Title: Plato’s BasementAuthor: Matt Barton
Publisher: Naked Mannekin
Format: 6 x 4” Chapbook, 40 Pages
ISBN: N/A
List Price: $8.00
Inquiries: nakedmannekin@gmail.com
Plato’s Basement is an amazing poem: angry, urgent and filled with the human need to understand the puzzle of life. Matt Barton drew on his own childhood experiences to come up with the careful choice of words that comprise this epic brooding: a must-have for all serious poetry readers. Barton has written a lot of excellent poetry of late, and this (at least so far) is his crowning touch.
-- BOB RASHKOW
As with all of Matt Barton's work, Plato's Basement aims at something more fundamental than one man's struggle. Through an extremely judicious and painstakingly minimalist use of language, Plato's Basement gets at the internal struggles we all face, the dark spaces within all of us: namely, the inner demons hatched and nurtured by a violent past.
-- TOM CURRY
Plato’s Basement is an amazing poem: angry, urgent and filled with the human need to understand the puzzle of life. Matt Barton drew on his own childhood experiences to come up with the careful choice of words that comprise this epic brooding: a must-have for all serious poetry readers. Barton has written a lot of excellent poetry of late, and this (at least so far) is his crowning touch.
-- BOB RASHKOW
As with all of Matt Barton's work, Plato's Basement aims at something more fundamental than one man's struggle. Through an extremely judicious and painstakingly minimalist use of language, Plato's Basement gets at the internal struggles we all face, the dark spaces within all of us: namely, the inner demons hatched and nurtured by a violent past.
-- TOM CURRY
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