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Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.
The Others unfolds in layers of both complexity of content and
technique, beginning in a seemingly simple, straightforward way,
developing deeper ideas behind the scenes. . . . Thankfully,
Rohrer's skillful storytelling never leaves the reader behind, no
matter how far off course from the morning commute his protagonist
travels.
Andrew Miller, Yes Poetry
Reading this book is like opening a door to a room and then opening
a door within that room to another room and then opening a door
within that room to another room and then--you get the point. It's
also: funny, mind-altering, occasionally spooky, and a conceptually
brilliant reminder that our lives are filled with stories every
single day.
--Allie Wuest, Catapult
Tumbling from one speaker to the next, Matthew Rohrer's dreamlike
novel-in-verse harkens back to a time when poetic language was
used, principally, to tell stories. It is experimental and strange
but not in a way that alienates its readers. Whether Rohrer's
characters are riding the F train in midtown Manhattan, high in
nineteenth-century France, or fending off robot bigfeet, his
masterful attention to detail and rhythm absorbs and engages. Each
narrative emerges from the one that precedes it, like a Russian
nesting doll, producing a sensation of spacious expansion and
laying bare the manner by which narratives absorb and give birth to
each other. This is a book of trapdoors and weird trips and special
delights.
--The Believer, Believer Book Award Notification
Wonderfully ambitious and fully realized, Rohrer's The Others
engages similar questions of readerly participation and, more
specifically, the cultivation of a shared consciousness through
art. In the book's sprawling fictive terrain, the constant presence
of the other within the self--that eternal alterity--is a shadow
story that haunts the narrative proper. As the work unfolds, it is
this secret, hidden most of all from the speaker of the poem, that
is gradually revealed, understood, and dramatized beautifully in
the style of the writing itself.
--Kristina Marie Darling, Los Angeles Review of Books
You should read The Others. It'll do things to you.
John Maher, Publishers Weekly, staff pick
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