Artemis Made Me Do It

By Trista Mateer

I am calling you home to the forest of yourself.

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another magical approach to self-care in her newest goddess-themed poetry collection, Artemis Made Me Do It. Using the framework of tarot and conversation, Mateer approaches myth through a witchcraft-inspired lens and uses it to explore timeless issues like burnout, survival, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore.

Artemis speaks to what is wild and untamed in all of us, and in this new collection, she asks for a moment of calm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781771682732

Trista Mateer

Trista Mateer is a poet from outside of Baltimore. Known for her eponymous blog, she is also the author of four full length collections of poetry, and won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2015 with The Dogs I Have Kissed. She is currently working as a freelance editor but still manages to spend most of her time Googling cheap air fare and writing poetry about things that don't matter anymore.

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PRAISE FOR TRISTA MATEER

"Artemis Made Me Do It is a face-wetting collection that I wish I could read for the first time again. It’s a reminder that you can’t keep femininity in a cage, to hug the past versions of yourself, and to have hope for the pages you’ve yet to write."

— Michaela Angemeer, author of You’ll Come Back to Yourself

"Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a dazzling portal of a collection. Trista Mateer erupts with spells of thunder and then gifts you with a careful platter of language to cast them yourself."

— Blythe Baird, author of If My Body Could Speak

"Trista Mateer’s work has the kind of sumptuous quality that leaves you breathless. Aphrodite Made Me Do It is an incredible offering from a truly valuable poetic voice that channels love as the ancient and powerful emotion that it is. Combined with the poet’s own art, this book is a vibrant labyrinth, a treat for every reader. Mateer is magnificent as always."

— Nikita Gill, author of Fierce Fairytales

Finalist - 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards — Poetry (Aphrodite Made Me Do It)

Gut truths and gin-clear imagery, Trista Mateer reminds us of all those places left unexplored by language. (Honeybee)

— Foreword Reviews

This is a collection that will beg you to be dog-eared, coffee-stained, and shared. (Honeybee)

— Amanda Lovelace, author of the princess saves herself in this one

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Copyright © 2022 Trista Mateer

Cover and internal design: Central Avenue Marketing Ltd.

Cover Artwork: Lauren Zaknoun

Interior Artwork: Trista Mateer

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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ARTEMIS MADE ME DO IT

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978-1-77168-273-2 (ebk)

Published in Canada

Printed in United States of America

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