Poetry. "The Roman poet Petronius once avowed that, considered rightly, there is shipwreck everywhere. In MOTH MOON, Matt Jasper goes farther still, proving time and again that shipwreck is a treasure unto itself, a perfect emerald before and after all mishap. Here, vision is rewarded with new eyes, and I am grateful for the news"—Donald Revell. "You should appreciate his work so he doesn't feel sad or kill people or start a new country and cause genocide"—Tao Lin. "I like Jasper's poems. The short poem 'Flight,' for example, is a little miracle in the way that it allows me to see through the words into a wordless and darkly ecstatic experience"—Franz Wright.

Author City: FARMINGTON, NH USA

Matt Jasper was born in Manhattan in 1966. A frequent contributor to Rollerderby and Grand Street in the 90s, he went on to have many children and start a poorly-posed-taxidermy-and-bad-yard-sale-art-themed restaurant called the Friendly Toast. He collects schizophrenic autobiographies and makes lists of poet enemies in Farmington, New Hampshire. He is currently working on a book-length poem entitled Obolus.

Reviews and Other Links
Christine Kanownik in NewPages
Seth Abramson in Devil's Lake
Susan Schultz at Tinfish Editor's Blog