Matthew Thorburn's most recent book of poems is String, published by Louisiana State University Press. His previous books include The Grace of Distance, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Dear Almost, which won the Lascaux Prize. Originally from Michigan and for many years a New Yorker, he lives in New Jersey.

Other poems by Matthew Thorburn in Verse Daily:
August 12, 2019:   "The Stag" "I couldn't see a way out..."
December 14, 2016:   from "The Day Winter Gives Way" "Now it's December..."
May 23, 2013:   "Little Thieves" "A golden scorpion skewered..."
October 24, 2012:   "There's this string" "I follow I don't know..."
August 11, 2012:   "Hokkaido Photo" "Me, I'm the square silver camera..."
February 20, 2008:   "Driving Out to Innisfree" "Naturally we zipped right by...."
March 27, 2006:   "Horse Poetica" " The one I rode in on. That mud-colored nag...."

Other poems on the web by Matthew Thorburn:
Five poems
Two poems
"Homage to Tom Andrews"
Two poems
"Long After"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
"After the War"
Three poems
"Let Her"

Matthew Thorburn's Website.

About String:

"String is a stirring bravura performance, a love song and a song of war, a chronicle of damage, a testament to our capacity for perseverance."
—Michael Dumanis

"Matthew Thorburn's String is a harrowing and tender unraveling of trauma, in which the brutal (dis)memberments of war are (re)membered through the point of view of a young boy. Here, string functions as mending, as artful stitching of the liminal—both a doing and an undoing, a narrativization of erasures through stories that are both silenced and then sung."
—Lee Ann Roripaugh

"No book has moved me as much as String, epic in scope but intimate as a lullaby. These poems remind us that life is not about the wish our hope makes as we toss a coin; it's not that one side of the coin is despair and one side joy; it's the constant flipping of the coin as it falls and the music it makes ringing against the sides of the empty well."
—Rhett Iseman Trull