Poetry by Ted Mathys
September 1, 2005 6 x 9 108 pages 978-1-56689-178-3
A muscular debut collection.
Contemporary Ohio, New York, and Eastern Europe form the backdrop for the beauty and pathos unleashed in Forge. Reaffirming poetrys place in shaping the perceptions of our world, these tensile, incantatory poems find lyric grace in shaping a poetics amidst the fragmentation of society.
About the Author
Ted Mathys is the author of two previous books of poetry, The Spoils and Forge, both from Coffee House Press. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Poetry Society of America, his work has appeared in American Poetry Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and an MA in international environmental policy from Tufts University. He lives in Saint Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University.