Counting Sheep Till Doomsday - Softcover

Much like the "Relaxed Bared-Teeth Display" he describes in his poem of the same name, Matos's poetry kindly bites you...the reader gets playful-yet-poignant, bite-sized poetic declarations and imaginative and unforgettable landscapes of more teeth, flashcards, electric fences, court cases and death rays. Here the bizarre and everyday meet in unique combinations in a succession of wild and intriguing poems. Matos treats language refreshingly as his own Mr. Potato Head doll warning us, "That is not how you intimidate an octopus." 

--Lina ramona Vitkauskas, author of The Range of Your Amazing Nothing 

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Matos's Counting Sheep Till Doomsday asks us: how can we sleep, knowing what we know? These sleek and shadowy poems navigate our collective consciousness as shaped by popular culture. They pluck the dark charms hidden in the tusks of narwhals, in houses "monstered-over" and populated with unwanted boogeymen, in the circuit boards of robots longing to be human. Sharp, wicked, and unique, Matos's collection is an examination of our own wakefulness, of our synapses firing with memory and premonition, with the projections of catastrophes as imagined by a nation of insomniacs. 

--Susan Slaviero, author of Cyborgia