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Cover art: Matthew Hittinger, O Monster Asterisk (2017), woodcut print.
Praise for THOUGHT * FROST * VOODOO:
Matthew Hittinger’s collection of poems and woodblock collages is a kind of archeology, digging through the detritus of the world and the heart for treasure after treasure. His works engage continuously with other literary and visual creations, from Elizabeth Bishop to Kandinsky. The delicious specificity of his word choices takes center stage, but each piece explores the possibilities of form as part of the poetry, imagineering space and line into sculptures and codes. There is a sensual historicity at play here, as if we are handling ancient cuneiform tablets, or reciting magic spells.
—Lorette C. Luzajic, founder, The Ekphrastic Review; author, The Rope Artist
Matthew Hittinger’s THOUGHT * FROST * VOODOO is obscurantist objectivist oulipian poetry ensnared in a J.H. Williams dream nest wrought on a splash-page woodblock. In an astonishing shift away from lyric narrative, Hittinger's chapbook of new poems dares to “beach” the reader against its new “beat beguiled” and his own Lynd Ward-inspired works of origami art, “scalp massage pierc{ing}” language against image "just/enough to bring form into being", and “creat{ed} in its wild impatience to live” “not/squashed but open” to glimmering possibilities of meaning.
—Paolo Javier, author of O.B.B.
Matthew Hittinger is a poet and printmaker and the author of The Masque of Marilyn (GOSS183, 2017), The Erotic Postulate (2014) and Skin Shift (2012) both from Sibling Rivalry Press, and the chapbooks Platos de Sal (Seven Kitchens Press, 2009), Narcissus Resists (GOSS183, 2009), and Pear Slip (Spire Press, 2007). Named a Debut Poet by Poets & Writers Magazine, his work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, has been adapted into art songs, and has been featured on Verse Daily, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, and the Library of Congress’s The Poet and The Poem.