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Run Off,Used
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With Runoff, Clay Matthews solidifies his claim as the only real successor to the narrative, discursive line of Richard Hugo while extending that range to include the kind of hard & sparkling bursts of revelatory truthwonthroughtrauma that punctuate the landscape of the best of Larry Levis. There's a howling emptiness that runs through these lines like a river washing through a prairie canyon but there's a hopeful certainty too: that where it's going is simply where it's going & there'll be sunshine & clear skies someday. Nate Pritts Clay Matthews' Runoff is ambitious, recursive, and tenacious. Part weather journal, part calendar, part hiding place, Runoff is dense with Americana: skee ball and social security cards, spark plugs and scissortail flycatchers. Beverly's Pancake House and Roseanne reruns. A chickenfried, notquitecountrified Hamletofsorts, Matthews says, 'I got some kind of faith / in some kind / of something,' which is tender and optimistic in a world constantly 'making up neo and post and pre and new names for itself.' Combining the cultural, natural, and metaphysical with ease, here is a voice that ultimately just wants us to 'witness the world / you little fools / and love it.' Literally letting his days run onto the page, an ordinary man takes us through a year of his (extra?) ordinary life. 'And stranger,' he says, 'you are welcome to it.' Welcome we are, indeed. Brandi Homan
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