City of Incandescent Light
McBride, Matt Poetry. Clearly, these poems are the Chinese fortunes dandelions would dispense, that is, if you woke up too in cities like these that would give Continental Bards a run for their money, and then some, that is, if verse finally managed to gain the upper hand on prose--local banalities upended in an orgy of absurd lyrical excess.--Timothy Liu 'We are all just trying / to make it through yesterday, ' writes Matt McBride in this painfully insight...