The Hummingbird
$37.06
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2026
Summary
The New York School finds new interiority in this collection of poems by turns contemplative, caustic, and wry
From flower to flower goes the hummingbird, heart pounding, in search of anything sweet. This poet’s attention, meanwhile, hovers and darts toward ever-more attenuated spaces of enlivenment and connection in New York City and beyond, filching lyric possibilities from the shadows of indignity and dread. On riverbanks and in dive bars, hospices and deserted libraries, or “in my…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781643623283 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1643623281 |
| Author: | Matt Longabucco |
| Publisher: | Nightboat Books |
| Imprint: | Nightboat Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Matt Longabucco’s masterfully expansive collection is … honest and piercing, vital in its formal bravery and aesthetic finesse.”
—erica kaufman, in praise of Heroic Dose
“Deliriously erudite.”—Jonathan Lethem, in praise of M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain
“The beautiful intensities of this remarkable book reflect on many mysteries—love, movie making, myths—while illuminating why stories matter to us, and shall always matter: they not only tell us who we are, but what we long to be. A wonderful achievement.”—Hilton Als, in praise of M/W: An Essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain
About The Author
Matt Longabucco
Matt Longabucco is the author of the poetry collection Heroic Dose and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain, a book-length study of a landmark of French cinema and its creator. He teaches writing, innovative pedagogy, and critical theory at New York University’s Liberal Studies Program, and at Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.
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