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Using the Buddhist “Mustard Seed" parable as scaffolding, Pasca’s work pays homage to Kisa Gotami’s quest to save her son by finding a home where, impossibly, no suffering has befallen the inhabitants. Pasca’s poems maneuver deftly between the seemingly simple and mundane details of the world around us and the sublime world we often miss in the myopia of our pain. Just as Gotami comes to see her grief reflected in the eyes behind the doors upon which she desperately knocks, we too find our own sorrows and pleasures illumined by Pasca’s unflinching exploration and delicate crafting. In the end, these poems testify to the necessity of sharing ourselves with courage and vulnerability, and how doing so can lead us further down the path of joy. A THOUSAND DOORS is fully a book of love. That is, the poet finds--inside the alphabet, between the sheaves of experience, of hard childhoods, of war and violence, inside myth and story--a moment, a gesture of love. Thus his poems surprise us, find their way into our own loving, long after the book is put down. But these are not just poems of feeling--they have texture and depth--and empathy. — VERONICA GOLOS, 2011 New Mexico Book Award Winner for Poetry A fine collection of poems. I have been delighted again and again. The book's music is omnipresent and Pasca has a wonderful sense of line. But most important, there is wisdom aplenty... This is why we turn to poetry, to see ourselves. And Pasca has argued mightily for us. — KENNETH A. MCCLANE, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature, Cornell University https://www.mattpasca.com/books/https/wwwshantiartsco/uploads/files/pqr/pascaravenhtml monthly 0.5 2020-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea9d88f5a49c36a9f1bc70b/1588291445952-5LI297NGEUVQO2ZRE463/RavenWire.png Books - Raven Wire - Raven Wire Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist (2016) In his second collection, Raven Wire, Matt Pasca sets loose the ravens of thought and memory over a landscape of postmodern privilege, violence, and alienation. Only then does he answer the poet's charge to articulate, through attention and compassion, the redemptive power of beauty, complexity, and connection. With every line, Pasca seeks to restore purpose to our waking into another day. Matt Pasca writes poems so tender and well-tuned they recalibrate the muchness around us… The poems in RAVEN WIRE, acutely cognizant of blessings and disappearances, are whole, humane and stunning. They clarify and illuminate our lives. — NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, Young People’s Poet Laureate of the United States A celebration of the sound of language as it delves deeply into family connections and the losses of the world through death and war. This is an amazing collection. — MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN, American Book Award Winner