{"product_id":"sun-bear-paperback","title":"Sun Bear - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Zapruder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With dynamic, logically complex sentences, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary.\"--\u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew 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 \u003ci\u003eSun Bear\u003c\/i\u003e display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular poets in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"I Drink Bronze Light\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat American summer lakes\u003cbr\u003eright now I am flying above you\u003cbr\u003ethrough a rare cloudless transparent sky\u003cbr\u003eback to the city where it is always\u003cbr\u003ecold even in summer\u003cbr\u003ethe round hole I press my face against\u003cbr\u003eshows only a blue expanse\u003cbr\u003ewith white sails below\u003cbr\u003especkled exactly the way\u003cbr\u003ethe Aegean would have been\u003cbr\u003ethree thousand years ago\u003cbr\u003eif one could have seen it from above\u003cbr\u003emaybe riding in the dark claw\u003cbr\u003eof a god who didn't care. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Zapruder\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, and editor at Wave Books. He is the author of three collections of poetry, and his book \u003ci\u003eThe Pajamaist\u003c\/i\u003e won the William Carlos Williams Award. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in San Francisco, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Zapruder lives in San Francisco and works as an editor at Wave Books. He holds degrees from Amherst College, UC Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts and is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, Come on All You Ghosts, and The Pajamaist, which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and was honored by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. He is also co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2007). The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, Zapruder is a member of the permanent faculty at the low residency MFA in creative writing at UCR-Palm Desert as well as the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. His poems, essays and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including Open City, Bomb, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Boston Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Believer and The Los Angeles Times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151735001223,"sku":"9781556594632","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1c3814a1f737c4ae35f4575196831b2d.webp?v=1733209241","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/sun-bear-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}