Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2023 Simon Perrill cosmic (in 'the sharp

cosmic (in 'the sharp

Robert Macfarlane writes

Archie Burnett's commentary establishes him as a more complex and more literary poet than many readers have suspected

hurt and wonder

Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2023</b> Simon Perrill cosmic (in 'the sharp"This book enacts, with tenderness and intelligence, an erudition that matches the capacious love of its ambitions. Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity, Matthews engages the archive as a breathing document, refusing to let history be done with itself, and thereby accomplishes what I love most about poetry especially hers that it lives, is living." Ocean Vuong Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir in verse: