“We could paraphrase Frost and say that if you’re not at home in a pronoun, you are not at home anywhere in… — Matthew Zapruder Home Copy Share Image
Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time. — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage. — Matthew Zapruder Advantage Copy Share Image
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by… — Matthew Zapruder Life Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort… — Matthew Zapruder Concentration Copy Share Image
Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else.… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement… — Matthew Zapruder Book Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,… — Matthew Zapruder Community Copy Share Image
Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Amazing book Copy Share Image
Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Abyss Copy Share Image
I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting… — Matthew Zapruder Audience Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Audience Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Absence Copy Share Image
Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really… — Matthew Zapruder Book Copy Share Image
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when… — Matthew Zapruder Choice Copy Share Image
I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he… — Matthew Zapruder Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of… — Matthew Zapruder Closest friends Copy Share Image
Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter… — Matthew Zapruder Brother Copy Share Image
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I see sad crushed plastic everywhere and put some thoughts composed of words that do not belong together together and feel a… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they're fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the… — Matthew Zapruder Animal Copy Share Image
Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Conviction Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Absurd Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
It's a kind of de-familiarization in relation to the song: if she were to sing absolutely straight, right on the beat, because… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Today is such a strange day. The news is out about the Russians and mini-Donald. This seems like a turning point, but… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
