{"product_id":"9781619320604","title":"Come on All You Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Charming, melancholy, hip.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to \"a field of titanium gravestones \/ growing warmer in the sun.\" The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and mentors in the poet's life—from David Foster Wallace to the poet's father. Zapruder's poems are direct and surprising, and throughout the book he wrestles with the desire to do well, to make art, and to face the vast events of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLook out scientists! Today the unemployment rate\u003cbr\u003eis 9.4 percent. I have no idea what that means. I tried\u003cbr\u003eto think about it harder for a while. Then\u003cbr\u003etried standing in an actual stance of mystery\u003cbr\u003eand not knowing towards the world.\u003cbr\u003eWhich is my job. As is staring at the back yard\u003cbr\u003eand for one second believing I am actually\u003cbr\u003erising away from myself. Which is maybe\u003cbr\u003ewhat I have in common right now with you . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Zapruder\u003c\/b\u003e holds degrees from Amherst College, UC Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of two previous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Pajamaist\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was honored by \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e with a \"Best Poetry Book of the Year\" listing. He lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Wave Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151747530992,"sku":"9781619320604","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619320604_p0.jpg?v=1763854445","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619320604","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}