Sunset Dreams

Sunset Dreams glides through events and themes mirroring the authors life and experiences--from North Dakota roots to a job on Capitol Hill to forming a new family. The books forty-three poems render the grounded splendor of American landscape explore the vibrant energy of Americas capital and offer individual perspective on formidable fields. Sunset Dreams offers readers hope comfort laughter reminiscence and awe. The poetrys diversity in style and rhythm capture the imagination making the book a valuable addition to any poetry library. Many voices of new poets emerge with such internal scouring that every poem looks and sounds the same. That is not true of the extraordinary newcomer Matthew Nies. He can compose it seems in any form or style that strikes him as necessary for a poem and all of his compositions contain the breath of fresh high-plains air. He writes with equal ease about solid rural landscapes and the environs of Washington DC. Perhaps above all he communicates a faith as uncompromising and complex in its definitions in the form it takes in several poems as a reader will find in the poetry of George Herbert--with no simple answers on a trajectory all its own. He will travel far in the cosmos he fashions as his own. --Larry Woiwode author of What Im Going to Do I Think Matthew Nies was raised on a farm in rural North Dakota. He graduated from the University of Jamestown where he studied writing under award-winning author and North Dakota poet laureate Larry Woiwode.