America

In this first collection of poetry, Matthew Vicar lights a fire in the poetic prairie, illuminating a backwards, upside-down, bizarro world where everything new is old, and everything old is new. These poems are together a singular torch casting shadows, at once both a celebration and renunciation of a frightening freedom whose flickering in the vast night is recognized but rarely understood. They are a collective and cohesive hymn, liturgical, predictive of consequence, simultaneously sacr...