Amazing new poetry from third generation New York School poet Matt Hart.

Paul Violi needs to be read (and taught) MORE-with incredible seriousness and with serious delight. He was, hands down, one of our best-most inventive, most adventurous, most original, most resourceful-poets, and he did more than anybody to push the boundaries and expand the possibilities of what poetry could be, while simultaneously reaffirming at every instant exactly what poetry has always been: singing in the service of the infinite. - Matt Hart

BLUE JAY SLAYER whispers and shouts at us but never tells us what to think. It is dark at times, yes, but not what you'd expect: playful sometimes, angry sometimes, reticent when necessary. It's brimming with curses and gifts. When Matt Hart declares "The grass doesn't grow where I take you" you know-just know-that he isn't lying. He tells us Ken Henson is not who he appears to be, "which is correct." Henson certainly gives us glimpses of who he may be with his illustrations of the flaming reality of the dark side but without the hellish cliches. Well, maybe there are a few, but those, of...