“‘Give me an eternity of this,’ Matt Poindexter writes, and he captures something of the eternal here, something timeless and tender in these poems that illuminate the mysteries of fatherhood. Full of grief and joy and, always, rippling with love, Fatherland is full of poems that are as emotionally striking as they are sharply made.”
—MATTHEW OLZMANN, author of Constellation Route

“From the opening heartbreaking ‘Magnificat’ to the concluding unflinching ‘Sharper Knives,’ Matt Poindexter roots these well-honed poems in local terrain—not just his native North Carolina, which he knows so well, but also the fraught landscape of family. ‘All of it / washes away sooner than we think,’ he writes, not turning away from loss, but always seeking light in the darkness, discovering beauty in even the most challenging situations. Fatherland is a frank, tender, grateful, technically dazzling, and fully realized collection, a chapbook with more heft and depth and range than many longer volumes. It’s a superb debut by an outstanding poet.”
—MICHAEL McFEE, author of A Long Time to Be Gone

MATT POINDEXTER’s poems have appeared in the Best New Poets series, The Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A resident of Hillsborough, North Carolina, he can be found online at www.mattpoin.com.