Return to Book Page Praise for Miraculous Hours Miraculous Hours By Matt Rader AVAILABLE 0-88971-201-8 Nightwood Editions 5.25 x 7.5 · 80 pages Paperback · $16.95 April 2005 on the front porch striking matchsticks with our thumbs the quick report of light doused out with our tongues, it’s the trick that speaks volumes: forget phosphorus, friction the miracle of combustion, it is how you hold fire in your mouth then snuff it out like idle conversation— –from “Miraculous Hours” "Wondering about Matt Rader's influences, I get a powerful whiff of the dog-eat-dog dynamics of Golding's The Lord of the Flies, a lyrical quality reminiscent of Dylan and Credence Clearwater Revival, sometimes a sensibility akin to that of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, and moral punch and bucolic undertow of Steinbecks 'Of Mice and Men'. This is a book to read and re-read." —Annie Freud, "How Ya Doon" Book Reviews To read the full review, visit http://www.insolentboy.com/BookReviews14.html