Pear Slip is now available for pre-order from Spire Press. You can check out the book cover and ordering information HERE.
Here are some blurbs:
“Take a pear. Any pear. Divide it into sensuous surface and the idea of sensuous surface. Mix with one part philosophy and two parts jeu d’esprit. Pass the whole through a filter of buoyant affection for Cezanne, Van Gogh, Pissarro, and their everyday proliferation on posterboard and computer screen, and this is what you get: a fertile concoction of urban velocity posing as still life. Pear Slip is that wonderful thing: a sustained and disciplined act of fancy.”
-Linda Gregerson
“‘Send me sequences of pears,’ Matthew Hittinger writes, taking Wallace Stevens as a departure point for studying the world through what’s at hand, the form and color of a single, sensuous fruit. These witty, pleasurable poems conjure Cezanne and Satie, Bishop and Van Gogh, fellow students of the given world’s mysterious seductions — brought, in this poet’s capable hands, to the eyes and lips of the reader.”
-Mark Doty
And stay tuned for release date information for my new chapbook, Narcissus Resists, Winner of the Beauty/Truth Press 2007 Chapbook Competition.