Standing on the Verge and Maggot Brain by Adrian Matejka

Standing on the Verge and Maggot Brain

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Standing on the Verge and Maggot Brain

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Standing on the Verge and Maggot Brain

by Adrian Matejka

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A collaboration of visual art and poetry inspired by Funkadelic's classic albums Standing on the Verge of Getting It On and Maggot Brain. Adrian Matejka's (Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Big Smoke) new book Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is a chorus of poems and visual art that is psychedelic and bright, full of quarter notes disguised as words. The poems bend like a solo bends the big ideas of Funkadelic's glitter and unrepentant funk. The colletion also bends the design of books themselves. Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is more accurately described as a double-chapbook, featuring two front covers and no back cover. Essentially, it is a two-in-one book. For the Standing On the Verge section of the two chaps, sculptor and artist Kevin Neireiter translates music into stained glass graffiti in honor of the landmark record. For Maggot Brain, Nicholas Galanin's (also front man of the Sub Pop band Ya Tseen) art creates musical compositions from monochromatics in response to the quintessential album. Matejka's collection of poems is synesthesia for the ear and alchemy for the eyes and heart. Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is both a tribute to the iconic band Funkadelic and deep introspection of the contrasts in poet Matejka's celebrant hips and maggot brain. Just as the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is a celebration of energy and action, Maggot Brain is a place of deep sorrow. Matejka explores both the light and dark within the original visual art by Kevin Neireiter and Nicholas Galanin, reflecting the poet's radiances and shadows.
Book Details
Publisher:
Third Man Books
ISBN:
9781734842296
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
52
Authors:
Adrian Matejka
Published Date:
2021-08-31
Language:
English
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About Adrian Matejka

Adrian Matejka's third collection, The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, and raised in Indianapolis, he earned an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His earlier collection Mixology (Penguin, 2009) was selected for the National Poetry Series, and The Big Smoke went on to win the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2014. He served as Indiana Poet Laureate from 2018 to 2019 and now edits Poetry magazine. Other books include Map to the Stars (Penguin, 2017), Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021), and the graphic novel Last on His Feet (Liveright, 2023).

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