Mixology (Penguin, 2009), which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series; and The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), which received the 2002 New York/New England Book Award. Matejka is also the author of the mixed media collaboration with Nicholas Galanin and Kevin Neireiter, ; Standing on the Verge / Maggot Brain (Third Man Books, forthcoming in 2021) and the graphic novel Last on His Feet (Liveright, 2022). Matejka’s poetry is known for its inventive, often multidisciplinary exploration of identity and cultural history. Rodney Jones writes, “Adrian Matejka plays the language like a horn, with a cool inventiveness and bravura phrasing, yet his poems are as notable for their humanity as their flourishes and riffs at the borders of expression. His singular gift is to write outside the usual habits of communication and yet to deliver again and again the inside story, the testament of a life.”