Sight Lines

"This book contains forty examples of Laura Matthias Bendoly's recent photographs, along with an introduction explaining the history of her engagement with the art and some elucidating notes adjacent to the photographs themselves. As the book was in progress, she asked her father, the poet John Matthias, if he would like to contribute a few short poems to enter into dialogue with her images. This he has done, producing some work quite untypical of poetry in his recent books, but compatible with the photographs he has chosen to write for. ("For," rather than necessarily "about.) Bendoly's photographs make an excellent introduction to her work as a photographer. She is also a writer, having published three novels: The Estate (2015), Laerka (2017) and The Peddler of Wisdom (2018)"--