/in-my-fathers-footsteps monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092083-EVZRSQASFOIMBXPEK5FE/1+IN+MY+FATHER%27S+FOOTSTEPS+cover.jpg Books - In My Father's Footsteps - In My Father’s Footsteps A Memoir A brilliant father, a complicated legacy, and a son's hard-won journey of self-discovery. William Matthews was a much-admired, award-winning poet and teacher who lived hard and died suddenly in 1997 at the age of fifty-five. He was a jazz fan, a wit and raconteur, a connoisseur of fine food and wine, and a thrice-married womanizer. This clear-eyed, often wryly funny memoir pays homage to a charismatic father as the son struggles to step out from his considerable shadow. In examining his father's death (and life), Sebastian Matthews explores his own chaotic past. A child of divorce, he was shuttled throughout his boyhood between parents and many geographies. In a confusing symbiotic time between Bill's marriages, the teenage son and his father "were roommates and drinking buddies―I took care of him; he parented me." Later came the son's wanderings, the failed commitments. Finally, Sebastian learns to confront Bill's mixed legacy. Striving to emulate the best of that "sad, happy man," he discovers new definitions of home, love, and marriage. 256 Pages | Available in Hardback or Paperback | Published January 2004 https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/search-party monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092147-ZCEC1P93UNCDAUVY96GC/search+party.jpg Books - Search Party - Search Party With Search Party, William Matthews’ son Sebastian and his friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly have brought together a collection drawing from all of Matthews’ previous published work. Here are meditations on relationships, work, family life, and, of course, jazz. https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/we-generous monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092048-4HYUR7RN0A2NLXQNOXNJ/we_generous.jpg Books - We Generous - We Generous In his first collection of poetry, We Generous, Sebastian Matthews explores jazz culture and music through soulful verse and poignant emotion. With poems reflective of the smooth rhythms of jazz, Matthews captures the essence and beauty of love, desire, and daily life. 112 Pages | Available in Paperback | Published March 2007 https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/miracle-day monthly 0.5 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092130-BCXZ9CD1X3O103349RLG/Screen+Shot+2020-04-17+at+12.22.45+PM.png Books - Miracle Day: Mid-life Songs - Miracle Day: Mid-Life Songs Poetry Miracle Day explores the main themes of midlife; sex and death, marriage and parenthood, work and play, friends and foes, travel, and staying put. Moving back and forth between couplets and the single-stanza poem, Matthews writes about the world he is immersed in, whether listening in on an impromptu barbershop quartet with his son or driving through urban Philadelphia on a misguided whim. Matthews continues his interest in jazz and musicians but has broadened his palate to include ruminations on everything from the 1948 summer session at Black Mountain College to Jack Benny’s legendary corn-belt comedy routines. 104 Pages | Available in Paperback | Published March 2012 https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/travelogue monthly 0.5 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/fb925809-05fe-42f7-80dd-175271b33c9d/travelogue-cover.jpg Books - Tavelogue: A Photographic Journey - Travelogue: A Photographic Journey Born out of the pandemic, Travelogue: A Photographic Journey—a collaboration between writer and photographer, father and son—features nearly 80 of Charter Weeks’ amazing photographs alongside my “takes” on them. Along the way, I interviewed Charter on his work, his approach to photography, and on his life as a traveler, street photographer, and filmmaker. The photographer Larry Fink says this about the book: "A travelogue of sensitivity and loneliness. Unlike a symphony, this book has no real build to a crescendo, nor does it drain to a morbid end. It could go on and on. In it, there is a softly purring love affair with dignity and the small elements of pride which make up all of our lives." https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/beginners-guide monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092067-PP2JQHVGIJMNT5D0TC72/beginnersguide.jpg Books - Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision - Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision Poems In Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision, Sebastian Matthews offers a glimpse into his painful yet transcendental journey of healing a broken body, mending a shattered soul, and the utter zeal of making a layup when you thought that would never again be possible. With honesty and wit, this poetic memoir demonstrates how, chipped piece after chipped piece, Matthews and his family put together their fractured lives after nearly losing them in a head-on collision. 88 Pages | Paperback | Published September 2017 https://www.sebastianmatthews.com/books/beyond-repair monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61eed51f800a16099b7bf62b/1643042092097-B6QCJVQM2P5LMXDBMFLN/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-17%2Bat%2B1.19.30%2BPM.jpg Books - Beyond Repair - Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State Published 2020 In 2011, my family was in a major car accident. We were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took three years to recover from our injuries, and a couple more to deal with the aftereffects of trauma. When I finally returned to the world—as father and husband, friend and brother, writer and citizen—it became clear that our society was in its own traumatized state—reeling from the string of police shootings of unarmed African Americans, stunned by yet one more mass shooting. The people around me were displaying all the signs of PTSD—jumpiness, irritability, numbness—and, concordantly, my interactions out in daily life were becoming more dysfunctional, at times downright hostile. Us against them. Red vs. blue. Black vs. white. Rich vs. poor. That we were living in a progressive town inside a conservative county in the Mountain South only made things more volatile. I decided that if we were all living in a fractured society no longer recognizable, then it was up to me to re-engage in it. I would enter into encounters with people as conscious as possible of the potential divides and misunderstandings between us. I started with my neighborhood and town, then moved out into the counties around us, then traveled further out into the country. My goal: to connect.