The Red Glass Cat

Published in 2021, The Red Glass Cat is Matthew Ussia's first poetry collection. Published on Alien Buddha Press, The Red Glass Cat is a collection of narrative poems about everyday life in a rustbelt city. If you don't believe it, check out these fancy blurbs:

"Matt Ussia and I went to different schools together. Here in these poems you’ll find that school in all its post capital, postmodern and postindustrial glory. The Red Glass Cat takes you across the rustbelt, from the campus to the barroom all the while it never stops asking questions of its surroundings. This book is the whisper of a unrecognized class war. This book is a bleak tale of areal, current American future."
-Jason Baldinger, author of A Threadbare Universe

“Matt Ussia’s poems juxtapose beauty and ugliness without using one to apologize for the other. He treats both with something that is like love, but forgives neither.”
-Dr. Danielle St. Hilaire

"If ever there was an apologist for punk culture, it is poet Matt Ussia. He embodies the ardent believer, numbers himself among the "alter boys in dirty jeans," and finds his sacrament among the "cathedrals with...nicotine stained walls." Rooted in the underground and anchored by the Rust Belt in a troubled century, Ussia challenges the reader to consider what defines them, and what can now be thrown away."
-Janette Schafer

Also named a "Great Summer Read" by Pittsburgh Magazine

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