Story of a Poem: A Memoir

by Matthew Zapruder and Jane Wong

Book Overview

"A document of not only how to make a poem, but how to live in a world where language often fails us." --Ada Lim n, U.S. Poet Laureate

Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and intentionally as possible, to preserve its drafts, and record the painstaking, elusively transcendent stuff of its construction. It would be the end cap to a new collection of poetry, and a means to process modern American life in a time of political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1951213688
• ISBN13: 9781951213688
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Unnamed Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"