Synopsis:

"Delightful and penetrating at the same time, these poems are a revelation." — Susan Griffin, Author

Open this book and fall into a tumultuous world where each act sings, shouts and cries the full chorus of the unconscious. Matson uses kaleidoscopic images that infiltrate our work-a-day defenses and invite our deepest feelings and truths to surface - like taking a roller caster ride with an old sage/young boy, hair streaming white, knuckles clenched, eyes closed, laughing. And when you open those eyes - there - what do you see?

Book Excerpt:

Back Words (excerpt)

I'm standing in a doorway

with a mouthful of dirt.

Trying to read the words

stuck in my back,

commands written on walls

in childhood and layered

over with candy paint.

Phrases bled through in

squiggles like string after

a cat's play or like

Venusian street guides.

I peeled off that map.

Wrapped it around my boyhood.

Skin grew over landmarks

and planted them deep

under muscles and nerves.

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Topics/Categories:

Childhood, Family Drama, Fathers and Sons, Feeling, Imagination

Genre:

American Poetry, Poetry

Type of Work:

Poetry

Publishers:

Broken Shadow Publications

Original Publish Date:

2002-07-02

ISBNs:

0-9636156-2-9

Formats:

paperback