Improvisation Without Accompaniment - Paperback

by Matt Morton (Author), Patricia Smith (Foreword by)

Set in the backdrop of rural Texas, Matt Morton's debut poetry collection reaches for existential meaning within life's joys and griefs.

Author Biography

Matt Morton holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His poetry appears in AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He serves as associate editor for 32 Poems and is a Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas. He lives in Dallas, TX.