Father's Day

The poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court, watching a child grow off into a distance, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward.

• The Carrying
• Dunce
• The Problem of the Many
• Beauty Refracted
• Fruit of the Drunken Tree
• An American Sunrise: Poems
• A Sand Book
• Muse and Drudge
• A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
• Why Poetry