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Publication
Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, 2010.
Description
A collection of poems by American Matthew Zapruder, including the title poem, which acts as a elegy for the poet's heroes and mentors, including Zapruder's father, David Foster Wallace, and others.
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LibraryThing member Laura400
Invigorating, often funny, often melancholy. The most zingy -- can I say, zingiest? - of contemporary poetry. I think his work may be love-it-or-hate-it. Here, at random, are the opening three lines from the poem "The Prelude" to help you decide: "Oh this Diet Coke is really good, / though come to
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think of it it tastes / like nothing plus the idea of chocolate". Show Less
Awards
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Poetry — 2010)