Poetry. "In Matt Hart's poetry, crackling diction and soulful exuberance take the wheel for a happily bent ride through waking and dreaming spaces. Hart works the contours of his chosen forms with precision and humor, and emphasizes reoccurrence as poetic value and material dynamic through which to channel further depths of possibility for the imagination"—Anselm Berrigan. "Hart's boisterous formal play recalls the work of other bravely errant iterants: Teds Berrigan and Greenwald; Lyn Hejinian; and Swinburne (if he got lost in Cincinnati in the 00s). Verse versus reverb makes for dazzlingly interlocking structures, sweet, urgent and local as difficulty. 'Press playpen'!"—Catherine Wagner.

The goddess Maat weighs the dead heart, /Removes integument, like a serpent's skin. /The flame of love, a feather on the head, /Flutters around the trembling soul'. This collection of poetry explores the relationship between spirituality and reality, religion and science, life and death, and is rich with Greek mythology. Gods and goddesses are very much alive and present within Templeton's work and the lines are coloured with references to great writers and artists. The result is an imaginative and intelligent selection of poetry which takes delight in life's mysteries.

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Citation Details
Title: Lightheaded.(Personal Life)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: November 19, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: B11

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