Matt Longabucco’s The Hummingbird flits and flutters through the entangled spaces of New York City and beyond: dive bars, deserted libraries, the liminal bus route. This is a book which trembles with life, navigating the tenuous relationship between alienation, transformation, and unexpected intimacies. In this interview, Matt and I discuss his inability to keep still, the reader as one of the book’s strangers, and the political work of observation. In the end, Matt tells me what his book might sound like if it were transcribed into a pop song. These poems really do sing, a syncopated rhythm of modern…

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