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's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few… — Matthew Zapruder Changed 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 Crushed 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 Mean 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
Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary… — Matthew Zapruder Clarity 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 Changed 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
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Care Copy Share Image
For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and… — Matthew Zapruder Computer Copy Share Image
Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return — Matthew Zapruder Ask me 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 All time 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 Beats 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 Be careful 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
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when… — Matthew Zapruder Choices Copy Share Image
I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is… — Matthew Zapruder Believe 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 Electric 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
That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might… — Matthew Zapruder Being the best 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
I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is… — Matthew Zapruder Bad thing 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
Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of… — Matthew Zapruder Believe Copy Share Image
Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off… — Matthew Zapruder Clicks Copy Share Image
