Books, CDs, and Chapbooks O' Poetry by Matt Mason and Sarah McKinstry-Brown

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Transplant CD by Sarah McKinstry-Brown, $15.00 (includes postage).

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Transplant, the new spoken word and music CD from Sarah McKinstry-Brown. Recorded by Debo at Big Rock Studios in Albuquerque, NM. Mixed by Debo and John Sandlin. Produced by Danny Solis, music by John Sandlin. Tracks: 1. You Are Dangerous 2. 1001 Loads of Laundry 3. Dear Frida 4. Our Love is an Opera 5. Dropping Hints 6. In the 6th Month 7. Transplant 8. When You Are Born

Things We Don't Know We Don't Know by Matt Mason, $14.00 (includes postage).

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(The Backwaters Press), April 2006. The book debuted at Number 12 on the May 28th poetryfoundation.org poetry best sellers list, between Ted Kooser and Mary Oliver! Quotes about Things We Don't Know We Don't Know: "The only thing better than reading these poems is to hear Matt Mason himself read them." --Marjorie Saiser, author of Bones of a Very Fine Hand "Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland." --Rigoberto González, author of So Often The Pitcher Goes to Water Before It Breaks "Although Mason takes his title from Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's nonclarification of U.S. policy regarding "the war on terror," this exuberant poet helps us to see clearly a cornucopia of things we too often forget we know. Whether turning his attention to kiwifruit, Wild Kingdom's Marlin Perkins, the Strategic Air Command Museum, or lovers who with luck may come to resemble a no-expiration-date snack cake, Mason sheds some of his Nebraskan light on our universally human proceedings. And anyone who can actually say, for the poem-record, "I believe that aliens built the Pyramids, Stonehenge, / and most of my ex-girlfriends" surely knows, by heart, a few morethings we only think we may be better off not knowing." --David Clewell, author of Now We're Getting Somewhere and The Low End of Higher Things

See reviews at: http://www.chicagowriter.blogspot.com/ (by Michael Burke) and http://smallpressures.blogspot.com/ (by Angie Kritenbrink).

When You Are Born by Sarah McKinstry-Brown, $9.00 (includes postage).

Winner of the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize, published by Blue Light Press, June 2005. Quotes about When You Are Born: "When You Are Born soars. Sarah McKinstry-Brown gives the reader a 'flock of syllables' with a range rivaling any migratory birds. The trajectory of this book goes unflinchingly from death and metaphorical deaths to a passionate and compassionate, commitment to life." -Lisa Gill, Author of Red as a Lotus ..."This collection is a celebration of the world because of and in spite of itself. Sarah's keen observation of life's sorrows, rather than rendering her poetry bitter or despairing, seem to make her all the more ardently embracing of hope and beauty. Ignore her work at your own peril." -Daniel S. Solis, Poet/Educator/Slam Champion

When The Bough Breaks by Matt Mason, $9.00 (includes postage)

Now out, March 2005 from Lone Willow Press: a collection of poems written over the past fourteen years about Matt's father's death. Quotes about When The Bough Breaks: "Mason is a poet readers trust. He pulls us in with poems that are precise, moving, disturbing, and consoling." --Denise Duhamel, author of Queen for a Day. "...powerful, self-searching poems..." --William Kloefkorn, Nebraska State Poet. "Matt Mason is one of a handful of writers in any genre who's made me laugh till I cried and then, a heartbeat or two later, moved me to weep, not for the losses we inevitably suffer, but at the courage we necessarily muster to travel beyond our grief." --J.V. Brummels, author of Cheyenne Line. "...fresh and original in sensibility." --Tom Snyder, author of Two Dogs and a Cigar".

A review at Identity Theory.
A review in the Midwest Book Review.
Also reviewed in the Omaha World-Herald and The Reader.

Red, White, Blue by Matt Mason, $6.00 (includes postage).

Published in February, 2003 by Morpo Press, it's 3 chapbooks in one, featuring many of the more popular Poetry Slam poems like "The Good News" (AKA: "Jesus"), "Definitive: Vermont," and "Masturbation."

Mistranslating Neruda by Matt Mason, $6.00 (includes postage).

Published in September, 2002 by New Michigan Press, all purposefully off translations of Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada. Read a review at Main Street Rag and The Reader. Read a poem at Verse Daily.

Coffee And Astronomy and Other Poems by Matt Mason, $6.00 (includes postage).

Published in September, 2001 by the illustrious Morpo Press, contains the new, less Biblical poems which Mason's been working on the past couple years.

Desire For More Cows by Matt Mason, $6.00 (includes postage).

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Published August of 1998. This book has poems like "Spiced Pork Rinds" and "Freshness Dating" as well as all of "On A Business Trip To Tampa" and twelve new poems with cows in them. <Sample>

Old Froggo's Book of Practical Cows, $6.00 (includes postage).

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Published spring of 1997 and now on its fourth printing. The Omaha World-Herald rates it "A hoot." It contains poems such as "Nonviolent Resistance And A Cow," "When Cows Ruled The Earth," "Cows Never Smile," and "The Myth of La Belle Bovin Sans Merci." <Sample>

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