{"product_id":"sun-bear","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":53537223704942,"sku":"9781556594632","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_89c897f1-b673-4746-b35b-893e07d2d71d.jpg?v=1774452970","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/sun-bear","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}