Search results for ""Author Ted Mathys""
Coffee House Press The Spoils
A former U.S. State Department employee and the former program coordinator of the American Council on Germany, Mathys is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He brings the seriousness of his diplomatic background to his writing and, as our editor, Chris Fischbach says, “He’s in Eliot territory with the subjects he’s writing about: you won’t find any traces of faddy irony or cleverness here. This is poetry that really means it. This kind of work is always risky, but it’s also the kind of work that can last for a very long time.”
£13.05
Coffee House Press Gold Cure
Lustrous, tender, and expansive, Gold Cure moves from boomtown gold mines and the mythical city of El Dorado to the fracking wells of the American interior, excavating buried histories, legacies of conquest, and the pursuit of shimmering ideals. Ted Mathys skewers police brutality on the ribs of a nursery rhyme and drives Petrarchan sonnets into shale fields deep under the prairies. In crystalline language rich with allegory and wordplay, Mathys has crafted a moving elegy for the Anthropocene.
£11.69
Coffee House Press Null Set
Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the space-odd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets. From "Hypotenuse": HYPOTENUSE I write three, erase it, blow rubber shavings from the desk. Write its notation, erase it, blow shavings. Then three 3s erased, shavings blown, persist for the nonce, three of nothing, nowhere attending to discrete objects for counting, themselves objects at any rate. To kiss, sleep, and focus we know to close our eyes, imagine. I do, see nothing.
£11.99
