Books by Ted Mathys

From gold rushes to black gold, this mythic and sought-after substance gilds Ted Mathys's elegiac poems, placing a glimmering mirror between resource extraction and utopian dreaming, exploitation and emotional longing.

Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the spaceodd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets.From "e;Hypotenuse"e;:HYPOTENUSEI write three, erase it, blow rubbershavings from the desk. Write its notation,erase it, blow shavings. Then three 3serased, shavings blown, persistfor the nonce, three of nothing, nowhereattending to discrete objects for counting,themselves objects at any rate. To kiss,sleep, and focus we know to closeour eyes, imagine. I do, see nothing.