Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2023 Alex Stevens They continue the author’s engagement

They continue the author’s engagement with personae and place – and the ever-unstable relationship between the two

in a sense of being lost

on your angle of entry

Cleo Henry

Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2023</b> Alex Stevens They continue the author’s engagement"This book enacts, with tenderness and intelligence, an erudition that matches the capacious love of its ambitions. Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity, Matthews engages the archive as a breathing document, refusing to let history be done with itself, and thereby accomplishes what I love most about poetry especially hers that it lives, is living." Ocean Vuong Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir in verse: