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SPILLING THE MOON poems by Matt Schumacher ISBN: 978-1-877655-57-9 (57-WC) LCN: 2008920991 first trade edition, 6 X 9, 102 pgs. 2008 $12.00 plus s/h (U.S. only) Cover Art: The Red Chair by Jessica Plattner Cover Design: Kristin Summers, redbat design |
DESCRIPTION
Matt Schumacher's first full collection of poems. See also, The Fire Diaries. .
PRAISE FOR SPILLING THE MOON
"Schumacher's poems are big-hearted, humane, filled with mad - mad love for this life and an abundance of wite... In Spilling the Moon for every blast beyond gravity's archetectonics there's a counter-balancing measure, but '[we]...fall like rain gently back into our footsteps.'."
-- Robert Grunst, author of The Smallest Bird in North America
"The imagination's redemptive powers cartwheel and cavort in Matt Schumacher's Spilling the Moon, a phantasmagoria of breathtaking verbal ingenuity... These poems rend the daily extraordinary and the impossible vividly plausible."
--Aaron Anstett, author of Each Place the Body's
"These poems are travelers abolishing distances at every turn. The journey from mirage to mountaintip, from haunting to home-place, and from crime to new creation--all suddenly effortless now thanks to the gracious turns of Spilling the Moon."
--Donald Revell, author of A Thief of Strings
-- Robert Grunst, author of The Smallest Bird in North America
"The imagination's redemptive powers cartwheel and cavort in Matt Schumacher's Spilling the Moon, a phantasmagoria of breathtaking verbal ingenuity... These poems rend the daily extraordinary and the impossible vividly plausible."
--Aaron Anstett, author of Each Place the Body's
"These poems are travelers abolishing distances at every turn. The journey from mirage to mountaintip, from haunting to home-place, and from crime to new creation--all suddenly effortless now thanks to the gracious turns of Spilling the Moon."
--Donald Revell, author of A Thief of Strings
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MATT SCHUMACHER possessed hard-earned degrees in poetry and poetics from the University of Maine and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and have won a Willamette Writers Kay Snow Award and a Hayna Award. They've also been anthologized by Manic D Press and performed live by a punk rock band named the Iowa Beef Experience. Schumacher has taught writing, literature, and humanities at a cornucopia of collegiate institutions and correctional facilities in California, Iowa, Illinois, Maine and Washington. He currently teaches in Portland, Oregon, where he is the managing editor of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism..