Pretty, Rooster by Clay Matthews is Now Available

Pretty, Rooster by Clay Matthews is now available to order!

The latest full-length collection of poems from Cooper Dillon Books is now available. If you like sonnets and love and small towns, roosters, flea-markets and beaters up on blocks, then this thing is built custom for you.

Here’s a sample poem:

Pick-Up

South-side of town and I drive in for some
pizza, beers to go. They do the dirty
eats right on this end. I don’t know what home
means, exactly. I take it at thirty
to mean people, place, real things, some good food.
Good and home, being relative. Also
relative, being relative. The dude
in the booth with bad teeth wants me to know
he’s been moving, washers and dryers, big
stuff mostly. It’s good sometimes to see that
people are getting on with their lives, dig,
that they’re out there living, wading through what
must sometimes feel like home to them, or must
always, cheese and crust, windows, floors, and dust.

Reb Livingston says, “These tender, introspective poems pulse patiently as the world spins around and shines light.”

Christina Davis writes, “Matthews infuses the sonnet form with a folksy acoustic and bucolic slang, mixed with the kind of tenderness, vulnerability and knowing you found find in a Shakespearean jester.”

This collection of sonnets also features fresh comics by Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man) and Micah Farritor (White Picket Fences). Order now from  the Cooper Dillon store!