Poetry. Contemporary Ohio, New York, and Eastern Europe form the backdrop for the beauty and pathos unleashed in FORGE. Reaffirming poetry's place in shaping the perceptions of our world, these tensile, incantatory poems find lyric grace in shaping a poetics amidst the fragmentation of society. "With a kind of 'all over' technique, Ted Mathys miraculously forges words onto the page in a kaleidoscopic voiceprint of the present zoom of daily life. This book hums and chortles, sparks and pops out of 'the mouth of your gift horse held / open like a zero"--Peter Gizzi.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA