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Carnegie Mellon University Press,chapbook

Publication Date: February 15, 2022

Publisher Market:Poems on the everyday confusions of life.

Matt MortonsWhat Passes Here for Mountainspresents a mind caught in the grips of spiritual crisis.These poems take the reader on a journey across locales ranging from the West Texas desert to the bustling streets of Rome, from the social realm of festivity and ritual to the privacy of the imagination. Along the way, the search for meaning and stability within a world in constant flux is enlivened by a surrealist vitality. Czanne and Shakespeares Caliban commingle with indie rock musicians and Humpty Dumpty. A mystical encounter with an Edward Hopper painting meets the mundanity of waking again to ones morning routine. Poems of wry self-deprecation are juxtaposed with quiet meditations on memory, grief, and the relationship between the self and the cosmos.