{"product_id":"the-pajamaist-paperback","title":"The Pajamaist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Zapruder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zapruder's hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he engages love, mortality, and life in New York City after 9\/11. The title piece, a prose-poem synopsis of an unwritten novel, turns all literary forms upon themselves with savvy and flair, while the elegy cycle \"Twenty Poems for Noelle\" is a compassionate song for a suffering friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoelle, somewhere in an apartment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003esymphony number two\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003elistens to you breathing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBroken glass in the street.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat was once unglowing glows. . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Pajamaist \u003c\/i\u003eis an intimate book filled with sly wit and an ever-present, infectious openness to amazement. Zapruder's poems are urbane and constantly, curiously searching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Zapruder was born in 1967 and holds degrees from Amherst, Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts. His debut volume of poetry, American Linden, received the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize. He is founder of Verse Press, lead guitarist for The Figments, and co-curator of the KGB Reading Series. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 101\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771616198944,"sku":"9781556592447","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fde8de7f01c7105a92554a71e9b75e5e.webp?v=1780389634","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-pajamaist-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}