Improvisation Without Accompaniment by Matt Morton

Improvisation Without Accompaniment by Matt Morton

Set in the backdrop of rural Texas, Matt Morton's debut poetry collection reaches for existential meaning within life's joys and griefs.

“What follows are poems of arresting insight and stark assuranceWhat follows are the agile lines of someone who has mastered the sudden slap, the hushed lyric.”
—Patricia Smith, from the Foreword

“What stands in the back of Matt Morton’s beautiful and disturbing Improvisation Without Accompaniment is a persistent emotional attachment to literary and religious traditions in which the speaker of these poems intellectually disbelieves. Familial trauma and a foundering romance become occasions for a book-length compelling meditation on our particular moment in history, on the enduring value of person-to-person connection in a world whose ever-accelerating pace of change complicates and deepens the very needs it promises to satisfy.”
—Alan Shapiro

“Matt Morton must not have gotten the memo that American poetry is in an extinction event. 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

Matt Morton holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His poetry appears in AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He serves as associate editor for 32 Poems and is a Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas. He lives in Dallas, TX.

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ISBN 13	9781942683957
ISBN 10	1942683952
Title	Improvisation Without Accompaniment
Author	Matt Morton
Series	New Poets Of America
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	BOA Editions, Limited
Year published	2020-05-21
Number of pages	88
Prizes	Winner of A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize 2019 (United States)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.