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Airea Dee Matthews

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Airea D. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. The collection explores longing, desire, and inheritance with power, insight, and intense emotion. New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson describes Matthews’s experimental forms as, “Fugues, text messages to the dead, imagined outtakes from Wittgenstein, tart mini-operas, fairy tales: Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.” Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus (Scribner US and Picador UK, 2023), a memoir-in-verse that is a bold poetic reckoning with the realities of class and race and their intergenerational effects.

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Bread and Circus

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Airea Matthews and 4 other people liked Jax's review of Bread and Circus: "This beautiful book is a collection of poetry that takes aim at Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Matthews ingeniously inserts faded pages of Adam’s and Marxist Debord’s texts whereon she bolds certain words or letters to create a statement. The po" Read more of this review »
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