About Feast of Sapphires:
Suggesting something beautiful and valuable that is painful when consumed, “Feast of Sapphires” covers topics both timely and universal. There are poems of psychic revolution (for those ready to put down the Kool-Aid), poems about pretense and gun control, poems about MRI’s, gambling, and mystical storms of all varieties; then, too, on a deeper level, more than a few of these poems are about the desire to surmount the collective facade in search of a kind of truth that cannot be hyperlinked. Located from Costa Rica to the LIRR, this metaphysical cartography of anticipation and despair is perfect for those seeking existential answers in the bottom of the tea, in the resonance of a thunder storm, or, even, in the ethereal high of a linguistic flight of fancy. From comedic monologues to existential reflections, from angry rants to insightful commentary, from wily narratives to verbal pyrotechnics, this is a book that aims to make you feel that, in these dystopian times, poetry is, more than ever, relevant and necessary.
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Author Bio:
Matt Nagin is a writer, educator, filmmaker, and standup comedian. His poetry has been published in Antigonish Review, Dash Literary Journal, Oxford Magazine and The East Bay Review. Kirkus Reviews deemed his first poetry collection, Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight, “powerful verse from a writer of real talent”.’ His second collection, Feast of Sapphires, reached #12 on the Amazon Best Seller List in its category, and one critic, Matt McAvoy, referred to it as “poetry of the highest quality.” Matt has performed standup in seven countries, in movies and on TV, and serves as a Talent and Show Coordinator for the Gotham Comedy Foundation. His first comedic short film, Inside Job, has won acting and directing awards on the festival circuit.
07/15/2019