Marty Matz

"Martin's lyrical gift is evident throughout the body of his work. . ."
         —Neeli Cherkovski's introduction to Time Waits

Finally published! Order now:
Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex
(Inner Traditions, 2004)
*click here for new material from Marty's novella*

A Sky of Fractured Feathers - On CD, $14.
Marty reads his poetry to the music of Church of Betty.
Excellent spoken word and music, recorded in 2001.

Video of Marty Matz reading poetry, 1996
(search for others on Youtube)

Pipe Dreams * Marty reading the Pyramid of Fire

It must be fate
        that moves a man
     to Bogota or Bangkok
        tripping past
a blood clawed sky at dawn. . .

Order Pyramid of Fire (Inner Traditions, 2004) at Alignment2012.com
*click here for new material from Marty's novella*

"In 1995 I got a phone call from this guy named Marty Matz, who said he had a copy of an unknown Aztec Codex that an old Mazatec brujo showed him back in 1961 . . . The Pyramid of Fire is a valuable artifact, and more so, because as Marty has been able to flesh it out, we can see and hear a prosaic ancient voice revealing insights into Aztec cosmology, medicine, metaphysics and spirituality."

             — John Major Jenkins, author of Maya Cosmogenesis 2012

• Beat Poetry, Mexico, and Opium Hills: Who is Martin Matz?
• An Unknown Aztec Codex: The Pyramid of Fire
• Excerpt from Herbert Huncke's foreword to Pipe Dreams
• Martin Matz reading the Pyramid of Fire
• Poems from Time Waits
• Marty in Italy
• The Big Smoke
• "The Alchemist's Song" by Marty Matz
• Marty in Goodie Magazine
• Marty at Jack Magazine