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Matt Shears’ new chapbook of poems, 10,000 Wallpapers, is a phenomenal hybrid that borrows from many genres and operates on many levels. It’s fun, experimental, mythic, mealy-mouthed and unprotected. Sonically, it’s flabbergasting, but never flabby. Thematically it’s indefinable but refined, self-reflexive and aware but awkward as a first kiss, or a first kill. It operates almost as a misheard fable traveling from ice age to Ave C, a place where Masque meets Western, where the Renaissance slips into its finest Greek to watch a dreamy commedia dell’arte production. It's a place where heroes come unhinged, their singing severed from our fullest judgment by lost or destroyed pages, or who perhaps are being unsung themselves by a culture separating itself at its seams. In the end it’s a joyride. Or an open letter to a mastodon from an endangered element. Or each of us, emptied on an open page like some beautiful thing.
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About the Author:
MATT SHEARS is the author of Where a road had been (BlazeVOX, 2010). He lives in Oakland, California with his family.
Review:
Matt Shears invents new worlds in 10,000 Wallpapers. This long lyric is full of brute terror and bucolic beauty, exploring individual consciousness unmoored by our present "thundering interconnectivity"; 10,000 Wallpapers chronicles "the everyman meandering through this digitized countryside," questioning how we can truly inhabit the world when reality has become denatured by the image. The speaker in this poem sings like Prufrock, in a lyric that is searing and true, as he searches for the possibilities of pure utterance and perception amidst what is manufactured." --Cathy Park Hong, author of Dance Dance Revolution
Amidst a rural landscape bombarded with technology and the aftermath of history (both real and imagined), Shears creates poems of wonder and wandering, poems of longing and regret. Tidbits of mythology collide with folksongs and lullabies to create a fantastic place where "the Poem arises beauteous" yet "false projects glitter in the wind." In these poems, bits and pieces of broken things do not add up to or equal their whole. Shears' range of voice and unpredictable grace provide an exquisite backbone to the time/place/space that encompasses this vibrant collection. --Megan Johnson, author of The Waiting
This is very unusual collection of poems, a formidable departure from the nation s workshops. The rhythms and cadences of these Alter(n)ations imitate and celebrate the life forms that inhabit our lives. I take Matt Shears work seriously and with respect. --Alex Kuo, author of The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze
Amidst a rural landscape bombarded with technology and the aftermath of history (both real and imagined), Shears creates poems of wonder and wandering, poems of longing and regret. Tidbits of mythology collide with folksongs and lullabies to create a fantastic place where "the Poem arises beauteous" yet "false projects glitter in the wind." In these poems, bits and pieces of broken things do not add up to or equal their whole. Shears' range of voice and unpredictable grace provide an exquisite backbone to the time/place/space that encompasses this vibrant collection. --Megan Johnson, author of The Waiting
This is very unusual collection of poems, a formidable departure from the nation s workshops. The rhythms and cadences of these Alter(n)ations imitate and celebrate the life forms that inhabit our lives. I take Matt Shears work seriously and with respect. --Alex Kuo, author of The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze
Amidst a rural landscape bombarded with technology and the aftermath of history (both real and imagined), Shears creates poems of wonder and wandering, poems of longing and regret. Tidbits of mythology collide with folksongs and lullabies to create a fantastic place where "the Poem arises beauteous" yet "false projects glitter in the wind." In these poems, bits and pieces of broken things do not add up to or equal their whole. Shears' range of voice and unpredictable grace provide an exquisite backbone to the time/place/space that encompasses this vibrant collection. --Megan Johnson, author of The Waiting
This is very unusual collection of poems, a formidable departure from the nation s workshops. The rhythms and cadences of these Alter(n)ations imitate and celebrate the life forms that inhabit our lives. I take Matt Shears work seriously and with respect. --Alex Kuo, author of The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze
Amidst a rural landscape bombarded with technology and the aftermath of history (both real and imagined), Shears creates poems of wonder and wandering, poems of longing and regret. Tidbits of mythology collide with folksongs and lullabies to create a fantastic place where "the Poem arises beauteous" yet "false projects glitter in the wind." In these poems, bits and pieces of broken things do not add up to or equal their whole. Shears' range of voice and unpredictable grace provide an exquisite backbone to the time/place/space that encompasses this vibrant collection. --Megan Johnson, author of The Waiting
This is very unusual collection of poems, a formidable departure from the nation s workshops. The rhythms and cadences of these Alter(n)ations imitate and celebrate the life forms that inhabit our lives. I take Matt Shears work seriously and with respect. --Alex Kuo, author of The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze
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- PublisherBrooklyn Arts Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1936767031
- ISBN 13 9781936767038
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages40
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