{"product_id":"9781619321335","title":"Sun Bear","description":"\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","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151748841712,"sku":"9781619321335","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619321335_p0.jpg?v=1763856593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619321335","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}