Poems by Matt Hart
Artwork By Ken Henson
$9.99 + S&H
BLUE JAY SLAYER whispers and shouts at us but never tells us what to think. It is dark at times, yes, but not what you’d expect: playful sometimes, angry sometimes, reticent when necessary. It’s brimming with curses and gifts. When Matt Hart declares “The grass doesn’t grow where I take you” you know—just know—that he isn’t lying. He tells us Ken Henson is not who he appears to be, “which is correct”. Henson certainly gives us glimpses of who he may be with his illustrations of the flaming reality of the dark side but without the hellish clichés. Well, maybe there are a few, but those, of course, are intentional. Hart digs up the dead with his words and points to what we think is real, while making us question what we initially thought. BJS will take you like you could get permanently lost in that world and never come back, but you do. You come back feeling exuberant; you come back feeling absolved.
ABOUT MATT HART
Matt is the author of Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless (Typecast Publishing, 2012), Debacle Debacle (H_NGM_N Books, 2013) and Radiant Action (forthcoming, H_NGM_N Books). His awards include a Pushcart Prize, a 2013 individual artist grant from The Shifting Foundation, and fellowships from both the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he is also an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
9780692325858 | Pub Date November 7, 2015 | 7 x 10 | 82 pages | $9.99