The Pajamaist

"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 and flair, while the elegy cycle "Twenty Poems for Noelle" is a compassionate song for a suffering friend.

Noelle, somewhere in an apartment
symphony number two
listens to you breathing.
Broken glass in the street.
What was once unglowing glows. . .

The Pajamaist is an intimate book filled with sly wit and an ever-present, infectious openness to amazement. Zapruder's poems are urbane and constantly, curiously searching.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 09/01/2006
ISBN: 9781556592447
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.34d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/05/2006 pg. 37
Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 83
Library Journal 04/15/2007 pg. 90