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PRAISE FOR UNIVERSE IN THE KEY OF MATRYOSHKA:

"These poems are important. Useful. Life rafts. They are a rare voice of male body dysmorphia as well as stunning stories of being an ally, teacher and new father. But mostly these poems are gorgeous. It is the care and generosity with which these poems are crafted that make this book so necessary."

- Lauren Zuniga, Author of The Smell of Good Mud

"Ronnie K. Stephens is a poet who writes a poem about a word he doesn't fully understand. How so? Perhaps this is because his other mouth is a violin. Or, perhaps this is because he understands that speaking in tongues is the secret to any speaking. What I loved most about these poems is that there is an unmistakable sense of time, a weight of time, a spell of time, in these poems of incantation and intimacy. Here, the refrigerators sound like bluebirds, fathers become totems. Here too, the smell of garlic and mashed garbanzo beans overpower a life. This is a wonderful debut."

- Ilya Kaminsky, Author of Dancing in Odessa