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Books by Matthew Zapruder
  | | Father's Day by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-578-3, ISBN: 1-55659-578-6 "As seen in the The New York Times Book Review "In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation." ―The New York Times “[Zapruder] presents powerfully nuanced and vivid verse about the limitations of poetry to enact meaningful change in a world spiraling int ..." |
 | | Why Poetry(Reprint) by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-234308-6, ISBN: 0-06-234308-4 "An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew ZapruderIn 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 misunderst ..." |
 | | Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-234307-9, ISBN: 0-06-234307-6 "An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew ZapruderIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misu ..." |
 | | Sun Bear(1st Edition) by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-463-2, ISBN: 1-55659-463-1 ""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."—BOMBMatthew Zapruder's poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on w ..." |
 | | Come on All You Ghosts(1st Edition) by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-322-2, ISBN: 1-55659-322-8 ""Charming, melancholy, hip."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."—Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun." The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and ..." |
 | | The 826 Quarterly, Volume 19 by Molly Parent, Matthew Zapruder, Eda Kaban Paperback, 153 Pages, Published 2014 by 826 Books ISBN-13: 978-1-934750-45-2, ISBN: 1-934750-45-X "This edition of the "826 Quarterly" contains fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written by authors ages 6-18. The pieces are selected from all the 826 programs (drop-in tutoring, workshops, in-schools, projects, field trips) and at-large submissions. Pieces are chosen in a traditional literary journal style by an editorial board comprised of students and volunteer tutors. This issue includes a hard-hitting investigation into what one 11 y ..." |
 | | Story of a Poem A Memoir (Hardback) by Matthew Zapruder Hardcover, Published 2023 by Unnamed Pr Apr 2023 ISBN-13: 978-1-951213-68-8, ISBN: 1-951213-68-8 "" With Story of a Poem celebrated poet Matthew Zapruder offers a personal, deeply unguarded examination of a poet's eternal struggle to transform a moment of feeling into verse, as well as a subtle and enthralling roadmap to the practice of ..." |
 | | The Pajamaist by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2006 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-244-7, ISBN: 1-55659-244-2 "“Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—Publishers Weekly Matthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he engages love, mortality, and life in New York City after 9/11. The title piece, a prose-poem synopsis of an unwritten novel, turns all literary forms upon themselves with savvy ..." |
 | | State of the Union(1st Edition) Fifty Political Poems by Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder, Wave Books Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2008 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-33-9, ISBN: 1-933517-33-6 "From rough optimism to sharp criticism, fifty American poets present new work dissecting the current political climate in America. Wide-ranging writers bring their bold voices to this collection, including Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, Rebecca Wolff, Terrance Hayes, Joe Wenderoth, and Tao Lin.“Walking by Hope Street”Look at the landscape,A lot of damage, no?But we are here together,And of needing me, hereThe world needs me,We are too al ..." |
 | | American Linden by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2002 by Tupelo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9710310-9-8, ISBN: 0-9710310-9-6 "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 m ..." |
 | | Secret Weapon(1st Edition) Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu by Eugen Jebeleanu, Matthew Zapruder, Radu Ioanid, Andrei Codrescu, Marjorie Welish Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2008 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-206-3, ISBN: 1-56689-206-6 "These spare and allegorical later poems of Romania’s great poet, Eugen Jebeleanu (1911–1991), are deeply moving expressions of collective and personal guilt from an artist whose early participation in and later disillusionment with the regime lend his work a particular, searing authenticity. Appearing in English for the first time, these profoundly unsentimental poems are politically and artistically significant lyric testimonies." |
