"Your life is your life. Don't let it be caged in the dark zoo of endangered dreams."
-from Nightingale Blues
-from Nightingale Blues
Matt Frati
Poet/Novelist
"Matt relates the multitasking and obvious with an inch above it to spare, seeming two places at once, both original and individual, then humble and well known. We become attentive to what minutes pass in just regular life. I enjoyed where he carries his thoughts, "nourishing the soul like a summer dip." I felt a mad dash of Whitman in many lines. Can't wait to read more." -Lenore M. Rheaume Ocean State Poets
Matt Frati's debut poetry book, Nightingale Blues
The poems contained within this book, the debut poetry volume by poet Matt Frati, shed light on the mundane phenomena of everyday life as experienced by a regular twenty-something trying to find his own way in a mad, messy world. The poems cover a little bit of everything ranging from love, hate, work, war, death and beauty. Cover art by Clara Costabile.
Matt Frati's second volume of poetry, Standing in the Shadows of Giants
In this, his second volume of poetry, Matt Frati continues his exploration of everyday phenomena begun in Nightingale Blues with a deeper, sharper poetic insight. The poems contained within run the gamut from expressions of the drudgery of work to the pleasures and pains of drink, women, writing and life in general.
Weapons of Mass Distraction
The new volume of poetry by Matt Frati
The new volume of poetry by Matt Frati
The poems contained within Weapons of Mass Distraction, the third book of poetry by
Matt Frati, continue his examination of the innumerable phenomenon and mundane miracles of everyday life in this mad, messy world of ours with explorations of inner and outer space from the universal to the deeply personal, from the physical world
all the way down into the shadowy depths of the human heart and spirit.
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