Dust & Ashes

(Californios Press, 2020)

“In Dust & Ashes, Matthew E. Henry crafts ekphrastic poems out of a wealth of texts and images.

From Cabanel’s Fallen Angel to the novels of Toni Morrison to images of Olympic protest, these poems are alive to the moral complexity and complicity involved in human art and culture.

Through the two ‘Testaments’ of the collection, the reader is led toward the memento mori of the title.”

~ Californios Press

Excerpt From the chapBook

• aphagia
  

• Confession found in a Motherhouse
  

• "…and who is my neighbor?"
  

• Sai no Kawara

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