Rocket Surgery

By: Yeager, Matthew

In Rocket Surgery, Matthew Yeager follows up his critically acclaimed debut (Like That, 2016) with a wild new batch of long poems. Whether constructing a fictional piece of public art out of spray-painted dance steps, inhabiting the perspective of a deceased centerfold, or laying out a darkly hilarious Notes from Underground-like catering vengeance narrative, Yeager is an engineer of one-of-a-kind poetic rollercoasters, a mad scientist of rollicking linguistic trips. Given a chance, the fast-running, tone-torquing, obsessively-constructed poems in Rocket Surgery will carry a reader to places most often beyond poetry's reach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1630451061
• ISBN13: 9781630451066
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: New York Quarterly
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.2"