EBook Disappearing by the maths

Matt Thomas has a way of transporting you to other spaces and some of them achingly familiar others novel yet starkly inviting These poems draw you in and break you they grip the shoulders of nostalgia in ways both comforting and haunting Sit with them You will be glad for their company Jennifer Yeatts Co Editor Dunes ReviewDisappearing by the Math is Romantic in how it connects us to Nature and seeks wisdom from it through an abundance of animals and the questioning of human actions inventions intentions Matt Thomas presents the idea that when we are disconnected from the natural world we struggle to find purpose Maybe the frogs call us sad as a noun because our parasitic brains have walled us off This collection urges readers to see the beauty in animals to perceive the animal within and to reflect on what it means to be human which all adds up to acknowledging the violent cost of comfort Aly Allen author of Paying for Gas with Quarters Disappearing by the MathMatt Thomas is a smallholder farmer engineer and Pushcart Prize nominated poet His poetry has appeared in The Wild Word Tiny Seeds Literary Journal Bear Paw Arts Review Triggerfish Review the Hampden Sydney Review Hiram Review Galway Review Cleaver Magazine River Heron Review Dunes Review the Avalon Literary Review Copihue Review and elsewhere Disappearing by the Math a book length collection was published by Silver Bow in 2024 He and his family live in Virginia where they practice land conservation and stewardship in the historic Shenandoah Valley They are glad denizens of DC Philadelphia Traverse City and Marquette.