I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems

by Matthew Zapruder Narrated by Not Yet Available

Overview

From one of contemporary poetry's most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions.

“Your dreams
have no hidden
agenda to be wise
they are made
to be forgotten
so something
can be known”

I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of “the last time that things were real” and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age of insomnia, where the poet is always awake “at that oddest hour / that does not end, / the crooked, unnumbered one” and the future seems to be “just the past in a suit / that will never be in style.” Yet dreams in Matthew Zapruder's poems are also a place of possibility, of reality envisioned anew-sleep shows us not merely what the world is, but what it could be.

From a poet celebrated for his “razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture” (The New York Times), I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a startlingly beautiful and deeply vulnerable book where lives journey into a mystifying place and emerge transformed.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Praise for I Love Hearing Your Dreams

“These poems are irresistibly original; they feel as strange and true as life itself.” —Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“Have you ever held a book, but knew secretly you were holding a mountain? Or maybe your heart felt like the future galloping in your chest after reading a passage so visceral and full of magic, or so faithfully human it was like you wanted all the words in the world to go home and to leave these poems forever ringing in your ear? That was me when I first encountered, I Love Hearing Your Dreams, a startling book, a resuscitating vision.” —Major Jackson, author of Razzle Dazzle and host of “The Slowdown”


Praise for Matthew Zapruder

“Zapruder’s poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it.” —Boston Review

“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.” —The New York Times

“Zapruder’s poems have a directness and verve that are reminiscent of Frank O’Hara; they’re poems for everyone, everywhere, insisting that everything is subject for poetry, and that all language is poetic language, democratic in its insights and feelings.” —NPR

“Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“It’s the reach, the attention to daily life and the dream world we simultaneously inhabit, that gives Zapruder’s work its distinctive force.” —Alta Magazine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940191802886
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	09/10/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged