'Some Other Where' is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationships and between ourselves and the world. Matthews's poems embody those sudden jolts when we see our lives differently.
Steven G. Matthews Books


This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Aspects of Cioran's conclusion about the formal nature that philosophy must assume chime with some of the formal decisions taken by Beckett in the mid-late prose.