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?Anyone who lives on earth must never be considered an outsider anywhere. Anyone who lives in the world belongs to the world.? Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and intentionally as possible, to preserve its drafts,  and record the painstaking, elusively transcendent stuff of its construction. It would be the capstone to a new collection of poetry, and a means to process modern American life in a time of Covid, mega fires...

Father's Day questions how one embodies a good father, partner, and citizen in the fluctuating political atmosphere of this century.

In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. He takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it.   Anchored in poetic analy...

In a thought-scape rich with memories of friends and flower shops, unexpected and understated revelations, Zapruder spins modern unpunctuated soliloquies.

Poetry. 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 first collection. The poems in this book 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...

Founder of Verse Press, Zapruder is a leading younger poet whose work is risky, fabular, urbane.

Written by one of the country's leading younger poets, "Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty, they attain it.”-Boston Review