A Little Gut Magic

Poems by Matthew Lippman. 


“I love this book. These are the most natural poems I've ever read. How they flow. How they touch the heads of thoughts so lightly and lovingly and move on. I say this is as someone who runs from even the rumor of a party: If these poems were people I would so crash their jamboree. "A Little Gut Magic" invents a genre: imaginative decency. Is that a genre or a style? Is this a book or an embrace? In these spikey days of distance and exclusion, Matthew Lippman is trying hard to find room for everyone, and almost succeeds.” 

-Bob Hicok, author of most recently, Hold. 


“The world needs a poetry as loving and lyric, as engaged and ardent, as Matthew Lippman's is right now. Epitomized by deep connected-ness and humanity, each poem reaches out to name our happiness pain, to comfort and stir us up, all at once. Generous and available, Lippman's poems establish an intimacy that feels easy, but is born of a hard-won wisdom, fueled by willful optimism. A Little Gut Magic is the real thing. Feel it. Trust it. It's a tome for our times.”

-Tina Cane, author of Once More With Feeling. 


“Reading Matthew Lippman's poems feels like having a conversation with a hilarious, brutally honest, and brilliant friend.” 

-Jessica Bacal, Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong.