Father's day / Matthew Zapruder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zapruder, Matthew, 1967- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Poetry.

Men.

Fatherhood--Poetry.

Fatherhood.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

135 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2019]

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Poem For Doom p. 3

I Wake Up Before The Machine p. 6

My Life p. 11

I Met My Wife p. 15

Graduation Day p. 17

Today p. 19

Father's Day p. 21

When I Was Fifteen p. 23

Paul Ryan p. 26

Our Custody p. 29

Poem For Passengers p. 30

Poem For Vows p. 31

3:14 P.M. p. 33

Birds Of Texas p. 35

Into The Alpine Meadow I Send A Few Silent Dawn Apologies p. 37

Poem For Ann Hood p. 39

Poem For Noguchi p. 42

My Sabbatical p. 44

Poem For Coleridge p. 47

Behave Thyself p. 48

Unpacking My Books p. 50

Poem For Tomaz Šalamun p. 52

Stari Trg p. 54

Poem Written With Buson p. 59

Poem For Éluard p. 61

Poem On The Occasion Of A Weekly Staff Meeting p. 63

Summer Poem #3 p. 65

What Is The Naturalist Saying? p. 66

The Privilege Of Poetry p. 68

Another Song p. 70

Reverse Truth Song p. 73

To The Bay Bridge p. 75

4th Of July p. 78

The Critic p. 79

Roseanne Barr p. 83

The Black Bird p. 84

The Poetry Reading p. 86

Generation X p. 91

Poem For Harm p. 95

Astrology p. 98

My Dog p. 100

The Pledge p. 101

A Love Song p. 103

Penultimate Poem p. 105

I Commit p. 106

Another Poem For Éluard p. 108

Poem For Sandra p. 111

Moving Day p. 114

Phantom p. 116

Poem For Merwin p. 118

Tunnel Park p. 121

Afterword: Late Humanism p. 125.

ISBN:

9781556595783

1556595786

OCLC:

1084418080