Come On All You Ghosts

What Can Poetry Do? (Sun Bear by Matthew Zapruder)

November 25, 2014

Is a question posed in the title of a poem in Matthew Zapruder’s newest collection, Sun Bear (Copper Canyon 2014). And although the question is already a kind of defeat—Nothing seems to be the initial answer—Zapruder’s poems turn resignation into its own kind of full-blooded wisdom, where [...]

Come On All You Ghosts! (Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder)

February 13, 2011

After failing to secure a copy of said book at AWP, a certain TSHS member requested a copy of Matthew Zapruder‘s latest from Inter-Library Loan, then walked all the way home engrossed in its pages. Here is a three-sentence review: All the gusto and friendliness of another Matthew (Dickman), [...]