It is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world the way we see it, and the way it can be imagined, with such a wise and graceful mixture of humor, loss, intelligence, wit, self-deprecation, and hope. AMERICAN LINDEN is such a book. Zapruder's poems are valuable, even necessary. They are, in the most important sense, love poems: to people, to ideas, to feelings, and to the mind itself, which by means of language move with honesty, wit, and distinction among the fleeting things of this world. The acclaim for Zapruder's 2010 collection COME ON ALL YOU GHOSTS has caused surging...
It is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world the way we see it, and the way it can be imagined, with such a wise and graceful mixtur...
"Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it."--"The Boston Review"
"Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture."--"The New York Times"
"With dynamic, logically complex sentences, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary."--"BOMB"
Matthew Zapruder's poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on what it means to live in the contemporary moment, among plastic, statistics, and diet soda. Written in a direct, conversational style, the...
"Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it."--"The Boston Review"
"Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and reven...
