Escapologies by Matthew Burnside

Poetry
36 pages
8.5" x 5.5" single signature with hand sewn binding
Published January 2013

Matthew Burnside’s language play/playful language renders the familiar strange, familiarizes the unordinary, and mars what has the potential to be beautiful in a way that makes these prose poems disorienting at times, yet a thoroughly pleasurable read at all times. We gaze, gawk, and peer through our fingers as Burnside weaves a kaleidoscopic whole dedicated to “anyone who has ever felt small…”