{"product_id":"i-love-hearing-your-dreams-poems-hardcover","title":"I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Zapruder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of contemporary poetry's most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Your dreams\u003cbr\u003e have no hidden\u003cbr\u003e agenda to be wise\u003cbr\u003e they are made\u003cbr\u003e to be forgotten\u003cbr\u003e so something\u003cbr\u003e can be known\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eI Love Hearing Your Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of \"the last time that things were real\" and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age of insomnia, where the poet is always awake \"at that oddest hour \/ that does not end, \/ the crooked, unnumbered one\" and the future seems to be \"just the past in a suit \/ that will never be in style.\" Yet dreams in Matthew Zapruder's poems are also a place of possibility, of reality envisioned anew--sleep shows us not merely what the world is, but what it could be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From a poet celebrated for his \"razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eI Love Hearing Your Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eis a startlingly beautiful and deeply vulnerable book where lives journey into a mystifying place and emerge transformed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Come on All You Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year; \u003ci\u003eFather's Day\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhy Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eStory of a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider and Attacca Quartet at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Performances and was the libretto for \u003ci\u003eVespers for a New Dark Age\u003c\/i\u003e, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. He was Guest Editor of \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 2022\u003c\/i\u003e, and from 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the weekly Poetry Column for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary's College of California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42150912131207,"sku":"9781668059807","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/281bf1ac90059b7cd463d2e6596fb6d0.webp?v=1733203237","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/i-love-hearing-your-dreams-poems-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}