Dog Custody, by Miles Matis-Uzzo

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Dog Custody is an expedition into the interiors of attachment, grief, and power-play that arise between two people. Asking for a divorce and taking the dog. Or maybe you are the dog stuck in the middle, stuck in the paradox between the freedom of wildness and the deep yearning for a home.

In the pages of their debut chapbook, Matis-Uzzo says, “my dog is also a wolf: submissive and unruly, obedient and howling.” Each poem taps into a feral frequency that goes for the jugular, channeling the raw emotional experiences that inhabit intimacy, love, and loss.

Miles Matis-Uzzo is a poet and artist based in Austin, Texas. Dog Custody is their debut chapbook. Earlier this year, they self-published a zine, in order to not disappear, using found poems from newspapers to reflect on two months of field research in the American Southwest. Matis-Uzzo has participated in poetry readings at Larrie NYC, MASS Gallery, Alienated Majesty Books, and Northern-Southern Gallery.