 | | The Best American Poetry 2022 by David Lehman, Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2022 by Scribner - Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-982186-68-5, ISBN: 1-982186-68-2 "CYNTHIA PARKER -OHENE is a poet, abolitionist, cultural worker, and therapist. She received her MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary's College of California, where she was awarded a Chester Aaron Scholarship for Excellence in Creative ..." |
 | | Sun Bear by Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2014 by House Of Anansi ISBN-13: 978-1-77089-459-4, ISBN: 1-77089-459-4 |
 | | American Linden by Matthew Zapruder Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2002 by Tupelo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-932195-05-7, ISBN: 1-932195-05-X "It is rare to come across a first book that embraces the world the way we see it, and the way it can be imaginedwith 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 lan ..." |
 | | The Lice(50th Edition) by W. S. Merwin, Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-498-4, ISBN: 1-55659-498-4 "This Fiftieth Anniversary edition celebrates one of the most ground-breaking books in American poetry. When first published in 1967, W.S. Merwin’s The Lice was ground-breaking. Its visionary urgency directly engaged the nexus of aesthetics and morality, exerting an immediate and lasting effect on the writing and reading of poetry. Like all great art, this monumental work continues to inspire.As Merwin discussed in an interview, The Lic ..." |
 | | Fifteen By authors ages 8 to much older than 15, from 15 years of 826 Valencia by Dave Eggers, Dan Bransfield, Ninive Calegari, Daniel Handler, Matthew Zapruder, Kate Schatz, Lisa Brown, 826 Valencia Students, Lucy Kirchner Paperback, 129 Pages, Published 2017 by 826 Books ISBN-13: 978-1-934750-95-7, ISBN: 1-934750-95-6 "826 Valencia has supported San Francisco students through free writing, tutoring, and publishing programs for fifteen years. While growing in spurts and striving for the perfect mixtape, we asked our community what fifteen means to them. Some writers here recount recent formative moments, some imagine their future jobs or perfect quinceañera, and some look back on this weird, wonderful age and share what they've learned or unlearned sin ..." |
 | | This Lamentable City(1st Edition) (Tupelo Press Poetry in Translation) by Polina Barskova, Ilya Kaminsky, Kathryn Farris, Rachel Galvin, Matthew Zapruder Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2010 by Tupelo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-932195-83-5, ISBN: 1-932195-83-1 "Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Russian by Ilya Kaminsky. Polina Barskova's poems are a zesty paradoxical concoction: bawdy and erudite, elegant and raw, subtle and brazen. As Ilya Kaminsky attests in his introduction to THIS LAMENTABLE CITY, "Barskova is an elegiac poet who brings to her American readers a language formally inventive, worldly and humorous. One of her strengths is her ability to bring together strikingly ..." |
 | | Father's Day by Matthew Zapruder Published 2020 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-205-9, ISBN: 1-61932-205-6 "Books by Matthew Zapruder Father's Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2019) Why Poetry (Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2017) Sun Bear (Copper Canyon Press, 2014) Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) Secret Weapon: The Late ..." |
 | | Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-234309-3, ISBN: 0-06-234309-2 "An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is ..." |
 | | Poems for Political Disaster (Boston Review) by Timothy Donnelly, Stefania Heim, Matt Lord, Juan Felipe Herrera, B. K. Fischer, Bk Fischer, Mary Jo Bang, Calvin Bedient, Joshua Clover, Shane Mccrae, Ange Mlinko, Craig Santos Perez, Khadijah Queen, Wendy Xu, Susan Briante, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jericho Brown, Stephen Burt, Carolyn Forche, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Amy King, Dorothea Lasky, Ricardo Maldonado, Maureen N. Mcclane, Lynn Melnick, Geoffrey G. O'brien, Nathan Xavier Osorio, Katie Peterson, Solmaz Sharif, Sandra Simonds, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Corey Van Landingham, Marcus Wicker, Dara Wier, Monica Youn, Matthew Zapruder, Andrew Zawacki Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2017 by Boston Review ISBN-13: 978-1-946511-01-0, ISBN: 1-946511-01-3 ""In time of crisis, we summon up our strength," wrote poet Muriel Rukeyser. This collection gathers poems--from the eve of the twenty-first century to the month following Trump's election--to mark a moment of political rupture, summoning the collective strength found in the languages of resistance and memory, subversion and declamation, struggle and hope. Poetry is a counterforce. We offer these poems to readers as Rukeyser did--"not wa ..." |
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