Otto Selles’s fine new collection of poems evoke Emily Dickinson in their brevity and succinctness. His writing turns the everyday around in its hands, jewel-like, allowing light to catch and reflect its surfaces, with an open-ended clarity of feeling and a gentle touch, which is often profound. —John Terpstra With word play and a bit of dead-pan humor, precise and cryptic observation, and ekphrastic mischievousness (with photographs and paintings included), Otto Selles’s Matins is a book no reader of poetry should miss. From a “deep bone / melancholy” to a “rainbow forest / of eternal praise,” these poems chronicle both the fleeting emotions and vibrant sensations of life as well as every curious shade of bemusement in between. I will return to these exquisite, thoroughly enjoyable pieces again and again. —Robert Hudson, author of The Beautiful Madness of Martin Bonham and The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style