David E. Matthews
Failed Poet
The Emily Dickinson Bee Towel Catalog
115 pages.
An examination of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, specifically her use of Bee Metaphors, through the prism of Visual Poetry.
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David E. Matthews
Failed Poet
Fulsome Times
179 pages.
Fullsome Times, indeed. There are not hours in the day to contain all that we have experienced. As Einstein has been paraphrased, “Time is Nature’s way of making sure everything does not happen at once”, but Time is breaking down. As the Horse-Opera Hero used to say, “There’s not enough room in this town for both of us”. Now there is not enough room for any of us, and yet we have never been more alone. In this era of alienation and global derangement of the senses, we should all be forgiven for being a fool sometimes.
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Max Nix
92 pages
David E. Matthews is saddened by the direction of events, but more perplexed that things are not worse than, or better than, they actually are, if what people believe is true. He has become suspicious – not to say paranoid – of people who seem positive of what is real, and true. The reverberations and resonances of literature is all that sustains him.
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Opus in Progressu
62 pages.
After extensive introspection, it has become clear to the author that human intelligence is vastly over-estimated, and that communication in this era of social media & Trump is breaking down under the stress. Whether this art is an example of this debilitation or only an aesthetic reaction to it, remains the province of the viewer.
American Bughouse / Left with Ludwig
86 pages
an examination of the American landscape thru the dual prisms of Pound & Bukowski . . . we find both that Pound is more accessible than popularly thought and that Bukowski is deeper that popularly believed.
Cantos Poesia
44 pages
Published by Unlikely Books
Intensely layered visual poems and textual art, including an afterword explaining Matthews’ unique vispo philosophy and technique.
72 pages
v1
34 pages
poetic failure is common:
the leaden phrase
the clanky rhymes
the opaque metaphor
the clumsy meter
the misbegotten idees
indeed
all of my specialities
Better Late Than Never—Sez Who?
84 pages
An anecdotal re-entry into a life-long exploration of meaning and content, personal ruminations upon “lives of quiet desperation” that are the new American Dream.