“What follows are poems of arresting insight and stark assurance. What follows are the agile lines of someone who has mastered the sudden slap, the hushed lyric.”

Patricia Smith

“These are poems of immense intelligence and presence as nimble as flames conveying the nearly unbearable intimacy this life demands, threatens, and rewards us with.”

Dean Young

“What stands in the back of Matt Morton's beautiful and disturbing (poems) is a persistent emotional attachment to literary and religious traditions in which the speaker . . . intellectually disbelieves.”

Alan Shapiro

“Expert and instinctive, like a cool Ed Wilkerson sax solo bouncing with lived rhythms. Morton's consummate poems will echo long after they are read.”

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