From a poet whose “poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it” (Boston Review), 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.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- 1. I Love Hearing Your Dreams
- 2. It Was Summer. The Wind Blew
- 3. My Grandmother’s Dictionary
- 4. Thoughts on Punctuation
- 5. Two Sleeps
- 6. Bad Bear
- 7. Dead Flowers
- 8. Tell Me Why
- 9. The Locksmith
- 10. Poem for Rupi Kaur
- 11. Peoria
- 12. Jury Duty
- 13. Poem for Jean Follain
- 14. King Oak
- 15. Of Horace
- 16. Poem for a Suicide
- 17. Dear Pink Flower
- 18. The Death Poems of Ulalume González de León
- 19. Supreme Despair Song
- 20. Yogurt Park
- 21. Gown
- 22. For Young Poets
- 23. Poem for Robert Desnos
- 24. Thus
- 25. Tourmaline
- 26. Sunflower Poem
- 27. The Evening Meeting
- 28. La Plague
- 29. All April
- 30. Sundays
- 31. The Super Bowl
- 32. Gentle Death Poem
- 33. Poem for Witold Gombrowicz
- 34. I See You
- 35. My Phones
- 36. The Last Poem
- 37. Trains in Japan
- 38. The Elegant Trogon
- 39. I Dream of Leon Spinks
- 40. The Empty Grave of Zsa Zsa Gabor
- 41. The Blues Band
- 42. Poem Beginning with a Line by Jiménez
- 43. Hvar
- 44. Listening to Paintings
- 45. The Empathy Museum
- 46. Failed Elegy
- 47. I Don’t Know
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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