String
Published in March 2023 by LSU Press

“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

​A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn’s String tells the story of a teenage boy’s experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he knew, but survives to tell his story. Written in the boy’s fractured, echoing voice―in lines that are frequently enjambed and use almost no punctuation―String embodies his trauma and confusion in a poetic sequence that is part lullaby, part nightmare, but always a music that is uniquely his.

Read poems from String:
"Let Her" in The Cortland Review (with audio)
"The Stag" on Verse Daily

Read interviews about String:
Interview by Cate Lycurgus in 32 Poems
Poet of the Week interview at Brooklyn Poets

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