Adrian Matejka provides a profound and powerful cocktail of personal history, hip hop elegy, and inventive language, measuring a clash of emotions and cultures with fat bass lines and sharp with. Mixology insists that the poem is always a range of samples, dictions, and dub style. A post-soul tour de force that places pop culture in a blender.”

– Kevin Young

Adrian Matejka sings the body politic electric, eclectic, euphoric. Agile as Olympic gymnasts, these smart, tight lyrics are bursting with young hunger, frisky identity mashups, and tasty sonics. Matejka’s particular mix of surge and control, vigor and craft is awesome, dizzying. His elegies are tender manifestos. Each poem’s spits sparks, a pint sized power station. Mixology unleashes a genie that cannot EVER be stuffed back into his bottle. America: welcome to your new Mixologist Laureate.”

-Amy Gerstler

I got me two songs instead/of eyes – all swollen and blacked/out like the day after a lost fight.” I read a line like that and know this poet is a street-talking surrealist, someone down-home and intergalactic. He weaves the likes of Fela Kuti and Wassily Kandinsky, Allen Iverson and Bob Kaufman, into poems of meditation and mischief. He cross-steps between experiment and accessibility. Here the pathos and charm of good old-fashioned storytelling is wedded to the associative freedoms of music and collage. Heady, funky, motley: this Adrian Matejka is truly a poet of the new century.”

– Terrance Hayes