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PUBLISHED: Dec.10.2009

RUNOFF

With Runoff, Clay Matthews solidifies his claim as the only real successor to the narrative, discursive line of Richard Hugo while extending that range to include the kind of hard & sparkling bursts of revelatory truth-won-through-trauma that punctuate the landscape of the best of Larry Levis. There’s a howling emptiness that runs through these lines like a river washing...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.15.2008

Superfecta

SUPERFECTA examines our relation to time and memory with surprising energy and consistent empathy. The tension between system and chance connect Clay Matthews’ 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...

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About Clay

Clay Matthews has poems in H_NGM_N, Black Warrior Review, The Laurel Review, Columbia Poetry Review, LIT, Court Green, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks: Muffler (H_NGM_N B_ _KS) and Western Reruns (End & Shelf Books), which is available...

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