Raven Wire
Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist (2016)
In his second collection, Raven Wire, Matt Pasca sets loose the ravens of thought and memory over a landscape of postmodern privilege, violence, and alienation. Only then does he answer the poet's charge to articulate, through attention and compassion, the redemptive power of beauty, complexity, and connection. With every line, Pasca seeks to restore purpose to our waking into another day.
Matt Pasca writes poems so tender and well-tuned they recalibrate the muchness around us… The poems in RAVEN WIRE, acutely cognizant of blessings and disappearances, are whole, humane and stunning. They clarify and illuminate our lives. — NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, Young People’s Poet Laureate of the United States
A celebration of the sound of language as it delves deeply into family connections and the losses of the world through death and war. This is an amazing collection. — MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN, American Book Award Winner