Timothy Mathews - New Chronicles of Art and Hope. Writing in times of demogoguery

Memoir, notes from, letters to, fiction and fictions, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, make-believe and reality TV, autofiction, prose and verse, the free and the metered, rhyme, reason, and rhythms, breath, moments and quotations, chronicles, stories of our time and whose time, witness, ways of seeing far longer imposed than exposed, the boundaries of art, why art at all? New Chronicles for Art and Hope is a collection of poetic essays, free verse, and prose poetry. The rhythm of their passing gives tender antidotes in the mind to the whirlwind of victims and tyrants, the brutality of administered fear, signalling something of the swooping charisma of demagogues, and the vulnerability it feeds.