Born on a backpacking trip into the Sierras, Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye descries the degradation of our planet and the failures of compassion, using a collage of voices erupting into eco-apocalyptic symphony.

Find your true creative writing voice: Let the Crazy Child Write! links the playful energy of the creative unconscious to a solid, in-depth course of writing basics.

Open this book and fall into a tumultuous world where each act sings, shouts, and cries the full chorus of the unconscious.

An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind features poems by over 100 poets from all over the U.S., creating an alternative poetic response to the din of collective madness that has characterized our national dialogue since 9/11/2001.

“Chalcedony is a character in one of my unfinished stories. She loves her boyfriend with startling intensity, and she has big problems with him, too…”

In mythology chalcedony (pronounced kal-SAID- n-knee) is a moonstone of the feminine, of the subconscious, of the dark, of the bright silver cold light of knowing. Her poems are a vibrant call to body and spirit and earth through the sensory world.

At once obstreperous and innocent, these poems celebrate a place where emotion, sex, and religion come together with overwhelming intensity.

Hourglass is a series of eight-syllable line sonnets with rhyme and half-rhyme schemes, celebrating meditation and the relation of mind and body, along with struggles inherent in establishing a practice. Matson found valuable support in Vipassana meditation, and these sonnets came as Maton’s meditation took hold and blossomed.

Space Age is an early collection of free-flowing, satiric portraits, inspired in part by the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the apocalyptic visions of Alden Van Buskirk. These poems offer a unique synthesis—the poetry of vision, direct expression from the mind's eye.

A short, haunting collection of poems drawn from the poet's own experiences and observations of addiction, its consequences, aftermath, and recovery.

On the Inside is an overview of progressive efforts after the turmoil of the 1960s faded from public consciousness—a largely intuitive assessment of areas where viable change is in progress. Allen Ginsberg, on hearing the shorter poems, called them "direct expression."

Equal in Desire is a collection of love poems exploring the flow of male and female selves between lovers with an awareness of gender and pro-feminist concerns.