Living Things thrives. -George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-HeraldWritten 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. | Living Things by Matt Rader, Paperback | Indigo Chapters