Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful
Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful by Matthew Lippman, published by Four Way Books in 2020, is a collection of poetry that explores contemporary themes through inventive language. This edition contains 78 pages and is presented in English. Lippman’s work reflects on the complexities of modern life, touching on parenting, social gatherings, and everyday experiences, while also delving into deeper questions of mercy and trust.
Readers will find that Lippman’s poems blend the mundane with profound reflections, often using vivid imagery to evoke emotions and thoughts about family and societal issues. The collection captures the essence of 21st-century life, with references to cultural moments and personal connections that resonate with a wide audience. Through his unique voice, Lippman invites contemplation on the interplay between beauty and sadness in our lives.
Official synopsis Publisher
This is the “Age of the Bullet,” Matthew Lippman writes in Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, days in which “bullets sprout other bullets in the bullet garden” and a caricature of a onesie-wearing president sucking on a pacifier appears on the cover of a national magazine. Lippman’s poems are wildly inventive yet grounded in the 21st-century dailyness of parenting and dinner parties and Dunkin Donuts, all of which serve as launch pads into perennial questions of mercy and trust. “I don’t care what you say about this city,” Lippman writes in the title poem whose images recall New York City in the days following 9/11: “We sit down together on the sidewalk / and we hold one another.” These are brash, beautiful poems, big-hearted in their tilt toward sentimentality and their yearning for something more, something better.
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