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\nMatt McBride has made a potent stew of precisely recurringimagery:sheep,bones,pears,divorcees....The poems are arrangedlike seasons—as they appear,they reappear,the oft-recycled titlessymbolizing the poet's civilized and changeless despair,unassuaged by the garnish oftime known as calendar  \nHis is a world in which humans endure the paradox of lovingeach other into divorcing each other,of making \"cities\"of multipleselves only to enclose the single self in solitude,of creating art as ameans of posthumous haunting.  \nThe poet's final plea,\"don't bury me deep,\"is the perfectbookend to the transparent,fragile and vulnerable “glass”lifeunder the lights.McBride's lights are there to underscore thedarkness—and this is the book's core theme—it is the darknessthat is peopled,not the architectured city.Darkness is wherewarmth is possible,thought is quiet,night is real,and dreams aresafe from “commercials.”  \nCity of Incandescent Light is so fascinatingly depressing that itcomes across as playful.It is a horrible,ironic playfulness,yetedifyingly genuine,capturing the essence of a broken existence ina“full-circle”universe.McBride as commentator of this perennialjourney gives us a language of heartbreaking apathy,bothharrowing and irresistible.Read with caution:this is a poetry thatdoesn't ring twice.  \n—Larissa Szporluk  \nCity of  \nIncandescentLight  \nMatt McBride  \nBlack  \nLawrence  \nPress  \nBlackLawrencePress  \nwww.blacklawrence.com  \nExecutive Editor:Diane Goettel  \nBook and Cover Design:Amy Freels  \nCover Art:“Tourism Is Alive and Well\\#23”by Kevin Charles Kline  \nCopyright ◎2018 Matt McBrideISBN:978-1-62557-996-6  \nAll rights reserved.Except for briefquotations in critical articles or reviews,no part ofthis book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission fromthe publisher:editors@blacklawrencepress.com  \nPublished 2018 by Black Lawrence Press.Printedin the United States.  \nfor C.A.Diltz and Richard McBride  \nContents  \nI  \nCity of Progress  \n3  \nCities Seen Only in Photographs4Twenty Fifteen5Autopsy Proctor6City of the Vulnerable7City of the Advertisers8Twenty Fifteen9City of Motels10City of Incandescent Light11Twenty Twelve12City of the Sleepers13Cities of the Plain14Cities Made of Rust15Twenty Eleven16City of Bridges Burnt19Annabelle20City of Divorcees21City of the Petty22Cities ofGlass Houses23Cities Seen Only in Photographs24City of the Advertisers25City of the Whites26City of the Police27Cities Made of Rust28  \nII  \nCity of Hangover SundaysTwo Thousand NineCities of Glass HousesCities of Refuge  \nCity of Incandescent LightCities of the Plain  \n100  \nIII  \nCities of the FutureTwo Thousand ThreeCity of the PoliceCity of the WhitesSoft Target  \nTwo Thousand OneSalvation Army  \nTransmission FarewellCity of Incandescent LightNineteen Ninety NineCities of Glass Houses  \nCities Seen Only in PhotographsCity of MotelsStructure Fire  \nIV  \nCity of DivorceesCity of Regret  \nYour Time Between 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