A collaboration of visual art and poetry inspired by Funkadelic\'s classic albums Standing on the Verge of Getting It On and Maggot Brain.
Matejka explores both the light and dark within the original visual art by Kevin Neireiter and Nicholas Galanin, reflecting the poet\'s radiances and shadows..
Just as the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is a celebration of energy and action, Maggot Brain is a place of deep sorrow.
Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is both a tribute to the iconic band Funkadelic and deep introspection of the contrasts in poet Matejka\'s celebrant hips and Maggot brain.
Matejka\'s collection of poems is synesthesia for the ear and alchemy for the eyes and heart.
For Maggot Brain, Nicholas Galanin\'s (also front man of the Sub Pop band Ya Tseen) art creates musical compositions from monochromatics in response to the quintessential album.
For the Standing On the Verge section of the two chaps, sculptor and artist Kevin Neireiter translates music into stained glass graffiti in honor of the landmark record.
Essentially, it is a two-in-one book.
Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is more accurately described as a double-chapbook, featuring two front covers and no back cover.
The colletion also bends the design of books themselves.
The poems bend like a solo bends the big ideas of Funkadelic\'s glitter and unrepentant funk.
Adrian Matejka\'s (Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The Big Smoke) new book Standing On the Verge & Maggot Brain is a chorus of poems and visual art that is psychedelic and bright, full of quarter notes disguised as words.
A collaboration of visual art and poetry inspired by Funkadelic\'s classic albums Standing on the Verge of Getting It On and Maggot Brain
