Poetry. IN ANOTHER CASTLE introduces a unique American voice to poetry. Matthew Shindell, whose publications include American Letters & Commentary, The American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, FENCE, Hayden's Ferry Review, and others, mixes the intellectual with the absurd to create a world that both parallels and penetrates our own. Dean Young writes, "Let us praise Matt Shindell for offering us another castle where the ferocity of the imagination bedazzles." Shindell's fearless book offers a view of our world through the same darkly comic and pioneering lens as Kafka. Norman Dubie echoes this observation: "There is sadness here and the brittle music of Kafka's decisions in language." Indeed, the centerpiece poem, "Two Jokes About Bears," reveals the enormous breadth and scope of Shindell's powers and places him into the pantheon of important new poets to watch.

Author City: LA JOLLA, CA USA

Matthew Shindell is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Science and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He holds degrees in the sciences and humanities, including a B.S. and an M.S. from Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences and Biology and Society Program. Shindell also holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. His creative work has been widely published and anthologized. His first book of poems, In Another Castle, was published in November 2008 by Three Candles Press.