The Pajamaist

The Pajamaist

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<DIV><p><br>“Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.”—<I>Publishers Weekly</I></p> <I> </I><p><br>Matthew 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.</p><p><br> <I>Noelle, somewhere in an apartment</I><br> <I>symphony number two</I><br> <I>listens to you breathing.</I><br> <I>Broken glass in the street.</I><br> <I>What was once unglowing glows. . . </I></p> <I> </I><p><br> <I>The Pajamaist </I>is an intimate book filled with sly wit and an ever-present, infectious openness to amazement. Zapruder’s poems are urbane and constantly, curiously searching.</p><p><br> </p></DIV>