The Pajamaist

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320665
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pajamaist written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founder of Verse Press, Zapruder is a leading younger poet whose work is risky, fabular, urbane.

Author : David Wagoner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743299779
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2009 written by David Wagoner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.

Author : Steven Lee Beeber
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1933368799
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awake! written by Steven Lee Beeber and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2007-07-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for dipping (even while drowsing), this collection of lively, literate riffs make sleeplessness not just tolerable but fun. Millions can't sleep; millions more sleep with those who can't sleep. This collection is ideal for both the casual light sleeper and the dedicated insomniac (as well as their bedmates), delighting and distracting night owls with irresistible fiction, articles, blogs, art, photographs, comics, and more. Fiction, including previously unpublished stories by Aimee Bender and Arthur Bradford; essays from Yale neurobiologists to Priscella Becker; the probably true fictions like Jonathan Ames's masturbation solution to insomnia; comic writing from Howard Cruse and Seth Tobocman; poetry from Charles Simic and Rebecca Wolff; Davy Rothbart of FOUND magazine chips in some found texts--all combine to offer a nighttime companion for the sleepless reader.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320606
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come on All You Ghosts written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Journal Matthew 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 mentors in the poet's life—from David Foster Wallace to the poet's father. Zapruder's poems are direct and surprising, and throughout the book he wrestles with the desire to do well, to make art, and to face the vast events of the day. Look out scientists! Today the unemployment rate is 9.4 percent. I have no idea what that means. I tried to think about it harder for a while. Then tried standing in an actual stance of mystery and not knowing towards the world. Which is my job. As is staring at the back yard and for one second believing I am actually rising away from myself. Which is maybe what I have in common right now with you . . . Matthew Zapruder holds degrees from Amherst College, UC Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of two previous books, including The Pajamaist, which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was honored by Library Journal with a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" listing. He lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Wave Books.

Author : Rachel Zucker
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298716
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starting Today written by Rachel Zucker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this anthology document the political and personal events of the president's crucial first days through a variety of contemporary poetic voices.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062343092
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 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. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770894608
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun Bear written by Matthew Zapruder and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth collection from the celebrated American poet and editor, Matthew Zapruder. 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 poems in Sun Bear display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular poets in America. From “I Drink Bronze Light”: Great American summer lakes right now I am flying above you through a rare cloudless transparent sky back to the city where it is always cold even in summer the round hole I press my face against shows only a blue expanse with white sails below speckled exactly the way the Aegean would have been three thousand years ago if one could have seen it from above maybe riding in the dark claw of a god who didn’t care. . . .

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322056
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father's Day written by Matthew Zapruder and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 into callousness; yet despite poetry’s supposed constraints, Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review “Zapruder’s new book, Father’s Day, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post The poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court, watching a child grow off into a distance, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. "

Author : Deborah Ager
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441183043
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry written by Deborah Ager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes. This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating insight into Jewish cultural and religious topics and Jewish identity. Featuring established poets as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, it includes poems by Ellen Bass, Charles Bernstein, Carol V. Davis, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, David Lehman, Jacqueline Osherow, Ira Sadoff, Philip Schultz, Alan Shapiro, Jane Shore, Judith Skillman, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder, and many others.

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501127632
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best American Poetry 2017 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky). Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Marilyn Nelson says “the wide scope of Trethewey’s interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics both elegant and necessary.” With her selections and introductory essay for The Best American Poetry 2017, Trethewey will be highlighting even more “elegant and necessary” poems and poets, adding to the national conversation of verse and its role in our culture. The Best American Poetry is not just another anthology; it serves as a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry and is an eagerly awaited publishing event each year. With Trethewey’s insightful touch and genius for plumbing the depths of history and personal experience to shape striking verse, The Best American Poetry 2017 is another brilliant addition to the series.