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(More customer reviews)Moth Moon claims to "investigate the obvious" while subtly revealing the scorpions under the stones of household events. The poems appear to be written in a series of fits because they are filled with the sort of cringe-inducing observations one erases from a letter or diary so as not to make the reader uncomfortable. His voice has the shocking honesty of zealots, drunks, or loons. A second read reveals carefully crafted allusions, meticulously chosen language, attention to form, and a thread of themes spanning family, loss, madness, and belief. Very little is idealized, but almost everything is lushly considered.
In "Proposal For A Third Wife" he tells his beloved that he will flatter and compliment her into a kind of domestic bondage: "I'd mold casings and pour/a compliment of cement over your feet/Then you'd need me/To help you walk inside. I'd show/You floors to clean,/special slippers to wear/Over your cement blocks so/They wouldn't scratch the finish. As the potential finance clunks through the house she passes pictures of other wives and poses for her own portrait. "Be sure to warmly greet the children/who fly past when they hear the familiar thunder/Of blocked feet ascending./Forgive them,/Yet they've heard the noises you'll make."
Matt Jasper writes, "the road to hell is paved with ordinary asphalt" and slows his pace just enough so he can escort you down that street tottering on your own cement block shoes.
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Poetry. "The Roman poet Petronius once avowed that, considered rightly, there is shipwreck everywhere. In MOTH MOON, Matt Jasper goes farther still, proving time and again that shipwreck is a treasure unto itself, a perfect emerald before and after all mishap. Here, vision is rewarded with new eyes, and I am grateful for the news"--Donald Revell. "You should appreciate his work so he doesn't feel sad or kill people or start a new country and cause genocide"--Tao Lin. "I like Jasper's poems. The short poem 'Flight,' for example, is a little miracle in the way that it allows me to see through the words into a wordless and darkly ecstatic experience"--Franz Wright.
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