Satellite

By Matthew Rohrer

• Description
• Reviews

• It was a good day and I was about to do something important
  and good, but then I unscrewed the pen I was using...
  
  In this follow-up collection to National Poetry Series winner A Hummock in the Malookas, Rohrer’s poems play against convention, finding dark, surreal underpinnings in the seemingly innocent objects and experiences of everyday life. Direct, humorous and disquieting, Satellite demonstrates the unique sensibility of this important poet.

• Everywhere, Rohrer’s poems play against our lyric expectations as they approach familiar ideas of lyric transcendence—only to turn away and begin again. The true evidence of Rohrer’s growth as a poet, though, comes in the subtlety of the critical intelligence operating under the surface of his comic-fantastic.
  Spencer Short, Boston Review
  
  ...a shimmering constellation of images, both urban and wild, filled with unexpected shifts and twists.
  Time Out New York
  
  There are a number of younger poets producing the kind of work that may eventually renew the art. Matthew Rohrer belongs to this group of newcomers whose work is everywhere marked by originality and freshness. There is a pristine quality to his writing that wakes one up and clears the senses, promising poem after poem to remake the world.
  Harvard Review