Bread and Circus

'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, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

'Matthews's writing is bold, innovative and complex.'Washington Post

'Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.'New Yorker

'Discerning and significant'Poetry Foundation