Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water
£12.00
Lila Matsumoto
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Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water brings together five discrete sequences of poems and poem- stories. Moving through different voices and times, landscapes and interiors, Lila Matsumoto’s new collection offers a sense of the world as an observed tableau, inviting the reader to participate in a creation of a strange yet familiar world full of ordinary-extraordinary moments.
Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water is a Winter 2021 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
‘A real quantum strangeness abounds in Lila Matsumoto’s poems – actual glimpses of life’s fast-running plurality, all the sprouting impressions and perspectives, in misleadingly tidy sentences that unfold like intricate inventions.’
– Sam Riviere‘Visually masterful, painting images like an artist, and summoning scenes from nothing, so that we see them clearly in our own mind’s eye, Matsumoto also has a joyful, wayward sense of humour which made me snort-laugh here and there. If you like your poetry wildly inventive, then this is the book for you!’
– Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine‘An experimental poet whose work is characterised by genuine humour and a simmering sense of the ominous, Matsumoto has a sharp eye for an image, and seems to write with a specificity that draws out the uncanny within the real . . .Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water showcases a poet whose formal experiments are varied, admirable and, taken in succession, full of the unexpected.’
– Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times
Description
Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water brings together five discrete sequences of poems and poem-stories. Looking to the fictive possibilities of poetry, and poetry’s affinities to song and music, Lila Matsumoto’s new collection explores the theme of contingency: as individuated, ordinary-extraordinary moments, as broader cultural milieu, and as resonances of social and environmental inequity.
Rooted in descriptions of objects and nature, these illustrative poems offer a sense of the world as an observed tableau, inviting the reader in as an involved and knowing participant in the creation of a strange yet familiar world.
Moving through different voices and times, landscapes and interiors, Matsumoto’s poetry is one of energetic precision, alert to the subtleties of rhythm and to the inherently visual nature of poetry, embracing the hybrid potential of the form.
Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water is a Winter 2021 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
‘Each Lila Matsumoto poem is multidimensional with “hidden landscape[s]” tucked under “dizzying folds” of the vast and tiny. This is a book of rich material textures, dream fermentations, elemental capers, strange encounters, crystalline garnishings and hyper-molecular brilliance — “[t]he world is / all here”. Lila’s poems recompose themselves before your every sense and leave you reeling in lyric amazement.’– Maria Sledmere
‘The irreverent slide from relatable to grotesque, profound attention to the fashioned oddment, the eclecticism of the acute instance. In her new collection, Lila Matsumoto – already perhaps the funniest experimental poet working on this island today – studies and (em)bosses folly and sincerity as an artist of attitudes. A tall glass of Two Twin Pipes Spout Water lubricates the poetic gullet and promotes the elastication of the brain; to be taken eight times daily.’ – Callie Gardner
‘Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water recombines live action, memory-story, dream-frame and sheer supposing. Family and other animals are spiky details and memories are fleshy and ornate diction abides with dailiness words. “Eyebread” showcases Matsumoto’s body-level synaesthesia, jamming poems with pictorial images of iconography and fungus and fetish. Her recurrent musics spice the line-feel: “Music is flesh juice, is a kind of two-scene milk,” and there’s “A drum high up on a telephone pole” thumping in energy with this lively and beautiful book.’ – Lisa Samuels
‘A real quantum strangeness abounds in Lila Matsumoto’s poems – actual glimpses of the life’s fast-running plurality, all the sprouting impressions and perspectives, in misleadingly tidy sentences that unfold like intricate inventions. I thought suddenly of Diane Williams – the feel is similarly capacious, graceful, jocular, tricky. The world framed by these poems is almost unmanageably lush, incorrigible, shady and glittering, and lucky for you you’re watching it skate past the passenger window with a basket of gooseberries in your lap.’ – Sam Riviere
Lila Matsumoto’s publications include the poetry collection Urn & Drum (Shearsman, 2018) and the chapbooks Soft Troika (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016) and Allegories from my Kitchen (Sad Press, 2015). She teaches poetry and creative-critical writing at the University of Nottingham and plays in the bands Food People and Cloth. Her website is: lilamatsumoto.com
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