Moon Mirrored Indivisible

"In his wide-ranging third collection, Matuk weaves a rich tapestry of human connection, meditating on sex, war, and ancestral inheritance. . . . Matuk writes with admirable confidence and skill." * Publishers Weekly *
“Matuk’s poems, not as the shape of pleasure or language-as-pleasure but as languaged pleasure, catch us unawares. They are ‘susceptible yet undivided,’ taking us to the toothed edge but, without sharpness, turning. We move, not sure where from, as a poem, so by the end of a verse, stanza, or book, we have been to places we can’t identify on any map, ‘turned away / From the heroics and capital of literature’ and undone in a sense in a glimmering ‘queer air.’ Moon Mirrored Indivisible bends, pushing past debris and dams when needed, forceful or stagnant depending on the wind, the pressure, and the height from which words fall.” -- Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, author of "Lo Terciario / The Tertiary"
“Moon Mirrored Indivisible offers the uncanny sensation of driving brilliantly while blindfolded. The way in which the poems hold together is only part of the exhilaration. Matuk’s heightened sense of diction provides absolute physical agency for the reader. He seems to invite the invasion of fantasy at any moment. In this book, the edges of a spiraled collage meet seamlessly, and a liberated ‘I’ blares out from underneath.” -- Cedar Sigo, author of "Siren of Atlantis"
“In Matuk’s Moon Mirrored Indivisible, mirroring emerges as a magic strategy to create two from one, daring masculinist ancestors to ‘scale up.’ The poems investigate what can be forged or healed in this approximate doubling, when songbirds ‘pull their calls / Out of the noon’ and where sympathetic neurons resonate in like melody. Indivisible because, as Stein says, there’s no such thing as repetition. Nonetheless, here is a series of stunningly imperfect mirrorings, queer repetitions that have long forgotten ‘the mannered European flower code.’” -- Julian Talamantez Brolaski, author of "Of Mongrelitude"
"Transcendent work. Words stretch to their limits in Moon Mirrored Indivisible, making a new and necessary language for revolution. In a world preoccupied with occupation, these poems give liberatory breath. Read and allow yourself to be rearranged." -- Marwa Helal, author of "Ante body" and "Invasive species"