Poetry. SUPERFECTA examines our relation to time and memory with surprising energy and consistent empathy. The tension between systems and chance connect the collections' poems, balanced as they are between the abstractions of symbol and the immediacy of language. For Matthews, there is a thin line dividing the body's physicality and the wonder of the mind, where "The cartography of a rat is the same for all species/ in that it is always a map of the unknown." Matthews writes about our desire to identify mythos in everyday experience, and celebrates when it is discovered amid our anxious and uncertain place in history.
Clay Matthews' poetry has appeared in h_ngm_n, Laurel Review, lit, Court Green, Forklift, Ohio, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks: Muffler (h_ngm_n b_ _ks) and Western Reruns (End & Shelf Books).
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