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is a sick style guide, an explosive artifact, and a poetry-pop culture portmanteau. Writing at the frayed edges of textbook girlhood, Sara Matson crafts in a new and necessary lexicon for (a)dressing embodied trauma.
Advance Praise:
Sara Matson's is a peregrination to the intersection of vulnerability and aesthetics.
The extensions of ourselves we create in fabric, sequin, and faux-flesh are wrapped around mannequins and studied for their purpose – how we heal ourselves, protect ourselves, and invent ourselves.
Syllable by syllable, line by line, she creates opulence that shimmers like a chandelier, then explores the inner-self it illuminates. From gauche memory to elegant desire, Matson reveals herself to us while interrogating how we evolve, how we interrelate, and how we interpret the world through the art of perception.
is for anyone who has ever showed up to life overdressed and underwhelmed.
- Robin Sinclair, Author of LETTERS TO MY LOVER FROM BEHIND ASYLUM WALLS
In the movie Personal Shopper, Kristen Stewart’s character Maureen says (when another character asks her about the scare-quotes-implied afterlife): “You could call it that; you could call it a million things.” Maureen’s polynomian spirit is alive & flowers brilliantly in Sara Matson’s , a collection of poems that is equal parts Minnisesque “black sequined / handkerchief” & “art-act of gluing artificial wisps” to the reader’s inner ear. Matson makes poems move like satin dresses designed / to deduce,” & like Maureen, her speaker’s world is populated by the effervescent vapors we keep frighteningly close to our hearts, “a secret like / mustard gas worn in evening pendants.” is the lookbook of raw dazzlement. Try it on.
– Tom Snarsky, Author of LIGHT UP SWAN
Sara Matson’s is a euphonious dissection of couture as corpse. With adroit fingers, Matson offers “the beating heart of aesthetic” to the reader, each chapter adorned in the inventive diction that is the unique fabric of all of Matson’s stunning poetry.
–Kristen Garth, Author of CROW CARRIAGE
Advance Praise:
Sara Matson's is a peregrination to the intersection of vulnerability and aesthetics.
The extensions of ourselves we create in fabric, sequin, and faux-flesh are wrapped around mannequins and studied for their purpose – how we heal ourselves, protect ourselves, and invent ourselves.
Syllable by syllable, line by line, she creates opulence that shimmers like a chandelier, then explores the inner-self it illuminates. From gauche memory to elegant desire, Matson reveals herself to us while interrogating how we evolve, how we interrelate, and how we interpret the world through the art of perception.
is for anyone who has ever showed up to life overdressed and underwhelmed.
- Robin Sinclair, Author of LETTERS TO MY LOVER FROM BEHIND ASYLUM WALLS
In the movie Personal Shopper, Kristen Stewart’s character Maureen says (when another character asks her about the scare-quotes-implied afterlife): “You could call it that; you could call it a million things.” Maureen’s polynomian spirit is alive & flowers brilliantly in Sara Matson’s , a collection of poems that is equal parts Minnisesque “black sequined / handkerchief” & “art-act of gluing artificial wisps” to the reader’s inner ear. Matson makes poems move like satin dresses designed / to deduce,” & like Maureen, her speaker’s world is populated by the effervescent vapors we keep frighteningly close to our hearts, “a secret like / mustard gas worn in evening pendants.” is the lookbook of raw dazzlement. Try it on.
– Tom Snarsky, Author of LIGHT UP SWAN
Sara Matson’s is a euphonious dissection of couture as corpse. With adroit fingers, Matson offers “the beating heart of aesthetic” to the reader, each chapter adorned in the inventive diction that is the unique fabric of all of Matson’s stunning poetry.
–Kristen Garth, Author of CROW CARRIAGE
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First published January 1, 2022
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