Praise for Living Things Living Things By Matt Rader AVAILABLE 0-88971-223-9 Nightwood Editions 5.25 x 7.5 · 88 pages Paperback · $16.95 March 2008 "Living Things thrives." -George Elliott Clarke, Halifax ChronicleHerald Written in the year after the birth of Matt Rader's first daughter, Living Things honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern world: "how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and also more so." Using words in lieu of sonar, these poems bounce off the ecology of "shabby saturated grasses" and "panther-eyed armies of salal," and locate both author and reader within a literary genealogy. Matt Rader's poetry brings subtle slowness to a chaotic, fast-paced environment. It is both celebration and documentation of this world and its relationship to all living things.