{"product_id":"the-pajamaist","title":"The Pajamaist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zapruder's hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoelle, somewhere in an apartment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003esymphony number two\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003elistens to you breathing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBroken glass in the street.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat was once unglowing glows. . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Pajamaist \u003c\/i\u003eis an intimate book filled with sly wit and an ever-present, infectious openness to amazement. Zapruder's poems are urbane and constantly, curiously searching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matthew Zapruder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44816591290410,"sku":"9781556592447","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/the-pajamaist-8848528.jpg?v=1789040347","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-pajamaist","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}