Quotes by Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder

[My poems] of course, it’s symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be – that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it’s a bear, but it’s also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it’s not “symbolic” in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

Ordinary

Quality

Thinking

A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand. A final understanding could probably only begin upon permanent separation, or death. This is why we come back to certain poems, as we do to places or people, to experience and re-experience, to see ourselves for who we truly are, and to continue to be changed.

People

Separation

Understanding

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

My Family

My Wife

Wife

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Return

For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem – on a typewriter or on my computer – and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me.

Errors

Mean

Writing

I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

Ideas

Reading

Reality

I don’t know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They’re not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

Drug

Fun

Games

I don’t think poetry needs to be “easily understandable.” First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc., that require a deeper concentration than is usually demanded of us. So that, right off the bat, is a little difficult. Then there is the deeper issue of what poetry is really asking of us. I feel it is asking us to read with great, even sacred, care and attention. That, too, is difficult. It requires discipline and the creation of a temporary zone of privacy, which is inimical to our current conditions of life.

Attention

Discipline

Thinking

I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.

Advantage

Comfort

Feels

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

Bits

Feels

Relation

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Advantage

Animal

Ask Me

Attention

Bears

Believe

Benefits

Bits

Book

Brother

Bullshit

Choices

Comfort

Different

Digital

Discipline

Drug

Emotional

Energy

Errors

Feelings

Feels

Focus

Fun

Games

Granted

Heart

Helping

Hunting

I Believe

Ideas

Imagination

Impossible

Kind

Language

Listening

Littles

Mean

Men

Might

Mistake

Moments

Movement

Moving

Musical

My Family

My Wife

Names

Oakland

Ordinary

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Quotes by Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

I don’t know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They’re not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

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