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Like That
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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9780999593134
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 13 2018
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The language of Matthew Yeager is ecstatic in the way the language of say, Walt Whitman or Kendrick Lamar is ecstatic: passionate, gregarious and so mind-bending the lines ring your head. Yeager fills his poems with everything in the world while producing poems that are both distinctive and otherworldly. Like That is the stellar debut of an interstellar talent. - Terrance Hayes Matthew Yeager's big-hearted and brilliant debut, Like That, proves the sheer capaciousness of the poetic form, pulling from what Neruda once described as 'the sumptuous appeal of the tactile.' These poems, always funny, sad, and true, are wonderfully human at their core. -Cate Marvin
From Publishers Weekly
In his stellar debut, Yeager tackles the long poem as he exhaustively ruminates on history, work, love, habit, and more. The six poems resonate in their individual focus on a single operative metaphor, such that each poem in its expression borders on the mythic. In A Big Ball of Foil in a Small NY Apartment, the image of an ever-growing ball of foil transforms into a story on planning for the future and how to achieve one's goals. He would grow the ball from this point forward., he writes, Foil was everywhere. It wouldn't be hard. Similarly, in Tap Water, the speaker must choose a beverage in light of a lover and how his choices affect her: this influencing/ business has been, the entire time, going both ways. This notion of interconnection is fully realized in the final poem, Jar of Balloons or the Uncooked Rice, a 60-page interrogative onslaught in the manner of Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood. Whether incongruent, absurd, or pointedly specific, the queries stand as a litmus test of personality: Why is there/ pleasure in pressing a piano key so/ softly there is no sound? This book is a triumph of sonic quality, line construction, and sustained attention, and Yeager's greatest achievement is getting readers to follow his example and reach inside themselves.
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