Two Sides of the Same Thing

by Matthew Nienow

“With ‘dark swollen words and shifting air,’ Matthew Nienow builds poems as if building boats, ‘each strip like a tree’s growth,’ and ‘asking the question rivers are always why?’ From Nienow I am grateful to have learned that poetry ‘is movement with one to pull at whatever it touches.’ There is much talk these days of the importance of a poet’s voice. But here we have proof that a poet’s ear… for music, for complexity, for ‘the prodigal aria returning home’…is just as important.” — Todd Boss

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2007

About the author

Matthew Nienow’s most recent collection, If Nothing, was recently published by Alice James Books. He is also the author of House of Water (Alice James Books, 2016). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Artist Trust. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and sons, where he works as a mental health counselor.