| Author: | Matthew David Campbell | ISBN: | 9781310497148 |
| Publisher: | Weasel Press | Publication: | June 3, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Matthew David Campbell |
| ISBN: | 9781310497148 |
| Publisher: | Weasel Press |
| Publication: | June 3, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Matthew Campbell’s Harmonious Anarchy is full of the dark charm and grit particulars of heavy grieving. Full, too, of devotion and doubt. Always moving, these poems capture loss with nuance and complexity. “Philosophy is over,” Campbell writes. "And I can’t resist my dark-self.” If Yeats’ gyres represent the alternation between cycles of order and decay, Matthew Campbell’s poems greet us on the down swing. Raw and brilliant, these poems speak to us from the dark center of grief and love, where all pretense falls away and all manners are checked at the door. In Harmonious Anarchy, a poem cannot be anything if it doesn’t honor what breaks us, what has broken us. And when these poems boom, devil-may-care, God himself takes cover.
---Christopher Salerno, Author of Sun and Urn
Matthew Campbell’s Harmonious Anarchy is full of the dark charm and grit particulars of heavy grieving. Full, too, of devotion and doubt. Always moving, these poems capture loss with nuance and complexity. “Philosophy is over,” Campbell writes. "And I can’t resist my dark-self.” If Yeats’ gyres represent the alternation between cycles of order and decay, Matthew Campbell’s poems greet us on the down swing. Raw and brilliant, these poems speak to us from the dark center of grief and love, where all pretense falls away and all manners are checked at the door. In Harmonious Anarchy, a poem cannot be anything if it doesn’t honor what breaks us, what has broken us. And when these poems boom, devil-may-care, God himself takes cover.
---Christopher Salerno, Author of Sun and Urn
