Sun Bear

Sun Bear

<div><p>"Zapruder's poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it."—<I>The Boston Review</I></p><p>"Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture."—<I>The New York Times</I></p><p>"With dynamic, logically complex sentences, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary."—<I>BOMB</I></p><p>Matthew 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 <I>Sun Bear</I> display full-force why Zapruder is one of the most popular poets in America.</p><p><B>From "I Drink Bronze Light":</B></p><I><p>Great American summer lakes<BR>right now I am flying above you<BR>through a rare cloudless transparent sky<BR>back to the city where it is always<BR>cold even in summer<BR>the round hole I press my face against<BR>shows only a blue expanse<BR>with white sails below<BR>speckled exactly the way<BR>the Aegean would have been<BR>three thousand years ago<BR>if one could have seen it from above<BR>maybe riding in the dark claw<BR>of a god who didn't care. . . .</p></I><p><B>Matthew Zapruder</B> is a poet, translator, and editor at Wave Books. He is the author of three collections of poetry, and his book <I>The Pajamaist</I> won the William Carlos Williams Award. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many publications, including <I>BOMB</I>, <I>Harvard Review</I>, <I>Paris Review</I>, the <I>New Yorker</I>, <I>McSweeney's</I>, and the <I>Believer</I>. He lives in San Francisco, California.</p></DIV>