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Matt Jasper

Goodreads Author

Born

in Manhattan, The United States

Website

http://www.amazon.com/Moth-Moon-Matt-Jasper/dp/...

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

outsider art, schizophrenia, Bill Knott, Osamu Dazai, Mary Maclane, Bu ...more

Member Since

November 2008

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/mattjasper

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My author picture is of my kids hanging out with singer B.J. Snowden. I wrote for Rollerderby & Grand Street in the '90s and have a busy, inefficient life that now has me trying to form thousands of pages of schizoid ranting into a novel and a second book of poems. I think I won some writing award or other while flunking out of UNH. I was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. Only loser writers mention Pushcart nominations, though. I also had a poem win Goodreads poem of the month and get emailed to a billion people. Maybe a little less than a billion. If you have read this far, please see all of the amazing free online books and chaps put out by BLAZEVOX & PUBLISHING GENIUS. Also--please forgive me for rating everything a "5". I know ...more

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Interview at Big Other:

http://bigother.com/2010/04/20/anatom...

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Matt’s Quotes

“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the
resolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
― C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

tags: poetry

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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