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- Winner of the 2002 New York / New England Award
- Selected as one of the "Five Best Books of Poetry in 2003" by Black Issues Book Review
Using musical allusion and metaphor, juxtaposing history and autobiography, Matejka navigates a triracial identity. In these poems, having too many heritages means having no heritage at all. As a result, cultural identifiers--be they afros, war paint, or William Shatner--take the place of identity. Vibrant narrative lyrics use image as riff, syllable as note, to improvise on a personal history severed from tradition.
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Adrian Matejka is a graduate of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale MFA program. The author of Mixology and The Big Smoke, his work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He teaches creative writing and English literature at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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"The Devil's Garden meets at the crossroads of risky possibility--real and magical. With jazz burning in the engine, each curve in Adrian Matejka's stunning imagination is taken with hard-earned, skillful grace. Get ready to travel in the mind and the body." --Yusef Komunyakaa
"Adrian Matejka plays the language like a horn, with a cool inventiveness and bravura phrasing, yet his poems are as notable for their humanity as their flourishes and riffs at the borders of expression. His singular gift is to write outside the usual habits of communication and yet to deliver again and again the inside story, the testament of a life." --Rodney Jones
"Matejka challenges notions of propriety, as if breaking silence on long-held family secrets....a smart and engaging debut." --Black Issues Book Review
"Reading Adrian Matejka's amazing debut, I was left with the feeling that American Poetry was at last beginning to catch up with early twenty-first century American life. He has written the first serious songs from a world that's about to make itself felt and known."--Cornelius Eady
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- PublisherAlice James Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1882295412
- ISBN 13 9781882295418
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages80
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